The European Physical Journal D

Call for papers p. A9

BCS states as squeezed fermion-pair states p. 1

Electromagnetically induced transparency in a sodium vapour cell p. 5

Determination of radiative lifetimes of neutral sulphur by time-resolved three-photon VUV laser spectroscopy p. 11

Effect of the initial phase of the field in ionization by ultrashort laser pulses p. 15

The hyperfine structure of the 1s²ns²S and 1s²np²P states (n = 2,3,4, and 5) for the lithium isoelectronic sequence p. 21

Axialisation, cooling and quenching of Ba⁺ ions in a Penning trap p. 29

Isotope shifts and hyperfine structure in the 3d²D_j → 4p ²P_j transitions in calcium II p. 33

Elastic scattering of electrons by metastable hydrogen atoms in the presence of a resonant laser field p. 41

Cusp satellite bands in the spectrum of Cs₂ molecule p. 45

Fragmentation of CO⁺ molecular ion through dissociative excited states produced by swift multicharged heavy ion impact on CO molecules p. 53

Ab initio studies of stationary points of the Al₂O₃ molecule p. 57

Predictions of geometrical structures and ionization potentials for small barium clusters Ba_n p. 63

Stability and fragmentation of multiply ionized Si_N^M clusters p. 75

Size-dependent light emission from mass-selected clusters p. 79

A matrix study of the transfer of polarized radiation in plasmas. Application to neon-like germanium lasers p. 83

Ionic transitions and oscillator strengths in Debye plasma - a case study p. 89