Program overview

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 30 OCTOBER 2004

14:00 JA.001 Optically-Trapped, Degenerate Fermi Gases as Paradigms for Strong Interactions

John Thomas (Physics Department, Duke University)

14:36 JA.002 Effective field theory for cold Fermi gases

H.-W. Hammer (Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)

15:12 JA.003 Effects of the strange quark mass in dense quark matter

Joydip Kundu (University of Maryland)

15:48 JA.004 The Composition, Structure and Evolution of Neutron Stars

Madappa Prakash (SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY-11794)

14:00 JB.001 New spectroscopy of quark-gluon plasma

Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed (SUNY Stony Brook)

14:12 JB.002 \phi meson production in Au+Au and d+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV

Dipali Pal (Vanderbilt University), PHENIX Collaboration

14:24 JB.003 Study of phi meson production in d-Au collisions at 200 GeV with the PHENIX experiment

Dmitri Kotchetkov (University of California at Riverside), PHENIX Collaboration

14:36 JB.004 Search for Direct Photons at Medium and Low p_T in 200 GeV/A Au+Au Collisions

Gabor David (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

14:48 JB.005 Measurement of photons via conversion pairs with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC

Torsten Dahms (State University of New York at Stony Brook), PHENIX Collaboration

15:00 JB.006 Systematics of high p_T \eta production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies

David d'Enterria (Nevis Labs, Columbia University)

15:12 JB.007 Photon interferometry of Au+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

Steffen A. Bass (Duke University and RIKEN-BNL Research Center), Berndt Müller (Duke University), Dinesh K. Srivastava (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)

15:24 JB.008 High pt particle production and QCD test in p-p collisions at RHIC

Hiroyoshi Hiejima (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), PHENIX Collaboration

15:36 JB.009 Elliptic flow of \phi mesons in high luminosity Au+Au collisions at \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV

Debsankar Mukhopadhyay (Vanderbilt University), PHENIX Collaboration

15:48 JB.010 Reaction Plane Determination at Intermediate Rapidity in \sqrts_NN = 200 GeV Au-Au Collisions in PHENIX at RHIC-BNL

B. Norman (Los Alamos National Laboratory), PHENIX Collaboration

16:00 JB.011 Reaction Plane and Elliptic Flow at BRAHMS

Erik Johnson (U. Kansas), BRAHMS Collaboration

16:12 JB.012 Longitudinal dynamics of charged-particle elliptic flow in AuAu Collisionsat \sqrts_NN=200 GeV

H. Ito (Brookhaven National Laboratory), BRAHMS Collaboration

16:24 JB.013 Charm elliptic flow from a multi-phase transport model

Bin Zhang (Arkansas State University), Lie-Wen Chen, Che-Ming Ko (Texas A and M University)

16:36 JB.014 Why one should collide Uranium on Uranium at RHIC

Anthony Kuhlman, Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)

16:48 JB.015 Multi-Gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) for the PHENIX TOF upgrade

Hugo Valle (Vanderbilt University), PHENIX Collaboration

JB.016 Using dileptons to understand strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma

Edward Shuryak (SUNY Stony Brook), Jorge Casalderrey-Solana (SUNY STony Brook)

14:00 JC.001 Estimates for Electromagnetically Exciting Nuclear Isomers

Thomas Luu, James Friar, Anna Hayes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:12 JC.002 Eikonal-CDCC method for breakup reactions

Carlos Bertulani (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University)

14:24 JC.003 Including Dynamical Core Excitation in Reaction Models

Neil Summers, Filomena Nunes (NSCL/MSU), Ian Thompson (University of Surrey, UK.)

14:36 JC.004 Microscopic Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics and Applied Physics

R. B. Wiringa (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:48 JC.005 Cluster form factor and spectroscopic factor calculation in the ab initio no-core shell model

Petr Navratil (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

15:00 JC.006 The ^8B S-factor extracted from Coulomb dissociation experiments.

Henning Esbensen (Argonne National Laboratory), George F. Bertsch, Kurt A. Snover (University of Washington)

15:12 JC.007 Search for the 3-body Photodisintegration of Be

Robert E. Chrien, D. E. Alburger (Brookhaven National Laboratory), R. J. Sutter (BrookhavenNational Laboratory), J. F. Wishart (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:24 JC.008 Investigation of direct-semidirect radiative neutron capture on the sd shell nuclei in the low energy region

Goran Arbanas (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Frank Dietrich (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Arthur Kerman (M.I.T.)

