Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 4 MAY 2004

11:00 W2.001 Spectroscopic Factors from Nucleon Knockout with Radioactive Projectiles

P. Gregers Hansen (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University)

11:36 W2.002 Spectral function at high missing energy and momentum

Daniela Rohe (Department for Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland)

12:12 W2.003 Correlations in Light Nuclei

Robert B. Wiringa (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:48 W2.004 Nuclear Scalings in A(e,e^/) Reaction at High Missing Momentum

Kim Egiyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia and JLab, USA)

11:00 W3.001 The Importance of Atoms and Molecules in Astrophysical Modeling

Phillip Stancil (Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Simulational Physics, The University of Georgia)

11:36 W3.002 Laboratory Spectroscopy in Support of X-ray Astrophysics Missions

Peter Beiersdorfer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

12:12 W3.003 Autoionization in Astrophysics

Tom Gorczyca (Western Michigan University)

12:48 W3.004 Spectra of Small Molecules

Lucy Ziurys (University of Arizona)

13:24 W3.005 The Key Role of Nitrogenated Aromatics in Interstellar and Planetary Evolution and the Formation of Life

Emma Bakes (NASA ARC/SETI)

11:00 W4.001 New Ideas on the Little Hierarchy Problem

Graham Kribs (Princeton IAS)

11:36 W4.002 Phenomenology of extra dimensions

JoAnne Hewitt (SLAC)

12:12 W4.003 New developments in model building: anticipating physics at the TeV scale

Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)

12:48 W4.004 Higgsless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

John Terning (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:24 W4.005 New ideas for baryogenesis

Carlos E.M. Wagner (Argonne National Laboratory and EFI, Univ. of Chicago)

11:00 W5.001 Early Days and the Beginnings of the Iron Age

John P. Schiffer (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439)

11:36 W5.002 The First International; Mössbauer Conference.

Hans Frauenfelder (Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:12 W5.003 One Part Nuclear, One Part Solid State: Fifty Years of Mössbauer Spectroscopy

Catherine Westfall (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:48 W5.004 Mössbauer Relaxation Phenomena: Spin Fluctuations in the Later Iron Age

Hollis Wickman (National Science Foundation)

11:00 W9.001 A new flight path at LANSCE for the \vecn + p \rightarrow d + \gamma experiment

Gregory Mitchell (Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory), NPDGamma Collaboration

11:12 W9.002 Neutron Beam Monitors for the NPDGamma Experiment at LANSCE

R. Chad Gillis (University of Manitoba), NPDGamma Collaboration

11:24 W9.003 Physics with the NCD Array in SNO

Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration

11:36 W9.004 Deployment of the SNO Neutral Current Detector Array

Jaret Heise (Los Alamos National Laboratory), SNO Collaboration

11:48 W9.005 Data Acquisition System for the NCDs at SNO

G. Adam Cox (University of Washington), SNO Collaboration

12:00 W9.006 Initial Data from the SNO NCD Array

L. C. Stonehill (University of Washington), SNO Collaboration

12:12 W9.007 The LENS solar neutrino experiment

Henning O. Back, R. Bruce Vogelaar (Virginia Tech), Raju Raghavan (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technology), LENS Collaboration

12:24 W9.008 Status and Data/MC Comparisons from the MiniBooNE Experiment

Gordon McGregor (Los Alamos National Laboratory), MiniBooNE Collaboration

12:36 W9.009 Inclusive Neutrino Reactions in ^16O

Stephan Mintz, LingLing Wen (Florida International University)

12:48 W9.010 Design constraints for a liquid neon detector for dark matter and pp solar neutrinos

Mark Boulay, Andrew Hime, Jeff Lidgard (Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544)

13:00 W9.011 Results from the DRIFT Dark Matter Search

R. Ayad, M. Hyatt, Z. Hanson-Hart, M. Katz-Hyman, C. J. Martoff (Department Of Physics, Temple University), J. Kirkpatrick, D. P. Snowden-Ifft (Department Of Physics and Astronomy, Occidental College), T. B. Lawson, P. K. Lightfoot, B. Morgan, S. M. Paling, M. Robinson, N. J. C. Spooner (Department Of Physics and Astronony, Univeristy Of Sheffield, UK)

