SESSION WK: RYDBERG ATOMS

Wednesday afternoon, 17 May 1995 McLennan Physical Laboratory Room 137 at 14:00 D. Kleppner, presiding

14:00 WK 1 Radial-Wavepackets in a Highly-Correlated Two-Electron System. D.W. Schumacher, D.I. Duncan, R.R. Jones, T.F. Gallagher, University of Virginia.

14:12 WK 2 Transitions Between Rydberg Stark States of Na Induced by Blackbody Radiation. E.J. Galvez, C. MacGregor, and B. Chaudhuri, Colgate University; F. de Zela and E. Masoni, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

14:24 WK 3 Atomic Wavepackets of ns, (n-l)p, and (n-2)d States in Rubidium and Potassium. H.C. Tran, P.C. John, and J.G. Eden, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

14:36 WK 4 Half-Cycle Microwave Excitation of rubidium Rydberg Atoms. G.M. Lankhuijzen and L.D. Noordam, FOM-Institute AMOLF, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

14:48 WK 5 Rydberg x-ray laser based on inner electron optical field ionization. R.B. Vrijen, L.D. Noordam, FOM-Institute AMOLF, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

15:00 WK 6 Asymmetry in ionization of oriented Rydberg states of hydrogen by a half-cycle pulse. A. Bugacov, M. Pont, and R. Shakeshaft, Univ. of Southern California, B. Piraux, Universite Catholique de Louvain.

15:12 WK 7 Unexpected Polarization Dependence in the Microwave "Ionization" of Excited H Atoms Near the Main Resonance Zone. M.R.W. Bellermann, P.M. Koch, SUNY Stony Brook; D.R. Mariani, Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT; D. Richards, Open Univ. U.K.

15:24 WK 8 Polarization Dependence of Structures in Microwave "Ionization" Curves for Excited H Atoms. P.M. Koch, M.R.W. Bellermann, SUNY Stony Brook; D.R. Mariani, Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT; D. Richards, Open Univ. U.K.

15:36 WK 9 Direct Observation of Radial Wavepacket Dynamics using Half-Cycle Sub-Picosecond Pulses. C. Raman, C.W.S. Conover, C.I. Sukenik, P.H. Bucksbaum, University of Michigan.

15:48 WK 10 Observation of Atomic Wavepacket Dynamics in a Non-Separable Hamiltonian System. M.L. Naudeau, C.I. Sukenik, P.H. Bucksbaum, University of Michigan.