ATOMIC PHYSICS AT THE CDU.

These pages describe the research carried out by Dr Jim Mitroy and collaborators at the Charles Darwin University. The research is in the general area of atomic structure and electron(positron)-atom collisions. For the last five years our energy has been focussed on two topics, (a) understanding the interactions that occur between positrons and atoms (b) describing the long range between two atoms. Research on these topics is intensely computational.

Ph.D. Scholarship available.

Personnel.

Current Students and Research Associates.

Dr JunYi Zhang

ARC Research Associate

Former Students and Research Associates.

Dr Gregory Ryzhikh		Former ARC Research Associate
Dr Igor Ivanov	Former ARC Research Associate
Dr Michael Bromley		Former Ph.D. Student
Dr Sergey Novikov		Former ARC Research Associate

Research Topics and research group information.

Positron-hydrogen scattering

The positron-hydrogen system is one of the simplest 3-body scattering systems.

Positronic Atoms

It is possible for positrons to bind to atoms and form electronically stable states. These states do decay by the process of electron-positron annihilation. Besides the web-page, a general review article is available. This research has been instrumental in understanding the dynamics of positron annihilation with atomic and molecular systems. Refer to the article in New Scientist

Positronium binding to atoms

The Positronium system can also bind to atoms and form a number of temporary short-lived species.

Elastic scattering of electrons and positrons

This is a report being prepared for the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurement (ICRU)

Electron-ion scattering

Possible postgraduate projects

Publication list.

A comprehensive list of my publications. Includes pdf or ps files for most of them.

ANU alter ego.

Another web site of mine with some miscellaneous stuff. Not organized.

Computer Programs.

• A (basis-set) Hartree-Fock program for Atomic structure calculations
• Quantum Defect programs for hadronic atoms

Useful Links

Collaborators (People who have worked with us on some joint projects).

• Dr A. Stelbovics, Murdoch University
• Dr. K Ratnavelu, University of Malaya
• Dr. K Varga, Argonne National University
  (also at http://www.atomki.hu/~PH/authors/aut02838.htm)
• Professor M Charlton, University of Wales, Swansea

Competitors (Others working on very similar research)

• Prof David Schrader, Marquette University Also http://vmsb.csd.mu.edu/~6031schrader/index.html
• Dr Massimo Mella, Cardiff University .
• Dr Dario Bressanini, University of Milan
• Dr S Saito, University of Chuyko
• Atomic Theory Group, University of New South Wales
• Dr Gleb Gribakin, Queens University of Belfast
• Professor F. A. Gianturco, University of Rome

ECG people, people who know the values of explicitly correlated gaussians

• Professor K. Strasburger, Wroclaw University of Technology
• Professor L Adamowicz, University of Arizona
• Dr Sergiy Bubin, University of Arizona
• Professor K Varga, Vanderbilt

Some other groups in positron physics

• Prof Cliff Surko, University of California, San Diego
• Centre for Antimatter-Matters Studies (hosted at ANU)
• Group of Jason Engbrecht

Other groups interested in polarization and/or atom-atom interactions

• Dr Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware, Newark
• Dr Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
• Dr James Babb, ITAMP (hosted at ANU)
• Dr Beatrice Bussery-Honvault,
• Dr E Tiemann, Institute of Quantum Optics, Hannover
• European cold Molecules Network
• Dr G Groenenboom, Institute for Molecules, Radboud Universirtm Nijmengen

Computing.

• South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Journals which publish Atomic Physics

Publishers of Physics Books

Australian Journal of Physics (no longer published). Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics APS journal home page Physical Review A Physical Review Letters European Physical Journal D. Physica Scripta Atomic and Nuclear Data Tables International Journal Quantum Chemistry Molecular Physics Journal of Atomic and Molecular Science J. Chem. Phys. online Chemical Physics Letters European Physical Society Journals. Few Body Systems Journal Hyperfine Interactions Acta Physica Polonica A LANL Preprints Nuclear Instruments and Methods B Nuclear Instruments and Methods B (TOC) Nuclear Physics Electronic (Phys.Letts:B, Nuc.Phys.A,B, NIM:A) Surfaces and Interfaces (J.Electr.Spec, NIMB) Reviews of Modern Physics Physics Reports Reports on Progress in Physics Astrophysics Journal NASA Astrophysics Data Service Computer Physics Communications Journal of Computational Physics Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Institute of Physics American Institute of Physics Springer-Verlag (New York) World Scientific Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Academic Press Plenum Publishing Elsevier North-Holland

Atomic Physics Internet Lists

• Atomic Molecular Physics Laboratories
• Atomic Physics on the Internet
• Theoretical Atomic and Molecular, and Optical (TAMOC) page
• The Internet Pilot TO Physics (Tip-Top)
• Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Sites (Sweden)
• Table Top Positrons
• Table Top Positrons (US mirror)
• Physics Finder (search AIP journals)
  

Sources of Atomic Data

• NIST PRD Databases, Gaithersburg, MD
  • Atomic Spectrocopy Databases
  • Atomic Energy Levels Database
  • Bibliographic Database on Atomic Transition Probabilities
  • Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Section Database
  • Spectrum of Platinum Lamp for Ultraviolet Spectrograph Calibration
  • Fundamental constants of Physics and Chemistry
• CFA, Atomic & Molecular Data for Astronomy

Physics and Atomic Physics Organisations

• Australian Institute of Physics
  
• Australian Academy of Science
  
• CSIRO
  
• AINSE
  
• Defence Science and technology Organisation
  
• American Physical Society
  
• American Institute of Physics
  
• Institute of Physics (UK)
  
• APS Few-body group
  
• Few-body physics network
  
• CERN particle physics laboratory
  
• PhysNet, European Physical Society
  
• National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Physics Division at NIST
• NASA

Computational Physics

• South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
• Computers in Physics
• Numerical Recipes
• Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS)
• Computer Physics Communications (program library)
• Netlib: Scientific Computing resources

Jobs in Physics and Atomic Physics

• Atomic Physics on the Internet Job list
• Job Resource at the University of Adelaide
• Job Listings at AIP
• Contains links to CSIRO ads

Other Science

• JunkScience.com: Exposes the use of garbage science in the media and public policy. Very comprehensive
• Skeptical Enquirer Home Page
• SEPP

FAQS, Primers and Tutorials

• WWW Frequently Asked Questions
• Introduction to UNIX
• Zen and the Art of the Internet.
• Netscape Tutorials
• HTML Tutorials and Style Guides
• HTML References Sites (IMA)
• NCSA - Beginner's Guide to HTML
• LaTeX Index of terms, commands, etc
• LaTeX Documentation
• Usenet FAQs
• List of ftp archives

WWW Search Engines

• Googol .
• Googol Scholar.

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