Diagnostics of Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas Using Spectral Lineshapes of One-, Two-, and Three-Electron Systems

The book presents an advanced tool for experimentalists using spectral lineshapes for diagnostics of laboratory or astrophysical plasmas, and for theorists helping the experimentalists in interpreting the experimental line profiles. It significantly expands the scope of parameters of plasmas and/or fields in it that can be measured. For some parameters, the book presents new, more advanced diagnostic methods than the methods covered in the previous books.

Contents:

• Non-Turbulent Plasmas:

  • Electron Density
  • Temperatures
  • Magnetic Field
  • Effective Charge of Ions

• Plasmas Containing Oscillatory Electric Fields:

  • Low-frequency Electrostatic Turbulence
  • Principles of Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Plasmas Containing Quasimonochromatic Electric Fields (QEF)
  • Langmuir Waves
  • Transverse Microwave-, Laser-, and/or Laser-induced Fields

• Appendices:

  • Brief Overview of Stark Broadening Theories
  • Versions of the Conventional Theory of the Stark Broadening of Hydrogen Lines in Non/Weakly-Magnetized Plasmas
  • The Generalized Theory of the Stark Broadening of Hydrogen Lines in Non/Weakly-Magnetized Plasmas
  • The Generalized Theory of the Stark Broadening of Hydrogenlike Lines in Non/Weakly-Magnetized Plasmas
  • Stark Broadening of Hydrogen Lines under Strong Magnetic Fields in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
  • Stark Broadening by Low-frequency Electrostatic Turbulence
  • Langmuir-Waves-Caused Dips in Hydrogenic Spectral Lines in Non/Weakly-Magnetized Plasmas
  • Effects of Langmuir Waves on Hydrogenic Spectral Lines under Strong Magnetic Fields
  • Stark Broadening of Hydrogen Lines at Super-High Densities: Effects of Plasma Turbulence at the Thermal Level
  • Satellites of Dipole-Forbidden Spectral Lines of Helium, Lithium and of the Corresponding Ions, Caused by Quasimonochromatic Electric Fields in Plasmas
  • Floquet–Liouville Formalism
  • Satellites of Hydrogenic Spectral Lines
  • Advanced Methods of Using Laser-induced Fluorescence for Mapping the Distribution of Quasimonochromatic Electric Fields (Microwaves, Langmuir Waves, Bernstein Modes, Infra-red Laser Fields) in Plasmas: The Theoretical Basis

Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in spectroscopic diagnostics of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
Key Features:

• Practically its entire focus is on presenting solutions for the inverse problem in spectral lineshapes from plasmas
• This monograph significantly expands the scope of parameters of plasmas and/or fields in it that can be measured (such as, e.g., effective charge of ions, parameters of low-frequency electrostatic turbulence in magnetized plasmas, parameters of Langmuir turbulence in magnetized plasmas, parameters of transverse laser-induced electromagnetic fields in plasmas)
• For some parameters, this monograph presents new, more advanced diagnostic methods than the methods covered in the previous books