Progress in Atomic Spectroscopy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. The Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Atoms

   • Daniel Kleppner

   Pages 713-725

3. Optical Spectroscopy of Short-Lived Isotopes

   • H.-Jürgen Kluge

   Pages 727-768

4. Spin and Coherence Transfer in Penning lonization

   • L. D. Schearer, W. F. Parks

   Pages 769-775

5. Multiphoton Spectroscopy

   • Peter Bräunlich

   Pages 777-827

6. Fast-Beam (Beam-Foil) Spectroscopy

   • H. J. Andrä

   Pages 829-953

7. Stark Effect

   • K. J. Kollath, M. C. Standage

   Pages 955-997

8. Stored Ion Spectroscopy

   • Hans A. Schuessler

   Pages 999-1029

9. The Spectroscopy of Atomic Compound States

   • J. F. Williams

   Pages 1031-1073

10. Optical Oscillator Strengths by Electron Impact Spectroscopy

    • W. R. Newell

    Pages 1075-1099

11. Atomic Transition Probabilities and Lifetimes

    • W. L. Wiese

    Pages 1101-1155

12. Lifetime Measurement by Temporal Transients

    • Richard G. Fowler

    Pages 1157-1186

13. Line Shapes

    • W. Behmenburg

    Pages 1187-1226

14. Collisional Depolarization in the Excited State

    • W. E. Baylis

    Pages 1227-1297

15. Energy and Polarization Transfer

    • M. Elbel

    Pages 1299-1356

16. X-Ray Spectroscopy

    • K.-H. Schartner

    Pages 1357-1384

17. Exotic Atoms

    • G. Backenstoss

    Pages 1385-1426

18. Positronium Experiments

    • Stephan Berko, Karl F. Canter, Allen P. Mills Jr.

    Pages 1427-1452

19. Applications of Atomic Physics to Astrophysical Plasmas

    • Carole Jordan

    Pages 1453-1483

20. Wavelength Standards

    • Kenneth M. Baird

    Pages 1485-1500

W. HANLE and H. KLEINPOPPEN In 1919, in the first edition of Atombau and Spektrallinien, Sommerfeld referred to the immense amount of information which had been accumu­ lated during the first period of 60 years of spectroscopic practice. Sommer­ feld emphasized that the names of Planck and Bohr would be connected forever with the efforts that had been made to understand the physics and the theory of spectral lines. Another period of almost 60 years has elapsed since the first edition of Sommerfeld's famous monograph. As the editors of this monograph, Progress in Atomic Spectroscopy, we feel that the present period is best characterized by the large variety of new spec­ troscopic methods that have been invented in the last decades. Spectroscopy has always been involved in the field of research on atomic structure and the interaction of light and atoms. The development of new spectroscopic methods (i.e., new as compared to the traditional optical methods) has led to many outstanding achievements, which, together with the increase of activity over the last decades, appear as a kind of renaissance of atomic spectroscopy.

• development
• spectra
• spectroscopy

• Ist Institute of Physics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

  W. Hanle

• Institute of Atomic Physics, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland

  H. Kleinpoppen

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