Collision Processes Involving Highly Excited Atoms and Neutral Particles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781904868347)

This volume presents a current review of knowledge on elementary collision processes of highly excited atoms with neutral particles. It provides the basic physical approaches and theoretical techniques for the description of a broad class of observed collision phenomena in gases and low temperature plasmas involving Rydberg atoms. The author considers different mechanisms of inelastic and quasielastic collisions with a change in the principle and orbital quantum numbers, transitions between the fine-structure components, direct and associative ionisation, ion-pair formation and electron-ion recombination processes.

Author: V. S. Lebedev
ISBN-10: 1904868347
ISBN-13: 9781904868347
Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2004
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d