Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 18 APRIL 1997

Session B1. DAMOP, DCP, CAM: Physics Applied to Low-Temperature Plasmas.

Friday morning, 11:00, North Salon, Renaissance

11:00 B1.01 Ion Transport and Reactions with Neutrals in Methane, Nitrogen and SF6 at Low and Intermediate E/N
Jaime de Urquijo (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico)
11:36 B1.02 Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of Microelectronics Processing Plasmas
G. A. Hebner (Sandia National Laboratories)
12:12 B1.03 Investigations of Ion-Molecule Reactions in DC Townsend Discharges
James Olthoff (NIST)
12:48 B1.04 Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing
Amy Wendt (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Session B2. APS Lectureship and Prize Symposia.

Friday morning, 11:00, Central Salon, Renaissance

11:00 B2.01 Primakoff Lecture: Vector Potential, Gauge Field and Connection on a Fibre Bundle
C.N. Yang (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
11:36 B2.02 Marshak Lecture: Supermultiplicity and the Relativistic Coulomb Problem of Arbitrary Spin
Marcos Moshinsky (Instituto de Fisica-UNAM)
12:12 B2.03 Bouchet Award Lecture: Beauty and Symmetry in Physics and Community
Larry Gladney (University of Pennsylvania)

Session B3. DNP: Multifragmentation in Classical and Quantal Systems.

Friday morning, 11:00, South Salon, Renaissance

11:00 B3.01 Visualizing Heavy-Ion Reaction Dynamics Through Macroscopic Liquid-Drop Collisions
Arturo Menchaca-Rocha (IFUNAM, A.P. 20-364, 01000 México D.F., Mexico)
11:36 B3.02 Heavy ion physics in the intermediate energy range with light nuclei
Yves Larochelle (Laboratoire de physique nucléaire, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4)
12:12 B3.03 Multifragmentation in Central Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
William G. Lynch (Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI.)
12:48 B3.04 A Unified description for the Nuclear Equation of State and Fragmentation in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Subal Das Gupta (Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 2T8)

Session B4. DPF, GTG: Frontiers of Theoretical Physics.

Friday morning, 11:00, Auditorium, Renaissance

11:00 B4.01 Gravitational Collapse and Cosmic Censorship
Robert M. Wald (Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago)
11:48 B4.02 Large Quantum Gravity Effects in Unexpected Domains
Abhay Ashtekar (Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Physics Department, Penn State, University park, PA 16802-6300)
12:36 B4.03 Black Holes and String Theory
Juan M. Maldacena (Rutgers University)

Session B5. DPF: Heavy Quarks.

Friday morning, 11:00, West Salon A, Renaissance

11:00 B5.01 Heavy Quark Effective Theory
Mike Luke (University of Toronto)
11:36 B5.02 Fixed Target Charm Experiments
A. Morelos (UASLP - CMU)
12:12 B5.03 Top Physics from the Fermilab Collider Detectors
W.-M. Yao (LBNL)
12:48 B5.04 Properties of Heavy Quark Bound States
Mark Dickson (Cornell University)

Session B6. DAP: Supernovae and Giant HII Regions.

Friday morning, 11:00, West Salon B, Renaissance

11:00 B6.01 Supernovae in Giant HII Regions
Schuyler D. Van Dyk (UCLA visiting scientist)
11:36 B6.02 Star Formation in Giant HII Regions
Christine Wilson (McMaster University)
12:12 B6.03 Galactic Worms and the Worm Ionized Medium
William T. Reach (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris XI)
12:48 B6.04 Galactic Superwinds
Timothy Heckman (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University)
13:24 B6.05 Outflows from Young Stars
L.F. Rodriguez (UNAM, Mexico)

Session B8. DNP: Nuclear Structure 76 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 150.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 10/11, Renaissance

