Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 17 MAY 2001

M5.001 Electron Scattering

M5.002 Electron and Ion Reactions in Molecular Solids: from astrochemistry to radiobiology

Michael A. Huels (University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada)

M5.003 Dissociative Electron Attachment to ClCN

Ann E. Orel (University of California, Davis), Thomas N. Rescigno (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

M5.004 Absolute thick target bremsstrahlung yield for 25 and 50 keV electron bombardment

Sal Portillo, C.A. Quarles (Physics Dept., Texas Christian University)

M5.005 A systematic analysis of elastic electron scattering from inert gases

Mehrdad Adibzadeh, Constantine Theodosiou (University of Toledo)

M5.006 Electron Impact Excitation/Ionization

M5.007 STUDY OF THE LINEAR POLARIZATION OF SE^24+ LINES PRODUCED BY IMPACT WITH AN ELECTRON BEAM

Hong Lin Zhang (LANL), Douglas H. Sampson (The Penn State U.), Mokhtar K. Inal (Belkaid U., Algeria)

M5.008 Scaling of Plane-Wave Born Excitation Cross Sections for Neutral Atoms

Yong-Ki Kim (NIST)

M5.009 Scaling of Coulomb Born Excitation Cross Sections for Singly-Charged Atomic Ions

Yong-Ki Kim (NIST)

M5.010 Cross Sections for K-Shell Ionization by Electron Impact

J. P. Santos (Univ. Nova Lisboa, CFAUL, Lisbon, Portugal), F. Parente (Univ. Lisboa, CFAUL, Lisbon, Portugal), Yong-Ki Kim (NIST)

M5.011 Measurement of electron excitation cross-section for n=3 to 2 transitions from Fe XXIII and Fe XXIV

H. Chen, P. Beiersdorfer, G.V. Brown, J.H. Scofield (LLNL), K.R. Boyce, K.C. Gendreau, R.L. Kelley, F.S. Porter, C.K. Stahle, A.E. Szymkowiak (GSFC), S.M. Kahn (Columbia U.)

M5.012 Electron Correlations in Generalized Oscillator Strengths for Kr 3d^10 and Xe 4d^10.

Z. Felfli (Clark Atlanta University, USA), M. Ya. Amusia (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Israel), L. V. Chernysheva (A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia), A. Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta University, USA)

M5.013 Cross Sections for Compton Scattering upon Heavy Atoms with Account of Many-Electron Correlations

M. Ya. Amusia (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Israel), L. V. Chernysheva (A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia), Z. Felfli, A. Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta University, USA)

M5.014 Electron-Impact Excitation of Ne II

Donald Griffin (Department of Physics, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL), Nigel Badnell (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK), Dario Mitnik (Department of Physics, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL)

M5.015 ELECTRON IMPACT EXCITATION OF He-LIKE O VII

Franck Delahaye, Anil Pradhan (The Ohio State U.)

M5.016 Electron Impact Excitation of Neon

M.A. Khakoo, Wrkich Joseph, Larsen Michael, Gary Kleiban (Physics Department, California State University, Fullerton), Electron Scattering Group Team

M5.017 ELECTRON SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS IN Cs USING AN MOT

J.A. MacAskill, J. Domyslawska, M. Sak, W. Kedzierski, W.J. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

M5.018 (e,2e) Studies of Xenon Autoionizing Levels

J.G. Childers, N.L.S. Martin (University of Kentucky)

M5.019 Ionization processes in ultracold lithium

Ming-Tie Huang, Liang Zhang, Shuichi Hasegawa, C.-Y. Chen, M. Lindsay, S.H. Southworth, L. Young (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL)

M5.020 Measurement of electron-impact excitation cross sections out of the metastable levels of krypton

Tom Stone, John B. Boffard, L. W. Anderson, Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

M5.021 Behaviour of the Minima of Generalized Oscillator Strengths.

