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2007 APS April Meeting

Saturday–Tuesday, April 14–17, 2007; Jacksonville, Florida

Session E2: Detection of Dangerous Materials

Sponsoring Units: DNP FPS
Chair: Jennifer Wiseman, NASA
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 1

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM	E2.00001: Overview of Some New Techniques for Inspection: Using 1950's Physics to Solve Modern Problems Invited Speaker: Richard Lanza Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM	E2.00002: Progress in Nuclear Detection Invited Speaker: Vayl Oxford Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM	E2.00003: An Assessment of the Detection of Highly Enriched Uranium and its Use in an Improvised Nuclear Device using the Monte Carlo Computer Code MCNP-5 Invited Speaker: Thomas Cochran Preview Abstract

Session E3: From Post-doc to Faculty: Obtaining Your First Faculty Position

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 2

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 5:18PM

E3.00001: From Post-doc to Faculty: Obtaining Your First Faculty Position Abby Bickley , Sherry Yennello Preview Abstract

Session E4: LHC/ILC/ITER

Sponsoring Units: DPF DPB
Chair: John Jaros, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 3

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM	E4.00001: How to Make a Big International Project Happen: Lessons from ITER Invited Speaker: James Van Dam Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM	E4.00002: The Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider Invited Speaker: Barry C. Barish Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM	E4.00003: Making the LHC Happen Invited Speaker: Joe Dehmer Preview Abstract

Session E5: Charm

Sponsoring Units: DPF GHP
Chair: Usha Mallik, University of Iowa
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 6

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM	E5.00001: Charm Spectroscopy. Invited Speaker: Alexey Drutskoy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM	E5.00002: D0-D0bar Mixing Invited Speaker: Amir Rahimi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM	E5.00003: Charm Decays Invited Speaker: Karl Ecklund Preview Abstract

Session E6: GGR Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Richard Isaacson, NSF (formerly)
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - Grand 7

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM	E6.00001: Gravity Wave Detection - Some Past Efforts and Ideas for the Future. Invited Speaker: Ronald W. P. Drever Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM	E6.00002: Current State of the LIGO Detectors Invited Speaker: Rainer Weiss Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM	E6.00003: Searches for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources Invited Speaker: Gabriela Gonzalez Preview Abstract

Session E8: Dynamic Few-Body Effects

Sponsoring Units: GFB
Chair: Chris Greene, University of Colorado, JILA
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 4

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E8.00001: Dissociative recombination of H$_{3}^{+}$ Samantha Santos , Viatcheslav Kokoouline , Chris Greene Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E8.00002: Numerical Solutions to the Time-Dependent, Coupled Dirac Equation Athanasios Petridis , Khinlay Win Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E8.00003: Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Effective Interactions in Nodal Fermion Systems William Shively , Dmitri Khveshchenko Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E8.00004: Accurate numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation W. van Dijk , F.M. Toyama Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E8.00005: Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering as a Stochastic Process in Phase Space Sarah John Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E8.00006: Nucleon-deuteron scattering in configuration space Vladimir Suslov , Mikhail Braun , Igor Filikhin , Branislav Vlahovic Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E8.00007: Numerical solution of the differential Yakubovsky equations for a system including three non-identical particles Branislav Vlahovic , Igor Filikhin , Vladimir Suslov Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E8.00008: Calculation of three-body resonances using slow-variable discretization coupled with complex absorbing potential Juan Blandon , Viatcheslav Kokoouline , Francoise Masnou-Seeuws Preview Abstract

Session E9: SPS and Undergraduate Research II

Sponsoring Units: SPS
Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 5

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E9.00001: Probing the structure of $^{25}$Na with $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy K. Pepper , S. Tabor , T. Baldwin , D.B. Campbell , C. Chandler , M.W. Cooper , C.R. Hoffman , K.W. Kemper , J. Pavan , A. Pipidis , M.A. Riley , M. Wiedeking Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E9.00002: Magnetic Field Reduction in Photomultipliers with the use of Bucking Coil Dalgis Mesa , Joerg Reinhold Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E9.00003: Theoretical and experimental analysis of two different pendula whose common oscillating point is forced periodically Jorge Hernandez Gomez , Alessio Palavicini Cruz , Marco Antonio Martinez , Alejandro Gonzalez y Hernandez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E9.00004: Determining the Onset of Turbulent Flow Using Video Based Motion Analysis Robert Barton , Corey Lemley , Paul French Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E9.00005: Optical Spectroscopy of Defects in Yttrium Orthovanadate (YVO4) Crystals Wai Sze Cheung , Katrina Wiechmann , Peter Sheldon , Hank Yochum , Marcia Yochum Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E9.00006: Hamiltonian Constraint Analysis of Vector Theories with Spontaneous Lorentz Violation Arturs Vrublevskis , Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky , Robertus Potting Preview Abstract

