Physical Review Letters – 19 March 1979
(Volume 42, Issue 12)

• MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS
• LETTERS
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • Nuclei
  • Atoms and Molecules
  • Fluids, Plasmas, and Electric Discharges
  • Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.
  • Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Physics
• ERRATA

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

•	GRAMMAR George L. Trigg pp. 747-748 [View Page Images , PDF (140 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

LETTERS

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Nature of the τ-ντ-W Coupling W. Bacino, T. Ferguson, L. Nodulman, W. E. Slater, H. K. Ticho, A. Diamant-Berger, G. Donaldson, M. Duro, A. Hall, G. Irwin, J. Kirkby, F. Merritt, S. Wojcicki, R. Burns, P. Condon, P. Cowell, and J. Kirz pp. 749-752 [View Page Images , PDF (577 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclei

•	Giant-Resonance Studies via Inelastic Pion Scattering J. Arvieux, J. P. Albanese, M. Buenerd, D. Lebrun, E. Boschitz, C. H. Ingram, and J. Jansen pp. 753-756 [View Page Images , PDF (723 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atoms and Molecules

•	Experimental Evidence for Compensation of Doppler Broadening by Light Shifts S. Reynaud, M. Himbert, J. Dupont-Roc, H. H. Stroke, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji pp. 756-759 [View Page Images , PDF (701 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation of Atomic Hydrogen to the n=2 State by Helium Ions Victor Franco pp. 759-762 [View Page Images , PDF (635 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fluids, Plasmas, and Electric Discharges

•	Negative Diffusion of Perpendicular Ion Energy in a Magnetized Plasma due to Mode-Coupling Process Mitsuhiro Shigeta, Toshio Tange, and Kyoji Nishikawa pp. 762-766 [View Page Images , PDF (876 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport Inhibition Implied by Density Profile Flattening in the Corona of Laser-Heated Microspheres R. Benattar, C. Popovics, R. Sigel, and J. Virmont pp. 766-769 [View Page Images , PDF (724 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ion Acceleration in an Expanding Rarefied Plasma with Non-Maxwellian Electrons A. Gurevich, D. Anderson, and H. Wilhelmsson pp. 769-772 [View Page Images , PDF (653 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Stabilization of Interchange Mode by Surface Line Tying S. Fornaca, Y. Kiwamoto, and N. Rynn pp. 772-776 [View Page Images , PDF (891 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Debye-Length Discrimination of Nonlinear Laser Forces Acting on Electrons in Tenuous Plasmas B. W. Boreham and H. Hora pp. 776-779 [View Page Images , PDF (762 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transient Growth in a Current-Carrying Plasma Y. Y. Lau pp. 779-781 [View Page Images , PDF (508 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Surface Tension of Solid 4He S. Balibar, D. O. Edwards, and C. Laroche pp. 782-784 [View Page Images , PDF (563 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-Ray—Scattering Evidence for Sublattice Phase Transition in Stoichiometric Silver β-Alumina J. P. Boilot, Ph. Colomban, R. Collongues, G. Collin, and R. Comès pp. 785-787 [View Page Images , PDF (782 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photochemical and Population Hole Burning in the Zero-Phonon Line of a Color Center—F3+ in NaF R. M. Macfarlane and R. M. Shelby pp. 788-791 [View Page Images , PDF (703 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Small-Polaronic Diffusion of Light Interstitials in bcc Metals David Emin, M. I. Baskes, and W. D. Wilson pp. 791-794 [View Page Images , PDF (723 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Evidence for a Liquid-to-Crystal Phase Transition in a Classical, Two-Dimensional Sheet of Electrons C. C. Grimes and G. Adams pp. 795-798 [View Page Images , PDF (733 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon-Ripplon Coupling and the Two-Dimensional Electron Solid on a Liquid-Helium Surface Daniel S. Fisher, B. I. Halperin, and P. M. Platzman pp. 798-801 [View Page Images , PDF (680 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Occupied Surface-State Bands in sp Gaps of Au(112), Au(110), and Au(100) Faces P. Heimann, H. Miosga, and H. Neddermeyer pp. 801-804 [View Page Images , PDF (721 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical Studies of Electronic States Produced by Hydrogenation of Amorphous Silicon W. Y. Ching, Daniel J. Lam, and Chun C. Lin pp. 805-808 [View Page Images , PDF (700 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadrupole Splitting of Muonium Precession in α-Quartz Jess H. Brewer, Douglas S. Beder, and David P. Spencer pp. 808-811 [View Page Images , PDF (665 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Impurities on the Anomalous Transport Properties of NbSe3 N. P. Ong, J. W. Brill, J. C. Eckert, J. W. Savage, S. K. Khanna, and R. B. Somoano pp. 811-814 [View Page Images , PDF (695 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Infrared Chemiluminescence from XeF2-Silicon-Surface Reactions T. J. Chuang pp. 815-817 [View Page Images , PDF (581 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Range Profiles of 300- and 475-eV 4He+ ions and the Diffusivity of 4He in Tungsten Alfred Wagner and David N. Seidman pp. 818 [View Page Images or PDF (34 kB) ]