15:36 JC.009 Nuclear Level Densities from Spectral Distribution Theory

Calvin Johnson, Edgar Teran (San Diego State University)

15:48 JC.010 Shell model nuclear level density and exponential convergence method

Mihai Horoi (Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859)

16:00 JC.011 Level Structure and Scattering in Light Nuclei

Gerald M. Hale, Daniel D. Strottman (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:12 JC.012 Statistical Treatment of Nuclear Level Schemes and Spin Cut-off Parameter

A. N. Behkami, M. Soltani (Physics Department, Shiraz University)

16:24 JC.013 Theory of charged particles breakup: from the exact to DWBA amplitudes

Fakhriddin Pirlepesov, Akram Mukhamedzhanov (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University), Alisher Kadyrov (Centre for Atomic, Molecular and Surface Physics, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth 6150, Australia)

16:36 JC.014 Analysis of (d,n) reactions via the Dirac DWBA with finite range

Eric Hawk, J. A. McNeil (Colorado School of Mines)

14:00 JD.001 Proton-neutron degree of freedom with new interaction for the pf5/2g9/2 model space

Alexander Lisetskiy, Alex Brown (NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI), Mihai Horoi (Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI)

14:12 JD.002 Collective excitations and shape changes in ^80Y

R. A. Kaye, O. Grubor-Urosevic, S. M. Gerbick (Purdue University Calumet), S. L. Tabor, T. Baldwin, D. B. Campbell, C. Chandler, M. W. Cooper, C. R. Hoffman, J. Pavan, M. Wiedeking (Florida State University), J. Döring, R. Palit (GSI), Y. Sun (University of Notre Dame), J. A. Sheikh (University of Kashmir), L. A. Riley (Earlham College)

14:24 JD.003 Hyperfine anomaly on Rubidium.

E. Gomez, A. Lange, F. Baumer, G. D. Sprouse (SUNYSB), Orozco Luis (UMD)

14:36 JD.004 Reinvestigating anomalous B(E2) values for ^98Ru

E. Williams, C. Plettner (WNSL, Yale University), R. B. Cakirli (Istanbul University, Department of Physics), R. F. Casten, H. Ai, H. Amro, C. W. Beausang (WNSL, Yale University), B. Crider (University of Richmond), A. Heinz, D. A. Meyer, E. A. McCutchan (WNSL, Yale University), N. Pietralla (SUNY Stony Brook), N. J. Thomas (WNSL, Yale University; University of Surrey), V. Zamfir (WNSL, Yale University)

14:48 JD.005 Ultrahigh Resolution \gamma-ray Spectroscopy on (n, \gamma)^100,102Ru

E.A. McCutchan, N.V. Zamfir, R.F. Casten (WNSL, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA), H.G. Börner, P. Mutti, M. Jentschel (Institut Laue-Langevin, 38042 Grenoble, France)

15:00 JD.006 Superdeformation and hyperdeformation in the A~110 mass region

Anatoli Afanasjev, Y. Gu, Stefan Frauendorf (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)

15:12 JD.007 Chirality in odd-odd Rhodiums: ^102Rh

Constantin Vaman, David B. Fossan, Takeshi Koike (SUNY at Stony Brook), Krzysztof Starosta (NSCL/Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University)

15:24 JD.008 Search for chiral bands in the odd-A nucleus ^105Ag

J. Timar, D. Sohler (Institute of Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), Pf. 51, 4001 Debrecen, Hungary), T. Koike, G. Rainovski, C. Vaman, T. Ahn, A. Costin, K. Dusling, N. Pietralla (Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook,Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800), K. Starosta (NSCL/Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University,East Lansing, MI 48824-1321, USA)

15:36 JD.009 Chiral Symmetry and Signature Splitting in Odd-Odd Neutron deficient Pr Nuclei

Mirela Fetea, Veronika Nikolova, Benjamin Crider (University of Richmond)

15:48 JD.010 Continuum corrections to the level density

R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka (Washington University)

16:00 JD.011 E0 Transitions in the Confined \beta-Soft Rotor Model

Tan Ahn, Norbert Pietralla, Kevin Dusling, Georgi Rainovski (Nuclear Structure Laboratory, SUNY at Stony Brook)

16:12 JD.012 Description of Rare Earth Yrast Bands with the CBS Rotor Model

Kevin Dusling, Norbert Pietralla (Nuclear Structure Laboratory, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800)

16:24 JD.013 First half-life measurement of the doubly-magic r-process nucleus ^78Ni

P. Hosmer, R.C.C. Clement, A. Estrade, S.N. Liddick, F. Montes, M. Ouellette, E. Pellegrini, H. Schatz (Nat'l. Superconducting Cyclotron Lab. (NSCL) and Dept. of of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State Univ.), A. Aprahamian (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Notre Dame), O. Arndt, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer (Inst. fur Kernchemie, Univ. Mainz), P.F. Mantica, B.E. Tomlin (NSCL and Dept. of Chem., Michigan State Univ.), A.C. Morton, W.F. Mueller, P. Santi, M. Steiner, A. Stolz (NSCL, Michigan State Univ.), P. Reeder (Pacific Northwest Nat'l. Lab.), W.B. Walters, A. Woehr (Dept. of Chem. and Biochem., Univ. of Maryland)

