Session JA: From Nucleons to the Origins of Nuclei

Chair: Witek Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Grand Salon I


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:36PM

JA.00001: The Various Proposed Mechanisms of Core-collapse Supernova Explosions: A Status Report
Invited Speaker: Adam Burrows

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 3:12PM

JA.00002: Electric Form Factor of the Neutron
Invited Speaker: Robert Feuerbach

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:48PM

JA.00003: Two-proton decay of 45Fe
Invited Speaker: Robert Grzywacz

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:48PM - 4:24PM

JA.00004: Shell Model Approach to Many-Body Open Quantum Systems
Invited Speaker: Jimmy Rotureau

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Session JB: Mini-Symposium on DiJets and Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions II

Chair: Tim Hallman, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Grand Salon III


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:36PM

JB.00001: Probing the QGP Structure at RHIC with Jet-Medium Correlations
Invited Speaker: Steffen Bass

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JB.00002: Azimuthal anisotropy of charged hadrons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at RHIC
Michael Issah

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JB.00003: Multi-hadron correlations for jet-studies at RHIC
Martin Andrews

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JB.00004: Fast Partons as a Source of Energy and Momentum in a Thermal Quark Gluon Plasma
Richard Neufeld

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JB.00005: Positive and negative 2- and 3-particle correlations: what about hadron-proton correlation?
Guoliang Ma

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JB.00006: Multi-hadron triggered azimuthal correlations in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt(s_{NN})$ = 200 GeV from STAR
Brooke Haag

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:36PM - 3:48PM

JB.00007: 3-D Source Functions at RHIC from the AMPT Model
Zi-Wei Lin

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Session JD: Mini-Symposium on Radioactive Beams and Observations in Nuclear Astrophysics II

Chair: Ani Aprahamian, University of Notre Dame
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Grand Salon IV


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:12PM

JD.00001: New Insights and Opportunities from Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts
Tod Strohmayer , Sudip Bhattacharyya

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:12PM - 2:24PM

JD.00002: Measurements of Lifetimes of States in $^{19}$Ne and the $^{15}$O($\alpha,\gamma)^{19}$Ne Reaction Rate
Barry Davids , Mythili Subramanian

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:24PM - 2:36PM

JD.00003: High precision $^{24}$Mg(p,t)$^{ 22}$Mg reaction to determine the $^{18}$Ne($\alpha $,p)$^{21}$Na reaction rates
A. Matic , A.M. van den Berg , H.J. W\"ortche , M.N. Harakeh , T. Adachi , Y. Fujita , Y. Shimbara , H. Fujita , K. Fujita , K. Hatanaka , Y. Sakemi , Y. Shimizu , Y. Tameshige , A. Tamii , M. Yosoi , J. G\"orres , P. Leblanc , M. Wiescher , G.P.A. Berg , S. O'Brien , H. Schatz , T. Wakasa

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JD.00004: Indirect rp-process Rate Measurements from Single Neutron Removal
A.M. Amthor , D. Bazin , A. Becerril , A. Cole , J. Cook , A. Estrade , A. Gade , M. Howard , G. Lorusso , M. Matos , J. Pereira , M. Portillo , H. Schatz , B. Sherrill , K. Smith , A. Stolz , D. Weisshaar , R.G.T. Zegers , D. Galaviz , A. Chen , Zs. Fulop , E. Smith , M. Wiescher

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JD.00005: Nuclear energy levels of $^{31}$S and astrophysical implications
C. Wrede , J.A. Caggiano , J.A. Clark , C. Deibel , D.A. Hutcheon , R. Lewis , A. Parikh , P.D. Parker , C. Westerfeldt

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JD.00006: First experimental evidence of the rp-process nucleus $^{96}$Cd
A. Becerril Reyes , V. Andreev , B. Arend , D. Bazin , M. Doleans , R. Fontus , P. Glennon , P. Mantica , J. Ottarson , D. Sanderson , H. Schatz , J. Stoker , O. Tarasov , J. Vincent , J. Wagner , X. Wu , A. Zeller

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JD.00007: St. George a first step toward a recoil separator for FRIB
Manoel Couder , Georg P. Berg , Joachim Goerres , Larry O. Lamm , P.J. Leblanc , Edward Stech , Michael Wiescher

