Session H2: B Physics III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Jack Ritchie, University of Texas
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis D


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H2.00001: CP Violation and CKM Physics at the B Factories
Invited Speaker: Alexei Garmash

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H2.00002: New Physics at the B Factories
Invited Speaker: Mathew Graham

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H2.00003: $B$ Hadron Physics at the Tevatron
Invited Speaker: Rick Van Kooten

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Session H3: The Long Distance Structure of the Nucleon

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis E


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H3.00001: Long-Distance Nucleon Structure: Theoretical Overview
Invited Speaker: T. William Donnelly

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H3.00002: Elastic form factor measurements at Mainz.
Invited Speaker: Thomas Walcher

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H3.00003: New Results from BLAST at MIT-Bates
Invited Speaker: Christopher Crawford

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Session H4: Undergraduate Education in Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP FEd
Chair: Cornelius Beausang, University of Richmond
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade B


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H4.00001: Conference Experience for Undergraduates in the Division of Nuclear Physics - 10 Years Running
Invited Speaker: Warren Rogers

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H4.00002: Research in an Undergraduate Physics Department
Invited Speaker: John Shriner

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H4.00003: U.S. Workforce and Educational Facilities' Readiness to Meet the Future Challenges of Nuclear Energy
Invited Speaker: Sekazi Mtingwa

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Session H5: Astrophysicists' Perspectives on Current Problems in Plasma Astrophysics II

Sponsoring Units: GPAP DAP
Chair: Dmitri Uzdensky, Princeton University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade C


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H5.00001: Pulsars, Magnetars, and Jets-Problems and Lessons for Astrophysical Plasma Physics
Invited Speaker: Jonathan Arons

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H5.00002: Accretion Disks and Jets Around Black Holes
Invited Speaker: Ramesh Narayan

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H5.00003: Some Things I Wished I Understood Better (or at all...)
Invited Speaker: Robert Rosner

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Session H6: Impact of Major Accelerator Projects on the Development of Emergent Countries

Sponsoring Units: DPB FIP
Chair: Satoshi Ozaki, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade D


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H6.00001: Indian Participation in LHC and a Glimpse of the Road Ahead
Invited Speaker: Vinod Chandra Sahni

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H6.00002: Impact of Pohang Accelerator on Large-scale Science Programs in Korea
Invited Speaker: Won Namkung

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H6.00003: The Impact of the SESAME Project on Science and Society in the Middle East
Invited Speaker: Herman Winick

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Session H7: Laboratory and Space Tests of Gravitation

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Rose Garden


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H7.00001: Pioneer Anomaly: Status of New Investigation
Invited Speaker: Slava G. Turyshev

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

H7.00002: APOLLO: A Comprehensive Test of Gravity via Lunar Laser Ranging
Invited Speaker: Tom Murphy

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

H7.00003: Precision Test of the Equivalence Principle
Invited Speaker: Jens Gundlach

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Session H8: Galactic and Planetary Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Steve Kahn, SLAC/Stanford University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade A


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H8.00001: The influence of Dynamical state on Scatter in Galaxy Cluster Mass-Observable Relations
Hsiang-Yi Yang , Paul Ricker

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H8.00002: Can Cluster Evaporation Explain the Missing Thermal Energy in Galaxy Clusters?
Mikhail Medvedev

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H8.00003: Why are the earth spin and its axis 24hours, tilted by 23.5degree?
Sahnggi Park

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H8.00004: Dark matter places planets
Orvin Wagner

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H8.00005: Ordinary Dark Matter versus Mysterious Dark Matter in Galactic Rotation
C.F. Gallo , James Feng

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Session H10: Numerical Simulations of Neutron Stars

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Grant Mathews, University of Notre Dame
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis A


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H10.00001: Magnetized Neutron Stars
Steven Liebling , Matthew Anderson , Eric Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Patrick Motl , David Neilsen , Carlos Palenzuela , Joel Tohline

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H10.00002: Collapse of magnetized hypermassive neutron stars in general relativity: Disk evolution and outflows
Branson Stephens , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart Shapiro

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H10.00003: A different way to evolve black hole-neutron star binaries
Matthew Duez , Lawrence Kidder , Saul Teukolsky

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H10.00004: Evolution of Excised BHBH and BHNS Initial Data: Numerical Methods and Tests
Zachariah Etienne , Joshua Faber , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart Shapiro , Keisuke Taniguchi , Thomas Baumgarte

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H10.00005: Fully General Relativistic Simulations of black hole-neutron star Mergers
Yuk Tung Liu , Zachariah Etienne , Joshua Faber , Stuart Shapiro , Keisuke Taniguchi , Thomas Baumgarte

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H10.00006: Neutron Star Binary Coalescences: How realistic is the initial data?
Randy Wolfmeyer , Jian Tao , Wai-Mo Suen , Hui-Min Zhang

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H10.00007: Critical Collapse of Non-Rotating and Rotating Neutron Star Systems with Axisymmetry
Ke-Jian Jin , Wai-Mo Suen

