Program overview
MONDAY MORNING, 3 MAY 2004
Session R2. DNP/DAP: Nuclei in the Sun and Galaxy Through Gamma-Ray Vision.
Monday morning, 10:45, Plaza D, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R2.001
INTEGRAL and Cosmic Nucleosynthesis
- Roland Diehl (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany)
- 11:21 R2.002
Solar Flare Observations with RHESSI
- R. P. Lin (Physics Dept & Space Sciences Lab, Univ. of California, Berkeley)
- 11:57 R2.003
Nova Nucleosynthesis of Gamma-Ray Emitters and Radioactive Beam Measurements
- Dan Bardayan (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- 12:33 R2.004
Radiative Capture Reactions with Radioactive Beams for Nuclear Astrophysics Using DRAGON at ISAC
- John D'Auria (Simon Fraser University)
Session R4. DPF: Electroweak Physics.
Monday morning, 10:45, Plaza F, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R4.001
Muon g-2 and low energy electroweak tests
- Andrzej Czarnecki (University of Alberta)
- 11:21 R4.002
Precision electroweak measurements and fits
- Martin Grunewald (University College Dublin, Dept. of Experimental Physics, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland)
- 11:57 R4.003
Electroweak measurements at the Tevatron
- Marco Verzocchi (University of Maryland)
- 12:33 R4.004
Top quark physics
- Pierre Savard (University of Toronto)
- 13:09 R4.005
Higgs Searches - Status and Prospects
- Michael Schmitt (Northwestern University)
Session R5. DPB: Next Generation Sychrotron Light and Neutron Sources.
Monday morning, 10:45, Governor's Square 14, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R5.001
Next Generation Spallation Neutron Sources
- Norbert Holtkamp (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- 11:21 R5.002
Science and Technology of SASE
- John Galayda (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
- 11:57 R5.003
Science and Technology of ERL-based Synchrotron Radiation Sources
- Charles K. Sinclair (Cornell University)
- 12:33 R5.004
Science and Technology of Long Wavelength Radiation Sources
- Michael C. Martin (Advanced Light Source Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- 13:09 R5.005
Key Ramp;D issues for future light sources
- Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL)
Session R7. FEd: The Difficult Road from Author to Textbook.
Monday morning, 10:45, Governor's Square 16, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R7.001
Experiences of a high-school physics textbook author
- Paul W. Zitzewitz (Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn)
- 11:21 R7.002
Program for Change
- Gregory Puskar (West Virginia University)
- 11:57 R7.003
TBD
- Stuart Johnson ()
- 12:33 R7.004
The Importance of Accuracy, Stimulating writing, and Relevance in Middle School Science Textbook Writing
- John Hubisz (North Carolina State University)
Session R8. FPS: Dirty Bombs: Threat or Hype?
Monday morning, 10:45, Governor's Square 17, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R8.001
Dirty Bombs: A Discouraging Second Look
- Cheryl A. Loeb (Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, Washington, DC)
- 11:21 R8.002
Sources of Radioactive Isotopes for Dirty Bombs
- Joel Lubenau (Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies)
- 11:57 R8.003
Decontamination in the Aftermath of a Radiological Attack
- Jaime Yassif (Federation of American Scientists)
- 12:33 R8.004
Communication with Policy Makers and the Public on Dirty Bombs
- Michael Levi (Brookings Institution)
Session R9. TGG/DPF: Gravitational Aspects of String Theory.
Monday morning, 10:45, Governor's Square 12, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R9.001
Cosmic censorship violation in anti de Sitter space
- Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 11:21 R9.002
Figures in the landscape: fluxes, branes and string vacua
- Steve Giddings (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 11:57 R9.003
Observables, Gauge Invariance and Locality in Models of Quantum Gravity
- Tom Banks (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
- 12:33 R9.004
Black holes in theories with compact dimensions
- Toby Wiseman (Harvard)
Session R10. DNP: Many-Body Systems and Nuclear Physics.
