The Conference Registration desk will be open from 2:00-10:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 May 1995 in the main lobby of the McLennan Physical Laboratory and starting at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 17 May 1995 in Room 118.
- Evolution in Atoms and Molecules (organized by T. F. Gallagher)
- Photoeffects at High Photon Energies (organized by C. D. Caldwell)
- Recent Developments in AMO Theory (organized by C. D. Lin)
- Electron-Ion Collisions Within and Without Ion-Atom Collisions
(organized by C. L. Cocke)
- Fullerenes and Clusters (organized by G. W. F. Drake)
- Advances in Electron Collision Physics (organized by K. H. Becker)
- Dissociative Recombination (organized by M. R. Flannery)
- Laser Cooling of Neutral Atoms (organized by W. D. Phillips)
- Atomic and Molecular Physics as a Tool (organized by C. C. Lin)
- Atomic Collisions: Techniques and Applications (organized by L. W.
Anderson)
- Ultrafast and High Field Atomic Physics (organized by P. H. Bucksbaum)
In addition, on Thursday morning there will be a symposium for the
finalists in the annual Student Thesis Award, and a one-hour session for
selected presentations of undergraduate research. There will be 16 sessions
of contributed talks, and three sessions for contributed posters.
The program committee which planned the symposia includes:
C.C. Lin (chair), T.F. Gallagher, C.L. Cocke, T.J. McIlrath, C.D. Caldwell,
G.W.F. Drake, K.H. Becker, W.D. Phillips, C.D. Lin, C. Weiman, P.H.
Bucksbaum, R.R. Freeman, R.A. Phaneuf, D.E. Murnick, R.E. Marrs, D.H.
Madison, J.E. Lawler, E.A. Hinds, and P.C. Cosby.
Wednesday, 17 May
The DAMP Business meeting will be held in the McLennan Physical Laboratory
Room 137 from 5:30-6:00 p.m.
An Employment Symposium will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the McLennan Physical
Laboratory Room 102.
Thursday, 18 May
Physical Review A and Physical Review Letters will hold a Drop-In Hour from
3:00-5:00 p.m. in the McLennan Physical Laboratory Room 137. The editors of
Physical Review A and Physical Review Letters will be available to answer
questions and share concerns about the journals. All are welcome.
The DAMOP Business meeting will be held in room 102 from 5:00-6:00 p.m.
The Conference Banquet will be held at the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto. Public transportation (the subway) will be used to get to the banquet. Tickets for the subway will be provided to all registrants. To get to the Royal York, take the Spadina subway line from any of the following stations: Spadina, St. George, Museum or Queen's Park (see campus map for locations of subway stations). Take the subway south and get off at Union Station. Follow the signs at Union Station to the Royal York Hotel. The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will have a cash bar. The banquet will begin at 7:30 p.m. Conference badges should be worn to the banquet, as they will be used in lieu of banquet tickets.
WP 14 Relativistic configuration interaction calculations of the $ls^2_{1/2} ^1S_0$ and
$1s_{1/2}2s_{1/2} ^3S_1$ states of helium-like ions using a minimax variational method. A.
Kolaowska and J.D. Talman, University of Western Ontario; K. Aashamar, University of Oslo.
TP 84 Ionization and Excitation of Hydrogen Molecules by Fast Proton Impact. I. Ben-Itzhak, V.
Krishnamurthi, K.D. Carnes, H. Aliabadi, J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan,
KS; H. Knudsen, and U. Mikkelsen, Inst. of Physics and Astronomy, U. of Aarhus, Aarhus,
Denmark.
TP 85 Electron + X-Ray Coincidence Studies of Inner-Shell Processes. T.W. LeBrun, Argonne
National Laboratory; U. Arp, S.H. Southworth, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD; and M.A. MacDonald, SERC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD,
United Kingdom.
TP 80 Transition for q^2 Scaling to an Inverted Scaling of the Cross Section for 0 Degree BE
Emission in Ion Atom Collisons. C. Liao 1, S. Hagmann 1, T.J.M. Zouros 1,2; E.C. Montenegro
1,3; P. Richard 1, C.P. Bhalla 1, S. Grabbe 1, and T. Zaepfel 1. 1-Macdonald Lab., Kansas St. U.,
Manhattan, KS; 2=U. Crete and Inst. of Ele. Structure and Laser, Greece; 3=PUC-Rio, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
TP 81 Angular Distribution of Electrons for Heavy Ion on C and Au Targets. T. Zaepfel, C. Liao,
S. Hagmann, and P. Richard, J.R. Macdonald Lab., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS.
TP 82 Ionization of H by slow fully stripped ions. M. Pieksma and C.C. Havener, ORNL.