11:00 B8.01 Alignments and shape changes in ^77Se.
G.D. Johns (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. Döring, R.A. Kaye, G.N. Sylvan, S.L. Tabor (Florida State University)
11:12 B8.02 Band termination in ^80Sr
D.F. Winchell, V.Q. Wood, J.X. Saladin, I. Birriel (University of Pittsburgh), M. Devlin, D.R. LaFosse, D.G. Sarantites (Washington University), C. Baktash, H.-Q. Jin, D. Rudolf, C.-H. Yu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), G. Sylvan, S. Tabor (Florida State University), R.M. Clark, P. Fallon, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:24 B8.03 High Spin Structure in ^85Y
V.Q. Wood, D.F. Winchell, J.X. Saladin (University of Pittsburgh), C. Baktash, C.H. Yu (Oak Ridge National Laboratories), M. Devlin, D.R. LaFosse, D. Sarantites (Washington University), P. Fallon, I.Y. Lee (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories)
11:36 B8.04 Identification of ^109Mo and Octupole Band in ^107,109Mo
J.K. Hwang, A.V. Ramayya, J.H. Hamilton, J. Kormicki, L.K. Peker, B.R.S. Babu, T.N. Ginter (Vanderbilt University), G.M. Ter-Akopian, Yu.Ts. Oganessian, A.V. Daniel (JINR,Dubna), W.C. Ma, P.G. Varmette (Mississippi State Univ.), S.J. Asztalos, S.Y. Chu, K.E. Gregorich, I.Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli, R.W. Macleod, J.O. Rasmussen (LBNL,Berkeley), J.D. Cole, R. Aryaenejad, K. Butler-Moore, Y.X. Dardenne, M.W. Drigert (INEL,Idaho), M.A. Stoyer, J.F. Wild, J.A. Becker, L.A. Bernstein, R.W. Lougheed, K.J. Moody (LLNL,Livermore), S.G. Prussin (Univ. of California, Berkeley), H.C. Griffin (Univ. of Michigan)
11:48 B8.05 Investigation of ``shears'' structure in ^110In
C.J. Chiara, D.B. Fossan, D.R. LaFosse, H. Schnare, P. Vaska (SUNY at Stony Brook), S. Frauendorf (FZ-Rossendorf), S.M. Mullins, G. Hackman, D. Prévost, J.C. Waddington (McMaster Univ.), V.P. Janzen, D.C. Radford, D. Ward (Chalk River Lab.), R. Wadsworth (Univ. of York), E.S. Paul (Univ. of Liverpool)
12:00 B8.06 Methods of generating angular momentum in ^112Sb
G.J. Lane, C.J. Chiara, D.B. Fossan, H. Schnare, J.M. Sears, J.F. Smith, I. Thorslund, P. Vaska (\underlineSUNY @ Stony Brook), E.S. Paul, A.N. Wilson, J.N. Wilson (\underlineUniversity of Liverpool), K. Hauschild, I.M. Hibbert, R. Wadsworth (\underlineUniversity of York)
12:12 B8.07 First observation of excited states in very neutron-deficient ^117Cs and ^118Ba
J.F. Smith, C.J. Chiara, D.B. Fossan, G.R. Gluckman, G.J. Lane, J.M. Sears, I. Thorslund (SUNY at Stony Brook), H. Amro, C.N. Davids, R.V.F. Janssens, D. Seweryniak (Argonne National Laboratory), I.M. Hibbert, R. Wadsworth (University of York), I.-Y. Lee, A.O. Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:24 B8.08 High-spin Spectroscopy of ^118Xe
J.M. Sears, D.B. Fossan, G.R. Gluckman, J.F. Smith, I. Thorslund (SUNY Stony Brook), I.M. Hibbert, R. Wadsworth (University of York), E.S. Paul (University of Liverpool)
12:36 B8.09 ^124Te Spectroscopic Studies Using (n,n^\prime\gamma\gamma) Coincidence Techniques.
J.R. Vanhoy, B.R. Champine (US Naval Academy), P.G. Burkett, S.J. Etzkorn, Sally F. Hicks (Univ Dallas), P.E. Garrett, Minfang Yeh (Univ Kentucky)
B8.10 Detailed Investigation of superdeformation in ^149Tb
B.~ Kharraja, U. Garg, H. Jin (University of Notre Dame,), M.P. Carpenter, S. Fisher, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, D. Nisius (Physics Division, ANL), R. Kaczarowski (SINP, Swierk, Poland), I.M. Govil (Panjab University, Chandigarh, India), R. Kruecken, A. Machiavelli, R. MacLeod (LBL, Berkeley), F.A. Beck, Th. Byrski, B. Haas (CRN, Strasbourg, France)

