Session BA: Societal Impact of Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gaylord Opryland - Tennessee C


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

BA.00001: A Medical Application of Nuclear Physics: Particle Radiotherapy with Protons
Invited Speaker: Jonathan B. Farr

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 3:12PM

BA.00002: The future of energy security in the 21st Century
Invited Speaker: Rajan Gupta

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:48PM

BA.00003: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: Origin and Path Forward
Invited Speaker: Victor H. Reis

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:48PM - 4:24PM

BA.00004: Non-destructive Elemental Analysis on Paintings and Metal Artifacts
Invited Speaker: Andrea Denker

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Session BB: Neutrino Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Gaylord Opryland - Tennessee A


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:12PM

BB.00001: Charged-current cross section measurements in MiniBooNE
Teppei Katori

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:12PM - 2:24PM

BB.00002: A Search for $\nu_\mu \rightarrow \nu_e$ with the MiniBooNE Experiment
Rex Tayloe

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:24PM - 2:36PM

BB.00003: A measurement of neutrino nucleon elastic scattering in MiniBooNE
D. Christopher Cox

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

BB.00004: Future Prospects for the Booster Neutrino Beamline at FNAL
Chris Polly

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

BB.00005: Free Proton Charged Current Cross Section using MiniBooNE Anti-Neutrino Data
Heather Ray

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

BB.00006: Event Reconstruction and Particle Identification for MiniBooNE Experiment
Haijun Yang

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

BB.00007: Results for the Cross Section of the Reaction $^{12}$C(n,n'$\gamma$)$^{12}$C* (4.44 MeV) at E$_n$ = 6.20 and 6.34 MeV using Gamma Ray Detection
M.F. Kidd , J.H. Esterline , B. Fallin , A. Hutcheson , A.P. Tonchev , W. Tornow , J.H. Kelley

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:24PM - 3:36PM

BB.00008: Differential cross sections for $^{13}$C($\alpha$,n)$^{16}$O reaction
Cynthia Wood , Bruno Braizinha , Hugon Karwowski , Mary Kidd , Werner Tornow

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:36PM - 3:48PM

BB.00009: Multianode Photomultiplier Tube Alignment for the MINERvA Experiment at Fermilab
Jorge Bruno

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:48PM - 4:00PM

BB.00010: A Global three-parameter model for neutrino oscillations using Lorentz violation
Teppei Katori , Alan Kostelecky , Rex Tayloe

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Session BC: Nuclear Structure I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Volker Werner, Yale University
Gaylord Opryland - Tennessee B


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:12PM

BC.00001: A Direct Measurement of the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length: Progress and Status
S.L. Stephenson , B.E. Crawford , C.R. Howell , W. Tornow , G.E. Mitchell , W.I. Furman , A.R. Krylov , E.V. Lychagin , A. Yu. Muzichka , G.V. Nekhaev , E.I. Sharapov , V.N. Shvetsov , A.V. Strelkov , Yu. I. Chernukhin , Ya. Z. Kandiev , B.G. Levakov , A.E. Lyzhin

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:12PM - 2:24PM

BC.00002: Variational microscopic treatment of halo nuclei
Ivan Brida , Filomena Nunes , Kalman Varga

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:24PM - 2:36PM

BC.00003: Ab Initio Calculations of Electroweak Matrix Elements.
Muslema Pervin , Robert Wiringa , Steven Pieper , Kenneth Nollett

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

BC.00004: Towards a Laser Spectroscopic Determination of the $^8$He Nuclear Charge Radius
P. Mueller , K. Bailey , R.J. Holt , R.V.F. Janssens , Z.-T. Lu , T.P. O'Connor , J.P. Schiffer , I. Sulai , M.-G. Saint Laurent , J.-Ch. Thomas , A.C.C. Villari , O. Naviliat-Cuncic , X. Flechard , S.-M. Hu , G.W.F. Drake , M. Paul

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

BC.00005: Large Study of Short-Range Correlations in $^{12}$C(e,e$^{\prime}$pn)
Ramesh Subedi

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

BC.00006: Microscopic Coupled Cluster approach to Neutron Rich Nuclei
Gaute Hagen , David Dean , Morten Hjorth-Jensen , Thomas Papenbrock