HEAVY-PARTICLE COLLISIONS: IONIZATION
TP 77 Electron Spectra Created By Transitions From Autoionizing State To Two Interacting
Continua. D.S.F. Crothers, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; A.Z. Devdariani,
Yu.N. Sebyakin, St. Petersburg University, Russia.
TP 78 New Theory of Electron Energy and Angular Distribution for Low Energy Ion-Atom
Collisions. S.Y. Ovchinnikov and J.H. Macek, Univ. of Tenn. and ORNL.
TP 79 Experimental Study of Quasimolecular Electrons Produced in Multicharged Ion-Atom
Collisions. A.P. Shergin, H. Li, X. Da, R. Rejoub, J.K. Swenson, V.V. Afrosimov, and R.A.
Phaneuf, University of Nevada, Reno.
TP 64 Born-Completion in the Calculation of Differential Cross Sections for Elastic Electron -
Non-Polar Molecule Scattering. M.A. Morrison, W.A. Isaacs, University of Oklahoma, Norman.
TP 65 Spectral studies of electron break-up of the light Alkanes. A. Iwamae, P. Erman, E. Rachlew
and H.G. Berry, Department of Physic I, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
ELECTRON-CAPTURE COLLISIONS
TP 66 A New Diabatic-by-Sector MO/AO Matching Method for Ion-Atom Collisions. Jiyun
Kuang and C.D. Lin, Macdonald Lab, Physics Dept., Kansas St. U., Manhattan, KS.
TP 67 Translational Energy Spectroscopy of Single-Electron Capture in Collisions of Ar^4+ and
Ar^5+ Ions With Ne. K. Akgungor, E.Y. Kamber, S.M. Ferguson, Physics Dept., Western Mich.
Univ., Kalamazoo, MI.
TP 68 Calculation of Charge Transfer Cross Sections in Collisions of the Ground state Mg Atom
with H^+ in low keV Collision Energies. C.M. Dutta, and P. Nordlander, Rice University; and M.
Kimura, Argonne National Laboratory.
TP 69 Electron Transfer, Target Excitation, and Ionization in Alpha- Particle Collisions with
Na(3s) Atoms at 2-50 keV/amu in the Coupled- Sturmian-Pseudostate Approach. Ashok Jain and
T.G. Winter, Pennsylvania State Univ., Wilkes-Barre Campus.
TP 70 Effects of Initial Orbital Alignment for Electron Capture in $He^{++} + H(2p)$ Collisions.
Bidhan C. Saha, Charles A. Weatherford, Rodney Scott and Herbert W. Jones, Department of
Physics, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL.
TP 71 Low-Energy Electron Capture from Collisions of Si^3+ and Si^4+ with He. N.J. Clarke 1,
P.C. Stancil 2, B. Zygelman 2, and D.L. Cooper 1. 1= Department of Chemistry, University of
Liverpool; 2= Department of Physics, University of Nevada Las Vegas.
TP 72 Electron Capture in Slow Collisions of N^+4 with Hydrogen. B. Zygelman 1, N.J. Clarke 2,
and D.L. Copper 2. 1= Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool; 2= Department of
Physics, University of Nevada Las Vegas.
TP 73 Measurements of Electron Capture by Si^4+ from Deuterium at Near- Thermal Collision
Energies. C.C. Havener, M.E. Minear, and M. Pieksma, ORNL.
TP 74 A Theoretical Study of Electron Capture and Excitation to the n=2 states of H in
$H^{+}-H$ Collisions using Symmetrised Variational Continuum Distorted-Wave Theory.
G.J.N. Brown, D.S.F. Crothers, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
TP 75 Differential Cross Sections for Small-Angle Scattering at 0.1-1.0 keV Energies. L.K.
Johnson, Mechanics and Materials Technology Center, The Aerospace Corporation.
