Introduction to the Physics of Highly-Charged Ions
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Author(s): H. Beyer and V. Shevelko
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750304812
Format: hardback
361pp
Price: £60.00, $90.00
Review Date: 07 January 2003
Review: Highly-charged particles play an important role in many radioactive and collisional processes that occur in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. The radiation spectra of highly-charged ions contain important information about plasma macro parameters, such as electron and ion density and temperature, charge state distribution, polarization of x-ray radiation and provide an important diagnostic tool for investigations of laboratory and astrophysical plasma sources. Applications range from X-ray astronomy and astrophysics to beam-foil spectroscopy and ion–surface interactions. This textbook for graduate and postgraduate students provides an overview of modern atomic physics with highly-charged particles. It has chapters on; radiation; spectroscopy; light and ion sources; atomic structure; atomic collisions; and a view of future directions.