High-Energy Atomic Physics

• Main Authors: Drukarev, Evgeny G. (Author), Mikhailov, A.I (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 93
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Atomic structure.; Molecular structure.; Spectra.; Atoms.; Matter.; Atomic/Molecular Structure and Spectra.; Quantum Physics.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Numerical and Computational Physics.

This self-contained text introduces readers to the field of high-energy atomic physics - a new regime of photon-atom interactions in which the photon energies significantly exceed the atomic or molecular binding energies, and which opened up with the recent advent of new synchrotron sources. From a...