Session B9. DNP: Nuclear Reactions: I.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 16, Renaissance

11:00 B9.01 Sensitivity of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Observables to the Off-Shell Behavior of Realistic NN Potentials ^
S.P. Weppner, Ch. Elster (Ohio Univ.)
11:12 B9.02 Analyzing Powers for the \pi^-\vecp\rightarrow\pi^\circn Reaction Across the \Delta(1232) Resonance: Motivation and Experiment
C.M. Riedel, J.F. Amann, R.L. Boudrie, C.L. Morris, S. Penttilä (Los Alamos National Lab), J.R. Comfort, K.K. Craig, C.V. Gaulard, E. Six (Arizona State Univ.), M.E. Beddo, G.R. Burleson, Q. Zhao (New Mexico State Univ.), L.D. Isenhower, K.R. Knight, D. Rigsby, M.E. Sadler (Abilene Christian Univ.), T.E. Kasprzyk, H.M. Spinka (Argonne National Lab), P.L. Cole (George Washington Univ.), M.A. Espy (Univ. of Minnesota), I. Supek (Rudjer Boskovic Inst.), G.J. Wagner (Univ. Tübingen)
11:24 B9.03 Analyzing Powers for the \pi^-\vecp\rightarrow\pi^\circn Reaction Across the \Delta(1232) Resonance : Analysis and Preliminary Results
C. V. Gaulard, J. R. Comfort, K. K. Craig, E. Six (Arizona State Univ.), J. F. Amann, R. L. Boudrie, C. L. Morris, S. Penttilä, C. M. Riedel (Los Alamos National Lab), M. E. Beddo, G. R. Burleson, Q. Zhao (New Mexico State Univ.), L. D. Isenhower, K. R. Knight, D. Rigsby, M. E. Sadler (Abilene Christian Univ.), T. E. Kasprzyk, H. M. Spinka (Argonne National Lab), P. L. Cole (George Washington Univ.), M. A. Espy (Univ. of Minnesota), I. Supek (Rudjer Boskovic Inst.), G. J. Wagner (Univ. Tübingen)
11:36 B9.04 Spin-Dependent Cross Sections in Pion Produc- tion
Pintex Collaboration, B. von Przewoski, M. Dzemidzic, J. Doskow, H.O. Meyer, R.E. Pollock, T. Rinckel, F. Sperisen, M. Wolanski (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), W. Haeberli, B. Lorentz, P. Quin, F. Rathmann, B. Schwartz, T. Wise (University of Wisconsin), W. Daehnick, R. Flammang, D. Tedeschi (Pittsburgh University), P.V. Pancella (Western Michigan University)
11:48 B9.05 Contributions of s and p Waves in \vecpp\rightarrow pn\pi^+ near Threshold
R. W. Flammang, W. W. Daehnick, S. A. Dytman, D. J. Tedeschi, R. A. Tompson, T. Vrana (University of Pittsburgh), C. C. Foster, J. G. Hardie, W. W. Jacobs, T. Rinckel, E. J. Stephenson (I.U.C.F.), W. K. Brooks (T.J.N.A.F.), P. V. Pancella (Western Michigan University)
12:00 B9.06 Measurements of Spin Correlation Coefficients in pp Elastic Scattering between 200 and 450~MeV: Analysis, Results and Comparison to Theory
F. Rathmann, PINTEX Collaboration, W. Haeberli, B. Lorentz, T. Wise (University of Wisconsin-Madison), J. Doskow, M. Dzemidzic, H.O. Meyer, R.E. Pollock, B. von Przewoski, T. Rinckel, F. Sperisen (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), P.V. Pancella (Western Michigan University)
12:12 B9.07 Proton-Proton Spin-Transfer Measurements and Implications for the Pion Coupling Constant
W.A. Franklin, S.W. Wissink, A.D. Bacher, A.C. Betker, S.M. Bowyer, T. Black, S. Choi, K. Jiang, W.M. Schmitt, J.S. Sowinski, E.J. Stephenson, C. Yu (Indiana University), C. Elster (Ohio University)
12:24 B9.08 Measurement of forward angle exothermic reaction cross section on light nuclei at low energies
F. E. Cecil, H. Bojahr, L. Haddad, Mariet Hofstee, J. A. McNeil (Colorado School of Mines)
12:36 B9.09 Polarization transfer measurements of the ^3He Quasi-elastic region using the (\vecp,\vecn) reaction at 200~MeV.
Georgios Savopulos (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), C.C. Foster, C.D. Goodman, J. Sowinski, X. Yang (IUCF), I. van Heerden (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), B. Anderson, A. Baldwin, Q. Du, J. Li, D. Manley, O. Osadchy, D.L. Prout, J. Watson, W. Zhang (Kent State University), M. Palarczyk, J. Rapaport, K. Hicks, C. Hautala (Ohio University), D. Cooper, E. Sugarbaker (Ohio State University), T. Eden, R. Madey (Hampton University), B. Luther (Concordia College), R. Carr, R. Howes, H. Sages (Ball State University.)
12:48 B9.10 Meson Cloud Contribution to Nucleon Structure in a Semi-Relativistic Constituent Quark Model
J. Cho, D.S. Onley (Ohio University)
13:00 B9.11 Mutations of Electrons as Constituents of Hadrons
R.B. Driscoll (Istituto per la Ricerca di Base)

