Atomic and molecular collision processes: Progress report for the period July 1, 1986 through November 30, 1987

The past year's progress in a long-term program of code development and high precision calculations for electron collisions with atoms, atomic ions, and molecules is summarized. In electron-ion collisions, we are primarily concerned with the fundamental physics of the process that controls excitation in high temperature plasmas. In the molecular work, we pursue accurate calculations of ro-vibrational excitation of polyatomic molecules, with relevance, for example, to the modeling of gas-phase laser systems. 30 refs