Photon and Electron Collisions with Atoms and Molecules

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Excitation of Atoms by Electron Impact: Current Status and Future Prospects

   • Klaus Bartschat

   Pages 1-20

3. Electron-Helium Correlation Studies

   • Albert Crowe

   Pages 21-35

4. Ionization of Atoms and Ions by Electron Impact

   • R. H. G. Reid

   Pages 37-56

5. R-Matrix Theory of Electron-Molecule Collisions

   • Lesley A. Morgan

   Pages 57-67

6. Electron Collisions with Molecules on Metal Surfaces

   • J. P. Gauyacq, B. Bahrim, A. Djabri, V. Djamo, D. Teillet-Billy

   Pages 69-80

7. Recent Measurements of Differential Cross Sections for Electron-Molecule Collisions at Low Energies

   • Michael Allan

   Pages 81-94

8. Dissociative Recombination: New Developments Stimulated By Ion Storage Ring Experiments

   • A. Suzor-Weiner, I. F. Schneider, L. Carata

   Pages 95-107

9. One- and Two-Electron Resonances in Molecular Photoionization

   • Robert W. Zurales, Eric Stratmann, Shaleen Botting, Robert R. Lucchese

   Pages 109-124

10. Double Photoionization of Helium

    • Marcel Pont, Robin Shakeshaft

    Pages 125-136

11. Multicolor Photoionization of Atoms with an IR Laser and Its Higher UV Harmonics

    • Valérie Véniard, Richard Taïeb, Alfred Maquet

    Pages 137-146

12. Stabilization of Atoms by Ultra-Strong Laser Fields

    • Mihai Gavrila

    Pages 147-175

13. Laser Assisted and Laser Produced Scattering

    • J. H. Sanderson, W. R. Newell

    Pages 177-189

14. R-Matrix-Floquet Theory of Multiphoton Processes

    • Martin Dörr

    Pages 191-204

15. Resonance Effects in Multiphoton Ionization

    • N. J. Kylstra

    Pages 205-222

16. Multiphoton Processes in a Two-Electron Atom Using a Cray T3D

    • K. T. Taylor, J. S. Parker, D. Dundas, E. Smyth, S. Vivirito

    Pages 223-233

17. Application of Parallel Computers to Electron-Molecule Scattering Calculations

    • N. Sanna, F. A. Gianturco

    Pages 235-250

18. Chaos in Atoms in Strong Fields: Periodic Orbits and Diffraction

    • P. A. Dando, T. S. Monteiro

    Pages 251-263

19. Atomic Data and Its Utilisation at the Jet Experiment

    • Hugh P. Summers, Nigel R. Badnell, Uwe Gerstel, Awe Gondhalekar, Manfred von Hellermann, Lorne D. Horton et al.

    Pages 265-277

20. Laser-Plasma Interaction in the Femtosecond Time Regime

    • D. von der Linde

    Pages 279-295

Research on photon and electron collisions with atomic and molecular targets and their ions has seen a rapid increase in interest, both experimentally and theoretically, in recent years. This is partly because these processes provide an ideal means of investigating the dynamics of many particle systems at a fundamental level and partly because their detailed understanding is required in many other fields, particularly astrophysics, plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, laser physics, atmospheric processes, isotope separation, radiation physics and chemistry and surface science. In recent years a number of important advances have been made, both on the experimental side and on the theoretical side. On the experimental side these include absolute measurements of cross sections, experiments using coincidence techniques, the use of polarised beams and targets, the development of very high energy resolution electron beams, the use of synchrotron radiation sources and ion storage rings, the study of laser assisted atomic collisions, the interaction of super-intense lasers with atoms and molecules and the increasing number of studies using positron beams.

• Cross section
• Nuclear fusion
• Plasma
• atomic collision
• collision
• molecule
• scattering
• two-electron atom

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

  Philip G. Burke

• Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

  Charles J. Joachain

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