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

BC.00007: Study of $^{18}$Ne Structure by $^{14}$O+Alpha Elastic Resonance Reaction
Changbo Fu , V.Z. Goldberg , G.V. Rogachev , G.G. Chubarian , G. Tabacaru , M. McCleskey , Y. Zhai , T. Al-Abdullah , L. Trache , A. Banu , R.E. Tribble

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:24PM - 3:36PM

BC.00008: Production of light neutron-rich nuclei in fusion-evaporation reactions
M. Wiedeking , P. Fallon , A.O. Macchiavelli , L.W. Phair , D.L. Bleuel , R.M. Clark , M. Cromaz , M-A. Deleplanque , J.D. Gibelin , I-Y. Lee , L.G. Moretto , E. Rodriguez-Vieitez , D. Ward , L.A. Bernstein , J.T. Burke , B.F. Lyles

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:36PM - 3:48PM

BC.00009: First excited state of doubly-magic $^{24}$O
N. Frank , A. Schiller , T. Baumann , J. Brown , P. DeYoung , J. Hinnefeld , R. Howes , J.-L. Lecouey , B. Luther , W.A. Peters , M. Thoennessen

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:48PM - 4:00PM

BC.00010: Compressional-mode Giant Resonances in $^{24}$Mg.
P.V. Madhusudhana Rao , T. Li , B.K. Nayak , U. Garg , M. Itoh , M. Yosoi , M. Uchida , H. Takeda , Y. Yasuda , H. Sakaguchi , H. Fujimura , K. Hara , M. Fujiwara , T. Kawabata , H. Akimune , M.N. Harakeh

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:00PM - 4:12PM

BC.00011: Studying the Transition to the Island of Inversion
E. Rodriguez-Vieitez , P. Fallon , R.M. Clark , M. Cromaz , M.A. Deleplanque , I.Y. Lee , A.O. Macchiavelli , F.S. Stephens , M. Wiedeking , S.G. Prussin , D. Bazin , C.M. Campbell , J.M. Cook , D.-C. Dinca , A. Gade , T. Glasmacher , W.F. Mueller , K. Yoneda

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:12PM - 4:24PM

BC.00012: $^{32}{\rm S}(p,\gamma)$ and its relevance to calibrating a $^{33}{\rm Ar}$ beta-delayed proton spectrum
Smarajit Triambak , Alejandro Garcia , Dan Melconian , Meghan Mella , Owen Biesel

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:24PM - 4:36PM

BC.00013: Large Scale Shell Model Studies of M1 Strength in Argon and Calcium Isotopes
A.F. Lisetskiy , E. Caurier , K. Langanke , G. Martinez-Pinedo , P. von Neumann-Cosel , F. Nowacki , A. Richter

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:36PM - 4:48PM

BC.00014: Binding-Energy Systematics of 0$^{+}$, 2$^{+}$, 3$^{-}$, and 4$^{-}$, T=0 States of Even-Even Self-Conjugate Nuclides from $^{16}$O to $^{40}$Ca
Friedrich Everling

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BC.00015: Binding-Energy Systematics of 0$^{+}$, \textit{T}=1 and 1$^{+}$, 2$^{+}$ and 3$^{+}$, \textit{T}=0 States of Odd-Odd Self-Conjugate Nuclides from $^{14}$N to $^{38}$K
Friedrich Everling

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Session BD: Mini-symposium on Applications of GEM Technology

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Howard Fenker, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Gaylord Opryland - Hermitage A


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

BD.00001: Development and Applications of the Gas Electron Multiplier
Invited Speaker: Fabio Sauli

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

BD.00002: Advances in Thick GEM-like (THGEM) multipliers
Amos Breskin , Rachel Chechik , Marco Cortesi , Volker Dangendorf

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

BD.00003: The BoNuS GEM-Based Radial Time-Projection Chamber
Howard Fenker

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

BD.00004: A novel idea for an ultra-light cylindrical GEM based vertex detector
Danilo Domenici , Giovanni Bencivenni , Enzo Iacuessa , Stefano Lauciani , Fabrizio Murtas

