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Session E2: Detection of Dangerous Materials

Sponsoring Units: DNP FPS
Chair: Jennifer Wiseman, NASA
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 1

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E2.00001: Overview of Some New Techniques for Inspection: Using 1950's Physics to Solve Modern Problems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E2.00002: Progress in Nuclear Detection Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E2.00003: An Assessment of the Detection of Highly Enriched Uranium and its Use in an Improvised Nuclear Device using the Monte Carlo Computer Code MCNP-5 Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E3: From Post-doc to Faculty: Obtaining Your First Faculty Position

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 2

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 5:18PM

E3.00001: From Post-doc to Faculty: Obtaining Your First Faculty Position Abby Bickley, Sherry Yennello Preview Abstract

Session E4: LHC/ILC/ITER

Sponsoring Units: DPF DPB
Chair: John Jaros, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 3

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E4.00001: How to Make a Big International Project Happen: Lessons from ITER Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E4.00002: The Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E4.00003: Making the LHC Happen Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E5: Charm

Sponsoring Units: DPF GHP
Chair: Usha Mallik, University of Iowa
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 6

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E5.00001: Charm Spectroscopy. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E5.00002: D0-D0bar Mixing Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E5.00003: Charm Decays Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E6: GGR Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Richard Isaacson, NSF (formerly)
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 7

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E6.00001: Gravity Wave Detection - Some Past Efforts and Ideas for the Future. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E6.00002: Current State of the LIGO Detectors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E6.00003: Searches for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session E8: Dynamic Few-Body Effects

Sponsoring Units: GFB
Chair: Chris Greene, University of Colorado, JILA
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 4

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E8.00001: Dissociative recombination of H$_{3}^{+}$ Samantha Santos, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Chris Greene Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E8.00002: Numerical Solutions to the Time-Dependent, Coupled Dirac Equation Athanasios Petridis, Khinlay Win Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E8.00003: Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Effective Interactions in Nodal Fermion Systems William Shively, Dmitri Khveshchenko Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E8.00004: Accurate numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation W. van Dijk, F.M. Toyama Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E8.00005: Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering as a Stochastic Process in Phase Space Sarah John Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E8.00006: Nucleon-deuteron scattering in configuration space Vladimir Suslov, Mikhail Braun, Igor Filikhin, Branislav Vlahovic Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E8.00007: Numerical solution of the differential Yakubovsky equations for a system including three non-identical particles Branislav Vlahovic, Igor Filikhin, Vladimir Suslov Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E8.00008: Calculation of three-body resonances using slow-variable discretization coupled with complex absorbing potential Juan Blandon, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Francoise Masnou-Seeuws Preview Abstract

Session E9: SPS and Undergraduate Research II

Sponsoring Units: SPS
Chair: Gary White, Society of Physics Students/American Institute of Physics
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 5

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E9.00001: Probing the structure of $^{25}$Na with $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy K. Pepper, S. Tabor, T. Baldwin, D.B. Campbell, C. Chandler, M.W. Cooper, C.R. Hoffman, K.W. Kemper, J. Pavan, A. Pipidis, M.A. Riley, M. Wiedeking Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E9.00002: Magnetic Field Reduction in Photomultipliers with the use of Bucking Coil Dalgis Mesa, Joerg Reinhold Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E9.00003: Theoretical and experimental analysis of two different pendula whose common oscillating point is forced periodically Jorge Hernandez Gomez, Alessio Palavicini Cruz, Marco Antonio Martinez, Alejandro Gonzalez y Hernandez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E9.00004: Determining the Onset of Turbulent Flow Using Video Based Motion Analysis Robert Barton, Corey Lemley, Paul French Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E9.00005: Optical Spectroscopy of Defects in Yttrium Orthovanadate (YVO4) Crystals Wai Sze Cheung, Katrina Wiechmann, Peter Sheldon, Hank Yochum, Marcia Yochum Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E9.00006: Hamiltonian Constraint Analysis of Vector Theories with Spontaneous Lorentz Violation Arturs Vrublevskis, Robert Bluhm, Alan Kostelecky, Robertus Potting Preview Abstract

