Vol. 118, Nos. 3/4

February 2000

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

In January 2000, the Journal of Low Temperature Physics has gone "on-line". Information on the JLTP, list of articles, article Abstracts etc..are on the Kluwer Academic/Plenum web page http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0022-2291

The Journal has been Indexed/Abstracted in INSPEC information Services

CONTENTS

REGULAR ARTICLES :

Superconducting Properties of the Family of Mercurocuprates and Role of Layered Structure.......147

I.G. Kuzemskaya, A.L. Kuzemsky and A.A. Cheglokov.

Liquid Helium and Liquid Neon-Sensitive, Low Background Scintillation Media for the Detection of Low Energy Neutrinos........................................................................................153

D.N. McKinsey and J.M. Doyle.

Castaing Instabilities in Spin-Echo Experiments...........................................................167

R.J. Ragan and R.W. Weber .

Experimental Evaluation of a Single Stage Superfluid Stirling Refrigerator Using a Large Plastic Recuperator.....................................................................................................189

A.B. Patel and J.G. Brisson.

Dephasing Rate and Superconducting Proximity...........................................................207

A.V. Galaktionov and C.-M. Ryu .

Helium II Confinement with Aerogel........................................................................219

R. Dolesi, M. Bonaldi and S. Vitale.

Low Temperature Specific Heat of CeRu₂Si₂ at the field induced metamagnetic instability..........235

K. Heuser, E.-W. Scheidt, T. Schreiner, Z. Fisk and G.R. Stewart.