13:12 W9.012 Muon-induced Background Studies for Underground Laboratories

Dongming Mei, Andrew Hime, Mark Boulay, Steve Elliott (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

13:24 W9.013 Simulation of Nucleon Decay in Lead Perchlorate

S.D. Reitzner, R.N. Boyd (Ohio State University), T. Rauscher (University of Basel), P. Vogel (California Institute of Technology)

13:36 W9.014 Understanding Muon Spallation Backgrounds at KamLAND

Lindley Winslow (University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), KamLAND Collaboration

13:48 W9.015 The Quasi-elastic Cross Section Measurement in NOMAD

Jae Jun Kim, Tim Bergfeld, Andrew Godley (University of South Carolina), NOMAD Collaboration, University of South Carolina Team

11:00 W10.001 Disappearing Dark Matter in Brane-World Cosmology: New Evidence from Supernovae, Galaxy Clusters and the CMB

Grant Mathews, Peter Garnaviche (Univ. Notre Dame), Kiyotomo Ichiki, Toshitaka Kajino (NAO Japan), Masanobu Yahiyo (University of the Ryukyus)

11:12 W10.002 A Chemical Evolution Explanation for the Apparent Time-Dependent Fine Structure Constant

Timothy Ashenfelter, Grant Mathews (Univ. Notre Dame), Keith Olive (Univ. Minn.)

11:24 W10.003 A Rejuvenated Universe Without Initial Singularity

Eric Gawiser (Yale University)

11:36 W10.004 Do Relaxed Clusters of Galaxies Exist?

Patrick M. Motl, Jack O. Burns (University of Colorado - Boulder), Michael L. Norman (University of California, San Diego)

11:48 W10.005 Wide-field weak lensing by RXJ1347-1145

Thomas P. Kling (Bridgewater State College), Ian Dell'Antonio (Brown Univesity), David Wittman, J Anthony Tyson (Bell-Labs Lucent Technologies)

12:00 W10.006 VHE Gamma-Ray Spectrum of 1ES 2344+514

Martin Schroedter (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory / U. of Arizona), VERITAS Collaboration

12:12 W10.007 Intensive TeV Gamma-Ray and X-Ray Observations of the Blazar Mrk 421 in December 2002 and January 2003

Paul Rebillot, Scott Hughes (Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Physics), Margo Aller, Hugh Aller (University of Michigan, Department of Astronomy), Paul Boltwood (1655 Main St, Stittsville, Ontario Canada), Daniel Kranich (University of California, Davis, Department of Physics), Alberto Sadun (University of Denver), Aimo Sillanpaa (University of Turku, Väisälä Institute for Space Physics and Astronomy), The VERITAS Collaboration

12:24 W10.008 Physics of Plasma Accretion Disks

P. S. Coppi (Yale Univ.), B. Coppi (MIT)

12:36 W10.009 A comparison of observations and simulations for the extragalactic jet from the AGN in 3C303

P. Kronberg, Giovanni Lapenta (LANL)

12:48 W10.010 Jeans Collapse of a System of Electron Emitting Dust Particles

G.L. Delzanno (Burning Plasma Research Group), G. Lapenta (LANL)

13:00 W10.011 Mapping for Eccentric Orbits in Triaxial Logarithmic Potential

Nelson Zamorano, Alfredo Gomez, Andres Meza (University of Chile)

13:12 W10.012 Backreactions in deSitter and inflation

Bojan Losic (University of British Columbia)

11:00 W11.001 W + n Jets Cross Section at CDF Run II

Andrea Messina (University of Rome), CDF Collaboration

11:12 W11.002 Measurement of t\bar t production cross section in the lepton+jets channel using soft lepton b-tagging at CDF

