Program overview

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 2 MAY 2004

14:30 L2.001 Homeland Security and the Physics Community

Sonya Bowyer (Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security)

15:06 L2.002 Radiation Detection at Borders for Homeland Security

Richard Kouzes (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

15:42 L2.003 Detecting Special Nuclear Materials by Muon Radiography

Andrew Saunders (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:18 L2.004 Detecting Radiation Threats in Intermodal Cargo Containers

Thomas Gosnell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:54 L2.005 Education, Training and other Outreach Activities to First Responders

Cornelius Beausang (Yale University)

14:30 L3.001 Creating Virtual Universes

Nick Gnedin (University of Colorado)

15:06 L3.002 Statistical Challenges in CMB Analysis

Benjamin Wandelt (Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

15:42 L3.003 The challenges of simulating Type 1A supernovae

Alexei Khokhlov (University of Chicago)

16:18 L3.004 Down the hole: Simulating Black Hole Accretion

Jean-Pierre De Villiers (University of Virginia)

14:30 L4.001 Solar, Atmospheric, and Reactor Neutrino Experiments

Joshua Klein (University of Texas at Austin)

15:06 L4.002 Superbeams for Neutrino Experiments

William Marcino (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:42 L4.003 Neutrino Factories

Steve Geer (Fermilab)

16:18 L4.004 Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay

Steve Elliott (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:54 L4.005 Neutrinos in Cosmology and Astrophysics

John Beacom (Fermilab)

14:30 L5.001 Fast Pulsed Power Sources for Equation-of-State Studies to Multi-Mbar Pressures

James R. Asay (Institute for Shock Physics, Washington State University)

15:06 L5.002 Atmospheric Propagation of Ultra-Short Laser Pulses

Phillip Sprangle (Naval Research Laboratory)

15:42 L5.003 Return current and proton emission from wire targets interacting with an intense short pulse laser

Farhat Beg (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego)

16:18 L5.004 Fast Ignition Research and 10 kJ Petawatt Laser System

Kazuo A. Tanaka (Institute of Laser Eng. amp; Grad. School of Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita Osaka 565-0871 Japan), ILE Fast Ignition Experimental Team, ILE FIREX Laser Team, US Fast Ignition Team, UK Fast Ignition Team

16:54 L5.005 Using Heavy Ion Beams to Drive Inertial Fusion

Christine Celata (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 L7.001 ACTIVITY-BASED INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS REFORM *

Ronald Thornton (Center for Science and Math Teaching, Departments of Physics and Education, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155)

15:06 L7.002 Intro Courses that Entice Majors and Future Teachers

Gay Stewart (University of Arkansas)

15:42 L7.003 Course Reform and PhysTEC at Western Michigan University

Alvin Rosenthal (Western Michigan University)

16:18 L7.004 Role of a Physics TIR in Physics Course Reform

Ingrid Novodvorsky (University of Arizona)

16:54 L7.005 Using the tools of physics to teach physics

Carl Wieman (University of Colorado)

14:30 L8.001 Operational Status of CESR-c

James A. Crittenden (Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850-8001)

14:42 L8.002 Synchronization of the Fermilab Booster and Main Injector for the NuMI Neutrino Beam

Robert Zwaska (University of Texas, Austin), MINOS Collaboration

14:54 L8.003 Strong Transverse Coupling in the Tevatron

Michael Syphers (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:06 L8.004 Study of Coherent Beam-Beam Tune Shift in Very Un-Symmetrical Case of Beam-Beam Interactions

Lihui Jin, Jack Shi (Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Kansas)

15:18 L8.005 Chaotic Coherent Beam-Beam Instability in Strong-Weak Case of Beam-Beam Interactions

Lihui Jin, Jack Shi (Department of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Kansas)

15:30 L8.006

15:42 L8.007 RF Couplers for Normal-Conducting Photoinjector of High-Power CW FEL