N. B. Avdonina, R. H. Pratt (University of Pittsburgh)

M5.022 Measurement of electron-impact excitation cross section using trapped Rb atoms

Todd A. Zimmerman, M. Larsen, John B. Boffard, L. W. Anderson, Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

M5.023 Importance of post collision interaction for electron ionization of heavy atoms

A. Prideau, D.H. Madison, J.L. Peacher (University of Missouri-Rolla), M.A. Haynes, B. Lohmann (Griffith University, Australia)

M5.024 Correlation Effects in e-Mg Scattering

Zhifan Chen, Alfred Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta University)

M5.025 THE IRON PROJECT/RmaX NETWORK: ATOMIC CALCULATIONS FOR THE IRON-PEAK ELEMENTS AND FOR X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY

Guoxin Chen, Franck Delahaye, Sultana Nahar, Justin Oelgetz, Anil Pradhan (The Ohio State. U.), Honglin Zhang (LANL), Manuel Bautista (IVIV-Venezuela)

M5.026 DISSOCIATION OF WATER BY ELECTRON IMPACT.

T. Harb, W. Kedzierski, W.J. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

M5.027 O(^1S) PRODUCTION FOLLOWING ELECTRON IMPACT ON COS

W. Kedzierski, R. Nistor, W.J. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

M5.028 ELECTRON IMPACT EXCITATION OF KRYPTON CLUSTERS

C. Malone, W. Kedzierski, W.J. McConkey (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

M5.029 Distorted-Wave vs. Close-Coupling Calculations for Electron-Impact Excitation of Krypton

A. Dasgupta (Naval Research Laboratory), K. Bartschat (Drake University), D. Vaid (University of Missouri-Rolla), A.N. Grum-Grzhimailo (Moscow State University), D.H. Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)

M5.030 Effective collision strengths for fine-structure forbidden transitions among the 3s^23p^3 levels of K~V

Kenneth Bell, Nigel Wilson (The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, N. Ireland)

M5.031 Electron Impact Ionization of Inner and Outer Shells of Argon

D.A. Biava, D.H. Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla), R.P. McEachran (Australian National University), H. Saha (University of Central Florida), E. Engel, R. Dreizler (University of Frankfurt, Germany), M.A. Haynes, B. Lohmann (Griffith University, Australia)

M5.032 The Scale Renormalization of Few-Body Systems.

Michael Cavagnero (University of Kentucky)

M5.033 Magnetic sublevel population in 1s-2p excitation of helium by fast electrons and protons.

Alex Godunov, James H. McGuire (Tulane University), Hocine Merabet, Reinhard Bruch, J. Hanni (University of Nevada, Reno)

M5.034 Multiple overlapping resonance treatment in electron-cadmium ionization

M. M. Tabanli, J. L. Peacher, D. H. Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)

M5.035 Electron-Impact Excitation of the CO Molecule

R. Scott Schappe (Lake Forest College), Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

M5.036 Electron Scattering from Excited States of the Barium Atom

Peter Zetner (Physics Department, University of Manitoba, Canada), Paul Johnson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA)

M5.037 Positron Scattering

M5.038 Low-energy positron scattering from atoms and molecules

S.J. Gilbert, J.P. Sullivan, C.M. Surko (UCSD, La Jolla, CA), S.J. Buckman (ANU, Canberra, Australia)

M5.039 Atomic ionization by positron impact via exterior complex scaling

C. William McCurdy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Thomas N. Rescigno (Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories)

M5.040 Classical and quantum-mechanical description of atomic ionization by positron impact

J Fiol, R Olson (Physics Department, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401, USA.)

M5.041 Positronium and Ionization Processes in the Time-Dependent Positron Hydrogen Scattering

D. O. Odero (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), J. L. Peacher, D. H. Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)

M5.042 Algebraic-Coupled-State Calculation of Positron-Ion Collision

T.T. Gien (Physics, Memorial Univesrity, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.)

