Session FA: Fundamental Neutron Physics

Chair: Geoff Greene, University of Tennessee and SNS
- Simmons Ballroom 2-3


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

FA.00001: An Overview of Experiments in Neutron Beta Decay
Invited Speaker: William Snow

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

FA.00002: The study of neutron quantum states in the Earth's gravitational field
Invited Speaker: Stefan Baessler

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

FA.00003: Precision Neutron Scattering Length Measurements Using Neutron Interferometry
Invited Speaker: Fred Wietfeldt

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Session FB: Mini-Symposium: Nuclear Physics Research and Connections to Nuclear Energy I

Chair: Lee Schroeder, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Room 208


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

FB.00001: Basic Nuclear Physics Research Needs for Nuclear Energy
Invited Speaker: Tony Hill

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FB.00002: Determining cross sections for low-energy neutron capture reactions via the Surrogate method
Jutta Escher , Frank Dietrich , Nicholas Scielzo , Christian Forssen

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FB.00003: Measuring the $^{239}$U(n,f) cross section using a two neutron transfer surrogate reaction
Jason Burke

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FB.00004: Surrogate reactions on fission fragments for nuclear energy
R. Hatarik , J.A. Cizewski , W.A. Peters , D.W. Bardayan , S.D. Pain

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FB.00005: Benchmarking the Surrogate Ratio Method Using the {\boldmath $\alpha$,$\alpha$}'f) reaction
S.R. Lesher , L.A. Bernstein , J.T. Burke , D.L. Bleuel , F.S. Dietrich , J.E. Escher , B.F. Goldblum , K.J. Moody , E.B. Norman , N.D. Scielzo , H. Ai , C.W. Beausand , R.M. Clark , P. Fallon , J. Gibelin , I.Y. Lee , A.O. Macchiavelli , M.A. McMahan , L. Phair , E. Rodriguez-Vieitez , M. Wiedeking

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

FB.00006: How Can the Accuracy of Neutron Nonelastic Cross Sections be Improved?
Frank Dietrich

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

FB.00007: A Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) Detector for Fast Neutron Imaging
C.C. Jewett , M. McMahan , J. Cerny , L. Heilbronn , M. Johnson

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Session FC: Mini-Symposium: Neutrino Properties and Nuclear Physics III

Chair: Robert McKeown, California Institute of Technology
- Jewett Ballroom A-B


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

FC.00001: New Neutrino Oscillation Results from MiniBooNE
Invited Speaker: Richard Van de Water

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FC.00002: Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei
Ulrich Mosel , Tina Leitner

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FC.00003: Charged current single pion to quasi-elastic cross section ratio
Steven Linden

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FC.00004: Neutrino quasi-elastic scattering measured with MINERvA
Ronald Ransome

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FC.00005: Unexpected Nuclear Effects in $\nu $-Fe Interactions and MINERvA's Program to Measure Neutrino Scattering off a Range of Nuclei
Jorge G. Morfin

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

FC.00006: On the electroweak physics reach of the NuSOnG experiment
James Jenkins

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

FC.00007: First Measurement of Neutrino Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam
Zelimir Djurcic

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Session FD: Mini-Symposium: Rare Isotope Science IV

Chair: Paul Mantica, Michigan State University
- Jewett Ballroom G-H


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

FD.00001: First identification of the $\pi $g$_{9/2}$ band in the neutron-rich $^{71,73,75}$Ga isotopes produced in deep-inelastic reactions
I. Stefanescu , N. Hoteling , W.B. Walters , M.P. Carpenter , R.V.F. Janssens , T. Lauritsen , D. Seweryniak , S. Zhu , R. Broda , B. Fornal , W. Krolas , T. Pawlat

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

FD.00002: New Band Structures in Neutron-Rich $^{108}$Mo, and $^{108,110,112}$Ru
J.H. Hamilton , Y.X. Luo , A.V. Ramayya , C. Goodin , K. Li , J.K. Hwang , S. Liu , S.J. Zhu , H.-B. Ding , X.L. Che , J.O. Rasmussen , I.Y. Lee , D. Almehed , S. Frauendorf , V. Dimitrov , J.Y. Zhang , N.J. Stone , G.M. Ter-Akopian , A.V. Daniel , M.A. Stoyer , R. Donangelo , J.D. Cole

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

FD.00003: Measurement of (d,p) reactions near the doubly-magic $^{132}$Sn
Steven Pain

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FD.00004: The $^{132}$Sn + $^{96}$Zr reaction: a study of fusion enhancement/hindrance
Walter Loveland , A.M. Vinodkumar , James Neeway , Peter Sprunger , Landon Prisbrey , Donald Peterson , J.F. Liang , Dan Shapira , C.J. Gross , R.L. Varner , J.J. Kolata , A. Roberts , A.L. Caraley

