Program overview

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1 MAY 2004

14:30 D2.001 Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at MiniBooNE: What Happens When Nothing Hits Something

Bonnie Fleming (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:06 D2.002 TWIST, A Precision Measurement of the Muon Decay Spectrum.

David Gill (TRIUMF)

15:42 D2.003 Neutron-Proton Correlations in N=Z Nuclei Above 56Ni

C.J. (Kim) Lister (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL 60439)

16:18 D2.004 The emiT Experiment: A Search for Time Reversal Invarience Violation in Polarized Neutron Beta Decay

Hans Pieter Mumm (University of Washington)

14:30 D3.001 Theoretical Considerations and Deep History

Werner Israel (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, BC)

15:06 D3.002 Active Galactic Nuclei

Omer Blaes (Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara)

15:42 D3.003 The Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

Fulvio Melia (The University of Arizona)

16:18 D3.004 Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Jeffrey McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

16:54 D3.005 And All the Rest (Primordial, Intermediate, and Orphan Black Holes)

Cole Miller (University of Maryland)

14:30 D4.001 Physics Complementarity of the LHC and LC

Georg Weiglein (University of Durham, UK)

15:06 D4.002 US LHC Accelerator Ramp;D Program

James Strait (Fermilab)

15:42 D4.003 RF Technology for a Linear Collider

Chris Adolphsen (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

16:18 D4.004 The US LC Technology Comparison Study

Gerald Dugan (Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University)

16:54 D4.005 Large Extra Dimensions

Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard University)

14:30 D5.001 Explosions from stellar Collapse

Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:06 D5.002 How fast, realistically: ab initio calculations of low-energy astrophysical reaction rates

Kenneth Nollett (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory)

15:42 D5.003 Ab initio calculations for light nuclei using realistic two- and three-body interactions

Petr Navratil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:18 D5.004 Neutron matter calculations with quantum Monte Carlo

Kevin Schmidt (Arizona State University)

16:54 D5.005 Lattice Studies of Hadronic Physics

David Richards (Jefferson Laboratory)

14:30 D7.001 SUPER-RADIANT STATES AND NARROW HADRONIC RESONANCES

Naftali Auerbach (Tel Aviv University), Vladimir Zelevinsky (Michigan State University and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory), Alexander Volya (Florida State University)

14:42 D7.002 A systematic study of the binding energies of eta-mesic nuclei

Olivia L. Halt, Q. Haider (Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. 10458)

14:54 D7.003 Pion-nucleon charge exhange cross sections in the momentum interval from 110 to 540 MeV/c

Michael Sadler (Abilene Christian University), Crystal Ball Collaboration

15:06 D7.004 The Generalized GDH sum rule: Measuring the Spin Structure of 3He and the Neutron using Nearly Real Photons

Timothy Holmstrom (College of William and Mary), Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration

15:18 D7.005 Isospin Breaking in Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory

Jose L. Goity (Hampton University/Jefferson Lab), Jordi Saez (Hampton University)

15:30 D7.006 Measurement of the Nuclear Transparency by Double Scattering in D(e,e'p)

Cornel Butuceanu (College of William & Mary)

15:42 D7.007 Measurement of Target Spin Asymmetry of DVCS Using CLAS

Shifeng Chen, Larry Dennis, Paul Eugenio (Florida State University), Volker Burkert, Stepan Stepanyan, Harut Avakian (Jefferson Lab), the CLAS Collaboration

15:54 D7.008 Single-Spin Transverse Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production at PHENIX

Christine Aidala (Columbia University), PHENIX Collaboration

16:06 D7.009 Pentaquark Search with STAR at RHIC

Sevil Salur (Yale University), STAR Collaboration

16:18 D7.010 Search for the \Theta^- with PHENIX

Christopher Pinkenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

16:30 D7.011 Multiquark-cluster formation in nuclei

Drew Fustin, Athanasios Petridis (Drake University)

16:42 D7.012 Results from Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at STAR

Dylan Thein (UCLA)

16:54 D7.013 Search for Exotic Particles with the STAR detector at RHIC

Jingguo Ma (UCLA), STAR Collaboration

D7.014 Boson-Baryon and Boson-Neutrino Reactions

Amagh Nduka (Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria)

14:30 D8.001 Cosmology, cohomology, and compactification

Charles Torre (Department of Physics, Utah State University)

14:42 D8.002 Power-laws from critical gravitiational collapse: The mass distribution of subsolar objects

