Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 1 NOVEMBER 2003

09:00 GA.001 A new result for the neutron lifetime from proton trapping

M. Scott Dewey (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD)

09:36 GA.002 Parity Nonconservation in Moller Scattering

Emlyn Hughes (California Institute of Technology)

10:12 GA.003 Jet Quenching at RHIC

Carl A. Gagliardi (Texas Aamp;M University)

10:48 GA.004 Bulk Properties of the Collision at RHIC

Fuqiang Wang (Purdue University)

09:00 GB.001 Squeezing the Nucleus High Above Ripples and Tides

Umesh Garg (Physics Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.)

09:36 GB.002 Can we trust the random phase approximation? I: Correlation energy

Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University), Ionel Stetcu (University of Arizona)

09:48 GB.003 Can we trust the random phase approximation? II: Applications to transitions

Ionel Stetcu (University of Arizona), Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)

10:00 GB.004 Shape coexistence near closed shells and its symmetries

Kris HEYDE (Dept.Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent (Belgium)), Ruben FOSSION (Dept. Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent (Belgium))

10:12 GB.005 TDHF Periodic Orbits and Nuclear Collective States

Jianshi Wu (Fayetteville State University, NC), Michael Strayer (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Michel Baranger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:24 GB.006 Compton Scattering By Nuclei at HI\vec\gammaS

B. Perdue, M. Ahmed, A. Tonchev, H.R. Weller (Duke U. amp; TUNL), V. Litvinenko, I. Pinayev (Duke U. amp; DFELL), R. Prior, M. Spraker (NGCSU amp; TUNL), G. Feldman (GWU amp; TUNL), B. Sawatzsky, B. Norum (UVA)

10:36 GB.007 Isoscalar Giant Dipole Resonance in ^24Mg and ^28Si

Tao Li, U. Garg, J. Hoffman, B. K. Nayak (University of Notre Dame), M. Fujiwara, K. Hara, H. Hashimoto, M. Itoh, T. Murakami, K. Nakanishi (RCNP, Osaka University, Japan), S. Kishi, H. Sakaguchi, S. Terashima, M. Uchida, Y. Yasuda, M. Yosoi (Kyoto University, Japan), H. Akimune (Konon University, Japan), M. N. Harakeh (KVI, The Netherlands), University of Notre Dame Collaboration, RCNP Collaboration, Kyoto Collaboration, Konan Collaboration, KVI Collaboration

10:48 GB.008 Universal Scaling Behavior of the Giant Dipole Resonance and Deformation in Hot, Rotating Nuclei

D. Kusnezov (Center for Theoretical Physics, Yale University), W.E. Ormand (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:00 GB.009 Decay Rate of Deformed Non-Axially-Symmetric Proton Emitters

Cary N. Davids, Henning Esbensen (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:12 GB.010 Evidence for soft Chiral vibrations in ^106Mo

S.J. Zhu (Tsinghua Univ.), J.H. Hamilton, A.V. Ramayya, P.M. Gore (Vanderbilt Univ.), J.O. Rasmussen (LBNL), R.Q. Xu (Tsinghua Univ.), J.K. Hwang (Vanderbilt Univ.), V. Dimitrov, S. Frauendorf (Univ. of Notre Dame), D. Fong, K. Li (Vanderbilt Univ.), L.M. Yang, Z. Jiang, Z. Zhang, S.D. Xiao (Tsinghua Univ.), X.Q. Zhang, J. Kormicki, E.F. Jones, Y. Luo (Vanderbilt Univ.), I.Y. Lee (LBNL), W.C. Ma (Mississippi State Univ.), J.D. Cole, M.W. Drigert (INEEL), C. Folden, P. Fallon, P. Zielinski (LBNL), M.A. Stoyer (LLNL), T.N. Ginter (NSCL), L. Chaturvedi (Hindu Univ.), G.M. Ter-Akopian, A.V. Daniel (JINR)

09:00 GC.001 Measurement of single transverse spin asymmetry A_N in forward neutron production \sqrts=200GeV

Abhay Deshpande (RIKEN-BNL Research Center), PHENIX Collaboration

09:12 GC.002 Relative Luminosity and Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry for Large Pseudo-Rapidity in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV

