Robert Robson, FAPS, FRMetS, completed a PhD in theoretical physics at the Australian National University in 1972. He has lectured and researched in physics and specializes in electron and positron transport in gases and soft condensed matter. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany and held the Hitachi Chair of Electrical Engineering at Keio University, Japan. Ronald White obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from James Cook University in 1997, and is now Associate Professor and Director of the JCU node of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies. He specializes in kinetic theory and fluid modelling of charged particles in gases and soft matter. Malte Hildebrandt completed his PhD in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg in 1999, where he worked on the development of particle detectors for high energy particle physics. After a postdoc at the University of Zürich, he joined the Paul Scherrer Institut, and has been head of the detector group in the Laboratory of Particle Physics since 2009.

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• Monograph Series in Physical SciencesPrefaceAbout the AuthorsGlossary of Symbols and Acronyms1 IntroductionI Kinetic Theory Foundations2 Basic Theoretical Concepts: Phase and Configuration Space3 Boltzmann Collision Integral, H-Theorem, and Fokker–Planck Equation4 Interaction Potentials and Cross Sections5 Kinetic Equations for Dilute Particles in Gases6 Charged Particles in Condensed MatterII Fluid Modelling in Configuration Space7 Fluid Modelling: Foundations and First Applications8 Fluid Models with Inelastic Collisions9 Fluid Modelling with Loss and Creation Processes10 Fluid Modelling in Condensed MatterIII Solutions of Kinetic Equations11 Strategies and Regimes for Solution of Kinetic Equations12 Numerical Techniques for Solution of Boltzmann’s Equation13 Boundary Conditions, Diffusion Cooling, and a Variational Method14 An Analytically Solvable ModelIV Special Topics15 Temporal Non-Locality16 The Franck–Hertz Experiment17 Positron Transport in Soft-Condensed Matter with Application to PET18 Transport in Electric and Magnetic Fields and Particle Detectors19 Muons in Gases and Condensed Matter20 Concluding RemarksV Exercises and Appendices 331ExercisesAppendix A Comparison of Kinetic Theory and Quantum MechanicsAppendix B Inelastic and Ionization Collision Operators for Light ParticlesAppendix C The Dual Eigenvalue ProblemAppendix D Derivation of the Exact Expression for np(k)Appendix E Physical Constants and Useful FormulasReferencesIndex

Robert Robson, FAPS, FRMetS, completed a PhD in theoretical physics at the Australian National University in 1972. He has lectured and researched in physics and specializes in electron and positron transport in gases and soft condensed matter. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany and held the Hitachi Chair of Electrical Engineering at Keio University, Japan. Ronald White obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from James Cook University in 1997, and is now Associate Professor and Director of the JCU node of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies. He specializes in kinetic theory and fluid modelling of charged particles in gases and soft matter. Malte Hildebrandt completed his PhD in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg in 1999, where he worked on the development of particle detectors for high energy particle physics. After a postdoc at the University of Zürich, he joined the Paul Scherrer Institut, and has been head of the detector group in the Laboratory of Particle Physics since 2009.

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• Monograph Series in Physical SciencesPrefaceAbout the AuthorsGlossary of Symbols and Acronyms1 IntroductionI Kinetic Theory Foundations2 Basic Theoretical Concepts: Phase and Configuration Space3 Boltzmann Collision Integral, H-Theorem, and Fokker–Planck Equation4 Interaction Potentials and Cross Sections5 Kinetic Equations for Dilute Particles in Gases6 Charged Particles in Condensed MatterII Fluid Modelling in Configuration Space7 Fluid Modelling: Foundations and First Applications8 Fluid Models with Inelastic Collisions9 Fluid Modelling with Loss and Creation Processes10 Fluid Modelling in Condensed MatterIII Solutions of Kinetic Equations11 Strategies and Regimes for Solution of Kinetic Equations12 Numerical Techniques for Solution of Boltzmann’s Equation13 Boundary Conditions, Diffusion Cooling, and a Variational Method14 An Analytically Solvable ModelIV Special Topics15 Temporal Non-Locality16 The Franck–Hertz Experiment17 Positron Transport in Soft-Condensed Matter with Application to PET18 Transport in Electric and Magnetic Fields and Particle Detectors19 Muons in Gases and Condensed Matter20 Concluding RemarksV Exercises and Appendices 331ExercisesAppendix A Comparison of Kinetic Theory and Quantum MechanicsAppendix B Inelastic and Ionization Collision Operators for Light ParticlesAppendix C The Dual Eigenvalue ProblemAppendix D Derivation of the Exact Expression for np(k)Appendix E Physical Constants and Useful FormulasReferencesIndex

Robert Robson, FAPS, FRMetS, completed a PhD in theoretical physics at the Australian National University in 1972. He has lectured and researched in physics and specializes in electron and positron transport in gases and soft condensed matter. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany and held the Hitachi Chair of Electrical Engineering at Keio University, Japan. Ronald White obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from James Cook University in 1997, and is now Associate Professor and Director of the JCU node of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies. He specializes in kinetic theory and fluid modelling of charged particles in gases and soft matter. Malte Hildebrandt completed his PhD in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg in 1999, where he worked on the development of particle detectors for high energy particle physics. After a postdoc at the University of Zürich, he joined the Paul Scherrer Institut, and has been head of the detector group in the Laboratory of Particle Physics since 2009.

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• Monograph Series in Physical SciencesPrefaceAbout the AuthorsGlossary of Symbols and Acronyms1 IntroductionI Kinetic Theory Foundations2 Basic Theoretical Concepts: Phase and Configuration Space3 Boltzmann Collision Integral, H-Theorem, and Fokker–Planck Equation4 Interaction Potentials and Cross Sections5 Kinetic Equations for Dilute Particles in Gases6 Charged Particles in Condensed MatterII Fluid Modelling in Configuration Space7 Fluid Modelling: Foundations and First Applications8 Fluid Models with Inelastic Collisions9 Fluid Modelling with Loss and Creation Processes10 Fluid Modelling in Condensed MatterIII Solutions of Kinetic Equations11 Strategies and Regimes for Solution of Kinetic Equations12 Numerical Techniques for Solution of Boltzmann’s Equation13 Boundary Conditions, Diffusion Cooling, and a Variational Method14 An Analytically Solvable ModelIV Special Topics15 Temporal Non-Locality16 The Franck–Hertz Experiment17 Positron Transport in Soft-Condensed Matter with Application to PET18 Transport in Electric and Magnetic Fields and Particle Detectors19 Muons in Gases and Condensed Matter20 Concluding RemarksV Exercises and Appendices 331ExercisesAppendix A Comparison of Kinetic Theory and Quantum MechanicsAppendix B Inelastic and Ionization Collision Operators for Light ParticlesAppendix C The Dual Eigenvalue ProblemAppendix D Derivation of the Exact Expression for np(k)Appendix E Physical Constants and Useful FormulasReferencesIndex