U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research on Relativistic Atomic Collisions

这个奖项支持斯坦福大学的沃尔特·迈耶霍夫教授 物理学合作研究大学 哈恩-迈特纳研究所的Joerg Eichler教授， 德国，柏林。 Meyerhof教授和他的团队在 斯坦福大学一直在研究原子碰撞过程， 高能量，主要是实验性的，为了了解 内壳层电子和辐射过程发生 在原子碰撞中。 他们合作了很多 在欧洲和拉丁美洲的专家。 主要 他们的实验研究路线正在从 中等速度极端相对论域，在 与劳伦斯伯克利的哈维·古尔德博士合作 实验室 在进行这项实验工作的同时， 与理论物理学家的合作将是必不可少的 为相对论提供必要的深入理解 流程. 艾希勒教授提供了重要的理论 在电子捕获机制和原子 以相对论速度的碰撞过程。 提供一种 为他们未来的工作奠定了良好的基础，Eichler教授和 Meyerhof正在合作撰写一本专著， 迄今为止，已经使用的理论方法， 处理相对论原子碰撞，并提供细节 关于实验技术和结果。

This award supports Professor Walter Meyerhof of Stanford University for collaborative research in physics with Professor Joerg Eichler of the Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin, Germany. Professor Meyerhof and his group at Stanford have been studying atomic collision processes at high energy, mainly experimentally, in order to understand inner-shell electronic and radiative processes occurring during an atomic collision. They have collaborated for many years with specialists in Europe and Latin America. The main line of their experimental research is shifting now from the intermediate velocity to the extreme relativistic domain, in partnership with Dr. Harvey Gould of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In parallel with this experimental work, collaboration with theoretical physicists will be essential to provide the deep understanding necessary for relativistic processes. Professor Eichler offers crucial theoretical expertise in the mechanisms of electron capture and in atomic collision processes at relativistic velocities. To provide a good basis for their future work, Professors Eichler and Meyerhof are collaborating on a monograph that will discuss the theoretical approaches which have been used to date to treat relativistic atomic collisions and provide details about experimental techniques and results.