<p>The First Asilomar Conference on Electron- and Photon-Molecule Collisions was held August 1-4, 1978 in Pacific Grove, California. This meeting brought together forty scientists who are actively involved in theoretical studies of electron scattering by, and photoionization of, small molecules. In
Electron-Molecule Collisions
โ Scribed by Kazuo Takayanagi (auth.), Isao Shimamura, Kazuo Takayanagi (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 578
- Series
- Physics of Atoms and Molecules
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Scattering phenomena play an important role in modern physics. Many significant discoveries have been made through collision experiments. Amongst diverse kinds of collision systems, this book sheds light on the collision of an electron with a molecule. The electron-molecule collision provides a basic scattering problem. It is scattering by a nonspherical, multicentered composite particle with its centers having degrees of freedom of motion. The molecule can even disintegrate, Le., dissociate or ionize into fragments, some or all of which may also be molecules. Although it is a difficult problem, the recent theoretical, experimental, and computational progress has been so significant as to warrant publication of a book that specializes in this field. The progress owes partly to technical developยญ ments in measurements and computations. No less important has been the great and continuing stimulus from such fields of application as astrophysics, the physics of the earth's upper atmosphere, laser physics, radiation physics, the physics of gas discharges, magnetohydrodynamic power generation, and so on. This book aims at introducing the reader to the problem of electronยญ molecule collisions, elucidating the physics behind the phenomena, and reviewยญ ing, to some extent, up-to-date important results. This book should be appropriยญ ate for graduate reading in physics and chemistry. We also believe that investiยญ gators in atomic and molecular physics will benefit much from this book.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction to Electron-Molecule Collisions....Pages 1-87
Rotational Excitation of Molecules by Slow Electrons....Pages 89-189
Vibrational Excitation of Molecules By Slow Electrons....Pages 191-274
Dissociation of Molecules by Slow Electrons....Pages 275-349
Molecular Spectroscopy by Electron Scattering....Pages 351-425
Experimental Techniques for Cross-Section Measurements....Pages 427-493
Computational Methods for Low-Energy Electron-Molecule Collisions....Pages 495-556
Back Matter....Pages 557-570
โฆ Subjects
Physical Chemistry; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
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