Reviews of Plasma Physics, Volume 23 , presents two high quality reviews from the cutting-edge of Russian plasma physics research.
"Plasma Models of Atom and Radiative-Collisional Processes", by V.A. Astapenko, L.A. Bureyeva, V.S. Lisitsa, is devoted to a unified description of the atomic core polarization effects in the free-free, free-bound and bound-bound transitions of the charged particles in the field of multielectron atom. These effects were treated independently in various applications for more than 40 years. The universal description is based on statistical plasma models of atomic processes with complex ions and atoms. This description makes it possible to extract general scaling laws for the processes above. This review is the first attempt to give the universal approach to the problem. All types of transitions are considered in the frame of both classical and quantum models for the energy scattering of the particle interacting with the atomic core. Experimental and theoretical results are given for the oscillator strengths of atoms and highly charged ions, polarization phenomena in photoeffect, new polarization channel in recombination and for Bremsstrahlung of electrons, relativistic and heavy particles on complex atoms and ions.
"Asymptotic Theory of Charge Exchange And Mobility Processes for Atomic Ions" by B.M. Smirnov reviews the process of resonant charge exchange, and also the transport processes (mobility and diffusion coefficients) for ions in parent gases which are determined by resonant electron transfer. The basis is the asymptotic theory of resonant charge exchange that allows us to evaluate cross sections for all the elements and estimate their accuracy. A simple version of the asymptotic theory is used as follows: a parameter is the ratio between an atom cross section, and the cross section of resonant charge exchange. The cross section of this process is expressed through asymptotic parameters of a transferring electron it the atom. Experimental results are also used, but their accuracy is usually lower than can be obtained by the asymptotic theory.
Author(s): Vitaly D. Shafranov
Edition: draft
Publisher: Kluwer
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 294
Tags: Физика;Физика плазмы;
Front cover......Page 1
Back cover......Page 3
Date-line......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
1. Introduction......Page 9
2. Plasma characteristics of atoms in phenomenological and kinetic models of atoms. Dynamic polarizability of atomic structures......Page 16
2.1. Brandt - Lundqvist local plasma frequency model......Page 17
2.2. The response functions and the static polarizability of a Thomas - Fermi atom......Page 23
2.3. Kinetic model of the dynamic polarizability of atoms......Page 26
2.4. Quantum calculations of the dynamic polarizability......Page 28
3.1. General consideration for bremsstrahlung of fast particles on atom......Page 32
3.2. The dynamic form factor formalism in description of radiation from fast particles in a plasma......Page 45
4.1. Application of dynamic polarizability models to calculations of the photoeffect on complex atoms......Page 55
4.2. Approximate quantum methods for photoabsorption cross section calculations......Page 59
5. Bremsstrahlung and photorecombination of moderate energy electrons on multielectron atoms and ions......Page 65
5.1. Radiative losses of electrons in scattering on neutral atoms......Page 66
5.2. Core polarization effects in emission and recombination of electrons on multielectron atoms......Page 86
5.3. The transition bremsstrahlung of thermal electrons on plasma ions......Page 99
5.4. Quantum calculation (by the incident particle motion) of the effective radiation on multielectron ions......Page 105
6.1. Polarization bremsstrahlung radiation of a fast charged particle on a Thomas - Fermi atom......Page 111
6.2. Fast charged particle polarization BR cross section on ions in a plasma......Page 116
6.3 Interference - polarization effects during radiation of relativistic particles in a dense......Page 127
7. Polarization-interference phenomena in radiation of thermal electrons in a low-temperature plasma......Page 129
8.1. Multiphoton polarization bremsstrahlung emission and absorption......Page 139
8.2. Polarization-interference effects in collisions of an electron with atoms and ions in a near-resonance laser field......Page 143
9.1. Approximate scaling of the atomic Compton profile......Page 158
9.2. Collisional ionization of atoms. The cross section calculation in the Born-Compton approximation......Page 161
9.3. Polarization bremsstrahlung radiation with ionization of atom: relation with X-ray Compton scattering......Page 172
10.1. Experiments on PBR of electrons on atoms......Page 181
10.2. Relativistic experiments on accelerators......Page 184
10.3. Polarization bremsstrahlung of heavy charged particles......Page 187
10.4. Experiments on the laser-assisted electron scattering on atoms......Page 190
10.5. Collision-induced absorption in gases......Page 192
10.6. Polarization effects near the $4f$-structure in BR on metallic targets......Page 198
11. Conclusion......Page 202
References......Page 205
1. Introduction......Page 217
2.1. Character of the resonant charge exchange process......Page 219
2.2. Ion-atom exchange interaction potential......Page 222
2.3 Ion-atom exchange interaction for light atoms......Page 228
2.4. Ion-atom exchange interaction for heavy atoms......Page 232
3.1. Cross section of resonance charge exchange with transition of $s$-electron......Page 236
3.2. Cross section of resonant charge exchange with $p$-electron transition......Page 239
3.3. Resonant harge exchange for different cases of Hund coupling......Page 244
3.4. Average cross sections of resonant charge exchange......Page 251
3.5. Resonant charge exchange at ultralow energies......Page 253
4.1. The character of ion drift in atomic gas......Page 258
4.2. Mobility of ions at low field strengths......Page 263
4.3. Mobility of ions in parent gases at low fields......Page 266
4.4. Mobility of ions at intermediate and high field strengths......Page 275
4.5. Diffusion of atomic ions in gases in external fields......Page 282
5. Conclusions......Page 288
References......Page 289