TP 76 Relativistic Electron Capture. J.T. Glass, D.S.F. Crothers, The Queen's University of
Belfast, Northern Ireland; J.F. McCann, Durham University, England.
HEAVY-PARTICLE COLLISIONS: IONIZATION
TP 77 Electron Spectra Created By Transitions From Autoionizing State To Two Interacting
Continua. D.S.F. Crothers, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; A.Z. Devdariani,
Yu.N. Sebyakin, St. Petersburg University, Russia.
HEAVY-PARTICLE COLLISIONS
WP 1 J.R. Macdonald Laboratory USER Facility for Ion-Atom Collisions. T.J. Gray, C.L. Cocke,
P. Richard, M.P. Stockli, J.P. Giese, I. Ben- Itzhak, K.D. Carnes, S. Hagmann, and B.D. DePaola,
J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.
WP 2 The KSU-CRYEBIS: A User Facility for Low Energy, Highly Charged Ions. M.P. Stockli,
C.L. Cocke, P.E. Gibson, S. Kravis, D. Parks, P. Richard, T.N. Tipping, B. Walch, and S. Winecki,
J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.
WP 3 Time-Depndent Proton-Hydrogen Collisions in Flatland. P. Gavras and M.S. Pindzola,
Auburn; D.R. Schultz, ORNL.
WP 4 Bound-free muon-pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Jack Wells,
Harvard-Smithsonian.
WP 5 Numerical Solution of the Time-Dependent Dirac Equation in Momentum Space and
Application to Atomic Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. K. Momberger, A. Belkacem, Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory; A.H. Sorensen, Aarhus University (Denmark).
WP 6 Measurement of the Energy Distribution of Positrons from Capture from Pair Production
and Free Pair Production in Heavy Ion Collisions at 1 GeV/nucleon. H. Gould, A. Belkacem, B.
Feinberg, R. Bossingham, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., and W. Meyerhof, Stanford U.
WP 7 Interaction of Oriented Rydberg Atoms with Charged Particles. J. Wang, J.H. McGuire,
Tulane University; R.E. Olson, University of Missouri-Rolla.
SCATTERING THEORY
FP 1 Diabatic energy corrections in Coulomb three body systems. G.J. Bottrell, S.T. Binnix, Texas
Tech University.
FP 2 Three-body interactions in a dilute Bose gas. B.D. Esry and Chris H. Greene, JILA and Dept.
of Physics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
FP 3 Scattering of near resonant weak cw light from degenerate quantum gases. Li You, Maciej
Lewenstein, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian CFA; Roy J. Glauber, Physics Department, Harvard
University.
FP 4 Convergence Acceleration of Kohn Variational Method in the Presence of a Long-Range
Interaction. R.C. Forrey 1,2,3; R.N. Hill 2; and R.D. Sharma 1,4. 1=Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics; 2=University of Delaware; 3=Spectral Sciences, Incorporated; and 4=Phillips
Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base.
FP 5 Fourth-Order Wannier Threshold Theory. J.M. Feagin, Department of Physics, California
State University-Fullerton.
FP 6 Determination of Resonance Energy and Width by Calculation of the Density of Resonance
States Using the Stabilization Method. S.S. Tan & Y.K. Ho, IAMS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan,
ROC.
FP 7 Asymptotic analysis of a class of distorted wave methods. L.J. Dube, Department de Physique,
Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.
RYDBERG ATOMS
FP 22 High-precision Measurement of the n=10 F-to-G Internal in Helium: A Precision Test of
Relativistic and QED Effects in Rydberg States of Atoms. C.H. Storry, N.E. Rothery, E. A.
Hessels, York University.
FP 23 Observation of Coherent Population Transfer Among Rydberg States by Sub-Picosecond,
Half-Cycle Pulses. N.E. Tielking and R.R. Jones, University of Virginia.
FP 24 Precision Spectroscopic Measurements of the Stark Effect in Lithium Rydberg Levels and
Comparison With Theory. G. Stevens, C.-H. Iu, T. Bergeman, H. Metcalf, SUNY Stony Brook; D.
Delande, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie; K.T. Taylor, The Queen's University of Belfast; I.
Seipp, Universitat Tubingen.
FP 25 N-selective detection of hydrogenic Carbon Rydberg states, using a CO_2 laser. C.W.
