Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 31 OCTOBER 2003

09:00 CA.001 What Do Effective Field Theories Tell Us About the Nuclear Force?

J. L. Friar (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:36 CA.002 Probing the effectiveness: effective field theory calculations of low-energy electroweak reactions on light nuclei

Daniel Phillips (Ohio University)

10:12 CA.003 Towards an exact description of the structure of light nuclei

W. Erich Ormand (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:48 CA.004 Effective interactions for weakly bound systems

Morten Hjorth-Jensen (Department of Physics and Center of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway)

11:24 CA.005 Wave function factorization in large scale nuclear structure problems

Thomas Papenbrock (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

09:00 CB.001 Nucleon Elastic Form Factors: An Experimentalist's Perspective

Glen Warren (Jefferson Lab)

09:36 CB.002 Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron with BLAST

Vitaliy Ziskin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), BLAST Collaboration

09:48 CB.003 Extraction of the Neutron Charge Form Factor from Measured Beam-Target Asymmetry in \vecd(\vece,e'n) at Q^2 = 0.5 and 1.0~(GeV/c)^2

Nikolai Savvinov (University of Maryland), JLab E93-026 Collaboration

10:00 CB.004 Measurement of G_E^n/G_M^n from the ^2H(\vece, e'\vecn)^1H Reaction to Q^2 = 1.45 (GeV/c)^2

B. Anderson (Kent State U, for the E93-038 Collaboration.), JLab E93-038 Collaboration

10:12 CB.005 A new measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using CLAS

Jeff Lachniet (Carnegie Mellon University), CLAS Collaboration

10:24 CB.006 Recent results from the SAMPLE experiment

Takeyasu Ito (California Institute of Technology), SAMPLE Collaboration

10:36 CB.007 Measuring the strange spin of the nucleon in MiniBooNE

David Cox (Indiana University), MiniBooNE Collaboration

10:48 CB.008 The commissioning of the G^0 Experiment.

Julie Roche (Jefferson Lab / Hall C), G0 Collaboration

11:00 CB.009 Data analysis of the parity violating elastic proton asymmetry of the first commissioning of the G^0 experiment

Jianglai Liu (University of Maryland, College Park), G0 Collaboration

11:12 CB.010 An Experiment to Measure GEn at Very High Q2

Bogdan Wojtsekhowski (Jefferson Lab)

11:24 CB.011 A future measurement of the nucleon axial form factor via neutrino scattering

Rex Tayloe (Indiana University, Department of Physics), FINeSE Collaboration

11:36 CB.012 Strange nucleon form factors from elastic electron and neutrino scattering

S.F. Pate (Physics Department, New Mexico State University)

09:00 CC.001 High energy pA collisions and the Color Glass Condensate

Jamal Jalilian-Marian (BNL (INT, University of Washington after Sept. 1st, 2003))

09:36 CC.002 Cronin effect, dipoles and unitarity in pA and dA collisions

Alberto Accardi, Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia U.)

09:48 CC.003 BRAHMS measurements at the most forward rapidities in d-Au collisions at RHIC

Ramiro Debbe (Brookhaven National Laboratory), BRAHMS Collaboration

10:00 CC.004 Inclusive particle production at forward and backward rapidity in RHIC d-Au collisions measured by the PHENIX Muon Arms

Ming Xiong Liu (Los Alamos National Lab), PHENIX Collaboration

10:12 CC.005 The charged-hadron/pion puzzle and deuteron-gold results at RHIC

Xiaofei Zhang, George Fai (Kent State University)

10:24 CC.006 pion, K, p transverse momentum spectra and ratios from d+Au collisions at RHIC

Lijuan Ruan (USTC/BNL), the STAR Collaboration

10:36 CC.007 Identified particle properties of Deuteron-Gold Collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV with the PHENIX spectrometer at RHIC.