Joanna Kiryluk, Charles Whitten (University of California Los Angeles), STAR Collaboration

09:24 GC.003 Single-Spin Transverse Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production at PHENIX

Christine Aidala (Columbia University), PHENIX Collaboration

09:36 GC.004 Results from Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at STAR

Dylan Thein (UCLA), STAR Collaboration

09:48 GC.005 Spin Asymmetries for Forward \pi^0 Production in pp Collisions at RHIC

Yiqun Wang (University of Texas at Austin), STAR Collaboration

10:00 GC.006 Probing gluon polarization with pi0s in longitudinally polarized proton collisions

Alexander Bazilevsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

10:12 GC.007 Measuring gluon polarization from open charm production in p+p collisions at RHIC

Robert Hobbs (University of New Mexico), PHENIX Collaboration

10:24 GC.008 Trigger and Vertexing Efficiency for 200 GeV pp Interactions in PHOBOS

Joseph Sagerer (UIC), for the PHOBOS Collaboration

10:36 GC.009 Transverse Momentum Spectra and Yield Ratios of Identified Charged Hadrons in p-p Collisions at RHIC

Mark Harvey (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

11:48 GC.010 Heavy flavor production in p+p collisions at RHIC

Sergey Butsyk (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration

11:00 GC.011 Single electrons from semileptonic charm meson decays in p+p collisions at 200GeV

Xinhua Li (Univ. of California, Riverside), PHENIX Collaboration

09:00 GD.001 Coincidence RDDS lifetime measurements in ^162Yb

E.A. McCutchan, R.F. Casten, N.V. Zamfir (Yale), J.R. Cooper (LLNL), H. Ai, H. Amro, C.W. Beausang, A.A. Hecht, R.O. Hughes, D.A. Meyer, J.J. Ressler (Yale)

09:12 GD.002 Damping in Nuclei

F.S. Stephens, M.A. Deleplanque, I.Y. Lee, D. Ward, P. Fallon, M. Cromaz, A.O. Macchiavelli, R.M. Clark, R.M. Diamond (LBNL)

09:24 GD.003 High frequency band crossings in ^168Lu.

D.G. Roux, Y. Li, W.C. Ma, H. Amro, J. Thompson, J. Winger (Mississpiip State University), G. Hagemann, B. Herskind, D. Jensen, G. Sletten, J. Wilson (Niels Bohr Institute), P. Fallon, R. Diamond, A. Goergen, A. Machiavelli, D. Ward (LBNL), H. Hübel, J. Domscheit (University of Bonn), Mississippi State University Collaboration, Niels Bohr Institute Collaboration, University of Bonn Collaboration

09:36 GD.004 Spectroscopy of neutron-rich ^169,171,172Er

C.Y. Wu, D. Cline, M.W. Simon, R. Teng (NSRL, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627), K. Vetter (Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, I. Wiedenhover (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

09:48 GD.005 Configuration and Decay of a 9-quasiparticle Isomer in ^175Hf

F.G. Kondev, R.V.F. Janssens, M.P. Carpenter, C.J. Lister, K. Abu-Saleem, I. Ahmad, A. Heinz, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, D. Seweryniak, I. Wiedenhoever (Argonne National Laboratory), D.J. Hartley, D. Balabanski, M. Danchev, T.M. Goon, L.L. Riedinger, O. Zeidan (University of Tennessee), M.A. Riley (Florida State University), P. Chowdhury, I. Shestakova (University of Massachusetts, Lowell), H. El-Masri, P.M. Walker (University of Surrey), G.D. Dracoulis (Australian National University), G. Sletten (Niels Bohr Institute), D.M. Cullen, C. Wheldon (University of Liverpool), R. Kaye (Purdue University, Calumet)

10:00 GD.006 Vibrational Band Structures in ^180Hf

E. Ngijoi-Yogo, P. Chowdhury, I. Shestakova, S.K. Tandel (Univ. Massachusetts Lowell), G. Mukherjee (Univ. Massachusetts Lowell and Argonne Natl. Lab.), D. Cline, A.B. Hayes, R. Teng, C.Y. Wu (Univ. Rochester), F.G. Kondev (Argonne Natl. Lab.), R. Clark, P. Fallon, A.O. Macchiavelli, K. Vetter (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab.), S. Langdown, P.M. Walker (Univ. Surrey), C. Wheldon (Univ. Liverpool), D.M. Cullen (Univ. Manchester)

