Special Topics

H. S. W. Massey, E. W. McDaniel, B. Bederson, H. S. W. Massey, E. W. McDaniel, B. Bederson

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780124788053
• eBook ISBN: 9781483281711
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

Applied Atomic Collision Physics, Volume 5: Special Topics deals with topics on applications of atomic collisions that were not covered in the first four volumes of the treatise. The book opens with a chapter on ultrasensitive chemical detectors. This is followed by separate chapters on lighting, magnetohydrodynamic electrical power generation, gas breakdown and high voltage insulating gases, thermionic energy converters, and charged particle detectors. Subsequent chapters deal with the operation of multiwire drift and proportional chambers and streamer chambers and their use in high energy physics experiments; photoelectron spectroscopy of negative ions and the chemical information that can be obtained from such studies; and the determination of intermolecular potentials. Also discussed are studies on the determination of ion molecular potential curves using photodissociative processes; determination of negative ion thermo chemical data using ion-neutral reactions; gas-phase chemical reactions; collision phenomena in electrical discharge lamps; and military applications of atomic and molecular physics.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Special Topics
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Treatise Preface
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Ultrasensitive Chemical Detectors
• Chapter 2. Lightning
• Chapter 3. Magnetohydrodynamic Electrical Power Generation
• Chapter 4. Gas Breakdown and High Voltage Insulating Gases
• Chapter 5. Thermionic Energy Conversion
• Chapter 6. Single-Particle Detection: Gaseous Devices
• Chapter 7. Gas-Filled Radiation Detectors in High Energy Physics
• Chapter 8. Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Chapter 9. Determination of Intermolecular Potentials
• Chapter 10 Determination of Ion Molecular Potential Curves Using Photodissociative Processes
• Chpater 11. Determination of Negative Ion Thermochemical Data Using Ion–Neutral Reactions
• Chapter 12. The Study of Gas-Phase Chemical Reactions
• Chapter 13. Combustion and Flames
• Chapter 14. Collision Phenomena in Electrical Discharge Lamps
• Chapter 15. Collision Kinetics in Gas Dynamics
• Chapter 16. Military Applications of Atomic and Molecular Physics
• APPENDIX I: Sources of Information on Atomic Collisions Cross Sections and Reaction Rates in the Gas Phase
• APPENDIX II: Sources of Information Structural and Spectral Properties of Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
• Index