Atomic and molecular physics

Accurate uranium analysis, and particularly for isotope measurements, is essential in many fields, including environmental studies, geology, hydrogeology, the nuclear industry, health physics, and homeland security.

This book makes a global survey of nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) from the viewpoints of mathematical, elementary-particle and hadron physics, including recent lattice-QCD results.

The Twenty Fourth Jerusalem Symposium reflected the high standards of these distinguished scientific meetings, which convene once a year at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem to discuss a specific topic in the broad area of quantum chemistry and biochemistry.

Leading investigators offer the first comprehensive study of gas phase photoionization research in the VUV and soft X-ray regime since the massive employment of synchrotron radiation as a spectroscopic tool.

This book provides an introduction to relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics, with particular emphasis on its derivation from microscopic transport theory.

Laser ablation describes the interaction of intense optical fields with matter, in which atoms are selectively driven off by thermal or nonthermal mechanisms.

This invaluable volume contains a biography of Nobel laureate Norman F Ramsey as well as reprints and retrospective commentaries on 56 papers relating to spectroscopy with coherent radiation.

In the past ten years the study of the mechanisms of chemical transformations on metal surfaces has advanced appreciably.

Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain.

The physics of strongly interacting matter in an external magnetic field is presently emerging as a topic of great cross-disciplinary interest for particle, nuclear, astro- and condensed matter physicists.

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.

Distance measurements in biological systems by EPR The foundation for understanding function and dynamics of biological systems is knowledge of their structure.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book is based mostly on the reports presented at the XVth International lahn-Teller Symposium on Vibronic Interactions in Crystals and Molecules and NATO Advanced Research Workshop Colossal Magnetoresistance and Vibronic Interactions that took place at Boston on August 16-22 of the year 2000.

Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early 21st century.

This volume contains the proceedings of the third meeting in the series of symposia and workshops on nuclear medium effects.

Devices that convert explosive energy into electromagnetic energy are often called Flux Compression Generators (FCGs) in the United States, whereas the term Magnetocumulative Generators (MCGs) is more com- monly used in Russia.

Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies.

This volume reports investigations which form part of a major series of theoretical and experimental studies being carried out in the Laboratory of Low-Temperature Plasma Optics at the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow.

This symposium provided a forum for interchange of state-of-the-art techniques and databases and for standardization of radiation metrology.

In this thesis, the ionization of atoms and small molecules in strong laser fields is experimentally studied using a reaction microscope.

Mechanics of Continua and Wave Dynamics is a textbook for a course on the mechanics of solids and fluids with the emphasis on wave theory.

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS or ELS) has been used to investi- gate the physical properties of solids for over 40 years in a handful of laboratories distributed around the world.

This work details an application of collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy for the separation of short-lived isomeric states and their subsequent study with decay spectroscopy.

This text makes the physics of nuclear radiations accessible to students with a basic background in physics and mathematics.

One of the pillars of modern science, statistical mechanics, owes much to one man, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906).

HISTORICAL PRELUDE Ettore Majorana's fame solidly rests on testimonies like the following, from the evocative pen of Giuseppe Cocconi.

New developments in the study of environmental mutagens continue to evolve in this rapidly emerging field.

The main purpose of this seminar is to discuss the frontier of nuclear spectroscopy, emphasizing the high spin nuclear spectroscopy and related topics.

Our journey in search of the origin of matter - and, by extension, the origin of the Universe itself - has taken us deeper and deeper inside atoms.

The theory of open quantum systems is developed from first principles, and a detailed discussion of quantum devices is covered.

The aim of the workshop was to bring together specialists in various fields where non-exponential relaxation is observed in order to compare models and experimental results and to examine the general physical principles governing this type of behaviour.

This title was originally published in 1963.

From March 30th to April 3rd, 1992, a NATO Advanced Research workshop entitled "e;Time Dependent Quantum Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Experiment"e; was held at Snowbird, Utah.

X-Ray Absorption and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications During the last two decades, remarkable and often spectacular progress has been made in the methodological and instrumental aspects of x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy.

This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in high energy heavy-ion physics.

There is a growing understanding that the progress of the conventional silicon technology will reach its physical, engineering and economic limits in near future.

This book provides an advanced introduction to extended theories of quantum field theory and algebraic topology, including Hamiltonian quantization associated with some geometrical constraints, symplectic embedding and Hamilton-Jacobi quantization and Becci-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) symmetry, as well as de Rham cohomology.

Straddling the traditional disciplines of nuclear and particle physics, hadron physics is a vital and extremely active research area, as evidenced by a 2004 Nobel prize and new research facilities, such as that scheduled to open at CERN.

This book is about improving prohibited substances detection using the nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) technique at security checkpoints.

Quantum computers, though not yet available on the market, will revolutionize the future of information processing.

The physics of nuclear collective motion was pioneered by A Bohr and B R Mottelson 50 years ago.

This book summarizes the recent progress in the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and, most importantly, it identifies and develops effective strategies to explore, both theoretically and observationally, the many remaining open questions in the field.

This book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at Session CVII of the summer school in physics, entitled "e;Current Trends in Atomic Physics"e; and held in July, 2016 in Les Houches, France.