14:00 JE.001 Measurement of the Absolute Differential Cross Section for np Elastic Scattering Near 200 MeV

Murad Sarsour (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), CE71 Collaboration

14:12 JE.002 Neutron-Deuteron Analyzing Power Data at 19.0 MeV

G.J. Weisel (Penn State Altoona), A.S. Crowell, J.H. Esterline, C.R. Howell, J.H. Kelley, R.A. Macri, W. Tornow, R.L. Walter (Duke University and TUNL), B.J. Crowe (NC Central University), R.S. Pedroni (NC Aamp;T State University), H. Witala (Jagiellonian University)

14:24 JE.003 A Measurement of the Longitudinal Spin-Dependent Total Cross Section Difference, \Delta \sigma_L, in the \vecn - \vecd System.

R. D. Foster, C. R. Gould, D. G. Haase, D. M. Markoff, J. H. Kelley (North Carolina State University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory), W. Tornow (Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)

14:36 JE.004 Neutron-Helium-3 Analyzing Power at 4.05 and 5.54 MeV*

J.H. Esterline, C.R. Howell, R.A. Macri, S. Tajima, W. Tornow (Duke University amp; TUNL), B. Crowe (N.C. Central University amp; TUNL), R.S. Pedroni (N.C. Aamp;T State University amp; TUNL), G.J. Weisel (Penn State Altoona amp; TUNL)

14:48 JE.005 Polarized d+d elastic scattering at E(d)=231.8 MeV

A. Micherdzinska, C.E. Allgower, A.D. Bacher, C. Lavelle, H. Nann, J. Olmsted, T. Rinckel, E.J. Stephenson (IUCF), P.V. Pancella (W. Michigan U.), M.A. Pickar (Minnesota State U.), J. Rapaport (Ohio U.), A. Smith (Hillsdale College)

15:00 JE.006 Systematic extraction of spectroscopic factors from ^12C(d,p)^13C and ^13C(p,d)^12C reactions

X. D. Liu, H. C. Lee, M. A. Famiano, W. G. Lynch, M.B. Tsang (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA), J.A. Tostevin (Department of Physics, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surry GU2 7XH, United Kingdom)

15:12 JE.007 Spectroscopic factors from the ^12C(^7\vec\mathrmLi,t)^16O reaction.

N. Keeley (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/SPhN Saclay, France), W.D. Weintraub, A. Crisp, K.W. Kemper, B.T. Roeder, B.G. Schmidt, M. Wiedeking (Department of Physics, Florida State University), F. Maréchal (IReS, Strasbourg, France), K. Rusek (The Andrzej So\l tan Institute, Warsaw, Poland)

15:24 JE.008 Polarized ^7Li + ^6Li elastic and inelastic scattering

O.A. Momotyuk, K.W. Kemper, B.T. Roeder, I. Calderin, W. Cluff, N. Keeley, E.G. Myers, B.G. Schmidt, M. Wiedeking (Physics Department, Florida State University), F. Maréchal (Strasbourg), S. Mezhevych (Warsaw Univ.), J. Liendo (Simon Bolivar Univ.)

15:36 JE.009 A microscopic optical model analyses of proton-nucleus elastic scattering is compared to the results of the optical model from the global Dirac phenomenological approach

Pradip Deb, Bunny Clark (Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA), Ken Amos (School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia)

15:48 JE.010 ^48Ti(n,xnypz\alpha \gamma) reaction cross sections for neutron energies up to 250 MeV

D. Dashdorj (NCSU and LLNL), P. E. Garrett, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein (LLNL), M. Devlin, N. Fotiades (LANL), G. E. Mitchell (NCSU and TUNL), R. O. Nelson (LANL), W. Younes (LLNL)

16:00 JE.011 A surrogate reaction technique benchmark: ^92Zr(\alpha,\alpha') surrogate for n+^91Zr

J.A. Church, L. Ahle, L.A. Bernstein, F. Dietrich, J. Escher, C. Forssen (LLNL), H. Ai, H.A. Amro, C. Beausang, J.A. Caggiano, R.F. Casten, A. Heinz, E. McCutchan, D. Meyer, C. Plettner, J.J. Ressler, N.V. Zamfir (WNSL)

16:12 JE.012 Level densities in ^116Sn

Undraa Agvaanluvsan (NCSU), J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, P. E. Garrett (LLNL), M. Guttormsen (Oslo University), G. E. Mitchell (NCSU), A. Schiller (NSCL/MSU), A. Voinov (Ohio University), W. Younes (LLNL)

