Program overview

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 29 APRIL 2001

Session J1. FHP/FPS: Perspectives on Major High Energy Physics Projects.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom North/Central, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J1.001 The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider
Michael Riordan (Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz)
15:06 J1.002 Success Factors in Management of Large Projects
Thomas B.W. Kirk (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
15:42 J1.003 LEP, LHC and European Perspectives on the SSC
Herwig Schopper (CERN and University of Hamburg)
16:18 J1.004 An Historical and Policy Perspective on the Plight of the SSC
David Goldston
   

Session J2. DPF/DNP: Progress in Neutrino Physics.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Grand Ballroom South, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J2.001 Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations: Results from Super-K and K2K
Christopher Walter (Boston University), Super Kamiokande and K2K Collaboration
15:06 J2.002 Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Kevin T. Lesko (Institute of Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:42 J2.003 Direct Determination of Neutrino Mass
Petr Vogel (Physics Department, California Institute of Technology)
16:18 J2.004 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award Talk: \nu_e or not \nu_e? (and other high \Delta m^2 questions)
Janet Conrad (Columbia University)
16:54 J2.005 Neutrinos and Nuclear Astrophysics
Wick Haxton (Institute for Nuclear Theory)
   

Session J3. DPB: New Directions in Accelerators.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance East, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J3.001 Challenges of High Luminosity B Factories
Michael Sullivan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
15:06 J3.002 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Thomas Roser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
15:42 J3.003 Accelerator Physics Issues for Spallation Neutron Sources
Jie Wei (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Spallation Neutron Source Accelerator Physics Team
16:18 J3.004 Recent Progress in Linac-Based Free-Electron Lasers
Stephen V. Milton (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)
16:54 J3.005 Developments in Laser and Plasma-Based Accelerators
Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)
   

Session J4. DNP/GFB: Unsolved Problems in the Few-Nucleon Continuum.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West A, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J4.001 Nuclear three-body scattering: progress and problems
Gerald Payne (University of Iowa)
15:06 J4.002 The Nuclear Three-Body Continuum
Carl R. Brune (UNC-Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laborat ory)
15:42 J4.003 Open problems in radiative capture studies of A=4 nuclei
Henry Weller (Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0308, USA)
16:18 J4.004 Four-Nucleon Scattering: Challenges and Opportunities
António C. Fonseca (Centro de Física Nuclear, University of Lisbon, Av. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisbon, PORTUGAL)
   

Session J5. FEd: Whither Advanced Placement.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Renaissance West B, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J5.001 Where Should We Go With Advanced Placement?
William Lichten (Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University)
15:06 J5.002 The AP Exam: Is This How People Learn?
Arthur Eisenkraft (Bedford Public Schools)
15:42 J5.003 AP as a tool for bringing the results of physics education research to the classroom
Gay Stewart (University of Arkansas, Department of Physics)
16:18 J5.004 Advanced Placement: Access Not Exclusion
Lee Jones (The College Board)
16:54 J5.005 Will the Real Advanced Placement Program Please Stand Up?
Peter Clarke (Bronxville High School)
   

Session J6. DAP: How Galaxies Form and Evolve.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Auditorium, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J6.001 Evolution of Fluctuations From the Early Universe To Galaxy
David Spergel (Princeton University amp; IAS)
15:06 J6.002 Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation
Matthias Steinmetz (University of Arizona)
15:42 J6.003 Formation of the Present Day Galaxies
Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University)
16:18 J6.004 Effects of the Cluster Environment on Galaxy Evolution
Ben Moore (Durham University)
16:54 J6.005 Global Star Formation and Gas Dynamics in Colliding and Merging Galaxies
Bruce Elmegreen (IBM Watson Research Center)
   

