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Studying the interactions between heavy hydrogen isotopes and hydride forming metals or intermetallic compounds (IMC) is of importance for both fundamental and applied sciences.

Time-Resolved Light-Scattering from Excitons investigates exciton states in semiconductors and their relaxation processes by time-resolved light-scattering. The reader will gain both a clear understanding of the theoretical aspects of this method and profound knowledge of the experimental state-of-the-art.

This completely revised and enlarged English edition of theoriginal Russianbook deals with the identification andseparation of charged particles in high energy physicsexperiments. Proportional drift and streamer chambers aswell as ionization measurements with cloud, spark, andionization chambers are discussed.

Surface Scattering Experiments with Conduction Electronsshows how this process can be used to investigate surfaceprocesses of thin metal films. Also discussed is how thedc-resistivity measurement permits the study of surfaceprocesses such as adsorption, desorption, and surfacediffusion up to crystalline growth.

This book deals with the application of grazing angle x-rayand neutron scattering to the study of surface-inducedcritical phenomena.

This monograph discusses collision-induced electron emission from nearly free-electron metals by ion or electron impact. Several electron excitation mechanisms of electrons in the target are considered: excitation of single conduction and core electrons, excitation by plasmon decay and by Auger processes.

Inelastic scattering of X-rays with very high energyresolution has finally become possible thanks to a newgeneration of high-intensity X-ray sources.

Photoproduction of pions from complex nuclei has become an investigative tool for (1) the detailed form of the elementary photopion amplitude, (2) the pion-nucleus optical potential, (3) nuclear structure, and (4) off-shell and medium effects on the elementary amplitude in nuclear processes.

The book addresses three major topics in mathematical physics: 1. In addition, the book contains some contributions on questions of general interest in quantum field theory such as nonperturbative solutions of quantum chromodynamics, bifurcation theory applied to chiral symmetry, as well as exactly soluable models.

Measuring the hydrogen content in materials is important both for research and for various applications in material and surface sciences, such as hydrogen embrittlement of steel, controlled thermonuclear reaction first wall studies, and changed material properties caused by dissolved hydrogen.

The recent discovery that the long range Van der Waals force is the cause of the unusually large cross-sections for diffuse He-scattering on individual defects and impurities led the authors to propose a new methods of surface analysis.

The book reviews the properties of surface plasmons that depict electromagnetic surface waves or surface plasma polaritons. In the latter case, the corrugations can cause strong coupling of the surface plasmons with photons leading to resonances with a strong enhancement of the electromagnetic field in the surface.