10:12 GD.007 Shapes and alignments in neutron-rich nuclei in the A=180 region

S.K. Tandel, E. Ngijoi-Yogo, P. Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)

10:24 GD.008 First Measurement of Excited States in ^181Tl

M.P. Carpenter, F.G. Kondev, R.V.F Janssens, D. Seweryniak, S. Sinha, G. Mukherjee, I. Ahmad, C.N. Davids, N. Hammand, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister (Argonne National Laboratory), D.J. Jenkins, P. Raddon, R. Wadsworth (Univeristy of York), S.J. Freeman (University of Manchester), S.M. Fischer (University of DePaul), A.J. Larabee, N. Liechty (Greenville College), G. Jones, A.N. Andreyev (University of Liverpool)

10:36 GD.009 Spectroscopy of ^186Pb and ^186Tl via evaporation residue detection

Walter Reviol, Chris Chiara, Demetrios Sarantites, Olga Pechenaya (Washington U.), Paul Fallon, Augusto Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.)

10:48 GD.010 Excitation Energy and Well Depth of Superdeformed ^195Pb

M.S. Johnson, J.A. Cizewski, K.Y. Ding, N. Fotiades, M.B. Smith, J.S. Thomas (Rutgers University), J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, K. Hauschild, D.P. McNabb (LLNL), R.M. Clark, M.A. Deleplanque, R.M. Diamond, P. Fallon, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, F.S. Stephens (LBNL)

11:00 GD.011 Surprising results beyond the Z=82 closed shell

H. Amro, C.W. Beausang, R.F. Casten, A.A. Hecht, A. Heinz, E.A. McCutchan, D.A. Meyer, J.J. Ressler, N.V Zamfir (Yale University)

11:12 GD.012 Identification of an isomer and octupole correlation in 217Th

G. Mukherjee (Argonne National Lab., Argonne, IL 60439 amp; U-Mass Lowell, MA 01854), T.L. Khoo, D. Seweryniak, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, C.N. Davids, A. Heinz, R.V.F Janssens, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, P. Woehr (ANL), E. Chowdhury, A. Ngijoi-yogo (U-Mass Lowell), P. Aprahamian, M. Boutachkov, A. Shawcross, P. Teymurazyan (Univ of Notre Dame), R. Butler, G. Herzberg, J.A. Jones (Univ of Liverpool), M.B. Cizewski, R. Smith (Rutgers Univ), M. Julin, J. Leino, P. Uusitalo (Univ. of Jyväskylä), Reiter (Univ of Cologne)

11:24 GD.013 Neutron Degrees of Freedom in the Light Radon Isotopes

D. A. Meyer, C. W. Beausang, J.J. Ressler, H. Ai, H. Amro, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, A. A. Hecht, E. A. McCutchan (WNSL, Yale Univ.), N. V. Zamfir (WNSL, Yale Univ., Clark Univ. )

11:36 GD.014 NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND DECAY DATA EVALUATION: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

F. G. Kondev (Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory), J. K. Tuli (National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:48 GD.015 GTNDSE: the GA Tech nuclear data search engine

W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood (Georgia Institute of Technology)

09:00 GE.001 Gas Detector for High-Energy EM and Hadronic Showers

Edwin Norbeck, Yasar Onel (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242)

09:12 GE.002 CNI Polarimetry for the RHIC Spin Program

Jeff Wood (University of California Los Angeles), CNI Polarimetry Group Team

09:24 GE.003 A Ring Imaging \v Cerenkov Detector with Wavelength Shifter Readout -- The Poor Man's RICH Concept

Joerg Reinhold (Florida International University)

09:36 GE.004 The Analog Ring Sampler: a 1 GHz signal sampling for the DVCS experiment in Hall A at Jefferson Lab

Carlos MUÑOZ CAMACHO (DSM/DAPNIA/SPhN CEA-Saclay), Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, DVCS Collaboration

