List of Super Proton Synchrotron experiments

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Experiment Codename Spokesperson Description Proposed Approved Began Completed Link Website WA1 CDHS Jack Steinberger High-energy neutrino interactions 27 Jul 1973 17 Apr 1974 Dec 1976 22 Dec 1983 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA1/2 Friedrich Dydak Measurement of sin2(θW) in semileptonic neutrino Fe interactions with high precision 1983 15 Sep 1983 ?? 30 Aug 1984 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA2 Jeam-Marc Gaillard Leptonic decays of hyperons 13 Nov 1973 12 Jun 1974 ?? 4 Dec 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA3 Peter Weilhammer Exclusive π–p and K–p interactions 8 Feb 1974 12 Jun 1974 12 May 1977 11 Sep 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA4 F. Richard Photoproduction of hadrons Apr 1974 12 Jun 1974 15 Apr 1976 1 May 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA5 P. Borgeaud Backward two-body reactions 24 Jan 1974 17 Jul 1974 – 19 Feb 1976 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA6 Giuseppe Fidecaro Polarization in p–p and π–p elastic scattering Feb 1974 4 Sep 1974 1977 21 Apr 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA7 V. Gracco Two-body reactions at large transverse momentum 6 Mar 1974 21 Oct 1976 18 Jan 1979 10 May 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA9 Tord J. C. Ekelof High precision study of elastic scattering in the Coulomb interference region 4 Oct 1974 22 Jan 1975 ?? 5 Dec 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA10 M. Martin Study of K± p → K0
S π± p and reactions of similar topology with high statistics 7 Mar 1974 12 Mar 1975 ?? 6 Nov 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA11 M. David Search for high mass states produced with the Ψ(3.1). (Formerly designated WA5) 14 Jan 1976 19 Feb 1976 21 Oct 1976 16 Jun 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA12 Jayce D. Dowell Beam dump experiment in OMEGA 20 Feb 1976 24 Jun 1976 7 Jan 1976 20 Feb 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA13 Peter Sonderegger p+p → Λ+Λ at large p-transverse in OMEGA 23 Mar 1976 8 Jul 1976 ?? 10 Jul 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA14 Antonino Pullia A wide band beam neutrino experiment with Gargamelle 6 Nov 1975 8 Jul 1976 ?? 10 Jul 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA15 M. Paty A wide-band beam antineutron experiment in Gargamelle to study purely leptonic and other rare ν interactions 12 Nov 1975 8 Jul 1976 1978 18 Apr 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA16 Bernard Aubert An exploratory experiment at very high neutrino energy in a narrow-band beam with Gargamelle 5 Nov 1975 8 Jul 1976 ?? 11 Sep 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA17 Marcello Conversi Search for new particles in neutrino interactions in an emulsion stack coupled to BEBC 30 Apr 1976 8 Jul 1976 ?? 5 Dec 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA18 Klaus Winter Study of semileptonic and leptonic neutral-current processes and of muon polarization produced in neutrino and antineutrino interactions using counter techniques 27 Oct 1975 8 Jul 1976 ?? 1 Dec 1983 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA18/2 Klaus Winter High precision measurement of the ratio of neutral-current and charged-current neutrino cross sections and of total and differential cross sections of neutral current reactions 16 Jan 1984 2 Feb 1984 ?? 3 Sep 1984 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA19 D. C. Cundy A study of high energy neutrino interactions using BEBC filled with a Ne–2H mixture 21 Aug 1974 26 Aug 1976 ?? 15 Jul 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA20 Gerald Myatt Beam dump test in BEBC filled with neon 27 Oct 1975 26 Aug 1976 ?? 19 Dec 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA21 Gerald Myatt High energy neutrino and antineutrino interactions in BEBC filled with 2H 7 Nov 1974 26 Aug 1976 ?? Dec 1983 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA22 Ian Butterworth An experiment in BEBC to compare neutral and charged current neutrino interactions induced by νπ and νK at the same energy 8 Jun 1976 26 Aug 1976 ?? 29 Jun 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA23 Philippe Heusse Study of neutral current interactions using Gargamelle exposed to the dichromatic beam N3 4 Nov 1975 26 Aug 1976 – 19 Apr 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA24 Wilbur Venus High-energy neutrino and antineutrino interactions using a hydrogen TST in BEBC and a wide band beam 20 Nov 1974 26 Aug 1976 ?? 10 Jul 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA25 A. Tenner Neutrino and antineutrino interactions in deuterium 13 Jun 1974 26 Aug 1976 ?? 1 Dec 1983 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA26 Roland Barloutaud K−–p interactions in BEBC at 70 GeV/c 7 Jan 1975 26 Aug 1976 ?? 