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the following URL:

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SLAC PREPRINTS RELEASED - for the Month of April 1998

Category: ACCELERATORS


       SLAC-PUB-7810
       W-Band Free Electron Lasers for High-Gradient Structure Research
       S. Lidia et al
       Released: 4/30/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7810.html

       SLAC-PUB-7802
       Introduction to Electrodynamics for Microwave Linear Accelerators
       D. Whittum
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7802.html

       SLAC-PUB-7804
       Transverse Kick in Misaligned Traveling Wave Structures Driven at
the Fundamental Mode
       D. Whittum
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7804.html

       SLAC-PUB-7805
       High-Gradient Cavity Beat-Wave Accelerator at W-Band
       D. Whittum
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7805.html

       SLAC-PUB-7808
       Neutral Beam Collisions at 5 TeV
       D. Whittum et al
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7808.html

       SLAC-PUB-7809
       Millimeter-Wave Drivers for Future Linear Colliders
       D. Whittum
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7809.html

       SLAC-PUB-7684
       Field Emission and Rf Breakdown in High Gradient Room Temperature
Linac Structures
       J. Wang et al
       Released: 4/24/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7684.html

       SLAC-PUB-7402
       Crystal Channel Collider: Ultra-High Energy and Luminosity in the
Next Century
       P. Chen et al.
       Released: 4/14/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7402.html

       SLAC-PUB-7793
       Simulation of Synchrotron Radiation in an Electron Storage Ring
       Y. Cai
       Released: 4/14/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7793.html

       SLAC-PUB-7795
       Transverse Beam Dynamics in Plasma-based Linacs
       R. Assmann
       Released: 4/15/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7795.html

      SLAC-PUB-7791
       Issues for Background Calculations in e+e- Factories
       M. Sullivan
       Released: 4/7/97
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7791.html

      SLAC-PUB-7781
       Measurements of Longitudinal Wakefields in the SLC Collider Arcs
       K. Bane et al.
       Released: 3/31/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7781.html

       SLAC-PUB-7782
       Accelerator Physics Highlights in the 1997/98 SLC Run
       R. Assmann et al.
       Release: 3/31/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7782.html

       SLAC-PUB-7783
       A Beam-Timing Monitor for the SLC Final Focus
       F. Zimmermann et al.
       Released: 3/31/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7783.html

       SLAC-PUB-7784
       Observations on Tune and Beta Functions at the ATF Damping Ring
       J. Potier et al.
       Released: 3/31/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7784.html


Category: ACCELERATORS/EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7679
       Proposal for a One GeV Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at SLAC
       R. Assmann et al.
       Released: 4/16/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pub/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7679.html

Category: ACCELERATORS/INSTRUMENTATION

       SLAC-PUB-7730
       Comparison of Experimental Data Versus Computer Modeling of a
Radiation Detecting Personnel Safety System Ion Chamber
       W. Kroutil et al.
       Released: 4/14/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7730.html

Category: ACCELERATORS/EXPERIMENTAL/INSTRUMENTATION/MINIMAL

       SLAC-PUB-7755
       Phase stabilized and pulse shaped Ti: Sapphire oscillator-amplifier
laser system for the LCLS rf photoinjector
       T. Kotseroglou
       Released: 4/30/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7755.html

Category: EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7794
       A Direct Measurement of Parity Violation in the Coupling of Z0
Bosons to b Quarks Using a Mass Tag and Momentum-Weighted Track
       Charge
       K. Abe et al.
       Released: 4/9/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7794.html

Category: MINIMAL

       SLAC-R-523
       The SLD Vertex Detector Upgrade (VXD3) and a Study of b bbar g Events
       P. Dervan
       Released: 4/30/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/slac-r-523.html

Category: NONE SELECTED

       SLAC-PUB-7801
       New dimensions at a Millimeter to a Fermi and Superstrings at a TeV
       I. Antoniadis
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7801.html

       SLAC-PUB-7807
       Astrophysical search strategies for accelerator blind dark matter
       J. Wells
       Released: 4/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7807.html

      SLAC-PUB-7799
       Massive Doublet Leptons
       S. Thomas et al.
       Released: 4/22/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7799.html

       SLAC-R-520
       Measurement of the Polarized Forward-Backward Asymmetry of s-Quarks
at SLD
       S. Narita
       Released: 4/16/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/slac-r-520.html

       SLAC-R-521
       Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Design Study Report
       M. Cornacchia et al.
       Released: 4/14/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/slac-r-521.html

       SLAC-PUB-7778
       Influence of Miscut on Crystal Truncation Rod Scattering
       A. Munkholm et al.
       Released: 4/14/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7778.html

      SLAC-PUB-7777
       Exact results for non-holomorphic masses in softly broken
supersymmetric gauge theories
       N. Arkani-Hamed et al.
       Released: 4/9/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7777.html

       SLAC-PUB-7636
       First in the Web, But Where are the Pieces?
       J. Deken
       Released: 4/6/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7636.html

       SLAC-PUB-7788
       The Importance of Tau Leptons for Supersymmetry Searches at the Tevatron
       J. Wells
       Released: 4/6/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7788.html

      SLAC-PUB-7780
       Accelerators and Detectors
       W. Panofsky
       Released: 4/3/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7780.html

       SLAC-PUB-7628
       Low-Energy X-ray Dosimetry Studies (6 to 16 keV) at SSRL Beamline 1-5
       N. Ipe
       Released: 4/2/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7628.html

       SLAC-PUB-7770
       Dynamical supersymmetry breaking in models with a Green-Schwartz
mechanism
       N. Arkani-Hamed et al.
       Released: 4/2/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7770.html

Category: THEORY

       SLAC-PUB-7761
       Fermion Mass Hierarchy without Flavour Symmetry
       Chih-Lung Chou
       Released: 4/15/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7761.html

      SLAC-PUB-7787
       Meson-Meson Interaction in a Non-Perturbative Chiral Approach
       J.  A. Oller et al.
       Released: 4/2/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7787.html

Category: THEORY/EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7790
       Track Fitting and Antennas
       R. Blankenbecler
       Released: 4/24/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7790.html




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