Cover -- Contents -- Contents -- Nonrelativistic collisions -- Introduction -- Classification of collisions -- Units -- Quantum formulation -- Classical description of the nuclear motion -- Semiclassical description -- Single-electron approximation -- Classical-trajectory Monte Carlo calculations (CTMC) -- Low-cncrgy collisions: Basis expansions -- Coupled-channel description: General outline -- Electron translation factors -- Molecular orbital model: The Born- Oppenheimer expansion -- Molecular orbitals: Correlation diagrams and couplings -- Molecular orbital (MO) x-rays -- Two levels: Landau-Zener approximation -- Two levels: Stiickelberg oscillations -- Molecular orbitals: Dynamical calculations -- Two-center atomic expansions -- Mathematical appendix: Single-center basis functions -- High-energy collisions: Perturbation theory for direct reactions -- The Born expansion -- The Magnus expansion -- The distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA) -- Excitation and ionization: Partial-wave expansion -- Ionization: The CDW-EIS approximation -- High-energy collisions: Charge transfer -- The Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers approximation -- The Jackson-Schiff and the Strong-Potential Born approximations -- Coulomb boundary conditions and gauge transformations -- The boundary-corrected first Born (BIB) approximation -- The continuum-distorted wave (CDW) approximation -- The eikonal approximation -- Coupled-channel calculations for transfer at high energies -- The Thomas double-scattering mechanism -- Relativistic collisions -- Relativistic kinematics and fields of moving charges -- The Lorentz transformation -- Transformation between a moving frame and the laboratory frame -- Transformation of differential cross sections -- Relativistic motion of interacting point charges -- Lienard-Wiechert potentials -- The equivalent-photon method.

Relativistic electron motion -- The Dirac equation for a central potential -- Bound states in a Coulomb potential -- Coulomb-Dirac continuum wavefunctions -- Relativistic ion-atom collisions: General theory -- Dirac equation for moving Coulomb potentials -- Perturbative transition amplitudes -- Two-center coupled-channel methods -- Asymptotic solutions -- Basis states satisfying Coulomb boundary conditions -- Numerical solutions on a lattice in position space -- Numerical solutions on a lattice in momentum space -- Direct reactions: Excitation and ionization -- First-order perturbation theory -- Long-range couplings in perturbation theory -- Two-center coupled-channel methods -- Calculations on a lattice -- Relativistic electron transfer -- The cross section in first order -- The relativistic eikonal approximation -- Two-center coupled-channel methods -- Theoretical and experimental cross sections -- Frame- and basis-set dependence -- Radiative electron capture (REC) -- The impulse approximation -- Some basics: Born approximation for K-shell photoionization and REC -- The Stobbe formula for K-shell photoionization and REC -- Exact relativistic calculations -- REC cross sections from exact calculations -- Alignment and photon polarization in REC -- Electron capture with pair production -- Electron-positron pair production -- Production of free electron-positron pairs -- Bound-free pair production -- Multiple pair production -- Selected topics -- Selected Topics I: Hyperspherical coordinates -- Hyperspherical coordinates for two-electron systems -- Adiabatic approximation -- The hyperspherical close-coupling method and applications -- Selected Topics II: Hollow atoms in micro-capillaries -- Formation of hollow atoms -- The classical over-barrier model -- Passage through micro-capillaries in metals -- Capillary guiding in polymer foils.

Selected topics III: Resonant coherent excitation -- Axes and planes in a crystal -- The excitation process during the passage -- Detection of the excitation -- Impact-parameter dependence -- Selected topics IV: Atomic physics with antiprotons -- Collisions of antiprotons with hydrogen atoms -- Antiprotonic helium -- A Fundamental constants and units -- Bibliography -- Index.