U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Dynamical Excitation by Exotic and Highly Charged Ions/June 1990/Anchorage, AK

该奖项将支持8名美国科学家参加将于1990年6月18日至22日在阿拉斯加安克雷奇举行的“奇异和高电荷态离子的动力激发”联合研讨会。研讨会将集中讨论美国和日本离子物理基本过程领域的主要专家共同感兴趣的话题。该领域的最新进展，如低能反质子束的发展，可用于原子碰撞实验的更高能量的加速器设备，即将推出的储存环，以及其他发展，使现在是联合研讨会的有利时机。该计划的中心目标将是确定我们目前对奇异和高电荷态离子物理学基本过程的理解的局限性，并勾勒出使用粒子加速器促进这一领域科学发展的新方法。研讨会的联合组织者是德克萨斯农工大学物理系的约翰·F·雷丁教授和日本大阪大学科学工业研究所的藤本文则教授。此前两次美日在这一领域的研讨会都非常成功地探索了两国与会者共同感兴趣的话题，确定了新的研究方向，并促进了联合研究努力。这次研讨会也有类似的目标。原子碰撞物理学在决定物质在原子和分子水平上的行为方面发挥着重要作用。因此，原子和分子碰撞现象的研究不仅可以对等离子体物理、表面物理、凝聚态物理和天体物理等物理领域产生重要影响，而且还可以对天气预报和法医学等其他学科和技术产生重要影响。美国和日本的研究人员在这一领域都非常活跃，两国领导人都将参加研讨会。计划在《核工具和方法》特刊上发表研讨会的会议记录。

This award will support the participation of eight U.S. scientists in a joint seminar on "Dynamical Excitation by Exotic and Highly Charged Ions," to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, June 18-22, 1990. The seminar will focus on topics of mutual interest to leading American and Japanese experts in the field of fundamental processes in the physics of ions. Recent advances in the field, such as the development of low energy antiproton beams, the higher energies of the accelerator facilities available for atomic collision experimentation, the imminent availability of storage rings, and other developments, make this a propitious time for a joint seminar. The central objective of the program will be to identify the limitations of our current understanding of fundamental processes in the physics of exotic and highly charged ions and to delineate new ways in which particle accelerators can be used to advance science in this area. The co-organizers of the seminar are Professor John F. Reading, Department of Physics, Texas A & M University, and Professor Fuminori Fujimoto, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan. Two previous U.S.-Japan seminars in this field were very successful in exploring topics of mutual interest to participants from both countries, in defining new research directions, and in promoting joint research efforts. This seminar has similar goals. The physics of atomic collisions plays an important role in determining the behavior of matter at the atomic and molecular level. Research in atomic and molecular collision phenomena, therefore, can have an important influence not only on various areas of physics, such as plasma physics, surface physics, condensed matter physics, and astrophysics, but also on other disciplines and technologies such as weather forecasting and forensic medicine. Researchers in both the United States and Japan are very active in this field, and leaders from both countries will participate in the seminar. It is planned to publish the proceedings of the seminar in a special issue of Nuclear Instruments and Methods.