Fehrenbach and S.R. Lundeen, Colorado State Univ.; and C.L. Cocke, B.D. DePaola, M.-T. Huang,
B.P. Walch, and S. Winecki, Kansas State Univ.
FP 26 Optical spectroscopy of high-L n=10 Rydberg states of atomic Nitrogen. P.L. Jacobson,
R.D. LaBelle, W.G. Sturrus 1, R.F. Ward, Jr. 2, and S.R. Lundeen, Colorado State University.
1=Youngstown State University; 2=University of Notre Dame.
FP 27 Absolute cross sections for charge capture from Rydberg targets by slow highly charged
ions. B.D. DePaola, M.-T. Huang, S. Winecki, M.P. Stockli, Y. Kanai, Kansas State Univ.; and
C.W. Fehrenbach, S.A. Arko, and S.R. Lundeen, Colorado State Univ.
FP 28 Total Lifetime Measurements of Rydberg Stark States of Na. C. MacGregor and E.J. Galvez,
Colgate University.
FP 29 Recurrance Spectroscopy of Rydberg Helium Atoms. M. Keeler, H. Martinez, and T.J.
Morgan, Wesleyan University.
FP 30 Studies Using Very High n Rydberg Atoms. S.B. Hill, M.T. Frey, K.A. Smith and F.B.
Dunning, Rice Univ.; I.I. Fabrikant, Univ. of Nebraska.
FP 31 Studies of Dipole Bound Negative Ions Produced in K(np) Rydberg Atom Collisions. R.A.
Popple, C.D. Finch, K.A. Smith and F.B. Dunning, Rice University.
FP 32 Populating High-n_1 Levels of Na Rydberg Atoms Diabatically by Applying a Rapidly
Changing Electric Field. O.P. Makarov, V.D. Irby and K.B. MacAdam, University of Kentucky.
FP 33 Electron Capture from Aligned d-State Rydberg Atoms Near the Matching Velocity. J.C.
Day, J.C. Aguilar, D.M. Homan and K.B. MacAdam, University of Kentucky.
FP 34 Rapid Production of Circular Rydberg States by the Adiabatic Crossed- Field Method Using
Pulsed Fields. J.C. Day, D.M. Homan, J.C. Aguilar, and K.B. MacAdam, University of Kentucky.
FP 35 Rydberg Transitions in High Angular Momentum States of Berylliumlike S^12+ and
Cl^13+. C.M. Vogel Vogt, A.E. Liningston, K.W. Kukla, Notre Dame University.
FP 59 Advances in Ion-Ion Collision System at KSU. C.Y. Chen, A. Landers, J.P. Giese, F.
Melchert 1, P. Richard, C.L. Cocke, and M.P. Stockli, J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State Univ.,
Manhattan, KS. 1=University of Giessen, Germany.
SURFACES, CLUSTERS, FOILS, AND FILMS
FP 60 Peak shape comparison of convoy electron emission from ion-atom, ion- foil, and
grazing-incidence ion-surface collisions. J.Y. Lim, H. Lebius, R. Minniti, and S.B. Elston,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
FP 61 Convoy electron emission in fast grazing ion-surface interactions. R. Minniti, H. Lebius,
J.Y. Lim, and S.B. Elston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
FP 62 Rotational Energy Dispersions for Argon Clusters. L.L..Lohr, University of Michigan.
FP 63 Studies of Polymer-Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Films. Andy Y.G. Fuh 1, L.C. Chien,
D.K. Yang, J.W. Doane, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University. 1=Phys. Dept., National
Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC.
FP 64 Characterization of wall coatings for a double-bulb rubidium maser. K.Y.N. Tan, E.M.
Mattison, E.R. Oteiza, R.E. Stoner, R.F.C. Vessot, R.L. Walsworth, and I.A. Yu,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
FP 65 The Intensity of Characteristic X-rays and Bremsstrahlung at 0\degrees and 45\degrees by
Electron Bombardment of Thin Targets. C.A. Quarles and V. Ambrose, Texas Christian U.
FP 66 A possible explanation for the anomalous $K\alpha_{1,2}$ x-ray production in 1.6 MeV
Kr-Al collisions. B.A. Lincoln, E.F. Deveney, W.W. Smith, Q.C. Kessel, The University of
Connecticut; and K.J. Reed, L-296, LLNL.
