A study of atomic iodine and molecular thallium iodide by X-ray photoelectron and auger electron spectroscopy

The I3d5/2 binding energy has been measured in atomic iodine, thallium iodide and cesium iodide by high temperature gas-phase photoelectron spectrscopy using Al K (1486.6 eV) X-rays. The iodine M₅N_4,5N_4,5 (¹G₄) Auger energies for TlI and CsI have also been measured and combined with binding energies to yield extra-atomic relaxation energies of 0.5 and O.3 eV, respectively, after corrections are applied to the Auger parameter. Charges were calculated using the simple potential model, which was also used to obtain an estimate of the atomic T14f binding energy. Two other estimates of the atomic T14f7/2 binding energy have also been calculated, both based on Dirac-Fock ΔSCF binding energies. The results of the three methods suggest a value of 125.3 ± 0.2 eV for T14f7/2.     

Computerized Routeing for Community Nurses — A Pilot Study

Community nurses spend a relatively large proportion of their time travelling. If this could be reduced, benefits would include increased time for direct patient care and reduced costs. This paper describes a pilot study in the Dumfries and Galloway Health Board to see if computerized vehicle routeing could reduce the distance and time of travelling. It is concluded that problems with implementation and characteristics of nurses' journeys (particularly the short distances travelled between long stops) make it unlikely that net savings could be achieved using computers. Nonetheless, some benefits might be obtained by taking a rational look at aspects of nurses' travelling.     

Anharmonic oscillators in higher dimension: Accurate energy eigenvalues and matrix elements

Energy eigenvalues and matrix elements of various anharmonic oscillators are determined to a high accuracy by applying a method for determining the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of real symmetric para-p diagonal matrices (described in the preceding paper). Our results for the 2- and 3-dimensional oscillators are new and complement similar accurate results for the one dimensional oscillators available in the literature.     

Determination of eigenvalues of real symmetric para-p diagonal matrices

A method is presented for an accurate numerical determination of eigenvalues of real symmetric para-p diagonal matrices. The method takes advantage of the band structure to break up the matrix intop ×p blocks and performing algebraic operations including inversions on these blocks only, no matter what the size of the matrix is. The eigenvalues are determined independently one at a time. Thus any error in the determination of one eigenvalue does not affect the other eigenvalues. The method is ideally suited for the Schrödinger eigen alue problem of the anharmonic potentials, which is taken up in the following paper.     

LargeP T P−P collisions to probe the gluonic and sea spin distribution in the proton

We parametrise the polarised gluon and sea distribution functions incorporating the interpretation of the EMC experiment that, due to the axial anomaly the observed quark contribution to proton spin at Q ²>=10.7 GeV². Typical processes to isolate the gluonic and sea content of the proton studied here are the largeP _T direct photon production processes (a) using single polarized protonPPX and (b) polarized beam and target protonPPX. In both the above process the dominant contribution comes from the Compton subprocess and so can be used as a clean probe of the gluonic content of the proton. LargeP _T muon pair production PP(^+–)X are also studied and we find that the annihilation subprocess dominates, but not much larger than the Compton subprocess and so may not be a clean probe of the sea content of the proton. The effect of two loop corrections to the parametrisation and asymmetries are also considered, and are found to be negligible.