Session LA: Frontiers in Rare Isotope Science

Chair: Brad Sherrill, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory/Michigan State University
- Simmons Ballroom 2-3


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

LA.00001: $\beta$ decay of N=Z isotopes $^{96}$Cd, $^{98}$In and $^{100}$Sn
Invited Speaker: Daniel Bazin

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:42AM

LA.00002: New decay studies near the doubly-magic $^{78}$Ni
Invited Speaker: Krzysztof Rykaczewski

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 10:18AM

LA.00003: Ab initio many-body calculations of light nuclei neutron and proton scattering
Invited Speaker: Sofia Quaglioni

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Session LB: Nuclear Theory: Fundamental Issues

Chair: Francesca Sammarruca, University of Idaho
- Room 208


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

LB.00001: What can cold atomic gases teach us about nuclear structure?
Calvin Johnson , Plamen Krastev , Joshua Staker

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

LB.00002: The energy spectrum of three protons trap systems
Shalva Tsiklauri , Roman Kezerashvili

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

LB.00003: Amplification of weak interaction by coherent effects in the nucleus
Vladimir Zelevinsky , Naftali Auerbach , Alexander Volya

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LB.00004: Nuclear Electric Dipole Moment of $^3$He
I. Stetcu , C.-P. Liu , J. Friar , A. Hayes , P. Navratil

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LB.00005: Calculation of Observables using the SRG Flow Equations
E.R. Anderson , S.K. Bogner , R.J. Furnstahl , E.D. Jurgenson , R.J. Perry

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LB.00006: Similarity Renormalization Group with Three-Body Forces in One-Dimensional Models
Eric Jurgenson , Richard Furnstahl

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LB.00007: Law of Matter Creation and Motion
Stewart Brekke

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LB.00008: The Brightsen Nucleon Cluster Model Predicts Unmatter Entities inside Nuclei
Dmitri Rabounski , Florentin Smarandache

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Session LC: Neutrino Physics: Instrumentation I

Chair: Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin
- Jewett Ballroom A-B


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

LC.00001: Water Cerenkov Detection of Neutrinos and Neutrons
Melinda Sweany , Steven Dazeley , Adam Bernstein , Nathaniel Bowden , Robert Svoboda

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

LC.00002: Precision microwave detection of beta-decay electrons
Benjamin Monreal , Joseph Formaggio , Asher Kaboth

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

LC.00003: A review of the characterization KATRIN detector section
Brandon Wall

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LC.00004: Characterization of the KATRIN Focal Plane Detector
Laura Bodine , Michelle Leber , Allan Myers , Kazumi Tolich , Brent VanDevender , Brandon Wall

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LC.00005: Electromagnetic Field Simulation in the KATRIN experiment
Thomas Corona

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LC.00006: Calibration Techniques used for the KATRIN Neutrino Mass Experiment
Joseph Formaggio

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LC.00007: Basic Technologies for MiniLENS and LENS
Steven D. Rountree

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LC.00008: A Novel Point Contact HPGe Detector for Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
Victor M. Gehman

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

LC.00009: Geant4 simulation of backgrounds in a p-type point contact Ge detector array
M. Boswell

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Session LD: Mini-Symposium: Probing the Ridge in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Chair: Manuel Calderon, University of California at Davis
- Jewett Ballroom G-H


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 9:06AM

LD.00001: Di-jet correlation tomography of ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
Invited Speaker: Miklos Gyulassy

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LD.00002: Observation of a dramatic transition in the same-side $(\eta,\phi)$ correlation data from STAR
Lanny Ray

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LD.00003: Probing the medium response by two-particle correlations in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV by the PHENIX Experiment
Chin-Hao Chen

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LD.00004: Transition in same-side $(\eta,\phi)$ correlation for Cu-Cu data from STAR
Duncan Prindle

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LD.00005: Onset of collective flow due to Weibel instabilities
Jorgen Randrup , Stanis{\l}aw Mr{\'o}wczy{\'n}ski

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LD.00006: Measurements of Differential Transverse Momentum Correlation Function from the STAR Experiment
Monika Sharma

