Table of Contents

The classical theory of the chanelling effect; the spatial redistribution of a beam of channelled particles; experimental investigation of radiation damage and dechannelling; the radiation of channelled particles. Appendix 1 Derivation of the kinetic equation of the Fokker-Planck type for channeled particles. Appendix 2 The justification for using the kinetic equations in the theory of orientational effects. Appendix 3 Multiple scattering in a two-dimensional lattice of atomic chains.

About the Author

M.A. KUMAKHOV I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, USSR and G. SHIRMER Schiller University, Jena, GDR.