Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 27 MAY 2004

J1.001 Electron Scattering I

J1.002 Dissociative Attachment in electron collisions with hydrogen molecules

Michael Morrison, Djamal Rabli (University of Oklahoma), R. K. Nesbet (IBM)

J1.003 First-Principles Study of Dissociative Electron Attachment to Water

D. Haxton (UC Berkeley), Z. Zhang, T.N. Rescigno, C.W. McCurdy (LBNL), H-.D. Meyer (U. Heidelberg)

J1.004 Electron-impact excitation of neon

Connor Ballance, Don Griffin (Department of Physics, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 32789)

J1.005 Application of recently extended MCHF method for multi-open Channels to the excitation of atoms and ions

HARI P. SAHA (University of Central Florida, Orlando.)

J1.006 Doubly Differential Cross Sections and Spin Asymmetries for Electron-Impact Ionization of Xenon

Andrew Prideaux, Don Madison (University of Missouri-Rolla)

J1.007 Electron-Impact Ionization of Light Atoms and Ions using Time-Dependent Close-Coupling Theory

M. Witthoeft, S. D. Loch, M. S. Pindzola (Auburn University)

J1.008 Electron-impact ionization of complex atoms

Oleg Vorov, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)

J1.009 Electron Collisions with Fe-peak elements: Fe IV

B. M. McLaughlin, A. Hibbert, M. P. Scott, P. G. Burke (Queen's University of Belfast), A. G. Sunderland, C. J. Noble, V. M. Burke (CLRC, Daresbury Laboratory, U.K.), M. Pindzola (Auburn University), QUB Collaboration, CLRC Collaboration, Auburn Collaboration

J1.010 B-Spline Breit-Pauli R-matrix calculations for electron collisions with Ne.

Oleg Zatsarinny, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)

J1.011 Benchmark calculations for electron collisions with Mg.

Oleg Zatsarinny, Klaus Bartschat (Drake University)

J1.012 Effective collision strengths for the electron impact excitation of singly ionized nitrogen

Kenneth Bell, Claire Hudson (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, N. Ireland, U.K.)

J1.013 A More Extensible Approach to Electron-Impact Ionization

Mark Baertschy (University of Colorado, Denver), Jason Byrd (Metropolitan State College of Denver)

J1.014 Ionization cross section of Mo^+ by electron impact

Y.-K. Kim (NIST), D.-H. Kwon, Y.-J. Rhee (KAERI, Korea)

J1.015 Heavy Particle Scattering

J1.016 Coherence parameters of Hydrogen after H^++He collisions

T. Minami (Auburn University, ORNL), C. O. Reinhold, D. R. Schultz (ORNL), M. S. Pindzola (Auburn Universiy)

J1.017 Accuracy of the 3DW-EIS Approach for Charged-Particle Ionization of He

Matt Foster, Don Madison, Jerry Peacher, Michael Schulz (University of Missouri - Rolla)

J1.018 Electron transfer processes in collisions of He^2+ and Be^4+ with atomic hydrogen studied using the lattice, time-dependent Schrödinger equation approach

D. R. Schultz (ORNL), T. Minami (Auburn University, ORNL), M. S. Pindzola (Auburn University)

J1.019 Finite Forward Acceptance Angles for Single Electron Capture by ^3He^2+ Ions in He and H_2

RJ Mawhorter (Pomona College), J Greenwood (Queen's University Belfast), SJ Smith, A Chutjian (JPL/Caltech)

J1.020 Frequency Doubling of Interference Structures in Electron Emission Spectra of H_2 from Heavy Ion Impact

J.A. Tanis, S. Hossain (Western Michigan University), B. Sulik (ATOMKI, Debrecen), J.-Y. Chesnel, F. Fremont, D. Hennecart (Universite de Caen), A. Cassimi, L. Adoui (GANIL, Caen), B. Skogvall, N. Stolterfoht (HMI, Berlin)

J1.021 Observing shape resonances in ultraslow H^++H elastic scattering

J. H. Macek, D. R. Schultz, S. Yu. Ovchinnikov, P. S. Krstic (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

J1.022 Clusters, Surfaces, Molecules, Negative Ions

J1.023 Is it possible to trap neutral antihydrogen atoms in a Penning trap?

