Includes bibliographical references and index.

Light sources for atomic spectroscopy / Jorge Reyna Almandos and Roger Hutton -- Electron beam ion traps: principles and applications to highly charged ion spectroscopy / Yang Yang and Yaming Zou -- Spectroscopic instruments / Roger Hutton, Zhan Shi, and Indrek Martinson -- Crystal spectrometers / Nobuyuki Nakamura -- CCD detectors / Nick Nelms -- Microchannel-plate detectors in atomic physics applications / Ottmar Jagutzki -- Coincidence techniques in atomic collisions / John A. Tanis -- Isoelectronic trends in atomic properties / Alan Hibbert -- Experimental investigation of the structure of highly ionized atoms / Indrek Martinson -- Atomic lifetime measurements of highly charged ions / Elmar Trä̈bert -- Importance of tungsten spectroscopy to the success of ITER / R. Neu ... [et al.] -- X-ray emission spectroscopy and diagnostics of nonequilibrium fusion and laser-produced plasmas / F. B. Rosmej -- Short-wavelength free electron lasers / John T. Costello and Michael Meyer -- QED theory of highly charged ions / O. Yu. Andreev and L. N. Labzowsky -- Parity nonconservation effects in the highly charged ions / Anastasiya Bondarevskaya and L. N. Labzowsky.

"Preface Spectroscopy of highly charged ions is of enormous interest due to its key role in testing quantum electrodynamics (QED), in strong fields and to possible tests on parity nonconservation (PNC), both of which are discussed in this volume. However, highly charged ions also play crucial roles in the physics of hot plasmas, for example, those produced in tokamak fusion devices and in inertial confinement fusion experiments. Much of the diagnostics of matter under such extreme environments relies heavily on spectroscopy and the availability of atomic data. The field of X-ray astronomy hinges almost entirely on the use of spectral lines from highly charged ions to provide information from distant astrophysical plasmas and objects. Given these fundamental interests and the current rapid developments in fusion and X-ray astronomy, it is clear that the spectroscopy of highly charged ions is a very rich area of research with strong and important connections with many important subfields of physics, for example, nuclear physics. The need for high-quality atomic data is as important now as it has ever been. Hence we feel that the idea behind this book is very timely. The aim of this book was to bring together a number of the techniques and ideas needed for highly charged ion spectroscopy research. The book is organized in two parts. Part I brings together techniques of light/ion sources, spectrometers, and detectors and includes also a chapter on coincidence techniques. This part ends with a discussion on how atomic properties change along an isoelectronic sequence. Part II is devoted to investigations of atomic structure and to applications and also to some of the theoretical ideas where precise studies of highly charged ion spectroscopy can be of fundamental significance,"--‰cProvided by publisher