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Session EA: Conference Experience for Undergraduates Poster Session (2:00-4:00PM)

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Room: Big Ten C





EA.00001: Beta Decay Q value Measurements for Astrophysics
Brittany Abromeit , Sean Liddick , Scott Suchyta , Nicole Larson , Murali Bolla

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EA.00002: Optimizing fits of Geant4 simulations to measured gamma-ray spectra on a parallel computing cluster
Michael Agiorgousis

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EA.00003: A new method to study the resonances in the 12C+12C fusion reaction
Adam Alongi

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EA.00004: Electronics and Data Acquisition for MiniLENS
M. Amrit , J. Blackmon , C. Rasco , L. Afanasieva

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EA.00005: Development of Veto Detector for MiniCLEAN Experiment to Aid in the Search for Dark Matter
Matthew Anthony

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EA.00006: Thickness Measurements and Isotopic Identification of Cd, Sn, and Te Targets
Andrew Arend

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EA.00007: Truncation and Extrapolation of \textit{Ab initio} Calculations in a Finite Model Space
M. Avetian , S.A. Coon , M.K.G. Kruse , U. van Kolck , P. Maris , J.P. Vary

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EA.00008: Characterization of $^{83}$Kr gas source for the Project 8 neutrino mass experiment
Arman Ballado

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EA.00009: Calibrating the STAR Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter Using $\pi^{0}$'s
Benjamin Barber

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EA.00010: Pad Plane Design and Readout for SAMURAI TPC
J. Barney , Z. Chajecki , C.F. Chan , J.W. Dunn , J. Estee , J. Gilbert , F. Lu , W.G. Lynch , R. Shane , M.B. Tsang , A.B. McIntosh , S.J. Yenello , M. Famiano , T. Isobe , H. Sakurai , A. Taketani , T. Murakami

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EA.00011: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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EA.00012: Observation of the J/Psi meson in Ultra Peripheral Collisions at STAR
Gleb Batalkin

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EA.00013: Systematic Search for Waiting Points in Nova Explosions
Alexander Bennett , Michael Smith , Raphael Hix , Tomomi Sunayama

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EA.00014: Construction of Specialty Guide Field Coils Using an Industrial Robotic Arm
William Berry , Christopher Crawford , Mario Fugal , Elise Martin , Daniel Wagner , Robert Milburn

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EA.00015: Position Sensitivity of the SuN (Summing NaI(Tl)) Scintillation Detector
Ilya Beskin , Artemis Spyrou , Stephen Quinn , Jessica Peace , Anna Simon

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EA.00016: Dipole Transport in Multi-fragmentation
Giacomo Bonasera

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EA.00017: Measurement of the Angular Distributions of Drell-Yan Dimuons
Brandon Bowen

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EA.00018: Germanium Crystal Growth for DUSEL Experiments
Logan Brekke

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EA.00019: Dark Matter Detection with DM-Ice
Benjamin Broerman

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EA.00020: Development of the Silicon Array at Notre Dame (SAND) for the Study of the 12C + 12C Reaction at Sub-Coulomb Energies
Craig Cahillane

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EA.00021: Gas Electron Multiplier Tracking Telescopes for OLYMPUS
Miles Campbell , Joshua McMahon

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EA.00022: Gain Calibrations for the BUNI Large-Volume NaI(Tl) Detector at MAX-lab
Olivia Campbell

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EA.00023: Rate Capability in Bakelite Based Resistive Plate Chambers
Max Candocia

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EA.00024: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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EA.00025: First Measurement of Statistical Gamma-ray Transitions in $^{88}$Sr at TUNL via Inelastic Neutron Scattering
S. Carter , G. Rusev , C. Arnould , W. Tornow , M. Gooden , J.H. Kelley , S.L. Hammond , L. Stevens

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EA.00026: NIFFTE Time Projection Chamber for Fission Cross Section Measurements
Ryan Castillo

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EA.00027: Prototyping A Gas Electron Multiplier For Use At TJNAF
Chris Colvin

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EA.00028: Complementary Neutron Efficiency Measurements using VANDLE
P. Copp , W.A. Peters , R. Grzywacz , M. Madurga , S. Paulauskas , J.A. Cizewski , M.E. Howard , P.D. O'Malley , B. Manning , E. Merino , T.N. Massey , C. Brune , F. Sarazin , S. Ilyuskin , D. Walter , J. Blackmon , D.W. Bardayan , I. Spassova , C. Matei