Sergey Kurennoy, Dale Schrage, Richard Wood (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Tom Schultheiss, John Rathke (Advanced Energy Systems, Medford, NY 11763), Lloyd Young (TechSource, Santa FE, NM 87505)

15:54 L8.008 Importance of mode spacing in the design of very high frequency linacs*

Thomas P. Wangler, K. C. D. Chan, Robert W. Garnett, Frank L. Krawczyk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:06 L8.009 CTF3/CLIC and Beam Loss Detectors for Linear Colliders

Thibaut Lefevre, Mayda Velasco, Matthew Wood (Northwestern University), Hans Braun (CERN), Gianni Tassotto (Fermilab), CTF3 Collaboration, Northwestern/ICAR Collaboration

16:18 L8.010 Possible Longitudinal Beam Profile Measurement Technique using Pulsed Hysteretic SQUID Arrays

S. P. Kwon (Center for Superconductivity Research / Physics Department - University of Maryland)

16:30 L8.011 A Superconducting Linac Proton Driver at Fermilab

G. William Foster (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:42 L8.012 Design of SUSI – Superconducting Source for Ions. 1. Magnetic field, quench protection and stress calculations

P.A. Zavodszky, J. DeKamp, F. Marti, P. Miller, J. Ottarson, A. Zeller (NSCL/MSU East Lansing, MI)

L8.013 Design Conception of a Solution Ion Source Based Particle Accelerator

Ashis (Kumar) Das (Independent Researcher)

14:30 L9.001 The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: An Overview

Robin Stebbins (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

15:06 L9.002 Massive Black Holes in Galaxies: Observations and Estimates

Sterl Phinney (California Institute of Technology)

15:42 L9.003 What will we learn from inspiral of compact stars into massive black holes?

Scott Hughes (Department of Physics, MIT)

16:18 L9.004 The Physics of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

Milos Milosavljevic (California Institute of Technology)

14:30 L10.001 Mean field Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory to model the ground state of non-stable heavy and deformed nuclei.

Edgar Teran (San Diego State University), Volker E. Oberacker (Vanderbilt University), Sait A. Umar, Artur Blazkiewicz (Vandebilt University)

14:42 L10.002 Electromagnetic transition strengths in semi-magic neutron rich nuclei

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

14:54 L10.003 Neutron-neutron correlations in ^6He

Oleksiy Atramentov, James Vary (Iowa State University), Petr Navrátil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:06 L10.004 Measurements of neutron-rich nuclei with (d,p) reactions at HRIBF

J.S. Thomas, J.A. Cizewski, K.L. Jones (Rutgers Univ.), D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, C.J. Gross, F. Liang, D. Shapira, M.S. Smith (ORNL), R.L. Kozub, C.D. Nesaraja (Tenn. Tech. U.), M.S. Johnson (ORAU), R.P. Fitzgerald, D.W. Visser (Univ. North Carolina)

15:18 L10.005 Isomer and beta-decay studies of nuclei near ^78Ni

C. Mazzocchi, R. Grzywacz, C. Bingham (University of Tennessee), K. Rykaczewski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), C. Morton, P. Mantica, S. Liddick, M. wilhelm, A. Stolz, M. Steiner (NSCL Michigan State University), M. Karny (Warsaw University), W. Krolas (JIHIR), J. Winger (Missisippi State University), J. Hamilton, D. Fong, J.K. Huang (Vanderbilt University), J. Batchelder (ORAU)

15:30 L10.006 Determination of Low-Spin Levels in ^134,^135Sb via Decay of ^135Sn

Jason Shergur (University of Maryland, Argonne National Laboratory), Andreas Wöhr (University of Notre Dame), William B. Walters (University of Maryland), Karl-Ludwig Kratz, Oliver Arndt (Universität Mainz), Alex Brown (Michigan State University), Iris Dillmann (Universität Mainz, Universität Basel), Per Hoff (University of Oslo), Ulli Köster (ISOLDE, CERN), Bernd Pfeiffer (Universität Mainz)

