Excitation of Atoms and Broadening of Spectral Lines

Download or read book Excitation of Atoms and Broadening of Spectral Lines written by Igorʹ Ilʹich Sobelʹman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of elementary processes and mechanisms, presenting useful and relatively simple methods of approximation for calculating the effective cross sections, giving a number of approximate formulas. Extensive tables list cross sections and rate coefficients for various atoms and elementary processes. For this second edition several sections and formulas have been substantially revised, the tables recalculated using the updated version of ATOM and recent progress in the field has been added.