In the spring of 1970 Peter Farago organised a three-day conference on Polarised Electron Beams at Carberry Tower, near Edinburgh. Although the development of the gallium arsenide source, which was to revolutionise the world of experimental polarised electron physics, was still some years in the future, the meeting provided an important forum for the exchange of ideas among theoreticians and experimentalists engaged in both high and low energy electron collision studies. As soon as the decision had been taken to hold the 5th European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics in Edinburgh in 1995, it occurred to the editors of the present volume that it would be highly appropriate to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Carberry Tower Conference by organising an ECAMP satellite meeting in honour of Peter Farago. The opportunity to pay tribute to Peter's many important contributions in the broad field of electron physics attracted colleagues from allover the world to the symposium, which was held in the rooms of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 31st March and 1st April 1995. Peter himself, now Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, was present throughout the meeting. We were particularly happy to welcome back to Edinburgh many participants in the original Carberry Tower conference; these included Professor P. G. Burke, Professor J. Kessler, Professor E. Reichert and Professor H. C. Siegmann, whose review papers had been highlights of the 1970 meeting.

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Proceedings of the Peter Farago Symposium on Electron Physics held as a satellite symposium to the Fifth European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, March 31-April 1, 1995, Edinburgh, Scotland

Inhalt
Electron-Atom Collisions.- (e,2e) Coincidence Measurements at Low Energy.- Measurement of Spin Observables in Electron Scattering from Atoms and Nucleons.- The Electric Formfactor of the Neutron Determined by Quasielastic Scattering of Longitudinally Polarized Electrons from 3He and 2D.- Is Single Electron Excitation in Helium Now Fully Understood?.- (e,e?) and (e,2e) Experiments Involving Polarized Electrons.- Electron-Photon Polarisation Correlation Experiment on Electron Impact Excitation of the First 4lPl State of Ca Atoms.- The Stepwise Excitation Electron-Photon Coincidence Technique.- The Photon-Photon Correlation Method.- Analysis of Scattering and Excitation Amplitudes in Polarized-Electron-Atom Collisions for Light One-Electron Atoms.- Electron-Atom Scattering at Intermediate Energies.- Spin Polarization of Auger Electrons: Recent Developments.- Pauli Blocking in Relativistic (e,2e) Collisions.- A Density Matrix Treatment of Atomic Line Radiation.- Electron-Molecule Collisions.- Electron Optic Dichroism.- Scattering of Chiral Electrons by Chiral Molecules.- Chiral Effects in Elastic Electron-Molecule Collisions.- Electron Scattering from Excited Vibrational Levels in C02 and N20.- Gas-Phase Electron Scattering from Free Spatially Oriented Molecules.- Production of Polarized Electrons and Electron Spin Filters.- A Polarized Electron Source Using Gallium Arsenide Strained by Differential Thermal Contraction.- Ultrathin Magnetic Structures and Spin Filter.- Electron-Solid State, Surface and Cluster Interactions.- Interaction of Spin-Polarized Helium 23S-Atoms with Ferromagnetic Surfaces.- Spin Asymmetries in Relativistic (e,2e) Processes and Bremsstrahlung.- Spin Polarized Auger Electrons from Atoms and Non-Magnetic Condensed Matter.- Bremsstrahlung Emission inCollisions of Electrons with Atoms and Clusters.- Ion-Atom and Molecule Collisions.- Ion-Atom Collisions Involving Laser-Prepared Na Atom Targets.- Coherent Excitation of H(n=2) in Few-Electron Collision Systems.- Coherent Excitation of He Atoms by Proton Impact.- Another Type of Complete Experiment: Ion-Impact Induced Molecular Coulomb-Fragmentation.- Photoionization of Atoms, Molecules and Solids.- Photoionization Dynamics Studied by Coincidence Spectroscopy.- A New Approach to the Complete Photoionization Experiment for Strontium and Calcium Atoms.- Photoionization of Atoms Near Inner Shell Thresholds.- Threshold Photodouble Ionisation in Atoms and Molecules.- Photoionization of Polarized Atoms: Applications to Free Atoms and Ferromagnets.- 'Intense-Field Many-Body S-Matrix Theory' and Mechanism of Laser Induced Double Ionization of Helium.- Spectroscopy.- Anisotropics and Lamb Shifts in Hydrogenic Ions: Twenty Years of Progress.- Dynamic Spin-Orbit Effects in Spontaneous El Transitions.- The Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Molecules Probed by Synchrotron Radiation and Electron Impact.- Two-Photon Polarization Fourier Spectroscopy of Metastable Atomic Hydrogen.