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

BD.00005: Development of tracking detectors for STAR with industrially produced GEM foils
Frank Simon , Bernd Surrow

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:24PM - 3:36PM

BD.00006: A Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC
Takao Sakaguchi

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:36PM - 3:48PM

BD.00007: Cargo Container Imaging with Gaseous Detectors
Tony Forest

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Session BE: Mini-symposium on Experimental Techniques in Low Energy Nuclear Astrophysics Studies

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame
Gaylord Opryland - Hermitage B


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:36PM

BE.00001: Experimental nuclear astrophysics underground
Invited Speaker: Heide Costantini

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

BE.00002: Cross sections for reactions in explosive H burning from indirect methods
Livius Trache , T. Al-Abdullah , A. Banu , C. Fu , C.A. Gagliardi , J.C. Hardy , V.E. Iacob , M. McCleskey , A.M. Mukhamedzhanov , G. Tabacaru , R.E. Tribble , Y. Zhai

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

BE.00003: Measurement of capture reactions with the recoil mass spectrometer DRAGON
Christof Vockenhuber

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

BE.00004: Experimental techniques to investigate astrophysical key reactions at the extremes.
Wolfgang Hammer

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

BE.00005: Measuring the Radiative Width of the Hoyle State in $^{12}$C
J.T. Burke , R.D. Hoffman , E.B. Norman , L.A. Bernstein , R. Macri , L.W. Phair , J. Gibelin , M. Wiedeking , R.M. Clark , E. Vieitez-Rodriguez , P. McMahan , I.Y. Lee , A.O. Macchiavelli , C. Beausang , S. Lesher , B. Darakchieva , M. Evtimova , B. Lyles , M. Dolinski , S. Sheets , H. Ai

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:24PM - 3:36PM

BE.00006: Nuclear Astrophysics at the LENA facility: The $\gamma$-ray detection system.
Richard Longland , Christian Iliadis , Arthur Champagne , Chris Fox , Joe Newton

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:36PM - 3:48PM

BE.00007: Q-Value Gating Techniques for Gamma-ray Background Reduction
Aaron Couture , Joachim Goerres , Elizabeth Strandberg , Michael Wiescher

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:48PM - 4:00PM

BE.00008: Sub-Coulomb alpha transfer reactions in Nuclear Astrophysics
Grigory Rogachev

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:00PM - 4:12PM

BE.00009: The Notre Dame recoil separator
Manoel Couder , Georg P. Berg , Joachim Goerres , Larry O. Lamm , P.J. Leblanc , Edward Stech , Michael Wiescher

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:12PM - 4:24PM

BE.00010: Alpha-induced reactions in stellar burning
Joachim Goerres

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:24PM - 4:36PM

BE.00011: Prospects for Improved Measurements of the S-Process Neutron Source Reactions
Carl R. Brune

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:36PM - 4:48PM

BE.00012: CLAIRE - A Novel Nuclear Astrophysics Accelerator Facility at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Daniela Leitner , Damon Todd , Paul Vetter , Matthaeus Leitner , Reina Maruyama , Kevin Nan Xu

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:48PM - 5:00PM

BE.00013: Proposed facility for a precise measurement of S34
Paul Vetter , Daniela Leitner , Reina Maruyama , Matthaeus Leitner , Damon Todd

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Session BG: Hadronic Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Volker Oberacker, Vanderbilt University
Gaylord Opryland - Hermitage D


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:12PM

BG.00001: First Observation of the $f_1(1285)$ / $\eta(1295)$ Meson in Photoproduction
Ryan Dickson

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:12PM - 2:24PM

BG.00002: $K^*$ vector meson photoproduction on a proton target at Jefferson Lab
Lei Guo

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:24PM - 2:36PM

BG.00003: $\Sigma(1385)$ photoproduction on a proton target at Jefferson Lab
Lei Guo

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

BG.00004: Photoproduction of the $\phi $(1020) Meson Near Threshold
David Tedeschi

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

BG.00005: The Search for Missing Baryon Resonances in the Reaction $\rm\gamma p\to p\pi^0\eta$
Volker Crede

