Session I1: QCD: the Lattice Meets Data

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark A

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I1.00001: Lattice QCD: A Tool for Flavor Physics
Invited Speaker: Andreas Kronfeld

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

 I1.00002: The New Charmonium Resonances
Invited Speaker: Robert Cahn

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

 I1.00003: Recent Results from CLEO-c
Invited Speaker: Todd Pedlar

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Session I2: Applications of Nuclear Science

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Alexander Saunders, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark B

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I2.00001: Laser spectroscopic determination of the $^{6}$He nuclear charge radius
Invited Speaker: Li-Bang Wang

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

 I2.00002: The Task of Detecting Illicit Nuclear Material: Status and Challenges
Invited Speaker: Richard Kouzes

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

 I2.00003: High Performance Organ-Specific Nuclear Medicine Imagers.
Invited Speaker: Stan Majewski

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Session I5: Theories of Gravity, Dark Energy, and Cosmology

Sponsoring Units: GGR DPF
Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Pegasus B

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I5.00001: String theory and cosmology
Invited Speaker: Shamit Kachru

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

 I5.00002: Implications of the Accelerating Universe for Fundamental Physics
Invited Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

 I5.00003: Differentiating between Modified Gravity and Dark Energy
Invited Speaker: Roman Scoccimarro

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Session I6: Applications of Free Electron Lasers II

Sponsoring Units: DPB FIAP
Chair: Alan Todd, Advanced Energy Systems
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland J

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I6.00001: Free Electron Laser Nitriding of Metals: From basic physics to industrial applications
Invited Speaker: Peter Schaaf

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:42AM

 I6.00002: Quality Carbon Nanotube Production in Quantity using FEL Radiation
Invited Speaker: Michael Smith

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 12:18PM

 I6.00003: Applications of X-ray FELs
Invited Speaker: Jerome Hastings

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Session I7: Astroparticle Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Ulisse Bravar, University of New Hampshire
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Pegasus A

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

 I7.00001: Signals in the Co-annihilation Region of Supersymmetry
Richard Arnowitt , Adam Aurisano , Bhaskar Dutta , Teruki Kamon , Paul Simeon , David Toback , Peter Wagner , Nikolay Kolev

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

 I7.00002: A new procedure to distinguish between dark energy models and modified gravity models.
Mustapha Ishak , Amol Upadhye , David Spergel

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

 I7.00003: Neutron background studies and results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
Raul Hennings-Yeomans

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I7.00004: Precision Studies of Dark Energy with the LSST
David Burke

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I7.00005: Long-wavelength perturbations as a test of dark energy
Edmund Bertschinger

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I7.00006: Dark matter detection with mini-CLEAN
James Nikkel , M. Harrison , B. Jorns , W. Lippincott , D. McKinsey , A. Hime , D. Mei , K. Rielage , L. Stonehill , K. Coakley , M. Boulay , D. Gastler , E. Kearns

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 I7.00007: Neutron Background in WIMP Dark Matter Detectors Using Liquid Argon and Liquid Neon
Andrew Hime , Dongming Mei

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

 I7.00008: Updated RICE Bounds on Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino fluxes and interactions
Shahid Hussain , Douglas McKay

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

 I7.00009: The Search for Dark Matter Using the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST)
Elliott Bloom , Ping Wang , Lawerence Wai

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Session I8: Minisymposium: Nuclei and Nuclear Matter at Non-Normal Density I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Sherry J Yennello Texas A&M University
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland A

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I8.00001: Low Density Clustering in Near Fermi-Energy Collisions
Invited Speaker: Joseph Natowitz

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I8.00002: Breakup Densities of Hot Nuclei.
Vic Viola

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I8.00003: Constructing the Phase Diagram of Infinite Nuclear Matter
Luciano Moretto , Larry Phair , Jim Elliott , Kyrill Bugaev

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I8.00004: Cooling Dynamics in Multi-fragmentation processes
William Lynch , T.X. Liu , M.J. van Goethem , X.D. Liu , R. Shomin , W.P. Tan , M.B. Tsang , G. Verde , A. Wagner , H.F. Xi , H.S. Xu , W.A. Friedman , S.R. Souza , R. Donangelo , B. Davin , Y. Larochelle , R.T. de Souza , V.E. Viola , R.J. Charity , L.G. Sobotka