Session E10: History of Physics I

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Paul Halpern, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 6

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:54PM	E10.00001: Toward the Standard Model: The Transformation of Particle Physics Experiments, 1964-1979 Michael Riordan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E10.00002: H. J. Bhabha and the birth of the second family of elementary particles Ramanath Cowsik Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E10.00003: History of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation Dan Maronde , Costas Efthimiou Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E10.00004: Heisenberg: Paralleling Scientific and Historical Methods Calla Cofield Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E10.00005: Early Photons from the Early Universe Virginia Trimble Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E10.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E10.00007: From Spectrum Analysis to Spectrochemical Analysis: Redefining the Boundary of Spectroscopy Mina Park Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM	E10.00008: Who First Discovered the Mass Limit of a Degenerate Star? Michael Nauenberg Preview Abstract

Session E11: Solar-/Cosmo-Terrestrial Physics and New Instrumentation

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 7

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E11.00001: \textit{Milagro} Measurements of Solar Energetic Particles during the 2005 January 20 Ground Level Event Trevor Morgan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E11.00002: Imaging 2-20 MeV solar neutrons in the inner heliosphere with the FNIT detector Ulisse Bravar , Paul Bruillard , Erwin Flueckiger , Alec MacKinnon , John Macri , Mark McConnell , Amaresh Motamarri , Michael Moser , James Ryan , Richard Woolf Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E11.00003: Measurement of Spectra with Milagro Using an Event-by-Event Energy Estimation Algorithm Branden Allen Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E11.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E11.00005: R\&D towards a Liquid Xenon Advanced Compton Telescope (LXeACT) Uwe Oberlack , Christopher Olsen , Petr Shagin , Elena Aprile , Karl Ludwig Giboni , Roberto Santorelli Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E11.00006: Terrestrial Effects of Astrophysical Ionizing Photon Events: Spectrum and Variability Adrian Melott , Larissa Ejzak , Brian Thomas , Mikhail Medvedev Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E11.00007: Spectral Analysis of Biodiversity Cycles and Galactic Dynamics Bruce Lieberman , Adrian Melott Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E11.00008: Distribution of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy -- a Link to Biodiversity Cycles Mikhail Medvedev Preview Abstract

Session E12: Alternative Theories of Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Jens Gundlach, University of Washington
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 8

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E12.00001: Scalar Gravitational Theory with Variable Rest Mass D.T. Froedge Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E12.00002: Is there a cosmological influence on the quantum-classical transition? C.L. Herzenberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E12.00003: Geometry + 4-potentials = Unified Field Theory Doug Sweetser Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E12.00004: Rotation of Spiral Galaxies Described with a Simple Disc Gravitational Model James Feng , C.F. Gallo Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E12.00005: Rotation of Spiral Galaxies Described with Various Sphere/Disc Gravitational Models C.F. Gallo , James Feng Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E12.00006: Toward a kinetic theory of gravity Fred Pierce , Yariv Pierce Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E12.00007: Gravity like forces in sap conducting tissue in plants. Orvin Wagner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E12.00008: Gravity related waves in plants. Claudia Wagner , Orvin Wagner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM	E12.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session E13: W/Z Production