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EA.00029: A Calibration Technique for the ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter at the Large Hadron Collider
Karen Cossyleon , Chaan Thomas , Edmundo Garcia-Solis , Mateusz Ploskon , Peter Jacobs

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EA.00030: Measurement of the Background Gamma Spectrum at the SNS FP12
K. Craycraft

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EA.00031: Exploring the EMC Effect and Anti-Shadowing at Fermilab E906/SeaQuest
Mandi Crowder

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EA.00032: Examination of the validity of statistical models for the $^{12}$C + $^{12}$C fusion reaction at sub-barrier energies
Erin Dahlstrom

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EA.00033: Development of CdWO$_{4}$ Crystal Detectors
Alyssa Day

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EA.00034: Learning about scalars in the dark sector from generic fifth force searches
Ross DeVol , Gintaras Duda

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EA.00035: Fabrication of a Low Radioactive Background Temperature Sensor on a Parylene Substrate
Ankur Dhar , James Loach , Alan Poon

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EA.00036: A Microscopic Description of the Elusive Hoyle State
Alison Dreyfuss , Kristina Launey , Cairo Bahri , Tomas Dytrych , Jerry Draayer

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EA.00037: The SAMURAI Time Projection Chamber
Steven Dye

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EA.00038: Calibration of the NEXT-1 Time Projection Chamber for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches
Maxim Egorov

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EA.00039: Modeling neutron events in MoNA-LISA using MCNPX
Margaret Kendra Elliston , Alexander Peters , Kristen Stryker , Sharon Stephenson

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EA.00040: Bottomonium in the QGP: Production at RHIC and LHC
Andrew Emerick , Ralf Rapp

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EA.00041: Detection Efficiency of the Clover Array for Recoil Decay Spectroscopy
John Engel , Mahammad Al-Shudifat , S.V. Paulauskas , Miguel Madurga , Robert Grzywacz

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EA.00042: Measurement of the Total Cross Section for $\gamma n \rightarrow p \pi^-$ Near Threshold at MAX-lab
Khayla England

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EA.00043: Development of a Polarized He3 Ion Source for RHIC
Charles Epstein , J. Alessi , E. Beebe , W. Heil , S. Karpuk , R. Milner , E. Otten , A. Pikin , A. Zelenski

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EA.00044: Improving Thick Germanium Detectors: Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
Paulette Epstein , Rupak Mahapatra

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EA.00045: (d,n) Proton Transfer Reactions Relevant to Nuclear Astrophysics: The case of $^{17}$O(d,n)$^{18}$F in Inverse Kinematics
Ediz Ersoy

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EA.00046: Non-Uniform Electromagnetic Fields in the SAMURAI TPC
J. Estee , J. Barney , Z. Chajecki , C.F. Chan , J.W. Dunn , J. Gilbert , F. Lu , W.G. Lynch , R. Shane , M.B. Tsang , A.B. McIntosh , S.J. Yennello , M. Famiano , T. Isobe , H. Sakurai , A. Taketani , T. Murakami

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EA.00047: Search for Local Parity Violation in Au+Au collisions at 62.4 GeV at STAR
Midhat Farooq

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EA.00048: Development of Single-Sided Enriched Oxygen-16 and 18 Targets for Exotic Beam Studies
Michael Febbraro , Frederick Becchetti , Mitaire Ojaruega , Ramon Torres-Isea

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EA.00049: A Monte Carlo Simulation for Understanding Energy Measurements of Beta Particles Detected by the UCNb Experiment
Chi Feng

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EA.00050: Analysis of the Farmville Meteorite
Megan Ferm

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EA.00051: Optimization of a Scintillator for the Measurement of Positrons from Trapped, Polarized $^{37}$K
Erin France , Dan Melconian

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EA.00052: Updating the Qweak Database: Maintenance and Accessibility
Matthew Gammill , Damon T. Spayde

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EA.00053: Testing a New System for Charged-Particle Nuclear Reactions
Hannah Gardiner , Jeffrey Blackmon , Laura Linhardt , Kevin Macon , Milan Matos , Charlie Rasco , Lagy Baby , Yevegn Koshchiy , Grigory Rogachev , D. Santiago-Gonzalez , Ingo Wiedenhover , Dan Bardayan

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EA.00054: Simulating Radioactive Decays in Next Generation Geoneutrino Detectors
Megan Geen

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EA.00055: Conceptual Design Calculations for the Neutral Pion Hadron Calorimeter (JLab Hall C 12 GeV)
Yekaterina Gilbo

