We present the results of some experiments on the circular hydraulic jump in normal and superfluid liquid helium. The radius of the jump and the depth of the liquid outside the jump are measured through optical means. Although the scale of the apparatus is rather small, the location of the jump is found to be consistent with the assumption that the jump can be treated as a shock, if the surface...

We present calculations of a number of properties of electron bubbles in liquid helium. The size and shape of bubbles containing electrons in different quantum states is determined based on a simplified model. We then find how the geometry of these bubbles changes with the applied pressure. The radiative lifetime of bubbles with electrons in excited states is calculated. Finally, we use a quant...

We have developed an apparatus which can be used to make movies showing the motion of individual electrons in liquid helium. A sound wave is used to explode an electron bubble for a fraction of a microsecond and to make it grow to have a radius of around 10 microns. While the bubble has this large size it is illuminated with a flash lamp and its position recorded. We report on a number of inter...

Photocurrents from cesium, flowing through gaseous He or He and also through thin liquid helium films, are investigated as a function of the chemical potential of helium at T=1.33 K. At low pressures, the two isotopes behave similarly as the photocurrent is governed by scattering by the gas. At higher pressures, a film of He grows on the Cs and forms a tunnel barrier; but for He, the film is to...

Ambient and liquid helium temperature laser-induced time-resolved uranyl fluorescence spectroscopy was applied to study the speciation of aqueous uranyl solutions containing carbonate and phosphate and two porewater samples obtained by ultracentrifugation of U(VI)-contaminated sediments. The significantly enhanced fluorescence signal intensity and spectral resolution found at liquid helium temp...

Helium atoms bind strongly to alkali cations which, when embedded in liquid helium, form so-called snowballs. Calculations suggest that helium atoms in the first solvation layer of these snowballs form rigid structures and that their number (n) is well defined, especially for the lighter alkalis. However, experiments have so far failed to accurately determine values of n. We present high-resolu...

We present neutron scattering measurements of the phonon-roton and layer modes of liquid helium films adsorbed in 25-Å pore diameter gelsil as a function of temperature. The goal is to determine whether the well-defined phonon-roton and layer modes observed at low temperature at partial fillings of the porous media persist as well-defined modes at higher temperatures above the superfluid phase,...