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JD.00008: The JINA Reaclib Database and Nuclear Astrophysics Applications.
Richard Cyburt , Hendrik Schatz , Karl Smith , Scott Warren

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Session JE: Hadronic Systems

Chair: M. J. Ramsey-Musolf, California Institute of Technology
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Grand Salon V


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:12PM

JE.00001: Global Fit to the Nucleon Strange Electromagnetic Form Factors
Jianglai Liu , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Robert D. McKeown

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:12PM - 2:24PM

JE.00002: Strangeness Contributions to the Static Properties of the Proton
Kent Paschke

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:24PM - 2:36PM

JE.00003: Parity-Violating Asymmetry in the Nucleon to Delta Transition
C.L. Capuano

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JE.00004: Exclusive Electroproduction of the $\pi^0$ Meson off of the Nucleon
Anthony Villano

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JE.00005: Vector Meson Form Factors and Wave Functions from Holographic QCD.
Hovhannes Grigoryan , Anatoly Radyushkin

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JE.00006: Gluelump Spectrum on Coulomb Gauge QCD
Peng Guo , Adam Szczepaniak , Andrea Vassallo , Giuseppe Galata , Elena Santopinto

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JE.00007: A New Picture of Structure of Meson
Bing An Li

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JE.00008: Fermilab E906: Extension to High-X of Measurement of the Anti-quark Distributions of Nuclei and Nucleons
Donald Isenhower

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:36PM - 3:48PM

JE.00009: Quark Model of Heavy Baryons
Muslema Pervin , Winston Roberts

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:48PM - 4:00PM

JE.00010: Search for $\Phi(1862)$ Pentaquark States with CLAS
Hovanes Egiyan

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:00PM - 4:12PM

JE.00011: Precision fragmentation function measurements at Belle
Martin Leitgab

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Session JF: Neutrino Physics

Chair: Aksel Hallin, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Pearl Salon II


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:12PM

JF.00001: Neutrino Oscillation Results from the MiniBooNE Experiment
Geoffrey Mills

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:12PM - 2:24PM

JF.00002: Investigating Neutrino Interactions with MiniBooNE
Rex Tayloe

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:24PM - 2:36PM

JF.00003: Charged-Current Interaction Measurements in MiniBooNE
Teppei Katori

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JF.00004: MINER$\nu$A: A High Precision Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiment at Fermilab
Robert Bradford

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JF.00005: Measuring Nuclear Effects on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions with MINERvA
Jorge Morfin

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JF.00006: Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Neutrino Beam
Patricia Vahle

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JF.00007: The Daya Bay Reactor Electron Anti-neutrino Oscillation Experiment
Jianglai Liu

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JF.00008: Measuring the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Joseph Formaggio

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:36PM - 3:48PM

JF.00009: SNO External Muon System
Thomas Walker

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:48PM - 4:00PM

JF.00010: Partial (n,n'$\gamma$) cross section measurements of Cu, Ge and Pb at 8 and 12 MeV for $\mathbf{0\nu\beta\beta}$ decay
E. Kwan , J.H. Esterline , S. Elliot , B. Fallin , S.H. Hilderbrand , A. Hime , C.R. Howell , A. Hutcheson , H.J. Karwowski , J.H. Kelley , M.F. Kidd , D.B. Masters , D. Mei , A.P. Tonchev , W. Tornow

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:00PM - 4:12PM

JF.00011: Double Beta Decay of $^{150}$Nd to Excited Final States
Mary Kidd , James Esterline , Werner Tornow

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:12PM - 4:24PM

JF.00012: Detector Characterization for the Majorana Project
Eliza Osenbaugh-Stewart , Reyco Henning

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:24PM - 4:36PM

JF.00013: Homestake Ultra-Low Background Counting Facility and Detection of Double-Beta Decay to Excited States
Dongming Mei , Kevin Lesko , Christina Keller , Yongchen Sun , Zhongbao Yin , Robert McTaggart , Barbara Szczerbinska , Andrew Alton , William Roggenthen , Yuen-Dat Chan , Al Smith , Gersende Prior

