Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 19 APRIL 1997

11:00 F1.01 Professor Henry, Mr. Faraday, and the Hunt for Electromagnetic Induction

Albert E. Moyer (Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0117)

11:36 F1.02 Joseph Henry's Conception of Scientific Knowledge

Paul Theerman (Smithsonian Institution Archives, AI2135, MRC414, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560)

12:12 F1.03 Science Advisor and Applied Physicist: Joseph Henry Serves His Country

Marc Rothenberg (Smithsonian Institution, MRC429, Washington, DC 20560)

12:48 F1.04 Joseph Henry and the Telegraph

David Hochfelder (Smithsonian Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University)

11:00 F2.01 Physics with Radioactive Beams at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility

James Beene (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:36 F2.02 Hard diffractive production of vector mesons in QCD

Werner Koepf (The Ohio State University)

12:12 F2.03 Nuclear Medium Effects on Drell-Yan and Heavy Quark Production

P.L. McGaughey (LANL)

12:48 F2.04 Production of Antihydrogen-Atoms in Relativistic Collosions

Walter Oelert (IKP, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D--52425 Jülich, Germany)

11:00 F3.01 Can We Again Measure the Fine Structure Constant From Atomic Fine Structure?

Gerald Gaabrielse (Harvard University)

11:36 F3.02 New Methods of Precision Lifetime Determinations

Chris Oates (NIST Boulder, CO)

12:12 F3.03 Precise Atomic Lifetimes and Interactions from Photoassociation Experiments

Daniel J. Heinzen (The University of Texas at Austin)

12:48 F3.04 Photoassociation spectroscopy: Progress in theory for a new precision measurement tool

Paul Julienne (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:00 F4.01 Prospects for Higher Collider Luminosity and Energy at Hadron Colliders

Gerald P. Jackson (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:36 F4.02 Prospects for the Next Linear Collider

Ronald D. Ruth (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA 94309)

12:12 F4.03 Advanced Concepts for High Energy Accelerators

Swapan Chattopadhyay (LBNL)

12:48 F4.04 Twenty-First Century High Energy Accelerators

G. Dugan (Cornell University)

11:00 F8.01 Gamma-ray Production in a Storage Ring Free-Electron Laser

E. C. Schreiber, R. S. Canon, C. R. Howell, N. R. Roberson, M. Spraker, W. Tornow, H. R. Weller (Duke University and TUNL), B. Burnham, M. Emamian, N. Hower, V. N. Litvinenko, J. M. J. Madey, P. Morcombe, P. G. O'Shea, S. H. Park, R. Sachtschale, G. Swift, P. Wang, Y. Wu (Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory), I. V. Pinayev, N. G. Gavrilov, M. G. Fedotov, G. N. Kulipanov, G. Y. Kurkin, S. F. Mikhailov, V. M. Popik, A. N. Skrinsky, N. A. Vinokurov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics), B. E. Norum (U. Va.), A. Lumpkin (ANL)

11:12 F8.02 Development of a Laser Cavity for Compton Polarimetry and as a High-Energy Polarized Photon Source

D. Gaskell, T.P. Welch (Oregon State University), K. Assamagan, T. Chyba, R. David, C.E. Keppel, G. Savage (Hampton University), C. Cuevas, R. Ent, V. Lebedev, J. Mitchell, M. Poelker, B.W. Vulcan (TJNAF), B.E. Norum, K.B. Wang (University of Virginia)

11:24 F8.03 Beam Polarization Measurement at TJNAF.

B. Zihlmann (University of Virginia/TJNAF), L. deBever, M. Loppacher, St. Robinson, I. Sick, J. Zhao (University of Basel), D. Crabb, D. Day, J. McCarthy, A. Tobias (University of Virginia), L. Cardman, B. Dunham, R. Ent, J. Grames, J. Mitchell, B.M. Poelker, C. Sinclair, D. Wetherholt (TJNAF)

11:36 F8.04 BEAM ENERGY MEASURMENT AT TJNAF USING THE HALL C ARC BEAMLINE AS A SPECTROMETER

P. Gueye (Hampton University), S. Danagoulian (North Carolina Aamp;T State University), W. Hinton (Hampton University), R. Carlini, R. Li, C. Yan (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF))