10 Jul 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA27 Remy T. van de Walle K+–p interactions in BEBC at 70 GeV/c 23 Feb 1976 26 Aug 1976 ?? 21 Apr 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA28 Franz Mandl K−–p interactions in BEBC at 110 GeV/c 19 Dec 1975 28 Aug 1976 1977 26 Mar 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA29 J. R. Fry Antiproton annihilation at 20 GeV/c using the OMEGA spectrometer 29 Mar 1976 26 Aug 1976 ?? 11 Sep 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA30 George Kalmus Direct electron production induced by 70 GeV/c π− interactions using a hydrogen TST in BEBC 16 Feb 1976 21 Oct 1976 ?? 10 Jul 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA31 Jacques Lemonne The study of prompt lepton production in antiproton–proton interactions at 70 GeV/c in BEBC equipped with a track sensitive target 20 Feb 1976 21 Oct 1976 ?? 10 Jul 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA32 Trevor C. Bacon Direct photon production in p–p collisions using BEBC with Ne–2H filling 1 Jun 1976 21 Oct 1976 ?? 29 Mar 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA33 A. Muller Systematic search for long-lived heavy particles in the S1 beam 29 Jun 1976 25 Nov 1976 ?? 10 May 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA34 Giordano Diambrini-Palazzi Study of charmed particles photoproduced in emulsion plates tagged by the OMEGA apparatus triggers 11 Nov 1976 20 Jan 1977 ?? 1 May 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA35 M. A. Faessler Measurement of the correlations between emitted protons and pions in hadron–nucleus collisions for 50 to 150 GeV/c incoming momenta 10 Mar 1977 10 Mar 1977 15 Feb 1979 17 Dec 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA36 Gerard Bonneaud Exploratory experiment at very high energy using antineutrinos in Gargamelle 24 Nov 1976 10 Mar 1977 – 19 Apr 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA37 Ian Simpson Hughes Study of antiproton–proton interaction in the 4.1 GeV c.m. energy region in the OMEGA: Search for narrow charged peaks in K+ π+ π− π− or K+ π+ π− π− π− π− systems 24 Feb 1976 26 Aug 1976 ?? 22 Sep 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA38 V. P. Martemianov Magnetic monopole search at the SPS 19 Apr 1977 16 Jun 1977 ?? 1 Dec 1983 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA39 Jayce D. Dowell Continuation of the study of di-muon production by π±, K±, p, and p at 40 GeV/c 14 Apr 1977 18 Aug 1977 1978 23 Oct 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA40 B. R. French Search for narrow boson resonances coupled to the nucleon–antinucleon system 17 Aug 1977 22 Sep 1977 ?? 14 Nov 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA41 Jack Steinberger Beam dump run to check origin of trimuon and exceptional dimuon events 21 Oct 1977 17 Nov 1977 1977 19 Dec 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA42 Pierre Extermann An experiment on the strong interactions and radiative decays of hyperons 29 Mar 1977 17 Nov 1977 1979 1 Jun 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA43 Paul Musset Beam dump in Gargamelle 3 Nov 1977 17 Nov 1977 ?? 19 Dec 1977 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA44 A. Zichichi Search for quarks in high-energy neutrino interactions 17 Aug 1977 17 Aug 1977 8 Dec 1977 1 Dec 1983 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA45 Giordano Diambrini-Palazzi Charmed particle photoproduction in emulsion plates 16 Nov 1977 8 Dec 1977 ?? 1 May 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA46 Roger Strub Study of Ω− decays and of the Σ− → N e− νe decay mode 3 Feb 1978 16 Mar 1978 1978 28 May 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA47 B. Tallini Continuation of the study of neutrino interactions with dichromatic beams at the SPS, using BEBC filled with neon 16 Feb 1978 29 Jun 1978 1978 11 Feb 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA48 R. M. Turnbull Study of baryonium states in K+–p interactions using the OMEGA spectrometer 8 May 1978 29 Jun 1978 ?? 27 Nov 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA49 R. A. Donald Study of p–p interactions involving baryon exchange using the OMEGA spectrometer 20 Apr 1978 29 Jun 1978 ?? 31 Oct 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA50 Massimo Bianchi Biological effects of 200 GeV/c protons: An exploratory investigation 6 Mar 1978 18 Oct 1978 1978 16 Nov 1978 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA51 Henry J. Lubatti Study of π± interactions in BEBC at 25 GeV/c and 60 GeV/c 5 Oct 1978 16 Nov 1978 1978 9 May 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA52 Gerald Myatt A second generation beam dump experiment in BEBC 17 May 1978 14 Dec 1978 ?? 28 May 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA53 Giovanni Conforto A second generation beam dump experiment in Gargamelle 22 May 1978 16 Nov 1978 – 19 Apr 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA54 Jack Steinberger Beam dump experiment with 400 GeV protons 27 Jun 1978 16 Nov 1978 ?? 