Research Catalog

Title

Electron momentum spectroscopy / Erich Weigold and Ian E. McCarthy.

Author

Weigold, Erich.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.

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Additional Authors

McCarthy, I. E. (Ian Ellery), 1930-2005.

Description

x, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Physics of atoms and molecules

Uniform Title

Physics of atoms and molecules.

Subject

• Electron spectroscopy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction to Electron Momentum Spectroscopy. 1.1. Electron Impact Ionization. 1.2. Units. 1.3. EMS Kinematics. 1.4. The Relation between Coordinate and Momentum Space: The Hydrogen Atom and the Free Particle. 1.5. The Ionization Cross Section. 1.6. Semiclassical Picture of EMS. 1.7. Quantum-Mechanical Description of EMS -- 2. Experimental Techniques. 2.1. Electron Sources. 2.2. Detection of Electrons. 2.3. Electron Momentum Analyzers. 2.4. Target Preparation. 2.5. Coincidence Techniques. 2.6. Multiparameter Data Acquisition and Reduction -- 3. Theory of Electron Momentum Spectroscopy. 3.1. The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation. 3.2. The Binary-Encounter Approximation. 3.3. The Impulse Approximation. 3.4. The Distorted-Wave Impulse Approximation. 3.5. The Structure Amplitude -- 4. Outline of Structure Theory. 4.1. Symmetry of a Molecular Orbital. 4.2. The Hartree-Fock Method. 4.3. Self-Consistent-Field Orbitals. 4.4. Density-Functional Theory.
• 4.5. Electron Band Theory of a Crystal. 4.6. The Quasiparticle Equation. 4.7. The Weak-Coupling Approximation -- 5. Atoms. 5.1. Orbital Mapping. 5.2. Relativistic Effects. 5.3. Excited and Oriented Target States. 5.4. Initial- and Final-State Correlations -- 6. Molecules. 6.1. Momentum-Space Chemistry. 6.2. Molecular Examples. 6.3. Outer Valence Region. 6.4. Inner Valence Region. 6.5. Core States. 6.6. Summary -- 7. Solids. 7.1. The Flinders Experiments. 7.2. Polycrystalline Aluminum. 7.3. Aluminum Oxide. 7.4. Crystalline Graphite. 7.5. Silicon. 7.6. Allotropes of Carbon. 7.7. Copper -- 8. Comparison with Other Spectroscopies. 8.1. Summary of EMS. 8.2. Partially-Integrated Momentum Densities. 8.3. Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

ISBN

0306461579

LCCN

99047695

OCLC

ocm42397977

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries