Session J1: Top Quarks

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Grand Salon E


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J1.00001: Top Quark Properties at the TeVatron
Invited Speaker: Florencia Canelli

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J1.00002: Top quark production and decay properties in proton-antiproton collisions
Invited Speaker: Brigitte Vachon

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J1.00003: What do we believe the top quark to be in the Standard Model?
Invited Speaker: David Rainwater

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Session J2: New Results on the Structure of the Nucleon and Nucleus

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Haiyan Gao, Duke University
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Grand Salon F


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J2.00001: Lattice Calculations of Nucleon Form Factors
Invited Speaker: Ross Young

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J2.00002: Spin-Dependent Electron Scattering from Deuterium at BLAST
Invited Speaker: Douglas Hasell

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J2.00003: Casting Light on Neutron Halo Nuclei
Invited Speaker: Peter Mueller

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Session J3: Dark Matter I

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Thomas Shutt, Princeton University
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Grand Salon A/B


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J3.00001: Discovering and Testing Dark Matter in the Lab
Invited Speaker: Konstantin Matchev

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J3.00002: Results from CDMS II
Invited Speaker: Richard Schnee

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J3.00003: The XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment
Invited Speaker: Elena Aprile

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Session J4: Precision Tests of Gravity and Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC GGR
Chair: Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Grand Salon C/D


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J4.00001: The Experimental Determination of the Newtonian Constant of Gravitation
Invited Speaker: Harold Parks

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J4.00002: Gravity Probe B
Invited Speaker: Barry Muhlfelder

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J4.00003: Theory and Tests of Lorentz Violation
Invited Speaker: Alan Kostelecky

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Session J5: Einstein and Friends

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Grand Salon G/H


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J5.00001: Einstein and Besso: Not a Partnership of Equals
Invited Speaker: Michel Janssen

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J5.00002: Einstein, Mach, and the Fortunes of Gravity
Invited Speaker: David Kaiser

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J5.00003: Einstein and Bose
Invited Speaker: Kameshwar C. Wali

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Session J6: Outreach in Support of Homeland Security

Sponsoring Units: FEd DNP
Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Grand Salon I/J


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:21AM

J6.00001: An Overview of NCRP Report No. 138 on Terrorist Activities
Invited Speaker: John Poston, Sr.

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:57AM

J6.00002: Early Medical Management of a Radiological Terrorism Event - Views from a physicist and physician
Invited Speaker: Ronald Goans

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:33PM

J6.00003: A Radiation Homeland Security Workshop Presented to the City of Berkeley Fire Department
Invited Speaker: Howard Matis

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Session J7: Searches for Exotic Particles II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Laboratories
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 1


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:09AM

J7.00001: Physics with the CMS Experiment in the First Year of LHC
Dimitri Bourilkov

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:33AM

J7.00002: Physics reach of the ATLAS experiment during the first LHC run
Matt Dobbs

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J7.00003: Beyond Standard Model Higgs Search at the Large Hadron Collider
Satyaki Bhattacharya

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J7.00004: Search for High Transverse Momentum Lepton Pairs in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV
Jane Nachtman , Michael Schmitt

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J7.00005: Search for New Physics in the DiElectron Channel at CDF
Sam Harper

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J7.00006: Search for Quark-Lepton Compositeness in the Dimuon Channel
Nguyen Xuan

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Session J8: Tevatron B Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kaustabh Agashe
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 4


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J8.00001: $B_c\rightarrow J/\psi+e^{\pm}$ decays at CDF
Masato Aoki

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J8.00002: $B_c\rightarrow J/\psi+\mu^{\pm}$ decays at CDF
Mark Hartz

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J8.00003: Properties of the $B_c$ Meson
Sherry Towers

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J8.00004: Preliminary lifetime measurement of the $B^0_s \rightarrow D_s \mu X$ decay channel
Marco Carrasco-Lizarraga

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J8.00005: Search for rare flavor-changing and penguin decays of the $B^0_s$ meson
Ralf Bernhard

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J8.00006: Lifetime in $B_s\rightarrowK^+K^-$ decay
Nicola Pounder

