Atomic and molecular physics

The Second Workshop on Electronuclear Physics with Internal Targets and the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 1998.

Already in 1997, the topics included in this meeting had been enlarged to include all different phases and phase transitions relevant on laboratory scales or in cosmology.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Physics with an Electron-Polarized Ion Collider (EPIC-99), jointly sponsored by the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center, and the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington.

The 14th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy brought together spectroscopists from all over the world working in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy.

The method of effective field theory (EFT) is ideally suited to deal with physical systems containing separate energy scales.

This book presents the latest results of experimental and theoretical studies of fission and fusion-fission dynamics from low to intermediate energies.

From August to September 1998, a group of 75 physicists from 52 laboratories in 15 countries met in Erice, Italy, for the 36th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

In this proceedings volume, the following topics are discussed: (1) various boundary value problems for partial differential equations and functional equations, including free and moving boundary problems; (2) the theory and methods of integral equations and integral operators, including singular integral equations; (3) applications of boundary value problems and integral equations to mechanics and physics; (4) numerical methods of integral equations and boundary value problems; and (5) some problems related with analysis and the foregoing subjects.

The physics of neutrinos has acquired a rapidly increasing role within the realm of particle physics.

This volume contains lectures on several topics of great current relevance in strong interaction physics.

This volume covers high energy physics and particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology, nuclear physics, plasma physics, condensed matter and solid state physics, high temperature superconductivity, semiconductors, optics, laser physics, biophysics, mathematical physics and quantum mechanics.

This workshop brought together theorists actively working in studies of QCD and general aspects of dynamics in non-Abelian gauge theories.

This volume focusses on four main topics: structure functions, tests of quantum chromodynamics, physics at the highest Q2 and p2T, and high energy scattering and diffraction.

The quark confinement mechanism is one of the most difficult problems in particle physics, and is listed as the 7 difficult mathematical problems of the new millennium.

Dissociative recombination is a complex molecular process that occurs in any plasma cold enough to contain molecular constituents.

This volume deals with the electroweak interactions at low and high energies.

This volume summarizes our contemporary understanding of the deconfinement transition in QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential.

This proceedings volume presents current developments in nuclear physics which are driven by new experimental facilities (e.

Electrostatic particle accelerators are used in a number of fields, such as nuclear physics, atomic physics, materials science, accelerator mass spectrometry, environmental science and even art.

These proceedings consist of a series of detailed pedagogical lectures on a variety of theoretical and experimental topics.

Principles and applications of SQUIDs serves as a textbook and a multi-author collection of critical reviews.

Satyendra Nath Bose became a legendary figure of science in the 20th century in India with his revolutionary discovery on the nature of radiation.

This first volume of this two-volume set deals with the important recent discovery of the photomagneton of electromagnetic radiation, a discovery which is fundamental in quantum field theory and in quantum mechanics in matter.

This book gives a comprehensive review of the current status of the theory of the pion-two-nucleon systems at intermediate energies.

Detailed discussions on many of the recent advances in the many-body theory of atomic structure are presented by the leading experts around the world on their respective specialized approaches.

This is the first complete account of the construction and finiteness analysis of multi-loop scattering amplitudes for superstrings, and of the guarantee that for certain superstrings (in particular the heterotic one), the symmetries of the theory in the embedding space-time are those of the super-poincare group SP10 and that the multi-loop amplitudes are each finite.

The physics of strongly interacting many-body systems known as nuclear physics is a mature discipline which has achieved a remarkably quantitative success.

There are a number of unanswered questions which indicate that the Standard Model, successful as it is, cannot be the entire story.

This is a commemoration volume to honor Professor M Veltman on the ocassion of his 60th birthday.

This is a text on classical general relativity from a geometrical viewpoint.

This book is devoted to the modern problems of quantum optics.

This book provides a readable account of the foundations of QFT, in particular of the Euclidean formulation with emphasis on the interplay between physical requirements and mathematical structures.

This book presents a collection of papers, written during the last 33 years by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his collaborators, on various physical effects which can be observed on atoms interacting with electromagnetic fields.

Successful modeling of quantum chromodynamics with a relativistic quark-soliton field theory has been developed over the past decade.

This book contains introductory comments concerning the definitions, the symmetry properties and the basic formulae for matrix elements of tensor operators.

This book is concerned with the practical aspects of solving angular momentum problems.

The contents of this book are derived from a celebration of the 70th birthday of Vernon W Hughes.

In this book the author has tried to apply "e;a little imagination and thinking"e; to modelling dynamical phenomena from a classical atomic and molecular point of view.

This book presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of bound state continuum transitions in low energy collisions involving a negative ion.

After more than a century of study, the hydrogen atom still presents challenges and opportunities to theoretical as well as to experimental physicists.

The exact solution of C N Yang's one-dimensional many-body problem with repulsive delta-function interactions and R J Baxter's eight-vertex statistical model are brilliant achievements in many-body statistical physics.

Some of the most effective gauges in field theory are noncovariant gauges of the axial kind, such as the light-cone gauge and the temporal gauge.

Beltrami fields exist commonly in all areas of wave theory.

The theoretical study of the nuclear equation of state (EOS) is a field of research which deals with most of the fundamental problems of nuclear physics.

This book is intended for scientists engaged in the measurement of weak alpha, beta, and gamma active samples; in health physics, environmental control, nuclear geophysics, tracer work, radiocarbon dating etc.

Of all the different areas in computational chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) enjoys the most rapid development.

This book is an in-depth review of experiment and theory on electric-dipole polarizabilities.