Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 23 APRIL 2002

11:00 X2.001 Current Issues in Pulsar Physics

Jonathan Arons (University of California, Berkeley)

11:36 X2.002 Chandra Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Bryan Gaensler (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

12:12 X2.003 Radio-Quiet Pulsars and Point Sources in Supernova Remnants

David Helfand (Columbia University)

12:48 X2.004 EGRET unidentified sources and possible counterparts

Isabelle A. GRENIER (Université Paris VII amp; CEA Saclay, Service d'Astrophysique, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France)

11:00 X3.001 Recent Results from the PHENIX Experiment

Paul Stankus (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:36 X3.002 Latest Results from the BRAHMS Experiment at RHIC

J.H. Lee (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:12 X3.003 Recent Results from the STAR Experiment

Mike Lisa (Ohio State University)

12:48 X3.004 Latest Results from the PHOBOS Experiment at RHIC

Burt Holzman (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:00 X4.001 Measurement of the Casimir force between parallel metallic surfaces

Giacomo Bressi (INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Italy), Giovanni Carugno (INFN, Sezione di Padova, Italy), Roberto Onofrio, Giuseppe Ruoso (Dipartimento di Fisica "Galileo Galilei", Universita` di Padova, and INFN, Sezione di Padova, Italy)

11:12 X4.002 Size- and geometry-dependent trapping efficiency of the optical stretcher

Joshua R. Stephenson (Physics Department, Creighton University), Michael G. Nichols

11:24 X4.003 Decoherence of Magnetization in a Field Gradient

Leon Heller (Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:36 X4.004 Quantum Time Entanglement of Electrons

J.H. McGuire, A.L. Godunov (Tulane University)

11:48 X4.005 Spectral Analysis of the Quantum-Classical Transition

Benjamin Greenbaum (Columbia University), Bala Sundaram (City University of New York), Salman Habib (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kosuke Shizume (University of Library and Information Sciences, Japan)

12:00 X4.006 An analytical approach to studying non-exponential decay

Athanasios Petridis (Drake University), Marshall Luban (Iowa State University), Jon Vermedahl, Lawrence Staunton (Drake University)

12:12 X4.007 Proper Relativistic Wave Function via Canonical Transformations

Robert L.W. Chen (Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322)

12:24 X4.008 Density of states of Frenkel excitons in weakly disordered systems

Abdelkrim Boukahil (Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190), Nouredine Zettili (Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265)

X4.009 Wigner--Eckart Theorem and the Group SO(2,1)

Nouredine Zettili (Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL 36265), Abdelkrim Boukahil (Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190)

X4.010 Numerical Studies of Non-Exponential Decay of Wavefunctions

Jon Vermedahl, Athanasios Petridis (Drake University), Marshall Luban (Iowa State University), Lawrence Staunton (Drake University)

11:00 X6.001 Gamma-ray Bursts from the HETE Mission: Results from the First Year and Future Prospects

George R. Ricker (MIT), HETE Science Team

11:12 X6.002 Recent developments on the origin of X-ray flashes

John Heise (SRON), Jean in 't Zand (Utrecht University), Peter van Glabbeek (SRON)

11:24 X6.003 X-ray Flashes and Gamma-ray Bursts

R. Marc Kippen, Peter M. Woods (National Space Science amp; Technology Center), John Heise, Jean in 't Zand (SRON National Institute for Space Research), Robert D. Preece, Michael Briggs (National Space Science amp; Technology Center)

11:36 X6.004 On the nature of X-ray flashes and X-rich gamma-ray bursts

Bing Zhang, Peter Meszaros (Pennsylvania State University)

11:48 X6.005 A Population of Long Spectral Lag Gamma-Ray Bursts

Jay Norris (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

12:00 X6.006 Explaining GRB Lag With Spectral Evolution

Daniel Kocevski, Edison Liang (Rice University), Brad Schaefer (University of Texas - Austin)

12:12 X6.007 Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission: Implications from Shock Acceleration Theory

Matthew Baring (Rice University)

