Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Plasma and atomic physics; 2. The propagation of light; 3. Scattering; 4. Radiation emission in plasmas; 5. Radiation emission involving free electrons; 6. Opacity; 7. Discrete bound quantum states: hydrogen and hydrogen-like ions; 8. Discrete bound states: many-electron atoms and ions; 9. Discrete bound states: molecules; 10. Radiative transitions between discrete quantum states; 11. Collisions; 12. Collisional-radiative models; 13. High density plasmas; Appendix. Vectors, Maxwell's equations, the harmonic oscillator and a sum rule; References; Index.

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The physics of emission, absorption and interaction of light in astrophysics and in laboratory plasmas is developed from first principles.

About the Author

G. J. Tallents is Professor in Physics at the York Plasma Institute at the University of York. His current research centres on the effects of high plasma density on spectroscopy and the interaction of extreme ultra-violet lasers with solid targets.