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

该奖项将支持8位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关于“外来和高电荷离子的动力学激发”的联合研讨会。研讨会将集中讨论美国和日本在离子物理基本过程领域的顶尖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高能加速器设施，即将可用的存储环以及其他发展，使现在成为联合研讨会的有利时机。该项目的中心目标将是确定我们目前对外来和高电荷离子的物理基本过程的理解的局限性，并描绘粒子加速器可以用于推进这一领域科学的新方法。研讨会的协办方是美国德州农工大学物理系John F. Reading教授和日本大阪大学科学与工业研究所藤本文森教授。这一领域以前的两次美日研讨会非常成功地探讨了两国参与者共同感兴趣的主题，确定了新的研究方向，并促进了联合研究工作。本次研讨会也有类似的目标。原子碰撞物理学在确定原子和分子水平上物质的行为方面起着重要的作用。因此，原子和分子碰撞现象的研究不仅可以对物理的各个领域，如等离子体物理、表面物理、凝聚态物理和天体物理学产生重要影响，而且还可以对其他学科和技术，如天气预报和法医学产生重要影响。美国和日本的研究人员在这一领域非常活跃，两国领导人将参加研讨会。计划在《核仪器和方法》的一期特刊上发表讨论会的会议记录。

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.