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EA.00056: Beam characterization and optimization using a tunable Iris Aperture
S.A. Graves , R.L. Kozub , D.W. Bardayan

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EA.00057: Table of isotopes as a teaching tool
Johnathan Gross , Artemis Spyrou , Zach Constan , Michael Thoennessen

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EA.00058: Calibration of the MoNA and LISA Arrays for the LISA Commissioning Experiment
A. Grovom , J. Kwiatkowski , W.F. Rogers

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EA.00059: DarkLight Detector Energy Deposition and Temperature Study
Thoth Gunter

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EA.00060: Reconstructing Drell-Yan Data at SeaQuest
Tyler Hague

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EA.00061: Measuring the Half-Life of $^{60}$Fe Data Analysis
Quinn Hailes

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EA.00062: A Cryostat for the Development and Testing of Detector Readout Electronics in the \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator}
Erin Hansen , Alan Poon , James Loach

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EA.00063: Experimental Perspective on Electron-Proton Scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider
Laura Havener

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EA.00064: Recoil Mass Separator Hysteresis Measurements and Germanium Detector Development
Robert Heitz

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EA.00065: Modeling the Effects of Mirror Misalignment in a Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector
Tawanda Hitchcock , Austin Harton , Edmundo Garcia-Solis

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EA.00066: Conceptual Design and Data Acquisition Techniques (JLab Hall C 12 GeV Kaon Aerogel Detector)
Nathaniel Hlavin

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EA.00067: Studying the Light Antiquark Asymmetry in the Nucleon Sea with FNAL E-906/SeaQuest
Kristin Holz

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EA.00068: Construction, Testing, and Analysis of Radon Mitigation System
Dan Jardin , Richard Schnee

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EA.00069: PIXE Analysis of Indoor Aerosols
Christopher Johnson , Colin Turley , Robert Moore , Maria Battaglia , Scott LaBrake , Michael Vineyard

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EA.00070: Finding the Incompressibility of Nuclear Matter
Jennifer Kachel

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EA.00071: Analyzing aCORN Experiment Data
Robert Kosar

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EA.00072: Testing and Characterization of Acrylic for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
Michael Krohn , Bryce Littlejohn , Karsten Heeger

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EA.00073: Calibration of the Sweeper Chamber Charged-Particle Detectors for the LISA Commissioning Experiment
J. Kwiatkowski , A. Grovom , W. Rogers

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EA.00074: A systematic study of the sensitivity of triangular flow to the initial state fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Rolando La Placa , Hannah Petersen , Steffen Bass

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EA.00075: Monte-Carlo Simulations of Near-Threshold $\gamma + n \rightarrow p + \pi ^- $ Measurements at MAX-lab
Samuel Lipschutz

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EA.00076: Simulation of GRETINA Lifetime Experiment
Cody Littley , Hironori Iwasaki , Antoine Lemasson

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EA.00077: Measurements of gamma radiation levels and spectra in the San Francisco Bay Area
B.T. Lo , K.P. Brozek , C.T. Angell , E.B. Norman

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EA.00078: Study of Energy Resolution of Lead Glass Calorimeter
Daniel Lombardo

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EA.00079: Creation of Thin Deuterated Polyethylene Targets for Inverse Kinematics Transfer Reaction Measurements
K.D. Long , R.L. Kozub , B. Manning , S.D. Pain , C.D. Nesaraja , M.S. Smith , D.W. Bardayan

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EA.00080: A New 3He-Target Design for Compton Scattering Experiment
S. Mahalchick , H. Gao , G. Laskaris , W. Weir , Q. Ye , Q.J. Ye

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EA.00081: Conductance Control Iris for the K150 Cyclotron H- Ion Source
Armando Maldonado , Henry Clark , Gabriel Tabacaru

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EA.00082: Study of Hot QCD Matter Using QCD Jets as a Tomographic Probe of the Matter at the LHC
Sultan Malik , Peter Jacobs , Bo Fenton-Olson

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EA.00083: Simulation of an Apparatus to Measure the Parity-Violating Neutron Spin Rotation in $^{4}$He
R.C. Malone , B.E. Crawford

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EA.00084: Investigations of multi-particle exit channels of levels in light nuclei
J.J. Manfredi , R.J. Charity , J.M. Elson , R. Shane , L.G. Sobotka , Z. Chajecki , D. Coupland , H. Iwasaki , M. Kilburn , J. Lee , W.G. Lynch , A. Sanetullaev , M.B. Tsang , J. Winkelbauer , M. Youngs , S.T. Marley , D.V. Shetty , A.H. Wuosmaa , T.K. Ghosh , M.E. Howard

