Atomic Spectra and Radiative Transitions

This is the second edition of a now standard comprehensive text on the theory of atomic spectroscopy. Extensive tables of parameters necessary to understand spectra in plasma diagnostics, astrophysics, and laser physics are provided, making this textbook invaluable also as a reference work.

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Atomic Spectra and Radiative Transitions covers the systematics of atomic spectra, continuous spectrum radiation, and the excitation of atoms. This second edition has additional chapters on relativistic corrections in the spectra of highly charged ions, which rounds off the previous treatment. Extensive tables of oscillator strengths (both dipole and quadrupole), probabilities and cross sections of radiative transitions complete this textbook, making it invaluable also as a reference work.

Contenu
I Elementary Information on Atomic Spectra.- 1 The Hydrogen Spectrum.- 2 Systematics of the Spectra of Multielectron Atoms.- 3 Spectra of Multielectron Atoms.- II Theory of Atomic Spectra.- 4 Angular Momenta.- 5 Systematics of the States of Multielectron Atoms.- 6 Hyperfine Structure of Spectral Lines.- 7 The Atom in an External Electric Field.- 8 The Atom in an External Magnetic Field.- 9 Radiative Transitions.- 10 Relativistic Corrections in the Spectroscopy of Multicharged Ions.- 11 Spectra of Multicharged Ions.- References.- List of Symbols.