09:48 GE.005 An LED-Based Gain Monitoring System for the PrimEx Hybrid Calorimeter at Jefferson Lab

Jarreas Underwood (North Carolina A&T State University Department of Physics)

10:00 GE.006 High Precision Photon Flux Control with the PrimEx Pair Spectrometer

Aram Teymurazyan (University of Kentucky), PrimEx Collaboration

10:12 GE.007 Beam Tests of High Resolution Electromagnetic Hybrid Calorimeter of the PrimEx Experiment at JLAB

Raphael Demirchyan (Department of Physics, NC AT State University, Greensboro, NC 27411), PrimEx Collaboration

10:24 GE.008 Scintillation Properties of Mineral Oil in MiniBooNE

Patrick Ockerse (Indiana University), MiniBooNE Collaboration

10:36 GE.009 Background radiation measurements at 2200 ft depth in limestone mine.

Henning Olling Back, R. Bruce Vogelaar, D. Nathan Johnson (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

10:48 GE.010 Plant Physiology Studies Using Accelerator-Produced ^11CO_2

A. S. Crowell, C. R. Howell, M. R. Kiser (Duke University and TUNL), C. D. Reid (Duke University)

11:00 GE.011 Cold Fusion Has Now Come Out of the Cold

Edmund Storms (LANL retired)

09:00 GF.001 Coulomb Breakup of ^7Be and the Rate of the ^3He(\alpha,\gamma)^7Be Reaction in the Sun

M.W. Cooper (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University), T. Baumann, D. Bazin (NSCL), B. Davids (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), N. Frank (NSCL), T. Nakamura (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo), W.A. Peters, B.M. Sherrill, M. Thoennessen (NSCL), S. Typel (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenphysik mbH, Darmstadt), Sam M. Austin (NSCL)

09:12 GF.002 The Influence of the ^8B(\alpha,p)^11CReaction in Supermassive Stars

K. E. Rehm, C.L. Jiang, J. Greene, D. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, E. F. Moore, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, T. Pennington, J. P. Schiffer, S. Sinha (Argonne National Laboratory), R. H. Siemssen (KVI Groningen), L. Jisonna, R. E. Segel (Northwestern University), A. H. Wuosmaa (Western Michigan University)

09:24 GF.003 Measurement of the ^7Li(\vecd,n)^8Be Reaction at Astrophysically Relevant Energies

A. Sabourov, M. Ahmed, A. Crowell, C. Howell, K. Joshi, S. Nelson, B. Perdue, K. Sabourov, A. Tonchev, H. R. Weller (Duke U. and TUNL), R. Prior, M. Spraker (NGCSU), N. Kalantar (KVI)

09:36 GF.004 Study of the ^18Ne(\alpha,p)^21Na Reaction in Inverse Kinematics

S. Sinha, J. Greene, D. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, E. F. Moore, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, T. Pennington, K. E. Rehm (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL), A. Chen (McMaster University, Queens, Ontario, Canada), L. Jisonna, R. E. Segel (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL), A. H. Wuosmaa (University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI), S. Artemov (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzhbekistan)

09:48 GF.005 Proton-decaying states in ^22Mg and the nucleosynthesis of ^22Na in novae

B. Davids, J. P. M. Beijers, A. M. van den Berg, P. Dendooven, S. Harmsma, M. Hunyadi, M. A. de Huu, R. H. Siemssen, H. W. Wilschut, H. J. Wörtche (Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Groningen, Netherlands), J. José (Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

10:00 GF.006 Stellar He burning of ^18O

Saed Dababneh, Michael Heil, Franz Käppeler (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), Joachim Görres, Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame), Rene Reifarth (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Harald Leiste (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

10:12 GF.007 Resonance analysis of ^147Sm(\textitn,\alpha ) cross sections: Comparison to statistical model calculations and possible indications of non-statistical effects

P. E. Koehler (Physics Division, ORNL), Yu. M. Gledenov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia), T. Rauscher, C. Fröhlich (Departement für Physik und Astronomie, Univerität Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland)

10:24 GF.008 A Measurement of the Neutron Asymmetry in d(\vec\gamma,n)p Near Threshold

