Session Q5: Clocks, Precision Measurements, and Atomic/Molecular Structure

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Chair: Kurt Gibble, Penn State University
Nittany Lion Inn - Boardroom I


Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

Q5.00001: Systematic evaluation of a strontium optical lattice clock at 1x10$^{-16}$
Gretchen K. Campbell , Andrew D. Ludlow , Sebastian Blatt , Tanya Zelevinsky , Martin M. Boyd , Michael J. Martin , Jan W. Thomsen , Jun Ye , Tara M. Fortier , Jason E. Stalnaker , Scott A. Diddams , Chris W. Oates

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

Q5.00002: Ytterbium Optical Lattice Clock
Nathan Lemke , Zeb Barber , Nicola Poli , Chris Oates , Leo Hollberg

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

Q5.00003: Determination of the fine structure constant with atomic interferometry and Bloch oscillations.
Pierre Clad\'e , Malo Cadoret , Estefania de Mirandes , Saida Guellati-Kh\'elifa , Catherine Schwob , Fran\c{c}ois Nez , Lucile Julien , Fran\c{c}ois Biraben

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

Q5.00004: Precision Laser Spectroscopy of Exotic Helium Isotopes
P. Mueller , I.A. Sulai , K. Bailey , R.J. Holt , R.V.F. Janssens , Z.-T. Lu , T.P. O'Connor , A.C.C. Villari , J.A. Alcantara-Nunez , R. Alves-Conde , M. Dubois , C. Eleon , G. Gaubert , N. Lecesne , M.-G. Saint-Laurent , J.-C. Thomas , G.W.F. Drake , L.-B. Wang

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Friday, May 30, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

Q5.00005: Extending Precision Atomic Mass Measurement to Higher Mass
Matthew Redshaw , Brianna Mount , Edmund Myers

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

Q5.00006: Improved Measurement of the 1s2s $^{1}$S$_{0}$ -- 1s2p $^{3}$P$_{1}$ Interval in Helium-like Silicon
Edmund Myers , Thomas DeVore , David Crosby

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

Q5.00007: Hyperfine structure of the metastable $^3P_2$ state of alkaline earth atoms as an accurate probe of nuclear magnetic octupole moments
Kyle Beloy , Andrei Derevianko , Walter Johnson

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

Q5.00008: Hyperfine Structure of Trapped $^{137}$Ba$^{+}$ Ions as a Probe of the Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moment
Gary Howell , Boris Blinov , Norval Fortson

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

Q5.00009: Third-order relativistic many-body calculation of transition probabilities for the beryllium and magnesium isoelectronic sequences
Dansha Jiang , Rupsi Pal , Marianna Safronova

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Friday, May 30, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

Q5.00010: Spectroscopy of high pressure cesium discharge
Goran Pichler , Marin Pichler

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

Q5.00011: Collisional-Radiative Modeling of EBIT Spectra from Highly-Charged High-Z Ions
Yuri Ralchenko , Ilija N. Draganic , John D. Gillaspy , Joseph N. Tan , Joshua M. Pomeroy , Joseph Reader

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

Q5.00012: The Ion $H_3^{+}$ in a Strong Magnetic Field
Nicolais Guevara Leon , Alexander V. Turbiner , Juan C. Lopez Vieyra

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Friday, May 30, 2008
4:24PM - 4:36PM

Q5.00013: Searching for allotropes of Wigner crystal clusters with Genetic Algorithm
Matt Kalinski

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