15:42 L10.007 Spectroscopy of neutron-rich isotopes near A=120

Mark A. Stoyer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Univ. of Maryland), W.B. Walters (Univ. of Maryland), C.Y. Wu, D. Cline, H. Hua, A.B. Hayes, R. Teng (Univ. of Rochester), R.M. Clark, P. Fallon, A. Goergen, A.O. Macchiavelli, K. Vetter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), P.F. Mantica, B. Tomlin (Michigan State University)

15:54 L10.008 High spin states in ^95Sr

J.K. Hwang, A.V. Ramayya, J.H. Hamilton, Y.X. Luo (Vanderbilt Univ.), J.O. Rasmussen (LBNL), C.J. Beyer, P.M. Gore (Vanderbilt Univ.), S.C. Wu, I.Y. Lee, C.M. Folden, P. Fallon, P. Zielinski, K.E. Gregorich (LBNL), M.A. Stoyer (LLNL), T.N. Ginter (NSCL), S.J. Zhu (Tsinghua Univ.), J.D. Cole (INEEL), R. Donangelo (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

16:06 L10.009 Chirality in odd-odd Rhodiums: ^102Rh

C. Vaman, D.B. Fossan, T. Koike (SUNY at Stony Brook), K. Starosta (NSCL/Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University), E.S Paul, G. Rainovski, S. Finnigan (University of Liverpool), B. Wadsworth, P. Joshi (University of York)

16:18 L10.010 Establishement of M1 multipolarity of a 6.5 \mu_N^2 resonance at 3.3 MeV \gamma energy in ^172Yb

A. Schiller (NSCL/MSU and LLNL), A. Voinov (FLNP/JINR, Russia), E. Algin (Osmangazi University, Turkey), J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, P.E. Garrett (LLNL), M. Guttormsen, J. Rekstad, S. Siem (University of Oslo, Norway), R.O. Nelson (LANL)

16:30 L10.011 The Low Spin Structure of ^208Bi

P. Boutachkov, K. H. Maier, A. Aprahamian, M. Quinn, G. R. Rogachev, B. Skorodumov (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA)

16:42 L10.012 Precise measurement of the K-conversion coefficient for the 80.2 keV transition from ^193mIr

N. Nica, J.C. Hardy, V.E. Iacob (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University), S. Raman, Jr. Nestor (Oak Ridge National Lab), M.B. Trzhaskovskaya (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia)

14:30 L11.001 Measurement of CP Asymmetries in B^0\to\phi K^0 Decays.

Gerald Ragghianti (Univ. of Tennessee), BaBar Collaboration

14:42 L11.002 Branching Fractions and Direct CP-Violating in B^\pm\to\phi K^\pm at CDF

Massimo Casarsa (Trieste)

14:54 L11.003 Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B^0 \to K^0_s \pi^0 decays.

Dmytro Kovalskyi (Univ. of Maryland), BaBar Collaboration

15:06 L11.004 Measurement of Time-Dependent CP asymmetries and constraints on \sin(2\beta+\gamma) with partial reconstruction on B^0 \rightarrow D^*\mp \pi^\pm decays.

Marie Legendre (Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires, Saclay), BaBar Collaboration

15:18 L11.005 Measurement of CP Asymmetries in B^0\to K^+K^-K_S and B^+\to K^+K_SK_S Decays.

Denis Dujmic (SLAC), BaBar Collaboration

15:30 L11.006 Time-dependent Asymmetry Measurements of B\to\eta^\prime K^0 with BaBar.

Simone Rodolfi (University of Milan), BaBar Collaboration

15:42 L11.007 Measurement of the branching fraction, photon energy spectrum, and direct \itCP asymmetry in b\to s \gamma decays.

Andrew Eichenbaum (Univ. of Wisconsin), BaBar Collaboration

15:54 L11.008 Measurement of the branching fractions, direct CP asymmetry, and isospin asymmetry in B \rightarrow K \gamma decay.

