Session DA: CEU Poster Session

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Chair: Warren Rogers, Westmont College
Newport News Marriot at City Center - Rotunda





DA.00001: Real Photon Physics at MAMI
Amal Al Katrib , William Briscoe

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DA.00002: Neutron Energy Spectra for Deuteron Beams Incident on Thin Targets
Jessamyn Allen , Peggy McMahan , Lawrence Heilbronn , Joe Cerny , Darren Bleuel , Brad Barquest , Cybele Jewett , Ian Thompson , Larry Ahle

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DA.00003: Digital Timing Algorithm for High Purity Germanium Detectors
Knox Andrew , Krzysztof Starosta , David Miller , Constantin Vaman , Phillip Voss , Dirk Weisshaar

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DA.00004: Angular Correlations in $^{96}$Mo
S. Atwater , K. Aleksandrova , V. Werner , P. von Brentano , A. Fitzler , C. Fransen , A. Linnemann , J.R. Terry , M.S. Fetea

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DA.00005: The One-Neutron Knockout Reaction $^{9}$Be($^{44}$S,$^{43}$S)\textit{X}
T.R. Baugher , K.E. Hosier , L.A. Riley , P.D. Cottle , K.W. Kemper , P. Adrich , D. Bazin , J.M. Cook , C.A. Diget , A. Gade , D.A. Garland , T. Glasmacher , A. Ratkiewicz , K.P. Siwek , D. Weissharr

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DA.00006: A study of systematic uncertainties in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment
Eric Blanshan

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DA.00007: Extraction of Yields for Neutral Meson Photoproduction from the Proton and $^{3}$He with the CLAS Detector at Jefferson Lab
Richard Bonventre , Christian Shultz , Michael Vineyard

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DA.00008: Impact of Nuclear Physics Uncertainties on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on the Baryonic Matter Density
B.D. Bruner , R.L. Kozub , M.S. Smith , L.F. Roberts , D. Tytler , G.M. Fuller , E.J. Lingerfelt , W.R. Hix , C.D. Nesaraja

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DA.00009: The Development of a Cosmic Ray Veto System
Joseph Buchanan-Vega , Jessica Dunmore , Brent VanDevender , John Wilkerson

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DA.00010: Unstable Quantum Systems Coupled Via Continuum and Super Radiance
Juan Burgos , Vladimir Zelevinsky

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DA.00011: Cosmic Test Stand Development for PHENIX Muon Trigger Upgrade
Alex Burnap

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DA.00012: Heavy Meson Dynamics in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Alejandro Caceres

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DA.00013: Testing Scintillator Efficiency for Use in RPC Test Stand for PHENIX at RHIC
Amanda Caringi

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DA.00014: Focal Plane Scanning Detector for Qweak
Laura Cobus

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DA.00015: Application of Different Similarity Renormalization Group Transformations to Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions
Megan L. Comins

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DA.00016: Improvements of the Focal Plane of SASSYER
Danielle Crump , Andreas Heinz , Ryan Winkler , Daniel Frank , Jing Qian , Mirela Fetea

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DA.00017: Neutron Single Particle Strengths in Z=20,22,24 Isotopes
Jiayan Dai , Jenny Lee , Betty Tsang

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DA.00018: Study of Instrumental Asymmetries in Focal Plane Polarimeter
Jonathan DeGange , Simona Malace , Michael Paolone , Steffen Strauch , David Tedeschi

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DA.00019: Preliminary CLAS 12 Simulation Analysis and Optimization
Kirill Dergachev , Gerard Gilfoyle

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DA.00020: Dual-axis, Duo-lateral Position Sensitive Detectors
Robin Dienhoffer , Sherry Yennello

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DA.00021: Identification of Upsilon Particles Using the Preshower Detector in STAR
Lloyd Dunkelberger

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DA.00022: Modeling a Carbon Diagnostic System Using MCNPX
S.H. Fay , C.M. Kuhn , E.E. Smith , S.L. Stephenson , T.C. Sangster , V. Glebov , S.J. Padalino

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DA.00023: Development and Testing of $Q^p_{Weak}$ Luminosity Monitors
Kevin Finelli

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DA.00024: Jet Measurements for QGP Experiments at CMS
Samuel Fletcher

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DA.00025: Effects of High Count Rates and Pulse Pileup in Sodium Iodide Scintillation Detectors
E. Flumerfelt , M. Salvitti , J. Borgardt , S. Robinson