Nicolas Yunes (The Pennsylvania State University), Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington)

14:54 D8.003 Higher-Derivative Palatini Gravity and the Accelerating Universe

Lior Burko, Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

15:06 D8.004 The Kerr-Schild Method in 2+1 Gravity

Leda Pena (Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana), Nelson Zamorano (Universidad de Chile)

15:18 D8.005 The Schwarzschild solution in the DGP model

Chad Middleton, George Siopsis (University of Tennessee)

15:30 D8.006 Perturbative calculation of quasi-normal modes of Schwarzschild black holes

George Siopsis (University of Tennessee), Suphot Musiri (Srinakharinwiroth University)

15:42 D8.007 The Newtonian Mercury Perihelion, Light Bending and General Relativity

Ronald Kotas (Grand Quantum Research)

14:30 D9.001 Short-Range Tests of Newton's Inverse Square Law

Daniel Kapner (CENPA, University of Washington)

14:42 D9.002 A Tabletop Test of Gravity at sub-100~\mum Distances

Sylvia Smullin, Andrew Geraci, David Weld (Stanford University Department of Physics), John Chiaverini (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford University Department of Physics)

14:54 D9.003 Searching for New Physics from 20 microns to a micron and below

Andrew Geraci, Sylvia Smullin, David Weld, Aharon Kapitulnik, Savas Dimopoulos (Department of Physics, Stanford University)

15:06 D9.004 A New Apparatus for Measuring Gravity-like Forces at Small Length Scales

David Weld, Blas Cabrera, Aharon Kapitulnik (Department of Physics, Stanford University)

15:18 D9.005 Weak Equivalence Principle Tests using a Rotating Torsion Balance

Ki-Young Choi, Jens Gundlach, Stephan Schlamminger, Blayne Heckel, Eric Adelberger, Erik Swanson (CENPA. University of Washington)

15:30 D9.006 Affine vs. Metric Gravitation Parity Test

Alan M. Schwartz (MGLS, Ltd.)

14:30 D10.001 Mass Measurement of the Orbitally-Excited Charmed Mesons D_1 and D_2^\ast

Mario Campanelli (University of Geneva)

14:42 D10.002 Production of Heavy-Strange Baryons in p\barp Collisions at \sqrts\sim 2 TeV at CDF Detector

Elena Gerchtein (Carnegie Mellon University)

14:54 D10.003 Observation of e^+e^- \rightarrow c\barc\,c\barc Production around \sqrts=10.56 GeV with the BaBar Detector.

Shuwei Ye (Univ. of Texas at Dallas), BaBar Collaboration

15:06 D10.004 Observation of the production of charmed baryons \Sigma_c^\circ and\$\Sigma_c^++ in p\barp collisions at \sqrts=1.96~ TeV

Dmitri Naumov (University of New Mexico)

15:18 D10.005 Measurement of the D \bar D production cross section at the \psi(3770)

Batbold Sanghi (Purdue University), CLEO Collaboration

15:30 D10.006 Studies of charged and neutral D meson semileptonic decays

Laria Redjimi (Syracuse University), CLEO Collaboration

15:42 D10.007 Exclusive semileptonic decays of D mesons produced in the reaction \psi(3770) \rightarrow D \bar D

Victor Pavlunin (Purdue University), CLEO Collaboration

15:54 D10.008 Studies of the leptonic decay D^+\rightarrow \mu^+ \nu_\mu

Nabil Menaa (Syracuse University), CLEO Collaboration

16:06 D10.009 Search for non-D \bar D decays of the \psi(3770)

Guangshun Huang (Purdue University), CLEO Collaboration

16:18 D10.010 A Dalitz Analysis of D^0\rightarrow K^+K^-\pi^0 Using CLEO III Data

Paras Naik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration

16:30 D10.011 Partial reconstruction of D_s^+ \to \phi \pi^+

Jeremy Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration

16:42 D10.012 Measurement of D^\circ and D^\pm Lifetime Ratio in CDF

Kim Giolo (Purdue)

16:54 D10.013 Observation and Branching ratios for Charged and Neutral \Xi_c.

Matthew Charles (Univ. of Iowa), BaBar Collaboration

17:06 D10.014 Measurement of the Charge and Neutral \Xi_c Masses.

