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... 16 leptonic, 57-58 many-electron, 14- 16 muonic and hadronic, 58 out-of-round, 79 planetary, 14 16 QED effects in, 68-69 Rydberg, see Rydberg atom in solids, 134 in strong fields, 66-67 traps, 160
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From page 178...
... ,119-120 Coherent optical transients, 117 Coherent Raman spectroscopy, 119- 120 Collective atomic states, 67-68 Collective coordinates, 68 Collinear quantum calculations, 105 Collision(s) , 70 charge-transfer, 128 electron-molecule, 98-99 half-collisions, 22, 23, 106 in laser light, 17-18, 23 molecular, physics of, 18, 22-23 radiative, 102-103 with Rydberg atoms, 74 state-to-state, 100 theory, quantitative, 18 ultraslow, 16-17, 74-75 Combustion, 2 Committee on Atomic and Molecular Science (CAMS)
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From page 179...
... cloud, 19 continuum, structure of, 70-73 dynamics, correlated, 15- 16 excited, 16 magnetic moment of, 11, 13, 55, 56 motion of, in molecule, 19 photodetachment of, 17 promotion model, 16 scattering, 77-78 systems, correlated, 14 transfer, 81-82 two loosely bound, 64 Electron-molecule collisions, 98-99 Electron-muon atom, see Muonium Electron-positron atom, see Positronium Electron-scattering spectroscopy, 21 Electronic states bound, 16 continuum, 16, 70 structure, 88-92 Electronic-structure theory, 92 Electroweak theory, 11 - 12, 54 Excimer lasers, 4, 113-114 Excimers, 113 Excited electron, 16 Excited-state photoionization dynamics, 22 F Fe mto second optics, 124- 125 pulses, 26 spectroscopy, 124- 125 Fiber-optics communications, 162- 163 systems, 31 Fine-structure constant, 55, 131 Fluorocarbons, 146 Free-electron laser, 24, 111, 161 Fundamental tests, 10- 14 Fusion research, 2, 155, 157- 159 G Gauge theories, 54 Gravitational red shift, 61 Gravitational waves, 123 Gravity, time and, 10- 12 H Hadronic atoms, 58 Half-collisions, 22, 23, 106 Hamiltonian, many-body relativistic, 63 High-precision techniques, 10- 14 Hydrogen Lamb shift of, see Lamb shift
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... Facility, 148 J Jitter, laser, 21 K K meson decay, 13 L Laboratory astrophysics, 127- 128 Lamb shift, 11-13, 55, 57, 62, 69 Laser, 1, 85, 110-114 applications of, 2 carbon dioxide, 161 collisions in, 17-18, 23 communication, 160 cooling, 117, 153 cutting, 164 Doppler velocimetry, 133- 134 drilling, 164 dye, 111 economic return from, 33 excimer, 24, 113-114 free-electron, 24, 111, 161 jitter, 21 magnetic resonance, 108 metrology, 52 molecular physics and, 19 neodymium-glass, 24, 111 new, 26 rare-gas halide, 113- 114 remote sensing using, 31-32 semiconductor diode, 24, 111, 163 short-wavelength, 25-26 solar-pumped, 107 spectroscopy, 13, 88-94, 114- 120 stabilization techniques, 12 super-stable tunable, 112 surface science and, 141-142 surgery, 169-170 surveying, 126 tunable dye, 24 VUV, 22, 23 welding, 165 Laser-assisted manufacturing, 33-35, 164165 Laser-driven chemical reactions, 162 Laser-induced fluorescence, 135 Laser-induced surface chemistry, 166 Leptonic atoms, 57-58; see also Muonium; Positronium Light, 1 laser, see Laser in novel statistical states, 28 polarization of, 59 sources new, 24-26 synchrotron, 6 speed of, constancy of, 10, 12 synchrotron, 85 Light-scattering spectroscopy, 27, 132134 Local-mode structure, 94 Lyman-alpha radiation, 79 M Magnetic confinement, 157- 158 fields atoms in, 66-67 hydrogen in, 63
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... , 37, 38, 40-43, 51-52 National security, 159- 162 National Standard Reference Data System, 169 NBS (National Bureau of Standards) ' 37, 40-43 Near-threshold ionization, 74 Neodymium-glass lasers, 24, 111 Neutral-current parity violations in atomic physics, 59-60 Neutrino flux, solar, 28 Neutron electric dipole moment of, 12-13, 59 rotation method, 60 Nonlinear optics, 24, 26, 110 Normal-mode frequencies, 93 NSF (National Science Foundation)
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... femtosecond. 26 Q QED, see Quantum, electrodynamics Quantitative collision theory, 18
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From page 183...
... 42 Research group, AMO, 45-46 Research Initiatives, Program of, see Program of Research Initiatives Research Instrumentation Program, 46 Resonance states, 72 Resonances, 19 Resonant multiphoton ionization, 97-98 Resonant photoionization, 116 Retardation effects, 63 Rydberg atom, 16, 64-65, 123- 124, 128129 collisions with, 75 Rydberg molecule, 89-91 S Saturation spectroscopy, 21, 116 Scattering positron and electron, 77-78 experiment, complete, 17, 77 Security, national, 159- 162 Semiconductor diode lasers, 24, 111, 163 Shape resonances, 19 in molecular fields, 96-97 Short-wavelength laser, 25-26 Sigma state, 79 Slow recoil-ion production, 82-83 Soft x rays, 25 Solar neutrino flux, 28 Solar-pumped lasers, 107 Space isotropy of, 10, 61 physics, 131 - 132 time and, 61-62 Space Shuttle glow, 146 Spectroscopy, 114 advanced, 24, 26-28 atomic, 65, 147- 149 Auger electron, 143 of chemical reactions, 102 Doppler-free, 26, 27, 116 electron-scattering, 21 femtosecond, 124- 125 of highly charged ions, 15 inner-shell, 15 laser, 13, 88-94, 114- 120 light-scattering, 27. 132- 134 molecular, 20-21 multiphoton, 27 nuclear magnetic resonance, 170- 173 optogalvanic, 115 Raman, see Raman spectroscopy with relativistic beams, 73 saturation.
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... . ,Ime gravity and, 10- 12 space and, 61-62 Time-dependent many-electron system, 16 Time-reversal invariance, 10 symmetry, 13, 58-59 Time standard, 52 Transition-state theory, variational, 104105 Trapped-ion methods, 62, 107, 118- 119 spectroscopy, 13- 14 Trimers, 135 Tunable dye laser, 24 Tunable x rays, 83 U Ultranarrow optical transitions, 119, 136 Ultraprecise spectroscopy, 27, 115 Ultrasensitive detection, 27-28 Ultrasensitive spectroscopy, 115- 116 Ultraslow collisions, 16- 17, 74-75 Uranium, hydrogen-like, 11, 13 V Van der Waals molecules, 19, 109 Variational transition-state theory, 104105 Velocimetry, laser Doppler, 133- 134 Vibrational structure of polyatomic molecules, 93-94 VUV lasers, 22, 23 W Wannier-ridge resonances, 72 Welding, laser, 165 X X-ray spectrum, 153 X rays molecular orbital, 81 soft, 25 tunable, 83
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  • shape resonances
  • neutrino flux
  • rydberg atom
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  • electric dipole
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  • magnetic moment
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