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DA.00026: Parallel plate ionization chamber in low pressure helium gas
D. Frank , A. Heinz , R. Winkler , J. Qian , R.J. Casperson , J.R. Terry

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DA.00027: Biases in Peak Fitting for Low-Statistics Data
Daniel Garland

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DA.00028: Parameterization of Polarized $^{3}$He Quasi-Elastic Scattering Cross Sections
Octavian Geagla

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DA.00029: Determining Neutron Multiplicity in MoNA
J. Gillette , M. Gardner , A. Reed , W.F. Rogers , S. Mosby

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DA.00030: Parity Measurements in $^{79}$Sr and $^{80}$Y
M.A. Hallstrom , R.A. Kaye , S.L. Tabor , T.D. Baldwin , D.B. Campbell , C. Chandler , M.W. Cooper , C.R. Hoffman , J. Pavan , M. Wiedeking , J. Doring , S.M. Gerbick , L.A. Riley

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DA.00031: Precise $\alpha_{K}$ Measurement of 346.5 keV Transition in $^{197}$Pt as a Test of Internal Conversion Theory
Mark Hernberg , John Hardy , Ninel Nica , John Goodwin , Victor Iacob

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DA.00032: Neutron-Induced Partial Cross-Section Measurements on $^{76}$Ge Motivated by The Majorana Project 0$\nu\beta\beta$ Decay Search
S. Hilderbrand , E. Kwan , C. Angell , B. Fallin , C.R. Howell , A. Hutcheson , H.J. Karwowski , J.H. Kelley , A.P. Tonchev , W. Tornow , D.B. Masters , R.S. Pedroni , G.J. Weisel

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DA.00033: PDF Contributions and Parity Violation at High Bjorken x.
Timothy Hobbs

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DA.00034: One Proton Knockout from a Relativistic $^{45}$Cl Ion Beam
K.E. Hosier , T.R. Baugher , L.A. Riley , P.D. Cottle , K.W. Kemper , P. Adrich , D. Bazin , J.M. Cook , C.A. Diget , A. Gade , D.A. Garland , T. Glasmacher , A. Ratkiewicz , K.P. Siwek , D. Weissharr

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DA.00035: Ion Optic Simulation of Ion Source and Beam Transport for Isotope Separator at HRIBF
Yuan Hu , V.A. Shchepunov , H.K. Carter , A. Piechaczek

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DA.00036: High Voltage Breakdown and SQUID Performance for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment
Craig Huffer , Chen-Yu Liu , Josh Long , Maciej Karcz

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DA.00037: Database Design and Data Retrieval for the PHENIX RPC Factory
Justine Ide

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DA.00038: Database for the PHENIX RPC Factory
Timothy Jones

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DA.00039: Calibrating Scintillator position measurement for testing RPC modules for PHENIX at RHIC
Daniel Jumper

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DA.00040: New Neutron Capabilities in the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL)
Simarjit Kaur , M.A. McMahan , L.A. Bernstein , D. Schneider

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DA.00041: DIANNA: Modeling the time dependence of the YAGUAR reactor pulse
D. Kawamura , M.R. Schmidt , D.A. Yager-Elorriaga , B.E. Crawford , S.L. Stephenson

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DA.00042: From RHIC to LHC: Elliptic and radial flow effects on hadron spectra
Gregory Kestin , Ulrich Heinz

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DA.00043: How Many Degrees of Freedom are Required to Describe Baryon Resonances?
Joseph Kish

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DA.00044: Proposed Radiation Effects Beam Line for the K150 Cyclotron
Courtney Knaup , Henry Clark

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DA.00045: Exploring Isomeric States near Doubly-Magic 208Pb
Andrew Knox , Sujit Tandel , Partha Chowdhury

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DA.00046: Hohlraum Reactions as a NIF Diagnostic
Richard Korzekwa , Anna Hayes

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DA.00047: Tailoring a target for transient field measurements of magnetic moments of short-lived excited states with radioactive beams
B. Krieger , N. Benczer-Koller , G. Kumbartzki , G. Gurdal , C. Gross , R. Hatarik , P. O'Malley , S. Pain , L. Segen , A.E. Stuchbery , N. Stone , C. Baktash , D. Radford , C.-H. Yu , C. Bingham , M. Danchev , R. Grzywacz , R.V.F. Janssens

