GROUP MEETING

GN13-12

March 24, 2013

 

To:

LaJohn

 

There will be a group meeting TUESDAY March 26, 3:00 pm Room G8 Thaw.

 

(Apr 2, 9, 30,  May7,14,21,28,June 11,18,25)

 

1

Organizational Issues

a

Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures

 

 

b

Computer issues, finances,

 

2

Meetings

Place

Date

 

 

 

 

 

DAMOP

Quebec City, Canada

June 3-7

 

Dosimetry

Prague

June 24-28

 

VUVX-2013

Hefei, China

July 12-18

 

ICPEAC

Lanzhou, China

July 24-30

 

3

Deadlines

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

VUV (March 30)                                                                         

 

Manuscripts

 

 

Registration

DAMOP (April 19), VUV (April 15, June 15), ICPEAC (May 10)

 

4

Travels, Visitors

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

 

Arrivals

 

 

Departures

 

 

Visits

Sen Gupta (?), Surzhykov (?), Florescu (?).

 

 

RHP

Pitt

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mar

 

 

 

 

Apr

-15

25-

16-24

Peoria, Urbana,Ill

 

May

 

 

 

 

June

-2, 8-

3-7

Quebec

 

July

 

Jn27?- Jul?

Prague?Zagreb?Dubrovnik?

 

Aug

 

17

Mt Pleasant, MI, Oberlin, OH?

 

Sept

 

 

?Bucharest?

 

 

 

?21-Oct6?

?Madagascar?

 

Oct

 

?18-21?

?Ithaca, NY?

 

Nov

 

 

?Jena?

 

5

Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

572

"Photon Absorption and Photon Scattering - What We Don't Know and Why It Matters", R. H. Pratt, for Radiat. Phys. Chem.

 

 

5'

Other Recent Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

Recent Papers and Preprints

 

 

 

 

 

a

Pratt

Comment on "Refractive Index of Silicon at Gamma Ray Energies", J Donohue, PRL 110, 129501 (2013)

 

7

Review of Literature:

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

Presentations

 

 

 

 

 

9

Manuscripts in Preparation

 

 

 

 

a

"Survey of Compton Scattering Doubly Differential Cross Sections: Future Direction", Chatterjee, Roy, LaJohn, for NIM

 

b

"Two-photon decay of K-shell vacancies in neutral atoms: Relativistic and screening effects",  Andrey Surzhykov, Stephan Fritzsche, and R. H. Pratt

 

c

"Validity of a factorized-form expression for the Compton scattering differential cross sections in relativistic regimes", L. A. LaJohn and R. H. Pratt

 

d

"Systematics of Low-Energy Zeros in Bound-Free Quadrupole Matrix Elements: Quadrupole Cooper Minima in the Ionization of 3s and 4s Atomic Subshells", Manson, LaJohn, Pratt

 

10

Work in Progress

 

 

 

 

Lajohn

characterization of error in RIA

 

Surzhykov

relationship connecting Cij

 

Florescu

nr multipole problems

 

 

 

 

 

some older projects that might still be possible

 

 

 

 

Kim,Goldberg

d,f state polarization correlations

 

Kim

creating spin polarization without spin-orbit interactions

 

Obolensky

analytic continuation of Coulomb dipole matrix elements

 

Uskov

singularities of dipole matrix element, Regge ideas in bremsstrahlung

 

11

Computer facilities

 

 

 

The group owns a number of computers, including PC Intel Pentium 4, (Stribor), Pentium laptop computer (Shiba), PC Intel Celeron (OatPC).

 

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 versions 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.