Session B10. FCTG: Precision Measurements and Atom Traps.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 5, Renaissance

11:00 B10.01 Precision Measurments with Laser-Cooled and Trapped Neutral Atoms
William D. Phillips (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD)
11:36 B10.02 Predictions for collisional frequency shifts of ultracold rubidium atomic clocks
S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, B.J. Verhaar (Eindhoven University, Eindhoven, The Netherlands), D.J. Heinzen (University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712), K. Gibble (Yale University, New Haven)
11:48 B10.03 Development of an optical frequency standard based on a Calcium magneto-optical trap.
C.W. Oates, M. Stephens, L.W. Hollberg (NIST, Boulder, CO)
12:00 B10.04 On the impact of electric and magnetic field gradients in cold atom EDM experiments
William M. Klipstein (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
12:12 B10.05 Measurement of the 7p~^2P_1/2 state lifetime of atomic francium
J. E. Simsarian, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse, W. Z. Zhao (Dept. of Physics SUNY Stony Brook, NY)
12:24 B10.06 Beta-Spin Asymmetry Measurements with Magnetically Trapped ^82Rb
Azriel Goldschmidt, S.J. Brice, R. Guckert, A. Hime, D. Preston, D. Steele, D. Tupa, D. Vieira, X. Zhao (LANL)
12:36 B10.07 Trapping Radioactive ^82Rb Atoms for a \beta Decay Asymmetry Measurement
X. Zhao, S. J. Brice, S. G. Crane, A. Goldschmidt, R. Guckert, A. Hime, D. W. Preston, V. Sandberg, M. J. Smith, D. Tupa, D. J. Vieira (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:48 B10.08 Precise Atomic and Nuclear Physics Experiments with Trapped ^21Na
P.A. Vetter, S.J. Freedman, B.K. Fujikawa, G. Gwinner, M.A. Rowe, S.Q. Shang, E.G. Wasserman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
13:00 B10.09 Measurement of Beta-Recoil coincidences from ^37K in a Magneto-Optic Trap
U. Giesen, G. Roy (University of Alberta), D. Asgeirsson, J.A. Behr, J. D'Auria, A. Gorelov, O. Häusser, T.B. Swanson, M. Trinczek (Simon Fraser University), L. Buchmann, M. Dombsky, K.P. Jackson, C.D.P. Levy (TRIUMF), J. Dilling (U. Heidelberg), W.P. Alford (U. Western Ontario and TRIUMF), J. Deutsch (Université Catholique de Louvain)
13:12 B10.10 A Precise Microwave Spectroscopy Measureement of the Muonium Ground State: Hyperfine Structure Interval and Muon Magnetic Moment.
W. Liu, M.G. Boshier, S. Dhawan, X. Fei, M. Grosse-Perdekamp, V.W. Hughes, M. Janousch, D. Kawall, R. Prigl, W. Schwarz (Yale University), K. Jungmann, G. zu Putlitz, I. Reinhard (University Heidelberg), F. Mariam, P. Thompson, K.A. Woodle (BNL), C. Pillai, O. van Dyck (LANL), P. Egan (LLL)
13:24 B10.11 Proposed Pressure Standard Based on Capacitance Measurements
Michael R. Moldover (Physical and Chemical Properties Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899)