M5.043 Effective Range Theory Analysis of Positron-Helium Collisions

S.J. Ward (University of North Texas)

M5.044 On the Distorted Wave Models in Positron Impact Ionization of Atoms

Radu Campeanu (York University), Robert McEachran (Australian National University), Allan Stauffer (York University)

M5.045 Incorporating Signal from Ortho-positronium Decay into Positronium Formation Cross Section Measurements*

T.S. Stein, W.E. Kauppila, K. Pipinos, C.K. Kwan, E.G. Miller, S.M. Smith, S. Zhou (Wayne State University)

M5.046 Total and Positronium Formation Cross Section Measurements for Lithium^\ast

J.M. Johnson, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, S.P. Parikh, T.S. Stein, E. Surdutovich (Wayne State University)

M5.047 Low-Energy Positronium Formation Cross Section Measurements for Sodium^\ast

E. Surdutovich, J.M. Johnson, W.E. Kauppila, T.S. Stein (Wayne State University)

M5.048 Ion Scattering

M5.049 Double ionization of spatially aligned D_2 by fast highly charged ions

A.L. Landers, A. Al-Naser, J.A. Tanis (Department of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008), E. Wells (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904), T. Osipov, I. Ali, I. Reiser, K.D. Carnes, I. Ben-Itzhak, P. Richard, C.L. Cocke (J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506)

M5.050 Simulation of polarization and correlation effects in an independent-particle-model study of ionization of helium by antiprotons

Marko Horbatsch, Tom Kirchner (Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3)

M5.051 Double Capture in F^8+ + Ne COLLISIONS

Joseph Pole, Allen Landers, Steve Ferguson, John Tanis (Western Michigan University), Adrienne Erickcek (Kalamazoo Area Mathemetics and Science Center), J.-Y. Chesnel (Université de Caen), B. Sulik (ATOMKI, Debrecen)

M5.052 Fully Differential Single Ionization Cross Sections for Coplanar and Non-Coplanar Geometry in Very Fast C^6+ + He Collisions

M. Schulz, D.H. Madison, R.E. Olson, M. Foster (University of Missouri-Rolla), R. Moshammer, H. Kollmus, J. Ullrich (University of Freiburg)

M5.053 Kinematically complete differential cross-sections for ionization of He by fast ion impact

J. Fiol, R. Olson (Physics Department, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO 65401, USA)

M5.054 Electron emission spectra in single and multiple ionization of noble gas atoms by fast highly-charged ion impact

L. Gulyás (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), P. O. Box 51, H-4001 Debrecen. Hungary), T. Kirchner (Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3), M. Schulz (University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri 65409), R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany)

M5.055 Building an apparatus for studying Rydberg atom interactions with sub-eV electrons and keV ions.

Nagesha Kannadaguli, Ameya Kolarkar, Keith B. MacAdam (U. Kentucky)

M5.056 Electron capture from aligned Rydberg Na(25p) states.

ChangSu Hwang, Keith B. MacAdam (U. Kentucky)

M5.057 Laser Excitation of Na(25p) by Stark Mixing.

Keith B. MacAdam, Changsu Hwang, Hualin Zhang (U. Kentucky)

M5.058 Understanding the mechanisms involved in photoexcitation of Na Rydberg-Stark manifolds.

Hualin Zhang, ChangSu Hwang, Keith B. MacAdam (U. Kentucky)

M5.059 Charge Transfer

M5.060 Ionization and Electron Transfer in \alpha-C^5+(1s) Collisions

T.G. Winter (Penn State U., Wilkes-Barre Campus)

M5.061 Single-Electron Capture by Low Energy He^2+ Ions from Molecular Targets.

E.Y. Kamber, S.M. Ferguson (Dept. of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008)

M5.062 Charge Transfer in Collisions of S^4+ with H.

P. C. Stancil (University of Georgia), A. R. Turner, D. L. Cooper (University of Liverpool), D. R. Schultz, M. J. Rakovic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), W. Fritsch (Hahn-Meitner-Institut), B. Zygelman (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

M5.063 Single electron capture in N^+ -(Ne, Kr, Xe) collisions

Pedro G Reyes (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM), Fermin Castillo (Instituto de Ciencias Necleares, UNAM), Horacio Martinez (Centro de Ciencias Fisicas, UNAM)

M5.064 Charge Transfer in Collisions of S^4+ with He.

