Program overview (TEST)

THURSDAY MORNING, 2 MAY 1996

08:00 A1.01 Studying Nucleon Spin Structure

Emlyn Hughes (Caltech)

08:36 A1.02 Gluon Resummation and Coherence in the Proton

George Sterman (Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3840)

09:12 A1.03 The Gluon Structure of Nuclei and its Transformation into a Gluon Plasma in Au+Au at \sqrts=200 AGeV

Miklos Gyulassy (Physics Department, Columbia University)

09:48 A1.04 Experimental Approach to RHIC Physics

Glenn R. Young (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:00 A2.01 Cosmic Ray Studies of Antimatter

Gregory Tarlé (University of Michigan)

08:36 A2.02 Constraints on Electroweak Baryogenesis from CP Violation

Patrick Huet (Department of Physics, Box 351560, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195)

09:12 A2.03 The Detection of Gravitational Waves

Barry C. Barish (LIGO Project, California Institute of Technology)

09:48 A2.04 Searches for Axions

Pierre Sikivie

10:24 A2.05 Impact of Particle Searches on the Dark Matter Problem

Kim Griest

08:00 A3.01 Intense Ion Beam Applications with Models and Simulation

Edward P. Lee (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:36 A3.02 Measuring the Tevatron Optics with the DØ\ Collider Detector

Michael A. Tartaglia (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:12 A3.03 Large-Scale Electromagnetic Simulation

David B. Seidel (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)

09:48 A3.04 Simulations of Beam-Beam Interaction in Linear Colliders

Pisin Chen (SLAC)

10:24 A3.05 Beam Halo Distributions and Lifetime Simulation in Electron-Positron Circular Colliders

T. Chen (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University)

08:00 A4.01 From the Lab. to the Marketplace. Smarter products, developed since 1973 have already avoided 300 GW

Arthur H. Rosenfeld (Senior Advisor, Energy Efficiency, U.S. DOE)

08:36 A4.02 Windows--How Application of the Plasma Frequency Equation has Avoided Using Up 1 Prudhoe Bay or 5-10 ANWRs

Stephen Selkowitz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:12 A4.03 Looking Forward: The Status of Renewable Electric Technologies

Allan R. Hoffman (U.S. Department of Energy)

09:48 A4.04 The Role of Fusion in the Future World Energy Market

John Sheffield (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:24 A4.05 A High Power Energy Amplifier

Carlo Rubbia (CERN)

08:00 A5.01 Direct Simulation Monte Carlo: New Directions

Francis Alexander (Boston University)

08:36 A5.02 Simulating complex fluids: lattice gas automata and dissipative particle dynamics

Peter V. Coveney (Schlumberger Cambridge Research)

09:12 A5.03 Scaling Properties of the Green's Function Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm for Few-Fermion Systems

Carol A. Traynor (Maden Tech Consulting, Inc./ARPA High Performance Computing Applications (AHPCA))

09:48 A5.04 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Correlated-Electron Models

Shiwei Zhang (The Ohio State University)

08:00 A7.01 Level Dynamics and Correlations in the Nuclear Shell Model

Dimitri Kusnezov (Center for Theoretical Physics, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT 06520), B. Alex Brown, Vladimir Zelevinsky (NSCL, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI 48824)

08:12 A7.02 Strength Functions and Spreading Widths of Shell Model Basis States

Njema Frazier, B. Alex Brown, Vladimir Zelevinsky (NSCL, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing, MI 48824)

08:24 A7.03 High L Behavior of the Spectral Rigidity for sd-shell Nuclei

Mihai Horoi (Central Michigan University), B. Alex Brown, Vladimir Zelevinsky (NSCL, Michigan State University)

08:36 A7.04 Pairing Phase Transition in Shell-Model Wave Functions

Vladimir Zelevinsky, B. Alex Brown, Mihai Horoi (NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824)

08:48 A7.05 Neutron-Proton Correlations in Self Conjugate Nuclei

J.D. Garrett (Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory^*)

09:00 A7.06 The Isovector Quadrupole-Quadrpole Interaction

L. Zamick, M.S. Fayache (Rutgers University), S. Shelly Sharma (University of Londrina, Brasil)

09:12 A7.07 Effects of the Spin-Orbit and Tensor Interactions on M1 Excitations in Nuclei

Y.Y. Sharon, M.S. Fayache, L. Zamick (Rutgers University), P. Von Neumann-Cosel, A. Richter (T.H. Darmstadt)

09:24 A7.08 Structure Fluctuations in Gamma-Soft Transitional Nuclei

Miloslava Michailova (Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria)