Ping Tan (Univ. of Wisconsin), BaBar Collaboration

16:06 L11.009 Flavor tagging of B hadrons at DØand a preliminary measurement of CP violation.

Xiaojian Zhang (Oklahoma University), DZero Collaboration

16:18 L11.010 Search for Direct CP violation in D^+ meson decays.

Francisco Yumiceva (Univ. of South Carolina), BaBar Collaboration

16:30 L11.011 Search for Direct CP Violation in 3-Body Decays of Charged Charm Mesons

Natasha Miladinovic (Brandeis)

16:42 L11.012 Branching Fractions and Direct CP-Violating Asymmetries in B^0, B_s\to h^+h^-\Sigma_c^++ in p\barp collisions at \sqrts=1.96~ TeV

Michael Morello (Pisa)

16:54 L11.013 D^0 Mixing and CP Violation: Prospects for CLEO-c

Melissa Cravey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), CLEO Collaboration

17:06 L11.014 Search for D^0-øverlineD^0 mixing Using D^0 \rightarrow K^(*)+e^-øverline\nu_e Decays

Chris Sedlack (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), CLEO Collaboration

17:18 L11.015 Search at BaBar for D^0--øverlineD^0 Mixing using Semileptonic Decays.

Kevin Flood (Univ. of Massachusetts), BaBar Collaboration

14:30 L12.001 Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in e^+e^-b\barb final states.

Marc Buehler (University of Illinois, Chicago), DZero Collaboration

14:42 L12.002 Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in \mu^+\mu^-b\barb final states.

Y.~D. Mutaf (State University of New York, Stony Brook), DZero Collaboration

14:54 L12.003 Wb\barb Production at DØ

Stéphanie Beauceron (University of Paris VI, Paris), DZero Collaboration

15:06 L12.004 Search for Higgs Boson in WW^(*) Decays.

Johannes Elmsheuser (LMU, Muenchen, Germany), DZero Collaboration

15:18 L12.005 Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons.

Jyothsna Rani (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India), DZero Collaboration

15:30 L12.006 W(\rightarrow \mu\nu)b\barb Production at DØ

Satish Desai (State University of New York, Stony Brook), DZero Collaboration

15:42 L12.007 Search for a Doubly-Charged Higgs Boson at DØ

Marian Zdra\vzil (State University of New York, Stony Brook), DZero Collaboration

15:54 L12.008 Applying the Matrix-Element Analysis to a Search for the Higgs Boson.

Carlos Garcia (University of Rochester), DZero Collaboration

16:06 L12.009 Search for SM Higgs Boson using H->WW* Dilepton Channel at CDF

Shan-Huei Chuang (University of Wisconsin), CDF Collaboration

16:18 L12.010 Search for MSSM Higgs Decaying to Taus

Dongwook Jang (Rutgers University), CDF Collaboration

16:30 L12.011 Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs decay H\to \tau\mu

Carmine Pagliarone (University of Pisa), CDF Collaboration

16:42 L12.012 Search for Higgs Production in Association with W Boson at Tevatron

Yoshio Ishizawa (University of Tsukuba), CDF Collaboration

16:54 L12.013 Investigations of Little Higgs models with ATLAS at the LHC

Lawrence Price (Argonne National Laboratory), Collaboration ATLAS

17:06 L12.014 Investigation of Higgs bosons in the low mass region with ATLAS

Lawrence Price (Argonne National Laboratory), Collaboration ATLAS

17:18 L12.015 Search for the NMSSM Higgs boson at Photon Colliders

Michal Szleper (Northwstern University)

14:30 L13.001 THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION, THE HUMAN RACE, AND SCIENTISTS

Albert A. Bartlett (University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309-0390)

15:06 L13.002 Teaching About Population, Climate and Environment

Kerry Browne (Dickinson College)