J. G. Wang, P. C. Stancil (University of Georgia), A. R. Turner, D. L. Cooper (University of Liverpool), D. R. Schultz, M. J. Rakovic (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), W. Fritsch (Hahn-Meitner-Institut), B. Zygelman (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

M5.065 Low Energy Electron Capture in C^6+ + H(1s) Collisions

Bidhan Saha, Charles Weatherford (Department of Physics, Florida Aamp;M University, Tallahassee, FL)

M5.066 OSCILLATION OF ELECTRON-CAPTURE CROSS SECTION VERSUS IMPACT ENERGY FOR PROTONS ON SPATIALLY ORIENTED MOLECULAR HYDROGEN

Steven ALSTON (Penn State U., New Kensington)

M5.067 Interactions with Surfaces and Solids

M5.068 M X-Ray Production in Pt, Au, and Pb by Low-Energy Proton Impact.

Sam J. Cipolla (Physics Dept., Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE 68178.)

M5.069 Spin-Dependent Studies of the Dynamics of He+ Ion Neutralization at Surfaces

J.C. Lancaster, F.J. Kontur, P. Nordlander, G.K. Walters, F.B. Dunning (Rice University)

M5.070 Heavy Particle Collision Theory

M5.071 Total Cross Sections from the Dissociative Excitation of Ground and Quasibound States of H3+, D3+ and HD2+ on He.

F.B. Yousif (Centro de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM, P.O. Box 48-3, 62251, Cuernavaca, Mor. México), G Hinojosa, C. Cisneros, I. Alvarez

M5.072 Highly Excited Species, Rydberg Atoms

M5.073 Dynamical localization in the 3-D kicked Rydberg atom

Emil Persson, Shuhei Yoshida (Vienna University of Technology), Carlos Reinhold (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Xiao-Min Tong (Japan Science and Technology Corporation), Joachim Burgdoerfer (University of Tennessee, ORNL, Vienna Univ. of Technology)

M5.074 Phase Space Localization in the Kicked Atom

Christopher Stokely, Bridget Tannian, F.B. Dunning (Department of Physics, Rice University), C.O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, J. Burgdorfer (Physics Division, ORNL and Department of Physics, U. of Tennessee)

M5.075 A comparison between Stark maps and scaled spectra of highly perturbed Rydberg states in Ba

Camelia Vasilescu, Kenn Bates, Jumpei Masae, Douglass Schumacher (The Ohio State University)

M5.076 Simple Analytic Formula for the Stark Recurrence Spectrum

Heric Flores-Rueda, R. V. Jensen, J. D. Wright, T. J. Morgan (Wesleyan University)

M5.077 Scaled-Absorption and Recurrence Spectra of Argon in an Electric Field Using Two Photon Excitation

J. D. Wright, W. Huang, H. Flores-Rueda, T. J. Morgan (Wesleyan University)

M5.078 Studies of Electron Attachment to Molecules using Rydberg Atoms

L. Suess, R. Parthasarathy, S. B. Hill, W. W. Williams, F. B. Dunning (Rice University)

M5.079 Highly Charged Species

M5.080 Effects of exchange interactions in hollow atoms

Khondkar Karim (Physics Department, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560)

M5.081 Exchange interactions in hollow atoms

Khondkar Karim (Physics Department, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4560)

M5.082 Measurement of the 1s2s~^1S_0 - 1s2p~^3P_1 interval in helium-like silicon.

M. Redshaw, R. Harry, E.G. Myers (Florida State University), C.A. Weatherford (Florida A and M University)

M5.083 Exotic Atoms and Molecules

M5.084 Kaonic atoms X-ray energies of circular and first parallel transitions

J. P. Santos (Univ. Nova Lisboa, CFAUL, Lisbon, Portugal), F. Parente (Univ. Lisboa, CFAUL, Lisbon, Portugal), P. Indelicato (LKB, Univ. P. et M. Curie, Paris, France)

M5.085 Clusters

M5.086 Collective electron oscillations in nanotubes

Miron Ya Amusia (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel and A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia), Yuri Kornyushin (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel)

M5.087 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions: Interactions Potentials and Forces