Session B11. DAMOP: Atomic & Molecular Structure Theory.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 4, Renaissance

11:00 B11.01 The Ephemeral Photon
Russell L. Collins (retired, e-mail to rlcasa@shelley.dbstech.com)
11:12 B11.02 Semi-classical Quantization of the Soft-core Potential
'Kale Oyedeji (Morehouse College), R.E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)
11:24 B11.03 Two-Body Relativistic Coulomb Wave Equation
John H. Connell (Springfield Technical Community College (Mass.))
11:36 B11.04 Decay of hollow argon atoms
K.R. Karim (Illinois State University)
11:48 B11.05 Application of Relativistic Many-Body Perturbation Theory to Energies of Systems with Two and Three Valence Electrons
M.S. Safronova, W.R. Johnson, U.I. Safronova (University of Notre Dame)
12:00 B11.06 Relativistic Z-dependent Corrections for Li-like and Be-like Ions
U.I. Safronova, W.R. Johnson, M.S. Safronova (University of Notre Dame)
12:12 B11.07 A large-scale relativistic configuration-interaction calculation of the 3s^2\;^1\!S_0 - 3s3p\;^1,3\!P_1 transition energies in magnesiumlike ions
K. T. Cheng, M. H. Chen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)
12:24 B11.08 Generalised Code for Calculating Accurate Bethe Logarithms of Excited S-states of the Helium Atom.
John D. Morgan III (U. of Delaware), Jonathan D. Baker (NIST)
12:36 B11.09 A split-domain algorithm for time-dependent multi-electron wavefunctions using canonical eigenstates
S.L. Haan (Calvin College), R. Grobe (Illinois State University)
12:48 B11.10 An Electron Model for the Next 100 Years?
William E. Baylis (Physics Department, University of Windsor, Canada)
13:00 B11.11 An analysis of states in the phase space: a possible approach to calculate the energy of quantum systems
Sebastiano Tosto (ENEA Casaccia, Innovation Department, via Anguillarese 301, 00060 Roma, Italy)
13:12 B11.12 Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Anharmonic Solids.
R.J. Hardy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), D.J. Lacks (Tulane University), R.C. Shukla (Brock University)
13:24 B11.13 Calculations on Metal Substituted Protoporphyrin IX
Lawrence Norris (Northwestern University)
13:36 B11.14 New Developments on Invariance in Series of Adjacent-DIM molecules
Ray Hefferlin (Southern Adventist University), Brad Davis (Rinker-Davis Corporation, Belmont, CA), Blake Laing, Robert Marsa, Chris Carlson (Southern Adventist University)

Session B12. DAMOP: Rydberg Atoms, Exotic Atoms & Molecules and Clusters.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 3, Renaissance

