Program overview (TEST)

SATURDAY MORNING, 4 MAY 1996

Session J1. DCO & DNP: Lattice Gauge Theory.

Saturday morning, 08:00, 500 Ballroom

08:00 J1.01 Nucleon Structure from Lattice QCD
Keh-Fei Liu (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055)
08:36 J1.02 Perfect Actions and Operators for Lattice QCD
Uwe-Jens Wiese (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
09:12 J1.03 The QCD Equation of State from the Lattice.
T. Blum (Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY.)
09:48 J1.04 Hot Lattice QCD: Nature of Phases and Phase Transitions.
Rajiv V. Gavai (University of Minnesota.)

Session J2. DCO: Rahman Prize Lecture.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 107/108

08:00 J2.01 Electron Excitation Energies in Solids
Steven G. Louie (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkely, and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkely Laboratory)

Session J'_2. DCOMP: See J'2 at 08:36.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 107/108

Session J3. DPB & DPP: Electron Beam Dynamics and Acceleration.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 109/110

08:00 J3.01 Generation of High Brightness Electron beams
X.J. Wang (Accelerator Test Facility, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory)
08:36 J3.02 Experimental and Numerical Studies of Halo Formation in a Mismatched Space-Charge-Dominated Electron Beam
David Kehne (CEBAF)
09:12 J3.03 Laser Acceleration of Electrons in Vacuum, Gases, and Plasmas
Eric Esarey (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)
09:48 J3.04 Electron Acceleration by Laser Wakefields.
Donald Umstadter (Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.)
10:24 J3.05 Laser propagation and channel formation in laser-produced plasmas
P. E. Young^ (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Session J4. FPS: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Winning the Endgame.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Sagamore Ballroom 6

08:00 J4.01 Endgame for the CTBT Negotiations
Peter D. Zimmerman (Zimmerman Associates)
08:05 J4.02 The Comprehensive Test Ban: Arms Control as well as Nonproliferation
John D. Holum (U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C.)
08:25 J4.03 The End of Nuclear Testing
Jeremiah D. Sullivan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
08:45 J4.04 Objections to a CTBT
Harold Agnew
09:05 J4.05 Stewardship of the Nuclear Stockpile under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
John D. Immele (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
09:25 J4.06 Prospects for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT): Arms Control and Monitoring Issues
Pierce S. Corden (U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C.)

Session J5. DAP & AAS: Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 105

08:00 J5.01 Magnetic Collimation of Jet Outflows from Protostars, X-ray Binaries and Quasars
Roger D. Blandford (California Institute of Technology)
08:36 J5.02 Solar Magnetic Fields
Bob Rosner
09:12 J5.03 The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation
Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias (Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
09:48 J5.04 Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars
Shrinivas Kulkarni

Session J6. FED & AAPT: Frontiers in Physics Research.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 106

08:00 J6.01 The Search for Free Quarks.
Martin Perl
09:00 J6.02 Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics
Robert Schrieffer
09:36 J6.03 Frontiers in Astrophysics
Wick Haxton (Institute for Nuclear Theory and Department of Physics, University of Washington)

Session J7. DPF: Precision Electroweak Studies with Leptons.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 101