Felix Matathias (RHIG, State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration

10:48 CC.008 Identified particle spectra and multiplicity dependence in p+p and d+Au collisions in STAR

Levente Molnar (Purdue University), STAR Collaboration

11:00 CC.009 Npart Determination for 200 GeV d+Au Collisions in PHOBOS

Aneta Iordanova (UIC), for the PHOBOS Collaboration

11:12 CC.010 Centrality Dependence of Particle Ratios from PHOBOS

Abigail Bickley (University of Maryland), PHOBOS Collaboration

11:24 CC.011 Pseudorapidity densities of charged particles for d+Au collisions at (\sqrts_NN=200) GeV

H Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory), BRAHMS Collaboration

11:36 CC.012 Lambda and ks production in d+Au collisions at sqrt(s)=200GeV

Hai Jiang (University of California Los Angeles), STAR Collaboration

11:48 CC.013 Strange Particle Production in sqrt(s)=200 GeV d+Au and p+p Collisions in STAR at RHIC

Richard Witt (University of Bern / Yale University), STAR Collaboration

09:00 CD.001 Current Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Mark Boulay (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration

09:12 CD.002 A Search for Solar Electron Antineutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

John Orrell (University of Washington), SNO Collaboration

09:24 CD.003 Radioactive Background Measurements in the Neutral Current Detector Array at SNO

G. A. Cox, P. J. Doe, J. A. Formaggio, S. McGee, L. C. Stonehill, R. G. H. Robertson, B. L. Wall, J. F. W. Wilkerson (University of Washington), A. L. Hallin (Queen's University), A. W. P. Poon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J. M. Wouters (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:36 CD.004 Measuring \theta_13 in a Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

Karsten M. Heeger (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Stuart J. Freedman, Kam-Biu Luk (University of California, Berkeley)

09:48 CD.005 Mass measurements along the rp-process path using the Canadian Penning trap mass spectrometer

J.A. Clark, J. Vaz, J.C. Wang (University of Manitoba / Argonne National Laboratory), C. Boudreau (McGill University / Argonne National Laboratory), R.C. Barber, K.S. Sharma (University of Manitoba), B. Blank, A. Heinz, A.F. Levand, G. Savard, D. Seweryniak, W. Trimble, Z. Zhou (Argonne National Laboratory), F. Buchinger, J.E. Crawford, S. Gulick, J.K.P. Lee (McGill University), G.D. Sprouse (Stony Brook University)

10:00 CD.006 Q_\beta Measurement of the N=Z rp-Process Waiting-Point Nucleus ^68Se and its Astrophysical Implications

Andreas Woehr, Ani Aprahamian, Plamen Boutachkov, Jose Louis Galache, Joachim Goerres, Artur Teymurazyan, Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics), Cary Davids, Andreas Heinz, Robert Janssens, Kim Lister, Dariuzs Seweryniak (Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Physics), Susan Fischer (De Paul University, Chicago,IL), D. Brenner (Chemistry Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA)

10:12 CD.007 Remeasurement of ^14N+^7Be for the astrophysical S_17(0) factor

G. Tabacaru, A. Azhari, C. Fu, C.A. Gagliardi, X. Tang, L. Trache, R.E. Tribble (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, Texas 77843), V. Burjan (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague-Rez, Czech Republic)

10:24 CD.008 Asymptotic normalization coefficents and nuclear astrophysical processes

A.M. Mukhamedzhanov (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University), P. Bem, V. Burjan (Nuclear Physics Institute, Prague-Rez, Czech Academy of Sciences), S. Cherubini (Ruhr-Universitaat, Bohum, Germany), C.A. Gagliardi (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University), V. Kroha, S. Piskor (Nuclear Physics Institute, Prague-Rez, Czech Academy of Sciences), C. Spitaleri (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud-INFN, Catania, Italy), R.E. Tribble (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University)

10:36 CD.009 From breakup to nuclear astrophysics: ^8B and the S_17 astrophysical factor

