Refereed Publications

Note: My Erdös number is 5. See here
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

---Einstein

  1. W. Peter, A. H. Najmi, and H. Burkom
    Reducing false alarms in syndromic surveillance
    Statistics in Medicine (accepted for publication).

  2. D. Bruhwiler et al.
    PIC simulations of CTR from electron bunches exiting a plasma
    in preparation.

  3. H. S. Burkom, Y. Elbert, S. F. Magruder, A. H. Najmi, W. Peter, and M. W. Thompson
    Developments in the roles, features, and evaluation of alerting algorithms for disease outbreak monitoring
    Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest 27, 4, pp. 313-331 (2008).

  4. Linda Moniz and William Peter
    Application of nonlinear data analysis methods to locating disease clusters
    presented at the 10th Experimental Chaos Conference, Catania, Italy (2008).

  5. W. Peter, A. H. Najmi, and H. Burkom
    Minimizing false alarms in syndromic surveillance
    Advances in Disease Surveillance 4, 108 (2007).

  6. William Peter
    Quiet Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo with random timesteps
    Journal of Computational Physics 221, 1, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2006.06.008 (2007).

  7. M. B. Lobrano et al.
    High-resolution Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with compression is highly accurate in depicting primary breast cancer
    The Breast Journal 12, 309 doi:10.1111/j.1075-122X.2006.00269.x (2006).

  8. K. Papadopoulos, T. Wallace, G.M. Milikh, W. Peter, M. McCarrick, and C.L. Chang
    Reply to comment on "The magnetic response of the ionosphere to pulsed HF heating" by M.T. Rietveld and P. Stubbe
    Geophysical Research Letters 32, L13101 10.1029/2005GL025253 (2006).

  9. K. Papadopoulos, T. Wallace, G.M. Milikh, W. Peter, M. McCarrick
    The magnetic response of the ionosphere to pulsed HF heating
    Geophysical Research Letters 32, L13101 10.1029/2005GL023185 (2005).

  10. I.N. Weinberg et al.
    Application of a PET device with 1.5 mm FWHM intrinsic spatial resolution to breast cancer imaging
    IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano, ISBN: 0-7803-8388-5, p. 1396 (2004).

  11. W. Peter, J. Chiochetti, and C. Giardina
    New unsupervised clustering algorithm for large datasets
    KDD-2003, the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, ISBN: 1-58113-737-0, p. 643 (2003).

  12. J.A. Nation, L. Schachter, F.M. Mako, L.K. Len, W. Peter, C.-M. Tang, and T. Rao-Srinivasan
    Advances in cold cathode physics and technology
    Proceedings of the IEEE 87, 865 (1999).

  13. E. Griv and W. Peter
    Stability of the stellar disks of flat galaxies: III. The effect of collisions
    The Astrophysical Journal 469, 103 (1996).

  14. E. Griv and W. Peter
    Stability of the stellar disks of flat galaxies: II. The effect of spatial inhomogeneity
    The Astrophysical Journal 469, 99 (1996).

  15. E. Griv and W. Peter
    Stability of the stellar disks of flat galaxies: I. A collisionless, homogeneous system
    The Astrophysical Journal 469, 84 (1996).

  16. W. Peter and D. Eichler
    Jet collimation by combining axisward motion and cooling
    The Astrophysical Journal 466, 840 (1996).

  17. W. Peter and D. Eichler
    Inertial collimation of astrophysical jets
    The Astrophysical Journal 438, 244 (1995).

  18. E. Griv, T. Chiueh, and W. Peter
    The weakly nonlinear theory of density waves in a stellar disk
    Physica A 205, 299 (1994).

  19. E. Harold, B. Bukiet, and W. Peter
    Maximum projectile velocity in an augmented railgun
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics MAG-30, 1433 (1994).

  20. E. Griv and W. Peter
    Theoretical and numerical investigation of the stability of flattened galaxies
    Ergodic Concepts in Stellar Dynamics, D. Pfenniger and V. G. Gurzadyan, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 430, p. 235 (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1994).

  21. W. Peter, E. Griv, and A.L. Peratt
    Computer Simulations of Galaxies
    Progress in New Cosmologies, H. Arp, C.R. Keys, and K. Rudnicki, Eds. (Plenum Press, Cambridge, 1993), p. 237.

  22. W. Peter and D. Eichler
    Hydrodynamic collimation of precessing jets
    The Astrophysical Journal 417, 170 (1993).

  23. F.M. Mako and W. Peter
    A high-current micro-pulse electron gun
    Proc. of the 1993 Particle Accelerator Conference, Washington, D.C., (IEEE, New York, 1993), p. 2702.

  24. M.E. Jones, R. Keinigs, and W. Peter
    Transverse wakefields in dielectric wakefield accelerators
    Physical Review A 46, 5183 (1992).

  25. W. Peter and E. Garate
    Stimulated Cherenkov emission in dielectric-lined waveguides
    Physical Review A 45, 8333 (1992).