08:00 J7.01 Z^0 precision measurement using energy scan
Per Jonsson (University of Lund,Lund,Sweden)
08:12 J7.02 A Measurement of \frac\Gamma_Z^0 \rightarrow inv \Gamma_Z^0 \rightarrow lept
Philip Hart (OPAL Collaboration, University of Chicago)
08:24 J7.03 Electroweak measurements in 130 GeV e^+e^- collisions at LEP
L3 Collaboration
08:36 J7.04 Final Cross Sections and Charge Asymmetries for e^+e^-\rightarrow \mu^+\mu^- \ and e^+e^-\rightarrow \tau^+\tau^- \ Reactions from TOPAZ
David Koltick (Purdue University)
08:48 J7.05 Precise Measurement of the Left-Right Cross Section Asymmetry in Z Boson Production by \mboxe^+e^- Collisions
Eric Torrence (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
09:00 J7.06 Measurement of the \mbox\boldmath Z^0-Lepton Couplings Asymmetries \mbox\boldmath A_l.
Michael Smy (Colorado State University)
09:12 J7.07 A Determination of Cross Sections and Asymmetries Below the Z^0 Peak from a study of radiative e^+e^- \rightarrow \mu^+\mu^-(n\gamma) events at LEP.
F. Cao, C. De Clercq, J. Lemonne (IIHE, ULB-VUB, Brussels)
09:24 J7.08 Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry of Electron Pairs Above the Z^0 Pole at CDF
(The CDF Collaboration^*) Berryhill (University of Chicago^)
J7.09
09:48 J7.10 Tau Neutrino Helicity Measurement at SLD.
Nicholas Allen (Brunel University, London, England)
10:00 J7.11 The Tau Polarization Measurement at OPAL
Myron R. Rosvick (OPAL Collaboration, University of Victoria)
10:12 J7.12 Measurement of the Michel parameters and the chirality parameter from \tau decays in \mathrme^+e^- \rightarrow \tau^+ \tau^-
L3 Collaboration
10:24 J7.13 Search for CP violation in the Decay \mboxZ \rightarrow \tau^+\tau^-
Eric Torrence (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Session J8. DPF: Supersymmetry Searches.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 102

J8.01
08:12 J8.02 Classic /\!\!\!\!E_\rmT plus Multijet search for Squarks and Gluinos in p øverlinep Collisions at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV
(The CDF Collaboration^*) Keyvan (UCLA^)
08:24 J8.03 Search for Squarks and Gluinos Using Dileptons in p øverlinep Collisions at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV
(The CDF Collaboration^*) Done (Texas Aamp;M University^)
08:36 J8.04 A Search for Slepton-Squark production of the MSSM at HERA
H1-Collaboration (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
08:48 J8.05 A Search for Squarks of R-parity Violating Supersymmetry at HERA
H1-Collaboration (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
09:00 J8.06 Search for Scalar Top Quarks with the L3 Detector at \sqrts= 130 to 140 GeV
L3 Collaboration
09:12 J8.07 A Search for light supersymmetric top in the lepton plus b-tag channel
Timothy L. Thomas, Michael Gold, (The CDF Collaboration^*) Ling (University of New Mexico^)
09:24 J8.08 SUSY searches at LEP1.5
Sergio Navas (IFIC - University of Valencia)
09:36 J8.09 A Search for Supersymmetric Gauge Particle Production in \relax\ifmmodep\bar p\elsep\bar p\fi \relax\ifmmode\,\else\,\fi Collisions at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV
(The CDF Collaboration^*) Tannenbaum (Texas Aamp;M University^)
09:48 J8.10 Status of the Search at DØ\ for the Dilepton Signature of SUSY Chargino Pair Production in p\=p Collision at the Tevatron.
Lewis Taylor Goss (Texas Aamp; M University)
10:00 J8.11 Search for Pair Produced SUSY Chargino-Neutralino via Trileptonic Signature with the DØ\ Detector.
Johannes Djoko Wirjawan (Texas Aamp;M University)
10:12 J8.12 Search for chargino production in e^+e^- collisions at \sqrts=130-140 GeV
L3 Collaboration
10:24 J8.13 Search for neutralino production in e^+e^- collisions at \sqrts=130-140 GeV
L3 Collaboration

Session J9. DPF: Particle Instrumentation Techniques.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 103