11:48 F8.05 Initial Testing of an Ultra-Cold Neutron Source at Los Alamos

T. J. Bowles, T. O. Brun, R. E. Hill, C. L. Morris, S. J. Seestrom (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M. L. Crow (University of Rhode Island)

12:00 F8.06 Neutron Polarizer Based on Metastability-exchange Optical Pumping of ^3He.^*

W.M. Snow, T.C. Black, X. Fei, C.D. Keith, D. Rich, Z. Chowdhuri, M. Flamini (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), T.R. Thompson, A.K. Dewey, M.S. Jones, G.L. Wietfeldt (NIST)

12:12 F8.07 Production of a 200 MeV Longitudinally Polarized Proton Beam in a Storage Ring

B. Lorentz, PINTEX Collaboration, W. Haeberli, F. Rathmann, T. Wise (University of Wisconsin--Madison), M. Dzemidzic, J. Doskow, H.O. Meyer, R.E. Pollock, B. von Przewoski, T. Rinckel, F. Sperisen (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility), P.V. Pancella (Western Michigan University)

12:24 F8.08 Response of the PIBETA CsI Calorimeter Array to 10--70 MeV e^\pm and Tagged Photons

E. Frle\vz, J.E. Koglin, R.C. Minehart, D. Po\vcani\'c, S. Ritt, P.L. Slocum (Univ. of Virginia), C. Brönnimann, T. Flügel, B. Krause, D. Renker (Paul Scherrer Inst.), D.W. Lawrence, B.G. Ritchie (Arizona State Univ.)

12:36 F8.09 Angular Resolution of the PIBETA Calorimeter and Its Acceptance for \pi and \mu Radiative Decays

D. Po\vcani\'c (Univ. of Virginia), T. Flügel, C. Brönnimann, B. Krause, D. Renker (Paul Scherrer Inst.), E. Frle\vz, J.E. Koglin, R.C. Minehart, S. Ritt, P.L. Slocum (Univ. of Virginia), D.W. Lawrence, B.G. Ritchie (Arizona State Univ.)

12:48 F8.10 A New Multi-Wire Position Sensitive Proportional Counter for Use with Split-Pole Spectrometers

S. E. Hale, A. E. Champagne, V. Y. Hansper (UNC-Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)

13:00 F8.11 Automated Track Recognition and Event Reconstruction in Nuclear Emulsion

B.S. Nilsen, A. Aranas, M.L. Cherry, P. Deines-Jones, J. Dugas, K. Sengupta, J.P. Wefel (Louisiana State Univ.)

13:12 F8.12 Recent Results from the Commissioning of the HRIBF Recoil Mass Spectrometer

T. N. Ginter, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya (Vanderbilt University), C. J. Gross, J. W. Johnson (ORAU/ORNL), D. Shapira, Y. A. Akovali, M. J. Brinkman, J. Mas, J. W. McConnell, W. T. Milner (ORNL), A. N. James (University of Liverpool)

13:24 F8.13 Compression of polarized ^3He gas

T.R. Gentile, A.K. Thompson, M.S. Dewey, G.L. Jones, F.E. Wietfeldt (NIST), W.M. Snow, T.C. Black, X. Fei, C.D. Keith, D. Rich, Z. Chowdhuri, M. Flamini (Indiana University)

13:36 F8.14 Spin Exchange Optical Pumping of ^3He at NIST

G.L. Jones, M.S. Dewey, T.R. Gentile, A.K. Thompson, F.E. Wietfeldt (NIST), W.M. Snow, T.C. Black, X. Fei, C.D. Keth, D. Rich, M. Flamini (Indiana University), R. Rizi (University of Pennsylvania)

11:00 F9.01 Search for First Generation Scalar Leptoquarks at DØ

Guoliang Wang (Florida State University)

11:12 F9.02 Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks in p\barp Collision at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV.