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

BG.00006: Measurement of $\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ Photoproduction In Double-Polarization Experiments using CLAS
Charles Hanretty

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

BG.00007: Search for New Forms of Hadronic Matter in Photoproduction
Lukasz Blaszczyk

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:24PM - 3:36PM

BG.00008: The search for the $\Phi(1860)^{--}$ pentaquark with CLAS
Maurik Holtrop , Hovanes Egiyan , J\"{o}rn Langheinrich

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:36PM - 3:48PM

BG.00009: $\Theta^{+}$ Search in CLAS with $\gamma d\rightarrow pK^{0}_{s}K^{-}(p)$
Nathan Baltzell , David Tedeschi

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:48PM - 4:00PM

BG.00010: The Light-Front Quark Model and Exotic Matter
Martin DeWitt , Chueng Ji

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:00PM - 4:12PM

BG.00011: A Unitary and Relativistic Model for $\pi \eta N$ and $\pi \pi N$ Photoproduction
Alvin Kiswandhi , Simon Capstick , T.-S. Harry Lee

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:12PM - 4:24PM

BG.00012: Hybrid and Conventional Baryons as Four-Body Systems in the Flux-Tube Model
Simon Capstick , Anton Souslov

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:24PM - 4:36PM

BG.00013: Extrapolations of Lattice Meson Form Factors
T. Brian Bunton , Fu-Jiun Jiang , Brian C. Tiburzi

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:36PM - 4:48PM

BG.00014: A PWA of $p\omega$ in photoproduction using CLAS
Mike Williams

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
4:48PM - 5:00PM

BG.00015: A Coupled Partial Wave Analysis of $p\eta$ and $p\eta'$ in photoproduction using CLAS
Zebulun Krahn

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
5:00PM - 5:12PM

BG.00016: A PWA of $p\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ in photoproduction using CLAS
Matthew Bellis

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
5:12PM - 5:24PM

BG.00017: Implementation of Vertex Reconstruction in the Search for Resonances in the 1610-1770 MeV Invariant Mass Region
Ezekiel Walker

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Session BH: Applications in Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: A. Ramayya, Vanderbilt University
Gaylord Opryland - Cheekwood F


Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:00PM - 2:12PM

BH.00001: Plant Physiology Studies Using Positron-Emitting Isotopes
M.R. Kiser , C.R. Howell , A.S. Crowell , C.D. Reid , R.P. Phillips

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:12PM - 2:24PM

BH.00002: Background Reduction by Gamma-ray Tracking Detectors
Mario Cromaz

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:24PM - 2:36PM

BH.00003: Tests of a Cryogenic Gas Cell for Radioactive Ion Beam Experiments
K. Chipps , D. Bardayan , J. Blackmon , K. Chae , J. Eastburg , U. Greife , K.L. Jones , R. Kozub , R. Livesay , B. Moazen , C.D. Nesaraja , S. Pain , M. Porter-Peden , F. Sarazin , M.S. Smith

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:36PM - 2:48PM

BH.00004: Determination of precipitation ``age'' via gamma rays from accreted radon progeny
M.B. Greenfield , N. Ito , A. Iwata , K. Kubo , M. Ishigaki , K. Komura

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
2:48PM - 3:00PM

BH.00005: Intense $\gamma $ radiation from radon progeny accreted in/on rain during and following thunderstorms
M.B. Greenfield , A. Iwata , N. Ito , M. Ishigaki , K. Kubo , K. Komura

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:00PM - 3:12PM

BH.00006: Experimental Study of LaBr3(Ce) Gamma-Ray Detector Performance in Mixed Radiation Field
Alexander Barzilov , Phillip Womble , Jon Paschal , Lindsay Hopper , Ryan Moore , Eric Houchins , Jeremy Board

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:12PM - 3:24PM

BH.00007: Future Directions of Space Radiation Protection
Ram Tripathi

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:24PM - 3:36PM

BH.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:36PM - 3:48PM

BH.00009: Big Numbers Hypothesis
Shantilal Goradia

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Thursday, October 26, 2006
3:48PM - 4:00PM

BH.00010: A Postulation of a Concept in Fundamental Physics
Shantilal Goradia

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