GROUP MEETING

GN05-29

October 15, 2005

 

To:

LaJohn, Suric

 

There will be a group meeting THURSDAY October 27, 4:00 pm   Room 216 AH.

Note change in day and time.

 

(Future dates Nov 2, 9, 16, Dec 7, 14?, Jan 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, 8, 15, 22)

There may be a social hour 5 pm Wed Nov 2.

 

1

Organizational Issues

a

Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures

 

 

b

Computer issues, finances,

 

2

Meetings

Place

Date

 

 

 

 

 

AAAS

St. Louis, MO

Feb 16-20, 06

 

DAMOP

Knoxville, TN

May 16-20, 06

 

euro e,2e

Rome, It

June

 

ICAP

Innsbruck, Austria

July 16-21

 

CAARI

Ft. Worth TX

Aug 21-25, 06

 

ISRP

Coimbra, Pt

Sept 18-22, 06

 

3

Deadlines

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

DAMOP (Jan 27)

 

Manuscripts

 

 

Registration

 

 

4

Travels, Visitors

 

 

 

 

Travel

LaJohn (Dec 10-Jan 4)

 

Arrivals

Pisk (Oct 29), Avdonina (Oct 28)

 

Departures

Suric (Oct 29), Pisk (Nov 12), Avdonina (Jan 30)

 

Visits

Pisk (Oct 29-Nov12), Uskov (Dec or Jan), Avdonina (Oct 28 - Jan 30), Kim (?), Sen Gupta (Jan), Florescu (winter/spring), Chatterjee (April/May 06), Roy (April/May 06).

 

 

RHP

Pitt

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct

 

18-26

Coimbra, Lisbon, Frankfurt

 

Nov

 

4-7

Urbana, IL

 

 

 

20-1

Athens, Libya, Tunisia

 

Dec

 

c 25?

?Larkspur, CO?

 

Jan

 

 

 

 

Feb

 

16-20

St. Louis

 

Mar

 

?

India?

 

 

 

c 15

New York

 

 

 

c 31

Bahia Blanca

 

Apr

 

c8-11

St. Paul, MN

 

 

 

13-14

Gaithersburg

 

May

 

16-20

Knoxville

 

June

 

 

?St. Petersburg, Zagreb?

 

5

Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

548

“Tseng’s calculations of low energy pair production”, R. H. Pratt, accepted for RPC

 

549

Minima of generalized oscillator strengths of atomic transitions and the approach to the high energy limit”, N. B. Avdonina, D. Fursa, A. Z. Msezane and R. H. Pratt, published  PRA 71, 062711 (2005)

 

550

“Investigations on Compton scattering: New directions”, B. K. Chatterjee, L. A. LaJohn and S. C. Roy, requested revision submitted to RPC

 

551

“Comparison of theory and experiment for polarizational bremsstrahlung”, O. I. Obolensky and R. H. Pratt, accepted for RPC

 

552

“Correlations in high energy photoeffect”, E. G. Drukarev and R. H. Pratt, accepted for PRA.

 

554

"Review of structures in low-energy bremsstrahlung: classical and quantum descriptions", O. I. Obolensky and R. H. Pratt, accepted(?) for RPC.

 

555

"Recent theoretical developments in photon-atom scattering", R. H. Pratt, accepted  for RPC.

 

556

"Nondipole asyymmetries of K-shell photoelectrons of Kr, Br2 and BrCF3", S. H. Southworth, R. W. Dunford, E. P. Kanter, B. Krassig, L. Young, L. A. LaJohn, R. H. Pratt", for RPC

 

6

Funding

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Proposals

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Awards

 

 

 

 

 

NSF 0201595

7/1/02 - 6/30/06

with no-cost extension

 

NSF 0352483

5/1/04 – 4/30/07

NSF/DST cooperative with Bose Institute

 

NSF 0456499

7/1/05 - 6/30//07

 

 

 

Other Awards

 

 

 

 

Due Dates

 

 

 

 

2/1/06

NSF 0352483 annual report

 

 

4/1/06

NSF 0456499 annual report

 

 

9/1/06

NSF 0201595 final report

 

7

Recent Preprints

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

Recent Papers

 

 

 

 

 

9

Review of Literature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

a

Suric

“Solving the three-body Coulomb breakup problem using exterior complex scaling”, JPB 37, R137 (2004) McCurdy, Baertschy, Rescigno

 

b

Uskov

"Regge oscillations in integral cross sections", PRL 93, 183203 (Oct 29 04) Macek, Krstic, Ovchinnikov

 

c

Suric

"Theory of electron-impact ionization of atoms", PRA 70, 062703 (04), Kadyrov et al

 

d

Suric

"Production of doubly charged helium ions by two photon absorption", PRL 94, 043001 (05) Nabekawa et al

 

e

Uskov

"Amplitude-phase approach to calculating Regge-pole positions and residues", JPA 38, 5305 (05) Thylwe & Sokolovski

 

f

Avdonina

"Ultrasoft X-ray bremsstrahlung from 300-2000 eV electrons on Ar & Kr", PRL 95, 023002 (05), Gnatchenko et al

 

g

Suric

"Two photon detachment of inner-shell electrons from Li-", PRL 95, 153001 (05) van der Hart

 

 

10

Presentations

 

 

 

 

 

11

Manuscripts in Preparation

 

 

 

 

a

"Polarization correlations for d,f states", Kim, Goldberg, Pratt

 

b

"Observables in quantum mechanics: creating spin polarization in the absence of spin orbit interactions", Young Soon Kim and R. H. Pratt

 

c

"Multipole decomposition of the modified form factors", L. A. LaJohn

 

d

“Some notes on analytic continuation of the Coulomb dipole matrix element:, O. I. Obolensky and R. H. Pratt

 

e

“Singularities of the Dipole Matrix Element”, D. B. Uskov & R. H. Pratt

 

f

Regge ideas in bremsstrahlung”, D. B. Uskov & R. H. Pratt

 

 

 Also considered:

 

12

Work in Progress

 

 

 

 

Gasaneo

GOS calculations

 

Kim (YS)

qm observables

 

Lajohn

independ info & correl in Rayleigh scattering, Compton scatt

 

Obolensky

Trajectories of zeroes, pol brem ang dist

 

Suric

AFT in scattering Stobbe & Elwert factors

 

Uskov

bound states and trajectories of zeroes

 

13

Computer facilities

 

 

 

The group owns a number of computers, including PC Intel Pentium 4, (Stribor), Sun SPARCstation 5 (Oat), Pentium laptop computer (Shiba), PC Intel Celeron (OatPC), and R. Pratt’s PowerMac G4.

 

Stribor (operated by Linux Red Hat 9) serves as the main group computer.  All user files are stored on Stribor.  It has the latest version of Intel fortran compiler, and users are encouraged to compile, debug and run their codes using Stribor.

 

Stribor also runs the IMAP mail server and Apache web server. The group’s website address is http://stribor.phyast.pitt.edu

 

Old large codes (Rayleigh and Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung) can be run on Oat (operated by Solaris 2.6). Rayleigh & Compton have also been modified for compilation under the Windows operating system.  The latest version of these can be obtained from L. LaJohn. 

 

OatPC runs WindowsXP and has all commonly used applications.  Short term visitors who prefer Windows over Linux can use OatPC.

 

The group has books available on various operating systems, languages and software, also hardcopy documentation on the codes.