Program overview

THURSDAY MORNING, 7 OCTOBER 1999

Session LR1. Recombination and Heavy Particle Collisions.

Thursday morning, 08:00, Stratford Room, Sheraton Waterside Hotel

08:00 LR1.01 Mechanisms for Dissociative Recombination
Steven Guberman (Institute for Scientific Research)
08:30 LR1.02 Dissociative Recombination of Complex Ions
J. Brian A. Mitchell (P.A.L.M.S., U.M.R. du C.N.R.S. No. 6627, University of Rennes I, 35042 Rennes, France)
09:00 LR1.03 Collisional Decomposition of SF_6^- by N_2
Ilya Dyakov, Brian Peko, Roy Champion (College of William and Mary)
09:15 LR1.04 Collision-induced dissociation dynamics of Ar_2^+ at high levels of vibrational excitation
Y.-H. Chiu, D. J. Levandier (Boston College, Newton, MA 02159-1164), S. Pullins, R. A. Dressler (Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731)
09:30 LR1.05 Production of OH(A) in fast collisions of O with H2O
Debbie Levin (Dept of Chemistry, George Washington University), James Drakes (Sverdrup Technology, Inc. / AEDC Group, Arnold AFB)
09:45 LR1.06 Excitation and Ionization in H(1s)-H(1s) Collisions
Merle E. Riley (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185), Burke Ritchie (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

Session LR2. High Pressure Lighting Plasmas.

Thursday morning, 08:00, York Room, Sheraton Waterside Hotel

08:00 LR2.01 Microhollow Cathode Discharge Excimer Lamps
Karl H. Schoenbach (Physical Electronics Research Institute, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA)
08:30 LR2.02 Spatial Distribution of the Excimer Emission from Microhollow Cathode Discharges
A. El-Habachi, M. Moselhy, K.H. Schoenbach (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529)
08:45 LR2.03 Spectroscopic Study of High Pressure Microhollow Cathode Discharges in Argon
U. Ernst, K. Frank (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Physics Department I, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany), W. Hartmann (Siemens AG ZTEN3, Corporate Technology, Paul-Gossen-Strasse 100, 91050 Erlangen, Germany)
09:00 LR2.04 Characteristic Curves of a coupled Power Supply and Gas Discharge
Klaus Guenther (OSRAM GMBH, Berlin, Germany)
09:30 LR2.05 Radiation Transport in Cylindrical Discharges with Radial Inhomgeneities
John J. Curry, J. E. Lawler (Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin), G. G. Lister (OSRAM Sylvania, Inc., Beverly, Massachusetts)
09:45 LR2.06 A Molecular and Atomic Radiative Transfer Module for the General Plasma Model Plasimo
Harm van der Heijden, Robert Hoogland, Jan van Dijk, Joost van der Mullen (Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)