SLAC PREPRINTS RELEASED - Week Ending May 8, 1998 Category: ACCELERATORS 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 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-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-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 Sharon West E-Pubs Coordinator SLAC Technical Publications Department (650) 926-2594