Brad Sawatzky (University of Virginia), HI\vec\gammaS GDH Collaboration

10:36 GF.009 Astrophysics studies at n_TOF (CERN)

Franz Käppeler (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), nTOF Collaboration

10:48 GF.010 Commissioning of and first RIB experiments with the DRAGON facility at TRIUMF

Uwe Greife (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA), Sabine Engel (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany), Shawn Bishop (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Lothar Buchmann (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada), Mohan Chatterjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India), Alan Chen (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada), John D'Auria (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Dario Gigliotti (University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada), Dave Hutcheon (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada), Ahmed Hussein (University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada), Cybele Jewett (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA), Michael Lamey (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Art Olin, Dave Ottewell, Joel Rogers (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada), Chris Wrede (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)

11:00 GF.011 Preparations for a measurement of the ^19Ne(p,\gamma)^20Na reaction with the DRAGON facility at TRIUMF

Cybele Jewett (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA), Sabine Engel (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany), Shawn Bishop (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Lothar Buchmann (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada), Mohan Chatterjee (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India), Alan Chen (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada), John D'Auria (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Dario Gigliotti (University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada), Dave Hutcheon (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada), Ahmed Hussein (University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada), Uwe Greife (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA), Michael Lamey (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada), Art Olin, Dave Ottewell, Joel Rogers (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada), Chris Wrede (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada)

11:12 GF.012 Cost effective (n,\gamma)-experiments with natural samples at DANCE

R. Reifarth, T.A. Bredeweg, J.C. Browne, E.I. Esch (Los Alamos National Laboratory), U. Greife (Colorado School of Mines), R.C. Haight, J.M. O\'Donnel, A. Kronenberg, R.S. Rundberg, J.L. Ullmann, D.J. Vieira, J.B. Wilhelmy, J.M. Wouters (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:24 GF.013 Measurements to test the performance of the new DANCE detector at LANSCE

Ana Maria Alpizar-Vicente, Robert Hatarik (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA), Todd Bredeweg (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA), Uwe Greife (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA), Bob Haight, John O'Donnell, Rene Reifarth, Bob Rundberg, John Ullmann, Dave Vieira, Jerry Wilhelmy, Jan Wouters (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA)

09:00 GG.001 Photoproduction of Proton-Antiproton

Burnham Stokes (Florida State University), CLAS Collaboration

09:12 GG.002 Observation of the f_0(980) scalar meson in deep-inelastic scattering

Ken Garrow (TRIUMF), HERMES Collaboration

09:24 GG.003 Relativistic description of hadronic decays of exotic mesons

Nikodem Poplawski, Adam Szczepaniak (Indiana University Nuclear Theory Center)

09:36 GG.004 Electroproduction of \phi mesons at 5.75 GeV with CLAS

Joseph Santoro (Virginia Tech/Jefferson Lab), Elton Smith (Jefferson Lab), CLAS Collaboration

09:48 GG.005 First Measurements of C_z' and C_x' for K^+ \Lambda and K^+ \Sigma ^\circ photoproduction using CLAS at Jefferson Lab

Robert Bradford, Reinhard Schumacher (Carnegie Mellon University), CLAS Collaboration

10:00 GG.006 Multipole Analyses of \pi^0\pi^0 Production with Protons and Pions

J. Comfort (Arizona State University), I. Koch, S. Kullander (Uppsala University)

10:12 GG.007 Measurements of Pion-Nucleon charge exchange at Low Energy

Chad Bircher (Abilene Christian University), Crystal Ball Collaboration

10:24 GG.008 \largeBeam Spin Asymmetry Measurements from p(\vece,e^'p)\pi^o and p(\vece,e^'n)\pi^+ in the Resonance Region

Kyungseon Joo (University of Connecticut), CLAS Collaboration

10:36 GG.009 Single \pi^+ electroproduction at low Q^2 using CLAS

Hovanes Egiyan (Jefferson Lab), CLAS Collaboration

10:48 GG.010 A Precision Measurement of the \pi^0 Lifetime via the Primakoff Effect

Nakagawa Itaru (University of Kentucky), The PrimEx Collaboration