This is the first comprehensive treatment of the interactions of atoms and molecules with charged particles, photons and laser fields. Addressing the subject from a unified viewpoint, the volume reflects our present understanding of many-particle dynamics in rearrangement and fragmentation reactions such as electron capture, target and projectile ionisation, photoabsorption and Compton scattering, collisional breakup in Coulomb systems, and dissociative ionisation. The individual chapters, each written by leading experts, give a concise picture of the advanced experimental and theoretical methods. The book also describes experimental methods such as recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy (RIMS), electron microscopy (REMI), and many-particle time-of-flight and imaging techniques. Theoretical approaches treated include the three-body Coulomb problem, R- and S-matrix as well as classical approaches, close-coupling methods, and density-functional theory.

Inhalt

1 Kinematics of Atomic and Molecular Fragmentation Reactions.- 2 Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy and "Reaction Microscopes".- 3 Multiparticle Imaging of Fast Molecular Ion Beams.- 4 Neutral-Atom Imaging Techniques.- 5 Collisional Breakup in Coulomb Systems.- 6 Hyperspherical R-Matrix with Semiclassical Outgoing Waves.- 7 Convergent Close-Coupling Approach to Electron-Atom Collisions.- 8 Close-Coupling Approach to Multiple-Atomic Ionization.- 9 Numerical Grid Methods.- 10 S-Matrix Approach to Intense-Field Processes in Many-Electron Systems.- 11 Quantum Orbits and Laser-Induced Nonsequential Double Ionization.- 12 Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory in Atomic Collisions.- 13 Electronic Collisions in Correlated Systems: From the Atomic to the Thermodynamic Limit.- 14 From Atoms to Molecules.- 15 Vector Correlations in Dissociative Photoionization of Simple Molecules Induced by Polarized Light.- 16 Relaxation Dynamics of Core Excited Molecules Probed by Auger-Electron-Ion Coincidences.- 17 Laser-Induced Fragmentation of Triatomic Hydrogen.- 18 Nonsequential Multiple Ionization in Strong Laser Fields.- 19 Helium Double Ionization in Collisions with Electrons.- 20 Fast p-He Transfer Ionization Processes: A Window to Reveal the Non-s2 Contributions in the Momentum Wave Function of Ground-State He.- 21 Single and Multiple Ionization in Strong Ion-Induced Fields.- 22 Coulomb-Explosion Imaging Studies of Molecular Relaxation and Rearrangement.- 23 Charged-Particle-Induced Molecular Fragmentation at Large Velocities.- 24 Electron-Interaction Effects in Ion-Induced Rearrangement and Ionization Dynamics: A Theoretical Perspective.- 25 Ionization Dynamics in Atomic Collisions.- 26 Fragment-Imaging Studies of Dissociative Recombination.