D. Vrinceanu, H. R. Sadeghpour (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138), G. Gabrielse (Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138)

J1.024 Symmetry of dipositronium, Ps_2

D.M. Schrader (Marquette University)

J1.025 Measurements of the Correlation Angle Distribution for Massive Three-Body Coulomb Interacting Systems

B.J. THADEN, JR WENDT, O. YENEN, D.H. JAECKS (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

J1.026 Correlated Electron Detachment in H^ - - He

S. Yu. Ovchinnikov, J. H. Macek (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN 37831), G. N. Ogurtsov, V. M. Mikoushkin (A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St.-Petersburg 194021, Russia)

J1.027 Negative Ions of Bucky-bumbells

Olga Ovchinnikov, Robert Compton, Fabrice Gritti (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

J1.028 X-ray emission from insulator surfaces bombarded with HCIs

Nada Djuric, Juan Lozano, Steven J. Smith, Ara Chutjian (JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91109)

J1.029 Relative Intesity Measurements for X-ray Transitions excited by 75-300 keV Proton Impact on Y through Sn.

Sam Cipolla, Brian Hill (Physics Dept., Creighton Univ.)

J1.030 The Dynamics of He^+ Ion Neutralization at the Surface of Van Der Waals Solids

F. J. Kontur, J. C. Lancaster, G. K. Walters, F. B. Dunning (Rice University)

J1.031 Non-unitary Quantum Monte Carlo method for transport of atomic states through solids

Marek Seliger (Vienna University of Technology), Tatsuya Minami, Carlos O. Reinhold (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Joachim Burgdorfer (Vienna University of Technology)

J1.032 Collective Excitations of Fullerene Ions Induced by Photoexcitation

E.D. Emmons, S.W.J. Scully, M.F. Gharaibeh, R.A. Phaneuf (University of Nevada, Reno), A.L.D. Kilcoyne, A.S. Schlachter (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), S. Schippers, A. Müller (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany)

J1.033 Characterization of mixed atomic clusters of helium and spin-aligned tritium

Gabriel J. Hanna, D. Blume (Department of Physics, Washington State University)

J1.034 Time-Resolved Cluster Dynamics: Structural Phase Transitions in Finite Systems

Louis Bloomfield, Fredrik Fatemi, Andy Dally (Physics Department, University of Virginia)

J1.035 Spectroscopy and Fundatmental Symmetries II

J1.036 Interacting rovibronic levels of the B, B', and C states of molecular Hydrogen

Robert C. Ekey, Elizabeth F. McCormack (Bryn Mawr College)

J1.037 Ultrafast UV Spectroscopy of Dipicolinic Acid

David Samuels, Erez Gershgoren (JILA, University of Colorado), Marlon O. Scully (Texas Aamp;M University), Margaret Murnane, Henry Kapteyn (JILA, University of Colorado)

J1.038 The Iron Project and the RMAX Project: Collisional and Radiative Atomic Processes in Fe-Peak Elements and Astrophysics Applications

F. Delahaye, G. Chen, S. Nahar, J. Oelgoetg, A. Pradhan (The Ohio State U.,), W. Eissner (U. of Stuttgart), A. Sigut (U. of Western Ontario), H. Zhang (LANL)

J1.039 Analysis of the complex spectrum of Xe XI at 13.4 nm*

Joseph Reader, S.S. Churilov, Y.N. Joshi, R.R. Kildiyarova (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

J1.040 Global Analysis of Spectroscopic Data on the A and b States of Na_2.

T. Bergeman (SUNY Stony Brook), A. Ross, C. Effantin (U. Lyon I), P. Zalicki (KLA-Tencor), J. Vigué (Toulouse), G. Chawla (Autonomous Technologies), R. W. Field (MIT), T.-J. Whang (Nat'l Cheng Kung U.), W. C. Stwalley (U. Connecticut), Li Li (Tsinghua U., Beijing), E. Ahmed, A. M. Lyyra (Temple U.)

J1.041 Measurement of metastable lifetimes of Fe X, Fe XI, and Fe XIV

Steven Smith, A. Chutjian, J. Lozano (JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA)

J1.042 Oscillator strengths of transitions in low ionization stages of Fe

Alan Hibbert, Gwenaelle Correge, Brendan McLaughlin, Cathy Ramsbottom, Penny Scott (Dept App Math amp; Theo Phys, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland)

J1.043 Second-order theory of cooperative effects in an optically dense medium

Marijan Kostrun (University of Connecticut, ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Susanne Yelin (ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, University of Connecticut), Michael Fleischhauer (Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen, Germany)

J1.044 Recurrence Spectroscopy of Autoionizing Rydberg Argon

J.D. Wright, P.A. Walker, J.H. Gurian, M. van Lier-Walqui, J.M. Lambert, H. Flores-Rueda, T.J. Morgan (Department of Physics, Wesleyan University)

