GROUP MEETING

GN08-06

March 3, 2008

 

To:

Avdonina, LaJohn

 

There will be a group meeting WEDNESDAY March 5, 2:00 pm   Room 216 AH.

 

(Future dates Mar 12,19,26, Apr 2,9,16,23,30, May 7, 14, June 4,11,18)

 

1

Organizational Issues

a

Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures

 

 

b

Computer issues, finances,

 

2

Meetings

Place

Date

 

 

 

 

 

JohnsonSymp

Notre Dame, IND

April 4-5

 

DAMOP

State College, PA

May 27-31

 

GordonCf-Multiphoton

Tilton, NH

June 8-13

 

EXRS

Cavtat, Croatia

June 16-20

 

IRRMA

Prague, Cz

June 22-27

 

X-08

Paris, France

June 22-27

 

(e,2e)-mps 08

Paris, France

June 30-July 2

 

EGAS

Graz, Austria

July 2-5

 

GodonCf-AtMoInt

New London, NH

July 6-11

 

ICAP

Storrs, CT

July 27 - Aug 1

 

CAARI

Fort Worth, TX

Aug 10-15

 

GordonCf-QuantInf

Big Sky, MT

Aug 31-Sept 5

 

HCI 2008

Tokyo, Japan

Sept 1-5

 

IRPS workshop

Melbourne, Australia

Sept 22-27

 

AISAMP

Perth, Australia

Nov 24-28

 

3

Deadlines

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

 

 

Manuscripts

 

 

Registration

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

 

4

Travels, Visitors

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

 

Arrivals

Avdonina (Mar 3), Pisk (March 30), Sen Gupta (c April 3), Kashenock (c April 8), Florescu (April 16), Chatterjee (April 21), Roy (April 28), Drukarev (April 29), Ron (May 20), Suric (c May 26)

 

Departures

Avdonina (c Mar 31), Pisk (April 12), Sen Gupta (c April 28), Kashenock (cMay 8), Drukarev (June 1), Ron (May 26), Roy (May 27), Chatterjee (May 27), Florescu (June 3), Suric (June 20)

 

Visits

Avdonina (c March 3-31, June), Sen Gupta (c Apr 3 - Apr 28), Kashenock (c April 8 - May 8), Pisk (March 30 - April 12), Florescu (April 16 -June 3), Drukarev (April 29 -June 1), Roy (April 28 - May 27), Chatterjee (April 21 -May 27), Ron (May 20-26), Suric (cMay26-June 20).

 

 

RHP

Pitt

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mar

 

17-18

DC

 

May

 

19-21

DC

 

May

 

26-31

State College

 

June

 

19-Jul 3

Prague, Paris

 

July

 

 

 

 

Aug

 

 

 

 

Sept

 

22-27

Melbourne

 

Oct

 

? (orSept?)

?Bucharest, Zagreb?

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

a

Florescu

"Photon pairs with tailor-made entanglement obtained from two-photon decay of atomic hydrogen", PRA 77, 022507 (08), Radtke, Surzhykov, Fritzsche

 

b

Florescu

"Nonrelativistic quantum theory of the contact inelastic scattering of an x-ray photon by an atom", PRA 77, 022712 (08), Hopersky & Nadolinsky

 

c

Suric

"Evidence for highly correlated electron dynamics in two-photon double ionization of helium", JPB 41, 051001 (08), Foumouo et al

 

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

Drukarev

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

 

d

Avdonina

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

 

e

Drukarev

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

 

f

Pratt

"Classical world arising out of quantum physics under the restriction of coarse-grained measurements", PRL 99, 180403 (07) Kofler & Brukner

 

g

Pratt/Carney

"X-ray atomic scattering factors 0f low Z ions with a core hole", PRA 76, 042511 (07) Hau-Riege

 

h

Avdonina

"Excitation of K-shell electrons by electron impact", PLA 371, 432 (07) Nefiodov & Plunien

 

i

Pratt

"Doubly inelastic collisions with relativistic heavy ions". PRL 99, 193201 (07) Voitkiv, Najjari, Ulrich

 

j

Drukarev

"High-energy two-electron capture with emission of a single photon", PRA 76, 062701 (07) Drukarev et al

 

k

Drukarev

"Phoyoionization accompanied by excitation at intermediate photon energies", PRA 77, 012715 (08) Drukarev et al

 

l

LaJohn

"Muonic atoms with extreme nuclear charge", PRA 77, 014501 (08) Flambaum & Johnson

 

m

LaJohn

"Theoretical & experimental demonstrations of the existence of quadrupole Cooper minima", JPB 41, 021002 (08) Deshmukh et al

 

n

Drukarev, Suric

"Excitation and photoionization processes involving bound ns electrons", PhysLett A 372, 1645 (08) Nefiodov, Plunien

 

 

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

“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.