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 I8.00005: Short timescale behavior of colliding heavy nuclei at intermediate energies
Sylvie Hudan , Romualdo deSouza , Akira Ono

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

 I8.00006: Isotopic composition of the residues produced in the fragmentation of $^{124}$Xe and $^{136}$Xe projectiles
Daniela Henzlova

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

 I8.00007: Reacceleration of the fragmentation residues in the reactions $^{197}$Au+$^{197}$Au/$^{27}$Al at 0.5 and 1 $A$ GeV
Vladimir Henzl

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Session I9: Minisymposium: Electro-Weak Interactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland B

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I9.00001: Parity-violating electron scattering on hydrogen and helium and strangeness in the nucleon
Invited Speaker: Paul Souder

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I9.00002: Performance of the beta-spectrometer for a precision measurement of the neutron beta-decay asymmetry
B. Plaster , B.W. Filippone , J. Hsiao , T.M. Ito , J.W. Martin , J. Yuan

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I9.00003: Observation of the radiative decay mode of the neutron
T.R. Gentile , K.J. Coakley , M.S. Dewey , H.P. Mumm , J.S. Nico , A.K. Thompson , B.M. Fisher , I. Kremsky , F.E. Wietfeldt , R.L. Cooper , T.E. Chupp , E.J. Beise , K.G. Kiriluk , J. Byrne

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I9.00004: Monte Carlo Simulation and Photon Detector Development for the Radiative Decay Experiment
R.L. Cooper , T.E. Chupp , K.J. Coakley , M.S. Dewey , T.R. Gentile , H.P. Mumm , J.S. Nico , A.K. Thompson , B.M. Fisher , I. Kremsky , F.E. Wietfeldt , E.J. Beise , K.G. Kiriluk , J. Byrne

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 I9.00005: Measurement of the Beta Neutrino Correlation in Laser-Trapped 21Na
Paul Vetter , Jamil Abo-Shaeer , Reina Maruyama , Stuart Freedman

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

 I9.00006: Muon Decay Parameters from Majorana Neutrino Masses
Rebecca Erwin , Mikhail Gorshteyn , Michael Ramsey-Musolf

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

 I9.00007: Precise Branching Ratio Measurement for the $\beta$ Decay of $^{21}$\textbf{Na}
V.E. Iacob , J.C. Hardy , C.A. Gagliardi , J. Goodwin , N. Nica , H.-I. Park , G. Tabacaru , L. Trache , R.E. Tribble , Y.J. Zhai , I.S. Towner

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:18PM - 12:30PM

 I9.00008: Prospects for Testing Standard Model (SM) Extensions with Electron Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) Experiments
Harvey Gould , Jason M. Amini , Charles T. Munger

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:30PM - 12:42PM

 I9.00009: Neutrino Mass Implications for Muon Decay Parameters
Jennifer Kile , Rebecca Erwin , Michael Ramsey-Musolf , Peng Wang

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Session I10: Charm Production, Decay, and Excited States

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, California Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland C

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

 I10.00001: $D$ hadronic branching fractions
Steven Stroiney

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

 I10.00002: D Meson Decays into $\phi$, $\eta$ and $\eta'$
Radia Sia

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

 I10.00003: Hadronic $D_s$ decays
Peter Onyisi

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I10.00004: Measurement of Charm-Production Cross Sections in \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Annihilations at Center-of-Mass Energies Between 3.97 and 4.26GeV
Brian Lang

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I10.00005: Measurement of the Branching Fraction for B$_{s} \rightarrow D_{s1}^{\pm}$(2536) $\mu \nu X\:$ at D\O
Jason Rieger

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I10.00006: Studies of the X(3872)
Alexandre Rakitine

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Session I11: Focus Session: Initial Data Sets for Numerical Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Larry Kidder, Cornell University
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland E

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:06AM

 I11.00001: Status of Initial Data for Binary Black Hole Collisions
Invited Speaker: Gregory Cook

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I11.00002: Progress in Post-Newtonian Data for Numerical Relativity
Bernard Kelly , Manuela Campanelli , Bernard Whiting , Wolfgang Tichy

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I11.00003: Perfecting the Frankenstein Approach: Improved asymptotically matched initial data for non-spinning black hole binaries
Nicolas Yunes , Wolfgang Tichy

