Contents -- 1 Introductory Remarks, Notations, and Units -- 1.1 The scope of this book -- 1.2 The basic plasma parameters -- 1.3 Statistics, temperature, velocity, and energy distributions -- 1.4 Variations in space and time -- 1.5 Units -- 2 Modeling of the Atomic Potential in Hot Plasmas -- 2.1 General properties of the models -- 2.2 The Debye-Hückel theory -- 2.3 The plasma coupling constant -- 2.4 The Thomas-Fermi statistical model -- 2.5 Ion sphere models -- 2.6 Ion correlation models -- 2.7 Statistical theories -- 3 Atomic Properties in Hot Plasmas -- 3.1 A few introductory remarks -- 3.2 Atomic level shifts and continuum lowering -- 3.3 Continuum lowering in weakly coupled plasmas -- 3.4 The partition function -- 3.5 Line shift in plasmas -- 4 Atomic Processes in Hot Plasmas -- 4.1 Classification of the atomic processes -- 4.2 Definitions and general behavior -- 4.3 The detailed balance principle -- 4.4 Atomic energy levels -- 4.5 Atomic transition probabilities -- 4.6 Electron impact excitation and deexcitation -- 4.7 Electron impact ionization and three-body recombination -- 4.8 Photoionization and radiative recombination -- 4.9 Autoionization and dielectronic recombination -- 5 Population Distributions -- 5.1 General description -- 5.2 Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- 5.3 Corona Equilibrium -- 5.4 The Collisional Radiative Steady State -- 5.5 Low density plasmas -- 5.6 The average atom model -- 5.7 Validity conditions for LTE and CE -- 5.8 A remark on the dependence of the sensitivity of the CRSS calculations on the accuracy of the rate coefficients -- 5.9 Time-dependent models -- 6 The Emission Spectrum -- 6.1 The continuous spectrum -- 6.2 The line spectrum-isolated lines -- 6.3 Satellites -- 6.4 Unresolved Transition Arrays (UTAs) -- 6.5 Super transition arrays (STAs) -- 7 Line Broadening -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 What is line broadening? -- 7.3 Natural line broadening -- 7.4 Doppler broadening -- 7.5 Electron impact broadening -- 7.6 Quasi-static Stark broadening -- 7.7 Line broadening: Lyman series -- 8 Experimental Considerations: Plasma Diagnostics -- 8.1 Measurements of the continuous spectrum -- 8.2 Measurements of the line spectrum -- 8.3 Space-resolved plasma diagnostics -- 8.4 Time-resolved spectra -- 8.5 The line width -- 9 The Absorption Spectrum and Radiation Transport -- 9.1 Basic definitions of the radiation field -- 9.2 The radiation field in thermodynamic equilibrium: the black body radiation -- 9.3 Absorption of photons by a material medium -- 9.4 The continuous photoabsorption cross section -- 9.5 The line photoabsorption cross section -- 9.6 The basic radiation transport equation -- 9.7 Radiation transport in plasmas: examples -- 9.8 Diffusion approximation, radiative heat conduction, and Rosseland mean free path -- 10 Applications -- 10.1 X-ray lasers -- 10.2 Applications of high intensity X-ray sources -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.