11:00 B12.01 l-mixing and nl-changing collisions of Rydberg atoms with rare-gas atoms
I.I. Fabrikant (Univ. of Nebraska), V.S. Lebedev (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)
11:12 B12.02 Ionization of Sodium Rydberg Atoms by Sub-picosecond Quarter-Cycle Circularly Polarized Pulses
T.J. Bensky, G. Haeffler, R.R. Jones (University of Virginia)
11:24 B12.03 Population redistribution among Rydberg states of barium by half-cycle pulses
Jonathan Curley, W.E. Cooke (Department of Physics, College of William and Mary)
11:36 B12.04 Pulse-envelope-driven dynamics at Floquet anticrossings of He Rydberg atoms: CP vs. LP
S.A. Zelazny, P.M. Koch (SUNY at Stony Brook)
11:48 B12.05 All-orders Binding Corrections to Muonium Hyperfine Splitting
Jonathan Sapirstein (Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame)
12:00 B12.06 Calculation of the Positronium Hyperfine Interval
Gregory Adkins (Franklin amp; Marshall College), Richard Fell (Brandeis University), Plamen Mitrikov (Franklin amp; Marshall College)
12:12 B12.07 The Generation of HeH^+ Ions by Positron Interactions; Implications for the Great Annihilator
Lester D. Hulett Jr., Jun Xu, Jeremy Moxom (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), David M. Schrader (Marquette University), Sheldon Datz, W. Wu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12:24 B12.08 The Formation of Positronium Compounds in the MU/ORELA Positron Scattering Project
Jeremy Moxom (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jun Xu (ORNL), D. M. Schrader (Marquette University), L. D. Hulett Jr. (ORNL), G. Laricchia (University College London)
12:36 B12.09 Circularly Polarized Laser Fields as a Magic Potion for Multiply Charged Negative Ions of Hydrogen
Ernst Van Duijn, H.G. Muller (FOM-Institute AMOLF)
12:48 B12.10 Formation and Decay of Hollow Ions in Collisions with C_60
Uwe Thumm (Dept. of Physics, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS 66506)
13:00 B12.11 Multiple Ionization of Helium Cluster by Long Wavelength Laser
K. J. LaGattuta (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Session B13. DAMOP: Quantum Computing and Nonlinear Optics.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 15, Renaissance

11:00 B13.01 Experimental Investigations of Quantum Computation with Trapped Ions
Brian King, C. Monroe, D.M. Meekhof, D. Leibfried, W.M. Itano, D.J. Wineland (NIST, Boulder)
11:12 B13.02 Different Schemes of Quantum Computation with Cold Trapped Ions
Daniel James (Theoretical Division T-4, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Raymond Laflamme (Theoretical Division T-6, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Richard Hughes (Physics Division P-23, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:24 B13.03 Persistence Probability for Qubit Devices
Howard Brandt (Army Research Laboratory)
11:36 B13.04 Quantum Cryptography Over 24 km of Underground Optical Fibers
Richard Hughes, Gabriel Luther, George Morgan, Charles Peterson, Charles Simmons (University of California)
11:48 B13.05 Correlation functions in an optical Cavity QED system
S. L. Mielke, G. T. Foster, L. A. Orozco (Dept. of Physics SUNY Stony Brook, NY)
12:00 B13.06 Phase dependence in the spectrum of spontaneous emission of a coherently driven three level atom
M.A.G. Martinez (ECE Department, Drexel University), L.M. Narducci, C. Samuels (Department of Physics, Drexel University), P.R. Herczfeld (ECE Department, Drexel University), C.H. Keitel (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, UK)
12:12 B13.07 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Below Cutoff.
P. Sprangle (Plasma Physics Divsison, Naval Research Laboratory), B. Hafizi (ICARUS Research, Inc.), E. Esarey (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), S. E. Harris (Stanford University)
12:24 B13.08 Theoretical treatment of lineshapes observed in two-color resonant, four-wave mixing spectra of vibrationally autoionizing Rydberg states of nitric oxide.
F. Di Teodoro, E.F. McCormack (Bryn Mawr College)
12:36 B13.09 Spectral modification of an ultrashort pulse propagating through a two-level system
J.K. Ranka, R.W. Schirmer, A.L. Gaeta (Cornell University)

Session B14. FBSM: Few-Body Nuclear Physics.

