As I was preparing this issue of the newsletter, I realized that an unusual event had occurred: Quite by chance, this newsletter has a major theme and a minor theme! The major theme is dosimetry. Click down to find a detailed discussion of trends in dosimetry results at Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab). Next you'll find a brief note on dosimetry at the B-Factory at the High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), followed by an informative article from Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) on their new dosimetry database. A second article from SLAC discusses, among other issues, dosimetry for the E158 Experiment. If you still want to know more, check out the preview of Accelerator Session presentations to be given at the upcoming 48th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) in San Diego, California. This sampling of abstracts includes several with implications for dosimetry.
That brings me to the minor theme of this issue: the upcoming HPS meeting in San Diego. As Carter Ficklen explains in his message from the section president, a lot of work has gone into preparing for the Accelerator Section session at the San Diego meeting. I hope that the preview of session abstracts in this issue of the newsletter will whet your appetite and perhaps inspire you to attend the meeting. For those who can't go to San Diego, I hope to publish the remainder of the abstracts, including the abstract of Ralph Thomas' G. William Morgan Lecture, in the next issue of this newsletter.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I hope you enjoy this issue of the newsletter, and I hope to see many of you in San Diego!