A brief review is given of the physics goals and a few of the accelerator physics issues relevant to the new generation of small storage rings being built for atomic and nuclear physics use.

This book is devoted to one of the most active domains of atomic physic- atomic physics of heavy positive ions. During the last 30 years, this terrain has attracted enormous attention from both experimentalists and theoreti cians. On the one hand, this interest is stimulated by rapid progress in the development of laboratory ion sources, storage rings, ion traps and methods for ion cooling. In many laboratories, a considerable number of complex and accurate experiments have been initiated, challenging new frontiers. Highly charged ions are used for investigations related to fundamental research and to more applied fields such as controlled nuclear fusion driven by heavy ions and its diagnostics, ion-surface interaction, physics of hollow atoms, x-ray lasers, x-ray spectroscopy, spectrometry of ions in storage rings and ion traps, biology, and medical therapy. On the other hand, the new technologies have stimulated elaborate theo retical investigations, especially in developing QED theory, relativistic many body techniques, plasma-kinetic modeling based on the Coulomb interactions of highly charged ions with photons and various atomic particles - electrons, atoms, molecules and ions. The idea of assembling this book matured while the editors were writ ing another book, X-Ray Radiation of Highly Charged Ions by H. F. Beyer, H. -J. Kluge and V. P. Shevelko (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 1997) covering a broad range of x-ray and other radiative phenomena central to atomic physics with heavy ions.

Emphasizing a physical understanding with many illustrations, Introduction to the Physics of Highly Charged Ions covers the major areas of x-ray radiation and elementary atomic processes occurring with highly charged ions in hot laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Topics include light and ion sources, spectroscopy, atomic structure, magnetic and

Contents:Status Report:The IUCF Cooler after Three Years (R E Pollock)The Heidelberg Heavy Ion Cooler Ring TSR (E Jaeschke)Storage and Cooling of Heavy Ions in the ESR up to 200 MeV/u (H Eickhoff et al)Present Status of CELSIUS (A Johansson & D Reistad); Cooler Synchrotron TARN II, Present and Future (T Katayama)Beam Cooling: Electron Cooling at TARN II (T Tanabe et al)Ion Trap: Penning Trap Experiments at the University of Washington and at NIST in Boulder (F L Moore) Electron Cooling and Trapped Antiprotons (H Kalinowsky)Nuclear and Particle Physics: High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Deeply-Bound Pionic Atoms in Heavy Nuclei by Pion-Transfer Reactions of Inverse Kinematics Using the GSI Cooler Ring ESR (T Yamazaki)Nuclear Physics with the Indiana Cooler (H O Meyer)The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon (V W Hughes)Particle Physics at CELSIUS (S Kullander et al)Accelerator: Advanced Stacking Methods Using Electron Cooling at the TSR Heidelberg (M Grieser et al)Accumulation of Radioactive Beam and Collision with Electron Beam in TARN II (A Ando & T Katayama)Internal Target: Internal Targets at the CELSIUS Storage Ring (C Ekström)A Thin Foil as an Internal Target for a Cooler Ring Experiment (K Noda et al)Atomic Physics: Radiative and Dielectronic Recombination: Measurements at UNILAC and ESR (A Müller et al)Electron-Ion Recombination Measurements with an Electron Cooler (L H Andersen)and other papers Readership: Atomic, nuclear and high energy physicists. keywords:

This book reviews the major progress made in the fields of atomic, molecular and optical physics in the last decade. It contains eleven chapters in which contributors have highlighted the major accomplishments made in a given subfield. Each chapter is not a comprehensive review, but rather a succinct survey of the most interesting developments achieved in recent years. This book contains information on many AMO subfields and can be used as a textbook for graduate students interested in entering AMO physics. It may also serve researchers who wish to familiarize themselves with other AMO subfields.