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:36PM - 4:48PM

JF.00014: Neutron-induced background studies for CUORE
M.J. Dolinski , P.E. Garrett , E.B. Norman , W. Younes , M. Devlin , N. Fotiades , R.O. Nelson

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Session JG: Nuclear Structure IV

Chair: Volker Werner, Yale University
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Pearl Salon III


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:12PM

JG.00001: Investigation of $^{152,153}$Dy
Babak Shoraka , Volker Werner , Elizabeth McCutchan , Ho-Chiang Ai , Robert J. Casperson , Rick Casten , Andreas Heinz , Bernhard Huber , Robert Luettke , Jing Qian , Russ Terry , Elizabeth Williams , Ryan Winkler

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:12PM - 2:24PM

JG.00002: Triaxial Strongly Deformed bands in $^{163}$Tm
X. Wang , R.V.F. Janssens , E.F. Moore , M.P. Carpenter , N.J. Hammond , T. Lauritsen , G. Mukherjee , D. Seweryniak , S. Zhu , U. Garg , Y. Gu , S. Frauendorf , T. Li , B.K. Nayak , N.S. Pattabiraman , S.S. Ghugre , R.S. Chakrawarthy , M. Whitehead , A.O. Macchiavelli

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:24PM - 2:36PM

JG.00003: The Decay Pathways of a Triaxial Strongly Deformed (TSD) Band in $^{168}$Hf
R.B. Yadav , W.C. Ma , H. Amro , P.G. Varmette , G.B. Hagemann , B. Herskind , K.A. Schmidt , G. Sletten , M. Carpenter , R.V.F. Janssens , T.L. Khoo , T. Lauritsen , C.J. Lister , A. Bracco , S. Frattini , B. Million , J. Domscheit , H. H\"ubel , D.J. Hartley , L.L. Riedinger , S.W. $\O$deg{\aa}rd , S. Siem

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JG.00004: Deviations from the Alaga rules in deformed Hf nuclei
E.A. McCutchan , R.F. Casten , V. Werner , B. Shoraka , E. Williams

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JG.00005: Oblate collective rotation at high spins in neutron-rich, A$\approx $180 nuclei
S.K. Tandel , U.S. Tandel , P. Chowdhury

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JG.00006: Insights into Nuclear Triaxiality from Interference Effects in $E2$ Matrix Elements
J.M. Allmond , J.L. Wood , W.D. Kulp

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JG.00007: Structure of the $4^{+}_{3}$ States in $^{186,188}$Os
A.A. Phillips , P.E. Garrett , G.A. Demand , P. Finlay , K.L. Green , K.G. Leach , M.A. Schumaker , C.E. Svensson , J. Wong , R. Hertenberger , T. Faestermann , R. Kr\"{u}cken , H.-F. Wirth , L. Bettermann , N. Braun , D.G. Burke

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JG.00008: Detailed spectroscopy of $^{219}$Th
W. Reviol , D.G. Sarantites , C.J. Chiara , O.L. Pechenaya , M. Montero , M.P. Carpenter , R.V.F. Janssens , T.L. Khoo , T. Lauritsen , C.J. Lister , D. Seweryniak , S. Zhu

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:36PM - 3:48PM

JG.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:48PM - 4:00PM

JG.00010: Alpha decay of $^{257}$Rf
J. Qian , A. Heinz , R. Winkler , J. Vinson , R.V.F. Janssens , D. Peterson , D. Seweryniak , B. Back , M.P. Carpenter , G. Savard , A.A. Hecht , C.L. Jiang , T.L. Khoo , F.G. Kondev , T. Lauritsen , C.J. Lister , A. Robinson , X. Wang , S. Zhu , A.B. Gansworthy , M. Asai

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:00PM - 4:12PM

JG.00011: Technique for Angular Correlations and g-factor Measurements in Nuclei Produced in the Spontaneous Fission of $^{252}$Cf
C. Goodin , A.V. Daniel , K. Li , A.V. Ramayya , N.J. Stone , J.K. Hwang , J.H. Hamilton , J.R. Stone , Y.X. Luo , J.O. Rasmussen , M.A. Stoyer , S.J. Zhu , G.M. Ter-Akopian , I.Y. Lee