J1.045 Towards high-precision measurement of the Tritium – He-3 mass difference

Wei Shi, Matthew Redshaw, Juliette Victoria, Edmund Myers (Florida State University)

J1.046 Enhancement of the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron in molecular ion HBr^+

Boris Ravaine, Sergey Porsev, Andrei Derevianko (Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557)

J1.047 Search for the electron EDM using trapped molecular ions

Russell Stutz, Eric Cornell (Dept of Physics, Colorado Univ, Boulder CO)

J1.048 Radio-frequency spectroscopy with a trapped ^137Ba^+ ion

Anna Markhotok, Jeff Sherman, Timo Koerber, Ed Meyer, Warren Nagourney, Norval Fortson (University of Washington)

J1.049 The Search for the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of ^199Hg

M. D. Swallows, W. C. Griffith, L. K. Kogler, E. N. Fortson (University of Washington), M. V. Romalis (Princeton University)

J1.050 The Mercury Ion Optical Clock

W. H. Oskay, T. Rosenband, U. Tanaka, C. E. Tanner, S. A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, J. C. Bergquist (Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology)

J1.051 Work on an Atomic Beam Apparatus for Precision Laser Spectroscopy of Tritium

David McNeil, Ali Khademian, David Shiner (University of North Texas)

J1.052 Measuring the nuclear charge radius of ^6He

L.-B. Wang (Argonne National Laboratory, and Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), P. Mueller, K. Bailey, J. Greene, D. Henderson, R.J. Holt, R.V.F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, Z.-T. Lu, T.P. O’Conner, R.C. Pardo, K.E. Rehm, J.P. Schiffer, X.-D. Tang (Argonne National Laboratory), G.W.F. Drake (Univ. of Windsor), M. Paul (Hebrew Univ.)

J1.053 Compton Profiles of Variously Ionized Atoms

Khondkar Karim (Illinois State University)

J1.054 Ultracold Molecules

J1.055 State-selective detection of ultracold, ground state RbCs molecules

Andrew Kerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jeremy Sage, Sunil Sainis (Yale University), Thomas Bergeman (SUNY Stony Brook), David DeMille (Yale University)

J1.056 Photoassociation to Produce Ultracold LiH and NaH

E. Taylor-Juarros, R. Côté (University of Connecticut, Department of Physics (Storrs, CT)), K. Kirby (Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (Cambridge, MA))

J1.057 Vibrationally highly-excited states of three atoms

Tod Damask, Bo Gao (University of Toledo)

J1.058 Formation of ultracold ground-state rubidium molecules in a magnetic-optical trap via photoassociation and their detection by time-of-flight mass spectroscopy

J. Qi, Y. Huang, H. Kim, E. E. Eyler, P. L. Gould, W. C. Stwalley (Department of Physics, University of Connecticut)

J1.059 Ultracold Collisions

J1.060 Li+H and Li+Rb collisions at ultralow temperatures

Zoran Pavlovic, Robin Côté (Physics Department, University of Connecticut, 2152 Hillside Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3046)

J1.061 The influence of strong coupling on threshold phenomena

Mike Cavagnero (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506), Daniel Vrinceanu (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138)

J1.062 Feshbach resonances with large background scattering length: impact of open-channel resonances

Eric van Kempen, Bout Marcelis, Boudewijn Verhaar, Servaas Kokkelmans (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

J1.063 Investigation of Chemical Reactions at Ultracold Temperatures

Philippe Weck, Balakrishnan Naduvalath (Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154)

J1.064 Feshbach Resonances in Degenerate Gases

J1.065 Variational analysis of atom-molecule Bose-Einstein condensates coupled through a Feshbach resonance

George Cragg, Arthur Kerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

J1.066 Atom-molecule coherence in a dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate

Eleanor Hodby, Sarah Thompson, Carl Wieman (JILA, NIST and Univ. of Colorado, Boulder CO 80302-0440)

J1.067 Atoms in Optical Lattices

J1.068 Temporal Dependence of the Tunneling Parameter in Double-Well Configurations

D. Ananikian, T. Bergeman (SUNY Stony Brook)

J1.069 Time-dependent perturbation theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a tilted optical lattice

Yi Zheng (University of Connecticut), Marijan Kostrun (University of Connecticut, ITAMP Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Juha Javanainen (University of Connecticut)

J1.070 Quantum transport in 2D optical lattices

Artem Dudarev (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin), Roberto Diener (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin; Department of Physics, Ohio State University), Ganesh Sundaram (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin), Iacopo Carusotto (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure, France; BEC-INFM Research and Development Center, Italy), Qian Niu (Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

J1.071 Evaporative Cooling in a Holographic Atom Trap

Jennifer Sebby-Strabley, Jason Day, Raymond Newell, Thad G. Walker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), UW Atom Trainers Team

J1.072 New Theoretical Methods

J1.073 The Radiative Cascade in Quasidegenerate Atomic Systems Beyond the Rotating Wave Approximation.

