MINIMAX - WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED THUS FAR

A small experiment, <<MiniMax>>, has been set up in the CO intersectio n region of the Fermilab Tevatron to seek evidence for disoriented chi ral condensates and to study other forward physics phenomena. The expe riment consists of a proportional wire chamber telescope accompanied b y scintillation (trigger) counters, a lead converter, and followed by an electromagnetic calorimeter. The solid angle accepted is a cone cen tered at pseudorapidity (eta) of 4.1 and of radius (in eta-phi space) of about 0.6. Over 2.5 million events thus far have demonstrated the s uccessful operation of the apparatus, however to date the analysis has not progressed sufficiently to permit any conclusions concerning diso riented chiral condensates.