Large studies of meson production at Celsius

At the CELSIUS cooler storage ring in Uppsala, a detector facility for the study of meson production in light ion collisions has recently come into operation. Neutral meson, i.e. π0 and η, are detected through their decay into two photons. Charged particles and nuclei recoiling in the forward direction are observed in coincidence with the produced mesons. In this paper, the current status of the detector performance is presented together with the experimental program on meson production. (author). 4 refs, 13 figs, 1 tab