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SLAC PREPRINTS RELEASED - for the Month of May 1998

Category: ACCELERATORS

       SLAC-PUB-7832
       Wire Breakage in SLC Wire Profile Monitors
       C. Fields et al
       Released: 5/21/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7832.html

       SLAC-PUB-7800
       Radiation Damping and Quantum Excitation in a Focusing-Dominated
Storage Ring
       Z. Huang et al.
       Released: 5/7/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7800.html

       SLAC-PUB-7803
       Transverse Two-Stream Instability of a Beam with a Bennett Profile
       D. Whittum
       Released: 5/6/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7803.html

       SLAC-PUB-7816
       Beam Break-up with Tune Chirp for an Arbitrary Wakefield
       D. Whittum
       Released: 5/6/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7816.html

       SLAC-PUB-7818
       Resistive Hose Instability for Arbitrary Skin Depth
       D. Whittum
       Released: 5/6/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7818.html

Category: ACCELERATORS/EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7812
       Coherent Far-Infrared Radiation from Electron Bunches
       C. Settakorn et al.
       Released: 5/21/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7812.html

Category: ACCELERATORS/EXPERIMENTAL/INSTRUMENTATION

       SLAC-PUB-7813
       Femtosecond Electron Bunches
       C. Settakorn et al.
       Released: 5/21/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7813.html

Category: ACCELERATORS/INSTRUMENTATION

       SLAC-PUB-7828
       Studies of Beam Position Monitor Stability
       P. Tenenbaum
       Released: 5/21/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7828.html

Category: EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7831
       B Physics at SLD: Lifetimes, Mixing and Search for b Ð> sg Decays
       S. Willocq
       Released: 5/22/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7831.html

Category: INSTRUMENTATION/EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7779
       The BaBar Drift Chamber
       G. Sciolla et al.
       Released: 5/13/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7779.html

Category: NONE SELECTED

       SLAC-PUB-7815
       The World-Wide Web and High-Energy Physics
       B. White
       Released: 5/29/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7815.html

       SLAC-R-527
       Radiative Cooling of Relativistic Electron Beams
       Z. Huang
       Released: 5/28/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacreports/slac-r-527.html

       SLAC-PUB-7731
       The Klystron: A Microwave Source of Surprising Range and Endurance
       G. Caryotakis
       Released: 5/22/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7731.html

       SLAC-PUB-7827
       Cornering gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking with quasi-stable
sleptons at the Tevatron
       S. Martin et al.
       Released: 5/12/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7827.html

       SLAC-PUB-7821
       New Limits on the SUSY Higgs Boson Mass
       K. Matchev et al.
       Released: 5/8/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7821.html

THEORY

       SLAC-PUB-7840
       Near Horizon Superspace
       R. Kallosh
       Released: 5/29/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7840.html

       SLAC-PUB-7820
       Vacua of M-theory and String Theory
       R. Kallosh et al.
       Released: 5/12/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7820.html

Category: THEORY/EXPERIMENTAL

       SLAC-PUB-7819
       The Spin Structure of a Polarized Photon
       S. Bass et al.
       Released: 5/14/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7819.html

       SLAC-PUB-7652
       Massive Fermionic Corrections to the Heavy Quark Potential through
Two Loops
       M. Melles
       Released: 5/7/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7652.html

       SLAC-PUB-7660
       An Improved Test of the Flavor Independence of Strong Interactions
       K. Abe et al.
       Released: 5/7/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7660.html

       SLAC-PUB-7766
       Production of pi, K, K0, K*0, p and Lambda in Hadronic Z0 Decays
       K. Abe et al
       Released: 5/1/98
       http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7000/slac-pub-7766.html


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