08:00 A8.01 A High-Efficiency Photon Detection System for Coulomb Excitation Studies of Fast Radioactive Nuclei

R.W. Ibbotson, T. Glasmacher, H. Scheit, P.G. Thirolf (NSCL/Michigan State University)

08:12 A8.02 A Natural Calibration Source for Determining Germanium Detector Efficiencies

Maria C. Perillo Isaac, Eric B. Norman, Richard J. McDonald, Alan R. Smith, Donna L. Hurley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:24 A8.03 Gamma-Ray Escape Peak Characteristics of Radiation Damaged Reverse-Electrode Germanium Detectors

E. L. Hull, J. S. Xing, D. L. Friesel (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), R. H. Pehl, N. M. Madden (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

08:36 A8.04 FAUST: A New Forward Array Detector

D.J. Rowland, F. Gimeno-Nogues, S. Ferro, R.A. Gutierrez, H. Johnston, Y.-W. Lui, R. Olsen, E. Ramakrishnan, S. Vasal, S.J. Yennello (Texas Aamp;M)

08:48 A8.05 The AYE-Ball (Argonne-Yale-European) Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

D.J. BLUMENTHAL, C.N. DAVIDS, C.J. LISTER, D. SEWERYNIAK, M.P. CARPENTER, R.V.F. JANSSENS, D. NISIUS (ANL), W. GELLETLY, P. REGAN (SURREY), P. WOODS (Edinburgh), D.D. WARNER, J. SIMPSON (Daresbury), S.J. GREEMAN (Manchester), J. SCHWARTZ (Yale University), B. FIELD (Oberlin)

09:00 A8.06 Design and Performance of a New 307 Mpixel CCD Vertex Detector

Glen Crawford (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

09:12 A8.07 A Search Technique for \gamma-ray Bands Using Segmented Fourier Analysis.

C.V. Hampton, W.A. Olivier, Wm.C. McHarris (NSCL, Michigan State University)

09:24 A8.08 Operation of Microstrip Gas Chambers in Low Pressure Dimethyl Ether

M.D. Martin, K.P. Browne, J.B. Hutchins, W.K. Pitts (University of Louisville(Physics Department), K.M. Walsh (University of Louisville(Electrical Engineering Depatment), K. Solberg (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)

09:36 A8.09 Calculations of Neutron Transport Through a Simulated Waste Matrix

P.C. Womble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), G. Vourvopoulos, J.C. Ball, K.A. Persons (Western Kentucky University)

09:48 A8.10 Spin-Filter Polarimeter: On-line Proton and Deuteron Polarimetry in Real Time

b Roper^\lowercasea, c Mendez^\lowercasea, b Dunham^\lowercasea, c Clegg^\lowercasea (^aTUNL)

10:00 A8.11 Cryogenic Target Development at CEBAF

Fraser Duncan for the CEBAF Hall C Collaboration (Experimental Nuclear Physics Group, University of Maryland)

10:12 A8.12 An Optically Pumped Polarized H/D Target for Storage Rings

R. V. Cadman, H. Gao, R. J. Holt, B. R. Owen, E. Thorsland (University of Illinois)

A8.13 Gamma-ray Polarization Sensitivity of the Gammasphere Detector Array

G.J. Schmid, A.O. Macchiavelli, S.J. Asztalos, R.M. Clark, M.A. Deleplanque, R.M. Diamond, P. Fallon, R. Kruecken, I.Y. Lee, R.W. MacLeod, F.S. Stephens, K. Vetter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J.A. Becker (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

08:00 A9.01 Neutron Star Collapse in Close Binaries

Grant J. Mathews, Pedro Marronetti (Univ. Notre Dame), James R. Wilson (LLNL)

08:12 A9.02 Gravitational Radiation from the Coalescence of Binary Neutron Stars

Joan M. Centrella, Xing Zhuge, Stephen L. W. McMillan (Drexel University)

08:24 A9.03 Radiative Boundary Conditions in Dynamical Spacetimes: The Cauchy-Characteristic Approach in Spherical Symmetry.

