Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 1 MAY 2004

10:45 B2.001 The r-Process and Nuclear Structure near the Dripline

Karl-Ludwig Kratz (Univ. Mainz, Univ. of Notre Dame)

11:21 B2.002 The Salt Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Aksel Hallin (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

11:57 B2.003 Elemental Abundances of Early-Generation Stars in the Halo of the Milky Way

Timothy Beers (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

12:33 B2.004 Neutrino Induced Fission

George M. Fuller (Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)

10:45 B3.001 The Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysics

Ellen Zweibel (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

11:21 B3.002 Satellite Diagnosis of Collisionless Reconnection

Jack Scudder (University of Iowa)

11:57 B3.003 Laboratory Experiments with Connections to Space Plasmas

Jan Egedal (MIT, PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA)

12:33 B3.004 Reconnection in the Sun

Dana Longcope (Montana Stat Univ-Bozeman)

13:09 B3.005 Numerical Simulations of Collisionless Reconnection

Michael Shay (University of Maryland)

10:45 B4.001 Why we still need accelerators

Michael Turner (NSF)

11:21 B4.002 Beam Dynamics Challenges for the Large Hadron Collider

Francesco Ruggiero (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

11:57 B4.003 Beam Dynamics Challenges for a Linear Collider

Andrei Seryi (SLAC)

12:33 B4.004 Measurements and Detectors for the Large Hadron Collider

Dan Green (FNAL)

13:09 B4.005 Measurements and Detectors for the Linear Collider

Raymond Frey (University of Oregon)

10:45 B7.001 Experimental Status of Baryon Resonances

Steven Dytman (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

11:21 B7.002 Experimental Status of Pentaquark States

Elton Smith (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

11:57 B7.003 Quark structure of chiral solitons

Dmitri Diakonov (Jefferson Lab, on leave from NORDITA, Copenhagen)

12:33 B7.004 Lattice Calculation of Penta Quark (Theta+) Properties

Zoltan Fodor (University of Wuppertal)

10:45 B8.001 Classical Exact Solutions for Zeeman Effect of Hydrogen Atom

Hiizu Fujita (Japan-US Science, Technology and Satelite Application Program ( JUSTSAP ))

10:57 B8.002 Evidence for a Liquid Plasma Model of the Sun

Pierre-Marie L. Robitaille (The Ohio State University)

11:09 B8.003 Formation of Low Mass Stars in Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores

Richard Klein (University of Cal., LLNL and Berkeley Dep't. of Astronomy), Robert Fisher Collaboration, Christopher McKee Collaboration, Mark Krumholz Collaboration

11:21 B8.004 Gamma-Ray Line Flux Ratios as Diagnostics of SN Ia Models

Juan Lara, Lih-Sin The, Mark Leising (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University)

11:33 B8.005 Online Nucleosynthesis

Bradley Meyer, IV Jordan, Lih-Sin The (Clemson University), Stuart Robbins (Case Western Reserve University)

11:45 B8.006 TeV Gamma-Ray Survey of the Northern Hemisphere Sky Using the Mialgro Gamma Ray Observatory

Xianwu Xu (Los Alamos National Lab), for Milagro Collaboration

11:57 B8.007 TeV Observations of the Galactic Center

Karl Kosack (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), VERITAS Collaboration

12:09 B8.008 DO BLACK HOLE CANDIDATES EXHIBIT MAGNETIC MOMENTS INSTEAD OF EVENT HORIZONS?

Darryl J. Leiter (FSTC, Charlottesville, VA 22901), Stanley L. Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK 73096)

12:21 B8.009 ON THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSAL RADIO-XRAY LUMINOSITY CORRELATION IN BLACK HOLE CANDIDATES

Stanley L. Robertson (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK 73096), Darryl J. Leiter (FSTC, Charlottesville, VA 22901)

10:45 B9.001 Torsion Balance Tests of Gravity and other Small Forces at Short Distances

Jens H. Gundlach (University of Washington)

11:21 B9.002 Gravitational Experiments Below 1 mm using a High-Frequency Technique

Joshua Long (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:57 B9.003 Measurements of Gravity-like Forces at sub-100 microns distances

Aharon Kapitulnik (Departments of Applied Physics and Physics, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305.)