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J8.00007: $B_s$ Mixing Results for Hadronic and Semileptonic Decays
Nuno Leonardo

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J8.00008: Study of $B_{s}$ to $\psi{\prime}\phi$ decays
Daejung Kong

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Session J9: Charm Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 5


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J9.00001: $\omega_c$ Studies
Veronique Ziegler

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J9.00002: $\Lambda^+_c$ decays to states containing $\Lambda$ hyperon
David Lopes Pegna

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J9.00003: Measurements of q$^2$ dependence of the $D^0 \rightarrow K^- \mu^+ \nu$ and $D^0 \rightarrow \pi^- \mu^+ \nu$ form factors
Doris Yangsoo Kim

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J9.00004: Observation of hc, the 1p1 Resonance of Charmonium
Sean Dobbs

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J9.00005: Dalitz Plot Analysis of $D^0 \to K^0_S\pi^0\pi^0$
Norm Lowrey

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J9.00006: A Dalitz Plot Analysis of $D^0 \rightarrow K^+K^-\pi^0$ Using CLEO~III Data
Paras Naik

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J9.00007: Absolute Hadronic $D$ Branching Ratios and $\psi(3770)$ to $D\overline D$ Cross Sections
Peter Onyisi

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J9.00008: Determination of Branching Fraction for $D^+ \to K_{S,L}^0 \pi^+$
Steve Stroiney

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:21PM - 12:45PM

J9.00009: Search for Flavor Changing Neutral Current Charm Decays
Brendan Casey

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Session J10: Numerical Relativity I

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Beverly Berger, National Science Foundation
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 6


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J10.00001: Towards Wave Extraction in Numerical Relativity: Transverse Frames
Christopher Beetle , Lior Burko

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J10.00002: Towards Wave Extraction in Numerical Relativity: Analytical Examples
Lior Burko , Thomas Baumgarte , Christopher Beetle

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J10.00003: LazarusII: Applying the Quasi-Kinnersley Frame to Numerical Evolutions
Bernard Kelly , Carlos Lousto , Manuela Campanelli

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J10.00004: Binary black hole wave extraction - results with Mesh Refinement
Breno Imbiriba , John Baker

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J10.00005: Propagating gravitational waves through mesh refinement boundaries
David Fiske , John Baker , Joan Centrella

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J10.00006: Conformal thin-sandwich puncture initial data for boosted black holes
Mark Hannam , Greg Cook

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J10.00007: Radiated Net Angular Momentum from Numerical Evolution of Black Hole Spacetimes
ryoji Takahashi

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J10.00008: Understanding the fate of merging supermassive black holes
Carlos Lousto , Manuela Campanelli

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J10.00009: Finite Elements in Numerical Relativity
Matthew Anderson

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Session J11: QCD with W's and Z's

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 7


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 11:09AM

J11.00001: First measurement of $\sigma(p\bar{p}) \cdot Br(Z \rightarrow \tau^+$
Yuri Gershtein

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J11.00002: Measurement of $\sigma(Z(\rightarrow\tau\tau)+b)/\sigma(Z(\rightarrow\mu\mu)+b)$ ratio
Yury Pogorelov

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J11.00003: Measurement of the $W$ and $Z$ Production Crosss Section with the D\O\ detector
Gavin Hesketh

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J11.00004: Z\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ at D{\O}
Per Jonsson

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J11.00005: Measurement of $d\sigma/dy$ for $Z/\gamma^{*}$ decaying to $e^{+}e^{-}$ using the D\O\ detector
Ming Yan

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J11.00006: Search for $ZZ/ZW\to l^{+}l^{-}+q\bar{q}(')$ at the Tevatron
Jonathan Efron , Richard Hughes , Ben Kilminster , Brian Winer

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J11.00007: $W$ and $Z$ Measurements at the Tevatron Using the CDF Intermediate Muon Detector
Dan Cyr

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Session J12: Solar and Reactor Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 11


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J12.00001: $^{8}$B Solar Neutrino Flux and Spectrum Results from the SNO Salt Phase
Kevin Graham

