Session P6: Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas

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Chair: Peter Schmelcher, University of Heidelberg
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom II

Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

 P6.00001: Van der Waals interaction in the cold Rydberg gas
Jianing Han , Thomas Gallagher

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

 P6.00002: Transform-limited Rydberg-Rydberg Collisions in a Thermal Atomic Beam
M.R. Kutteruf , R.R. Jones

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

 P6.00003: Electric field effects on cold Rydberg atom pair excitation
Arne Schwettmann , James P. Shaffer , Valter A. Nascimento , Lucas L. Caliri , Luis G. Marcassa

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

 P6.00004: Long-Range Wells in Rydberg-Rydberg Potential Curves
Nolan Samboy , Jovica Stanojevic , Robin C\^ot\'e

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Friday, May 30, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

 P6.00005: Long Range, Cold Cs Rydberg Atom-Rydberg Atom Molecules
K. Richard Overstreet , Arne Schwettmann , Jonathan Tallant , James P. Shaffer

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

 P6.00006: Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Cold Cs Rydberg Gas
Jonathan Tallant , K. Richard Overstreet , Arne Schwettmann , James P. Shaffer

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

 P6.00007: Rydberg Atom Population Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas
Robert Fletcher , Xianli Zhang , Steven Rolston

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

 P6.00008: Using projection imaging to study ultracold plasmas
Xianli Zhang , Robert Fletcher , Steven Rolston

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

 P6.00009: Highly excited state Rydberg recombination and consequences for ultracold neutral plasmas
Hossein Sadeghpour , Thomas Pohl , Daniel Vrinceanu

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Friday, May 30, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

 P6.00010: Adiabatic Cooling and Electron-Ion Collisions during Self-Similar Expansion in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
Jose Castro , Hong Gao , Thomas Killian

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

 P6.00011: Rydberg atom interactions in high density samples
Kelly Younge , Aaron Reinhard , Thomas Pohl , Paul Berman , Georg Raithel

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Friday, May 30, 2008
1:12PM - 1:24PM

 P6.00012: Many-Body Ionization in a Frozen Rydberg Gas
Edward Shuman , Paul Tanner , Jianing Han , Tom Gallagher

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