12:33 B9.004 Observation of Gravitational Bound Quantum States of the Neutron

Stefan Baessler (Institute of Physics, University of Mainz)

13:09 B9.005 Ghost Condensation and Modification of Gravity at Long distances

Markus Luty (Harvard/Boston University)

10:45 B10.001 Status of the MINOS Experiment

Niki Saoulidou (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), MINOS Collaboration

10:57 B10.002 Upward-going Muons in the MINOS Far Detector

Brian Rebel (Indiana University), MINOS Collaboration

11:09 B10.003 Calibration of the MINOS Detectors with Stopping Muons

Jeffrey Hartnell (University of Oxford), MINOS Collaboration

11:21 B10.004 Using Neutrino Oscillations to Test Competing Paradigms

John Fanchi (Colorado School of Mines)

11:33 B10.005 Measuring \theta_13 in a Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment

Karsten M. Heeger (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:45 B10.006 Measurement of the Day-Night Effect in the Salt Phase of SNO

Kathryn Miknaitis (Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration

11:57 B10.007 Neutrino oscillations as tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry

Matthew Mewes, Alan Kostelecky (Indiana University)

12:09 B10.008 MINERvA: A High Statistics, Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiment in the NuMI Beam at Fermilab

The MINERvA Collaboration

12:21 B10.009 Neutrino Interaction Classification from a High Energy Prompt Neutrino Beam

N Saoulidou (Fermilab), S Aoki (Kobe University), B Baller (Fermilab), S Chung (Gyeongsang University), C Erickson (University of Minnesota), T Hara (Kobe University), N Hashizume (Nagoya University), K Heller (University of Minnesota), N Hoshino, H Iinuma, K Ito, T Jikou, K Kobayashi (Nagoya University), K Kodama (Aichi Univ. Of Education), M Komatsu (Nagoya University), B Lundberg (Fermilab), E Maher (University of Minnesota), M Miyanishi, M Nakamura, T Nakano, K Niwa, N Nonaka, K Okada (Nagoya University), V Paolone (Pittsburgh University), I Park (Gyeongsang University), R Rameika (Fermilab), J Rhee (Kon-kuk University), T Kafka (Tufts University), J Song (Gyeongsang University), S Takahashi (Nagoya University), G Tzanakos (Athens University), K Ushida (Aichi Univ. Of Education), T Yamamori (Nagoya University)

12:33 B10.010 The NuMu Charged Current Cross Section Measurement in NOMAD

Andrew Godley, Qun Karen Wu (University of South Carolina), NOMAD Collaboration, University of South Carolina Team

12:45 B10.011 Antineutrino Induced \Lambda Production on Protons

LingLing Wen, Stephan Mintz (Florida International University)

12:57 B10.012 Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in Tau Decays.

Chris Brown (University of Victoria), BaBar Collaboration

13:09 B10.013 Search for the 7-prong Tau Decay.

Ruben Ter-Antonyan (Ohio State University), BaBar Collaboration

13:21 B10.014 Wess-Zumino Current and the Structure of the Decay \tau^-\to K^-K^+\pi^-\nu_\tau

Feng Liu (Southern Methodist University), CLEO Collaboration

13:33 B10.015 Electromagnetic unification of matter and force fields

Sarah John (10101 Baltimore Ave. MD)

10:45 B11.001 Measurement of the inclusive bottomonium photon spectrum

Shawn Henderson (University of Kansas), CLEO Collaboration

10:57 B11.002 Measurement of the muonic branching fraction of the narrow \Upsilon resonances

Istvan Danko (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), CLEO Collaboration

11:09 B11.003 Neutral dipion transitions from \Upsilon(3S) and \Upsilon(2S) to \Upsilon(1S)

Eric Engelson (Cornell University), CLEO Collaboration

11:21 B11.004 Measurement of the B^+/ B^0 Production Ratio from the \Upsilon(4S) Meson using B^\pm \rightarrow J/\psi K^\pm and B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi K^0_S decays.

