Synopses & Reviews
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a coherent and updated comprehensive treatise that covers the central subjects of the field. The style and content is suitable both for students and researchers. Highlights of the book include (among many others) the Ion-Sphere model, statistical models, Average-Atom model, emission spectrum, unresolved transition arrays, supertransition arrays, radiation transport, escape factors and x-ray lasers.
Synopsis
The field of atomic physics in hot plasmas, also called hot plasma spectroscopy, covers the properties and behavior of atoms and ions in hot plasmas, the related emission and absorption spectra, and the applications of the emitted radiation. This book is the first comprehensive treatise on the topic in 25 years.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-257) and index.
About the Author
About the Author -
Marylynn Salmon is the author of Women and the Law of Property in Early American and co-author of Inheritance in America: From Colonial Times to the Present, as well as numerous scholarly articles on early American women's history. Dr. Salmon is research associate in the history department at Smith
College and director of the Smith Summer Humanities Program.
Table of Contents
1. Introductory Remarks, Notations, and Units
2. Modeling of the Atomic Potential in Hot Plasmas
3. Atomic Properties in Hot Plasmas
4. Atomic Processes in Hot Plasmas
5. Population Distributions
6. The Emission Spectrum
7. Line Broadening
8. Experimental Considerations: Plasma Diagnostics
9. The Absorption Spectrum and Radiation Transport
10. Applications