Atom and Plasma Spectroscopy
A special issue of Atoms (ISSN 2218-2004). This special issue belongs to the section "Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Spectroscopy and Collisions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 113
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plasma spectroscopy is one of the oldest and most established diagnostic tools in astrophysics and plasma physics. In fact, the oldest spectroscopic methodology, flame spectroscopy, dated back to the seventeenth century and consisted of a spectroscopy of ions in plasma. Nowadays, by analysing the light emitted or absorbed by atoms and ions in plasma, spectroscopy reveals critical information about the plasma's properties, such as temperature, density, and composition. In plasma, numerous atomic excited states can exist simultaneously, making spectroscopic analysis complex. This calls for suitable theoretical solutions. In recent years, great progress has been made in precise ab initio structure calculations due to fast-growing computational powers and the development of new computational codes.
This Special Issue aims to create a space for sharing recent research developments interesting for the plasma research community, both related to astrophysics and artificial plasma (tokamak or laser-made). The scope includes high-quality calculations and measurements of spectral parameters, such as line energy/wavelength, transition probabilities, oscillator strengths, linewidths, and excited-state lifetimes. Papers on the collisional–radiative modelling of ions in plasma are also welcome.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Karol Kozioł
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spectroscopy
- atomic structure
- ab initio calculations
- atomic transition probabilities, oscillator strengths, line widths, state lifetimes
- line identification
- plasma diagnostics
- atomic physics in plasmas
- collisional–radiative modelling
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