Monday morning, 10:45, Governor's Square 11, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R10.001
Progress in Extended Lagrangians for Relativistic Point-Coupling Models
- Thomas J. Buervenich, David G. Madland (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- 10:57 R10.002
Application of the Pauli Principle in Many-Body Scattering
- Stephen Weppner (Eckerd College)
- 11:09 R10.003
Numerical Modeling of Statistical Decay of Compound Nuclei at Equilibrium Density with Surface Entropy Effects
- M. Houck, Jun Lu, L. Pienkowski, W. U. Schröder, J. Tõke (University of Rochester)
- 11:21 R10.004
Predicting total and total reaction cross sections using a simple functional form
- Pradip Deb (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.), Ken Amos (School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)
- 11:33 R10.005
Consequences of self-consistency violations in HF-RPA calculations of the nuclear breathing mode energy
- Shalom Shlomo, Bijay K Agrawal (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University,College Station, TX 77843, USA)
- 11:45 R10.006
Exploring High-Dimensional Fission Potential-Energy Landscapes
- Peter Moller, Dave Madland, Arnold J. Sierk (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), Akira Iwamoto (JAERI Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, 319-1195 Japan)
- 11:57 R10.007
Emission of Intermediate-Mass Fragments from Excited Systems at Equilibrium Matter Density
- J. Tõke, M. Houck, Jun Lu, L. Pienkowski, W. U. Schröder (University of Rochester)
- 12:09 R10.008
Sufficient data exists to provide a unified physics in 2004
- Eugene Pamfiloff (Optigon Research and Development)
- 12:21 R10.009
A Theorem for Two Nucleon Transfer
- Larry Zamick (Rutgers University), aram Mekjian (Rutgers U.)
- R10.010
Nuclear matter incompressibility coefficient in relativistic and nonrelativistic microscopic models
- Shalom Shlomo, Bijay K. Agrawal, Vuong Kim Au (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA)
- R10.011
Formal Nuclear and Atomic Structure of the Elements
- Amagh Nduka (Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria)
Session R11. DPF: Bquark Masses, Lifetimes, Mixing, and Oscillations.
Monday morning, 10:45, Governor's Square 10, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R11.001
Precision Measurements of b Hadron Masses at CDF using Run II DataB^0 \to J/\psi K_0 and the B_s Lifetime Difference using CDF Run 2 Data
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 10:57 R11.002
Measurements of b Hadron Lifetimes at CDF Using Exclusive Decays
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 11:09 R11.003
Measurement of the B Hadron Lifetimes using Semileptonic Decays in CDF Run II
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 11:21 R11.004
Measurements of Exclusive B Meson Lifetimes in Fully Hadronic Decay Modes at\$\sqrts=1.96~ TeV
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 11:33 R11.005
Ratio of Lifetimes of the B^+ and B_d^0 mesons.
- Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University, UK), DZero Collaboration
- 11:45 R11.006
Lifetime of B_d^0 and B_s^0 mesons using fully reconstructed J/\psi+X final states.
- Avdhesh Chandra (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India), DZero Collaboration
- 11:57 R11.007
Measurement of \Lambda_b Baryon Lifetime using the \Lambda_b \rightarrow J/\psi \Lambda final state.
- Abaz Kryemadhi (Indiana University), DZero Collaboration
- 12:09 R11.008
Flavor Tagging at CDF using Run II Data
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 12:21 R11.009
Same Side Pion Tagging Study at CDF using Run II Data
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 12:33 R11.010
Soft Electron Reconstruction and the Deacy J/\psi \to e^+e^- at CDF
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 12:45 R11.011
Jet Charge Tagging at CDF using Run II Data
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 12:57 R11.012
B^0 Mixing in Fully Reconstructed Hadronic Decays at CDF
- Jonatan Piedra (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria)
- 13:09 R11.013
A study of B_d^0 oscillations.
- Sergey Burdin (Fermilab), DZero Collaboration
- 13:21 R11.014
Trigger Strategies for B_s mixing at DØ
- Christopher Barnes (Imperial College, London), DZero Collaboration
- 13:33 R11.015
Prospects on B_s mixing in Run II CDF
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
Session R12. DPF: QCD Physics.