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 9

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E13.00001: Search for $WW$ and $WZ$ production in charged lepton-neutrino plus dijet final state at CDF Anna Sfyrla Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E13.00002: Study of $W\gamma$ Production at the Tevatron Ai Nagano , Jianrong Deng , Al Goshaw , Beatte Heinemann , Jefferson Kist , Christopher Lester , Tom Phillips Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E13.00003: Measurement of $Z\gamma$ Production at CDF Christopher Lester , Jianrong Deng , Al Goshaw , Beate Heinemann , Jefferson Kist , Ai Nagano , Tom Phillips Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E13.00004: Search for anomalous $ZZZ$ couplings in the dilepton+dijet final state at CDF Matthew Norman , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Elliot Lipeles , Mark Neubauer , Rami Vanguri , Frank Wurthwein Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E13.00005: First observation of $WZ$ production and the search for anomalous $WWZ$ couplings at CDF Rami Vanguri , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Elliot Lipeles , Mark Neubauer , Matthew Norman , Frank Wurthwein Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E13.00006: WZ di-boson production cross section Rahmi Unalan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E13.00007: A search for Z boson pair production at the Tevatron Chad Jarvis Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E13.00008: Measurement of Z boson production in association with Heavy Flavor jets at CDF Viviana Cavaliere Preview Abstract

Session E14: Dark Matter II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 10

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E14.00001: Quenching of Nuclear Recoil Scintillation Signals in Liquid Argon Laura Stonehill Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E14.00002: A DEAP \& CLEAN Program for WIMP Dark Matter Andrew Hime Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E14.00003: Optimization of Background Rejection in XENON10 Luiz de Viveiros Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E14.00004: Gamma background in the XENON-10 detector Jesse Angle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E14.00005: Liquid neon as a scintillator for low energy particle detection James Nikkel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E14.00006: Physics of background discrimination in liquid xenon-based dark matter detectors Carl Dahl Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E14.00007: Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) in Liquid Argon from DEAP-1 Bei Cai , Mark Boulay , Fraser Duncan , Kevin Graham , Aksel Hallin , Philip Harvey , Charles Hearns , Chris Jillings , Jeff Lidgard , Reuble Matthew , Paradorn Pasuthip , Peter Skensved Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E14.00008: The Next Generation ZIP Detector for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Matt Pyle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM	E14.00009: Pulse shape discrimination in liquid argon W. Hugh Lippincott Preview Abstract

Session E15: Nuclear Astrophysics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: J. Piekarewicz, Florida State University
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 11

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E15.00001: Hot Dilute Neutron Matter and Neutrino Interactions Gautam Rupak Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E15.00002: Heavy Element Synthesis in the Outflow from Black Hole Accretion Disks Rebecca Surman , Sean Kane , Crystal Smith Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E15.00003: Equation of State for Cold Neutron Star Crust Helber Dussan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E15.00004: Spin Response of the Nuclear Pasta Jutri Taruna , Jorge Piekarewicz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E15.00005: Quantum Monte Carlo and Neutron Star Matter Superfluidity Alex Gezerlis , Joe Carlson , Vijay Pandharipande Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E15.00006: Relativistically Induced Supernovae M. Dolan , D. Dearborn , G. Mathews , J. Wilson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E15.00007: Weak Neutrino Magnetism and the r-Process in the Neutrino-Heated Supernova Bubble Grant Mathews , James Wilson , Kaori Otsuki Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E15.00008: Decrease in Coulomb Barrier Height Due to Nuclear Vibration allowing solar Nuclear Reactions w/o Tunnelling Stewart Brekke Preview Abstract

Session E16: Hadronic Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Paul Stoler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront - City Terrace 12

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM	E16.00001: Polarization of Hyperons in Elementary Photoproduction Reinhard Schumacher Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM	E16.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM	E16.00003: Search for $\Phi(1860)$ Pentaquark States with CLAS Hovanes Egiyan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM	E16.00004: First measurement of coherent $\phi$-meson photoproduction on deuteron Tsutomu Mibe , Haiyan Gao , Ken Hicks , Kevin Kramer , Stepan Stepanyan , David Tedeschi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM	E16.00005: Preliminary Analysis to Extract the $\omega$-N and $\phi$-N Total Cross Sections M.H. Wood , R. Nasseripour , C. Djalali , D.P. Weygand Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM	E16.00006: Medium modifications of the $\rho$ vector meson in photoproduction off nuclei Rakhsha Nasseripour , Chaden Djalali , Michael Wood , Dennis Weygand Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM	E16.00007: New Measurements of the Proton Double-Spin Asymmetries $A_1$ and $A_2$ In and Above the Resonance Region Robert Fersch Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM	E16.00008: BigBite: A new large acceptance spectrometer for Jefferson Lab Hall A Nilanga Liyanage , Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract