Overview
- Authored by leading experts in the field
- Self-contained presentation of the subject matter
- Treats for the first time atomic transitions triggered by nuclear decay
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 93)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This self-contained text introduces readers to the field of high-energy atomic physics - a new regime of photon-atom interactions in which the photon energies significantly exceed the atomic or molecular binding energies, and which opened up with the recent advent of new synchrotron sources.
From a theoretical point of view, a small-parameter characteristic of the bound system emerged, making it possible to perform analytic perturbative calculations that can in turn serve as benchmarks for more powerful numerical computations. The first part of the book introduces readers to the foundations of this new regime and its theoretical treatment. In particular, the validity of the small-parameter perturbation expansion and of the lowest-order approximation is critically reviewed. The following chapters then apply these insights to various atomic processes, such as photoionization as a many-body problem, dominant mechanisms for the production of ions at higher energies, Compton scattering and ionization accompanied by creation of e-e+ pairs, and the photoionization of endohedral atoms (e.g. fullerene). Last but not least, the computationally challenging transitions in the electron shell during certain types of nuclear decays are investigated in detail.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-Energy Atomic Physics
Authors: Evgeny G. Drukarev, A.I. Mikhailov
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32736-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32734-1Published: 09 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81357-8Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32736-5Published: 29 July 2016
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 384
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra, Quantum Physics, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation