Recent Developments with the Los Alamos Atomic Physics Codes

Full text: The LANL contribution to the IAEA Atomic and Molecular Data Code Centre is the online version of atomic physics codes. These codes are accessed online by users to perform atomic structure calculations, including excitation and ionization cross sections, for arbitrary ions and configurations. A brief description of the online capabilities was presented. A short summary of the ATOMIC plasma modeling code was also provided. Recent improvements to the CATS code were discussed, in particular, the recently developed parallel computing capability. Several examples of the use of the LANL suite of atomic physics codes to applications of interest to magnetic fusion were discussed including recent boron power loss calculations and preliminary results for modeling low temperature tungsten plasmas. (author)