Lectures on Ion-Atom Collisions

Atomic collisions offer a unique atomic structure. The atom of the atomic processes and the presentation of another atom. It is also a furnace for the mathematical description, however, without going into the technical details. With this aim, the focus is on reactions, in which only a single active electron participates. Collisional excitation, ionization and charge transfer are listed for collision velocities
speed of light. For the highest projectile velocities, energy can be converted into mass, so that electron-positron pairs are created. In addition to the systematic treatment, the theoretical section specializes on electron-electron
correlations and three chapters are devoted to selected highlights bordering to surface science and it is physics with antiprotons.

* Simple access to the theory of collisions between ions and atoms
* Systematic treatment of the basic features needed for understanding
* Mathematical details are omitted and referred to
* In order to bear the essential ideas, clearly single electron is assumed in most cases
* In selected examples, theoretical results are confronted with experiment
* Discussion supported by a large number of illustrations
* Selected highlights in borderline fields are presented

Preface
Contents
I. Nonrelativistic collisions
1. Introduction
2. Low-energy collisions: Basis expansions
3. High-energy collisions: Perturbation theory for direct reactions
4. High-energy collisions: Charge transfer
II. Relativistic collisions
5. Relativisit kinematics and fields of moving charges
6. Relativistic electron motion
7. Relativistic ion-atom collisions: General theory
8. Direct reactions: Excitation and ionization
9. Relativistic electron transfer
10. Radiative electron capture (REC)
11. Electron-positron pair production
III. Selected topics
12. Selcted topics I: Hyperspherical coordinates
13. Selected topics II: Hollow atoms in micro-capillaries
14. Selected topics III: Resonant coherent excitation
15. Selected topics IV: Atomic physics with antiprotons
Appendices
A. Fundamental constants and units
Bibliography
index