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FD.00005: Production of neutron-rich isotopes in reactions at beam energies well above the Coulomb Barrier
Shaofei Zhu , R.V.F. Janssens , M.P. Carpenter , C.J. Chiara , E. Jackson , B.A. Kay , F.G. Kondev , T. Lauritsen , E.A. McCutchan , D. Seweryniak , N. Hoteling , I. Stefanescu , B. Fornal

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FD.00006: Neutron-Rich Isotopes from 208Pb at 86 MeV/u
O.B. Tarasov , M. Portillo , A.M. Amthor , T. Baumann , D. Bazin , C. Folden , T. Ginter , M. Hausmann , D.J. Morrissey , J. Pereira , B.M. Sherrill , M. Thoennessen , C. Nociforo

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FD.00007: Time-of-Flight Mass Measurements of Neutron Rich Nuclides
A. Estrade , M. Matos , A.M. Amthor , A. Becerril , T. Elliot , G. Lorusso , A. Rogers , H. Schatz , D. Bazin , A. Gade , M. Portillo , A. Stolz , D. Galaviz , J. Pereira , D. Shapira , E. Smith , M. Wallace

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

FD.00008: Development of a Versatile Array of Neutron Detectors at Low Energy
Catalin Matei , D.W. Bardayan , J.C. Blackmon , J.A. Cizewski , W.A. Peters , R.K. Grzywacz , S.N. Liddick , S.W. Padgett , S.D. Pain , F. Sarazin

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

FD.00009: Blurred femtoscopy in two-proton decay
Carlos Bertulani

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Session FE: Nuclear Reactions: Light Ions

Chair: Ian Thompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Simmons Ballroom 1


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

FE.00001: Refinement of Global Phase-Shift Analysis for $p+^3He$ Elastic Scattering Using Spin-Correlation Coefficients
Tim Daniels , Charles Arnold , John Cesaratto , Thomas Clegg , Alexander Couture , Astrid Imig , Hugon Karwowski

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

FE.00002: Spectroscopic Factors From the Single Neutron Pickup Reaction $^{64}$Zn$(\vec{\mathrm{d}}$,t)
Kyle Leach , P.E. Garrett , G.A. Demand , P. Finlay , K.L. Green , A.A. Phillips , C.S. Sumithrarachchi , C.E. Svensson , S. Triambak , G.C. Ball , T. Faestermann , R. Kr\"ucken , H.-F. Wirth , R. Herten-Berger

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

FE.00003: The development of single-nucleon pickup reactions with fast, exotic beams as a spectroscopic tool
S. McDaniel , A. Gade , P. Aldrich , D. Bazin , J.M. Cook , C. Aa. Diget , K.W. Kemper , T. Glasmacher , A. Ratkiewicz , K. Siwek , J.A. Tostevin , D. Weisshaar

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FE.00004: The statistical decay properties of Gadolinium isotopes using the DANCE array
D. Dashdorj , G. Mitchell , B. Baramsai , R. Chankova , A. Chyzh , C. Walker

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FE.00005: Determining the ($n$,$\gamma )$ cross section of $^{153}$Gd using surrogate reactions
Nicholas Scielzo

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FE.00006: (n,$\gamma$) by the Internal Surrogate Ratio Method: A Benchmark using $^{235}$\textrm{U}(d,p)
J.M. Allmond

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FE.00007: Chemical Equilibration Involving Decaying Particles in the Early Universe
Inga Kuznetsova , Takeshi Kodama , Johann Rafelski

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Session FF: Mini-Symposium: Viscosity, String Theory and Hydrodynamics

Chair: W.A. Zajc, Columbia University
- Simmons Ballroom 4


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

FF.00001: Hydrodynamics and gauge/gravity duality
Invited Speaker: Dam Thanh Son

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FF.00002: Shear Transport Coefficients from Gauge/Gravity Correspondence
Joseph Kapusta , Todd Springer

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FF.00003: The Lattice QCD Equation of State and Implications for Hydrodynamic Modeling of Heavy Ion Collisions
Ron Soltz

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FF.00004: Measurements of High $p_{T}$ Identified Hadron $v_{2}$ in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by the PHENIX Experiment
Shengli Huang

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FF.00005: Influence of Finite Chemical Potential on Hadronic Shear Viscosity
Nasser Demir , Steffen A. Bass

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

FF.00006: Propagating Mach Cones in a Viscous Quark-Gluon Plasma
R. Bryon Neufeld

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

FF.00007: Unveiling properties of the QGP with Multi-Particle Correlations from the PHENIX Experiment
Nuggehalli Ajitanand

