Acknowledgements

The work described in this report is the direct result of a 25-year collaboration with Richard Pratt who suggested this subject as the author's thesis subject and who has mentored the author's efforts since then. Early progress on development of the S-matrix approach was aided by H. K. Tseng and Walter Johnson. Mihai Gavrila and Viroica Florescu have provided many important insights and stimulating discussions on scattering theory. Much of this work was stimulated by the involved interest of experimentalists such as Martin Schumacher, Prabhakar Kane, David Bradley and Odair Gonçalves. Specific help with the generation of photoeffect cross sections and bound-bound oscillator strengths was provided by James Scofield. Further encouragement and understanding has resulted from stimulating interactions with Suprakash Roy, Swapan Sen Gupta, Paul Bergstrom, Jr., Adrian Costescu, David Shaffer, Bin Zhou, Tihomir Suric, David Templeton, John Hubbell and others. This work has been supported in part by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number W-7405-Eng48.

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