Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 APS April Meeting

Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX

Session Index

Session W1: Shedding Light on Dark Energy

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark A

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM		W1.00001: Cosomolgy using Type Ia SNe from the Supernova Legacy Survey Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM		W1.00002: Theoretical Overview of Dark Energy Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM		W1.00003: Weak Gravitational Lensing and Dark Energy Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session W2: Notes from Underground

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: George Fuller, University of California, San Diego
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM		W2.00001: Status and Prospects for the EXO experiment Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM		W2.00002: SuprkamioKande Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM		W2.00003: AMANDA \& IceCube: Status and Prospects Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session W3: Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Charles Meegan, National Space Science and Technology Center
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark C

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM		W3.00001: Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM		W3.00002: GRBs as probes of relativistic jet physics and cosmology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM		W3.00003: Discovery and Identification of the Very High Redshift Afterglow of GRB 050908 and Prospects for the Future Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session W5: Abrupt Climate Change Scenario

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Tina Kaarsberg, U.S. Department of Energy
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus B

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:30AM - 11:05AM		W5.00001: Negative Emissions Technology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:05AM - 11:40AM		W5.00002: Cool Roofs to Save Money and Delay Global Warming Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:40AM - 12:15PM		W5.00003: Lessons from Katrina: Flood Management Technology Strategies for the US. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session W6: Research on Teaching Thermal Physics and Quantum Mechanics

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland J

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM		W6.00001: Investigations of Upper Division Student Understanding of Thermal Physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM		W6.00002: Improving Student Understanding of Quantum Mechanics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM		W6.00003: Addressing students' reasoning difficulties in thermal physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session W7: Cosmic Rays and Solar Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Pegasus A

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 10:57AM		W7.00001: Upper Limit of the Diffuse Flux of UHE Neutrinos from HiRes Data Weiran Deng, Kai Martens Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:57AM - 11:09AM		W7.00002: An Upper Limit on the Photon Flux above $10^{19}$ eV David Barnhill Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:09AM - 11:21AM		W7.00003: Stringent Constraint on Galactic Positron Production John Beacom Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:33AM		W7.00004: Planck Scale Cosmic Rays Bennie Ward Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33AM - 11:45AM		W7.00005: Comparison of Electron Stochastic Acceleration Models with RHESSI Hard X-ray Observations of Solar Flares Paolo Grigis, Arnold Benz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 11:57AM		W7.00006: Development of the FNIT detector for 2-20 MeV solar neutrons Ulisse Bravar, Paul J. Bruillard, Erwin O. Flueckiger, Alec L. MacKinnon, John R. Macri, Mark L. McConnell, Michael R. Moser, James M. Ryan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:09PM		W7.00007: The Presence of the Chromosphere: Evidence for a Liquid Model of the Sun Pierre-Marie Robitaille Preview Abstract

Session W8: Minisymposium: Heavy Quark Energy Loss & Flow

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Peter Jacobs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland A

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM		W8.00001: Identified particle transverse momentum distributions upto 12 GeV/c from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 200$ GeV Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:33AM		W8.00002: Heavy-quark observables at RHIC from parton transport theory Denes Molnar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33AM - 11:45AM		W8.00003: Hadron-Hadron Angular Correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 62.4 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC-PHENIX Michael McCumber Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 11:57AM		W8.00004: Photon-hadron and $\pi^0$-hadron azimuthal jet correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Cu-Cu collisions at RHIC Andrew Adare Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:09PM		W8.00005: Jet Trigger Analysis for the ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter Christopher Anson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:09PM - 12:21PM		W8.00006: Jet studies in preparation for ATLAS: from pp to heavy ion collisions Arthur Moraes Preview Abstract

Session W9: Nuclear Theory II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Vladimir Zelevinsky, Michigan State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland B

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 10:57AM		W9.00001: Spectroscopy of Medium to Heavy $\Lambda$-Hypernuclei Jeff McIntire Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:57AM - 11:09AM		W9.00002: A Simple Five-Dimensional Wave Equation for a Dirac Particle N. Redington, M.A.K. Lodhi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:09AM - 11:21AM		W9.00003: Convergence of the Born Series with Low-Momentum Potentials Sunethra Ramanan, Scott K. Bogner, Richard J. Furnstahl, Achim Schwenk Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:33AM		W9.00004: Three-body model of the $^{12}\rm C$ nucleus with distortion of $\alpha$-clusters Igor Filikhin, Vladimir Suslov, Branislav Vlahovic Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33AM - 11:45AM		W9.00005: The Average Uncertainty of a Three Dimensional Nuclear Oscillator Stewart Brekke Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 11:57AM		W9.00006: Photon Acceleration Effect Konstantin Gridnev, Russell Moon, Victor Vasiliev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:09PM		W9.00007: The Neutrino Mass Amagh Nduka Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:09PM - 12:21PM		W9.00008: Checkerboard Theory of the Nucleus. Theodore Lach Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:21PM - 12:33PM		W9.00009: The Neutral Pentaquark Russell Moon, Fabian Calvo, Victor Vasiliev Preview Abstract

