EXCITATION IN HEAVY PARTICLE COLLISIONS

New York: Wiley - Interscience, 1972. First Printing . Charcoal Boards. Very Good/Good. 10 1/4 x 7 1/8. A volume in the publisher's SERIES IN ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR COLLISIONAL PROCESSES. The author has studied four decades (to January, 1970) of research results about excitation induced by collisions between atoms and ions, and found that "(t)here is little unanimity in the data published by the separate research groups, even when they employ nominally the same experimental techniques... (Thus) the purpose of this monograph is to compile the available data and to attempt some reconciliation of the diverse results." The chapter headings are: Introduction; Relationship Between Cross Section and Experimental Parameters; Determination of Experimental Parameters; Summary and Critique of the Experimental Data; Experiments Involving Atomic Hydrogen Targets: Target Excitation and Charge Transfer Excitation of Projectiles; Excitation of a Helium Target; Excitation of Heavy Monoatomic Gases; Excitation of Molecular Targets; Formation of Excited Atomic Hydrogen Projectiles; and Excitation of Helium and Other Heavy Projectiles.Ten chapters, about 41 sub-chapters, 436 pages, with tables, figures, Bibliography, 2 Appendixes, Author Index, and Subject Index; plus Series Preface, Preface and Contents. DJ is chipped, scraped, and shows color loss; boards are clean and sound; erasure evident on rfEP; text is strong and clean except for two 1" long line-thin discolorations on leading edge.