Philippos Papadopoulos (Penn State University), Roberto Gomez (University of Pittsburgh), Pablo Laguna (Penn State University), Jeff Winicour (University of Pittsburgh)

08:36 A9.04 Evolution of integer spin fields in the Kerr spacetimes

William Krivan (Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Germany , Dept. of Astronomy amp; Astrophysics, Penn State University), Pablo Laguna, Philippos Papadopoulos (Dept. of Astronomy amp; Astrophysics, Penn State University)

A9.05

09:00 A9.06 Numerical Hydrodynamic Models of Neutron Star Mergers

Edward Wang, Wai-Mo Suen (Washington University in St. Louis), Peter Aninnos, Marie-Ange Brossard-Pailleux, Peter Leppik, H. Edward Seidel, F. Douglas Swesty (University of Illinois)

09:12 A9.07 Cauchy Horizons in Magnetic Extreme Black Holes

William A. Hiscock (Montana State University)

09:24 A9.08 Astrophysical Bounds on Global Strings

Shane L. Larson, William A. Hiscock (Montana State University)

09:36 A9.09 Choptuik Scaling in n dimensions

David Garfinkle (Oakland U.), Curt Cutlter (Penn. State U.), G. Comer Duncan (Bowling Green State U.)

09:48 A9.10 Evidence for Velocity Dominated Singularities in U Symmettric Cosmologies

B.K. Berger (Oakland U.), V. Moncrief (Yale U.)

10:00 A9.11 Comparison of Mixmaster Dynamics in Magnetized Bianchi VI_0 and Bianchi IX Cosmologies

E. Strasser, D. Garfinkle, B.K. Berger (Oakland U.)

10:12 A9.12 Invariance and Chaos in Homogeneous Cosmologies

R. Dwayne Ramey (Florida Memorial College), N. L. Balazs (SUNY at Stony Brook)

A9.13 General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Algorithm for Astrophysical Modeling

F. Douglas Swesty, Peter Aninnos, Peter Leppik, H. Edward Seidel (University of Illinois), Wai-Mo Suen, Edward Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

08:00 A10.01 Magnetohydrodynamical Wave Support of Interstellar Molecular Clouds.

MICHAEL ZINGALE, MARK WARDLE (University of Rochester)

08:12 A10.02 A Detailed Model of Dense Molecular Cloud Cores

Steven Doty, David Neufeld (The Johns Hopkins University)

A10.03

08:36 A10.04 Analysis of Star Formation Region L988-e.

SUZANNE GALAYDA, JUDITH PIPHER (University of Rochester)

08:48 A10.05 Physical Kinetics of the Development of a Kaon Condensate in a Neutron Star

N. IWAMOTO (University of Toledo), T. MUTO, T. TANAKA, T. TATSUMI (Kyoto University)

09:00 A10.06 Rotation Periods of Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster: The Bimodal Distribution

P.I. Choi, W. Herbst (Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT)

A10.07

09:24 A10.08 Stellar Jets' Engines (I)

R.B. DRISCOLL (Istituto per la Ricerca di Base)

09:36 A10.09 Magnetic energy minima in roAp stars

E.J. Zita (The Evergreen State College)

09:48 A10.10 An investigation of hydrodynamic instabilities in supernovae using the Nova laser

B.A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), J. Kane (University of Arizona), D. Arnett (University of Arizona), S.G. Glendinning (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. Rubenchik (University of California-Davis), M. Berning (D\ddotusseldorf University), J. Castor (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)

A10.11 Stellar Jets' Engines (II)

R.B. DRISCOLL (Isttuto per la Ricerca di Base)

08:00 A11.01 Beam centroid and envelope model for the SLIA accelerator

Thomas P. Hughes, Thomas C. Genoni (Mission Research Corp.)

08:12 A11.02 Polarizabilities of an Annular Cut in the Thick Wall.

Sergey S. Kurennoy (University of Maryland)

08:24 A11.03 Frequency Dependence of the Penetration of Electromagnetic Fields Through an Elliptical Hole in a Thin Wall

Alexei V. Fedotov, Robert L. Gluckstern (University of Maryland, College Park)

08:36 A11.04 Stability and Halo Formation in Axisymmetric Intense Beams.

Robert L. Gluckstern, Sergey S. Kurennoy (University of Maryland)

08:48 A11.05 Nonlinear Adiabatic Theory of Beam Deceleration due to Cavity Damping

Peter H. Stoltz, John R. Cary (University of Colorado)

09:00 A11.06 A New Method for Finding 4D Symplectic Maps with Reduced Chaos

Weishi Wan, John R. Cary, Svetlana G. Shasharina (APAS Dept., U. of Colorado)

09:12 A11.07 Emittance Growth from Transient Wakefields in Bends

R. Li, J. J. Bisognano, C. L. Bohn (CEBAF)

09:24 A11.08 Collective versus Incoherent Modes

Richard Baartman, Mikhail D'yachkov (TRIUMF)