Xuedong Chai (Univ. of Iowa), BaBar Collaboration

17:18 D10.015 Inference of Schrödinger Equation from Newtonian Mechanics

P-I Johansson (Uppsala University, SW), J.X. Zheng-Johansson (IOFPR)

14:30 D11.001 Top physics at ATLAS

Lawrence Price (Argonne National Laboratory), Collaboration ATLAS

14:42 D11.002 Measurement of the t\rightarrow Wb branching ratio at CDF

Dimitri Smirnov (U. of New Mexico), CDF Collaboration

14:54 D11.003 Search for top to \tau\nu decay in Run II data at CDF

Sarah Demers, Jon Insler, Kevin Mc Farland, Tony Vaiciulis (U. of Rochester), CDF Collaboration

15:06 D11.004 Search for top to \tau\nu decay at CDF with a new \tau identification technique

Matt Reece (U. of Chicago), CDF Collaboration

15:18 D11.005 W Boson polarization in top quark decay at CDF II

Trevor Vickey (Univ. of Illinois), CDF Collaboration

15:30 D11.006 Measurement of the Helicity of W Bosons from Top-Quark Decays at CDF II Using Charged-Lepton p_T

Nathan Goldschmidt (Univ. of Michigan), CDF Collaboration

15:42 D11.007 Towards a Measurement of the W-boson Helicity in Top Quark Decays Using the Muon Plus Jets Decay Channel in Run II of the DØExperiment.

Bryan Gmyrek (University of Arizona), DZero Collaboration

15:54 D11.008 Measurements of Polarization Amplitudes of B_s \to J/\psi \phi and \$B^0 \to J/\psi K_0 and the B_s Lifetime Difference using CDF Run 2 Data

Christoph Paus (TBA)

16:06 D11.009 Search for the decay B_c \to J/\psi + \mu + X at CDF

Christoph Paus (TBA)

16:18 D11.010 Search for the decay B_c \to J/\psi + e + X at CDF

Christoph Paus (TBA)

16:30 D11.011 Search for Fully Reconstructed B_c Meson Decays Using CDF Run-II Data

Christoph Paus (TBA)

16:42 D11.012 B_s \to \phi \phi Branching Fraction

Saverio Castellano (Rome)

16:54 D11.013 The connection between internal and external symmetries of particles -- revisited after 40 years.

Daniel Sternheimer (Université de Bourgogne, France)

14:30 D12.001 Inclusive Search for High Pt W and Z bosons

Lauren Beitler (University of Chicago), CDF Collaboration

14:42 D12.002 Measurement of \sigma(p\barp\rightarrow Z)\cdot\mathrm Br(Z\rightarrow\mu^+\mu^-) at the Fermilab Tevatron using the DØDetector.

Emily Nurse (University of Manchester), DZero Collaboration

14:54 D12.003 Precision Electoweak and Hadronic Luminosity Calculations

Scott Yost, Chris Glosser, B.F.L. Ward (Baylor University), Stanislaw Jadach (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow Poland), Baylor-Cracow Radiative Corrections Collaboration

15:06 D12.004 Measurement of the Z Boson Cross Section at the Tevatron Using the Electron Decay Mode and the Forward Detectors

CDF Collaboration

15:18 D12.005 Measurement of W boson production cross section using forward electrons (|\eta(e)|>1.1) at CDF

CDF Collaboration

15:30 D12.006 Measurement of the Muon Charge Asymmetry in W\rightarrow\mu\nu Decays using the DØDetector.

Sinjini Sengupta (Florida State University), DZero Collaboration

15:42 D12.007 Rapidity distribution of drell-yan dielectron pairs at CDF Run II

CDF Collaboration

15:54 D12.008 Measurement of the Transverse Momentum p_T of Z Bosons at the Tevatron using the Z \rightarrow ee Decay Mode

Ashutosh Kotwal (Duke University), CDF Collaboration

16:06 D12.009 Search for Compositeness at the Tevatron

Xuan Nguyen (University of Notre Dame), DZero Collaboration

16:18 D12.010 Search for high mass tau tau in CDF

Zongu Wan (Rutgers University), CDF Collaboration

16:30 D12.011 Constraints on the Scale of New Physics Phenomena from the Combined LEP II Fermion-pair and Gamma Gamma Measurements

Dimitri Bourilkov (University of Florida), LEP Electroweak Working Group Team

16:42 D12.012

16:54 D12.013 A measurement of the photon structure function F_2^\gamma with single tagged events at L3

Gyongyi Baksay, Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida), Maria Kienzle-Focacci (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland), Laszlo Baksay, Klaus Dehmelt (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida), L3 Collaboration

17:06 D12.014 Fractional dynamics and the gauge hierarchy problem

Ervin Goldfain (OptiSolve Consulting)

17:18 D12.015 Explicit CP Violation in the Higgs Sector at Future Colliders

Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University), John Ellis (CERN), John Gunion (University of California, Davis), Sven Heinemeyer (CERN), Michal Szleper, Matthew Wood (Northwestern University)

14:30 D13.001 Thresholds and Glass Ceilings: Career Pattern of Women Scientists

Gerhard Sonnert (Harvard University)

15:06 D13.002 What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics?