15:42 L13.003 Teaching Global Warming

Art Hobson (University of Arkansas)

16:18 L13.004 The Global Energy Budget -- A Student Exercise in Modeling

Gregory Mulder (Linn-Benton Community College)

16:54 L13.005 Physics on the Road

Brian Jones (Colorado State University)

14:30 L14.001 High-Precision Measurement of the Static Dipole Polarizability of Cs

Harvey Gould (LBNL), Jason Amini (LBNL and Dept. of Physics Univ. Calif., Berkeley)

14:42 L14.002 Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with Electrodynamics

Quentin Bailey, Alan Kostelecky (Indiana University)

14:54 L14.003 On-line collection and transfer of radioactive noble gas isotopes for radon EDM measurements

Sarah Nuss-Warren, Eric Tardiff (University of Michigan), Tim Warner (Simon Fraser University), Gordon Ball, John Behr (TRIUMF), Tim Chupp, Kevin Coulter (University of Michigan), Greg Hackman (TRIUMF), Michael Hayden (Simon Fraser University), Matthew Pearson (TRIUMF), Andrew Phillips (Guelph University), Martin Smith (TRIUMF), Carl Svensson (Guelph University)

15:06 L14.004 Loading ^225Ra in a magneto-optical trap as the first step to an electric dipole moment measurement

N.D. Scielzo, I. Ahmad, K. Bailey, R.J. Holt, Z.-T. Lu, T. O'Connor, D.H. Potterveld, E.C. Schulte (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

15:18 L14.005 Search for CP-violation in the Lepton Sector: Electron Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) Experiments with Laser-Cooled Cesium Atoms

Harvey Gould (LBNL)

15:30 L14.006 Field theoretical understanding of deformation and fracture

Sanichiro Yoshida (Southeastern Louisiana University)

15:42 L14.007 A numerical approach to solving the time-dependent Dirac's equation

Marc Trachy, Jon Vermedahl, Athanasios Petridis (Drake University)

15:54 L14.008 Wave Packet Dynamics in the Infinite Square Well with the Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution

Mario Belloni (Davidson College), Michael Doncheski, Richard Robinett (Pennsylvania State University)

14:30 L15.001 The Properties of the Partonic Stage of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Steffen Bass (Duke University and RIKEN-BNL Research Center)

15:06 L15.002 What Do we Learn From Azimuthal Correlation Measurements at RHIC

Roy Lacey (Chem. Dept. Suny Stony Brook)

15:18 L15.003 Jet Properties in p+p, d+Au, Au+Au reactions at sqrt(s)=200 AGeV from PHENIX

Craig Ogilvie (Iowa State University), PHENIX Collaboration

15:30 L15.004 Quarkonia Physics in a Nuclear Environment

James Nagle (University of Colorado at Boulder), PHENIX Collaboration

15:42 L15.005 Hadron R_cp measurement in the Phenix Muon Arms for \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV d + Au collisions

Anuj Purwar (SUNYSB Physics), Phenix Collaboration

15:54 L15.006 Strange baryon Production at \sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV at RHIC

Hui Long (University of California, Los Angeles), STAR Collaboration

16:06 L15.007 Elliptic flow of multi-strange baryons \Xi and Ømega in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

Javier Castillo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), STAR Collaboration

16:18 L15.008 Measurements of high pt open charm production in d+Au collisions

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

16:30 L15.009 Single electron spectra and D^0 production in d+Au and p+p Collisions at \sqrts_NN=200GeV at STAR

Dong Xin (Univ. of Sci. amp; Tech. of China amp; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), STAR Collaboration

16:42 L15.010 Anti-deuteron production at RHIC

Hong Zhou (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), STAR Collaboration

16:54 L15.011 \Sigma(1385) Resonance Studies with STAR at RHIC

Sevil Salur (Yale University), STAR Collaboration

L15.012 Resonace decay effect on pion v_2

Xin Dong (Univ. of Sci. amp; Tech. of China amp; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)