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DA.00048: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of A$\approx $100 Nuclei
J.D. LeBlanc , D.A. Meyer , A. Heinz , H. Ai , R.J. Casperson , J.L. Hugon , B. Huber , R. Luttke , E.A. McCutchan , J. Qian , B. Shoraka , J.K. Smith , J.R. Terry , E. Williams

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DA.00049: Study of the Spent Fuel Contribution to the Reactor Antineutino Spectra Measured in the Daya Bay $\theta _{13}$ Experiment
Ho Ling Li , Karsten Heeger

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DA.00050: Main Injector Particle Production Veto Hodoscope Upgrade
Kervin Marshall

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DA.00051: Decay of $^{10}$C excited states above the 2$p$ + 2$\alpha $ threshold and the contribution from ``democratic'' two-proton emission
Kevin Mercurio , R.J. Charity , L.G. Sobotka , J. Elson , M. Famiano , A. Banu , C. Fu , L. Trache , R.E. Tribble

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DA.00052: Development and Tests of the LED Calibration System for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Melinda Morang

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DA.00053: HiRA CsI Detector Response to Low Energy Protons
Chelsey Morien

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DA.00054: Parity Measurements in $^{80}$Sr
C.S. Myers , R.A. Kaye , S.L. Tabor , T.D. Baldwin , D.B. Campbell , C. Chandler , M.W. Cooper , C.R. Hoffman , J. Pavan , M. Wiedeking , J. D\"oring , S.M. Gerbick , L.A. Riley

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DA.00055: A Study on Position Resolution within Resistive Plate Chambers
Tyler Natoli

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DA.00056: Continuum Hartree-Fock based Random Phase Approximation Description of the Isovector Giant Dipole Resonance for $^{28}$O,$^{ 60}$Ca and $^{80}$Zr
Emilian Nica , Shalom Shlomo

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DA.00057: The Development of Algorithms For Neutron-Based Threat Determinations
M.E. Nichols , Alexander Barzilov , P.C. Womble , I. Novikov

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DA.00058: Imaging Energetic Nuclear Particles
Cassandra Niman , Robert Tribble

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DA.00059: Segment Energy Calibrations for Segmented Germanium Detectors
R.P. Norris , K. Starosta , D. Weisshaar , P. Adrich , A. Chester , A. Dunomes , D. Miller , V. Moeller , C. Vaman , P. Voss

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DA.00060: Combating Nuisance Alarms Caused by the Ship Effect in 3He Based Neutron Detection Radiation Portal Monitors
A. Oliveri , E. Buckley , J. Borgardt , R. Kouzes , E. Siciliano , A. Seifert , L. Windsor

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DA.00061: Search for New Physics in Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons
Rishi Patel , David Toback

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DA.00062: Analysis of Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Using the LabVIEW Programming Environment
James Phelps , Phillip Womble , Doug Harper , Alexander Barzilov

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DA.00063: Characterization of the CDMS Ionization Readout
Arran Phipps

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DA.00064: Astrophysical factor for the CNO cycle radiative capture reaction$^{15}\mbox{N}(p,\gamma )^{16}\mbox{O}$
Adele Plunkett

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DA.00065: Detector Optimization for Fermilab E906
Aldo Raeliarijaona

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DA.00066: Tests of spurious levels for neutron or proton resonance data
R.C. Roller , J.F. Shriner, Jr.

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DA.00067: Quark recombination in high energy collisions for different energies
Steven Rose , Rainer Fries

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DA.00068: A search for the decay $\eta' \rightarrow \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0$ in CLAS data
Michael Rosenman , Matt Bellis , Curtis Meyer

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DA.00069: Alpha Particle Scintillation Analysis in High Pressure Argon Using Photomultiplier Tubes
Daniel Saenz

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DA.00070: Transmission Profiles of a Mini-Orange Spectrometer for Conversion-Electron Spectroscopy
Axel Schmidt , Roman Gernhaeuser , Reiner Kruecken , Robert Muenzer

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DA.00071: Simulation of the Focal Plane Detection Systems for the study of the 12C(a,g)16O Reaction with St. George Recoil Separator
Noah Schroeder

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DA.00072: Search for the states in $^{8}$B via $^{7}$Be + d
Leif Segen , Kyung Yuk Chae , Daniel Bardayan , Jeff Blackmon , Art Champagne , J.J. Das , Ryan Fitzgerald , Valdir Guimar\~aes , Kate Jones , Micah Johnson , Raymond Kozub , Ronald Livesay , Zhanwen Ma , Caroline Nesaraja , Steven Pain , Michael Smith , Jeff Thomas , Dale Visser