  26. W. Peter
    Electrode shapes for high-power diodes with non-space-charge-limited flow
    Journal of Applied Physics 71, 3197 (1992).

  27. M. Gedalin and W. Peter
    Particle acceleration mechanisms in the auroral acceleration region
    IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science PS-20, 740 (1992).

  28. D.S. Lemons and W. Peter
    Gravitational instability in a coasting universe
    Astronomy and Astrophysics 265, 373 (1992).

  29. W. Peter
    Two-beam virtual cathode accelerator
    Proc. of the 1992 International Conference on Particle Beams, Washington, D.C., D. Mosher and G. Cooperstein, Eds., p. 1819, (1992).

  30. W. Peter, E. Garate, W. Main, and A. Fisher
    High-gain X-band dielectric Cherenkov maser amplifier
    Physical Review Letters 65, 2989 (1990).

  31. E. P. Garate et al.
    Operation of an x-band dielectric Cherenkov maser amplifer
    Intense Microwave and Particle Beams, Howard E. Brandt, Ed., Proceedings of SPIE 1226, 238 (1990).

  32. A.L. Peratt, W. Peter, and C.M. Snell
    3-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of spiral galaxies
    Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, R. Beck et al., Eds. (IAU, Netherlands, 1990), p. 143.

  33. W. Peter and A.L. Peratt
    Synchrotron radiation spectrum from galactic-sized plasma filaments
    IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science PS-18, 49 (1990).

  34. M.E. Jones and W. Peter
    Theory of high-brightness electron beam production from photocathodes
    Particle Accelerators 24, 231 (1989).

  35. R. Keinigs, M.E. Jones and W. Peter
    A comparison of the dielectric and plasma wakefield accelerators
    Physics of Fluids B1, 1872 (1989).

  36. W. Peter and R. Keinigs
    Applicability of plasma wakefield acceleration to electric propulsion
    The Case for Mars III: Strategies for Exploration - Technical, C. Stoker, Ed. (Univelt, San Diego, CA, 1989), p. 423.

  37. M.E. Jones, R. Keinigs, S.C. Wilks, and W. Peter
    Cherenkov wakefiled accelerators: rippled waveguides
    Advanced Accelerator Concepts, AIP Conference Proceedings 193, C. Joshi, Ed., p. 152, (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1989).

  38. W. Peter and T.J.T. Kwan
    Microwave propagation through an appertured coaxial waveguide
    Physical Review A 38, 4743 (1988).

  39. W. Peter and A.L. Peratt
    Thermalization of synchrotron radiation from field-aligned currents
    Laser and Particle Beams 6, 492 (1988).

  40. W. Peter, R.J. Faehl, and M.E. Jones
    Analysis of a microwave electron gun for accelerator applications
    Particle Accelerators 21, 59 (1987).

  41. M.E. Jones and W. Peter
    Theory and simulation of high-brightness electron beam production from laser-irradiated photocathodes in the presence of dc and rf electric fields
    Presented at the 6th International Conference on High Power Particle Beams, Kobe, Japan (1986).

  42. W. Peter
    Time-dependent interaction between space plasmas and transverse magnetic fields
    IEEE Trans. Plasma Science PS-14, 925 (1986).

  43. W. Peter, R.J. Faehl, C. Snell, and M.E. Jones
    Collective ion acceleration by means of virtual cathodes
    IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science NS-32, 3506 (1985).

  44. R.J. Faehl and W. Peter
    Considerations on collective ion acceleration as an intense ion injector
    IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science NS-32, 3500 (1985).

  45. A. Kadish, W. Peter, and M.E. Jones
    A generalization of the Child-Langmuir relation for one-dimensional time-dependent diodes
    IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science NS-32, 2576 (1985).

  46. W. Peter and N. Rostoker
    Interaction of a rotating relativistic electron beam with a plasma
    Physics of Fluids 28, 1532 (1985).

  47. W. Peter
    Vacuum breakdown and surface coating of rf cavities
    Journal of Applied Physics 56, 1546 (1984).

  48. W. Peter, R.J. Faehl, A. Kadish, and L.E. Thode
    Criteria for vacuum breakdown in rf cavities
    IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science NS-30, 3453 (1983).

  49. W. Peter, A. Ron, and N. Rostoker
    Instability of the boundary layer between a streaming plasma and a vacuum magnetic field
    Physics of Fluids 26, 2276 (1983).

  50. W. Peter and N. Rostoker
    Theory of plasma injection into a magnetic field
    Physics of Fluids 25, 730 (1982).

  51. S. Roberston, H. Ishizuka, W. Peter, and N. Rostoker
    Propagation of an intense ion beam transverse to a magnetic field
    Physical Review Letters 47, 508 (1981).

  52. W. Peter, A. Ron, and N. Rostoker
    Propagation of a wide ion beam into a magnetic barrier
    Physics of Fluids 22, 1471 (1979).

  53. C.W. Roberson et al.
    Reversed magnetic fields induced by a rotating electron beam
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion, Vol. II. (International Atomic Energy Association, Vienna, 1979), p. 509.