Session MA: Frontiers in Nuclear Theory

Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Jefferson Lab
- Simmons Ballroom 2-3


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 11:06AM

MA.00001: QCD energy-momentum tensor correlators and viscosity
Invited Speaker: Harvey Meyer

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:42AM

MA.00002: The Baryon Resonance Spectrum and the $1/N_c$ Expansion
Invited Speaker: Richard Lebed

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 12:18PM

MA.00003: Universality in Nuclear Physics and Leading Corrections
Invited Speaker: Lucas Platter

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Session MC: Neutrino Physics: Instrumentation II

Chair: Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Jewet Ballroom A-B


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

MC.00001: Production of Neutron Transmutation Doped (NTD) Germanium Thermistors for CUORE
Reina Maruyama

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

MC.00002: A Low-Temperature Energy Calibration System for the CUORE Bolometric Double Beta-Decay Experiment
Karsten Heeger

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

MC.00003: Barium tagging R\&D for the EXO double beta decay experiment
Carter Hall

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

MC.00004: The Daya Bay Calibration System: Key to $\theta_{13}$
Jianglai Liu

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

MC.00005: Design and Simulation of the Daya Bay Antineutrino Detectors
Wei Wang

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

MC.00006: Measurements of Liquid Scintillator and Water Properties for Daya Bay Detectors
Johnny Goett

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

MC.00007: The PMT testing system for the Daya Bay Experiment
Wenqin Xu

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

MC.00008: Muon Veto System and Expected Backgrounds at DayaBay
Hongshan Zhang

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
12:06PM - 12:18PM

MC.00009: Muon Tracking for Optimized Background Rejection at KamLAND
Thomas O'Donnell

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Session MD: Hard Scattering in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Chair: Richard Seto, University of California at Riverside
- Jewett Ballroom G-H


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

MD.00001: Systematic Comparison of Jet Energy-Loss Schemes in a 3D hydrodynamic medium
Steffen Bass , Charles Gale , Abhijit Majumder , Chiho Nonaka , Guang-You Qin , Thorsten Renk , Joerg Ruppert

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

MD.00002: Jet fragmentation functions for identified particles in p+p collisions at 200 GeV in the STAR experiment
Elena Bruna

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

MD.00003: Full jet reconstruction in $p + p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200\,\mathrm{GeV}$ in PHENIX
Yue Shi Lai

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

MD.00004: Rapidity Densities of Produced Hadrons in p + p collision
K. Hagel

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

MD.00005: Hump-backed distribution without jet reconstruction in direct-$\gamma$-hadron correlations
Michael Tannenbaum

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

MD.00006: Direct photon-hadron correlations measured using the PHENIX detector
Megan Connors

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

MD.00007: Study of High pT Muons with IceCube
Lisa Gerhardt

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

MD.00008: Longitudinal scaling of net-protons in AuAu and pp collisions at RHIC energies
Flemming Videbaek

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
12:06PM - 12:18PM

MD.00009: Recent Updates of A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) Model
Zi-Wei Lin

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Session ME: Nuclear Structure: Medium Mass A=50-100

Chair: Volker Werner, Yale University
- Simmons Ballroom 1


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

ME.00001: Neutron Transfer Dynamics and Doorway to Fusion in TDHF Theory
Sait Umar , Volker Oberacker

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

ME.00002: Systematics of Hot Giant Dipole Resonance Parameters
Andreas Schiller , Michael Thoennessen , Katherine McAlpine

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

ME.00003: On Isoscalar magnetic moments of excited states
Yitzhak Sharon , Larry Zamick , Sean Yeager

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

ME.00004: High-lying, non-yrast shell structure in 52Ti
Shaofei Zhu , R.V.F. Janssens , M.P. Carpenter , B.P. Kay , F.G. Kondev , T. Lauritsen , C.J. Lister , A. Robinson , D. Seweryniak , X. Wang , B. Fornal , R. Broda , W. Krolas , T. Pawlat , J. Wrzesinski , S.J. Freeman , A. Deacon , J.F. Smith , D. Steppenbeck , M. Honma , P.F. Mantica , S.N. Liddick , B.E. Tomlin , T. Otsuka , A. Larabee

