R-Matrix Theory of Atomic Collisions: Application to Atomic, Molecular and Optical Processes (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 61)

Annotation Commencing with a self-contained overview of atomic collision theory, this monograph presents recent developments of R-matrix theory and its applications to a wide-range of atomic molecular and optical processes. These developments include the electron and photon collisions with atoms, ions and molecules which are required in the analysis of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, multiphoton processes required in the analysis of superintense laser interactions with atoms and molecules and positron collisions with atoms and molecules required in antimatter studies of scientific and technologial importance. Basic mathematical results and general and widely used R-matrix computer programs are summarized in the appendices Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Potential Scattering....Pages 3-55 Multichannel Collision Theory....Pages 57-100 Resonances and Threshold Behaviour....Pages 101-164 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Introduction to R -Matrix Theory: Potential Scattering....Pages 167-225 Electron Collisions with Atoms and Ions....Pages 227-310 Intermediate-Energy Collisions....Pages 311-354 Positron Collisions with Atoms and Ions....Pages 355-378 Photoionization, Photorecombination and Atoms in Fields....Pages 379-432 Multiphoton Processes: Floquet Theory....Pages 433-491 Multiphoton Processes: Time-Dependent Theory....Pages 493-531 Collisions with Molecules....Pages 533-590 Electron Interactions in Solids....Pages 591-603 Front Matter....Pages 605-605 Clebsch–Gordan and Racah Coefficients....Pages 607-617 Legendre Polynomials and Related Functions....Pages 619-637 Bessel Functions and Related Functions....Pages 639-645 Applications of Angular Momentum Algebra....Pages 647-664 Propagator Methods....Pages 665-691 Asymptotic Expansions....Pages 693-706 Back Matter....Pages 707-746