Session W10: Heineman Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: GGR DPF
Chair: Pierre Sikivie, University of Florida
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland C

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM		W10.00001: Current Topics in the Theory of Supergravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM		W10.00002: SIM(2), CP, SUSY, and Gravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM		W10.00003: New aspects of old minimal supergravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session W11: Gravitational Wave Searches

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Lior Burko, The University of Alabama, Huntsville
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland E

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 10:57AM		W11.00001: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration search for inspiralling binary neutron stars Duncan Brown Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:57AM - 11:09AM		W11.00002: Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts in Data from the LIGO S4 Run Peter Shawhan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:09AM - 11:21AM		W11.00003: Searching the LIGO data for coincidences with Gamma Ray Bursts Alexander Dietz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:33AM		W11.00004: Stackslide search for continuous gravitational waves using LIGO S4 data Gregory Mendell Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33AM - 11:45AM		W11.00005: Broadband Search for Continuous-Wave Gravitation Radiation with LIGO Vladimir Dergachev Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 11:57AM		W11.00006: Coherent searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: results from the second LIGO science run Keita Kawabe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:09PM		W11.00007: The Q Pipeline search for gravitational-wave bursts with LIGO Shourov Chatterji Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:09PM - 12:21PM		W11.00008: Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts in LIGO's S5 run Igor Yakushin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:21PM - 12:33PM		W11.00009: Search for gravitational wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using LIGO detectors Isabel Leonor Preview Abstract

Session W12: Bs, B*, eta-B decays

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland F

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 10:57AM		W12.00001: Inclusive b production measurement with CMS at LHC David Cline, Valery Andreev, Stan Otwinowski Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:57AM - 11:09AM		W12.00002: Study of orbitally excited B mesons at CDF Jennifer Pursley Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:09AM - 11:21AM		W12.00003: Study of $B^{}$ and $B_s^{}$ Mark Williams Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:33AM		W12.00004: Measurement of ${\cal B}(B_s \rightarrow D^+_s D^-_s)$ James Walder Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33AM - 11:45AM		W12.00005: Measurements of the Exclusive Decays of the $\Upsilon~(5S)$ to $B^{()}\bar{B}^{()}(\pi)(\pi)$ Final States and Improved $B_s^*$ Mass Measurement Kevin Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 11:57AM		W12.00006: Observation or the $B_s$ Meson at the $\Upsilon(5S)$ Victor Pavlunin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:09PM		W12.00007: Measurements of Inclusive Yields of $B$ and $B_S$ Mesons into $\phi$ Radia Sia Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:09PM - 12:21PM		W12.00008: Search for $\eta_b$ via exclusive decay mode $\eta_b \rightarrow K^0_s K^+ \pi^- $ Xurong Chen Preview Abstract

Session W13: Particle Physics Instrumentation

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Stephen Magill, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Cumberland G

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 10:57AM		W13.00001: The upgrade of BABAR Muon Detector Jinlong Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:57AM - 11:09AM		W13.00002: QUARTIC: A Fast Time-of-flight Counter Pedro Duarte Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:09AM - 11:21AM		W13.00003: 3D Track Triggering at CDF Brandon Parks Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:21AM - 11:33AM		W13.00004: CMS Forward Pixels Assembly and Quality Control Artur Apresyan, Gino Bolla, Daniela Bortoletto, Petra Merkel, Ian Shipsey Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33AM - 11:45AM		W13.00005: Production and Testing of the CMS Silicon Tracker Outer Barrel Timour Ten, E. Shabalina, C.E. Gerber Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 11:57AM		W13.00006: Construction and Testing of Rods for the Tracker Outer Barrel of the CMS Detector Puneeth Kalavase Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:57AM - 12:09PM		W13.00007: Status of the Endcap Muon System for the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Khristian Kotov Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:09PM - 12:21PM		W13.00008: Status and Design of CMS Level 1 Trigger System Sang-Joon Lee Preview Abstract