Barbara L. Whitten (Colorado College)

15:42 D13.003 Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP)

Patricia Rankin (University of Colorado, Boulder)

14:30 D14.001 Using a Research Based Procedure to Design a Physics Course – Changing Introductory Physics for Biology Majors

Kenneth Heller, Patricia Heller, Thomas Thaden-Koch, Paul Knutson, Vince Kuo (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455)

14:42 D14.002 Renewing Our Physics Curriculum Based on Research in Education

Robert G. Fuller (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

14:54 D14.003 Improving Student Understanding Using Interactive Engagement At MIT

John Belcher (MIT), Peter Dourmashkin, Sen-ben Liao, Judy Dori, David Litster, Eric Hudson

15:06 D14.004 The Physics Education Technology Project: Web-based interactive simulations to support student learning

Wendy Adams, Kathy Perkins, Noah Finkelstein, Ron LeMaster, Sam Reid, Mike Dubson, Carl Wieman (CU-Boulder)

15:18 D14.005 Making Quantum Mechanics Visual and Interactive

Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)

15:30 D14.006 The Real Level of our Students -- a Program to Prepare Students for I-E Physics

Jerome Epstein (Polytechnic University)

15:42 D14.007 What Do My FCI Results Really Mean?

Karen Cummings (Southern Connecticut State University)

15:54 D14.008 Contextual Sensitivity of Force Concept Inventory

Heather Griffin (University of Arkansas, Department of Physics), Arkansas Precision Education Group Collaboration

16:06 D14.009 Using Student Behavior Data to Better Understand Class Performance

Jennifer McGee (University of Arkansas), Arkansas Precision Education Group Collaboration

16:18 D14.010 The Context of Graduate Student Preparation in Physics: professional roles of research and teaching

Noah Finkelstein (University of Colorado, Boulder)

14:30 D15.001 Charge Symmetry Breaking in the NN Potential

U. van Kolck (University of Arizona and RIKEN BNL Research Center), J.L. Friar (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:42 D15.002 Effects of asymmetry in neutron/proton ratio on nucleon-nucleon scattering

Francesca Sammarruca (University of Idaho)

14:54 D15.003 Spin asymmetries for confined Dirac particles

Mark Paris (Jefferson Lab), Vijay Pandharipande (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ingo Sick (University of Basel)

15:06 D15.004 A generalization of the Numerov method for solution of Nd breakup problem in configuration space

Vladimir Suslov, Branislav Vlahovic (Physics Department, North Carolina Central University, 1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27707, USA)

15:18 D15.005 Complete boundary conditions for the three-body Coulomb scattering wave function and new approach to the ionization/breakup processes

A. Mukhamedzhanov (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX, 77843), A. S. Kadyrov, I. Bray, A. T. Stelbovics (Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics, Division of Science and Engineering, Murdoch University, Perth 6150, Australia), Fakhritdin Pirlepesov (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX, 77843)

15:30 D15.006 Polarized ^3He Target for Low-Energy Charged Particle Scattering Experiments

Tatsuya Katabuchi, Scott Buscemi, Thomas B. Clegg, Timothy V. Daniels, Hugon J. Karwowski, Richard B. Neufeld, Eliza Osenbaugh (University of North Carolina and TUNL), Steve Kadlecek (Amersham Health)

15:42 D15.007 Three-body model for A=7 hypernuclei

Igor Filikhin, Vladimir Suslov, Branislav Vlahovic (Department of Physics, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707)

15:54 D15.008 SURFACE DIFFUSION OF SINGLE POLYMER CHAIN USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION*

Tapan Desai, Pawel Keblinski, Sanat Kumar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY), Steve Granick (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.)

16:06 D15.009 Periodic Solutions of an N-Body Problem

Bharat Khushalani (University of Southern California)