This distribution includes preprints posted between Friday, October 14, 2005 and Friday, October 21, 2005 (7 days). ANNOUNCEMENTS NEW INTEREST CATEGORIES: To accurately reflect the expanding focus of science at SLAC, we've revisited our list of interest categories for SLAC preprints. Authors can now choose from a new list of 24 categories covering not only high energy physics, but also synchrotron radiation and its disciplines, X-ray free electron lasers, and astrophysics. We've updated the categories on idoc, our online document registration system (http://idoc.slac.stanford.edu/), on the list of Recent SLAC Publications (http://idoc.slac.stanford.edu/preprints/), and on the Preprint Weekly list below. IMPROVED PREPRINT SEARCH: Our new Find a SLAC Document page includes three searches to help you quickly find the document you're looking for. This page includes a full-text search of over 10,000 SLAC preprints as well as easy access to bibliographic and citation information. Check out the new search at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/fastfind.html. ************************************* Astrophysics-related preprints SLAC-PUB-11541 The Low-Power Nucleus of PKS 1246-410 in the Centaurus Cluster Taylor, G Released: 10/21/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11541 HEP experimental results-related preprints SLAC-PUB-11454 Searches for Pentaquark Baryons at BaBar Hryn'ova, T Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11454 SLAC-PUB-11484 The B -> pi Form Factor from Light-cone Sum Rules in Soft-collinear Effective Theory Hurth, T. Released: 10/17/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11484 SLAC-PUB-11527 Search for Pentaquarks at BABAR Goetzen, K Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11527 SLAC-PUB-11528 Studies of $e^+e^-$ Collisions with a Hard Initial-State Photon at BaBar Berger, N Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11528 SLAC-PUB-11531 Charmless Quasi-Two-Body Modes at BaBar Palombo, F. Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11531 SLAC-PUB-11537 Recent Results on the CKM Angle Alpha Mihalyi, A Released: 10/18/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11537 HEP phenomenology-related preprints SLAC-PUB-11484 The B -> pi Form Factor from Light-cone Sum Rules in Soft-collinear Effective Theory Hurth, T. Released: 10/17/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11484 HEP theory-related preprints SLAC-PUB-11260 Adaptive Perturbation Theory I: Quantum Mechanics Weinstein, M Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11260 SLAC-PUB-11484 The B -> pi Form Factor from Light-cone Sum Rules in Soft-collinear Effective Theory Hurth, T. Released: 10/17/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11484 SLAC-PUB-11532 Adaptive Perturbation Theory: Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory Weinstein, M Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11532 Math and math physics-related preprints SLAC-PUB-11532 Adaptive Perturbation Theory: Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory Weinstein, M Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11532 General physics, other physics-related preprints SLAC-PUB-11260 Adaptive Perturbation Theory I: Quantum Mechanics Weinstein, M Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11260 SLAC-PUB-11532 Adaptive Perturbation Theory: Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory Weinstein, M Released: 10/19/2005 http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/pubpage?slac-pub-11532 ************************************* For the most current listing of newly released SLAC publications and reports, see Recent SLAC Publications at http://idoc.slac.stanford.edu/preprints/. ************************************* Please report any problems to: Technical Publications Department [log in to unmask]