Session W15: Poster Session IV: Post-deadline Posters

Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis Hall B, 10:30am-2:00pm

		W15.00001: Search for Ultra High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA-II Lisa Gerhardt Preview Abstract
		W15.00002: Neutrino Search and Performance of AMANDA-II using Transient Waveform Recorders Andrea Silvestri Preview Abstract
		W15.00003: Report on the search for binary black holes inspiral in S3 and S4 LIGO data Thomas Cokelaer Preview Abstract
		W15.00004: Search for Gravitational Waves associated with the SGR1806-20 hyperflare using the Hanford LIGO detectors Luca Matone Preview Abstract
		W15.00005: Galaxy mass distributions without dark matter or modified Newtonian mechanics Kenneth Nicholson Preview Abstract
		W15.00006: Impact of Gravitational Variations on Aging Shantilal Goradia Preview Abstract
		W15.00007: Simultaneous Detection and Classification of Acoustic Emissions in Integrated Diagnostics with Yield in Aluminum Devendra Parmar Preview Abstract
		W15.00008: Color screening in Quark-Gluon plasma at low and high temperatures Olaf Kaczmarek, Frithjof Karsch, Peter Petreczky, Felix Zantow Preview Abstract
		W15.00009: The WARP program for Direct WIMP Dark Matter Search. Results from the operation of a 2.3 liter detector prototype in Gran Sasso Cristiano Galbiati Preview Abstract
		W15.00010: Generating Scale-invaraint Power Spectrum in String Gas Cosmology Ali Nayeri, Robert Brandenberger, Cumrun Vafa Preview Abstract
		W15.00011: Global Guiding-Center Particle Simulation of minority ICRH heated Plasmas in a Tokamak Jae-Min Kwon, C.S. Chang, S. Ku, D. McCune, C.K. Phillips Preview Abstract
		W15.00012: Prospects for Measuring Neutrino-Nucleus Coherent Scattering at a Stopped-Pion Neutrino Source Kate Scholberg Preview Abstract
		W15.00013: Properties of the Generalized Kodama States Andrew Randono Preview Abstract
		W15.00014: Event Shapes at the Tevatron Lester Pinera, Andrey Korytov, Alexander Pronko Preview Abstract
		W15.00015: Nonlinear Evolution of the Tearing Mode Nuno Loureiro, Steve Cowley, William Dorland, Malcolm Haines, Alexander Schekochihin Preview Abstract
		W15.00016: Challenges and Issues of Radiation Damage Tools for Space Missions Ram Tripathi, John Wilson Preview Abstract
		W15.00017: Implementation and Effects of Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Reactions Malgorzata Zielinska-Pfabe, Alexis Knaub, Selamnesh Nida, Virgil Baran, Maria Colonna, Massimo Di Toro, Hermann Wolter Preview Abstract
		W15.00018: Magnetic Islands Stabilization by Plasma Compressibility Effects in a Tokamak A.I. Smolyakov, X. Garbet, M. Ottaviani Preview Abstract
		W15.00019: A search for Signatures of Dark Matter with AMS-01 Sa Xiao, Gray Rybka, Gianpaolo Carosi, Peter Fisher, Feng Zhou Preview Abstract
		W15.00020: Status of the XENON Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiment Richard Hasty Preview Abstract
		W15.00021: Study of Avalanche Photodiodes as photosensors for liquid xenon scintillation light Peter Shagin, Roman Gomez, Uwe Oberlack, Richard Farrell , Mickel McClish, Pricilla Cushman, Brian Sherwood Preview Abstract
		W15.00022: Broadband generation produced in Raman-active crystals by two- and three-color femtosecond laser pulses Miaochan Zhi, Dmitry Pestov, Xi Wang, Robert Murawski, Alexei Sokolov Preview Abstract
		W15.00023: Delta Radiative Decay in the MiniBooNE Experiment Laura Gladstone Preview Abstract
		W15.00024: Multimode Analysis of SHG Signal from Complex Biological Systems: Parameterization of Regional and Global Features Using Nearest-Neighbor Analysis and Wavelet Transforms Karen Reiser, MD, Clayton Bratton Preview Abstract
		W15.00025: Plasma Cleaning Gold Nanorods to Make Better Biosensors Peter Scully, Jason Hafner Preview Abstract
		W15.00026: Large Lepton EDM from Heavy Right Handed (Majorana) Neutrinos Saifuddin Rayyan Preview Abstract
		W15.00027: Simulations of Edge Localized Modes and Pellet Injection Ravi Samtaney Preview Abstract

Session W16: Sherwood IV

Sponsoring Units: DPP
Chair: Eric Held, Utah State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark D

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:45AM - 11:15AM		W16.00001: Nonlinear Evolution of Nonthermal Ion Distributions in the Presence of High Power Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:15AM - 11:45AM		W16.00002: How Good is a Quasilinear ICRH Operator? A New Method for ICRH Simulation in a Guiding Center Code Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:45AM - 12:15PM		W16.00003: Ion acceleration in laser-irradiated micro-clusters Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:15PM - 12:45PM		W16.00004: Nonadiabatic Ponderomotive Barriers Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

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