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H10.00008: Neutron Star Binary Coalescences: Angular Momentum Threshold Against a Prompt Collapse
Hui-Min Zhang , Jian Tao , Wai-Mo Suen , Mew Bing Wan , Randy Wolfmeyer

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

H10.00009: Differentially rotating neutron stars: A perturbative study
Adamantios Stavridis

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Session H11: Muon Colliders and Nu Beams

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Steve Geer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis B


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H11.00001: Muon Beam Cooling and Muon Collider Prospects
Katsuya Yonehara , Rolland Johnson , Yoroslav Derbenev

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H11.00002: Muon Bunching and Phase-Energy Rotation for a Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider
David Neuffer , Cary Yoshikawa

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H11.00003: Plasma Lens for Muon and Neutrino Beams
Stephen Kahn , Sergey Korenev , Mary Bishai , Milind Diwan , Juan Gallardo , Ady Hershcovitch , Brant Johnson

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H11.00004: A New Concept of Liquid Lithium Lens for Muon Cooling
Kevin Lee , David Cline , Alper Garren , Yasuo Fukui

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H11.00005: MANX, a 6-D Muon Cooling Experiment
Mary Anne Cummings

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H11.00006: Comparison of 6D Ring Cooler Schemes and Dipole Cooler for $\mu^{+} \mu^{-}$ Collider Development
David Cline , Alper Garren , Yasuo Fukui , Harold Kirk

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H11.00007: Muons Produced in a Beam Dump by 8 GeV and 120 GeV Incident Protons
Robert Abrams , Cary Yoshikawa

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H11.00008: Intense Stopping Muon Beams
Cary Yoshikawa , Charles Ankenbrandt , Katsuya Yonehara , David Neuffer , Robert Abrams , Mary Anne Cummings , Rolland Johnson

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

H11.00009: Colliding neutrino beams
Reinhard Schwienhorst

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Session H12: New Ideas

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis C


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H12.00001: Vector Currents of Massive Neutrinos of an Electroweak Nature
Rasulkhozha Sharafiddinov

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H12.00002: Heavy Lepton Production with Anomalous Interactions
Ahmet Tolga Tasci , Ahmet Turan Alan

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H12.00003: An Isothermal and Isochromatic Comparison of Gall's and Planck's Black Body Radiation Laws
Clarence A. Gall

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H12.00004: Bifurcations and pattern formation in particle physics: a model study
Ervin Goldfain

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H12.00005: Fractional dynamics as source of CP violation in the Standard Model
Ervin Goldfain

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H12.00006: The embodiment of the e-Science for High Energy Physics
Hyunwoo Kim , Kihyeon Cho

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H12.00007: Nature of Reality
Sunil Thakur

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Session H13: Minisymposium on Correlations and Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Jim Thomas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis F


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

H13.00001: Correlations and Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Invited Speaker: Jason Glyndwr Ulery

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H13.00002: Decomposition of awayside components of dijet correlation in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}=200$ GeV at PHENIX
Chin-Hao Chen

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H13.00003: Jet study in doubly triggered $h^\pm$-$h^\pm$ correlations in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV
Eric Vazquez

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H13.00004: Study of Baryon to Meson Ratios of Associated Hadrons in Di-Hadron Correlation
Maria Cristina Suarez

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H13.00005: Direct measurement of fragmentation photons in p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$~GeV with the PHENIX experiment
Ali Hanks

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H13.00006: Photon-hadron Correlations Measured in Au-Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV with the PHENIX Detector
Megan Connors

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

H13.00007: Measurement of High $p_T$ Flow and Jet Correlation in Au+Au Measurement of High $p_T$ Flow and Jet Correlation in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}=200GeV$ from PHENIX
Rui Wei

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Session H14: Nuclear Structure: Light and Medium Mass Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Lee Sobotka, Washington University at St. Louis
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis G


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H14.00001: Decay of $^{10}$C excited states above the 2$p$ + 2$\alpha $ threshold and the contribution from ``democratic'' two-proton emission
K.M. Mercurio , R.J. Charity , R. Shane , L.G. Sobotka , J. Elson , M. Famiano , A. Wuosmaa , A. Banu , C. Fu , L. Trache , R.E. Tribble

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H14.00002: Precision measurements of electromagnetic matrix elements as a test of Ab-Initio calculations in light nuclei
E.A. McCutchan , C.J. Lister , M.P. Carpenter , R.V.F. Janssens , T.L. Khoo , T. Lauritsen , E.F. Moore , D. Seweryniak , S. Zhu

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H14.00003: Measurement of the ground state of $^{15}$Be
A. Spyrou , T. Baumann , D. Bazin , G. Christian , S. Mosby , M. Strongman , M. Thoennessen , J. Brown , P.A. DeYoung , A. DeLine , J.E. Finck , A. Russell , N. Frank , E. Breitbach , R. Howes , W.A. Peters , A. Schiller

