Program overview

FRIDAY MORNING, 10 OCTOBER 1997

10:00 AA.01 Bose-Einstein Condensation of Lithium - The Role of Interactions

C. A. Sackett, M. Welling, R.G. Hulet (Physics Dept., Rice University, Houston, TX 77005)

10:36 AA.02 Coherence Effects in Atoms

George R. Welch (Department of Physics, Texas A amp; M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242)

10:00 AB.01 Accelerators in Research and Industry

G.A. Norton (National Electrostatics Corp., Middleton, Wisconsin 53562 USA)

10:36 AB.02 New Accelerator Applications to the Semiconductor Industry

B.L. Doyle (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:12 AB.03 The US Spallation Neutron Source Project

David K. Olsen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:48 AB.04 Strengthening materials With Ion Beams

Geoffrey Dearnaley (Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228)

10:00 AC.01 BNL 896: Search for Short Lived H_0 Dibaryons--Overview

P. Jensen, G. W. Hoffmann, S. D. Paganis, J. J. Schambach, J.-L. Tang (The University of Texas at Austin), E896 Collaboration

10:12 AC.02 BNL 896: Simulations for Physics Sensitivity

J.-L. Tang, G. W. Hoffmann, P. Jensen, S. D. Paganis, J. J. Schambach (The University of Texas at Austin), E896 Collaboration

10:24 AC.03 BNL 896: Search for Short Lived H_0 Dibaryons--Data Acquisition Systems

J. J. Schambach, J. H. Choi, G. W. Hoffmann, P. Jensen, G. Ott, S. D. Paganis, J.-L. Tang (The University of Texas at Austin), E896 Collaboration

10:36 AC.04 Momentum Resolution Improvement Technique in Silicon Tracking Detectors Using dE/dx

S. D. Paganis, J.-L. Tang, G. W. Hoffmann, R. L. Ray (The University of Texas at Austin)

10:48 AC.05 A New Paradigm for Hadron Colliders

Peter M. McIntyre (Texas A&M University), N. Diaczenko, T. Elliott, A. Jaisle, D. Latypov, P. McJunkins, L. Richards, W. Shen (), R. Soika (Texas A&M University), R. Gaedke (Trinity University)

11:00 AC.06 Radiation Hardness Studies of the CMS Very Forward Calorimeter

Olga Dubois (Texas Tech University)

11:12 AC.07 Symmetrization Effects on One-Body Distributions in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

R. L. Ray (The University of Texas at Austin)

10:00 AD.01 A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Two-Dimensional Lattice Structure of the Cu-1 Plane in YBa_2Cu_3O_6+x

T. Edis, J.D. Fan, G.L. Zhao, Y.M. Malozovsky (Southern University)

10:12 AD.02 A High-current Cable using High-Tc Superconductor

Peter M. McIntyre, Rainer Soika (Texas A&M University)

10:24 AD.03 Atomic Force Microscopy(AFM) and cross sectional Scanning Transmission Electron Microsscopy(STEM) of Ge on Si(100).

Michael Mckay (The University of Texas at El Paso), Jeff Drucker (The Universiry of Texas at El Paso), John Silcox (Cornell University)

10:36 AD.04 Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of the (110) Surface of GaSb: Measuring the \Gamma-L Splitting

J. Steinshnider, J. Harper, M. Weimer (Texas Aamp;M University)

10:48 AD.05 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Cs on Diamond(100)

Richard Stallcup, Seong Lim, Jose Perez (University of North Texas)

11:00 AD.06 On the Origins of Anisotropy in On-lattice Diffusion-limited Aggregates

C. Keller Reid, Matthew P. Sayler, Travis Plunk (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton, TX 76203), Paul S. Braterman (Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203)

11:12 AD.07 Mechanical Properties and Pore Size Distribution of the Porous Gel

Changjie Wang, Yuanye Chen, Zhibing Hu (Physics Department, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203), Yong Li (Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI 54956)

11:24 AD.08 Development of Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography Based on Temperature Sensitive Gels

Hami E. Teal, Douglas Root, Jin Xu (Department of Biological Sciences), Changjie Wang, Yuanye Chen, Zhibing Hu (Department of Physics, University of North Texas)

11:36 AD.09 Studies of Energy Transfer Processes in Epoxy-Polymer Based Scintillators with Beta-Particle Excitation.

L. Liu, T.L. Gibson, W.L. Borst (Dept. of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409)