L. Trache, C. A. Gagliardi, R. E. Tribble (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX), F. Carstoiu (Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering Bucharest, Romania)

10:48 CD.010 Nuclear Compression Index of Infinite Nuclear Matter at Finite Temperature

David Hudson (10 Hitching Post Rd. ,Bozeman, MT, 59715)

11:00 CD.011 Triple collisions in solar matter

A.S. Kadyrov (Center for Atomic and Molecular Physics, School of mathematical and Physical Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth 6150, Australia), A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, F. Pirlepesov (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX, 77843)

11:12 CD.012

09:00 CE.001 Testing for incoherence in hadron quasifree scattering

R. J. Peterson (University of Colorado)

09:12 CE.002 Axial Spin Observables in dp Breakup

T.J. Whitaker, H.O. Meyer, B. von Przewoski, T. Rinckel, J. Doskow, R. Ibald (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, Bloomington, IN), P.V. Pancella (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI), P. Thoerengren-Engblom (Div. Nucl. Phys. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden), T. Wise (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), F. Rathman, B. Lorentz (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany)

09:24 CE.003 Determining Neutron-Proton Density Differences from Medium-Energy Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering.

R. E. Shamu, S. M. Ferguson (Western Michigan University), R. L. Schutt (Psi-Metric, LLC)

09:36 CE.004 ^48Ti(n,xnyp\gamma) reaction cross section using spallation neutrons for E_n = 1 to 250 MeV

D. Dashdorj (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC), P. E. Garrett, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, J. R. Cooper, W. Younes (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA), G. E. Mitchell (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC), M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, R. O. Nelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

09:48 CE.005 Cross sections for \gamma-ray production in the ^193Ir(n,xn\gamma) reactions^\ast

N. Fotiades, R.O. Nelson, M. Devlin, M.B. Chadwick, P. Talou (LANL), J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, P.E. Garrett, W. Younes (LLNL)

10:00 CE.006 Structure of heavy helium isotopes via the isobaric analog states in Lithium.

G.V. Rogachev, A. Aprahamian, P. Boutachkov, M. Quinn, J.J. Kolata, B. Skorodumov, A. Woehr (Physics Department, University of Notre Dame,IN 46556-5670, USA), V.Z. Goldberg, G. Chubarian (Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA), A. Fomichev, M.S. Golovkov, Yu.Ts. Oganessian, A. Rodin, R.S. Slepnev, G. Ter-Akopian, R. Wolski (Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia), W.H. Trzaska (Physics Department, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland), D.V. Aleksandrov (Russian Research Centre ``Kurchatov Institute'', Moscow, Russia), P.A. DeYoung, G.F. Peaslee, P.J. Mears (Physics Department, Hope College, Holland, MI 49422, USA), F.D. Becchetti, Y. Chen (Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

10:12 CE.007 Proton Transfer Spectroscopy in the Tin Region

A. Piechaczek, E.F. Zganjar (Louisiana State University), W.B. Walters, J. Shergur, A. Woehr (U. Maryland), C.R. Bingham, W. Krolas, Y. Larochelle, M.N. Tantawy (U. Tennessee), J.C. Batchelder (UNIRIB/ORAU), J.C. Hamilton (Vanderbilt), J. Cizewski, K. Jones, J. Thomas (Rutgers), J.R. Stone, N.J. Stone (U. Oxford), D.C. Radford, C. Baktash, J.R. Beene, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gomez Del Campo, R. Grzywacz, C.J. Gross, P.A. Hausladen, F. Liang, P.E. Mueller, D. Shapira, D.W. Stracener, R.L. Varner, C.-H. Yu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:24 CE.008 Measurements of neutron-rich tin isotopes using (d,p) reactions in inverse kinematics at the HRIBF