16:24 JE.013 Measurement of the ^233Pa(n,f) cross section up to E_n=8.5 MeV

Fredrik Tovesson, Evert Birgersson, Andreas Oberstedt (Örebro University, Sweden), Volker Fritsch, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Stephan Oberstedt (EC-JRC-Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), Geel, Belgium), Dan Filipescu, Anabella Tudora, Gheorghita Vladuca (Bucharest University, Romania), Birger Fogelberg, Elisabet Ramström (Uppsala University, Sweden)

14:00 JG.001 Measurement of the parity-violating neutron spin rotation in superfluid helium

C. D. Bass, J. M. Dawkins, D. Luo, A. Micherdzinska, M. Sarsour, W. M. Snow (IUCF), H. P. Mumm, J. S. Nico (NIST), P. R. Huffman (North Carolina State University), D. M. Markoff (TUNL), B. R. Heckel, E. Swanson (University of Washington)

14:12 JG.002 NPDGamma Commissioning Run; Parity Violation in the RadiativeCapture of Polarized Cold Neutrons on Al, Cu, \rmB_4C, \rm^7Li,and In.

Michael Gericke (Los Alamos National Laboratory and Indiana University), NPDGamma Collaboration

14:24 JG.003 Progress toward a measurement for the (\vecn + p \rightarrow d + \gamma ) experiment

Gregory Mitchell (Los Alamos National Laboratory), NPDGamma Collaboration

14:36 JG.004 Performance of the Novel RF Spin Flipper for the NPDGamma Experiment at LANSCE

P.-N. Seo (Los Alamos National Laboratory), NPDGamma Collaboration

14:48 JG.005 Liquid Parahydrogen Target for the Measurement of the Parity-violating Gamma Asymmetry in \vec n+p \rightarrow d+\gamma

S. Santra, W. M. Snow, H. Nann, M. Leuschner, B. Lozowski, W. Fox, J. Graham (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, 2401 Milo B. Sampson Lane, Bloomington, IN 47408), S. I. Penttila, M. T. Gericke (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545)

15:00 JG.006 Anapole moment of francium and weak meson coupling constants.

E. Gomez, G. D. Sprouse (SUNYSB), L. A. Orozco (UMD)

15:12 JG.007 The \beta-\nu correlation of optically trapped ^21Na atoms

R. Maruyama (UC Berkeley), P.A. Vetter (LBNL), S.J. Freedman (UC Berkeley, LBNL)

15:24 JG.008 Efficiency Calibration for a \beta-\gamma coincidence set-up: Source Measurements and Monte Carlo Calculations

V.E. Iacob, J.C. Hardy, N. Nica (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University)

15:36 JG.009 Ion trap for precision beta-decay studies

N. D. Scielzo, A. Levand, B. F. Lundgren, G. Savard, B. J. Zabransky, Z. Zhou (Argonne National Lab), J. Clark, K. S. Sharma, J. Wang, Y. Wang (Argonne National Lab and U. of Manitoba)

15:48 JG.010 A Multiwire Proportional Chamber for Precision Studies of Neutron beta-Decay Angular Correlations

Takeyasu Ito (University of Tennessee), Brad Fillipone, Jeff Martin, Brad Plaster, Junhua Yuan (California Institute of Technology)

16:00 JG.011 An Experiment for Measuring the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation in Neutron Beta Decay

A.K. Komives (DePauw University), F.E. Wietfeldt, B. Fisher, C. Trull (Tulane University), G. Jones, B. Collett (Hamilton College), B.G. Yerozolimsky, R. Wilson (Harvard University), S. Balashov, Yu. Mostovoy (Kurchatov Institute), M. Leuschner (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), J. Byrne (University of Sussex), F.B. Bateman, M.S. Dewey, J.S. Nico, A.K. Thompson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

16:12 JG.012 Systematic Effects in the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation in Neutron Beta Decay Experiment

F. E. Wietfeldt, B. M. Fisher, C. Trull (Tulane University), A. Komives (DePauw University), B. Collett, G. L. Jones (Hamilton College), B. G. Yerozolimsky, R. Wilson (Harvard University), S. Balashov, Yu. Mostovoy (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow), M. Leuschner (Indiana University), J. Byrne (University of Sussex), F. B. Bateman, M. S. Dewey, J. S. Nico, A. K. Thompson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

16:24 JG.013 Monte Carlo simulation of the abBA experiment

Emil Frle\vz (University of Virginia), abBA Collaboration

JG.014 A New Pulsed Cold Neutron Beam Line for Fundamental Nuclear Physics at LANSCE

P.-N. Seo, J.D. Bowman (LANL), M.T. Gericke (LANL/Indiana Univ), R.C. Gillis (Univ of Manitoba), G.L. Greene (ORNL/Univ of Tennessee), M.B. Leuschner (Indiana Univ), J. Long (LANL), R. Mahurin (Univ of Tennessee), G.S. Mitchell, S.I. Penttila, G. Peralta (LANL), E.I. Sharapov (JINR, Russia), W.S. Wilburn (LANL)