GROUP MEETING

GN07-30

October 27, 2007

 

To:

LaJohn, Suric

 

There will be a group meeting WEDNESDAY October 31, 2:00 pm   Room 216 AH.

 

(Future dates Nov 7, 21, 28, Dec 5, 19, Jan 2, 9, Feb 6,13,27)

 

There will be a social hour Thursday Nov 1.

 

1

Organizational Issues

a

Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures

 

 

b

Computer issues, finances,

 

2

Meetings

Place

Date

 

 

 

 

 

NSRP

Kolkata, India

Nov 14-16

 

AAAS

Boston, MA

Feb 14-18

 

DAMOP

State College, PA

May 27-31

 

IRRMA

Prague, Cz

June 22-27

 

X-08

Paris, France

June 22-27

 

(e,2e)

Paris, France

June 30-July 2

 

ICAP

Storrs, CT

July 27 - Aug 1

 

CAARI

Fort Worth, TX

Aug 10-15

 

HCI 2008

Tokyo, Japan

Sept 1-5

 

3

Deadlines

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

DAMOP (Feb 1)

 

Manuscripts

 

 

Registration

DAMOP (April 4), X-08 (April 30)

 

4

Travels, Visitors

 

 

 

 

Travel

Suric (Nov 10-14)

 

Arrivals

Avdonina (Nov 6), Dukarev (Nov 20)

 

Departures

Suric (Nov 18?), Avdonina (c Dec 13), Drukarev (Dec 21)

 

Visits

Avdonina (Nov 6 - cDec 13, c Feb 5-13, May), Drukarev (Nov20-Dec21, May?), Sen Gupta (Dec/Jan), Kashenock (April?), Pisk (April 08?), Florescu (spring?), Roy (May 08), Solov'yov (?May 08?), Uskov (May?), Chatterjee (May/June 08).

 

 

RHP

Pitt

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct

 

 

 

 

Nov

 

8-18

Kolkata

 

Dec

 

12-15

New York

 

Jan

 

14-30

Chile

 

Feb

 

13-20

Boston, Toronto

 

May

 

cApr29 13?

?Mediterranean?

 

May

 

26-31

State College

 

June

 

19-Jul 3

Prague, Paris

 

5

Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

559

"Limitations on the validity of impulse approximation in Compton scattering", R. H. Pratt, L. A. LaJohn, T. Suric, B. K. Chatterjee, S. C. Roy, published Nucl. Instr. Methods B 261, 175-179 (2007).

 

560

"Asymmetry and the shift of the Compton profile", B. K. Chatterjee, S. C. Roy, T. Suric, L. A. LaJohn, R. H. Pratt, published Nucl. Instr. Methods  A 580, 22-24 (2007).

 

561

"Comment on: 'Photoionization of He-like ions in asymptotic non-relativistic region' [Phys. Lett. A358 (2006) 211] ", T. Suric and R. H. Pratt, published Phys. Lett. A. 367, 254-256 (2007).

 

6

Funding

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Proposals

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Awards

 

 

 

 

 

NSF 0456499

7/1/05 - 6/30//08

 

 

 

Other Awards

 

 

 

 

Due Dates

 

 

 

7

Recent Preprints

 

 

 

 

 

8

Recent Papers

 

 

 

 

 

9

Review of Literature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

a

Pratt

"Modified Kolbensvedt method for electron impact K shell ionization cross sections", EPJ D 37, 361 (2006) Uddin et al

 

b

Pratt

"Coincidence and Total Photoelectron Spectra and Differences Induced by Internal Degrees of Freedom", PRL 96, 233001 (06) Scheit & Cederbaum

 

c

Suric

"Different escape modes in two-photon double ionization of helium", PRA 75, 024702 (07) Kheifets, Ivanov, Bray

 

d

LaJohn

"Perturbative calculation of cross section of double ionization by high energy Compton scattering". EPJ D 42, 360 (07) Kalliman, Pisk, Suric

 

e

Suric

"Nodal surfaces of helium atom eigenfunctions", PRA 75, 060101 R (07) Scott, Luchow, Bressanini, Morgan

 

f

Avdonina

"Octupole contributions to GOS of discrete dipole transitions in noble-gas atoms", PRA 75, 062703 (07) Amusia et al

 

g

Avdonina

"Regge oscillations in electron-atom elastic cross sections", PRA 76, 012705 (07), Sokolovski et al

 

h

Suric

"Second order S-matrix element for elastic scattering of photons by K shell electrons: nonrelativistic limit", JPB 40, 2995 (07) Costescu et al

 

i

Avdonina

"What can one do with Regge Poles", NIM B 261, 133 (07), Sokolovski et al

 

j

Suric

"Single photoeffect on helium-like ions", PLA 368, 391 (07), Mihailov, Nefiodov, Plunien

 

k

Suric

"Path distinguishability in double scattering of light by atoms", PRA 76, 022101 (07), Miniatura et al

 

l

Suric

"Two-photon double ionization of helium above and below threshold for sequential ionization", PRA 76, 030701 (07) Horner et al

 

m

Suric

"Inelastic x-ray scattering in the vicinity of the xenon L3 edge". PRA 76, 032506 (07) Zitnik et al

 

n

Avdonina

"Reconciliation of fully differential single ionization data with the first Born approximation convoluted with elastic scattering", PRA 76, 032712 (07) Schulz et al

 

 

10

Presentations

 

 

 

 

 

Oct 31

Suric

Photoionization of molecules

 

Oct 31, Nov 7

Pratt

Saha talk - history of ideas of matter

 

Oct 31

LaJohn

Main relativistic modifications of Compton

 

Nov 7

Pratt

NSRP talk - photon atom interactions

 

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

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

 

d

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

 

e

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

 

12

Work in Progress

 

 

 

 

Avdonina

Regge trajectories

 

Kim (YS)

qm observables

 

Lajohn

Rel Compton scatt, quad 0's, corr in atten

 

Suric

Compton scattering, photo atten,  Stobbe & Elwert factors

 

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.