K. L. Jones, J. A. Cizewski, Micah Johnson, J. S. Thomas (Rutgers University), D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, D. Shapira, M. S. Smith (ORNL), R. L. Kozub, C. D. Nesaraja (Tennessee Technological University), Z Ma (Univeristy of Tennessee), T. Davinson, P. J. Woods (University of Edinburgh)

10:36 CE.009 Yield Measurements of Sn Nuclei Near the Proton Drip Line

E. Kwan, D.J. Morrissey, A. Stolz, A.D. Davies, T. N. Ginter, P.F. Mantica, T.J. Mertzimekis, F. Montes, A.C. Morton, S.N. Liddick, P. Santi (National Superconducting Cyclotron, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824), A.E. Stuchbery (Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia)

10:48 CE.010 Studies of N/Z equilibration via Heavy-Residue Isoscaling

G.A. Souliotis, M. Veselsky, D.V. Shetty, A. Keksis, E. Martin, S.J. Yennello (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843)

11:00 CE.011 Two-proton and d-alpha correlation functions in Sn+Sn and Xe+Au collisions

Giuseppe Verde (NSCL, Michigan State University), D.A. Brown (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), P. Danielewicz, Konrad Gelbke, K.K. Lau, W.G. Lynch, Wanpeng Tan, M.B. Tsang (NSCL, Michigan State University)

11:12 CE.012 Isospin Dynamics in Heavy Ion Fragmentation Reactions

Malgorzata Zielinska-Pfabe (Smith College, Northampton,MA 01063,USA), Virgil Baran, Maria Colonna (Affiliation), Massimo Di Toro (LNS,Via S. Sofia 44, I-95123 Catania,Italy), Hermann Wolter (Sektion Physik, University of Munich, Germany)

11:24 CE.013 On Controlled Fragmentation of Protons Through Stimulated Means

Eugene Pamfiloff (Optigon Research and Development)

11:36 CE.014 Transfer to the Continuum and Breakup of Exotic Nuclei

Filomena Nunes (NSCL and DPA Michigan State University, USA), Antonio Moro (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)

09:00 CF.001 Evaluation of charge state distribution and energy straggling data for the first stripper section of the RIA driver

Jake Livesay, Uwe Greife (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA), Elliot Kanter, Jerry Nolen (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA), Rand Watson, Dave Youngblood (Texas AM University, College Station, Texas, USA)

09:12 CF.002 A solenoidal transport system for transfer reactions in inverse kinematics

A. H. Wuosmaa, T. Al Tahtamouni (Physics Department, Western Michigan University), J. P. Schiffer (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

09:24 CF.003 Production of a radioactive \ ^76Kr beam using the re-cyclotron method

J.R. Cooper, L. Ahle, L. Bernstein, J. Punyon, A. Schiller (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D. Leitner, M.A. McMahan, J. Powell, C. Silver (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), N. Benczer-Koller, K. Hiles, G. Kumbartzki, M.J. Taylor (Rutgers University), T.J. Mertzimekis (NSCL Michigan State University)

09:36 CF.004 Precise efficiency calibration of an HPGe detector up to 3.5 MeV, with measurements and Monte Carlo calculations

N. Nica, J.C. Hardy, V.E. Iacob (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University), R.G. Helmer (Idaho State University)

09:48 CF.005 Role of the Microball in Doppler-shift attenuation lifetime measurements

C.J. Chiara, D.R. LaFosse, D.G. Sarantites, M. Devlin, F. Lerma, W. Reviol (Washington University)

10:00 CF.006 Efficiency calibration of the 4\pi--DANCE detector at LANSCE

E.-I. Esch, R. C. Haight, J. M. O'Donnell, R. Reifarth, T. A. Bredeweg, R. S. Rundberg, D. J. Vieira, j. b. Wilhelmy, J. M. Wouters (Los Alamos National Laboratory), A. M. Alpizar-Vicente, U. Greife, R. Hatarik (Colorado School of Mines)

