Atomic and molecular physics

The present volume contains contributions presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Molecular Ions held on the island of Kos, Greece, from September 30 to October 10, 1980.

Dur previous volume 14 was devoted to an exposition of the topics of sensitivity analysis and uncertainty theory with its development and application in nuclear reactor physics at the heart of the discussion.

This book represents a compendium of the twenty most useful far-infrared (or submillimeter) lasers.

John Maynard Keynes is credited with the aphorism that the long-term view in economics must be taken in the light that "e;in the long-term we are aU dead"e;.

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The field of reactive intermediates has been blossoming at a rapid rate in recent years and its impact on chemistry, both "e;pure"e; and "e;applied,"e; as well as on biology, astronomy, and other areas of science, is enormous.

Long was I hugg'd close-long and long.

The first international conference on "e;Theory and Applications of Moment Methods in Many-Fermion Systems"e; was held September 10 - 13, 1979 at Iowa State University.

The second course of the International School on the Physics of Exotic Atoms took place at the "e;Ettore Majorana"e; Center for Scien- tific Culture, Erice, Sicily, during the period from March 25 to April 5, 1979.

The present volume in our annual review series reviews a wide range of developments, giving a broad interpretation to the "e;technology"e; of our title.

The post World War II era witnessed a tremendous growth in the research carried out in neutron-induced reactions and especially in neutron capture y-ray studies.

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A NATO Advanced Studies Institute was held June 12-23, 1978, at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.

We have pleasure in presenting Volume Fourteen to our readers.

"e;Analytic Insights into Intermediate-Energy Hadron-Nucleus Scattering,"e; by R.

The physics of atomic inner shells has undergone significant advances in recent years.

Scattering phenomena play an important role in modern physics.

This volume reviews recent developments in our understanding of che~ ical signaling in vertebrates.

The year 1985 represents a special anniversary for people dealing with Ooulomb systems.

The problem of molecules interacting with metal surfaces has for a very long time been recognized to be of considerable technological as well as fundamental importance.

This book is a short outline of the present state of the theory of electron collisions with atomic particles - atoms, molecules and ions.

This volume represents the second of our occasional departures from the format of an annual review series, being devoted to one coherent topic.

A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Strongly Coupled Plasma Physics was held on the Santa Cruz Campus of the University of California, from August 4 through August 9, 1986.

The 1981 Cargese Summer Institute on Fundamental Interactions was organized by the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (M.

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This textbook is for a course in advanced solid-state theory.

As its name suggests, the 1988 workshop on "e;Interacting Electrons in Reduced Dimen- the wide variety of physical effects that are associated with (possibly sions"e; focused on strongly) correlated electrons interacting in quasi-one- and quasi-two-dimensional mate- rials.

The almost irresistible beauty of string theory has seduced many theoretical physicists in recent years.

IISSC '89 was a tremendous success.

This volume represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Noto, Sicily June 8-19, 1987.

For ten days at the end of September, 1987, a group of about 75 scientists from 21 different countries gathered in a restored monastery on a 750 meter high piece of rock jutting out of the Mediterranean Sea to discuss the simulation of the transport of electrons and photons using Monte Carlo techniques.

The International Conference on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries, held at the "e;Ettore Majorana"e; Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, July 27-August 4, 1994, brought together sixty of the leading scientists including many Nobel Laureates in high energy physics, principal contributors in other fields of physics such as high Tc superconductivity, particle accelerators and detector instrumentation, and thirty-six talented younger physicists selected from candidates throughout the world.

In the spring of 1970 Peter Farago organised a three-day conference on Polarised Electron Beams at Carberry Tower, near Edinburgh.

This meeting on Hadron Spectroscopy and the Confinement Problem took place from June 27 to July 8, 1995.

This book of proceedings collects the papers presented at the Workshop on Diagnostics for ITER, held at Villa Monastero, Varenna (Italy), from August 28 to September 1, 1995.

Here is the first graduate-level textbook to offer an introduction to the field of laser spectroscopy.

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.

There are many books in the market devoted to the review of certain fields.

Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on atomic fission: his work in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann led to the discovery that uranium nuclei bombarded by neutrons undergo spontaneous fission, releasing enormous energies.

The study of nuclear dynamics is now in one of its most interesting phases.

The practical properties of many materials are dominated by surface and near-surface composition and structure.

The last twenty years have witnessed an enormous development of nuclear physics.

The energy of a molecule can be studied with the help of quantum theory, a satisfactory approach because it involves only basic and clearly identified physical concepts.

In this book, we describe in detail a numerical method to study the equilibrium and stability of a plasma confined by a strong magnetic field in toroidal geometry without two-dimensional symmetry.

This volume presents the contributions of participants in the Symposium on Swarm Studies and Inelastic Electron-Molecule Collisions, held on July 19-23, 1985, in Tahoe City, California.