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

ME.00005: First detailed structure information on the r-process path nucleus $^{63}$Fe
A. Baluyut , H. Mach , E. Ruchowska , U. Koester , L.M. Fraile , H. Bradley , R. Boutami , N. Braun , Ch. Fransen , E.M. Reillo , V. Ugryumov

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

ME.00006: Measurements of the g-factors of the $4^+$ states in $^{72,76}$Ge isotopes
G. G\"urdal , G. Kumbartzki , N. Benczer-Koller , Y.Y. Sharon , Z. Berant , R. Casperson , A. Heinz , G. Henning , J. Qian , A. Schmidt , J.R. Terry , W. Werner , E. Williams , R. Winkler

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

ME.00007: Investigating nuclear structure relevant to neutrinoless double $\beta $ decay: $^{76}$Ge and $^{76}$Se
B.P. Kay , J.P. Schiffer , K.E. Rehm , S.J. Freeman , J.A. Clark , C.M. Deibel , C. Wrede , A.C.C. Villari , P. Grabmayr , T. Adachi , H. Fujita , Y. Fujita , K. Hatanaka , D. Ishikawa , Y. Meada , H. Matsubara , H. Okamura , Y. Sakemi , Y. Shimizu , H. Shimoda , K. Suda , Y. Tameshige , A. Tamii

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

ME.00008: Photon Scattering from the Stable Even-Mass Mo Isotopes Below the Neutron-Separation Energy
G. Rusev , A. Hutcheson , E. Kwan , A.P. Tonchev , W. Tornow , C. Angell , S. Hammond , H.J. Karwowski , J.H. Kelley , R. Schwengner , F. D\"onau , A. Wagner

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Session MF: Baryon Resonances in Hadronic Physics

Chair: Latifa Elouadrhiri, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- Simmons Ballroom 4


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

MF.00001: Coupled-channel analysis of hadronic and electromagnetic $\pi$, $\eta$, two-$\pi$ production reactions
H. Kamano , B. Julia-Diaz , T.-S. H. Lee , A. Matsuyama , T. Sato

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

MF.00002: $\pi^+$ photoproduction on the proton from 0.675 to 2.875 GeV
Barry Ritchie

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

MF.00003: Photon beam asymmetries for $\pi^0$ and $\pi^+$ photoproduction from the proton
Michael Dugger

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

MF.00004: Beam asymmetry in $\eta$ meson photoproduction from the proton
Patrick Collins

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

MF.00005: Dynamical coupled channel calculation of pion and omega production
Mark Paris

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

MF.00006: $\Sigma^+$(1385) photoproduction on proton
Gagik Gavalian , M. Amarian

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

MF.00007: Photoproduction of $\Lambda$(1520) and interference effect in particle production
Chandra Nepali , Moskov Amarian , Gagik Gavalian

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

MF.00008: Differential cross sections for $\gamma p \rightarrow p\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ using CLAS
Matthew Bellis

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
12:06PM - 12:18PM

MF.00009: $\pi^-p \rightarrow \pi^-p$ and $\pi^-p \rightarrow K\Lambda$ measurements in the 1700 MeV mass region
Michael Sadler

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Session MG: Astrophysics: Light Nuclei

Chair: Richard Cyburt, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
- Jewett Ballroom C


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

MG.00001: Experiments to Further the Understanding of the Triple-$\alpha$ Process in Hot Astrophysical Scenarios
N.R. Patel , U. Greife , K.E. Rehm , C.M. Deibel , J. Greene , D. Henderson , C.-L. Jiang , B.P. Kay , H.Y. Lee , M. Notani , R. Pardo , S.T. Marley , C.B. Segal , X.D. Tang

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

MG.00002: 12B(n,g) - The Influence on r-process Nucleosynthesis of Light Elements
H.Y. Lee , C.L. Jiang , R.C. Pardo , K.E. Rehm , J.P. Schiffer , N.J. Goodman , J.C. Lighthall , S.T. Marley , A.H. Wuosmaa , M. Notani , X. Tang , N. Patel

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

MG.00003: Reconstruction of $^{16}{\rm O}(\gamma,\alpha)^{12}{\rm C}$ Events in the HI$\gamma$S Optical Readout Time Projection Chamber
S. Stave , M.W. Ahmed , E.R. Clinton , C.R. Howell , P.-N. Seo , H.R. Weller , M. Gai , A.H. Young , B. Bromberger , V. Dangendorf , K. Tittelmeier

