New Directions in Atomic Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Collective Resonances in Metallic Clusters

   • Jean-Patrick Connerade

   Pages 1-15

3. Recent Advances in Electron-Electron Coincidence Experiments

   • G. Stefani

   Pages 17-31

4. Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy Momentum Space Images of Atomic Reactions

   • R. Dörner, T. Weber, Kh. Khayyat, V. Mergel, H. Bräuning, M. Achler et al.

   Pages 33-45

5. A Brief Report on Density Functional Theory

   • R. M. Dreizler

   Pages 47-58

6. Ion-Atom Collisions

   • J. H. Macek

   Pages 59-70

7. Superfluidity and Feshbach Resonances in BEC

   • Robin Côté, Eddy Timmermans, Paolo Tommasini

   Pages 71-85

8. (e,2e) Processes

   • Colm T. Whelan

   Pages 87-104

9. Positrons, Positronium, and Anti — Hydrogen

   • H. R. J. Walters

   Pages 105-124

10. Ionization in Time-Dependent Processes: Proton-Hydrogen Collisions

    • S. Yu. Ovchinnikov

    Pages 125-130

11. Magnetic Atom Optics

    • E. A. Hinds

    Pages 131-142

12. Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules

    • Jörg Schmiedmayer

    Pages 143-152

13. Negative Ion Resonances in Surface Dynamics: New Results and Applications

    • Lidija Šiller, Richard E. Palmer

    Pages 153-166

14. Atomic Collisions with Antiparticles

    • H. Knudsen

    Pages 167-177

15. Electron Impact Ionization of Helium [(e,2e) & (e,3e)] Investigated with Cold Target Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy

    • E. Ertürk, L. Spielberger, M. Achler, L. Schmidt, R. Dörner, Th. Weber et al.

    Pages 179-183

16. Near Threshold Electron Impact Ionization of Neon and Argon

    • Bruno Rouvellou, Stéphane Rioual, Amédée Pochat

    Pages 185-189

17. The Role of Compound States in the Continuum Emission from Moderately Ionized Rare-Earth Plasmas

    • Cormac McGuinness, Nicola Murphy

    Pages 191-195

18. (e,3e) Double Ionization: Comparative Results for He, Ne and Ar

    • Azzedine Lahmam-Bennani, Alain Duguet

    Pages 197-201

19. Double Ionization of Helium by Fast Electron Impact

    • A. Dorn, R. Moshammer, C. D. Schröter, T. J. M. Zouros, W. Schmitt, H. Kollmus et al.

    Pages 203-207

20. Hollow Atoms and Interactions of Highly Charged Ions with Surfaces

    • Gianni Giardino

    Pages 209-216

The last few years have seen some remarkable advances in the understanding of atomic phenomena. It is now possible to isolate atomic systems in traps, measure in coincidence the fragments of collision processes, routinely produce, and study multicharged ions. One can look at bulk matter in such a way that the fundamental atomic character is clearly evident and work has begun to tease out the properties of anti­ matter. The papers in this book reflect many aspects of modem Atomic Physics. They correspond to the invited talks at a conference dedicated to the study of "New Directions in Atomic Physics," which took place in Magdalene College, Cambridge in July of 1998. The meeting was designed as a way of taking stock of what has been achieved and, it was hoped, as a means of stimulating new research in new areas, along new lines. Consequently, an effort was made to touch on as many directions as we could in the four days of the meeting. We included some talks which overviewed whole subfields, as well as quite a large number of research contributions. There is a unity to Physics and we tried to avoid any artificial division between theory and experiment. We had roughly the same number of talks from those who are primarily concerned with making measurements, and from those who spend their lives trying to develop the theory to describe the experiments.

• Cross section
• atomic collision
• cluster
• collision
• diatomic molecule
• metallic cluster
• molecule
• multicharged ions
• particles
• positive ions
• scattering

• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

  Colm T. Whelan

• University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

  R. M. Dreizler

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  J. H. Macek

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

  J. H. Macek

• The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

  H. R. J. Walters

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