08:00 J9.01 3D -- A New Architecture for Solid-state Radiation Detectors
Christopher J. Kenney, Sherwood I. Parker (University of Hawaii), Julie Segal (Stanford University)
08:12 J9.02 The Mechanical Design of the Silicon Vertex Detector for CLEO III
Naresh Menon (Purdue University)
08:24 J9.03 Charge Collection Efficiency in Silicon Microstrip Sensors.
Kara Hoffman (Purdue University)
08:36 J9.04 Capacitance Measurements of Double-Sided Double-Metal Silicon Microstrip Detectors
Todd Keaffaber (Purdue University)
08:48 J9.05 Beam Test of Micro-Strip Gas Chambers readout with the SVXII-B
Yeonsik Yu (Seoul National University)
09:00 J9.06 Ageing Studies of Micro Strip Gas Chambers
Ekkehard Gerndt, Brian Connolly, Brian Knapp, Ian Shipsey (Purdue University), Peter Geltenbort (Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France), Vladimir Grishin (Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia)
09:12 J9.07 Performance of passivated glass Micro Strip Gas Chambers
Brian Knapp, Brian Connolly, Brian Knapp, Ian Shipsey (Purdue University), Peter Geltenbort (Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France), Vladimir Grishin (Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia)
09:24 J9.08 Scintillating Fiber Hodoscope for Bremstrahlung Luminosity Monitor
D.H. Brown, D. Orlov, G.S. Varner, W.A. Worstell (Physics Department, Boston University), D.N. Grigoriev, S.I. Redin (Physics Department, Yale University)
09:36 J9.09 Drift Chamber Calibration using Scintillating Fibers
Freddie Landry (Michigan State University)
09:48 J9.10 A Study of an Acrylic Cerenkov Radiation Detector.
BRIAN PORTER, ARIE BODEK, PAWEL DEBARBARO, HOWARD BUDD (University of Rochester)
10:00 J9.11 Development of an analog optical link at liquid argon temperature for the ATLAS experiment.
Apollo Go (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Session J10. DNP Mini-Symposium: Tests of Fundamental Symmetries at Low Energies II: Time Reversal.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 104

08:00 J10.01 Tests of Fundamental Symmetries at Low Energies II - Time Reversal
Steven Lamoreaux
08:36 J10.02 Using Beta Decay to Search for Time Reversal Invariance Violation
E. G. Wasserman (University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
08:48 J10.03 The emiT Experiment - A search for Time Reversal Invariance Violation
K.P. Coulter, T.E. Chupp, S.R. Hwang (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor), S.J. Freedman, B.K. Fujikawa, L.J. Lising, E.G. Wasserman (University of California - Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J. Anaya, T.J. Bowles, G.L. Greene, W.A. Teasdale (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M.S. Dewey, D. Gilliam, J.S. Nico, A.K. Thompson, F.E. Wietfeldt (National Institute of Standards and Technology), A. Garcia (University of Notre Dame), S.R. Elliott, R.G.H. Robertson, T.D. Steiger, J.F. Wilkerson (University of Washington)
09:00 J10.04 A Polarized Cold Neutron Beam for Fundamental Physics
J.S. Nico, J.M. Adams, M.S. Dewey, D. Gilliam, A.K. Thompson, F.E. Wietfeldt (National Institute of Standards and Technology), J.M. Anaya, T.J. Bowles, G.L. Greene, W.A. Teasdale (Los Alamos National Laboratory), K.P. Coulter, T.E. Chupp, S.R. Hwang (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor), E.G. Wasserman (University of California - Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J.F. Wilkerson (University of Washington)
09:12 J10.05 A Test of Time-Reversal Invariance Using MeV Neutrons and Aligned Holmium
P.\ Huffman, N.\ Roberson, W.\ Wilburn (Duke University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory), C.\ Gould, D.\ Haase, C.\ Keith, B.\ Raichle, M.\ Seely, J.\ Walston (North Carolina State University and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)
09:24 J10.06 Electron Capture Decay of ^116In and Nuclear Structure of Double \beta Decays
M. Bhattacharya, A. Garcia, N.I. Kaloskamis, C. Ortiz (University of Notre Dame), E.B. Norman (Lawrence Berkeley Lab.), M. Hindi (Tennessee Technological University), C.N. Davids (Argonne National Lab.)
J10.07 Can Anomalous \bfE\,1 Transitions in Transuranic Nuclei Be Explained by Neutral Weak Decay?
Wm.C. McHarris, C.V. Hampton, W.A. Olivier (NSCL, Michigan State University)

Session J11. DNP: Low Energy Heavy Ions.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 210