CDF Collaboration, Hisanori Kambara (Université de Genève/Switzerland)

11:24 F9.03 Search for Third Generation Leptoquark Production at DØ

David Hedin (Northern Illinois University)

11:36 F9.04 Leptoquark Pair Production at hadron colliders: Signal and Backgrounds

Gwendoline Simon, Bertrand Dion, Luc Marleau (Université Laval)

11:48 F9.05 Studies of Rare K^+ Decays

D. Bergman, S. Dhawan, H. Do, J. Lozano, W. Majid, M.E. Zeller (Yale Univ.), D.M. Lazarus, L. Leipuner, H. Ma, P. Rehak (Brookhaven National Lab.), G.S. Atoyan, V.V. Isakov, A.A. Poblaguev, A.L. Proskurjakov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow), B. Bassalleck, S. Eilerts, H. Fischer, J. Lowe (Univ. of New Mexico), J. Egger, W. Herold, H. Kaspar (Paul Scherrer Inst.), W. Menzel, H. Weyer (Univ of Basel), R. Appel, N. Cheung, C. Felder, D.E. Kraus, J.A. Thompson (Univ. of Pittsburgh), S. Pislak, P. Truoel (Univ. of Zurich)

12:00 F9.06 Search for the flavor changing neutral current B-meson decays B^+\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^- K^+ and B^0\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-K^*0 at CDF.

Wolfram Erdmann (Fermilab^), Thomas Speer (University of Geneva, Switzerland (The CDF Collaboration^*))

12:12 F9.07 Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in e^+e^- Interactions at 160 \leq \sqrts \leq 172 \hbox\rm\ Ge\kern -0.1em V.

L3 Collaboration

12:24 F9.08 Search for Charged Higgs boson pairs at LEP2 with the DELPHI detector.

Remi Silvestre (CEA,DAPNIA,CE-Saclay,Gif-sur-Yvette,France)

12:36 F9.09 A Search for the Hadronic Decay Mode of a Charged Higgs Boson at CDF

CDF Collaboration, Brendan Bevensee, H.H. Williams (University of Pennsylvania)

12:48 F9.10 Search for Charged Higgs at high tan \beta in CDF

CDF Collaboration, Leslie Groer (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

13:00 F9.11 Search for Technicolor Particles at CDF

CDF Collaboration, Takanobu Handa (Hiroshima University)

13:12 F9.12 Search for Neutral B Meson Decays to Two Charged Leptons

L3 Collaboration

13:24 F9.13 Search for New Particles Decaying to b-tagged Dijets in pøverlinep Collisions at \sqrts = 1.8 TeV

CDF Collaboration, Kara Hoffman (Purdue University)

13:36 F9.14 Search for Color-Suppressed B Hadronic Decay Processes in CLEO

Yongsheng Gao (Harvard University), CLEO Collaboration

13:48 F9.15 Search for rare and exclusive B decays with the L3 detector at LEP

L3 Collaboration

14:00 F9.16 Search for a Narrow State Decaying into \Xi_c^0\gamma at CESR

Basit Athar (SUNY University at Albany), CLEO Collaboration

11:00 F10.01 Evaluating learning and teaching using the Force Concept Inventory

Paul Zitzewitz (University of Michigan-Dearborn,)

11:12 F10.02 Creation of a Diagnostic Exam for Introductory Undergraduate Courses in Electricity and Magnetism

Jeffrey Marx, Jack Wilson (RPI Physics Department, marxj2@rpi.edu)

11:24 F10.03 Activity-Based Introductory Physics as a Writing Intensive Course

C. Trecia Markes (Univerisity of Nebraska-Kearney, markest@platte.unk.edu)

11:36 F10.04 General Physics Course Imporvements at Creighton University

Sam Cipolla, Jeff McClure (Creighton Univ., samcip@creighton.edu)

11:48 F10.05 SETI: A good introductory physics topic

Art Hobson (University of Arkansas, ahobson@comp.uark.edu)

12:00 F10.06 A Capstone Experience in Physics

Jean-Claude Ba, Trina Lott (JBA%cscc@cougar.colstate.cc.oh.us)

12:12 F10.07 Teaching Physics to Premedical Students

Hans Schantz (Schantz Electromagnetics, Inc., Hans_Schantz@schantz.com)

12:24 F10.08 Energy First - An Alternate Approach to Teaching Physics

Emil Michal Jr. (El Paso Community College, emilm@epcc.edu)

12:36 F10.09 How Things Work: a Novel Approach for Teaching Physics to Non-Scientists

Louis Bloomfield (Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903)

12:48 F10.10 A Thematic Approach to Physical and Earth Science for Prospective Elementary School Teachers

Stanley Haan, James Jadrich (Calvin College, haan@calvin.edu)

13:00 F10.11 CIMAC: A Coordinated Introduction to Calculus and Mechanics

Laurie Fathe, Jennifer Quinn, Michael A. McDonald (Occidental College, Department of Physics, fathe@oxy.edu)

