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Werner Beusch (1930-2024) was a Swiss physicist who worked on the OMEGA project at CERN from the end of the 1960s until 1995 up to his retirement and just before OMEGA was closed. The project was a group of physicist and engineer called the “Omega Project Working Group”. He was one of Paul Scherrer student at ETH Zürich, he obtained his PhD in 1960 to a thesis on “Two photon transitions in barium-137”. He died in 2024.
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This folder contains documents relating to the CERN OMEGA Spectrometer. It includes charts, particles-tracks images recorded during experiments, photographs of equipment (machines), a list of [participants] for the Wilson chamber, personnel lists from 1981 and documents relating to the "WA80 EXPERIMENTS". It also contains photographic and films materials, which includes image of particle events recorded by the CERN OMEGA Spectrometer. In the back of some photographic films it contains some handwritten notes by Beusch in 1979.
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