08:00 J11.01 Coulomb Dissociation of ^8B
J. \lowercasevon Schwarzenberg, J.J. Kolata, P. Santi, D. Peterson, M. Belbot, K. Lamkin (University of Notre Dame), J.D. Hinnefeld (Indiana University South Bend)
08:12 J11.02 Study of collisions induced by 11Mev/nucleon ^58Ni+^24Mg
Dan Shapira, Jorge GomezDelCampo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA), Milorad Korolija (Ruder Boscovic Institue, Zagreb, Croatia), Efrain Chavez (Insituto di Fisica UNAM Mexico City, Mexico)
08:24 J11.03 Entrance channel effects in the ^156Er compound nucleus decay
J.F. Liang, J.D. Bierman, M.P. Kelly, A.A. Sonzogni, R. Vandenbosch, J.P.S. van Schagen (Nuclear Physics Lab, University of Washington)
08:36 J11.04 Survival Probability of Th-like Nuclei as a Function of Excitation Energy
D.J. Hofman, D. Ackermann, B.B. Back, D. Henderson, V. Nanal, A. Wuosmaa (Argonne National Laboratory)
08:48 J11.05 Determination of the ^190Po \alpha Reduced Width
J.C. BATCHELDER, E.F. ZGANJAR (Louisiana State University), K.S. TOTH (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), D.M. MOLTZ, T.J. OGNIBENE, J. POWELL, M.W. ROWE (Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory), C.R. BINGHAM (University of Tenessee)
09:00 J11.06 Excited State Populations and Temperature Measurements in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
M.B. Tsang, W.G. Lynch, F. Zhu, A. Aranda, D.R. Bowman, R.T. de Souza, C.K. Gelbke, Y.D. Kim, L. Phair, S. Pratt, C. Williams, H.M. Xu (NSCL-Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI), W.A. Friedman (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI)
09:12 J11.07 Excited State Populations and Temperature Measurements in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
M.J. Huang, W.G. Lynch, J.D. Dinius, S.J. Gaff, C.K. Gelbke, T. Glasmacher, G.J. Kunde, L. Martin, C.P. Montoya, M.B. Tsang (NSCL-Michigan State University), N. Colonna (INFN, Bari, Italy), M. Bruno, M. D'Agostino, M.L. Fiandri (INFN and Dip.Fisica Bologna, Italy), P.F. Mastinu (INFN, Bologna and Dip.Fisica Padova, Italy), F. Gramegna (INFN, LNL Legnaro, Italy), I. Iori, A. Moroni, F. Petruzzelli (INFN and Dip.Fisica Milano, Italy), G.V. Margagliotti, P.M. Milazzo, R. Rui, G. Vannini (INFN and Dip.Fisica Trieste,Italy), A. Ferrero (CNEA Buenos Aires, Argentina)
09:24 J11.08 Projectile-Like Fragments in ^129Xe on ^natCu Reactions at E/A = 30, 40, 50, and 60 MeV
D.E. Russ, A.C. Mignerey, E.J. Garcia-Solis, H. Madani, J.Y. Shea, P.J. Stanskas (Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland at College Park), O. Bjarki, E.E. Gualtieri, S.A. Hannuschke, R. Pak, N.T.B. Stone, A.M. VanderMolen, G.D. Westfall, J. Yee (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University)
09:36 J11.09 Measurement of the Sign of the Mean Transverse Momentum of Light Charged Particles Emitted in ^14N+^154Sm Collisions at E/A=35, 100 and 155MeV
R.C. Lemmon, M.B. Tsang, J. Dinius, S. Gaff, C.K. Gelbke, M.J. Huang, G. Kunde, W.G. Lynch, L. Manduci, R. Popescu, R.M. Ronningen, L. Weathers, D. White (NSCL, Michigan State University), R.J. Charity, J. Dempsey, L.G. Sobotka (Washington University), W. Trautmann (GSI, Darmstadt), W. Dunnweber (Universität München)
09:48 J11.10 Nuclear phase transitions and ring formation
Edwin Norbeck, Qing-Zheng Luo, Yun-Wu Cheng, Paul Pogodin (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa), Duane Ingram (Department of Physical Science, Rock Valley College)
J11.11 Mass Dependence of Collective Flow
M.J. Huang, R.C. Lemmon, F. Daffin, W.G. Lynch, C. Schwarz, M.B. Tsang, C. Williams, P. Danielewicz, K. Haglin, W. Bauer, C.K. Gelbke, W.C. Hsi, G.J. Kunde, M. Lisa, G.F. Peaslee (NSCL-Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI), R.J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), U. Lynen, J. Pochodzalla, W. Sann, M.C. Trautmann (GSI Darmstadt, Germany), S.R. Lemaire, R.T. Souza (LNS Saclay, France), N. deSouza (IUCF Bloomington, IN), Carlin (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Session J12. DPB Mini-Symposium: Recent Beam Experiments I.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 212