09:36 A11.09 Radiation Reaction in a Bent Focusing System

Zhirong Huang, Pisin Chen, Ronald D. Ruth (SLAC, Stanford University)

08:00 A12.01 The Fermilab Tevatron33 Upgrade

Gerald P. Jackson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

08:00 A12.02 Prospects for Top Physics and Light Higgs Detection at Tevatron33

D. Amidei (University of Michigan)

08:30 A12.03 Detector Issues for Tevtron33

John Womersley (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:00 A12.04 Top Quark Physics at a High Luminosity Tevatron

Stephen Parke (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:30 A12.05 Prospects for Electroweak Measurements and Searches for SUSY and Physics beyond the Standard Model at Tevatron33

Ulrich Heintz (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

08:00 A13.01 iThe Next Generation of Synchrotron Light Sources

Massimo Cornacchia (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC), John Galayda (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory)

08:00 A13.02 Opportunities for Research with Fourth-Generation Light Sources

Jens Als-Nielsen (Niels Bohr Institute, Orsted Laboratory, H. C. Orsted Institute, University of Copenhagen)

08:30 A13.03 Round Table Discussion

Robert Batterman (Cornell University)

08:00 A14.01 Deuteron Spectra and Coalescence in Au+Au Collisions at the AGS

Stephen Johnson (for the E877 collaboration: BNL^1, GSI, INEL^1, McGill Univ. ^3, Univ. of Pittsburgh^1, SUNY at Stony Brook^2, Univ. of São Paulo^4, Wayne State Univ.^1)

08:12 A14.02 Centrality Dependence of the Deuteron to Proton Ratio in the Au + Au Collisions at 11.6 GeV/c

Jing Shea (University of Maryland)

08:24 A14.03 Sideward Transverse Energy Flow in Au+Au Collisions at the AGS

Wen-Chen Chang (for the E877 collaboration: BNL^1, GSI, INEL^1, McGill Univ. ^3, Univ. of Pittsburgh^1, SUNY at Stony Brook^2, Univ. of São Paulo^4, Wayne State Univ.^1)

08:36 A14.04 Production of Light Nuclei in Central Au+Pb Collisions

J.K. Pope (Yale Univ. for the E864 collaboration: Ames Lab, Univ. of Bari., B.N.L., IA St., M.I.T., Univ. of MA, PA St., Purdue)

08:48 A14.05 The non-equilibrium chiral phase transition during a spherical expansion

Melissa A. Lampert, John F. Dawson (University of New Hampshire), Fred Cooper (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:12 A14.06 Study of Particle Production and Flow Effects in Au+Au Collisions at the AGS with a Photon Detector

Chuan-Ming Zou (for the E877 collaboration: BNL^1, GSI, INEL^1, McGill Univ. ^3, Univ. of Pittsburgh^1, SUNY at Stony Brook^2, Univ. of São Paulo^4, Wayne State Univ.^1)

09:24 A14.07 Investigation of (p,\pi) Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at the AGS

Timothy Piazza, Martin Trzaska (for the E877 collaboration: BNL^1, GSI, INEL^1, McGill Univ. ^3, Univ. of Pittsburgh^1, SUNY at Stony Brook^2, Univ. of São Paulo^4, Wayne State Univ.^1)

09:36 A14.08 Measurement of Two-Proton Correlations in Au+Au Collisions at the AGS

Sergei Panitkin (for the E877 collaboration: BNL^1, GSI, INEL^1, McGill Univ. ^3, Univ. of Pittsburgh^1, SUNY at Stony Brook^2, Univ. of São Paulo^4, Wayne State Univ.^1)

08:30 A'6.01 What Happens When General Physics Students Solve Problems?

David Maloney

09:06 A'6.02 Student Understanding of Electrostatics

Mark D. Somers

09:42 A'6.03 Student Difficulties in Applying Concepts from Mechanics to Hydrostatics

C.H. Kautz, M.E. Loverude, P.S. Shaffer, L.C. McDermott (Dept. of Physics, University of Washington)

09:54 A'6.04 Student Difficulties in Applying Concepts from Mechanics to Thermal Physics

M.E. Loverude, C.H. Kautz, S. Vokos, L.C. McDermott (Dept. of Physics, University of Washington)

10:06 A'6.05 Students' Models of Transients in DC Electric Circuits

Beth Thacker (Grand Valley State University)

10:18 A'6.06 Student Difficulties Understanding the Role of Mathematics in Introductory Physics

Richard N. Steinberg, Jeff Saul, Michael Wittmann, Edward F. Redish (Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland)