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The basic theoretical methods applicable to the description of electron excitation, ionisation and capture in atomic collisions have been discussed in detail in the lectures of Barat, Briggs, Merzbacher and Taulbjerg at the Maratea A.S.I, in 19821. Here only a brief summary of these fundamental ideas will be presented to allow emphasis to be laid on more recent developments in this field. Particular attention will be paid to the production of coherent, aligned or oriented states of projectile or target atoms as a result of the collision. It will emerge that the choice of coordinate frame and of quantisation axis has a strong effect upon the interpretation of the dynamics of the production of such states.
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Briggs, J.S. (1985). Theory of Heavy-Particle Collisions. In: Kleinpoppen, H., Briggs, J.S., Lutz, H.O. (eds) Fundamental Processes in Atomic Collision Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 134. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2125-5_6
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