Atomic Processes in Basic and Applied Physics

✍ Scribed by V. L. Bychkov (auth.), Viacheslav Shevelko, Hiro Tawara (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 494
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 68
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book is a comprehensive edition which considers the interactions of atoms, ions and molecules with charged particles, photons and laser fields and reflects the present understanding of atomic processes such as electron capture, target and projectile ionisation, photoabsorption and others occurring in most of laboratory and astrophysical plasma sources including many-photon and many-electron processes. The material consists of selected papers written by leading scientists in various fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Unsolved Mystery of Ball Lightning....Pages 3-24
Unravelling the Mysteries of Matter Surrounding Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 25-35
Large Hot X-Ray Sources in the Solar Corona....Pages 37-82
Populations of Excited Parabolic States of Hydrogen Beam in Fusion Plasmas....Pages 83-101
Atomic Processes in Dusty Plasmas....Pages 103-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Electron Loss and Capture Processes in Collisions of Heavy Many-Electron Ions with Neutral Atoms....Pages 125-152
Electron Loss, Excitation, and Pair Production in Relativistic Collisions of Heavy Atomic Particles....Pages 153-183
Target-Scaling Properties for Electron Loss by Fast Heavy Ions....Pages 185-209
Extended Theory of Ionic–Covalent Coupling in Collisions of Rydberg Atoms with Neutral Targets....Pages 211-245
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
On Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Hot Optically Thin Plasmas....Pages 249-281
Storage-Ring Studies of Dielectronic Recombination as a Tool for Precision Spectroscopy....Pages 283-306
Atomic Physics Using Ultra-Intense X-Ray Pulses....Pages 307-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Radiation Therapy Using High-Energy Carbon Beams....Pages 333-355
Atomic and Molecular Data for Industrial Application Plasmas....Pages 357-391
Broadening of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Magnetized Plasmas: Diagnostic Applications....Pages 393-431
Approach to Ultralow Ion-Beam Temperatures by Beam Cooling....Pages 433-453
Semiempirical Formulae for Inelastic Atomic and Molecular Collisions....Pages 455-479
Atomic and Molecular Data on Internet....Pages 481-490
Back Matter....Pages 491-495

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Measurement Science and Instrumentation