12:24 X6.008 Dynamics of Relativistic Magnetic Explosions in Gamma Ray Bursters

Maxim Lyutikov (McGill University and MIT), Roger Blandford (Caltech)

12:36 X6.009 Nickel and Iron in the Hypernova/Collapsar Model Of GRBS

G. C. McLaughlin (NCSU), R. A. M. J. Wijers (SUNY Stony Brook)

12:48 X6.010 The Swift GRB Explorer Mission

J. A. Nousek (Penn State University), N. Gehrels (GSFC), Swift Team

11:00 X7.001 Solar Neutrino Flux: Evidence for Intrinsic Variability

P. Sturrock, G. Walther, M. Weber (Stanford Univ.), J. Scargle (NASA Ames), M. Wheatland (Sydney Univ.)

11:12 X7.002 Solar Neutrino Flux: Implications of Intrinsic Variability

D.O. Caldwell (UC Santa Barbera), P.A. Sturrock (Stanford Univ.)

11:24 X7.003 Event Reconstruction at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Mark Boulay (Los Alamos National Laboratory), SNO Collaboration

11:36 X7.004 Measuring the Neutrino Interaction Rates in SNO for Variable Fiducial Volumes

Karsten Heeger (University of Washington, CENPA), SNO Collaboration

11:48 X7.005 Antineutrinos in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Colin Okada (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), SNO Collaboration

12:00 X7.006 Inclusive Neutrino and Antineutrino Reactions in Iron

Stephan Mintz (Florida International University)

12:12 X7.007 Status of the ^1H(^7Be,^8B)\gamma experiment at HRIBF

Ryan Fitzgerald (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), RIBENS Collaboration

12:24 X7.008 Test of Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis Model Predictions by Precision Measurement of the n+^1H->^2D+\gamma Cross Section at the WNR-Facility at LANL

E.-I. Esch, J. M. O'Donnell, S. A. Wender (LANSCE-3, LANL), S. Olmsted (Harvey Mudd, CA), J. D. Bowman, G. Morgan (P-23, LANL), J. Matthews (MIT), LANSCE-3 Team, P-23 Team, MIT Team

12:36 X7.009 Measurements of d(d,p)t~ and d(d,n)^3He~ Total Cross Sections at Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) Energies

D.~S. Leonard, C.~R. Brune, B.~M. Fisher, H.~J. Karwowski, E.~J. Ludwig, G.~W. Milanovich, M.~H. Wood (UNC at Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL))

12:48 X7.010 Strong resonances in elastic scattering of radioactive ^21Na on protons

C. Ruiz, F. Sarazin (University of Edinburgh), L. Buchmann (TRIUMF), T. Davinson (University of Edinburgh), R. E. Azuma (University of Toronto), A.A. Chen (Simon Fraser University), B. Fulton, D. Groombridge (York University), L. Ling (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University), A. Murphy (University of Edinburgh), J. Pearson (York University), I. Roberts, A. Robinson (University of Edinburgh), A.C. Shotter, P. Walden (TRIUMF), P.J. Woods (University of Edinburgh), TUDA Collaboration

13:00 X7.011 Preliminary measurements with DRAGON on resonances in the ^21Na(p,\gamma)^22Mg reaction.

John D'Auria (Simon Fraser,Yale,TRIUMF), TRIUMF-ISAC E824 Collaboration

13:12 X7.012 Measurement of the E_R=338 keV Resonance Strength for ^23Na(p,\alpha)^20Ne

C. Rowland, C. Iliadis, A.E. Champagne, J. Mosher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)

13:24 X7.013 Measurement of the strength of the ^18F(p,\alpha)^15O resonance at E_c.m. = 330 keV

D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Batchelder, J. C. Blackmon, M. S. Smith (Physics Division, ORNL), A. E. Champagne, R. Fitzgerald, C. Iliadis (Univ. North Carolina), T. Davinson, P. J. Woods (Univ. Edinburgh), R. L. Kozub (Tenn. Tech. Univ.), Z. Ma (Univ. Tenn.), P. D. Parker (Yale Univ.)

13:36 X7.014 Neutron Capture Cross Sections of ^\rm234U and ^\rm151Sm Measured at LANSCE.

