Nuclear Physics Library

1963-1969

Atlas Laboratory Nuclear Physics Programme Library

The Nuclear Physics Laboratory at Oxford University were early users of the Chilton Atlas. They already had strong collaborations with UKAEA Harwell and decided early on that there was a need for a Library of useful programs in the area of nuclear physics. Additions to the Library started before the Chilton Atlas had arrived.

Details of the individual programs are mainly gathered from papers referencing their use. Some of the programs were frequently quoted in papers produced by other institutions.

No 1: A D Hill (1965)

Elastic shape cross sections were calculated using this program developed by R C Barrett and A D Hill

Coupled channels model was developed by Buck and Hill to treat photonuclear reactions on closed shell nuclei.

No 2: D Wilmore, P Hodgson (1964)

Wilmore received his PhD from Manchester University in 1962 under Brian Flowers (Even parity levels of mass 18 nuclei, effects of using Wood-Saxon functions) before moving to UKAEA Harwell. Fortran programs coded at Harwell included:

• OMW: Optical Model, calculation of neutron cross-sections from optical potentials
• HFW: Statistical Model

With P.E.Hodgson of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Oxford, Program No 2 was developed for the calculation of neutron cross-sections from optical potentials. The program was widely used by other groups. Wilmore continued generating similar programs well into the 1980s. (For example: CADE - A Computer Programme for Calculation of Nuclear Cross-Sections from Weisskopf-Ewing Theory AERE-R11515 (December 1984).

No. 3: Brian E F Macefield, M Yates: (1965)

Brian Macefield worked at AWRE Aldermaston's nuclear physics group before joining the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Program No 3 was used for analysing data using the optical model, the Hauser-Feshbach theory and the distorted wave Born approximation.

Brian Macefield also helped develop the program WIFIC - to assist in the production of CAMAC modules and a program for interactive data collection on the Department's PDP10. He died in 1974, age 38.

No. 9: W R Smith: (1967)

Optical model calculations to fit elastic scattering data

No. 10: S M Perez: (1967)

S M Perez calculated the direct-interaction components from the zero-range distorted wave theory without radial cut-off using Program No 3

No. 15: W D Hay, S. M. Perez, (1969)

No. 16: Ian Stuart Towner, W. G. Davies (1969)

No. 17: John M Nelson, Brian E F Macefield (1969)