Physics of Ion Impact Phenomena

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Introduction

   • D. Mathur

   Pages 1-11

3. Ion Formation Processes: Ionization in Ion-Electron Collisions

   • A. Müller

   Pages 13-90

4. Ion-Neutral Reactions: Collision Spectrometry of Multiply Charged Ions at Low Energies

   • E. Y. Kamber, C. L. Cocke

   Pages 91-122

5. Energy Spectrometry of Fine-Structure Transitions in Ion-Atom Collisions

   • N. Kobayashi

   Pages 123-146

6. Probing Interaction Potentials: Small Angle Differential Scattering of H+ and H with He

   • L. K. Johnson, R. F. Stebbings

   Pages 147-164

7. High-Resolution Translational Energy Spectrometry of Molecular Ions

   • M. Hamdan, A. G. Brenton

   Pages 165-198

8. Molecular Ionization Energies by Double Charge Transfer Spectrometry

   • F. M. Harris

   Pages 199-223

9. Studies of Multiply Charged Molecules by Ion Collision Techniques and Ab Initio Theoretical Methods

   • V. R. Marathe, D. Mathur

   Pages 225-274

10. Dissociative Recombination in Ion-Electron Collisions: New Directions

    • J. B. A. Mitchell

    Pages 275-286

11. Back Matter

    Pages 287-289

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During the last ten years an unprecedented effort has been directed towards study of the dynamics of ion collision phenomena in the gas phase, usually with a view to applications in diverse areas, ranging from fusion reactors and lasers to ionospheric and interstellar chemistry and gaseous electronics. The principal aim of this volume is to present a succinct overview of contemporary interests and trends in the field of low energy ion-electron and ion-atom (molecule) collision physics, with emphasis on fundamental aspects. Researchers and students will become acquainted, in a general and fairly non-specialized fashion, with recent progress in this area of continuing intense activity. The material is divided into two parts, dealing with atomic ions and molecular ions. Each of the nine chapters has been prepared by authors who are amongst the most eminent practitioners of contemporary ion collision physics. The book is dedicated to Professor J.B. Hasted, one of the pioneering workers who, in the course of his forty year career, helped establish atomic collision physics as a field in its own right.

• Atom
• Cross section
• Plasma
• atomic collision
• collision
• diatomic molecule
• electronics
• mass spectrometry
• metals
• metastable
• molecule
• scattering
• spectra
• spectroscopy
• structure

• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India

  Deepak Mathur

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