Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. The Theory of Collisions Between Charged Particles and Highly Excited Atoms; I. Introduction; II. The Classical Hydrogen Atom; III. Optical Properties and the Correspondence Principle; IV. Correspondence Principles Applied to Excitation; V. Classical Collisions; VI. Quantum Mechanics Applied to Excitation; VII. Collisions of Charged Particles and Hydrogenics; References; Chapter 2. Electron Impact Excitation of Positive Ions; I. Introduction; II. Experimental Methods; III. Theory; IV. Results; References

Note Added in ProofChapter 3. The R-Matrix Theory of Atomic Processes; I. Introduction; II. Potential Scattering; III. Scattering of Electrons by Complex Atoms; IV. Discussion of Related Theories; V. Photoionization and Electron Impact Ionization; VI. Polarizabilities and Nonlinear Optical Coefficients; VII. Results; VIII. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Role of Energy in Reactive Molecular Scattering: An Information-Theoretic Approach; I. Introduction; II. Specificity of Energy Disposal and Selectivity of Energy Requirements; III. Reactive Collisions at Fixed Total Energy

IV. Reaction Probability MatricesV. Energy Dependence of Probability Matrices; VI. Information Content of a Distribution; VII. Entropy of a Product State Distribution; VIII. The Prior Distribution and the Surprisal; IX. Vibrational Surprisal Plots; X. Rotational Surprisals; XI. Triangular Plot Representations of Product State Distributions; XII. Translational Surprisals; XIII. Inelastic Surprisals; XIV. Selectivity of Energy Consumption; XV. Entropy Deficiency of a State Population Distribution; XVI. Application of the Principle of the Most Probable Distribution

XVII. High versus Low Resolution: Mixing Entropy and Mutual EntropyXVIII. Branching Ratios; XIX. Dynamical Models; XX. Dependence of Reaction Cross Sections on Total Energy; XXI. Practical Applications; Appendix 1: State-to-State Cross Sections; Appendix 2: The ?-Matrix; Appendix 3: Statistical Theories; References; Chapter 5. Inner Shell Ionization by Incident Nuclei; I. Introduction; II. Theoretical Treatments of the Coulomb Ionization Process; III. Selected Results from the SCA Model; IV. Multiple Coulomb Ionizations; V. Selected Background Effects

VI. Tentative Future Aspects and ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 6. Stark Broadening; I. Introduction; II. Effects of Electron Collisions; III. Effects of Ion Collisions; IV. Many-Body Effects; V. Outlook; References; Chapter 7. Chemiluminescence in Gases; I. Introduction; II. Chemiluminescence in Combination Processes; III. Chemiluminescence in Atom Transfer Processes; IV. Chemiluminescence in Complex Chemical Systems; References; Author Index; Subject Index