Atomic and Ionic Collisions with Formation of Quasimolecules

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit manuscripts for a Special issue of Atoms on “Atomic and Ionic Collisions: Laboratory and Astrophysical Relevance”. Many fields in physics and astronomy, depend on data for ionic, atomic and molecular collision processes. Nowadays, in the field of astrophysics modeling of these data is especially important and needed for simulations/calculations. Additionally, these processes are important for diagnostics, analysis and modeling of fusion plasma, laser produced plasma, lasers design and development and various plasmas in industry and technology. Among these amounts of data collection, there are collisional and radiative processes that even today are poorly represented. Therefore, there is an urgent need to collect these data, as well as to develop methods for improving the existing ones.

We would like to invite you to submit articles addressing collisional and radiative processes, so that these results will be used by other scientists and that the compilation of such data will be useful to data producers as well. This Special Issue aims to encourage further dialogue and knowledge transfer. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• atomic data
• molecular data
• stellar spectra
• laboratory plasma
• fusion plasma
• stars
• atomic and molecular databases
• Rydberg atoms
• collisional atomic processes

References:

Srećković, V. A., Ignjatović, L. M., Jevremović, D., Vujčić, V., & Dimitrijević, M. S. (2017). Radiative and Collisional Molecular Data and Virtual Laboratory Astrophysics. Atoms, 5(3), 31.

Barklem, P.S. Non-LTE Balmer line formation in late-type spectra: Effects of atomic processes involving hydrogen atoms. Astron. Astrophys. 2007, 466, 327–337.

Mashonkina, L. Atomic data necessary for the non-LTE analysis of stellar spectra. Phys. Scr. 2009, T134, 014004.

Gnedin, Y.N.; Mihajlov, A.A.; Ignjatović, L.M.; Sakan, N.M.; Srećković, V.A.; Zakharov, M.Y.; Bezuglov, N.N.; Klycharev, A.N. Rydberg atoms in astrophysics. New Astr. Rev. 2009, 53, 259–265.

Dubernet, Marie-Lise, et al. "The virtual atomic and molecular data centre (VAMDC) consortium." Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 49.7 (2016): 074003.

Dr. Vladimir A. Sreckovic
Dr. Milan S. Dimitrijević
Dr. Nikolai N. Bezuglov
Guest Editors

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