GROUP MEETING

GN14-23

July 6, 2014

 

To:

LaJohn

 

There will be a group meeting WEDNESDAY July 9, 2:00 pm Room 210 Allen Hall

 

(July 16, 23,30, Aug13, 20, 27, Sept 3, 10, 17, 24)

 

1

Organizational Issues

a

Appointments, next meeting, other meetings, lectures

 

 

b

Computer issues, finances,

 

2

Meetings

Place

Date

 

 

 

 

 

ICAP 2014

Washington DC

Aug 3-8

 

AAAS

San Jose, CA

Feb 12-16, 2015

 

DAMOP 2015

Columbus, Ohio

June 8-12, 2015

 

3

Deadlines

 

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

                                                                                                    

 

Manuscripts

 

 

Registration

 

 

4

Travels, Visitors

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

 

Arrivals

 

 

Departures

 

 

Visits

Roy (Aug 23-24, 2014), Sen Gupta (?), Surzhykov (June 2015?), Florescu (?), Avdonina (2015?)

 

 

RHP

Pitt

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July

-Aug 1

 

 

 

Aug

10-

2-9

Lincolnville, ME

 

Sept

-25?

?26-Oct2?

?Adirondacks?

 

Oct

?3-16?

?17-20?

Ithaca, NY

 

 

5

Manuscripts

 

 

 

 

 

 

572

"Photon Absorption and Photon Scattering - What We Don't Know and Why It Matters", R. H. Pratt, published Radiat. Phys. Chem 95, 4-13 (2014).

 

 

573

"Two-photon decay of inner-shell vacancies in heavy atoms",  A. Surzhykov,  R. H. Pratt, and S. Fritzsche, published PhysRevA 88, 042512 (2013)

 

6

Recent Papers and Preprints

 

 

 

 

 

a

Pratt

"QED effects in scattering processes involving atomic bound states: Radiative recombination", Lindgren, Salomonson, Holmberg, PRA 89, 062504 (2014)

 

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

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

 

c

"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

 

 

 

 

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.