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J12.00002: The Day-Night Effect and MSW Analysis for the Salt Phase of SNO
Kathryn Miknaitis

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J12.00003: The Neutral Current Detector Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Laura Stonehill

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J12.00004: Search for the $\rm ^{8}{B}(2^+) \rightarrow {^8}Be(0^+)$ transition
Minesh Bacrania , Derek Storm , R.G. Hamish Robertson , Wick Haxton

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J12.00005: Limit On The Neutrino Magnetic Moment Using Super-Kamiokande Solar Neutrino Data
Dawei Liu

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J12.00006: Uncertainties in the Anti-neutrino Production from Nuclear Reactors
Zelimir Djurcic

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Session J13: Nuclear Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: C. Brune, Ohio University
Marriott Tampa Waterside - Room 12


Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:45AM - 10:57AM

J13.00001: $^7$Be($p,\gamma$)$^8$B S-factor from {\it ab initio} wave functions: I. Overlap integral calculation
Petr Navratil , Carlos Bertulani , Etienne Caurier

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
10:57AM - 11:09AM

J13.00002: $^7$Be($p,\gamma$)$^8$B S-factor from {\it ab initio} wave functions: II. S-factor calculation
Carlos Bertulani , Petr Navratil , Etienne Caurier

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:09AM - 11:21AM

J13.00003: $^{19}$F(p,$\gamma$): Putting a Lid on the CNO Cycle
Aaron Couture , Mano\"el Couder , Joachim G\"orres , Hye-Young Lee , Edward Stech , Elizabeth Strandberg , Ethan Uberseder , Claudio Ugalde , Wanpeng Tan , Michael Wiescher

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:21AM - 11:33AM

J13.00004: Nova Nucleosynthesis with a New 18F(p,alpha) Reaction Rate
Michael Smith , Jason Scott , W. Raphael Hix , Daniel Bardayan , Eric Lingerfelt , Raymond Kozub , Carl Brune , Sumner Starrfield

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:33AM - 11:45AM

J13.00005: $^{19}$F alpha widths from $^{15}$N($\alpha,\alpha$)$^{15}$N data and the $^{18}$F$+p$ reaction rates
Dan Bardayan , Ray Kozub , Michael Smith

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:45AM - 11:57AM

J13.00006: \textbf{Study of Excited Levels of }$^{19}$\textbf{Ne with the }$^{17}$\textbf{O(}$^{3}$\textbf{He,}\textbf{\textit{n}}\textbf{)}$^{19}$\textbf{Ne Reaction}
Michael Hornish , Carl Brune , Thomas Massey , Hadi Hadizadeh , Alexander Voinov , Steven Grimes , Americo Salas , Catalin Matei

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
11:57AM - 12:09PM

J13.00007: Mass Measurements of $^{22}$Mg and $^{26}$Si
A. Parikh , J. A. Caggiano , C. Deibel , R. Lewis , P. D. Parker , C. Wrede , J. P. Greene

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:09PM - 12:21PM

J13.00008: \textbf{Extracting the ANCs for }$^{23}$\textbf{Al$\to $}$^{22}$\textbf{Mg + p from the mirror system} $^{23}$\textbf{Ne$\to $}$^{22}$\textbf{Ne + n }
Tariq Al-Abdullah , X. Chen , H.L. Clark , C. Fu , C.A. Gagliardi , Y.-W. Lui , G. Tabacaru , Y. Tokimoto , L. Trache , R.E. Tribble , F. Carstoiu , S. Piskor

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
12:21PM - 12:33PM

J13.00009: Gamow-Teller Strengths from (t,3He) Charge Exchange Experiments
M.E. Howard , S.D. Reitzner , E.E. Smith , S. Austin , D. Bazin , A.L. Cole , M. Famiano , A. Gade , D. Galaviz Redondo , G.W. Hitt , W. Martinez , M. Matos , H. Schatz , B. Sherrill , C. Simenel , A. Stolz , R.G.T. Zegers , B. Davids , Y. Shimbara , C. Samanta

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