Bradley P. Barber
Robert Hiller
Seth Putterman
Phys. Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024
At ambient water temperatures near 0 (degrees)C, the intensity of sonoluminescence (SL) increases by over a factor of 10. This talk reports on efforts to understand and measure this effect. Issues to be discussed include the solubility of air in water as well as the flash width, quality factor, acoustic pressure, pulse height distribution, and synchronicity of these bright SL pulses. [Work supported by the US DOE Division of Advanced Energy Projects.]