Atomic and Molecular Processes

D.R. Bates

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780120814503
• eBook ISBN: 9780323142007
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Nuclear Physics

Atomic and Molecular Processes describes radiative and collisional processes involving atoms or molecules. Organized into 21 chapters, this book emphasizes the developments in these processes stimulated by the growth of interest in space science, astrophysics, and plasma physics. The book initially discusses the general theory of magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole radiation and the calculations and observations on individual atoms, as well as the forbidden transitions. The text then explores general topics on forbidden and allowed lines and bands; photoionization; photodetachment; recombination and attachment; elastic and inelastic scattering of electron; and energy loss by slow electrons. Discussions on collision broadening of spectral features and encounters between atomic systems including range, energy loss, excitation, ionization, detachment, charge transfer, elastic scattering, mobility, diffusion, relaxation in gases, and chemical reactions are provided in other chapters. A chapter is devoted to the use of high-temperature shock waves, and accounts of other main experimental methods are given.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Atomic and Molecular Processes
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Forbidden Transitions
• Chapter 2. Allowed Transitions
• Chapter 3. Photoionization Processes
• Chapter 4. Photodetachment
• Chapter 5. High-Temperature Shock Waves
• Chapter 6. Attachment and Ionization Coefficients
• Chapter 7. Electronic Recombination
• Chapter 8. Ionic Recombination
• Chapter 9. Elastic Scattering of Electrons
• Chapter 10. The Motions of Slow Electrons in Gases
• Chapter 11. The Theory of Excitation and Ionization by Electron Impact
• Chapter 12. The Measurement of Collisional Excitation and Ionization Cross Sections
• Chapter 13. Spectral Line Broadening in Plasmas
• Chapter 14. Theoretical Treatment of Collisions between Atomic Systems
• Chapter 15. Range and Energy Loss
• Chapter 16. Diffusion and Mobilities
• Chapter 17. High-Energy Elastic Scattering of Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
• Chapter 18. Charge Transfer and Collisional Detachment
• Chapter 19. Electron Capture and Loss at High Energies
• Chapter 20. Relaxation In Gases
• Chapter 21. Chemical Processes
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• Pure and Applied Physics