Haleh Hadavand (Univ. of California), BaBar Collaboration

11:33 B11.005 Di-pion transitions among various \chi_b^\prime and \chi_b states

Tatia Engelmore (Cornell University), CLEO Collaboration

11:45 B11.006 First measurement of the branching fraction of \Upsilon(4S) \rightarrow B^0 \bar B^0.

Romulus Godang (U. Mississippi), BaBar Collaboration

11:57 B11.007 B, B and B_s Production at the \Upsilon(5S)

Radia Sia (Syracuse University), CLEO Collaboration

12:09 B11.008 A search for the B_s meson in \Upsilon(5S) decays

Ian Shipsey (Purdue University), CLEO Collaboration

12:21 B11.009 Search for Bottom Baryons with Strangeness at CDF

Dmitri Litvintsev (FNAL)

12:33 B11.010 Search for \Lambda_b Production in e^+e^- Collisions Near Threshold

Orlokh Dorjkhaidav (Syracuse University), CLEO Collaboration

12:45 B11.011 Determination of |V_ub| in the BABAR experiment using the lepton invariant mass squared.

Dominique Fortin (University of Victoria), BaBar Collaboration

12:57 B11.012 Semileptonic neutral B meson decay to D \ell \nu_\ell: branching fraction measurement and determination of |V_cb|.

Marco Bomben (INFN Sezione di Trieste), BaBar Collaboration

10:45 B12.001 Measurement of the mass of the top quark in the dilepton channel

Sarosh Fatakia (Boston University), DZero Collaboration

10:57 B12.002 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dielectron Channel at the DØExperiment in Run II Using the Neutrino-Weighting Method.

Joe Kozminski (Michigan State University), DZero Collaboration

11:09 B12.003 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the Run-II data at DØusing the matrix element method.

Philipp Schieferdecker (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), DZero Collaboration

11:21 B12.004 Measurement of the Top mass in DØusing the Ideogram method.

Martijn Mulders (Fermilab), DZero Collaboration

11:33 B12.005 Top quark mass measurement in the lepton+jets channel at CDF

Eric Brubaker (LBL), J.F. Arguin (U. of Toronto), Adam Gibson (LBL), Young-Kee Kim (U. of Chicago), Pekka Sinervo (U. of Toronto), Un-Ki Yang (U. of Chicago), CDF Collaboration

11:45 B12.006 Top quark mass measurement in l+jets events at CDF with double b-tags

Koji Sato (Tsukuba U.), CDF Collaboration

11:57 B12.007 Top quark mass measurement in lepton+jets events at CDF with DLM

Kohei Yorita (Waseda U.), CDF Collaboration

12:09 B12.008 Top quark mass measurement in the lepton+jets channel at CDF using multivariate templates

Igor Volobouev (LBL), CDF Collaboration

12:21 B12.009 Top quark dilepton event identification and mass measurement at CDF

Jaroslav Antos (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica), Andy Beretvas (FNAL), Yen-Chu Chen, Roman Lysak, Miroslav Siket (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica), G.P. Yeh (FNAL), CDF Collaboration

12:33 B12.010 Electroweak Production of the Top Quark in the Electron Channel.

Shabnam Jabeen (Kansas University), DZero Collaboration

12:45 B12.011 Search for Single Top Quark Events in the Electron+Jets Channel with an Identified b-Jet.

Philip Perea (University of California, Riverside), DZero Collaboration

12:57 B12.012 Search for Single Top Quark Production in the muon+jets channel.