R.S. Rundberg, J.B. Wilhelmy, G.G. Miller, D. Dry, P. Palmer, M.M. Fowler, J.L. Ullmann, R.C. Haight, L. Hunt (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:00 X10.001 Poncaré Invariant Models and the Non-Conservation of Helicity in Hadronic Physics

Gerald A. Miller (Department of Physics, Univ. of Washington)

11:36 X10.002 Recoil Polarization Effects in Quark Rescattering Mechanism

Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)

11:48 X10.003 Polarization Measurements in \pi^0 photoproduction

K. Wijesooriya (Argonne National Laboratory), Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration

12:00 X10.004 Proton Form Factor Ratio Measurement to Large Q^2 at JLab

Charles F. Perdrisat (the College of William and Mary), G_Ep(III) Collaboration

12:12 X10.005 Precise Measurement of Quasielastic Transverse Asymmetry A_T' and Neutron Magnetic Form Factor G_M^n from ^3\vec\mathrmHe(\vece,e')

W. Xu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), E95-001 Collaboration (For Jefferson Lab)

12:24 X10.006 Measurement of G_E^n via \vecd(\vece,e'n)p at Jefferson Lab

Frank R. Wesselmann (University of Virginia), E93026 Collaboration

12:36 X10.007 A New Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q^2=0.45(GeV/c)^2

Shigeyuki Tajima (Duke University and TUNL, for the E93-038 COLLABORATION)

12:48 X10.008 The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q^2 = 1.15 (GeV/c)^2

Bradley Plaster (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the E93-038 COLLABORATION)

13:00 X10.009 The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q^2 = 1.47 (GeV/c)^2

Aram Aghalaryan (Yerevan Physics Institute and Old Dominion University, for the E93-038 COLLABORATION)

13:12 X10.010 The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q^2 = 1.47 (GeV/c)^2 - Part II

William Tireman (Kent State University, for the E93-038 COLLABORATION)

11:00 X11.001 XTE J1946+274: An Enigmatic X-ray Pulsar

Colleen A. Wilson (NASA/MSFC), Mark H. Finger (NSSTC), M.J. Coe (Southampton University), Ignacio Negueruela (Observatoire de Strasbourg)

11:12 X11.002 Observations of Magnetic Fields in Accreting Pulsars with the RXTE

Wayne Coburn (UCB/SSL), William Heindl, Richard Rothschild (UCSD/CASS), Ingo Kreykenbohm, Jörn Wilms, Rüdiger Staubert (IAAT), Peter Kretschmar (ISDC/MPE)

11:24 X11.003 Silicon Ion Fluorescence Spectra in Vela X-1 and Cygnus X-3

Duane Liedahl (LLNL), Masao Sako (Caltech), Steven Kahn, Frits Paerels (Columbia), Norbert Schulz, Patrick Wojdowski (MIT), Michael McCollough (MSFC), Fumiaki Nagase (ISAS)

11:36 X11.004 Energy-dependent X-ray variability of Cygnus X-1

Ian Smith, Kyle Patrick (Rice University)

11:48 X11.005 Accretion of low angular momentum material on compact objects. I. Hydrodynamical inviscid case.

Daniel Proga, Mitchell C. Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA), James M. Stone (Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA)

12:00 X11.006 On the correlated X-ray and optical evolution of SS Cygni

William Priedhorsky, Sergey Trudolyubov, Katherine McGowan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:12 X11.007 Monitoring the Galactic Bulge Region with the RXTE PCA

Craig Markwardt (U. Maryland amp; NASA/GSFC), Jean Swank (NASA/GSFC)

12:24 X11.008 Chandra Synoptic Observations of M31

M.R. Garcia, A. Kong, A. Dosaj, J.E. McClintock, F.A. Primini, R. DiStefano, P. Barmby, S.S. Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

12:36 X11.009 The Mass of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in Galaxies

Joel Bregman, Jifeng Liu, Patrick Seitzer (University of Michigan)

12:48 X11.010 Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries in Elliptical Galaxies

Raymond White (University of Alabama)