Atomic Processes in Basic and Applied Physics

Laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Modern view on ball lightning: Observations, experiments, theories; V. Bychkov and A.Nikitin.-Unravelling the mysteries of matter surrounding supermassive black holes; A. Muller and S. Schippers.- Spectroscopic diagnostics of hot coronal plasma; A.M.Urnov.- Hot spots and giant spiders clouding the solar sky; S.V.Kuzin and A.M. Urnov.- Populations of excited parabolic states of hydrogen beam in fusion plasmas; O. Marchuk et al.- Atomic processes in dusty plasmas; Young-Dae Jung.- Atomic and Molecular Data Need for Industrial Application Plasmas; J.-S. Yoon et al.- Atomic collisions. Charge transfer dynamics in low to intermediate energy ion-atom/molecule collisions studied by momentum imaging techniques; X. Ma et al.-Single and Multiple Electron Loss by Heavy Ions; R. DuBois and T. Santos.-Target-density effects in atomic collisions; V.P. Shevelko and H. Tawara.- Excitation and ionization in atom-atom collisions; A.D. Ulantsev.- Atomic collisions in liquid targets; A. Itoh.- Excited states of atomic hydrogen in reflected neutrals at high-Z metal surfaces; D.Kato.- The long-range interaction effects in collisions of Rydberg atoms with neutral targets; V.S. Lebedev and A.A. Narits.- Useful formula and Internet resources for ionic collisions; A.M. Imai and D. Humbert .- Applications. Atomic Processes and Data Requirements in Tumor Therapy;T. Kanai.- Atomic X-Ray Physics at the Experimental Storage Ring ESR; H.Beyer et al. Atomic physics using highly intense X-ray pulses; M. Martins et al.- Cascade of atomic displacements with account for ion-ion cross sections in solid state; O.V. Ivanov and A.V. Subbotin.- Approach to ultra-low ion beam temperatures by beam cooling; A. Noda et al.- Nonlinear and multipole effects on optical lattice clock; V.D. Ovsiannikov et al.- Photorecombination of highly charged heavy ions; Ch.Kozhuharov and C. Brandau.-References Index.