Friday morning, 11:00, Room 2, Renaissance

11:00 B14.01 Relativistic three-body bound states and the reduction from four to three dimensions
Paul C. Dulany, S. J. Wallace (University of Maryland)
11:12 B14.02 A possible structure of the ^11Li halo nucleus
Mohamed Najmeddine (The George Washington University)
11:24 B14.03 Results of the TUNL Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length Experiment
D. E. González Trotter, W. Tornow, C. R. Howell, F. Salinas, Q. Chen, C. D. Roper, H. R. Setze, R. L. Walter (Duke Univ. and TUNL), H. Wita\la (Jagellonian Univ.), D. Schmidt (PTB Braunschweig), H. Tang (CIAE Beijing)
11:36 B14.04 Results of the TUNL Neutron-Proton Scattering Length Experiment
F. Salinas, C. R. Howell, W. Tornow, D. E. González Trotter, Q. Chen, C. D. Roper, H. R. Setze, R. L. Walter (Duke Univ. and TUNL), H. Wita\la (Jagellonian Univ.), I. \vSlaus (Rudjer Bo\vskovi\'c Institute), Z. Zhou (CIAE Beijing)
11:48 B14.05 Results of the LAMPF Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length Measurement
Q. Chen, C. R. Howell, C. D. Roper, F. Salinas, H. R. Setze, W. Tornow, R. L. Walter (Duke Univ. and TUNL), E. Pasyuk (Joint Inst. Nucl. Research, Dubna), C. Morris, C. Obst, S. Sterbenz, M. Whitton, B. F. Gibson (LANL), T. S. Carman (LLNL), I. Slaus (Rudjer Boskovic Inst., Zagreb), A. Hussein (Univ. Northern British Columbia), C. F. Moore
12:00 B14.06 The ^1H(\vecd,\gamma)^3He Reaction at 80-0 keV
B.J. Rice, R.S. Canon, M.A. Godwin, M. Spraker, H.R. Weller, E.A. Wulf (Duke University and TUNL), D.R. Tilley (North Carolina State University and TUNL), R.M. Prior (North Georgia College)
12:12 B14.07 The \gamma-Ray Polarization Analyzing Power for the Reaction ^2H(\vecp,\vec\gamma)^3He at 80-0 keV
E.A. Wulf, R.S. Canon, M.A. Godwin, J.F. Guillemette, J.H. Kelley, B.J. Rice, M. Spraker, H.R. Weller (Duke University and TUNL), R.M. Prior (North Georgia College and TUNL), D.R. Tilley (North Carolina State University and TUNL)
12:24 B14.08 Improved Continuum Three-Body Coulomb Wavefunction
M. Lieber
12:36 B14.09 A Tale of Three Equations: Breit, Eddington-Gaunt, and Two-Body Dirac
Horace Crater (The University of Tennessee Space Institute), Peter Van Alstine (12474 Sunny Glenn Drive, Moorpark, Ca.)
B14.10 Relations among the light-cone quark models with the invariant meson mass scheme and the model prediction of \eta-\eta' mixing angle
Ho-Meoyng Choi, Chueng-Ryong Ji (North Carolina State University)

Session B15. General Poster Session.