13:12 F10.12 A Lab-Based, Lecture-Free General Physics Course

Mark B. Schneider (Grinnell College)

13:24 F10.13 Care and Feeding of a Paperless, Calculus-based Physics Course

Christopher Moore, Robert Fuller, Vicki L. Plano-Clark, Steven R. Dunbar (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, cmoore@unlinfo.unl.edu)

13:36 F10.14 Innovations in Physics Pedagogy: A Paperless Physics Course

Charles Hutchings, V.L. Plano-Clark, C.J. Moore, T. Kirkman, R.G. Fuller, Steven R. Dunbar, Amy N. Spiegel (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, cwh@unlgrad1.unl.edu)

11:00 F11.01 Critical Phenomena in Black Hole Formation

Matthew W. Choptuik (Center for Relativity, UT Austin)

11:24 F11.02 Does black hole entropy arise from boundary states?

David Brown (North Carolina State University)

11:36 F11.03 The Black Hole Information ``Paradox''

Robert M. Wald (Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago)

12:00 F11.04 Black Holes, Mode Conversion, and the Transplanckian Puzzle

Ted Jacobson (Univ. of Maryland)

12:24 F11.05 The postulates of gravitational thermodynamics

Erik Martinez (Center for Gravitational Physics, PSU)

12:36 F11.06 Black Hole Horizon Fluctuations

L. H. Ford (Tufts University)

13:00 F11.07 Quantum Mass Gap at the Threshold of Black Hole Formation

Leonard Parker (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

11:00 F12.01 Measurements of Cosmic Ray Electrons and Positrons with the HEAT Instrument

J. J. Beatty, S. Beach, M. DuVernois (Penn State), S. W. Barwick, E. Schneider (University of California--Irvine), A. Bhattacharyya, C. R. Bower, J. A. Musser (Indiana University), C. J. Chaput, S. Coutu, S. McKee, G. Tarlé, A. Tomasch (University of Michigan), A. Labrador, D. Müller, S. P. Swordy (University of Chicago), G. A. de Nolfo (Washington University (St. Louis)), J. Knapp (Universität Karlsruhe), D. M. Lowder (University of California--Berkeley), S. L. Nutter (Eastern New Mexico University), E. Torbet (Institute for Advanced Studies)

11:12 F12.02 Voyager Measurements of the Mass Composition of Cosmic Ray Ca through Fe Nuclei

Andrew Lukasiak, Frank B. McDonald (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD), William R. Webber (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM)

11:24 F12.03 Measurement of Cosmic-Ray H and He Isotopes by BESS and its Implications for the Cosmic-Ray Propagation

E. S. Seo, F. B. McDonald, J. Z. Wang (University of Maryland, USA), J. F. Ormes, R. E. Streitmatter, A. Moiseev, J. Mitchell (NASA GSFC, USA), H. Matsunaga, M. Imori, S. Orito, M. Otoba, T. Sanuki, T. Saeki, I. Ueda, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshimura (U. of Tokyo, Japan), M. Motoki, H. Matsumoto, M. Nozaki (Kobe U., Japan), K. Anraku, Y. Makida, J. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, A. Yamamoto (KEK, Japan), J. Nishimura, N. Yajima, T. Yamagami (ISAS, Japan)

11:36 F12.04 Can Source Abundances be Reliably Deduced from Measured Cosmic Ray Abundances ?

Jake Waddington (University of Minnesota)

11:48 F12.05 Propagation of the Heaviest UH Cosmic Ray Nuclei

J. R. Cummings (University of Minnesota), T. L. Garrard (Caltech), J. Klarmann (Wash.U.), B. S. Nilsen (LSU), C. J. Waddington (C. J.)

12:00 F12.06 Improved Partial Cross Section Calculations of Nucleus-Nucleus Reactions, for Cosmic-Ray Propagation in Materials

C.H. Tsao, R. Silberberg, A.F. Barghouty (Roanoke College, Salem, Va 24153)

12:12 F12.07 Cosmic ray all-particle spectrum

James Adams Jr (Naval Research Lab.), Jeongin Lee (George Mason Univ.)

