TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
vii
Publications and Reports
xv
Introduction
xix
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
II.
Molecular Beams
I
Stimulated Desorption by Low-Energy Electrons
2
Superfluid Helium Critical Velocity Model
5
Detection of Quantized Vortex Lines in Superfluid Helium
at a Known Pinning Site
6
Survival of Frog Skin Exposed to Vacuum
11
Design of an Achromatic Combined Electron Mirror and
Accelerating Lens
17
Microwave Spectroscopy
21
Work Completed
22
Low-Temperature Behavior of Radio-Frequency
Surface Impedance in Metals
Work in Progress
23
Propagating Waves on a High Dielectric Slab
III.
IV.
V.
22
Atomic Resonance and Scattering
23
29
Van der Waals Molecules
30
Magnetic Moment of the Deuteron
32
Diamagnetic Shielding of H 2
35
Interactions in the Excited State
38
Radio Astronomy
39
Radio Observations of Scorpius X-1
41
Continuum Radio Structure of the Galactic Disk
47
M. I. T.
50
Three-Element Interferometer
21-Centimeter VLBI Observations of Pulsars
51
New H20 Sources Associated with Infrared Stars
53
Observations of High-J Atmospheric 0
Arecibo Observatory
59
2
Lines at
Low-Temperature Millimeter Wave Receivers
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VI.
Cooperative Phenomena in Solids and Fluids
63
VII.
Gravitation Research
65
67
Measurement of Intrinsic Laser Phase Noise
VIII.
Nuclear Resonance
73
IX.
Physical Electronics and Surface Physics
75
Experimental Measurements of the Spatial Distribution
of H2 Desorbed from Copper Single Crystals
X.
XI.
83
Physical Acoustics
Upstream and Downstream Sound Radiation into a
Moving Fluid
83
Sound Absorption by a Single Resonator in a Duct
90
95
Electrodynamics of Media
Experiments on a Room-Temperature
TEA CO Laser
Preliminary Investigation of a "Superradiant"
Argon Line in a TEA Laser
XII.
77
Neutral
97
99
Laser Applications
Laser Molecular-Beam Techniques
Spectroscopy
Molecular-Beam
96
for High-Resolution
101
104
Stabilized Argon Laser
Two-Dimensional Laser Doppler Velocimeter
108
Multiple-Frequency Holography Using Pulsed Ion Lasers
113
Coherence Properties of a Flash-Lamp-Pumped
Amplifier
Dye
116
PLASMA DYNAMICS
XIII.
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
121
Waves and Radiation
121
Diffusion and Turbulence
122
Plasma Diagnostics
123
Fusion-Related Studies
124
Feedback Stabilization
125
High-Temperature Plasma Physics
126
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XIV.
XV.
XVI.
Gaseous Electronics
127
Stimulated Ultraviolet Emission from a Plasma
128
Production of Plasma by Laser Breakdown
144
Relativistic Beams
151
Applied Plasma Research
153
Active Plasma Systems
153
Observations of Nonlinear Interactions in a Beam-Plasma
System
154
Analytic Studies of Nonlinear Plasma Problems by
Symbolic Manipulation Programs on a Computer
167
Plasma Physics and Engineering
186
Plasma Effects in Solids
188
Surface Mobility on Silicon from Acoustoelectric
Current Measurements
Laser -Plasma Interactions
195
Optical Frequency Mixing in a Plasma
195
Plasma Dispersion Function: Application to
Dip
COMMUNICATION
XVII.
XVIII.
Lamb
208
SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Processing and Transmission of Information
217
A Near-Optimum Receiver for the Binary Coherent State
Quantum Channel
219
Statistically Dependent Quantum Systems:
Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen
225
The Paradox of
Detection and Estimation Theory
231
An Integrated Approach to the Estimation of the Dynamics
of a Moving Source by a Passive Observer
XIX.
188
Speech Communication
232
245
Further Theoretical and Experimental Bases for Quantal
Places of Articulation for Consonants
247
Durational Characteristics of Prestressed
Consonant Clusters in English
253
Word-Initial
Speaker Recognition and Verification Using Linear Prediction
Analysis
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XX.
Linguistics
A Revised Directional Theory of Rule Application in
Phonology
Clause Structure and the Perceptual Analysis of Sentences
Formal Properties of Lexical Derivations
Nonglobal Rules in Klamath Phonology
269
270
277
280
288
XXI.
Cognitive Information Processing
311
XXII.
Communications Biophysics
Cochlear Potential Response at the Round-Window Membrane
of the Cat
Neural Responses of Lateral-Line Organs in Necturus
Maculosis to Direct Mechanical Stimulation
An Optimum Processor Theory for the Central Formation
of the Pitch of Complex Tones
317
XXIII.
Neurophysiology
345
XXIV.
Signal Processing
Localization of Sound in Space in the Vertical Median Plane
347
Simulation of Auditory Signals for Localization
Author Index
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