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EA.00085: Discovery of Isotopes
Erin May , Michael Thoennessen

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EA.00086: Nuclear Physics with CLAS12 and the High Threshold Cherenkov Counter
Jeffrey Mazurek

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EA.00087: Gas Electron Multiplier Tracking Telescopes for OLYMPUS
Joshua McMahon , Miles Campbell

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EA.00088: Analysis of the 4He target density for Jefferson Lab Short Range Correlations (SRC) experiments
Nicholas McMahon

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EA.00089: Analyzing Detector Acceptance for Design Optimization
Kathryn Meehan

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EA.00090: Production of High-Purity Germanium Ingots for Detector-Grade Crystal growth
Hao Mei

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EA.00091: Development of Testing Equipment for Aerogel and Large-Diameter PMTs
Michael Metz

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EA.00092: Magnet Construction for Neutron Interferometry
Rob Milburn , Chris Crawford

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EA.00093: Gain-Matching and Efficiency Tests On Double- and Single-Ended Hodoscope Arrays
Andrew Miller

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EA.00094: Verification of the Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter Implementation into the STAR Simulation Package
Kevin Miller

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EA.00095: Software Implementation for the Characterization of Silicon Pixel Detectors
Kyle Miller , Ricardo Eusebi

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EA.00096: A further measurement to test electron conversion theory: transitions produced following the $\beta$-decay of $^{116}$In
Sondra Miller , John Hardy , Ninel Nica , John Goodwin

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EA.00097: Trigger Logic using memory bits for SeaQuest E - 906
Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Jin-Yuan Wu , Shiuan-Hal Shiu

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EA.00098: Monte Carlo Studies: Tagging Heavy Quark Initialized Jets
Alyssa Montalbano

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EA.00099: Optimizing Position Sensitivity of the Detection System for the St. George Recoil Mass Separator
Luis Morales , Jerry Hinnefeld , Manoel Couder , Sunil Kalkal

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EA.00100: Study of charged pion elliptic flow and search for Electric Quadrupole Effect in Au+Au collisions at 39 GeV from STAR
Lynn Mormino

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EA.00101: Characterization of P-Type Point-Contact Detectors for the Majorana Demonstrator Project
James Mulligan

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EA.00102: Simulation of the CLAS12 dual hydrogen-deuterium target
Christopher Musalo , Gerard Gilfoyle

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EA.00103: Efficiency of PHENIX Resistive Plate Chambers in RHIC $\surd$s = 500 GeV p+p Collisions
Andrew Nederlof , Breet Fadem

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EA.00104: Search for induced depletion of $^{108m}$Ag with 6 MeV bremsstrahlung
Kaatrin Netherton , Stanley Henriquez , Nino Pereira , Marc Litz , James Carroll

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EA.00105: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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EA.00106: Resistive Plate Chamber Assembly for the PHENIX Forward Trigger Upgrade
Walker Nikolaus

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EA.00107: Effective Boson Number- A New Approach for Predicting Separation Energies with the IBM1, Applied to Zr, Kr, Sr isotopes near A=100
Nancy Paul , Pieter Van Isacker , Jos\'e Enrique Garc\'Ia Ramos , Ani Aprahamian

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EA.00108: Energy Loss Calculations for Target Thickness Determinations using SRIM and Excel
A.S. Pawlak , J.P. Greene

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EA.00109: Characterization and development of photocathodes using laser induced time-of-flight spectroscopy
E. Ramirez-Homs , D. Velazquez , L. Spentzouris , J. Terry

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EA.00110: Determining the Impact Parameter and Cross-Section in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Andira Ramos , William Lynch , Betty Tsang , Rachel Hodges

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EA.00111: Accelerator and cosmological constraints on low mass WIMP models compatible with DAMA and CoGeNT searches
Clyde Redger , Gintaras Duda

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EA.00112: Optical Attenuation in MoNA and LISA Detector Elements
Logan Rice , Jonathan Wong

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EA.00113: $^{26}$Al Beam Production and its Application to Nuclear Astrophysics
B. Richard , R. Tribble , L. Trache , G. Pizzone , B. Roeder

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EA.00114: Slow Control System for the NIFFTE Collaboration TPC
Erik Ringle

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EA.00115: Locating a Radioactive High Voltage Nut for the M\textsc{ajorana} Project
Benjamin Rose

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EA.00116: Simulations for Light Collection Efficiency (Jlab Hall C 12 GeV Kaon Aerogel Detector)
Laura Rothgeb

