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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. What is this book about
• Box of tools
• Perturbation theory
• Singularities of the amplitudes and of the wave functions
• The Coulomb field. Nonrelativistic case. - The Coulomb field. Relativistic case
• Photoionization of atoms
• Ionization and excitation by the photon impact at higher energies
• Ionization and excitation by the photon impact at higher energies
• Double photoionization and related processes
• Photoionization of endohedral atoms
• Annihilation of positrons with atomic electrons
• Nuclear transitions and electronic shell.