10:12 CF.007 Update on the DANCE BaF_2 Array with Initial Results for Neutron Capture on ^234, 236U

T.A. Bredeweg, R. Reifarth, E.I. Esch, M.M. Fowler, R.C. Haight, J.M. O'Donnell, R.S. Rundberg, J.L. Ullmann, D.J. Vieira, J.B. Wilhelmy, J.M. Wouters (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA), U. Greife, A. Alpizar, R. Hatarik (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 80401, USA)

10:24 CF.008 STATUS OF THE NSCL GASEOUS-ION COLLECTOR PROJECT

L. Weissman, P.A. Lofy, D. Davies, D.J. Morrissey, P. Schury, S. Schwartz, G. Bollen (NSCL , Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI-48824)

10:36 CF.009 LEBIT, a facility for low-energy beam experiments at the NSCL

Georg Bollen, Debbie Davies, Patrick Lofy, Dave Morrissey, Ryan Ringle, Pete Schury, Stefan Schwarz, Tao Sun, Dave Wiggins, Leonid Weissman (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA)

10:48 CF.010 A Carbon Cluster Laser Ion Source

D.A. Davies, D.J. Morrissey, P.A. Lofy, J. Ottarson, L. Weissman (NSCL, Michigan State University)

11:00 CF.011 The status of the MoNA project

Thomas Baumann (NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1321), MoNA Collaboration

09:00 CG.001 The Light from Cascading Partons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Steffen A. Bass (Department of Physcis, Duke University and RIKEN-BNL Research Center), Berndt Müller (Department of Physcis, Duke University), Dinesh K. Srivastava (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata)

09:12 CG.002 PHENIX AuAu Direct Photon Search

Justin Frantz (Columbia University), PHENIX Collaboration

09:24 CG.003 Photon identification and background rejection in PHENIX

Gabor David (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

09:36 CG.004 \pi^+ \pi^- Emission at RHIC

Ralf Rapp (NORDITA)

09:48 CG.005 Study of the pi+pi- invariant mass spectra from pp collisions at sqrt[s] =200 GeV.

Dmitri Kotchetkov (University of California at Riverside), PHENIX Collaboration

10:00 CG.006 Strangeness Production at RHIC from Cascading Partons

Daphne Chang, Steffen A. Bass (Dept. of Physics, Duke University amp; RIKEN-BNL Research Center)

10:12 CG.007 \phi meson production in d+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV

Dipali Pal (Vanderbilt University), PHENIX Collaboration

10:24 CG.008 \Sigma(1385) Resonace Studies with STAR at \sqrt s_NN=200 GeV

Sevil Salur (Yale Univesity), STAR Collaboration

10:36 CG.009 Transverse Momenta of High-\eta Charged Particles in Au+Au Collisions

Birger Back (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:48 CG.010 Charged particle distributions from Au+Au and d+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV of the Forward-TPCs in the STAR Experiment

Joern Putschke (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Munich), STAR Collaboration

11:00 CG.011 Eta Production at High Transverse Momentum in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV

Saskia Mioduszewski (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

11:12 CG.012 Centrality Dependent Identified Hadron Production at y=0 and y\sim1 at RHIC

Eun-Joo Kim (Brookhaven National Laboratory), BRAHMS Collaboration

11:24 CG.013 \Lambda and \bar\Lambda production measured by PHENIX at RHIC

Arkadi Taranenko (Dept of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration

11:36 CG.014 Estimating Chemical Equilibrium in a Heavy-Ion Collision

Abhijit Majumder, Volker Koch (Nuclear Science Division, LBNL, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 70R0319, Berkeley CA 94720.)

11:48 CG.015 Rapidity Dependence of Chemical Parameters in Au+Au Collisions

Michael Murray (University of Kansas)

CG.016 STAR measurements of Delta++ and Delta-- resonance in p+p and Au+Au at /s=200 GeV

An Tai (University of California Los Angeles), STAR Collaboration