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)