Session J8. DNP: Electromagnetic Interactions.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room Congressional B, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J8.001 Measurement of the Proton's G_Ep/G_Mp Ratio to Q^2=5.6 GeV^2 at JLab
Olivier Gayou (College of William and Mary and Universite de Clermont-Ferrand), JLab Hall A Collaboration
14:42 J8.002 Polarization Transfer in the D(\vec e\,,e^\prime\vec p\,) Reaction
Bitao Hu (Hampton University), JLab E89-028 Collaboration
14:54 J8.003 Neutron Electric Form Factor Measurement at TJNAF
Hongguo Zhu (University of Virginia/Jefferson Lab)
15:06 J8.004 Extraction of g1p in the Resonance Region
Renee Fatemi (University of Virginia), CLAS Collaboration
15:18 J8.005 Angular Distribution Measurements of the d(\gamma,p)n Differential Cross Section at High Energies
Elaine Schulte (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Hall A Collaboration
15:30 J8.006 Measurement of Proton Polarization in Neutral Pion Photo-production
Krishni Wijesooriya (Argonne National Laboratory), Jefferson Lab Hall-A Collaboration
15:42 J8.007 Dynamical calculations for d(e,e' \pi^+) reactions
Kawtar Hafidi, Harry Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)
15:54 J8.008 Nuclear Transparency from Quasielastic A(e,e'p) Reactions up to Q^2 = 8 (GeV/c)^2
David McKee (New Mexico State University), E94-139 Collaboration
16:06 J8.009 Study of a Possible Nuclear Dependence in R(x,Q^2) = \sigma_L / \sigma_T at Small x and Q^2
M. Eric Christy (Hampton University), JLab E99-118 Collaboration
16:18 J8.010 Measurement of R = \sigma_L / \sigma_T in the Nucleon Resonance Region
Yongguang Liang (The American University / Jefferson Lab), JLab E94-110 Collaboration
16:30 J8.011 A high power liquid hydrogen target for the SLAC E158 experiment
J. Gao, R. Carr, K. Gustafsson, R.D. McKeown, A. Scott (California Institute of Technology), R. Boyce, A. Candia, T. Weber, J.G. Weisend II (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
16:42 J8.012 Magnetic Verification of the G0 Superconducting Magnet System
Lawrence Lee (University of Manitoba/TRIUMF), G0 Collaboration
   

Session J9. GGR/GFC: Experimental Gravity and Gravitational Radiation.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 2, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J9.001 Precision Measurement of Newton's Constant
Jens H. Gundlach (University of Washington, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Box 354290, Seattle,WA98195)
15:06 J9.002 Sub-millimeter Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-square Law
C.D. Hoyle (University of Washington), Eotwash Group Team
15:18 J9.003 Gravitational Experiment Below 1 Millimeter and Search for Extra-Dimensional Effects
Joshua Long, Allison Churnside, John Price (University of Colorado, Boulder CO)
15:30 J9.004 Testing Scalar-Tensor Gravity using Space Gravitational-Wave Interferometers
Paul D. Scharre, Clifford M. Will (Washington University, St. Louis)
15:42 J9.005 Extension of Sagnac Calibration to Broadband LISA GW Signals
Peter L. Bender (Univ. of Colorado), Craig J. Hogan (Univ. of Washington)
15:54 J9.006 Constraining sources and theories with gravitational wave observations
James Graber (ICS)
16:06 J9.007 Unequal arm gravitational wave interferometers
Shane L. Larson, William A. Hiscock (Montana State University), Ronald W. Hellings (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
16:18 J9.008 Angular Fluctuations of Mirrors at LIGO
Biplab Bhawal (LIGO-Caltech), Gabriela Gonzalez (The Pennsylvania State University), David Ottaway (LIGO-Hanford), Tiffany Summerscales (The Pennsylvania State University)
16:30 J9.009 Measurement of Motion Transfer Functions for Mirror Suspensions
Amber Stuver (Penn State), Mark Beilby (Willamette), Aran Glancy, Gabriela Gonzalez (Penn State)
16:42 J9.010 A directional analysis of environmental signals in gravitational wave detectors
Gabriela Gonzalez (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, The Pennsylvania State University)
16:54 J9.011 Testing the Gaussianity of Gravitational-Wave Detector Noise
Lee Samuel Finn, Gabriela Gonzalez, Patrick Sutton (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Penn State)
17:06 J9.012 Scalar Gravity Waves from Neutron Stars
Stephen Fairhurst, Lee Samuel Finn, Joshua L. Willis, Jacek Wisniewski (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA)
17:18 J9.013 Physics and Astrophysics from Distorted Pulsars
Stephen Fairhurst, Lee Samuel Finn, Joshua L. Willis, Jacek Wisniewski (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA)
   