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I11.00004: Well-posed 3+1 representation of the Bondi-Sachs problem
Simonetta Frittelli

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 I11.00005: Spin Dependence in Computational Black-Hole Data
Scott Hawley , Richard Matzner , Michael Vitalo

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Session I12: Higgs Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Thomas Junk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland F

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

 I12.00001: Search for Higgs Boson Production via the Process $p\bar{p}\rightarrow ZH \rightarrow l^{+}l^{-}b\bar{b}$ at CDF
Ben Kilminster , Jonathan Efron , Brian Winer , Richard Hughes , Beate Heinemann , Andrew Mehta

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

 I12.00002: CMS Detector Sensitivity to the Standard Model Higgs Boson in $H \rightarrow ZZ \rightarrow 4\mu$ Decay Channel
Alexei Drozdetski , D. Acosta , P. Bartalini , R. Cavanaugh , A. Korytov , G. Mitselmakher , B. Scurlock , Yu. Pakhotin , M. Aldaya , P. Arce , J. Caballero , B. Cruz , P. Garcia , J. Hernandez , I. Josa , E.R. Morales , A. Sherstnev , S. Abdullin

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

 I12.00003: A Study of $H \rightarrow WW^* \rightarrow l \nu jj$ at CMS
Heejong Kim , N. Akchurin , J. Damgov , S. Kunori , H. Pi , E. Yazgan

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I12.00004: Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with $W^{\pm}$ Bosons at CDF
Yoshiaki Kusakabe

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I12.00005: Search for Associated Production of W and Higgs Bosons at D\O
Venkatesh Kaushik

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I12.00006: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in $e^+e^-b\bar{b}$ final states
James Heinmiller

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 I12.00007: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in $\mu^+\mu^-b\bar{b}$ final states
Huishi Dong

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

 I12.00008: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in $\nu \bar{\nu}b\bar{b}$ Final States
Michele Petteni

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

 I12.00009: Search for Higgs Boson in $WW^{(*)}$ Decays
Maxim Titov

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Session I13: Top Quark Properties II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ann Heinson, University of California, Riverside
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Cumberland G

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 10:42AM

 I13.00001: Measurement of the Top Quark Charge at D\O
Ann Heinson

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:42AM - 10:54AM

 I13.00002: A Measurement of Top Quark Charge in CDF
Zeynep Gunay

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:54AM - 11:06AM

 I13.00003: Measurement of $B(t \rightarrow Wb)/B(t \rightarrow Wq)$ at D\O
Reinhard Schwienhorst

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:06AM - 11:18AM

 I13.00004: Measurement of the $W$ Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decay at D\O
Bryan Gmyrek

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:18AM - 11:30AM

 I13.00005: Measurement of the WW Production Cross Section and Anomalous Couplings in e+e-, emu, and mu+mu- Final States at Dzero
Michael Cooke

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 11:42AM

 I13.00006: Measurement of the $W$+jets Inclusive Jet Multiplicity Cross Sections at CDF
Dale Stentz

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:42AM - 11:54AM

 I13.00007: Measurement of the $WW$ Cross Section at the Tevatron
Shih-Chieh Hsu , Elliot Lipeles , Kevin McCarthy , Mark Neubauer , Frank W\"urthwein

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:54AM - 12:06PM

 I13.00008: Search for ttH at CDF
Stan Lai

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:06PM - 12:18PM

 I13.00009: Search for the FCNC Decay top$\rightarrow$cZ
Ingyin Zaw

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Session I16: Sherwood II

Sponsoring Units: DPP
Chair: Zhi Hong Lin, U.C. Irvine
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark D

Sunday, April 23, 2006
10:30AM - 11:00AM

 I16.00001: BREAK


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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:00AM - 11:30AM

 I16.00002: Renormalization of plasma turbulence leading to fractional differential equations
Invited Speaker: R. Sanchez

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
11:30AM - 12:00PM

 I16.00003: Parametric Dependencies of Transport Using Gyrokinetic Simulations Including Kinetic Electrons
Invited Speaker: J.E. Kinsey

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Sunday, April 23, 2006
12:00PM - 12:30PM

 I16.00004: Long time simulations of microturbulence
Invited Speaker: W.W. Lee

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