Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics Part 13 doc

... problem of un-derstanding the motions of particles in a plasma (and the related flows of energy, momentum, and other physical quantities) is extremely im-portant in many, if not all, areas of plasma ... short period of time a vac-uum can have some nonzero energy in a form of creation and annihilation some particle and its antiparticle, or in the appearance and dis-appearance of some physical ... |Vint|i|2×ρ(Ef−Ei=¯hω0). Here, i and f denote initial and finalstates, Vint and ω0denote the amplitude and fre-quency of the excitation, and Ei,fis the energy of the initial and final states.translation...

... the kinetic energy of particle , nionis the number of electron pairs per unit of path, and I is the average energy of ionization of anatom in the medium.storage rings One way of building ... Intrinsic angular momentum of an ele-mentary particle or nucleus, which is indepen-dent of the motion of the center of mass of theparticle.spin–flip scattering Scattering of a particlewith intrinsic ... twoparts: theconstant energy term made from single particleenergies and the interaction between them and thebindingenergyof activenucleons inthecore.This second part is made fromthekineticenergyof...

... conservation of energy and momentum.density of modes The number of modes of the radiation field in an energy range dE. Thedensity of modes is a function of the boundaryconditions ofthe spaceunder ... represents a degree of freedom of the distribution.(2) The number of independent coordinatesneeded for the description of the microscopicstate of a system is called the number of degrees of freedom. ... likely velocity of the distribution, T is theequilibriumtemperature oftheatoms, andm and M are their atomic and molar masses, respec-tively. k and R are the Boltzmann constant and general gas...

... shift). energy spectrum The set of energy eigen-states of a physical system. The set of possibleoutcomes of a measurement of the energy; alsoknown as the set of allowed energies. energy- time ... closely spaced points and not onthe path between them.exchange energy Part of the energy of asystem of many electrons (or any other type of fermion) that depends on the total spin of thesystem. ... scatteringcross-section as a function of incident energy. The excitation function maps out the strength of the interaction of a scattered particle and thetarget as a function of their relative energy. exciton The...

... ina flow field.kinetic energy A form of energy associatedwith motion. Every moving particle has kinetic energy. The kinetic energy of a non-relativisticparticle with mass m and speed v is equal ... =m1m2m1+m2is the reduced mass for particles of mass m1 and m2, and r = r1− r2are therelative position vectors of particles 1 and 2.Suitable sets of center -of- mass coordinates canbe similarly ... energy levels of this extra electron lie close to the con-duction band of silicon (∼ 0.05 eV below) and can thus be excited to the conduction band and added to the number of charge carriers. Someuses of...