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DA.00073: Dilepton Spectra from Open-Charm Decays in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Jia Shen , Ralf Rapp

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DA.00074: Fiducial Volumes for Photons Detected in the Electromagnetic Calorimeters of the CLAS Detector at Jefferson Lab
Christian Shultz , Elliot Imler , Mike Vineyard

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DA.00075: Statistical Analysis of Proton and Neutron Resonance Data
D.J. Sissom , J.F. Shriner, Jr. , G.E. Mitchell

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DA.00076: The production of light $p$-process nuclei in the outflows from gamma-ray burst accretion disks
Crystal Smith

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DA.00077: Studies of Polarization Rotation in a Storage Ring
Erick Smith , E.J. Stephenson

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DA.00078: Neutron Background Evaluation for Dark Matter Detectors at DUSEL
Jason Spaans

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DA.00079: Diamond Detector for Compton Polarimetry
Douglas W. Storey

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DA.00080: Development and Testing of a Novel Lanthanum Bromide Scintillation Detector for SPECT Imaging
Jonathan Sutton , Eric L. Bradley , Stan Majewski , John McKisson , Vladimir Popov , James Proffitt , Jianguo Qian , Margaret S. Saha , Andrew Weisenberger , Robert Welsh , Amir Yazdi

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DA.00081: Optimization of a Light Collection System for use in the Neutron Lifetime Project
C. Taylor , C. O'Shaughnessy , P. Mumm , A. Thompson , P. Huffman

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DA.00082: Quality Analysis and Control Procedures for the PHENIX RPC Forward Trigger Upgrade
Dillon Thomas

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DA.00083: DUSEL Ultra-Low Background Counting Facility
Keenan Thomas

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DA.00084: Controls Interfaces for Two ALICE Subsystems
Robert Thomen

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DA.00085: Position calibration for a low-energy neutron detector.
Katie Thorne , Jenna Deaven , Carol Guess , George Perdikakis , Remco Zegers

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DA.00086: A Scattering Chamber System to Measure Cross Sections of Multiple Star Configurations in Neutron-Deuteron Breakup at 19 MeV
Louis Threatt , Benjamin Crowe , Larry Cumberbatch , Calvin Howell , Diane Markoff

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DA.00087: MINERvA Experiment
Irina Vergalasova

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DA.00088: Increased Precision in Gamow Window Calculations for Thermonuclear Reaction Rates
J. Tokiwa , R.L. Kozub , M.S. Smith , K.Y. Chae , E.J. Lingerfelt

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DA.00089: Search for Upward Cosmic Rays
Edward White , Artemis Spyrou , Michael Thoennessen , Tova Yoast-Hull

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DA.00090: $^{238}$U Fission Ion Chamber for Neutron Dosimetry at the 88-Inch Cyclotron
Brent Wilson , Peggy McMahan , Brad Barquest , Mike Johnson

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DA.00091: Time Stability in Detectors for a 1 ppm Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime
Brett Wolfe

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DA.00092: Raman Spectroscopy as a way to determine Ortho to Para Ratio of Deuterium
Patrick Wong , Albert Young , Guilhem Ribeill , Vijya Mehta

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DA.00093: Photoproduction of eta mesons off protons at CB-ELSA
A. Woodard , V. Crede , A. McVeigh

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DA.00094: Bakelite Surface Resistivity Measurements for Muon Trigger RPCs in PHENIX
Ryan Wright

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DA.00095: Scintillation Studies of the Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus with $^{125}$I
Amir Yazdi , Eric Blue , Eric Bradley , Stan Majewski , Shira Mohammed , Jianguo Qian , Margaret Saha , Stephen Schworer , Jonathan Sutton , Andrew Weisenberger , Robert Welsh

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DA.00096: Efficiency and Multi-Hit Capability Improvements of MoNA
Tova Yoast-Hull , Artemis Spyrou , Michael Thoennessen , Edward White

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DA.00097: Calibration and Performance of the UConn-Yale-PTB-Weizmann-UCL-TUNL O-TPC
Alexander Young , Moshe Gai , Tristan Kading , Mohammad Ahmed , Henry Weller , Volker Dangendorf , Kai Tittelmeier

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