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Lectures on Ion-Atom Collisions
From Nonrelativistic to Relativistic Velocities
1st Edition - September 23, 2005
Author: Jörg Eichler
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9780080461113
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Atomic collisions offer some unique opportunities to study atomic structure and reaction mechanisms in experiment and theory, especially for projectiles of high atomic number provided by modern accelerators. The book is meant as an introduction into the field and provides some basic theoretical understanding of the atomic processes occurring when a projectile hits another atom. It also furnishes the tools for a mathematical description, however, without going deeper into the technical details, which can be found in the literature given. With this aim, the focus is on reactions, in which only a single active electron participates. Collisional excitation, ionization and charge transfer are discussed for collision velocities ranging from slow to comparable to the speed of light. For the highest projectile velocities, energy can be converted into mass, so that electron-positron pairs are created. In addition to the systematic treatment, a theoretical section specializes on electron-electron correlations and three chapters are devoted to selected highlights bordering to surface science and to physics with antiprotons.
* Simple access to the theory of collisions between ions and atoms* Systematic treatment of basic features needed for an understanding* Mathematical details are omitted and referred to references* In order to bear out the essential ideas most clearly, a single active electron is assumed in most cases* In selected examples, theoretical results are confronted with experiment* Discussion supported by a large number of illustrations* Selected highlights in borderline fields are presented
Graduate students and professional scientists interested in atomic collisions. Also graduate students and scientists in adjacent fields.
PrefaceContentsI. Nonrelativistic collisions1. Introduction2. Low-energy collisions: Basis expansions3. High-energy collisions: Perturbation theory for direct reactions4. High-energy collisions: Charge transferII. Relativistic collisions5. Relativisit kinematics and fields of moving charges6. Relativistic electron motion7. Relativistic ion-atom collisions: General theory8. Direct reactions: Excitation and ionization9. Relativistic electron transfer10. Radiative electron capture (REC)11. Electron-positron pair productionIII. Selected topics12. Selcted topics I: Hyperspherical coordinates13. Selected topics II: Hollow atoms in micro-capillaries14. Selected topics III: Resonant coherent excitation15. Selected topics IV: Atomic physics with antiprotonsAppendicesA. Fundamental constants and unitsBibliographyIndex
No. of pages: 272
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: September 23, 2005
Imprint: Elsevier Science
eBook ISBN: 9780080461113
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Jörg Eichler
Affiliations and expertise
Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin and Freie Universitat, Berlin
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