Friday morning, 11:00, Congressional Hall, Renaissance

B15.01 An ion accelerator for undergraduate research and teaching
Michael Monce (Connecticut College, mnmon@conncoll.edu)
B15.02 ZAP! Electricity Experiments Done by Students in Their Rooms
Jerry Pine, John King, Philip Morrison (MIT, 617-868-0234; Phylls Morrison, 11 Bowdoin St., Cambridge MA 02138)
B15.03 The Mouse Revisited: a novel approach to interfacing
Romulo Ochoa
B15.04 Linear and nonlinear oscilations in Classical Mechanics
Enrique Cruz, Juan L. Martinez (UNAM), Edgar Camacho (UAM)
B15.05 A Connection Between Gravitation and Electromagnetism
Douglas Snyder (dsnyder@earthlink.net)
B15.06 Inquiry Science for Liberal Arts Students: A Topical Course on Sound
Jerry Pine, Joy Hinckley, Sandra Mims (Pasadena Public Schools), Joel Smith (Claremount Graduate School of Education, Caltech)
B15.07 Data Sharing and the Role of the Science Center in the ACE Mission
T.L. Garrard, J.S. Hammond (California Institute of Technology)
B15.08 "Encounter with Consumers Union"(April,1981) And its Legal Sequel.
Lawrence Cranberg (Texas Fireframe Co. Austin, TX)
B15.09 Scattering of Electrons and Positrons from Interstellar Molecules
Shannon A. Murphy, David D. Reid (Eastern Michigan University), J. M. Wadehra (Wayne State University)
B15.10 Electron Continua for Double and Single Ionization after Heavy Ion Impact
S. Hagmann (Kansas State University)
B15.11 Type II Supernovae, Black Holes, Gravity Waves, and Cosmic Rays.
J.W. Follin Jr. (Johns Hopkins University, APL(ret).)
B15.12 A Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Ridge with RXTE
A. Valinia, F.E. Marshall, K. Ebisawa, K. Jahoda, N. Gehrels, A.P. Smale, N.E. White (NASA/GSFC)
B15.13 An Alternate View of the Universe
Gary Stein (Phoenix Management Group Inc., Bakersfield, California)
B15.14 Polarized Parity Violating Electron Scattering in ^3He
M.A. Barnett, S.L. Mintz, G.M. Gerstner (Florida International U.)
B15.15 Determination of the Neutron Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons
P.R. Huffman, C.R. Brome, J.S. Butterworth, C.E.H. Mattoni, D.N. McKinsey, J.M. Doyle (Harvard University), M.S. Dewey, K.J. Coakley, D.M. Gilliam (NIST, Gaithersburg), R. Golub, K. Habicht (HMI, Berlin), S.K. Lamoreaux, G.L. Greene (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
B15.16 Phi Meson Scattering Rates in Baryon Rich Matter
Wade Smith, Kevin Haglin (Department of Physics, Lawrence University)
B15.17 Analysis of Modified HIJET Events
Andrea Schiemann, Andre Konstantinov, Janet Seger (Creighton University)
B15.18 Simplified Boson Realization of the so_q Subalgebra of u_q(3) and Matrix Elements of so_q(3) Quadrupole Operators
P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev, P. A. Terziev (INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria), D. Bonatsos (N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece), N. Lo Iudice (U. di Napoli, Italy)
B15.19 Broken SU Symmetry in Deformed Even-Even Nuclei
N. Minkov, S. B. Drenska, P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev (INRNE, Sofia, Bulgaria), D. Bonatsos (N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece)
B15.20 Momentum translation approximation in accelerated beta decay
H.R. Reiss, A. Shabaev, H. Wang (American University)
B15.21 Forbidden beta decay accelerated by low frequency fields
H. Wang, A. Shabaev, H.R. Reiss (American University)
B15.22 Muon - electron Conversion and High Intensity Muon Sources
Zohreh Parsa (Brookhaven National Laboratory, 901A Physics Department, Upton, NY 111973-5000, USA)
B15.23 The Flat Rare-Earth Peaks and the Other 3 Pairs of Sharp Peaks Due to Neutron Magic Number Explain the Entire Mass Abundance Anormalies of Heavy Elements by the R and S Processes of Nucleosynthesis.
Peter Fong (Emory University)
B15.24 Development and Field Testing of the Nuclear Science Wall Chart
M. Cherney (Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178)
B15.25 Composite Two-Higgs Models
A.A. Andrianov, V.A. Andrianov, V.L. Yudichev (Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 198904 St. Petersburg), R. Rodenberg (III. Physikalishes Institut, Abteilung fur Theoretische Elementarteilchen Physik, Physikzentrum, RWTH-Aachen)
B15.26 The Barriers to a Unified Theory of Physics
Dennis B. Crossley (Univ. of Wisconsin--Washington County)
B15.27 Restrictions on Magnetic Charge from Quantized Angular Momentum
Douglas Singleton (Virginia Commonwealth University)
B15.28 Apparent Theoretical and Experimental Evidence on Lack of Exact Minkowskian geometry and Poincare symmetry for the hadronic structure
R. M. Santilli (Institute for Basic Research, Box 1577, Palm Harbor, FFL 34682,ibr@gte.net)
B15.29 The Checkerboard Structure of the Nucleus
T.M. Lach (independent)
B15.30 The Neutrino-Exciton Analogy
M. Simhony (Hebrew U.)
B15.31 Neutrinos and Positronium as Quantized States of Mobile Electron Positron Pairs in the e^-e^+ Latice (Epola) Space
M. Simhony (Hebrew U.)