The UK Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics R-Matrix Consortium exists to develop and exploit the UK Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics R-matrix codes on ARCHER. The R-Matrix suite is a set of programs for electron (positron) -atom and -molecule scattering, (ultrafast) laser pulse interactions and related problems. UK-AMOR’s scientific goals are to: study attosecond physics in atomic and molecular systems; compute fusion-relevant atomic data; study electron-molecule collisions with relevance to biological radiation damage, fusion energy and technology. The consortium allows high-end use of the CCPQ codes RMATRIX I, PRMAT (RMATRXII, PFARM), UKRMol(+) and RMAT_REACT, and RMT. Major code development projects of UK-AMOR include the development of a novel R-matrix treatment of ultracold chemistry, RMAT_REACT, which will be used to study key systems (atom-atom and molecule-molecule) in parallel with experiments being performed in the UK and abroad, and algorithmic improvements made to existing codes to improve functionality and scalability.
The consortium is the focus for UK and international activity for users of the UK-AMOR codes suite. It is committed to: making its codes widely available; interacting closely with CCPQ; engaging with industrial partners and international collaborators through workshops and other activities; broadening the user community for the AMOR methodology and codes; providing training for the next generation of computational scientists in the UK.
