Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 22 OCTOBER 2003

Session LW1. Atomic Ionization.

Wednesday afternoon, 13:15, California Ballroom, Cathedral Hill Hotel

13:15 LW1.001 Three-Dimensional Imaging of Ionization Processes
Michael Schulz (University of Missouri-Rolla)
13:45 LW1.002 Low Energy Electron Impact Ionization of He---Experimental Doubly Differential Cross-sections
Eric Schow, Christina Medina, James Gregory Childers, Murtadha A. Khakoo (California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA)
14:00 LW1.003 Atomic and Molecular Double Photoionization Calculations Using Exterior Complex Scaling
C. W. McCurdy (LBNL), D. A. Horner (UC Berkeley), T. N. Rescigno (LBNL)
14:15 LW1.004 Double ionization of helium by photon impact
Steve Jones, Don Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)
14:30 LW1.005 Radiative Recombination in the Terrestrial Nightglow: e + O^+ \rightarrow O + h\nu
T. G. Slanger, P. C. Cosby, B. D. Sharpee, D. L. Huestis (SRI International)
14:45 LW1.006 Ionization in the Noble Gases via Positronium Formation^+
J.P. Marler, J. P. Sullivan, C.M. Surko (University of California, San Diego)

Session LW2. Innovative Applications of Discharges.

Wednesday afternoon, 13:15, International Ballroom, Cathedral Hill Hotel

13:15 LW2.001 Instabilities of electronegative inductive plasma discharges
Michel Tuszewski, Robert White (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
13:30 LW2.002 Analytic and Numerical Models for Electronegative Plasmas
M. Lampe, W. M. Manheimer, S. P. Slinker, R. F. Fernsler, G. Joyce (Naval Research Laboratory)
13:45 LW2.003 The Microhollow Cathode Discharge as ion source for mass spectrometry
Kerstin Kunze, Manuela Miclea, Joachim Franzke, Kay Niemax (Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Dortmund, Germany), ISAS Dortmund Collaboration
14:00 LW2.004 Thermionic Cathodes – Novel Way to Increase Electron Density in Atmospheric Air and Nitrogen DC Glow Discharges
Zdenko Machala (Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, CA, USA), Christophe O. Laux (Ecole Centrale Paris, Chatenay-Malabry, France), Charles H. Kruger (Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University, CA, USA)
14:15 LW2.005 The Extraction of Ion Species from Electron Beam- Produced Ion-Ion Plasmas
S.G. Walton, D. Leonhardt, R.F. Fernsler (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375)
14:30 LW2.006 A Novel Generation Method of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Using Piezoelectric Transformer
Kenji Teranishi, Susumu Suzuki, Haruo Itoh (Chiba Institute of Technology)
14:45 LW2.007 Rotating power deposition in a capacitively-coupled plasma discharge
Edward Hammond, Parviz Moin (Stanford University)