28 May 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA55 Alain de Bellefon Test of OMEGA Prime accuracy and K+–p elastic Scattering at 12 GeV/c around 90° c.m. 13 Oct 1978 14 Dec 1978 ?? 28 May 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA56 A. Ferrer Study of N–N states produced via baryon exchange in π+–p interactions using the OMEGA Prime spectrometer 12 Oct 1978 14 Dec 1978 ?? 1 Apr 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA57 D. Newton Studies of high mass vector meson photoproduction in the energy range 20 to 70 GeV 6 Apr 1978 15 Feb 1979 ?? 17 Dec 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA58 Giordano Diambrini-Palazzi Measurement of the lifetime of charmed particles in nuclear emulsion exposed to an 80 GeV bremsstrahlung beam in conjunction with the OMEGA Prime spectrometer Nov 1978 23 Mar 1979 ?? 28 Jan 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA59 Wilbur Venus Measurement of nucleon structure functions in horn-focused neutrino and antineutrino beams in BEBC filled with neon 23 Dec 1978 19 Apr 1979 ?? 19 May 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA60 Luciano Mandelli Study of strangeonium and baryonium produced in K−–p interactions using the OMEGA Prime spectrometer 14 Feb 1979 19 Apr 1979 ?? 30 Aug 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA61 O. E. Badawy Inelastic interactions of high energy hadrons (p, K+, K−, π−) with emulsion nuclei 3 Jul 1979 19 Jul 1979 ?? 3 Aug 1979 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA62 K. P. Streit Search for charmed strange baryons 10 Sep 1979 13 Dec 1979 ?? 16 Jun 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA63 A. Muller Inclusive baryon–antibaryon production in the central region using the OMEGA spectrometer 13 Nov 1979 24 Jan 1980 ?? 2 Jun 1980 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA64 Erik Uggerhoj Channelling radiation in a silicon crystal 1 Apr 1980 22 May 1980 ?? 7 Jun 1981 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA65 Klaus Winter Further studies of prompt neutrino production in 400 GeV proton–nucleus collisions 25 Apr 1980 22 May 1980 ?? 13 Sep 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA66 Per Olof Hulth Further study of prompt neutrino production in proton–nucleus collisions using BEBC 30 Apr 1980 22 May 1980 ?? 13 Sep 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA67 John Neil Jackson Study of π−–p interactions at 85 GeV/c leading to K+ K+ K− K− in the final state – Search for new states 16 Nov 1979 11 Dec 1980 ?? 4 Nov 1981 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA68 Jack Steinberger Further study of prompt neutrino production in a proton beam dump experiment 25 Aug 1980 19 Mar 1981 ?? 13 Sep 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA69 Ewald Paul Photoproduction in the energy range 70–200 GeV 17 Mar 1980 23 Apr 1981 6 Jun 1985 25 Jul 1986 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA70 M. Martin Study of direct photon events in hadronic collisions 6 Aug 1980 22 Oct 1981 ?? 8 Nov 1986 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA71 Giordano Diambrini-Palazzi An experiment to study beauty production and lifetime in the upgraded OMEGA Prime spectrometer 20 Feb 1981 22 Oct 1981 ?? 3 Sep 1984 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA72 M. Szeptycka A study of fast proton production in π±–nucleus interactions using the OMEGA spectrometer 10 Jun 1981 22 Oct 1981 ?? 22 Mar 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA73 Jean Duboc A pedagogical experiment using bubble chamber pictures 15 Sep 1981 22 Oct 1981 ?? 27 Oct 1981 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA74 Jose Mariano P. Gago Antiproton–proton glory scattering 8 Dec 1981 17 Feb 1982 ?? 2 May 1982 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA75 Giorgio Romano An experiment to observe directly beauty particles selected by muonic decay in emulsion and to estimate their lifetimes 16 Sep 1981 22 Apr 1982 ?? 18 Jun 1984 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA76 Antimo Palano Study of the mesons produced centrally in the reaction p p → p X0 at 300 GeV/c 18 Jan 1982 22 Apr 1982 15 Nov 1984 8 Nov 1986 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA77 Maurice Benayoun Search for direct production of gluonium states in high PT  π−–N collisions at 350 GeV/c 13 Sep 1982 18 Nov 1982 ?? 31 Jul 1987 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA78 Pio Pistilli Search for the hadroproduction of B–B pairs 11 Feb 1983 16 Jun 1983 ?? 16 Aug 1985 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA79 Klaus Winter Study of neutrino–electron scattering at the SPS 28 Apr 1983 16 Jun 1983 Aug 1986 12 Aug 1991 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA80 Rainer Santo Study of relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at the CERN SPS 1982 15 Nov 1984 15 Nov 1984 12 Aug 1991 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA81 Erik Uggerhoj Measurements of pair production under channelling conditions by 70–180 GeV photons incident on single crystals 28 Nov 1983 15 Nov 1984 ?? 