Classical treatment of collisions between ions and atoms or molecules / Francois Frémont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frémont, François, author.

Series:

Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics ; 118.

Springer series on atomic, optical, and plasma physics ; volume 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ion-atom collisions.

Ion-molecule collisions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, many experimental and theoretical works have been devoted to collisions between highly charged ions and atomic and molecular targets. It was realized that quantum mechanics is the only way, a priori, to describe such atomic phenomena. However, since quantum mechanics is very difficult to apply for collision systems with more than two particles, classical methods were very soon introduced and applied to simple collision systems and, subsequently, to more complicated systems. The results obtained by such classical methods were found to be surprisingly good, and classical mechanics is now well established, despite its approximations, as a replacement for or competition with quantum mechanics in many cases. In this book, the author will focus on the development of classical methods for describing collisional and post-collisional processes. The results will be compared with those found using quantum mechanical models, in order to demonstrate the ability of the classical approach to obtain many features and details of collision systems.

Contents:

Classical Mechanics Goal and First Results

Classical Mechanics Approaches in Atomic Collisions

Classical Treatment of Aq+ + H Collisions

Classical Treatment of Aq+ + He Collisions

Extension of CTMC Calculations to Multielectron Systems

Collisions Aq+ + H2

Collisions of Aq+ and Multielectron Molecular Targets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 14, 2021).

ISBN:

9783030894283

3030894282

OCLC:

1288194940

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.