Nuclear reaction rates in a plasma L. Brown and R. Sawyer develop the quantum statistical formalism for the theory of nuclear reaction rates in a plasma and illustrate it with calculations of the leading corrections to reactions under stellar conditions. Improving the resolution of ground-based telescopes M. Roggemann, B. Welsh, and R. Fugate discuss the resolution limitations due to atmospheric turbulence, and how these are overcome. Techniques include passive methods that process the speckled images, and active methods that correct the telescope optics in real time. Nonlinear wave collapse and strong turbulence P. Robinson discusses wave collapse, a phenomenon that can exist in three-dimensional nonlinear media, and its consequent strong turbulence, which has been observed in many plasma environments ranging from laboratory to astrophysical scales. O. Gunnarsson reviews the theoretical and experimental work on superconductivity of alkali-doped C60.
Special attention is given to analysis of the possible mechanisms for the superconductivity.
L. Hirst bridges these points of view, relating the magnetization to neutron-scattering observables. T. Walker and W. Happer discuss the many physical processes that go into producing these gases. Copyright 1997, The American Physical Society. The APS encourages the redistribution of the materials included in this newsletter provided that attribution to the source is noted and the materials are not truncated or changed.