Universality in the effective pair interaction of d-shell metals - Compressibility and vacancy formation energy of 3d- liquid metals

A K Karmakar and R N Joarder

Evidence of polaronic charge carriers in oxide superconductors

C M Srivastava

Electrical properties of a-antimony selenide

Sanjeev Gautam, D K Shukla, Shelly Jain and N Goyal

Monte-Carlo optimization of correlated helium wave function

Sabyasachi Kar and Puspajit Mandal

Total electron scattering cross sections for nitrous oxide at low electron energies

P Rawat, K P Subramanian and Vijay Kumar

Hypershperical calculation for electron hydrogen atom ionization collisions in a symmetric form

J N Das

Numerical modeling of laser matter interaction in the presence of an ambient gas

A Neogi and R K Thareja

Absence of neutron emission during interaction of deuterium with metal at low energies

A Shyam and T C Kaushik

Use of spherical gratings in a toroidal grating mount for vuv-soft x-ray synchrotron radiation

K J S Sawhney, A I Munshi and R V Nandedkar

Number 2

Relativistic fluid sphere on pseudo-spheroidal space-time

Ramesh Tikekar and V O Thomas

Causal dissipation in Robertson-Wlaker cosmological models

J P Singh, A Prasad and R K Tiwari

Particle production in curved space-time

N G Sarkar and S Biswas

109

Finite temperature Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis formalism of F⁶ theory

K P Satheesh and K Babu Joseph

 133

Spin observables of the NN interaction in a relativistic harmonic model with confined gluons and mesons

K B Vijayakumar and S B Khadkikar

 149

Ratio of the color suppressed decays L _b---> LJ/y and B⁰--> KJ/y

A K Giri and R Mohanta

 155

Trivality bound on lightest Higgs mass in next to minimal supersymmetric model

S R Choudhury, Mamta and Sukanta Dutta

 163

Measurement and analysis of the excitation function and isomeric cross section ratios for a-induced reaction on Ir, Au, Re and Ta nuclei

M Ismail

173

Jeans-Buneman instability in a dusty plasma

B P Pandey and G S Lakhina

 191

Number 3

A computer simulation study of ionic conductivity in polymer electrolytes

Aninda Jiban Bhattacharyya, T R Middya and S Tarafdar

Spectroscopic study of b-Ni(OH)₂ under pressure

Chitra Murali, V Sugandhi, Nandini Garg, Surinder M Sharma and

S K Sikka

Studies on the electrical conductivity, optical absorption and x-ray diffraction in bismuth thin film

K Jayachandran and C S Menon

Hyperfine interaction study of electric field gradient in hafnium phosphide using ¹⁸¹Ta probe

Vivek Mandot, S N A Jaaffrey, S S Sharma and J Varma

Mean lifetime measurements of FII and FIII levels using beam-foil technique

B N Raja Sekhar, S Padmanabhan, Aparna Shastri, P Meenakshi Raja Rao, M B Kurup and K G Prasad

Third harmonic generation in layered media in presence of optical bistability of the fundamental

Jolly Jose and S Datta Gupta

Generation of squeezed atomic states in cavity QED

Aditi Ray and R R Puri

Brief Report

Proton NMR in CeNIInH_0.53 down to liquid helium temperature

R Ray, A Ghoshray, K Ghoshray and N Chatterjee

Number 4

Correlation between zeroes and poles of S-matrix for complex potentials

I Jamir, E F P Lyngdoh and C S Shastry

Universal inaccessibility principle

Anil A Bhalekar

On the construction of an extended thermodynamic framework for ireversible processes

Anil A Bhalekar and Leopoldo S Garcia-Colin

Schwarzschild black hole with global monopole charge

Naresh Dadhich, K Narayan and U A Yajnik

Approximate fixed-r solution 'sea-quark' evolution equation at small-x and HERA

A Saikia

Weak radiative decay L _b---> L_g in the heavy quark effective theory

A K Giri and R Mohanta

Frictional trajectories near a barrier: A dissipationless Newtonian approach

V J Menon, N Chanana and Y Singh

Orthogonal interaction of Bernstein mode with ion-acoustic wave through plasma maser effect

P N Deka

Number 5

Review

Excitation of 3 ^1,3 P and 3 ^1,3 D states of helium from the ground 1 ¹ S state by electrons and positrons

Surbhi Verma and Rajesh Srivastava

Research Articles

Dissociation energy of diatomic molecules

Sarvpreet Kaur and C G Mahajan

Stark splitting and energy transfer between Dy³⁺ - Ho³⁺ and between Tb³⁺ - Er³⁺ in calcium-lithium borate glass

Brajesh Sharma, V B Singh, D K Rai and S B Rai

Laser optogalvanic spectroscopy of argon in the wavelength 605-740 nm

R C Sharma, T Kundu and S N Thakur

An electrostatic charge state selector for ion-atom collisions: Design, spectral line-shapes and performance

Amal K Saha, K V Thulasi Ram, L C Tribedi, W A Fernandes,

S D Narvekar, V Nanal, M B Kurup, K G Prasad and P N Tandon

Brief Report

Total electron scattering cross sections for carbon dioxide at low electron energies

P Rawat, K P Subramanian and Vijay Kumar

Magnetization of high Tc superconductors

B Kalta and K K Nanda

459

Number 6

Special Issue on Proceedings of the XI National Conference

on Atomic and Molecular Physics

Editorial Note

463

Foreword

465

Synchroton radiation sources INDUS-1 and INDUS-2

D D Bhawalkar, G Singh and R V Nandedkar

467

Ion-molecule reactions at thermal energies

S V K Kumar

485

The power and beauty of (g, 2e) experiments

Volkar Schmidt

501

Atomic parity non-conservation: Present status and future prospects

B P Das

515

Field optimized inital state based control of photodissociation

K Vandana, Deepa B Bairagi, Peter Gross and Manoj K Mishra

521

Calculation of highly excited eigenstates of chaotic quantum systems

V B Sheorey and M S Santhanum

Towards a theory of dissociative recombination

Asger Halkier, Mark Roberson and Jan Lindenberg

Total cross sections for electron scattering from well known and exotic molecules

K N Joshipura

A field theoretic approach to the atomic collision problems

Sujata Bhattacharyya

Positron scattering by atoms

H R J Walters, Ann A Kernoghan, Mary T McAlinden and

C P Campbell

Dissociative attachment of electrons to excited molecules

E Krishnakumar

Photoionization of some closed shell atoms and ions

H S Chakraborty, P C Deshmukh, S T Manon and D W Lindle

607

Secondary ion mass spectrometry for quantitative surface in-depth analysis of materials

P Chakraborty

617

Ionization of atoms by charged particles

Kanika Roy

641

Metal-ion implantation in glasses: Physical and chemical aspects

F Caccavale

653

L-shell ionization of atoms and their subsequent decay by radiative and non-radiative transitions

P Venugopala Rao

669

Electron-photon coincidence studies on electron impact excitation of lighter netural atoms

Rajesh Srivastava

683

Subejct Index

Author Index