The proceedings of the Eleventh APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas benchmarks the ongoing research developments in the interdisciplinary interaction between atomic and plasma physicists as they tackle large scale applied research problems in magnetic fusion, x-ray lasers, astrophysics, inertial fusion, and materials processing.

The proceedings of the Eleventh APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas benchmarks the ongoing research developments in the interdisciplinary interaction between atomic and plasma physicists as they tackle large scale applied research problems in magnetic fusion, x-ray lasers, astrophysics, inertial fusion, and materials processing.

The International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and Their Applications is a forum for researchers who produce, collect, evaluate, disseminate, and apply atomic and molecular data, particularly in gaseous and plasma environments. These include applications in technical plasma processing, lighting, astrophysics, medical radiation physics, and inertial and magnetic confinement fusion, for example.

You’ll learn all the underlying science and how to perform all the latest analytical techniques that plasma polarization spectroscopy (PPS) offers with this new book. The authors report on recent results of laboratory experiments, keeping you current with all the latest developments and applications in the field. There is also a timely discussion centered on instrumentation that is crucial to your ability to perform successful PPS experiments.

The APS Topical Conference on Atomic Processes in Plasmas brings together researchers working in atomic physics and in plasma science, emphasizing the strong and synergistic overlap of these fields. The latest developments in atomic physics reported are recent advances in plasma science, such as in magnetic or inertial confinement fusion, Z-pinches, astrophysics, and technical plasma processing.

Dissociative Recombination of Molecular Ions with Electrons is a comprehensive collection of refereed papers describing the latest developments in dissociative recombination research. The papers are written by the leading researchers in the field. The topics covered include the use of microwave afterglows, merged beams and storage rings to measure rate coefficients and to identify the products and their yields. The molecules studied range in size from the smallest, H2+, to bovine insulin ions. The theoretical papers cover the important role of Rydberg states and the use of wave packets and quantum defect theory to deduce cross sections, rate constants and quantum yields. Several theoretical and experimental papers address the controversial topic of H3+ dissociative recombination and its importance in the interstellar medium. Dissociative recombination studies of other molecular ions in the interstellar medium and in cometary and planetary atmospheres are covered. Ionization is an important competitive process to dissociative recombination and its competition with predissociation and its role in the reverse process of the association of neutral species is presented. Dissociative attachment, in which an electron attaches to a neutral molecule, has many similarities to dissociative recombination. The topics covered include the accurate calculation of electron affinities, attachment to molecules, clusters, and to species absorbed on solid surfaces and electron scattering by a molecular anion.

This book provides a compact yet comprehensive overview of recent developments in collisional-radiative (CR) modeling of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. It describes advances across the entire field, from basic considerations of model completeness to validation and verification of CR models to calculation of plasma kinetic characteristics and spectra in diverse plasmas. Various approaches to CR modeling are presented, together with numerous examples of applications. A number of important topics, such as atomic models for CR modeling, atomic data and its availability and quality, radiation transport, non-Maxwellian effects on plasma emission, ionization potential lowering, and verification and validation of CR models, are thoroughly addressed. Strong emphasis is placed on the most recent developments in the field, such as XFEL spectroscopy. Written by leading international research scientists from a number of key laboratories, the book offers a timely summary of the most recent progress in this area. It will be a useful and practical guide for students and experienced researchers working in plasma spectroscopy, spectra simulations, and related fields.