12:24 F12.08 Cosmic Ray Proton and Helium Spectra -- Results from the JACEE Experiment

M.L. Cherry, B.S. Nilsen, K. Sengupta, J.P. Wefel (LA State Univ.), K. Asakimori (Kobe Women's Jun. Coll.), T.H. Burnett, J. Iwai, J.J. Lord, E.D. Olson, S.C. Strausz, R.J. Wilkes, E. Zager (Univ. of WA), K. Chevli, J.C. Gregory, J. Johnson, T. Shiina, Y. Takahashi (Univ. of AL, Huntsville), M.J. Christl, J.H. Derrickson, W.F. Fountain, K.H. Moon, T.A. Parnell, F.E. Roberts, J.W. Watts (NASA Marshall), S. Dake, H. Oda (Kobe Univ.), M. Fuki (Kochi Univ.), T. Hayashi (Waseda Univ.), B. Wilczynska, H. Wilczynski, W. Wolter (Inst. Nucl. Phys.), A. Iyono (Okayama Univ.), M. Kobayashi (KEK), O. Miyamura, T. Sugitate, T. Tominaga (Hiroshima Univ.), T. Ogata (Inst. Cosmic Ray Res.), H. Yokomi (Tezukayama Univ.)

12:36 F12.09 South Pole Air Shower Experiment: Source Searches and Coincidences with AMANDA

Glenn Spiczak (Bartol Research Institute), SPASE-2 Collaboration (Bartol Research Institute/University of Leeds)

12:48 F12.10 Elemental Composition of Cosmic Rays Near 10^16eV total Energy using Cherenkov light and deep underground muon coincidences.

L. Mualem, P. Border, R. Gran, K. Ruddick, V. Vassiliev, S. Wakely (University of Minnesota), Soudan 2 Collaboration

13:00 F12.11 CHESS - CHerenkov and Electromagnetic Shower Simulator

V. Vassiliev, P. Border, R. Gran, L. Mualem, K. Ruddick, S. Wakely (University of Minnesota), Soudan 2 Collaboration

13:12 F12.12 Relativistic magnetic monopole cosmic rays

Thomas J. Weiler (DPF), Thomas W. Kephart (Vanderbilt University)

11:00 F13.01 Measurement of Time-Dependent B^0 \barB^0 Mixing Using Dilepton Events with a D^*+ at CDF.

Tomoko Kuwabara (University of Tsukuba, (The CDF Collaboration))

11:12 F13.02 Measurements of the Time Dependence of B_d^0 - øverlineB_d^0 Mixing with Kaon and Charge Dipole Tags at SLD

Thomas Moore (Yale University)

11:24 F13.03 Measurement of Time-Dependent B^0 \barB^0 Mixing Using Dimuon Data at CDF.

Alberto Ribon (INFN Padova, (The CDF Collaboration))

11:36 F13.04 Measurement of the \mathrmB^0 Meson Oscillations using Dilepton Events with the L3 Detector

L3 Collaboration

11:48 F13.05 Time Dependent B^0\bar B^0 Mixing Using B^0\rightarrow \ell^+X,\; \bar B^0\rightarrow D^+X at CDF.

Regina Demina (Fermilab, (The CDF Collaboration))

12:00 F13.06 Measurements of the Time Dependence of B^0_d- \bar B^0_d Mixing Using Semileptonic decays at SLD

Ming Xiong Liu (Yale University)

12:12 F13.07 Measurement of Time-Dependent B^0\bar B^0 Mixing in Tagged Lepton plus Charm Events at CDF.

Petar Maksimovi\'c (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (The CDF Collaboration))

12:24 F13.08 Measurement of the \mathrmB^0 Meson Oscillations using Jet Charge with the L3 Detector

L3 Collaboration

12:36 F13.09 Measurement of Time-Dependent B^0 \barB^0 Mixing Using D^*+ Mesons and Opposite Side Leptons in p\barp Collisions at \sqrts=1.8\ TeV.

Stephan Vandenbrink (University of Pittsburgh, (The CDF Collaboration))

12:48 F13.10 Measurement of the B^0_d oscillation frequency and search for the B^0_s-øverlineB^0_s oscillations with the DELPHI detector at LEP

Michela Canepa (INFN,Genova,Italy)

13:00 F13.11 Expected Sensitivity to \boldmath \sin 2\beta from \boldmath B^0\to J/\psi K_S^0 at CDF

Ken Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (The CDF Collaboration))

13:12 F13.12 HERA-B: An Experiment to Study CP Violation

Robert Harr (Wayne State University)