30 Jun 1986 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA82 Leonardo Rossi High statistics study of charm hadroproduction using an impact parameter trigger 16 Oct 1985 6 Feb 1986 Jul 1987 27 Sep 1989 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA83 Martha Spyropoulou-Stassinaki Investigation of soft photon production in hadronic collisions using the OMEGA Prime spectrometer 14 Oct 1985 6 Feb 1986 ?? 8 Nov 1986 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA84 Giuseppe Martellotti Study of the production and decay properties of beauty flavored hadrons 7 Jan 1987 2 Apr 1987 Sep 1989 1994 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA85 David Evans Study of high energy nucleus–nucleus interactions using the OMEGA Prime spectrometer equipped with a multiparticle high PT detector 12 Mar 1987 2 Apr 1987 Oct 1987 1 Sep 1991 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA86 Giorgio Giacomelli Exposure of CR39 stacks to oxygen and/or sulphur beams at the CERN SPS 2 Mar 1987 3 Jun 1987 1989 1 Sep 1991 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA87 Wolfgang Heinrich Investigation of nuclear fragmentation in relativistic heavy ion collisions using plastic nuclear track detectors 3 Mar 1987 2 Apr 1987 Oct 1987 1 Sep 1991 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA88 James L. Pinfold Test of bubble damage detectors in a heavy ion beam from the SPS 8 May 1987 3 Jun 1987 Oct 1987 14 Oct 1987 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA89 Josef Pochodzalla New hyperon beam experiment at the CERN SPS using the OMEGA facility 27 Aug 1987 11 Feb 1988 1990 30 Sep 1994 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA90 Sheldon Datz Measurements of pair production and electron capture from the continuum in heavy particle collisions 1 Jun 1989 5 Apr 1990 ?? Oct 1991 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA91 Andy Kirk Search for centrally produced non-quark–antiquark mesons in p–p interactions at 450 GeV/c by using the CERN OMEGA spectrometer 15 Jan 1990 5 Apr 1990 Jun 1991 8 Jun 1994 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA92 Leonardo Rossi Measurement of beauty particle lifetimes and hadroproduction cross-sections 12 Mar 1990 6 Jul 1990 Jun 1992 13 Sep 1993 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA93 Hans H. Gutbrod A light universal detector for the study of correlations between photons and charged particles May 1990 22 Nov 1990 ?? 10 May 1992 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA94 John B. Kinson Study of baryon and antibaryon spectra in sulphur–sulphur interactions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon 14 Jan 1991 4 Apr 1991 Oct 1991 Nov 1993 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA95 Jacob Panman A new search for νμ–ντ oscillations 15 Dec 1990 18 Sep 1991 5 May 1994 10 Nov 1997 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA96 Luigi Di Lella Search for the oscillation νμ → ντ 11 Mar 1991 18 Sep 1991 Apr 1994 20 Sep 1998 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA97 Emanuele Quercigh Study of baryon and antibaryon spectra in Pb–Pb interactions at 160 GeV/c per nucleon 20 May 1991 18 Sep 1991 1994 31 Dec 1996 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA98 Terry C. Awes Large acceptance measurement of photons and charged particles in heavy ion reactions May 1991 16 Apr 1992 1994 31 Dec 1996 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA99 Sheldon Datz Measurements of pair production and electron capture from the continuum in heavy particle collisions 3 Dec 1992 15 Apr 1993 ?? 20 Apr 1995 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA99/2 Sheldon Datz Charge changing collisions, energy loss, and EM nuclear reactions of 160 GeV A 208Pb ?? 20 Apr 1995 1995 25 Oct 1996 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA100 Denis O’Sullivan Exposure of plastic track detectors to relativistic Pb beam for the purpose of providing calibration for the Dublin ESTEC Ultra Heavy Cosmic Ray Experiment which was exposed

for 69 months in Earth orbit

30 Jun 1993 25 Nov 1993 ?? 31 Dec 1995 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA101 Yudong He Study of various processes with a 160 GeV/c per nucleon Pb beam 30 Jul 1993 25 Nov 1993 ?? 31 Dec 1996 INSPIRE
Grey Book — WA102 Andrew Kirk ASearch for centrally produced non-quark–antiquark mesons in p–p interactions at 450 GeV/c using the OMEGA spectrometer and GAMS-4000 15 Aug 1994 22 Sep 1994 Apr 1995 31 Aug 1996 INSPIRE
Grey Book Website WA103 Robert Chehab Experimental study of a positron source using channeling Oct 1998 9 Dec 1999 ?? 20 Jul 2001 INSPIRE
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