Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 9 OCTOBER 2001

Session AT1. GEC: Electron Colisions with Rare Gases.

Tuesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom C, Nittany Lion Inn

08:00 AT1.001 Spin and orbital angular momenta effects in electron collisions with rare gas atoms
Jim Williams (The University of Western Australia, Perth. WA 6009. Australia)
08:30 AT1.002 Electron Impact Excitation of Inert Gases
Don Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)
09:00 AT1.003 Measurement of the electron-impact excitation cross sections out of the metastable levels of krypton
John B. Boffard, Tom Stone, L. W. Anderson, Chun C. Lin (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
09:15 AT1.004 Electron Collisions with Trapped Metastable Helium Atoms
L.J. Uhlmann, M. Colla, R.J. Gulley, M. Hoogerland, K.G. Baldwin (Affiliation), S.J. Buckman (Australian National University, Canberra)

Session AT2. GEC: Plasma Propulsion.

Tuesday morning, 08:00, Ballroom AB, Nittany Lion Inn

08:00 AT2.001 Plasma diagnostic development and future needs for electric propulsion applications
Greg Spanjers (Air Force Research Laboratory)
08:30 AT2.002 Lifetime Modeling of Xenon Hollow Cathodes Used in Electric Propulsion
Scott Kovaleski (QSS Group, Inc., NASA Glenn Research Center Group)
08:45 AT2.003 Ferroelectric Emission Cathodes for Space Applications
Scott Kovaleski (QSS Group, Inc., NASA Glenn Research Center Group)
09:00 AT2.004 PLASMA COXIAL DISCHARGE EFFICIENCY
E. A. Mehanna (E. A.)
09:15 AT2.005 Flow Measurements in a Helicon Plasma Source Operated as a Plasma Thruste
Xuan Sun, Robert Boivin, John Kline, Earl Scime, Robert Spangler, Michael Woehrman (Department of Physics, West Virginia University)