Physics of Highly Charged Ions

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 1-6

3. Structure and Spectra of Highly Charged Ions

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 7-34

4. Radiative Processes in the Continuous Spectrum

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 35-54

5. Electron Collisions with Highly Charged Ions: General Theory and Excitation Processes

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 55-77

6. Electron-Impact Ionization of Highly Charged Ions

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 78-93

7. Collisions of Atoms with Highly Charged Ions: General Theoretical Description

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 94-149

8. Collisions of Atoms (Ions, Molecules) with Highly Charged Ions: Charge-Transfer Processes

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 150-219

9. Collisions of Atoms (Ions) with Highly Charged Ions: Excitation and Ionization

   • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

   Pages 220-252

10. Auger, Inner-Shell and Related Processes

    • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

    Pages 253-285

11. Rate Coefficients of Elementary Processes

    • Ratko K. Janev, Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

    Pages 286-306

12. Back Matter

    Pages 307-330

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The physics of highly charged ions has become an essential ingredient of many modern research fields, such as x-ray astronomy and astrophysics, con­ trolled thermonuclear fusion, heavy ion nuclear physics, charged particle ac­ celerator physics, beam-foil spectroscopy, creation of xuv and x-ray lasers, etc. A broad spectrum of phenomena in high-temperature laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, as well as many aspects of their global physical state and behaviour, are directly influenced, and often fully determined, by the structure and collision properties of multiply charged ions. The growth of in­ terest in the physics of highly charged ions, experienced especially in the last ten to fifteen years, has stimulated a dramatic increase in research activity in this field and resulted in numerous significant achievements of both fun­ damental and practical importance. This book is devoted to the basic aspects of the physics of highly charged ions. Its principal aim is to provide a basis for understanding the structure and spectra of these ions, as well as their interactions with other atomic par­ ticles (electrons, ions, atoms and molecules). Particular attention is paid to the presentation of theoretical methods for the description of different radi­ ative and collision phenomena involving multiply charged ions. The exper­ imental material is included only to illustrate the validity of theoretical methods or to demonstrate those physical phenomena for which adequate theoretical descriptions are still absent. The general principles of atomic spectroscopy are included to the extent to which they are pertinent to the subject matter.

• Cross section
• Ions
• Physics
• autoionization
• collision
• diatomic molecule
• laser
• molecule
• spectra
• spectroscopy

• Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

  Ratko K. Janev

• P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR

  Leonid P. Presnyakov, Vjatcheslav P. Shevelko

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