Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Direct and resonant double photoionization: from atoms to solids
- 2 The application of propagating exterior complex scaling to atomic collisions
- 3 Fragmentation of molecular-ion beams in intense ultrashort laser pulses
- 4 Atoms with one and two active electrons in strong laser fields
- 5 Experimental aspects of ionization studies by positron and positronium impact
- 6 (e,2e) spectroscopy using fragmentation processes
- 7 A coupled pseudostate approach to the calculation of ion–atom fragmentation processes
- 8 Electron impact ionization using (e,2e) coincidence techniques from threshold to intermediate energies
- 9 (e,2e) processes on atomic inner shells
- 10 Spin-resolved atomic (e,2e) processes
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Direct and resonant double photoionization: from atoms to solids
- 2 The application of propagating exterior complex scaling to atomic collisions
- 3 Fragmentation of molecular-ion beams in intense ultrashort laser pulses
- 4 Atoms with one and two active electrons in strong laser fields
- 5 Experimental aspects of ionization studies by positron and positronium impact
- 6 (e,2e) spectroscopy using fragmentation processes
- 7 A coupled pseudostate approach to the calculation of ion–atom fragmentation processes
- 8 Electron impact ionization using (e,2e) coincidence techniques from threshold to intermediate energies
- 9 (e,2e) processes on atomic inner shells
- 10 Spin-resolved atomic (e,2e) processes
- Index
Summary
In the past few years, revolutionary advances in experimental techniques and spectacular increases in computer power have offered unique opportunities to develop a much more profound understanding of the atomic few-body problem. One area of intense effort is the study of fragmentation processes – break-up processes – which are studied experimentally by detecting in coincidence the collisional fragments with their angles and energies resolved. These experiments offer a unique insight into the delicacies of atomic and molecular interactions, being at the limit of what is quantum mechanically knowable; the fine detail that is revealed would be swamped in a less differential measurement. The challenge for the theorist is to develop mathematical and computational techniques which are of sufficient ingenuity and sophistication that they can elucidate the Physics observed in existing measurements and give direction to the next generation of experiments. Fragmentation processes are studied by those interested in electron and photon impact ionization, heavy particle collisions, collisions involving antimatter, as well as molecular collisions.
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- Fragmentation ProcessesTopics in Atomic and Molecular Physics, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012