SESSION WB: DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION
Wednesday morning, 17 May 1995 McLennan Physical Laboratory Room 202 at 10:30 J.B.A.
Mitchell, presiding
10:30 WB 1 Resonant Dissociative Recombination in HeH^+ and H_3^+. A.E. Orel, University of
California, Davis.
11:00 WB 2 Theory of Dissociative Recombination. M.R. Flannery, Georgia Institute of Technology.
11:30 WB 3 Dissociative Recombination of Complex Ions. Rainer Johnsen, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh.
12:00 WB 4 New Mechanisms for Dissociative Recombination. Steven L. Guberman, Institute for
Scientific Research, Lexington, MA.
10:54 WD 3 Large Angle Scattering of 100 keV $C^{4+}$ and $C^{6+}$ on He Without Charge
Exchange. S. Winecki, R. Ali, C.L. Cocke, M.L.A. Raphaelian, P. Richard, H. Schmidt-Bocking 1,
H. Schone, and M.P. Stockli, Macdonald Lab, Kansas St. U., Manhattan, KS 66506. 1=Institut fur
Kernphysik, University of Frankfurt, Germany.
11:06 WD 4 Cusp-Electron Emission from Intermediate-Energy $O^{7+,8+} + Ar$ Collisions.
P.A. Zavodszky, E.Y. Kamber, O. Woitke, J.A. Tanis, Western Michigan University; L. Sarkadi, L.
Vikor, J. Palinkas, D. Berenyi, ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary; M. Kuzel, U. of Frankfurt/M,
Germany; J. McDonald, LLNL.
11:18 WD 5 Quasi-resonant charge transfer in collisions between $C^{2+}$ and B^+ ions. Y.D.
Wang, C.D. Lin, and W. Fritsch 1, J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas
State University. 1=Bereich Theoretische Physik, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, D-14109 Berlin,
Germany.
11:30 WD 6 Kinematic Isotope Effects in Low Energy Electron Capture in Multiply- Charged
Systems. P.C. Stancil and B. Zygelman, Depart. of Physics, University of Nevada Las Vegas.
11:42 WD 7 Effects of Initial Alignment of Na*(3p) on the Coherence Parameters for H(2p)
Produced by $H^+ + Na*(3p\Sigma,3p\Pi)$ Charge-Changing Collisions. C.J. Lundy, R.E. Olson,
University of Missouri-Rolla.
11:54 WD 8 Differential cross sections in electron capture distorted wave models. H.F. Busnengo,
A.E. Martinez, R.D. Rivarola (Uni. Nacional de Rosario, Argentina), L.J. Dube (Uni. Laval,
Canada).
12:06 WD 9 Target-Electronic Structure Dependence in Highly Charged Ion C_60 Collisions. U.
Thumm, J.R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas Strate Univ., Manhattan, KS 66506.
SESSION TI: EVOLUTION IN ATOMS AND MOLECULES
Thursday afternoon, 18 May 1995 McLennan Physical Laboratory Room 203 at 13:30 T.F. Gallagher,
presiding
13:30 TI 1 Adiabatic Transfer and Coherent Manipulation of Atoms by Lasers. Pierre Pillet,
Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS II, Bat. 505, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay cedex, France.
14:00 TI 2 Adiabatic Population Transfer in Multiphoton Processes. L.D. Noordam, FOM-Institute
AMOLF, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
14:30 TI 3 Adiabatic Field-Dressed Molecular States in Multiphoton Dissociation of H_2^+.
Frederick M. Mies, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
15:00 TI 4 The Evolution Of Magnetic Moments In Clusters. L.A. Bloomfield, Department of Physics,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
SESSION WA: PLENARY AND AWARD SESSION
Wednesday morning, 17 May 1995 Medical Science Building Auditorium at 8:00 A.D. May, presiding
8:00 Opening Remarks
8:10 WA 1 Atom Optics and Atom Interferometers. D.E. Pritchard, M.I.T.
8:50 H.P. Broida Prize Recipient Presentation
WA 2 Atomic and Molecular Dynamics at Femtosecond Resolution. A.H. Zewail, California Institute
of Technology.
9:25 I.I. Rabi Prize Recipient Presentation
WA 3 Prospects for Observing Quantum Statistical Effects in Laser Cooled Lithium. Randall G.
Hulet, Rice University, Houston.