Session J10. DPF: Particle Theory.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 3, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J10.001 Nonperturbative solution of field theories quantized on the light cone
John Hiller (Department of Physics, University of Minnesota-Duluth)
14:42 J10.002 Frame-Independence of Exclusive Amplitudes in the Light-Front Quantization
Chueng Ji, Chad Mitchell (North Carolina State University)
14:54 J10.003 Effective operators for heavy baryon systems in the combined heavy quark and large N_c limit
Boris Gelman, Thomas Cohen, Chi-Keung Chow, Aziza Baccouche (University of Maryland, College Park)
15:06 J10.004 Phenomenollogy of Heavy Baryons in the Combined Heavy Quark and Large N_c Limit
Aziza Baccouche, Borris Gelman, C.K. Chow, Tom Cohen (University of Maryland at College Park)
15:18 J10.005 Three-solitons scattering
Ramón J Cova (La Universidad del Zulia), UA FC Collaboration
15:30 J10.006 Nystrom plus Correction Method for Solving Bound State Equations in Momentum Space
Alfred Tang, John Norbury (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
15:42 J10.007 The Scattering Problem for the Square-Root Klein-Gordon Equation
Walter S. Jaronski (Radford University, Radford, VA)
15:54 J10.008 Examples of Galilei-invariant mechanics
Harry Woodcock (Philadelphia University)
16:06 J10.009 NEW NEUTRAL CURRENT INTERACTION IN THE SU(2)XU(1) GAUGE GROUP, SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN BY TWO HIGGS-KIBBLE DOUBLETS
JOSIP SOLN (ARL, Adelphi, MD 20783)
16:18 J10.010 Disproof of the Principle of Local Conservation of Energy in Classical Mechanics
Ronald Bruner (Department of Chemistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701)
16:30 J10.011 A Model of Elementary Particle Interactions
Irshadullah Khan (The College of Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas)
16:42 J10.012 Microcausality and Finslerian Quantum Fields
Howard Brandt (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783)
16:54 J10.013 On the Seeming Existence of Matter, and the Deeper Nature of Reality as Software Alone
Jagdish Srivastava (CNS Research Professor, Colorado State University)
17:06 J10.014 World Matrix Self-Observability
William Lemmon (4th Generation)
   

Session J12. DNP: Relativistic Heavy Ions I.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 5, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J12.001 Antiproton Production in 19 and 12 GeV/c p-A Collisions at the BNL-AGS.
Brett Fadem (Iowa State University), E941 Collaboration
14:42 J12.002 Leading Baryons in p+A Interactions at the AGS
Andrew Rose (Vanderbilt University), An Tai (University of California at Los Angeles), AGS E941 Collaboration
14:54 J12.003 Equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties associated with the chiral phase transition at finite density in the Gross-Neveu Mode
Fred Cooper (Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Wenjin Mao (Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854), Anupam Singh (Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Alan Chodos (American Physical Society, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 2074)
15:06 J12.004 Multiplicity Distributions of Charged Particles measured by Phobos at RHIC
Carla Vale (MIT), Phobos Collaboration
15:18 J12.005 Measurement of the Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Pseudorapidity Density with the PHOBOS Vertex Detector
Michael Reuter (University of Illinois at Chicago), PHOBOS Collaboration
15:30 J12.006 Radial Flow
Jane Burward-Hoy (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration
15:42 J12.007 PHENIX particle multiplicity compared to the predictions from various event generator models
Indrani Ojha (Vanderbilt University), PHENIX Collaboration
15:54 J12.008 Electron Spectroscopy in Au+Au collisions at \sqrts~=~130A~GeV with PHENIX
Ralf Averbeck (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration
16:06 J12.009 A Study of Measurable Vector Meson Effects
James Nagle (Columbia University)
16:18 J12.010 MEASUREMENT OF NEUTRAL PION CORRELATIONS WITH THE PHENIX ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER
Mike Heffner (LLNL), Phenix Collaboration
16:30 J12.011 STAR HBT Interferometry Results: Charged Pion Correlations at Midrapidity from s^1/2=130 GeV/A Gold-Gold Collisions
Michael Lisa (The Ohio State University), STAR Collaboration
16:42 J12.012 STAR HBT Interferometry Results: Pion Phase Space Density, Kaon HBT, and More
John G. Cramer (Department of Physics, University of Washington), STAR Collaboration
16:54 J12.013 Event-by-event two-particle axial phase-space correlation analysis of Au-Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 130 GeV
Aya Ishihara (the University of Texas at Austin), the STAR Collaboration
17:06 J12.014 Neutron Spectra and Correlations in AuAu Collisions at RHIC
Michael Murray (Cyclotron Texas A and M University), BRAHMS Collaboration
   

