PERFECT/COMPLETE SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS by Hans Kleinpoppen, Bernd Lohmann, Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo ( 9783642405136 )

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Title:

PERFECT/COMPLETE SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS
PROBING QUANTUM MECHANICS ON ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONS AND COINCIDENCES

By:

Hans Kleinpoppen, Bernd Lohmann, Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£109.99
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ISBN 10:

3642405134

ISBN 13:

9783642405136

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

6 December, 2013

Edition:

2013 ed.

Series:

Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 75

Pages:

340

Description:

Written in honor of Herbert Walther and his contributions to the field, this book delivers the quantum mechanical knowledge of atomic and molecular physics. It presents experiments in atomic and molecular physics and related theoretical approaches.

Synopsis:

The main goal of this book is to elucidate what kind of experiment must be performed in order to determine the full set of independent parameters which can be extracted and calculated from theory, where electrons, photons, atoms, ions, molecules, or molecular ions may serve as the interacting constituents of matter. The feasibility of such perfect' and-or `complete' experiments, providing the complete quantum mechanical knowledge of the process, is associated with the enormous potential of modern research techniques, both, in experiment and theory. It is even difficult to overestimate the role of theory in setting of the complete experiment, starting with the fact that an experiment can be complete only within a certain theoretical framework, and ending with the direct prescription of what, and in what conditions should be measured to make the experiment `complete'. The language of the related theory is the language of quantum mechanical amplitudes and their relative phases. This book captures the spirit of research in the direction of the complete experiment in atomic and molecular physics, considering some of the basic quantum processes: scattering, Auger decay and photo-ionization. It includes a description of the experimental methods used to realize, step by step, the complete experiment up to the level of the amplitudes and phases. The corresponding arsenal includes, beyond determining the total cross section, the observation of angle and spin resolved quantities, photon polarization and correlation parameters, measurements applying coincidence techniques, preparing initially polarized targets, and even more sophisticated methods. The `complete' experiment is, until today, hardly to perform. Therefore, much attention is paid to the results of state-of-the-art experiments providing detailed information on the process, and their comparison to the related theoretical approaches, just to mention relativistic multi-configurational Dirac-Fock, convergent close-coupling, Breit-Pauli R-matrix, or relativistic distorted wave approaches, as well as Green's operator methods. This book has been written in honor of Herbert Walther and his major contribution to the field but even to stimulate advanced Bachelor and Master students by demonstrating that obviously nowadays atomic and molecular scattering physics yields and gives a much exciting appreciation for further advancing the field.

Illustrations:

6 Illustrations, color; 171 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 340 p.

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Returns:

Returnable

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