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:12PM - 4:24PM

JG.00012: K isomers in Cm isotopes via deep-inelastic and transfer reactions
U.S. Tandel , P. Chowdhury , S.K. Tandel , A.J. Knox , C.M. Wilson , I. Ahmad , M.P. Carpenter , J.P. Greene , S. Gros , R.V.F. Janssens , T.L. Khoo , F.G. Kondev , T. Lauritsen , C.J. Lister , D. Peterson , A. Robinson , D. Seweryniak , X. Wang , S. Zhu

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
4:24PM - 4:36PM

JG.00013: Radioactive Decay Energy Reactions Should Include Vibrational and Rotational Kinetic Energies
Stewart Brekke

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Session JH: Light Ions and Inverse Reactions

Chair: Werner Tornow, Duke University
Newport News Marriott at City Center - Blue Point I


Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:00PM - 2:12PM

JH.00001: Direct Measurement of the $^1S_0$ Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length at the YAGUAR Reactor
S.L. Stephenson , B.E. Crawford , D. Kawamura , M.R. Schmidt , D.A. Yager-Elorriaga , 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 , B.G. Levakov , A.E. Lyzhin , Yu. I. Chernukhin , Ya. Z. Kandiev

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:12PM - 2:24PM

JH.00002: A study of proton-deuteron scattering in configuration space
Vladimir Suslov , Mikhail Braun , Igor Filikhin , Branislav Vlahovic

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:24PM - 2:36PM

JH.00003: Neutron-Helium-3 Analyzing Powers between 1.60 and 5.54 MeV
J.H. Esterline , A.S. Crowell , B.A. Fallin , C.R. Howell , A. Hutcheson , M.F. Kidd , M.R. Kiser , R.A. Macri , S. Tajima , W. Tornow , B.J. Crowe , R.S. Pedroni , G.J. Weisel

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

JH.00004: Ab initio no-core shell model and microscopic light-ion reactions
Sofia Quaglioni , Petr Navratil

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

JH.00005: Nuclear Structure Measurements for (0$\nu $2$\beta )$ Decay of $^{76}$Ge
J.P. Schiffer , S.J. Freeman , A.C.C. Villari , J.A. Clark , C. Deibel , S. Gros , C.R. Fitzpatrick , A. Heinz , D. Hirata , C.L. Jiang , B.P. Kay , A. Parikh , P.D. Parker , J. Qian , K.E. Rehm , X.D. Tang , V. Werner , C. Wrede

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

JH.00006: Updates for Gadolinium neutron capture measurements at DANCE
Dugersuren Dashdorj , G.E. Mitchell , B. Baramsai , R. Chankova , A. Chyzh , C. Walker , U. Agvaanluvsan , J.A. Becker , W. Parker , C.Y. Wu , T. Bredeweg , A. Couture , R. Haight , M. Jandel , J. O'Donnell , R. Rundberg , J. Wouters , J. Ullmann , D. Vieira , F. Becvar , M. Krticka

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

JH.00007: $^{241}$Am(n,$\gamma$) absolute cross sections measured with DANCE
M. Jandel , T.A. Bredeweg , M.M. Fowler , E.M. Bond , M.B. Chadwick , R.R. Clement , A. Couture , J.M. O'Donnell , R. Reifarth , R.S. Rundberg , J.L. Ullmann , D.J. Vieira , J.B. Wilhelmy , J.M. Wouters , U. Agvaanluvsan , R.A. Macri , S.A. Sheets , C.Y. Wu , J.A. Becker

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

JH.00008: Benchmarking a surrogate reaction for neutron capture using $^{171,173}$Yb($d,p\gamma$)
R. Hatarik , J.A. Cizewski , P.D. O'Malley , T. Swan , L.A. Bernstein , J.T. Burke , J. Gibelin , L. Phair

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:36PM - 3:48PM

JH.00009: Photodisintegration Cross Section Measurements for $^{142}$Nd and $^{150}$Nd and Low-energy E1 $\gamma$-ray Strength Functions
C.T. Angell , H. Utsunomiya , S. Goko , A. Makinaga , T. Kaihori , H. Toyokawa , Y.W. Lui

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
3:48PM - 4:00PM

JH.00010: Is ALPHA the Odometer of the Universe?
Shantilal Goradia

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