Giant Resonances in Atoms, Molecules, and Solids

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Atomic Theory and Experiments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Controlled Collapse and the Profiles of ‘Giant Resonances’

      • J. P. Connerade

      Pages 3-23

   3. Mayer-Fermi Theory and the Long Sequences in the Periodic Table

      • D. C. Griffin, Robert D. Cowan, M. S. Pindzola

      Pages 25-47

   4. Relativistic Correlations in Atoms

      • K. Dietz

      Pages 49-70

   5. Atomic Many Body Theory of Giant Resonances

      • Hugh P. Kelly, Zikri Altun

      Pages 71-89

   6. Giant Resonances in Atoms and in Fluorine Cage Molecules

      • M. W. D. Mansfield

      Pages 91-114

   7. Giant Resonances in the 4d Subshell Photoabsorption Spectra of Ba, Ba+, and Ba++

      • K. Nuroh, E. Zaremba, M. J. Stott

      Pages 115-135

   8. Giant Resonances in the Transition Regions of the Periodic Table

      • Charles W. Clark, Thomas B. Lucatorto

      Pages 137-151

   9. Giant Resonances in Heavy Elements: Open-Shell Effects, Multiplet Structure and Spin - Orbit Interaction

      • Françoise Combet Farnoux

      Pages 153-170

   10. Giant Resonances as a Probe of Collective Excitations in Atoms and Solids

       • Göran Wendin

       Pages 171-211

   11. The State-Specific Theory of Atomic Structure and Aspects of the Dynamics of Photoabsorption

       • Cleanthes A. Nicolaides

       Pages 213-223

   12. Influence of Centrifugal Barrier Effects on the Autoionising Resonances

       • M. A. Baig, K. Sommer, J. P. Connerade, J. Hormes

       Pages 225-236

   13. Giant Resonance Phenomena in the Electron Impact Ionization of Heavy Atoms and Ions

       • Stephen M. Younger

       Pages 237-241

   14. The g-Thomas-Fermi Method

       • Th. Millack, G. Weymans

       Pages 243-246

   15. The Giant Resonances in the 3d Transition Elements: Single and Double Photoionization in the Region of the 3p Excitation

       • M. Schmidt, P. Zimmermann

       Pages 247-249

   16. Decay Channels of Core Excitation Resonances in Atomic Lanthanides and 3d Transition Metals

       • M. Meyer, Th. Prescher, E. v. Raven, M. Richter, E. Schmidt, B. Sonntag et al.

       Pages 251-255

3. Molecules - Theory and Experiments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257

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   2. Inner Shell Resonances in Molecular Photoionization

      • Irène Nenner

      Pages 259-280

   3. Resonances in the K-Shell Spectra of Fluorinated Organic Molecules

      • A. P. Hitchcock, P. Fischer, R. McLaren

      Pages 281-289

Often, a new area of science grows at the confines between recognised subject divisions, drawing upon techniques and intellectual perspectives from a diversity of fields. Such growth can remain unnoticed at first, until a characteristic fami ly of effects, described by appropriate key words, has developed, at which point a distinct subject is born. Such is very much the case with atomic 'giant resonances'. For a start, their name itself was borrowed from the field of nuclear collective resonances. The energy range in which they occur, at the juncture of the extreme UV and the soft X-rays, remains to this day a meeting point of two different experimental techniques: the grating and the crystal spectrometer. The impetus of synchrotron spectroscopy also played a large part in developing novel methods, described by many acronyms, which are used to study 'giant resonances' today. Finally, although we have described them as 'atomic' to differentiate them from their counterparts in Nuclear Physics, their occurrence on atomic sites does not inhibit their existence in molecules and solids. In fact, 'giant resonances' provide a new unifying theme, cutting accross some of the traditional scientific boundaries. After much separate development, the spectroscopies of the atom in various environments can meet afresh around this theme of common interest. Centrifugal barrier effects and 'giant resonances' proper emerged almost simultaneously in the late 1960's from two widely separated areas of physics, namely the study of free atoms and of condensed matter.

• X-ray
• condensed matter
• crystal
• cutting
• development
• energy
• environment
• growth
• molecule
• nuclear physics
• physics
• resonance
• science
• solid
• spectroscopy

• Imperial College, London, England

  J. P. Connerade

• University of Paris, Orsay, France

  J. M. Esteva, R. C. Karnatak

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