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EA.00117: Performance of Aerogels as Cherenkov Light Radiators
Isaac Saldivar , David Blyth , Matt Gibson , Ricardo Alarcon

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EA.00118: Photon Beam Monitors at MAX-lab
Christopher Seymour

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EA.00119: Light Collection Efficiency in Thin Strip Plastic Scintillator for the Study of ISGMR in Unstable Nuclei
Jacob Shafer

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EA.00120: M1 width of the $2^+_1$ state in $^{22}$Na and searches for tensor contributions to beta decays
Devin Short , Alejandro Garcia , Smarajit Triambak , Steven Seininger , David Williams

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EA.00121: Dark Current in PHENIX Resistive Plate Chambers
MariAnne Skolnik , Brett Fadem

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EA.00122: Study of the crystal transparency changes of the CMS ECAL
Caroline Sofiatti

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EA.00123: PHENIX Silicon Vertex Detector Software and Kalman Fitting
Michael Stone , J. Nagle

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EA.00124: Automating the Data Acquisition Process with Scripts
Alexey Strakovsky , Baya Oussena

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EA.00125: Spin Assignments of excited states in $^{23}$Mg through a $^{24}$Mg(p,d)$^{23}$Mg reaction
Sabrina Strauss , D.W. Bardayan , J.C. Blackmon , K.Y. Chae , K.A. Chipps , J.A. Cizewski , R. Hatarik , K.L. Jones , R.L. Kozub , J.F. Liang , C.D. Nesaraja , P.D. O'Malley , C. Matei , B.H. Moazen , S.D. Pain , S.T. Pittman , M.S. Smith

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EA.00126: A Study of the Ionization of Deuterium Gas by Pyroelectric Crystals
Bryce Taylor , Stephen Shafroth , Werner Tornow

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EA.00127: Recent Augmentations of the Functionality of the Thermonuclear Reaction Rate Calculator (TReRaC)
Kyle Thomsen , Michael Smith

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EA.00128: Ratio of Kaon and Pion valence-quark parton distributions
Jeffrey Tibbals

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EA.00129: A Transverse Resonant Neutron Spin Flipper
Justin Tomey

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EA.00130: Efficiency Studies of the Resistive Plate Chambers for PHENIX Trigger Upgrade
Ramsey Towell

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EA.00131: Optimization and Expansion of the Qweak Database
Grace Trees , Damon Spayde

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EA.00132: Development of Water Target for Radioisotope Production
Nathan Tripp

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EA.00133: Construction and Commissioning of a New Scattering Chamber at the Union College Ion Beam Analysis Laboratory
Colin Turley , Robert Moore , Christopher Johnson , Maria Battaglia , Michael Vineyard , Scott LaBrake

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EA.00134: Fast beam optics simulation of low-energy beam transport systems with a matrix method
Adrian Valverde , Georg Bollen , Ryan Ringle

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EA.00135: Testing and Installation of a High Efficiency CsI Scintillator Array
Natalie Viscariello , Stuart Casarotto , Nathan Frank , Jenna Smith , Michael Thoennessen

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EA.00136: GEANT4 Implementation of Calorimeters for a Medium-energy Electron Ion Collider
James Walker

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EA.00137: Photonuclear Production of Medical Isotopes
Nick Weinandt

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EA.00138: Targets for Inverse ($^3$He,d) Reaction Studies with Radioactive Ion Beams
J.L. Wheeler , R.L. Kozub , S.A. Graves , D.J. Sissom , D.W. Stracener , D.W. Bardayan , C. Jost , P.D. O'Malley

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EA.00139: Simulations of the In-Beam Performance of the CAESAR and Gretina Arrays With Liquid-Hydrogen and Solid Targets
Samantha Wildonger

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EA.00140: Optimization of MCMC algorithm for the calculation of interaction and reaction cross sections in the Glauber Theory framework
John Wilson , Ivan Novikov

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EA.00141: Characterization of aerogel and Photomultiplier Tubes for the 12-GeV Hall C Kaon Aerogel Detector at Jefferson Lab
Kevin Wood

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EA.00142: Study of Rescattering Effects in }$\vec {\gamma }d\to K^+\Lambda n$\textbf{ through Helicity Asymmetries
Weizhi Xiong

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EA.00143: Noise studies on the PHENIX RPC1 prototype
Emily Zarndt

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EA.00144: Radiation Hardness of Trigger Electronics
Irene Zawisza , Alexei Safonov , Jason Gilmore , Vadim Khotilovich

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