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H14.00004: Isotope ratios measured in symmetric and asymmetric $^{40,48}$Ca+$^{40,48}$Ca collisions
D. Henzlova , D. Brown** , B. Charity* , A. Chbihi* , D. Coupland* , R. de Souza* , J. Elson* , M. Famiano* , V. Henzl* , S. Hudan* , M. Kilburn* , J. Lee* , S. Lukyanov* , B. Lynch* , A. Rogers* , A. Sanetullaev* , L. Sobotka* , Z. Sun* , B. Tsang* , G. Verde* , M. Wallace* , M. Youngs* , G. Westfall** , A. Vander Molen**

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H14.00005: NP pairing in N=Z nuclei : The $^{44}$Ti($^{3}$He,p) reaction
A.O. Macchiavelli , P. Fallon , R.M. Clark , M. Cromaz , I.Y. Lee , M. Wiedeking , K.E. Rehm , I. Ahmad , J. Greene , R.V.F. Janssens , M. Notani , R. Pardo , J.P. Schiffer , D. Seweryniak , X.D. Tang , A. Wuosmaa

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H14.00006: Attempts to Manipulate the Decay Time of Radioactive Nuclei
B. Fallin , B. Grabow , W. Tornow

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H14.00007: The Role of Triaxiality in Shape-Coexistence in Light Krypton Isotopes
S.M. Fischer , C.J. (Kim) Lister

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H14.00008: Level densities of residual nuclei from the reactions $^{6}$Li on $^{58}$Fe and $^{7}$Li on $^{57}$Fe
Babatunde Oginni , Steven Grimes , Alexander Voinov , Aderemi Adekola , Carl Brune , Zachary Heinen , Michael Hornish , Thomas Massey , Catalin Matei , Don Carter , John O'donnell

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Session H15: Nuclear Astrophysics II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis H


Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

H15.00001: The Astrophysical $^{187}$Re$^{187}$Os Ratio: Measurement of the $^{187}$Re(n, 2n $\gamma$)$^{186m}$Re Destruction Cross Section
J.H. Kelley , D.B. Masters , S. Hammond , H.J. Karwowski , E. Kwan , A. Hutcheson , A.P. Tonchev , W. Tornow , F.G. Kondev , S. Zhu

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

H15.00002: A Study of the $^{14}$C(?,?) Reaction Rate Through the ANC Technique
E.D. Johnson , G.V. Rogachev , A.M. Mukhamedzhanov , A. Aguilar , P. Bender , T. DeVore , G.V. Goldberg , K.W. Kemper , S. Lee , L. Miller , J. Mitchell , P. Peplowski , M. Perry , R. Reynolds , A. Rojas

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

H15.00003: Effects on $^{18}$F production in novae from changes in the $^{17}$O(p,$\alpha$)$^{14}$N rate
B.H. Moazen , J.C. Blackmon , D.W. Bardayan , K.Y. Chae , K. Chipps , C.P. Domizioli , R. Fitzgerald , U. Greife , W.R. Hix , K.L. Jones , R.L. Kozub , E.J. Lingerfelt , R.J. Livesay , C.D. Nesaraja , S.D. Pain , L.F. Roberts , J.F. Shriner Jr. , M.S. Smith , J.S. Thomas

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

H15.00004: Spin assignments of $^{22}$Mg through a $^{24}$Mg(p,t)$^{22}$Mg measurement
K.Y. Chae , B.W. Bardayan , J.C. Blackmon , B.H. Moazen , K. Chipps , R. Hatarik , K.L. Jones , R.L. Kozub , J.F. Liang , C.D. Nesaraja , P.D. O'Malley , C. Matei , S.D. Pain , S.T. Pittman , M.S. Smith

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

H15.00005: Experimental Exploration of $^{69}Br$ and the rp-Process $^{68}Se$ Waiting Point
A.M. Rogers* , M.A. Famiano* , M.S. Wallace* , M.-J. van Goethem* , F. Delaunay* , W.G. Lynch* , M.B. Tsang* , M. Mocko* , J. Lee* , R.T. de Souza* , S. Hudan* , L.G. Sobotka* , R.J. Charity* , J. Elson* , S. Lobastov , D. Shapira , D. Bazin , A. Gade , G. Verde*

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

H15.00006: Mass Measurements of Proton-Rich Isotopes between Mo and Pd using the Canadian Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer
J. Fallis , K.S. Sharma , H. Sharma , G. Savard , A.F. Levand , T. Sun , J.A. Clark , C. Deibel , A. Parikh , C. Wrede , D. Lascar , R. Segel , S. Caldwell , M. Sternberg , J. Van Schelt , F. Buchinger , J.E. Crawford , S. Gulick , J.K.P. Lee , G. Li , N.D. Scielzo , A.A. Hecht

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

H15.00007: Thermal Conductivity of Accreting Neutron Stars Crusts.
Liliana Caballero , Charles Horowitz

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

H15.00008: Nuclear Matter at High Density and Finite Temperature
Abhishek Mukherjee , Geoff Ravenhall , Jaime Morales , Vijay Pandharipande

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