08:00 J12.01 A Mini-Symposium for RECENT BEAM EXPERIMENTS
S.Y. Lee (Indiana University), R.L. Siemann (SLAC)
08:00 J12.02 Observation and Correction of Stopbands in the Booster and AGS.
C.J. Gardner, M. Blaskiewicz, J.W. Glenn (BNL), Y. Shoji (KEK)
08:15 J12.03 Experimental Study of Transition Crossing at AGS,
Jie Wei (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
08:30 J12.04 Time dependent evolutions of bunch profile in the presence of time dependent modulations
A. Riabko, M. Ball, B. Brabson, J. Budnick, G. East, X. Kang, S.Y. Lee, A. Pei, T. Sloan (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)
08:45 J12.05 Measurement of Adiabatic and Non-magnetized Components of Electron Cooling Force
C.M. Chu, M. Bai, M. Ball, B. Brabson, J. Budnick, G. East, B. Hamilton, X. Kang, S.Y. Lee, J.Y. Liu, A. Pei, A. Riabko, T. Sloan, L. Wang, X. Zhao (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), A.W. Chao, Y. Yan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), K.Y. Ng (Fermilab)
09:00 J12.06 Studies of Resistive-Wall Instability with Space-Charge Dominated Electron Beams
J. G. Wang, H. Suk, M. Reiser (University of Maryland)
09:15 J12.07 Observation of Beam Beam Effects in the Tevatron Collider
Glenn P. Goderre (Fermilab)
09:30 J12.08 Nonlinear Coherent Phenomena in Coasting Beams
Linda Spentzouris, Pat Colestock (Fermilab)
09:45 J12.09 Measurements of the Frequency Shift Induced by Non-Linearities in SPEAR
P. Tran, C. Pellegrini (UCLA Physics Department), M. Cornacchia, W. Corbett (SLAC)

Session J13. DPB Mini-Symposium: Advances in Targetry I.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 211

08:00 J13.01 Advances in Targetry
Stephen O'Day (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
08:00 J13.02 Future Fermilab Targetry Issues
Stephen C. O'Day (Fermilab)
08:30 J13.03 Beam Sweeping Targetry for the Fermilab Antiproton Source
F. M. Bieniosek (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
09:00 J13.04 Outlook for European Spallation Neutron Sources
Guenter S. Bauer (Paul Scherrer Institut)
09:30 J13.05 Present and Proposed U.S. Spallation Sources
J. Carpenter (Argonne National Laboratory)
10:00 J13.06 High Density Polarized Gas Targets
Kirsten Zapfe-Düren (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany)

Session J14. DPF: Heavy Quark Production and Asymmetries.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Room 117

