Collision Theory for Atoms and Molecules, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989 NATO Science Series B: Series, Vol. 196

The NATO-Advanced Study Institute on "Collision Theory for Atoms and Molecules" was made possible by the main sponsorship and the generous financial support of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division in Brussels. Belgium. Special thanks are therefore due to the late Dr. Mario Di Lullo and to Dr. Craig Sinclair. of this Division. who repeatedly advised us and kept us aware of administrative requirements. The Institute was also assisted by the financial aid from the Scientific Committees for Chemistry and Physics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The search and selection of a suitable location. one which participants would easily reach from any of Italy's main airports, was ably aided by the Personnel of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and made possible by its Directorship. Our thanks therefore go to its present director. Prof. L. Radicati. and to its past director. Prof. E. Vesentini who first agreed to our use of their main building in Pisa and of their palatial facilities at the "Palazzone" in Cortona.

Scattering Processes with Photons and Electrons as Projectiles.- Electron and photon collisions with molecules.- Electron and photon collisions with atoms.- Free-free transitions of electron-atom systems in intense radiation fields.- Correlation experiments with secondary electrons.- Experiments with polarised electrons.- Low-energy electron-molecule collision experiments.- Dynamics of molecular photodissociation.- Non-Adiabatic Scattering Processes.- Non-adiabatic atom-atom collisions.- Non-adiabatic molecular collisions.- Recent progress in high resolution proton-molecule charge-transfer scattering studies.- Molecular beam studies of ionization process in collisions of excited rare gas atoms.- Adiabatic Processes in Molecular Scattering.- Inelastic molecular collisions at thermal energies.- Chaos and collisions.- Photo.- Contributors.- Participants.