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:18AM - 10:30AM

FF.00008: Quest for the Degrees of Freedom in sQGP: An Electric-Magnetic Duality Perspective
Jinfeng Liao , Edward Shuryak

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Session FG: Mini-Symposium: 3D View of the Nucleon and Its Spin III

Chair: Jim Sowinski, Indiana University
- Jewett Ballroom C


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

FG.00001: Exploring 3D Distributions at HERMES: Latest Results on Sivers Asymmetries and DVCS Amplitudes
Invited Speaker: Edward R. Kinney

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FG.00002: Recent HERMES Results in Exclusive $\rho$ and $\phi$ Transverse Target Spin Asymmetries
Stephen Gliske , Wolfgang Lorenzon

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FG.00003: Measurement of the Eta Meson Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry A$_{N}$ at large Feynman X$_{F }$with the STAR Forward Pion Detector.
Len Eun

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FG.00004: Measuring the Sivers Effect via Back-to-Back Di-Hadron Correlations in the PHENIX at RHIC
Feng Wei

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FG.00005: Transverse Single Spin Asymmetries in Heavy Flavor production in Polarized p+p Collisions at RHIC
Han Liu

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

FG.00006: Single transverse-spin asymmetry for $D$-meson production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering
Zhongbo Kang , Jianwei Qiu

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

FG.00007: Beam-Spin Asymmetry Measurements at CLAS
M. Aghasyan

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Session FH: Astrophysics: Medium Mass Nuclei

Chair: Guy Savard, Argonne National Laboratory
- Jewett Ballroom F


Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

FH.00001: Excitation energies of the unbound states in $^{32}$Cl studied via the $^{32}$S($^{3}$He,t)$^{32}$Cl charge exchange reaction
M. Mato\v{s} , D.W. Bardayan , J.C. Blackmon , J.A. Clark , C.M. Deibel , L. Linhardt , C.D. Nesaraja , P.D. O'Malley , S.D. Pain , P.D. Parker , K.T. Schmitt

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

FH.00002: Measurement of the $^{40}$Ca($\alpha $,$\gamma )^{44}$Ti reaction for supernovae nucleosynthesis
Steven Sheets , Jason Burke , Darren Bleuel , Tom Brown , Patrick Grant , Rob Hoffman , Eric Norman , Larry Phair , Nick Scielzo , Scott Tumey

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

FH.00003: Studying Electron-Capture on $^{64}$Zn in Supernovae with the (t,$^{3}$He) Charge-Exchange Reaction
G.W. Hitt , Sam M. Austin , D. Bazin , A. Gade , C.J. Guess , D. Galaviz-Redondo , Y. Shimbara , C. Tur , R.G.T. Zegers , M. Horoi , M.E. Howard , E.E. Smith

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

FH.00004: Mass Measurements of Proton-Rich Isotopes Between Mo and Pd for $rp$- and $\nu p$-process Models
Jennifer Fallis , K.S. Sharma , H. Sharma , J.A. Clark , G. Savard , A.F. Levand , T. Sun , C.M. Deibel , C. Wrede , A. Parikh , D. Lascar , R. Segel , S. Caldwell , J. Van Schelt , F. Buchinger , J.E. Crawford , S. Guilck , J.K.P. Lee , G. Li , N.D. Scielzo , A.A. Hecht

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

FH.00005: The rp-process in Type-I X-ray Bursts with REACLIB V1
Richard Cyburt

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

FH.00006: Sensitivity of X-ray Burst Models to Uncertainties in Nuclear Processes
Karl Smith , Alan Matthew Amthor , Richard Cyburt , Alexander Heger , Emily Johnson , Hendrik Schatz

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

FH.00007: s-Process Branch Point (n,$\gamma )$ Measurements using NIF$^{\ast }$
Lee Bernstein , D.L. Bleuel , C. Cerjan , U. Greife , R.D. Hoffman , L. Phair , A. McEvoy , K.J. Moody , D.H.G. Schneider , D. Shaughnessy , M.A. Stoyer

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

FH.00008: Integral Neutron Multiplicity Measurements from Cosmic Ray Interactions in Lead
Thomas Ward , Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov , Nikolai Kudryashev , Denis Beller

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Saturday, October 25, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

FH.00009: Precision Mass Measurements of Heavy $^{252}$Cf Fission Fragments Near the $r$-Process Path
J. Van Schelt , G. Savard , S. Caldwell , M. Sternberg , J.A. Clark , J.P. Greene , A.F. Levand , T. Sun , B.J. Zabransky , J. Fallis , K.S. Sharma , D. Lascar , R.E. Segel , G. Li

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