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

LD.00007: Constraining the Geometry to Study Jet Energy Loss with ``2+1'' correlations in PHENIX
Hua Pei

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Session LE: Nuclear Structure: Light Nuclei

Chair: Alexandra Gade, Michigan State University
- Simmons Ballroom 1


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

LE.00001: Two-Body Photodisintegration of $^4$He into p+t
Rakhsha Nasseripour , Barry Berman

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

LE.00002: Improved DSAM measurements in $^{10}$Be as a test of Ab-Initio calculations
E.A. McCutchan , C.J. Lister , M.P. Carpenter , R.V.F. Janssens , T.L. Khoo , T. Lauritsen , D. Seweryniak , I. Stefanescu , S. Zhu

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

LE.00003: $^{25}$Al levels observed in the $^{28}$Si(p,$\alpha )^{25}$Al reaction
S.T. Pittman , D.W. Bardayan , J.C. Blackmon , R.L. Kozub , M.S. Smith

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LE.00004: Narrowing of the neutron sd-pf shell gap in $^{29}$Na
Aaron Hurst

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LE.00005: Z=14 and Z=16 shell closures
Mathis Wiedeking , P. Fallon , A.O. Macchiavelli

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LE.00006: A microscopic hyper-spherical model: application to $^6$He
Ivan Brida , Filomena Nunes

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LE.00007: Precision Test of the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation in the A = 32, T = 2 Quintet
R. Ferrer , A.A. Kwiatkowski , G. Bollen , C.M. Campbell , C.M. Folden III , D. Lincoln , D.J. Morrissey , G.K. Pang , A. Prinke , J. Savory , S. Schwarz

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LE.00008: Next generation $\Lambda$-hypernuclear spectroscopy via the (e, e$^\prime$K$^+$) reaction at Jefferson Lab
Tomofumi Maruta

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Session LF: Nuclear Structure: Medium Mass A=100-150

Chair: Paul Garrett, University of Guelph
- Simmons Ballroom 4


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

LF.00001: Investigation into the Low-Energy Structure of Ru Isotopes via \textit{G}-Factor Measurements
M.J. Taylor , M.A. Bentley , N. Benczer-Koller , G. Kumbartzki , G. Gurdal , V. Werner , J. Qian , R. Winkler , A. Heinz , E. Williams , E.A. McCutchan , R. Casperson , A.E. Stuchbery , B. Shoraka , Z. Berant , R. Luttke

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

LF.00002: Observation of an excited state in $^{101}$Sn via the $\alpha$-decay of $^{105}$Te
Sean Liddick , Iain Darby , Robert Grzywacz , Krzysztof Rykaczewski , Robert Page , Carl Gross , Jon Batchelder

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

LF.00003: Nuclear structure of $^{116}$Cd from the (n, n' $\gamma$) reaction
C.S. Sumithrarachchi , P.E. Garrett , K.L. Green , M. Kadi , N. Warr , J. Jolie , S.W. Yates

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LF.00004: Precise Lifetime Measurement of $2^+_1$ State in $^{120}$Te by Recoil Distance Doppler Shift Method
J.R. Terry , V. Werner , Z. Berrant , R.J. Casperson , A. Heinz , G. Henning , R. L\"{u}ttke , E.A. McCutchan , J. Qian , B. Shoraka , E. Williams , R. Winkler

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LF.00005: Spectroscopy of exotic $^{123,125}$Ag produced in fragmentation reactions
Irina Stefanescu , W.B. Walters , N. Hoteling , P.F. Mantica , J. Pereira , J.S. Pinter , J.B. Stoker , B. Tomlin

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LF.00006: High-spin states in $^{135}$Cs
N. Fotiades , J.A. Cizewski , R. Kr\"{u}cken , R.M. Clark , P. Fallon , I.Y. Lee , A.O. Macchiavelli , J.A. Becker , W. Younes

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LF.00007: Study of low-lying excited states in $^{139}$La via the $\left(n,n^{\prime}\gamma\right)$ reaction
S.F. Ashley , J.N. Orce , B. Crider , E. Elhami , M.T. McEllistrem , S. Mukhopadhyay , E. Peters , S.W. Yates