Thomas Gadfort (University of Washington), DZero Collaboration

13:09 B12.013 Parameter Space of Finite-Order Flat Directions for String-Derived Flipped SU(5) and Optical Unification Models

John Perkins, Gerald Cleaver

13:21 B12.014 Fully Massive Six Dimensional Box

Chris Glosser, B.F.L. Ward, Scott Yost (Baylor Univeristy), Baylor High Energy Phenomenoloy Group Team

10:45 B13.001 Switching Fields in Physics: Finding the Right Job

Marla Dowell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:21 B13.002 Science journalism: reporting and writing for Physics Today

Charles Day (Physics Today)

11:57 B13.003 Science Advising

Benn Tannenbaum (Federation of American Scientists)

12:33 B13.004 Critical behavior of two liquids

Gordon Thomas (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

10:45 B14.001 Students' reasoning regarding heat, work, and the first law of thermodynamics

David E. Meltzer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University)

11:21 B14.002 Student understanding of heat, temperature, and the second law of thermodynamics

Paula R.L. Heron, Matthew J. Cochran, Lillian C. McDermott (University of Washington)

11:33 B14.003 Investigating student learning in an introductory electric circuits laboratory

MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Peter S. Shaffer, Mark N. McDermott (University of Washington, Seattle)

11:45 B14.004 Light bulbs and complete circuits: what ones says about the other

Paula V. Engelhardt, Kara Gray, N. Sanjay Rebello (Kansas State University)

11:57 B14.005 Method Dynamics: An Analysis of the Effect of Activity-Based Instruction on the Persistent Misconceptions of Physics Students

Mark Markes, Emily Reiser (University of Nebraska-Kearney)

12:09 B14.006 Student Models of Motion and Force in Activity-Based Physics

C. Trecia Markes (University of Nebraska-Kearney)

12:21 B14.007 Recent results from an investigation of student understanding of basic topics in quantum mechanics

Andrew D. Crouse, Peter S. Shaffer, Lillian C. McDermott (University of Washington, Seattle)

12:33 B14.008 Problem-solving Skills in Introductory Physics Courses

Craig Ogilvie (Iowa State University)

12:45 B14.009 Dynamic Transfer of Learning in Physics Education Research

N. Sanjay Rebello (Kansas State University)

10:45 B15.001 On Nuclear Transmutation Reactions in Solids

George H. Miley (NPRE Dept., Univ. of Illinois, 103 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801), Heinz Hora (Physics Dept., Univ. of New South Wales), Nie Luo (NPRE Dept.,Univ. of Illinois, 103 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801)

10:57 B15.002 Vital Role of Nuclear Physics in Space Missions

R.K. Tripathi, J. W. Wilson (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681)

11:09 B15.003 SLA Wear Study in Biomedical Implants

Kyla Scarborough, Charles Blatchley (Department of Physics, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS 66762), Fereydoon Namavar, Hani Haider (Department of Orthopaedics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-1080)

11:21 B15.004 Investigating Coincidence Techniques in Biomedical Applications of Neutron Activation Analysis

P. Chowdhury, R. Gramer, S.K. Tandel (Univ. Massachusetts Lowell), C.J. Reinhardt (BioPAL, Inc.)

11:33 B15.005 Vibratory Shock Compaction of Granular Nuclear Waste

Robert C. Amme (Department of Physics, University of Denver, Denver CO 80208)

11:45 B15.006 Test of Deep-Space Propulsion Using Antiproton Induced Fission

Gerald Jackson, Steven Howe (Hbar Technologies, LLC)

11:57 B15.007 Antimatter Economy

Norm Hansen (Antimatter Energy Inc)

B15.008 The Hypothesis of Nuclear Fusion in Condensed Matter: An Update

Steven Jones, John Ellsworth, Lawrence Rees (Brigham Young University)