D. B. Uskov (Louisiana State University)

J1.074 A Physically Correct Theoretical Prism Wave-guide Coupler Model

Tao Liu (School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering), Robert Samuels (School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,311 Ferst Drive,Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100)

J1.075 Propagation of Wavepackets using the Finite Element Discrete Variable Method

Barry I. Schneider (Physics Division, National Science Foundation), Lee A. Collins (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

J1.076 APPLICATION OF DESIGNER POLYNOMIALS TO THE SOFT-COULOMB POTENTIAL

Charles Weatherford, Albert Wynn III, Eddie Red (Physics Department, Florida Aamp;M University), Clausell Mathis (Physics Department, University of Central Florida)

J1.077 Atomic Microclustering

Bharat Khushalani (University of Southern California)

J1.078 Applications and Techniques

J1.079 The Reduction of Instrumental Helicity-Dependent Intensity Asymmetries in an Optical Train

J. Zohner (University of Nebraska), A.S. Green (University of St. Thomas), T.J. Gay (University of Nebraska)

J1.080 Progress Report on Electron Interferometry Utilizing Nano-Fabricated Structures

Glen Gronniger, Brett Barwick, Hong Gao, Herman Batelaan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Physics)

J1.081 Stable Operation of a DAVLL Lock

J. R. Reeves, O. Garcia, C. A. Sackett (University of Virginia)

J1.082 Atom guiding in hollow core photonic bandgap fibers

Tetsu Takekoshi (U.S. Air Force Academy), Brian Patterson, Brooke George, Randy Knize

J1.083 Application of Synchronous Interferometric Probing to Particle Manipulation

Scott Williams, Curtis C. Bradley (Texas Christian University)

J1.084 Frequency-Chirped Light from an Injection-Locked Diode Laser

S.D. Gensemer (Bates College), M.J. Wright, P.L. Gould (University of Connecticut)

J1.085 Dynamics of Coherent Excitation using an Ion Beam as a Probe

M. A. Gearba, H. A. Camp, M. Shah, B. D. DePaola (J. R. Macdonald Lab, Kansas State Univ.), S. R. Lundeen (Dept. Physics, Colorado State Univ.), R. Bredy (Univ. Lyon, France)

J1.086 Prospects for an Optical Frequency Standard in Atomic Yb

Tao Hong, Claire Cramer, Warren Nagourney, Norval Fortson

J1.087 An improved, externally loaded PTMS for a new ^3H~to~^3He mass difference

David Pinegar, Steven Zafonte, Seth Van Liew, Jr. Van Dyck (University of Washington, Seattle)

J1.088 Post-deadline

J1.089 Generation of tunable, high energy, nearly transform-limited optical pulses

Michael J. Lim (Rowan University), Michael W. Noel (Bryn Mawr College)

J1.090 Measured Hyperfine structure of the A-state of CaH

Michael D. Di Rosa, Steven J. Buelow, Robert K. Sander (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

J1.091 Cesium Isotopic Ratio Measurements in a Magneto-Optical Trap

Marc Hausmann, David J. Vieira, Xinxin Zhao, David M. Feldbaum, Raymond T. Newell, Jinwei Wu (C-INC, Los Alamos Natl. Lab.)

J1.092 Large area atom interferometer

Maarten Jansen, Kenian Domen, Walter van Dijk, Ton van Leeuwen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

J1.093 Interference and Dephasing in Weak Localization of Light

Salim Balik, Rocio Olave, C.I. Sukenik, M.D. Havey (Department of Physics, Old Dominion University), D.V. Kupriyanov, I.M. Sokolov (Department of Theoretical Physics, St. Petersburg State Technical University)

J1.094 DC Electric-Field Effects on the 1s3p^2\, ^4\!P^e Feshbach Resonance in He^-

Z.-C. Yan (University of New Brunswick), Y. K. Ho (Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica, ROC)

J1.095 QND measurement induced spin squeezing

claudiu genes, paul berman (University of Michigan)