Session J14. DAP: X-Rays and Gamma Rays.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 14, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J14.001 Discovery of a Cyclotron Line in X Per
Laurence E. Peterson, Wayne Coburn, William A. Heindl, Richard E. Rothschild (University of California, San Diego / CASS), Joern Wilms, Ruediger Staubert (University of Tuebingen / IAAT)
14:42 J14.002 Moderate-Frequency QPOs in X-Ray Binaries via Bardeen-Petterson Effect
P. Chris Fragile, Grant Mathews, James Wilson (Center for Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame)
14:54 J14.003 Observations of the BL Lac object, 1H1426+428 at TeV gamma-ray energies.
Trevor Weekes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (for the VERITAS Collaboration).), VERITAS Collaboration
15:06 J14.004 Model for X-ray Emission in the Jets and Hot Spots of Radio Galaxies
Charles Dermer (Naval Research Laboratory), Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
15:18 J14.005 Intrinsic energy cut-off in diffusive shock acceleration: possible reason for non-detection of TeV-protons in SNRs
Mikhail Malkov, Patrick Diamond (University of California at San Diego), Thomas Jones (University of Minnesota)
15:30 J14.006 Relativistic Outflows from ADAFs
Peter Becker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University), Prasad Subramanian (National Center for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune, India), Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/GSFC, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics)
15:42 J14.007 Angular Momentum Transport in Thin Accretion Disks and Intermittent Accretion
P.S. Coppi (Yale Univ.), B. Coppi (MIT)
15:54 J14.008 The Kinematics of Gamma-ray Bursts
Jay D. Salmonson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
16:06 J14.009 Search for short bursts of TeV emission with the Milagrito detector.
Joseph McCullough (University of CA, Santa Cruz), The Milagro Collaboration
16:18 J14.010 The Energy Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts
David Band (X-2, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:30 J14.011 Gamma-ray bursts as LIGO/VIRGO sources of gravitational radiation
Maurice van Putten (MIT)
16:42 J14.012 The Cloudy Bag Model of Strange Stars
C. Y. Ng, K. S. Cheng (Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong), M. C. Chu (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), S. Y. Pei (Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University)
16:54 J14.013 EINSTEIN REVISITED: GRAVITATION IN CURVED SPACETIME WITHOUT EVENT HORIZONS
Darryl J. Leiter (FSTC, Charlottesville, VA), Stanley L. Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK)
17:06 J14.014 DO GALACTIC BLACK HOLE CANDIDATES HAVE INTRINSIC MAGNETIC MOMENTS?
Stanley L. Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK), Darryl J. Leiter (FSTC, Charlottville, VA)
   

Session J15. DNP: Nuclear Theory II.

Sunday afternoon, 14:30, Room 15, Renaissance Hotel

14:30 J15.001 T=0 and T=1 Pairing In Rotational States of the N=Z Nucleus ^80Zr
Alan Goodman (Tulane U.)
14:42 J15.002 Nonlinear Picture of Nuclear Motion
Gergana Stoitcheva (G. Stoitcheva), Jerry Draayer (J. P. Draayer), Feng Pan (Feng Pan)
14:54 J15.003 Deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics for Partially Equilibrated Systems
Athanasios Petridis (Drake University)
15:06 J15.004 An Exactly Solvable Many-Fermion Model
Nouredine Zettili (Jacksonville State University, Department of Physical Sciences, AL 36265)
15:18 J15.005 Deformations of the Fermion sp(4) Representation and its Subalgebras
Kristina Sviratcheva (Department of Physics and Astronomy,Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803), Ana Georgieva (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy,72 Tzarigradsko chaussee Blvd.,BG–1784 Sofia, Bulgaria), Vesselin Gueorguiev, Jerry Draayer (Department of Physics and Astronomy,Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803), Michail Ivanov (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy,72 Tzarigradsko chaussee Blvd.,BG–1784 Sofia, Bulgaria)
15:30 J15.006 Regge 6j symmetries and Spectra that result when T=0 Two body Interaction Matrix Elements are set equal to zero
Shadow J.Q. Robinson, Larry Zamick (Rutgers University)
15:42 J15.007 SU(3) Density Matrix Theory
George Rosensteel, Tsetsa Dankova (Tulane University)
15:54 J15.008 Neutron resonances, shell model spectra and random matrix theory
Declan Mulhall (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), Mihai Horoi (Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859), Vladimir Zelevinsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)
16:06 J15.009 A new efficient method for the Lippman-Schwinger integral equation"
George H. Rawitscher (Physics Department, University of Connecticut), I. Koltracht (Mathematics Department, University of Connecticut)
16:18 J15.010 Influence of the Coulomb Interaction on the Chemical Equilibrium of Nuclear Systems at Breakup
Jan Tõke, Wojtek Gawlikowicz, Wolf-Udo Schröder (University of Rochester), University of Rochester Team
16:30 J15.011 Energy spectra and electromagnetic transitions of Dy isotopes in the pseudo-SU(3) model
Gabriela Popa, J.P. Draayer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University), J.G. Hirsch (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
16:42 J15.012 Let Coset Invariance and Relativistic Invariance
Wayne Polyzou (The University of Iowa)
16:54 J15.013 Three Dimensional Calculations of the NN System
Ch. Elster (Ohio University), I. Fachruddin, W. Gloeckle (Ruhr-University Bochum)