Monday morning, 10:45, Plaza Court 1, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R12.001
QCD at LHC with ATLAS
- Lawrence Price (Argonne National Laboratory), Collaboration ATLAS
- 10:57 R12.002
Diphoton Production in the DO Detector at the Fermilab Collider
- Joshua Dyer (Michigan State University), DZero Collaboration
- 11:09 R12.003
Multiphoton Production in the DØDetector at the Fermilab Tevatron p\barp collider.
- Oleksiy V. Atramentov (Iowa State University), DZero Collaboration
- 11:21 R12.004
Inclusive Jet Cross Section using the K_T Algorithm
- Regis Lefevre (IFAE-Barcelona), CDF Collaboration
- 11:33 R12.005
Fragmentation Differences of Quark and Gluon Jets at the Tevatron
- Alexandre Pronko (University of Florida), CDF Collaboration
- 11:45 R12.006
Jet Shapes and Energy Flows in Dijet Production at CDF
- Olga Norniella (IFAE-Barcelona), CDF Collaboration
- 11:57 R12.007
Run II Results on Diffraction from CDF
- Koji Terashi (The Rockefeller University), CDF Collaboration
- 12:09 R12.008
Min-Bias and The Underlying Event in Run 2 at the Tevatron
- Alberto Cruz (University of Florida/CDF), CDF Collaboration
- 12:21 R12.009
Inclusive b-jet production at CDF
- Monica D'Onofrio (University of Geneva/CDF), CDF Collaboration
- 12:33 R12.010
Measurement of the Bottom Quark Cross-Section using b \to J/\psi Events at CDF
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 12:45 R12.011
Measurement of the b-Hadron Production Cross-Section 1.96 TeV
- Anant Gajjar (University of Liverpool), CDF Collaboration
- 12:57 R12.012
\Lambda_b Production at CDF
- Christoph Paus (TBA)
- 13:09 R12.013
Studies of \Upsilon (1S) bottomonium state production with the DØ\ Detector at Fermilab.
- Jundong Huang (Indiana University), DZero Collaboration
- 13:21 R12.014
QCD Tests of Heavy Flavour Production in Events Containing an Energetic Photon at 1.96 TeV
- Anant Gajjar (University of Liverpool), CDF Collaboration
- 13:33 R12.015
A Proposed New “Nano-Particle” Theory of Light Based on Heat Transfer Principles
- Ashis Das (Independent Engineer and Scientist)
Session R13. TGG: Numerical Relativity and Simulations of Strongly Gravitating Systems I.
Monday morning, 10:45, Plaza Court 2, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R13.001
Numerical Simulations of Compact Binaries
- Thomas Baumgarte (Bowdoin College)
- 11:21 R13.002
3D simulations of Einstein's equations: symmetric hyperbolicity, live gauges and dynamic control of the constraints
- Manuel Tiglio, Luis Lehner, Dave Neilsen (Louisiana State University)
- 11:33 R13.003
Recent Results with Distributed AMR
- Steven Liebling (Southampton College, LIU)
- 11:45 R13.004
Spherical excision for moving black holes with overlapping grids
- Gioel Calabrese (University of Southampton), Eric Hirschmann (Brigham Young University), David Neilsen (Louisiana State University)
- 11:57 R13.005
Radiation tails and boundary conditions for black hole evolutions
- Lior Burko, Elspeth Allen, Elizabeth Buckmiller, Richard Price (University of Utah)
- 12:09 R13.006
Numerical Relativity Using a Harmonic Decomposition
- Frans Pretorius (California Institute of Technology)
Session R14. DPP: Plasma Physics.
Monday morning, 10:45, Plaza Court 3, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R14.001
Accretion Theory of the "Spontaneous Rotation" Phenomenon : New experimental evidence
- Bruno Coppi (MIT)
- 10:57 R14.002
Role of the Lower Hybrid Drift Instability (LHDI) on the Onset of Magnetic Reconnection
- P. Ricci, J.U. Brackbill, W. Daughton, G. Lapenta (LANL)
- 11:09 R14.003
Plasma redshift of photons: A new way to heat plasma to fusion temperatures
- ARI BRYNJOLFSSON (Applied Radiation Industries)
- 11:21 R14.004
Electromagnetic modeling of extended dust grains in astrophysical plasmas
- Peter Messmer (Tech-X Corporation), Mihaly Horanyi (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- 11:33 R14.005
Melting and Vaporization Apparatus and Method with implications for ICF
- Susana Curatolo (CZT Inc.)
