Introduction: General Description of Electron Collision Processes with Atomic Particles. - 0. 1 The Concept of Cross Section. - 0. 2 Interaction of Electrons with Atomsor Atomic Ions. - 0. 3 Some Information about Atomic Structure. - 0. 4 General Characteristics of the Cross SectionCalculation Methods. - 0. 5 Collision Processes of Electrons with Moleculesand Molecular Ions. - Scattering of a Particle by a Potential. - 1. 1 The Wave Function: Scattering Amplitude. - 1. 2 Partial Waves Expansion. - 1. 3 The Jost Function and its Properties. - 1. 4 Scattering of a Slow Particle by a ShortRange Central Field: Resonances. - 1. 5 Effect of a Long-range Tail in the Potentialwhich Falls as r-4. - 1. 6 Effect of the Coulomb Attractive Potentialon Slow Particle Scattering. - 1. 7 Scattering by Two Short-Range Nonoverlapping Potentials. - 1. 8 Scattering by an Electric Dipole. - 1. 9 Scattering of Fast Particles: Various Approximations. - Scattering of a Particle with Spin: Polarization Phenomena. - 2. 1 Amplitude Matrix. - 2. 2 The Density Matrix Formalism. - 2. 3 Expressions for Observable Quantities. - 2. 4 Polarization of a Beam of Particles. - 2. 5 Scattering of a Partly-Polarized Beam. - The Simplest Two-Channel System. - 3. 1 Formulation of the Problem: Boundary Conditions: S-matrix. - 3. 2 Elastic Scattering Below the Threshold:Resonances. - 3. 3 Cusps. - 3. 4 Cross Sections Above the Threshold. - 3. 5 Effect of an Attractive Coulomb Field. - Collisions of Electrons with Atoms and Ions: General Theory. - 4. 1 Wave Function of the System: Amplitudes andCross Sections. - 4. 2 The Total Spin Representation: Separation ofthe Spin Variables. - 4. 3 Reduction of the Many-Channel Problem. - 4. 4 Partial Waves: The Total Angular MomentumRepresentation. - 4. 5 The Jost Matrix and Related Matrices. - 4. 6 Effects of Closed Channels. - 4. 7 Correlation and Polarization Phenomena. - Approximate Methods for Electron-Atom Collisions: Cross Section Calculations. - 5. 1 Methods for the Approximate Solution of theMany-Channel Problem. - 5. 2 The Born Approximation and its Modifications. - 5. 3 The Glauber Approximation. - 5. 4 Classical Mechanics (Binary Approximation). - Elastic and Inelastic Scattering of Electrons by Atoms and Positive Ions. - 6. 1 Hydrogen. - 6. 2 Helium. - 6. 3 Alkali Metal Atoms (Li Na K Cs). - 6. 4 Other Atoms: References and Comments. - 6. 5 Collisions of Electrons with Positive Ions. - Ionization. - 7. 1 Threshold Behavior of the IonizationCross Section. - 7. 2 The Differential Cross Sections: General Relations. - 7. 3 Ionization Through Excitation of AutoionizingStates: Postcollision Interaction. - 7. 4 Hydrogen. - 7. 5 Helium. - 7. 6 Total Ionization Cross Sections for Various Atoms. - Rotational and Vibrational Excitation of Molecules. - 8. 1 Excitation of Rotation of Two Atom Molecules Below the Vibrational Threshold. - 8. 2 Excitation of Vibrations and Combined Rotational-Vibrational Transitions. - Dissociation of Molecules. - 9. 1 Dissociative Attachment. - 9. 2 Dissociative Recombination. - 9. 3 Dissociation Through Electronic Excitation. - References. Language: English