D. Cinabro et al., OBSERVATION OF THE DYNAMIC BETA-EFFECT AT THE CORNELL ELECTRON-POSITRON STORAGE-RING WITH THE CLEO DETECTOR, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 57(1), 1998, pp. 1193-1196
Using the silicon strip detector of the CLEO experiment operating at t
he Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring (CESR), we have observed tha
t the horizontal size of the luminous region decreases in the presence
of the beam-beam interaction from what is expected without the beam-b
eam interaction. The dependence on the bunch current agrees with the p
rediction of the dynamic beta effect. This is the first direct observa
tion of the effect.