- 11:45 R14.006
Measurement of optical properties and AC conductivity of femtosecond laser generated warm dense gold
- K. Widmann (LLNL), T. Ao (UBC, Vancouver, Canada), A. Ng, M.E. Foord, D.F. Price, A.D. Ellis, Y. Ping, P.T. Springer ((all LLNL))
- 11:57 R14.007
``Physics of Igniting Plasmas and the Ignitor Approach"
- A. Airoldi (C.N.R.), B. Coppi (MIT), F. Bombarda, G. Cenacchi (E.N.E.A.)
- 12:09 R14.008
IEC OPERATION WITH RF ION INJECTION
- Robert Stubbers, Yasser Shaban, George H. Miley (NPRE Dept., U of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801)
- 12:21 R14.009
The Size of the Light Emitting Region of a Sonoluminescing Bubble
- Mogens Levinsen, Jeppe Dam (Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 12:33 R14.010
NONIDEAL PLASMA UNDER EXREME CONDITIONS GENERATED BY INTENSE SHOCK WAVES
- Vladimir Fortov (Institute for High Energy Density of RAS)
Session R15. DNP: Mini-Symposium on Meson Production Reactions.
Monday morning, 10:45, Plaza Court 4, Adam's Mark Hotel
- 10:45 R15.001
Reaction Models for Investigating Baryon Spectroscopy with Meson Production Reactions
- Toru Sato (Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University)
- 11:21 R15.002
Hadron Deformation and Chiral Symmetry
- A.M. Bernstein (MIT)
- 11:33 R15.003
CLAS Measurement of Pion Electroproduction in the \Delta (1232) Region at Q^2=0.1-0.3 \sim GeV^2
- L.C. Smith (University of Virginia), CLAS Collaboration
- 11:45 R15.004
Study of Model Dependence in \Delta Resonance Pion Electroproduction Multipoles
- Itaru Nakagawa (University of Kentucky)
- 11:57 R15.005
New Measurements of the Low Q^2 Behavior of the \gammap\rightarrow\Delta Reaction
- Sean Stave (MIT)
- 12:09 R15.006
Recoil Polarization Measurements and Multipole Analysis of the p( \vece,e^\prime \vecp ) \pi^0 Reaction near the \Delta-Resonance
- A.J. Sarty (Saint Mary's University), for the Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration
- 12:21 R15.007
Model Dependence of the Properties of S11 Baryon Resonances
- Alvin Kiswandhi, Simon Capstick (Department of Physics, Florida State University), Steven Dytman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh)
- 12:33 R15.008
Analysis of the reaction \gamma p \to \eta^\prime p
- Kanzo Nakayama (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602), Helmut Haberzettl (Center for Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052)
- 12:45 R15.009
\largeEvidence of Longitudinal P_11(1440)Strength from \pi^+ Electroproduction Beam Asymmetry Measurements with CLAS
- Kyungseon Joo (University of Connecticut), Fort the CLAS Collaboration
- 12:57 R15.010
Helicity Asymmetries in Double-Charged-Pion Photoproduction from Hydrogen with Circularly Polarized Photons
- Steffen Strauch (The George Washington University), CLAS Collaboration
- 13:09 R15.011
Search for resonance contributions in electro- and photoproduction of omega at CLAS
- Franz Klein (The Catholic University of America), CLAS Collaboration
- 13:21 R15.012
Search for the Exotic Pentaquark theta+ Baryon state in the gamma deuteron -> lambda theta+ reaction
- Marco Mirazita (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
- 13:36 R15.013
Structure-Dependent Radiative Corrections to N\to\Delta Transition
- Andrei Afanasev (Jefferson Lab)