Lucio Cerrito (U. of Illinois), Andrew Foland (Harvard U.), Tony Liss (U. of Illinois), Lester Miller (Harvard U.), Anyes Taffard, Greg Veramendi (U. of Illinois), CDF Collaboration

11:24 W11.003 Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the e+jets channel at DØ

Marc-André Pleier (University of Rochester), DZero Collaboration

11:36 W11.004 t\bart cross section measurement with DØat the Tevatron at \sqrts = 1.96 TeV in the muon+jets channel

Tobias Golling (Bonn University), DZero Collaboration

11:48 W11.005 Measurement of t\bar t production cross section in the lepton+jets channel using SVX b-tagging at CDF

Dan Amidei (Michigan U.), Henri Bachacou (LBL), J.S. Miller (Michigan U.), Jason Nielsen (LBL), Heather Ray (Michigan U.), Weiming Yao (LBL), CDF Collaboration

12:00 W11.006 Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the lepton+jets channel at DØusing the Counting Signed Impact Parameter method.

Sasha Khanov (University of Rochester), DZero Collaboration

12:12 W11.007 Measurement of the top pair production cross section at the DØexperiment using secondary vertex b-tagging in the lepton+jets channel.

Jonas Strandberg (Stockholm University), DZero Collaboration

12:24 W11.008 Identification of t\bar t events in the lepton+jets channel at CDF using a neural network

Radu Marginean (Ohio State U.), CDF Collaboration

12:36 W11.009 Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the t\bart \rightarrow b\barb e \mu \nu \nu cross-section channel at the DØexperiment.

Prolay Mal (TIFR, India), DZero Collaboration

12:48 W11.010 Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section Using the Dimuon and the Di-Electron Decay Channel in Run II of the DØExperiment.

Susan Burke (University of Arizona), DZero Collaboration

13:00 W11.011 Measurement of the top pair production cross section in the dilepton channels at the DØexperiment using b-tagging.

Sara Lager (Stockholm University), DZero Collaboration

13:12 W11.012 Measurement of the t\bar t production cross section in the dilepton channel using lepton+isolated track

Corrinne Mills (UCSB), CDF Collaboration

13:24 W11.013 Search for Narrow t\bart Resonances in p\barp Collisions at \sqrts = 1.8\;TeV.

Supriya Jain (University of Oklahoma), DZero Collaboration

13:36 W11.014 Initial state radiation studies on Drell-Yan data for t\bar t production at hadron colliders

Un-Ki Yang, Young-Kee Kim (U. of Chicago), CDF Collaboration

13:48 W11.015 System8: a method to determine background content and selection efficiencies on data.

Benoit Clement (IRes IN2P3/CNRS Strasbourg, France), DZero Collaboration

11:00 W15.001 Alpha-Gamma Angular Correlations using Position-Sensitive Detectors

P. Chowdhury, C.M. Wilson, R. Gramer, S.K. Tandel (Univ. Massachusetts Lowell), N. J. Hammond, C. J. Lister, S. M. Fischer, E. F. Moore, K. M. Teh (Argonne National Laboratory), M. McClish, K. S. Shah, R. Farrell (Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.)

11:12 W15.002 Energy Calibration of PVT Detectors

James Ely, Edward Siciliano, Chester Shepard (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

11:24 W15.003 FPGA-based trigger logic for the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA)

T. Baumann (NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1321), P. A. DeYoung (Hope College, Holland, MI 49423), MoNA Collaboration

11:36 W15.004 A Lead Fluoride Calorimeter for the Hall A DVCS Experiment

Kathleen McCormick (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), the JLab Hall A Collaboration Collaboration, the Hall A DVCS Collaboration

11:48 W15.005 Neutron Response in a ``Clover'' Ge Detector

Victor Gehman, Dongming Mei, Steven Elliott, Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Washington), Majorana Collaboration

12:00 W15.006 Inexpensive low pressure gas system for nuclear detectors

E. Norbeck, J.E. Olson, Y. Onel (U of Iowa)

12:12 W15.007 Photon Detector with PbWO_4 Crystals and APD Readout

Toru Sugitate, Kenta Shigaki, Kensuke Homma, Ryota Kohara, Kazuhiro Yokoyama (Hiroshima University), ALICE/PHOS Collaboration

12:24 W15.008 Linear Polarization measurements of gamma rays following alpha decay.