08:00 J14.01 Measurement of the Strange Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry at the Z^0 pole
Barbara De Lotto (University of Udine and I.N.F.N. sez. Trieste,Italy)
08:12 J14.02 The measurement of R_c at LEP.
Willi Neumann (University of Wuppertal,Wuppertal,Germany)
08:24 J14.03 Measurement of the A_b from the Left-Right Forward-Backward Asymmetry of b Quark Production in Z^0 Decays Using a Momentum-Weighted Self-Calibrating Track-Charge Technique.
Victor Serbo (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
08:36 J14.04 Measurement of A_b From The Left-Right Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Z^0 decays using Charged Kaon tagging
Kenji Abe (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
08:48 J14.05 Use of lifetime and jet charge information for heavy flavour analyses in OPAL
Oliver Cooke (OPAL Collaboration, University of Manchester)
J14.06
09:12 J14.07 Measurements of R_b using Lifetime Tags
L3 Collaboration
09:24 J14.08 Measurement of t\bart Production cross-section at DØ
Sailesh Chopra (University of Michigan)
09:36 J14.09 Top quark production in multi-jet final states.
Eunil Won (University of Rochester)
09:48 J14.10 The Search for t\bart Production in the Six-Jets Channel.
Wasiq Bokhari (MIT)
10:00 J14.11 Higher Order QCD Corrections to Heavy quark and Heavy Meson Production Processes
Eric Laenen (CERN), Stephane Keller (FERMILAB)
10:12 J14.12 Soft Gluons in Top Quark Events
BOND MASUDA, LYNNE ORR (University of Rochester), W.JAMES STIRLING (University of Durham)
10:24 J14.13 Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at Dzero
Frank Hsieh (The University of Michigan)
10:36 J14.14 Top quark mass determination on double b-tagged events in \barpp Collsions at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV
(The CDF Collaboration^*) Aota (University of Tsukuba^)
10:48 J14.15 Artificial Neural Networks for Heavy Flavour Analyses in OPAL
Herve Lafoux (OPAL Collaboration, DAPNIA/SPP, CE-Saclay)

Session J15. Poster Session II.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Reception

