Preface -- Cluster Observations of the Cusp: Magnetic Structure and Dynamics -- Magion-4 High-Altitude Cusp Study -- High-Altitude Cusp: The Extremely Dynamic Region in Geospace -- Magnetosheath Interaction with the high Latitude Magnetopause -- Cluster Observes the High-Altitude Cusp Region -- Low-Frequency Plasma Waves in the Outer Polar Cusp: A Review of Observations from Prognoz 8, Interbal…
Origins and Education -- Institute for Advanced Study, 1948–1949, Theory -- Berkeley, 1949–1950, Accelerators -- Properties of Pi Mesons -- Strange Particles and Bubble Chambers -- Neutrinos I -- CP Violation -- Neutrinos, II -- Experiments with the LEP e+e? Collider.Embedded in an autobiographic framework, this book retraces vividly and in some depth the golden years of particle physics as…
General -- Crystalline Silicates -- Water in Space: The Water World of ISO -- Molecular Hydrogen -- Understanding Galaxy Formation with ISO Deep Surveys -- Solar System -- The Planets and Titan Observed by ISO -- Comets, Asteroids and Zodiacal Light as Seen by Iso -- Stars and Circumstellar Matter -- ISO Observations of Pre-Stellar Cores and Young Stellar Objects -- Pre-Main Sequence Stars Seen…
Theory -- Foundations of Molecular Electronics – Charge Transport in Molecular Conduction Junctions -- AC-Driven Transport Through Molecular Wires -- Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanomolecular Systems -- Ab-initio Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Formalism for Calculating Electron Transport in Molecular Devices -- Tight-Binding DFT for Molecular Electronics (gDFTB) -- Current-Induc…
Our Galaxy, Host of the Interstellar Medium -- Radiations and Magnetic Fields -- Radiative Transfer and Excitation -- The Neutral Interstellar Gas -- The Ionized Interstellar Gas -- The Interstellar Medium at High Energies -- Interstellar Dust -- Heating and Cooling of the Interstellar Gas -- Interstellar Chemistry -- Photodissociation Regions -- Shocks -- Shock Applications -- Interstellar Tur…
to Particle-Beam Formation -- Methods of Fields Calculation -- Fundamentals of Charged-Particle Motion -- Motion of Intense Charged-Particle Beams -- Electron Guns -- Electron and Ion Sources with Field and Plasma Emitters -- Magnetic Focusing Systems -- Electrostatic Focusing Systems -- Optical Systems of Technological Installations -- Intense Relativistic Charged-Particle Beams -- Multiple-Be…
In-situ Measurements -- Characterization of Pigments Used in Ancient Egypt -- Importance of in-situ EDXRF Measurements in the Preservation and Conservation of Material Culture -- Scientific Field Research in Egypt -- Use of Ion Beam -- Ion Beam Techniques for the Non-destructive Analysis of Archaelogical Materials -- The Origin of Ancient Gemstones Unveiled by PIXE, PIGE and ?-Raman Spectrometr…
Erwin Bodenstedt — In Memoriam -- Theory Hyperfine Interactions -- Magnetism and Magnetic Materials — Bulk and Thin Layers -- HFI Probes in Semiconductors, Metals and Insulators -- PAC Probes as Diffusion Tracers in Solids -- Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation of Single Crystal Sr14Cu24O41 -- Metal Atom Dynamics and Spin-Lattice Relaxation in Multilayer Sandwich Compounds -- Comparison of the …
Lectures -- Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy -- Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale -- Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers -- Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics -- Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics, Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions -- Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices -- Lasers for Frontier Spe…
A unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets? -- On the relationship between the jets from X-ray binaries and AGN -- A transition in the accretion properties of AGN -- Jet-disc coupling in the accreting black hole XTE J1118+480 -- Are 3C 120 and other active galactic nuclei overweight microquasars? -- A fundamental plane of black hole activity: Pushing forward the unification scheme -- Magn…