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

MG.00004: New Measurements of spectroscopic factors for low-lying $^{16}$N levels
P.D. O'Malley , J.A. Cizewski , R. Hatarik , S.D. Pain , W.A. Peters , D.W. Bardayan , C.D. Nesaraja , M.S. Smith , J.C. Blackmon , K.L. Jones , S.T. Pittman , K.Y. Chae , S. Paulauskas , B.H. Moazen , R.L. Kozub , J.F. Shriner, Jr. , C. Matei , K.A. Chipps

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

MG.00005: Breakup of proton-rich nuclei $^{24}$Si, $^{23}$Al, $^{22}$Mg, $^{21}$Na at intermediate energies for reaction rates in explosive H-burning in novae
A. Banu , L. Trache , R.E. Tribble , C.A. Gagliardi , N. Orr , M. Chartier , P. Roussel-Chomaz , F. Carstoiu , A. Bonaccorso

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

MG.00006: Study of the hindrance effect in sub-barrier fusion reactions
Paul Davies , Ansel Hillmer , Antonios Kontos , Larry Lamm , Chi Ma , Edward Martin , Masahiro Notani , Francesco Raiola , Ed Stech , Wanpeng Tan , Xiaodong Tang

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

MG.00007: Probing Nucleosynthesis in Novae: $^{22}$Na(p,$\gamma$)$^{23}$Mg
A.L. Sallaska , D.W. Storm , A. Garcia , T.A.D. Brown , K.A. Snover , C. Wrede , K. Deryckx , C. Ruiz , D.A. Hutcheon , L. Buchmann , D.F. Ottewell , C. Vockenhuber , J.A. Caggiano

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

MG.00008: Lowest l=0 Proton-Resonance in 26Si and Implications for Nucleosynthesis of 26Al
P.N. Peplowski , L.T. Baby , E. Diffenderfer , P. Hoflich , N. Keeley , A. Rojas , A. Volya , I. Wiedenhover

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
12:06PM - 12:18PM

MG.00009: Measurement of Low Energy Resonances in $^{31}$P(p,$\alpha$)$^{28}$Si
B.H. Moazen , C. Matei , D.W. Bardayan , J.C. Blackmon , K.Y. Chae , K.A. Chipps , R. Hatarik , K.L. Grzywacz , R.W. Kapler , R.L. Kozub , M. Matos , C.D. Nesaraja , S.D. Pain , T. Pelham , W.A. Peters , S.T. Pittman , J.F. Shriner Jr. , M.S. Smith

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Session MH: Instrumentation II

Chair: Mark Stoyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Jewett Ballroom F


Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM

MH.00001: The HELIOS silicon detector array
S.T. Marley

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM

MH.00002: Algorithms for Pulse Shape Analysis Using Silicon Detectors
Iain Darby , Sean Liddick , Robert Grzywacz

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM

MH.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM

MH.00004: Directional \v{C}erenkov Detectors
Edwin Norbeck , Yasar Onel , Peter Bruecken , Mitch Miller , Nathan Premo

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM

MH.00005: Characteristics of CMOS Light Detectors at Cryogenic Temperatures
James Christian , Erik Johnson , Christopher Stapels , Paul Linsay , Rory Miskimen , Donald Crabb , Frank Augustine

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM

MH.00006: Development of a Total Absorption $\gamma$-ray Spectrometer (TAGS) for $\beta$-decay studies at ANL
C.J. Chiara , F.G. Kondev , C.J. Lister , M.P. Carpenter , T. Lauritsen , E.A. McCutchan , G. Savard , D. Seweryniak , S. Zhu , M. Smith

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM

MH.00007: Compact $\beta$-NMR set-up using tilted-foil polarization
C.J. Gross , K.P. Rykaczewski , J.W. Johnson , S.W. Mosko , A.J. Mendez II , D. Shapira , J.F. Liang , R.L. Varner , N. Benczer-Koller , G. Kumbartzki , M. Hass , P.F. Mantica , R. Grzywacz , S.N. Liddick , C.R. Reed , J.C. Batchelder , J.A. Winger

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Sunday, October 26, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM

MH.00008: Diagnostics of Deformation in Thin Diamonds for Coherent Bremsstrahlung Radiators
Richard Jones , Matthew Demas , Alisa Engsberg , Guangliang Yang

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