J15.01 Casimir Effect in S(n)
MUSTAFA OZCAN (University of Michigan)
J15.02 MULTY-DIMENSIONAL THEORY OF GRAVITY-ELECTRO-WEAK INTERACTIONS, TIME MACHINE AND FOLIATIONS.
Alexander K. Guts (Omsk State University, RUSSIA.)
J15.03 Gravitational Radiation from Nonaxisymmetric Instabilities in Rapidly Rotating Stellar Cores
Janet L. Houser, Joan M. Centrella (Drexel University)
J15.04 A 4D Gravitational Theory Arising from 2D Symmetries
R.P. Lano, V.G.J. Rodgers (The University of Iowa)
J15.05 Perturbative approach to gravitational radiation under a conformally flat metric approximation scheme.
Pedro Marronetti, Grant J. Mathews (University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics), James R. Wilson (University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
J15.06 The LISA Gravitational Wave Mission
R.T. Stebbins, P.L. Bender, J.E. Faller (JILA, Univ. of Colorado), W.M. Folkner (JPL), H. Ward (Univ. of Glasgow, for the LISA Science Team)
J15.07 Developing a Two-mode High Q Superconducting Transducer for a Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Antenna
C. Frajuca, Z.K. Geng, W.O. Hamilton, W.W. Johnson, N. Magalhães, E. Mauceli, S. Merkowitz, A. Morse, N. Solomonson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University)
J15.08 Proposed measurement of the Newtonian gravitational constant G with an artificial binary in LEO: some considerations
Stephen D. Baker (Rice University)
J15.09 Preliminary Investigations from a Laboratory Plasma Source as an MHD Model of Astrophysical Jets
R. W. Caress, R. M. Mayo (Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University)
J15.10 The ACE-CRIS Scintillating Optical Fiber Trajectory (SOFT) Detector
W.R. Binns, P.F. Dowkontt, J.W. Epstein, P.L. Hink, J. Klarmann (Washington University in St. Louis)
J15.11 A Calibration of the ACE-CRIS Scintillating Optical Fiber Trajectory Detector at the MSU NSCL
P.L. Hink, W.R. Binns, J. Klarmann, M.A. Olevitch (Washington University)
J15.12 Astrophysical limits on the \beta lifetime of ^54Mn
M. A. DuVernois (Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL)
J15.13 Observations of nearby BL Lac Galaxies at 300 GeV
J. A. Gaidos (Purdue University, for the Whipple Collaboration)
J15.14 Influence of the Strong Magnetic Field on the Helical Cerenkov Effect
J. SOLN (Army Research Laboratory)
J15.15 PARTICLES/FORCES ON UNIVERSE CREATION
S.M. AYUB (166 N. McCarrons Blvd., Rosevelle, MN 55113)
J15.16 The su_q Rotator Model in Nuclear \beta- and \gamma- Collective Bands
N. Minkov, S. B. Drenska, P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev (INRNE), Dennis Bonatsos (ECT)
J15.17 Connections between U(N), O(N+1) and Anisotropic Harmonic Oscillators with Rational Ratios of Frequencies
D. Lenis, P. Kolokotronis (NCSR ``Demokritos''), Dennis Bonatsos (ECT), C. Daskaloyannis (U. Thessaloniki)
J15.18 Determination of the Neutron Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons
P.\ Huffman, C.\ Mattoni, D.\ McKinsey, H. Park, I. Siddiqi, J.\ Doyle (Harvard University), M.\ Dewey (NIST, Gaithersburg), R. Golub (HMI, Berlin), S. Lamoreaux (University of Washington)
J15.19 Sea Contributions to Nucleon Structure in a Semirelativistic Constituent Quark Model
J. Cho, D. S. Onley (Ohio University)
J15.20 Order \alpha_S^2 Analysis of Polarized and Unpolarized Parton Densities
Thomas Weigl (T.U.Munich), Wally Melnitchouk (University of Maryland)
J15.21 Measurement of the Forward J/Psi Cross Sections in p\barp Collisions at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV.
Alexei Volkov (Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino)
J15.22 Generalized Deformed su Algebras, Deformed Parafermionic Oscillators and Finite W algebras
Dennis Bonatsos (ECT), C. Daskaloyannis (U. Thessaloniki), P. Kolokotronis (NCSR ``Demokritos'')
J15.23 Quantum Statistics of Atoms and Pairons Bose-Einstein Condensation
S. Fujita, S-P. Gau, D. NGuyen (State University of N.Y., Buffalo, N.Y.), S. Godoy (Faculted de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico, DF, Mexico)
J15.24 Miniature RF Traps for Strong Ion Confinement
Xinxin Zhao, Nan Yu, Hans G. Dehmelt, Kelin Gao, Warren Nagourney (Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195)
J15.25 Stability of the Levitron
Lee O. Heflinger (Torrance, CA), S. L. Ridgway (Santa Monica, CA), Martin D. Simon (University of California, Los Angeles)
J15.26 Projectile Energy Dependence in the Molecular Excitation of the H3+, in their Polar Dissociation.
G. Hinojosa, F.B. Yousif, H. Martinez, J. de Urquijo, C. Cisneros, I. Alvarez (IFUNAM-Cuernavaca. Mexico)