Neil J. Hammond, C.J. (Kim) Lister, E. Frank Moore, Ken Teh (Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL60439), Graham D. Jones (Physics Department, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L697ZE U.K.)

12:36 W15.009 First results of the neutron capture cross-section measurement on ^237Np with the DANCE array at LANSCE

Ernst-Ingo Esch, Todd A. Bredeweg, Robert C. Haight, Andreas Kronenberg, John M. O'Donnell, Eric J. Pitcher, Rene Reifarth, Robert S. Rundberg, Jon L. Ullmann, David J. Vieira, Jan M. Wouters (LANL), Ana Alpizar-Vincente, Uwe Greife, Robert Hatarik (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO)

12:48 W15.010 A new type of neutron detector

Thomas Niedermayr, I.D. Hau, T. Miyazaki, S. Terracol (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94550), J.L. Vujic (University of California, Berkeley CA 94720), A. Burger (Fisk Univerisity, Nashville TN 37208), V.E. Lamberti, Z.W. Bell (Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge TN 37831)

13:00 W15.011 Development of a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer for fission cross section measurements at LANSCE

Dimitri Rochman, Robert C. Haight, Stephen A. Wender, John M. O'Donnell (LANSCE-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA), Andre Michaudon (LANSCE Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA), Dave J. Vieira (Affiliation), Robert S. Rundberg, Andreas Kronenberg, Evelyn Bond, Jerry B. Wilhelmy, Todd Bredeweg (C-INC, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA), Thierry Ethvignot, Thierry Granier, Michael Petit (CEA-DAM, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France), Yaron Danon (RPI, Troy, NY, USA), LANSCE-3 Team, C-INC Collaboration, RPI Collaboration

13:12 W15.012 Present Status of the Michigan Ultra-Cold Jet Target

Charles Peters, Ryan Cramer, Adam Gaspar, Martin Kandes, Alan Krisch, Maria Leonova, Vladimir Luppov, Vassili Morozov, Rohin Moza, Richard Raymond, Katsuya Yonehara (Spin Physics Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1120, USA)

13:24 W15.013 Spin Manipulating Vector and Tensor Polarized Deuterons Stored in COSY

Vassili Morozov, Alan Krisch, Maria Leonova, Richard Raymond, Dennis Sivers, Victor Wong, Katsuya Yonehara (Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA), Ulf Bechstedt, Ralf Gebel, Andreas Lehrach, Bernd Lorentz, Rudolf Maier, Alexander Schnase, Hans Stockhorst (Forschungszentrum Juelich Institut fuer Kernphysik, Postfach 1913, D-52425 Juelich, Germany), Dieter Eversheim, Frank Hinterberger, Heiko Rohdjess, Kay Ulbrich (Helmholtz Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universitaet Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, D-53115 Bonn, Germany), Wolfgang Scobel

13:36 W15.014 Spin flipping 1.94 GeV/c polarized protons stored in COSY

Maria Leonova, Alan Krisch, Vassili Morozov, Richard Raymond, Victor Wong, Katsuya Yonehara (Spin Physics Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1120, USA), Ulf Bechstedt, Ralf Gebel, Andreas Lehrach, Bernd Lorentz, Rudolf Maier, Dieter Prasuhn, Alexander Schnase, Hans Stockhorst (Forschungszentrum Juelich Institut fuer Kernphysik, Postfach 1913, D-52425 Juelich, Germany), Dieter Eversheim, Frank Hinterberger, Heiko Rohdjess, Kay Ulbrich (Helmholtz Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Universitaet Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, D-53115 Bonn, Germany)