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LF.00008: g-factor measurements in $^{134}$Te and $^{140,142}$Xe
Chris Goodin , K. Li , A.V. Daniel , N.J. Stone , A.V. Ramayya , J.H. Hamilton , Sh. Liu , J. Stone

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

LF.00009: Octupole correlations in light neutron-rich $^{143, 144}$La
Y.X. Luo , J.H. Hamilton , J.O. Rasmussen , A.V. Ramayya , S.J. Zhu , J.K. Hwang

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Session LG: Cosmology

Chair: Karl van Bibber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Jewett Ballroom C


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

LG.00001: Limits on cold dark matter axions from the ADMX high resolution search
Gray Rybka , Steven Asztalos , Richard Bradley , Gianpaolo Carosi , Michael Hotz , Jungseek Hwang , Darin Kinion , Leslie Rosenberg , Pierre Sikivie , David Tanner , Karl van Bibber

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

LG.00002: Limits on thermally-distributed halo dark-matter axions from ADMX
Gianpaolo Carosi , Steven Asztalos , Richard Bradley , Michael Hotz , Jungseek Hwang , Darin Kinion , Leslie Rosenberg , Gray Rybka , Pierre Sikivie , David Tanner , Karl van Bibber

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

LG.00003: Overview, Technical Description and Future of the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment
S. Asztalos , R. Bradley , G. Carosi , M. Hotz , J. Hwang , D. Kinion , L. Rosenberg , G. Rybka , P. Sikivie , D. Tanner , K. van Bibber

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LG.00004: Measuring the radiative width of the Hoyle state
Jason Burke

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LG.00005: Astrophysical Data Transmission in Planck Units
Shantilal Goradia

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LG.00006: The mass, energy, space and time system theory-MEST
Dayong Cao

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LG.00007: Deeper Probing of the Fine-structure Constant
Shantilal Goradia

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LG.00008: The mass, energy, space and time system of Wave, Particle and universe -MEST
Dayong Cao

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:06AM - 10:18AM

LG.00009: The mass, energy, space and time system of Star and Black hole -MEST
Dayong Cao

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Session LH: Instrumentation I

Chair: Ernst Sichtermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Jewett Ballroom F


Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:30AM - 8:42AM

LH.00001: Status of the HELIOS Spectrometer at ATLAS
Alan Wuosmaa

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:42AM - 8:54AM

LH.00002: Determination of neutron beam parameters of the DANCE flight path at LANSCE
John Ullmann , Michal Mocko , Todd Bredeweg , Aaron Couture , Robert Haight , Marian Jandel , August Keksis , Guenter Muhrer , John O'Donnell , Olivier Roig , Robert Rundberg , David Vieira , Jan Wouters , Ching-Yen Wu , John Becker , Bayarbadrakh Baramsai , Andrii Chyzh

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:54AM - 9:06AM

LH.00003: Calibration of a superconducting beta spectrometer using 66Ga
Gregory Severin , Lynn Knutson , Elizabeth George , Paul Voytas , Sean Cotter

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:06AM - 9:18AM

LH.00004: Cyclotron gas stopper: simulations and predicted performance
C.M. Campbell , S. Chouhan , C. Guenaut , D. Lawton , F. Marti , J. Ottarson , S. Schwarz , A.F. Zeller , P. Zavodszky , G. Bollen , D.J. Morrissey , G. Pang

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:18AM - 9:30AM

LH.00005: Compact High Resolution Isobar Separator for Decay Spectroscopy
A. Piechaczek , V. Shchepunov , H.K. Carter , J.C. Batchelder , E.F. Zganjar , S.N. Liddick , H. Wollnik , B.O. Griffith

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:30AM - 9:42AM

LH.00006: Radioactive Ion Beam Purification by Selective Adsorption
C. Jost , H.K. Carter , B.O. Griffith , C.A. Reed , K.-L. Kratz , T. Stora , D.W. Stracener

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:42AM - 9:54AM

LH.00007: Separation of H$_2$, HD and D$_2$ using Low Temperature Gas Chromatography
C. Steven Whisnant , Travis Kelley , Ryan Burke , Patrick Hansen

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:54AM - 10:06AM

LH.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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