M5.088 First-principles simulations of liquid water

Krzysztof Szalewicz, Robert Bukowski, Eric Mas (University of Delaware)

M5.089 Schemes for diabatic transformation

B.D. Esry (Dept. of Physics, KSU, Manhattan, KS 66506), H. R. Sadeghpour (ITAMP - Harvard -Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA 02138), KSU-ITAMP Collaboration

M5.090 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions: Reactive Scattering, Chemical Kinetics

M5.091 Coherent Control of Reactive Scattering: Li+HF and F+HD

Vlado Zeman, Paul Brumer (University of Toronto), Moshe Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science)

M5.092 Photodissociation Spectroscopy as a Probe of Molecular Dynamics: Mg-Acetaldehyde Interactions

P.D. Kleiber, W.-Y. Lu (University of Iowa)

M5.093 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions: Atom-Atom and Atom-Molecule Collisions

M5.094 Cross sections for chemi-ionization in mercury

J.S. Cohen, L.A. Collins, R.L. Martin (Los Alamos National Lab), B.I. Schneider (National Science Foundation)

M5.095 Electron Impact Excitation of Fe^21+ calculations using the new Parallel R-Matrix codes

Dario M. Mitnik, Donald C. Griffin (Department of Physics, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, USA), Nigel R. Badnell (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)

M5.096 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions: Polarized Atoms

M5.097 Breakdown of Alkali Optical Pumping in High Pressure He Cells

Thad Walker, L.W. Anderson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Steve Kadlecek (Nycomed-Amersham)

M5.098 Measurements of Fundamental Spin-Exchange Rates

Bien Chann, Ian Nelson, Earl Babcock, L. W. Anderson, Thad Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Steve Kadlecek, Bastiaan Driehuys (Nycomed-Amersham)

M5.099 Design and operation of an open human-scale low-field MRI system

R.L. Walsworth, R.W. Mair (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. Patz, M. Hrovat (Brigham and Women's Hospital), M. Briggs, F.W. Hersman, M.B. Leuschner (U. New Hampshire)

M5.100 Double resonance NMR experiments with laser-polarized noble gas

G.P. Wong, L. Tsai, R. Wang, R.L. Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

M5.101 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions: Surface Interactions

M5.102 The study of Atom-Surface Interactions Using Rydberg Atoms

Ziqiang Zhou (Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Rice Quantum Institute Rice University. P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251), Shannon Hill, Christian Haich, Peter Nordlander, Barry Dunning

M5.103 Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions: Scattering Theory

M5.104 Direct calculation of the scattering amplitude without partial wave analysis

Janine Shertzer (College of the Holy Cross), Aaron Temkin (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)

M5.105 Precision Calculation of electron-H Phase Shifts

A.K. Bhatia (NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA), A. Temkin

M5.106 Independent time approximation for dynamically interacting multi-electron systems

Alexander Godunov, James H. McGuire (Tulane University)

M5.107 Computational Experiments for Three-Body Breakup

Barry I. Schneider (Electron and Optical Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, and Physics Division, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA)

M5.108 Stokes Lines Topology for the Determination of Regge Pole Trajectories

F. Kidwingira (Clark Atlanta U.), S. N. Naboko (St. Petersburgh State U., Russia), Z. Felfli (Clark Atlanta U.), N. B. Avdonina (University of Pittsburgh), A. Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta U.)

M5.109 WKB Analysis of the Asymptotics of Regge Poles Positions for Singular Potentials.

S. Belov (St. Petersburgh State U., Russia), N. B. Avdonina (University of Pittsburgh), Z. Felfli, A. Z. Msezane (Clark Atlanta U.), S. Naboko (St. Petersburgh State U., Russia)

M5.110 Exchange Forces In Dispersion Relations: Investigation Using Circuit Relations

D. Vrinceanu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), A. Z. Msezane, D. Bessis (Clark Atlanta University), A. Temkin (Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, USA)

M5.111 Electron Impact Excitation of O-like Fe Ions

Brendan M. McLaughlin (Queens University of Belfast), Kate P. Kirby (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)