G. J. Tallents

An Introduction to the Atomic and Radiation Physics of Plasmas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The physics of emission, absorption and interaction of light in astrophysics and in laboratory plasmas is developed from first principles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108419543
• ISBN-10: 1108419542
• Artikelnr.: 49312664

Autorenporträt

G. J. Tallents is Professor in Physics at the York Plasma Institute at the University of York. His current research centres on the effects of high plasma density on spectroscopy and the interaction of extreme ultra-violet lasers with solid targets.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Plasma and atomic physics
2. The propagation of light
3. Scattering
4. Radiation emission in plasmas
5. Radiation emission involving free electrons
6. Opacity
7. Discrete bound quantum states: hydrogen and hydrogen-like ions
8. Discrete bound states: many-electron atoms and ions
9. Discrete bound states: molecules
10. Radiative transitions between discrete quantum states
11. Collisions
12. Collisional-radiative models
13. High density plasmas
Appendix. Vectors, Maxwell's equations, the harmonic oscillator and a sum rule
References
Index.