J15.27 Projectile Energy Dependence in the Molecular Excitation of the H3+, D3+ Molecular Ions in their Polar Dissociation. F.B. Yousif, G. Hinojosa, I. Dominguez, J. de Urquijo, C. Cisneros and I. Alvarez, Laboratorio de Cuernavaca, IFUNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
F.B. Yousif, G Hinojosa, I. Dominguez , J. de Urquijo, C. Cisneros (), I. Alvarez (Lab. de Cuernavaca, IFUNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico)
J15.28 q-Deformed Anharmonic Oscillators as Approximations to Sextic Potentials
H. A. Mavromatis (KFUPM), Dennis Bonatsos (ECT), C. Daskaloyannis (U. Thessaloniki)
J15.29 Coupled Q-Oscillators as a Model for Vibrations of Polyatomic Molecules
P. Kolokotronis (NCSR ``Demokritos''), Dennis Bonatsos (ECT), C. Daskaloyannis (U. Thessaloniki)
J15.30 Capture from pair production at 11 GeV/nucleon^*
Harvey Gould, N. Claytor, A. Belkacem, B. Feinberg, T. Dinneen (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)
J15.31 Non-perturbative calculation of pair production and charge transfer in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
Ali Belkacem, Klaus Momberger (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720), Allen Sorensen (University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark)
J15.32 Generalized Deformed Oscillator for Vortices in Superfluid Films
C. Daskaloyannis (U. Thessaloniki), Dennis Bonatsos (ECT)
J15.33 Transport Properties of CdZnTe
Ponn Maheswaranathan (Winthrop University)
J15.34 Structural and Electrical Properties of CaTi0_3 and MgTi0_3 Dielectric Ceramics
T. SUBBA RAO (Department of Physics, S.V.U. College PG Center, Kurnool, India)
J15.35 Impulse Response of a Baseball Bat
A. Brown, R. Rolleigh (Hendrix College)
J15.36 Nature of Photons and Electromagnetic (EM) Radiation
M. SIMHONY (Hebrew U.)
J15.37 Physics and Our Understanding of Nature
M. SIMHONY (Hebrew U.)
J15.38 Information Space - Part 1: The Philosophy of Distributed Informational Processing In a Mechanistically Interrelated World of Particle Entity
D.W. ZBIKOWSKI (7833 Able St. NE, Spring Lake Park, MN 55432)
J15.39 Information Space - Part 2: the Surface Information Model of Particle Entity
D.W. ZBIKOWSKI (7833 Able St. NE, Spring Lake Park, MN 55432)
J15.40 Deconfinement Transition on Lattices with Tadpole-Improved Action
Dan Bliss (University of California, San Diego), Kent Hornbostel (Southern Methodist University), G. Peter Lepage (Cornell University)
J15.41 Physics and Our Understanding of Nature
M. Simhony (Hebrew University)
J15.42 Machines are intelligent, but people aren't
R. Jones (Emporia State University)
J15.43 Laws of Nature are not Unique
R. Jones (Emporia State University)
J15.44 Update On 1975-78 S/R Theory Test As Human Mind/Abstract Communication System (HACS), FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE BASE OF PSYCO-PHYSICS:I.HACS ANALYSIS OF SUSAN SMITH(Union, SC/USA) KILLING HER 2-KIDS Oct. '94 AND REMEDY/PREVENTION OF SUCH TRAGEDY
B.P. SINHA (PISM, P.O. BOX 892, STN,B,LONDON, CANADA N6A 4Z3)
J15.45 Paper #2:Update..Test..Human Abstract Commun. System (HACS) Theory..I.Susan Smith Complex & Remedy
B.P. SINHA (P. INST. S&M)
J15.46 Presnece of Antitributary Streams Fixes Highest Elev. of Ocean Beach on Grandeur Pk.'s Ancient Stream Bed
KEITH L. McDonald (P.O. Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT)
J15.47 Presence of Antitributary Streams...;Part II
K.L. McDONALD (P.O. Box 2433, Salt Lake City, UT)
J15.48 Off Normal Photo Cathode Illumination Studies in CIRFEL
J Krishnaswamy, Ira.S Lehrman, R.A Hartley, M.F Reusch, A.M.M Todd (Northrop Grumman Advanced Technology & Development Center), R.H Austin (Princeton University), D Feldman (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
J15.49 Anomalous Spectra in High-intensity Stimulated Raman Scattering in Laser Plasmas
Moma Jovanovi\'c (Department of Physics, University of Ni\v s, Yugoslavia)
J15.50 Spectroscopic Tests of the Symmetrization Postulate for Spin-0 Nuclei
Robert C. Hilborn, Candice L. Yuca (Amherst College)

Session J'2. DCOMP: Towards a Density-Functional-Based Understanding of Chemical Reactions and Catalysis.

Saturday morning, 08:36, Room 107/108

08:36 J'2.01 Density-Functional Theory for Homogeneous Catalysis
Peter Margl, Tom Ziegler, Tom Woo, John Lohrenz (Department of Chemistry, The University of Calgary)
09:12 J'2.02 A Theoretical study of CO and NO interactions with Cu exchanged zeolites
James B. Adams (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
09:48 J'2.03 Dissociation of H_2 on Pd(100) and the Effects of Ad-Layers
Steffen Wilke (Exxon Res. amp; Eng. Co., Annandale, NJ 08801)
10:24 J'2.04 Stability and Reactivity of Ni Clusters
B. Rao