Atomic collision processes in dense plasmas

A detailed investigation of various atomic collision processes important to the determination of the structure and evolution of dense plasmas is presented. Volume 1 studies general collisional processes in dense plasmas, while Volume 2 studies specific mechanism by which energy is transferred among the constituents of a dense plasma. Specifically, in chapter I, attention is focused upon ion-ion recombination processes in dense plasmas, which involves the full set of multicomponent BBGKY equations appropriate for a three component gas composed of positive and negative ions, and neutral particles. This yields a set of coupled Boltzmann-type equations to be solved for the full phase space evolution of the plasma, valid for arbitrary neutral gas density. In chapters III, IV of volume 2 the electron-impact excitation of excited hydrogen and helium atoms, respectively, are studied via the multichannel eikonal theory (MET) of Flannery and McCann. The MET is modified to account, asymptotically, for the strong dipole couplings present between the excited station of hydrogen and helium, thereby allowing accurate computation of differential and integral cross sections and the relevant orientation and alignment parameters