Session E10: History of Physics I

Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Paul Halpern, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 6

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:54PM		E10.00001: Toward the Standard Model: The Transformation of Particle Physics Experiments, 1964-1979 Michael Riordan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E10.00002: H. J. Bhabha and the birth of the second family of elementary particles Ramanath Cowsik Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E10.00003: History of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation Dan Maronde, Costas Efthimiou Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E10.00004: Heisenberg: Paralleling Scientific and Historical Methods Calla Cofield Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E10.00005: Early Photons from the Early Universe Virginia Trimble Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E10.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E10.00007: From Spectrum Analysis to Spectrochemical Analysis: Redefining the Boundary of Spectroscopy Mina Park Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E10.00008: Who First Discovered the Mass Limit of a Degenerate Star? Michael Nauenberg Preview Abstract

Session E11: Solar-/Cosmo-Terrestrial Physics and New Instrumentation

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 7

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E11.00001: \textit{Milagro} Measurements of Solar Energetic Particles during the 2005 January 20 Ground Level Event Trevor Morgan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E11.00002: Imaging 2-20 MeV solar neutrons in the inner heliosphere with the FNIT detector Ulisse Bravar, Paul Bruillard, Erwin Flueckiger, Alec MacKinnon, John Macri, Mark McConnell, Amaresh Motamarri, Michael Moser, James Ryan, Richard Woolf Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E11.00003: Measurement of Spectra with Milagro Using an Event-by-Event Energy Estimation Algorithm Branden Allen Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E11.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E11.00005: R\&D towards a Liquid Xenon Advanced Compton Telescope (LXeACT) Uwe Oberlack, Christopher Olsen, Petr Shagin, Elena Aprile, Karl Ludwig Giboni, Roberto Santorelli Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E11.00006: Terrestrial Effects of Astrophysical Ionizing Photon Events: Spectrum and Variability Adrian Melott, Larissa Ejzak, Brian Thomas, Mikhail Medvedev Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E11.00007: Spectral Analysis of Biodiversity Cycles and Galactic Dynamics Bruce Lieberman, Adrian Melott Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E11.00008: Distribution of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy -- a Link to Biodiversity Cycles Mikhail Medvedev Preview Abstract

Session E12: Alternative Theories of Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Jens Gundlach, University of Washington
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 8

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E12.00001: Scalar Gravitational Theory with Variable Rest Mass D.T. Froedge Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E12.00002: Is there a cosmological influence on the quantum-classical transition? C.L. Herzenberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E12.00003: Geometry + 4-potentials = Unified Field Theory Doug Sweetser Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E12.00004: Rotation of Spiral Galaxies Described with a Simple Disc Gravitational Model James Feng, C.F. Gallo Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E12.00005: Rotation of Spiral Galaxies Described with Various Sphere/Disc Gravitational Models C.F. Gallo, James Feng Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E12.00006: Toward a kinetic theory of gravity Fred Pierce, Yariv Pierce Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E12.00007: Gravity like forces in sap conducting tissue in plants. Orvin Wagner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E12.00008: Gravity related waves in plants. Claudia Wagner, Orvin Wagner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E12.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session E13: W/Z Production

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 9

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E13.00001: Search for $WW$ and $WZ$ production in charged lepton-neutrino plus dijet final state at CDF Anna Sfyrla Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E13.00002: Study of $W\gamma$ Production at the Tevatron Ai Nagano, Jianrong Deng, Al Goshaw, Beatte Heinemann, Jefferson Kist, Christopher Lester, Tom Phillips Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E13.00003: Measurement of $Z\gamma$ Production at CDF Christopher Lester, Jianrong Deng, Al Goshaw, Beate Heinemann, Jefferson Kist, Ai Nagano, Tom Phillips Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E13.00004: Search for anomalous $ZZZ$ couplings in the dilepton+dijet final state at CDF Matthew Norman, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Elliot Lipeles, Mark Neubauer, Rami Vanguri, Frank Wurthwein Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E13.00005: First observation of $WZ$ production and the search for anomalous $WWZ$ couplings at CDF Rami Vanguri, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Elliot Lipeles, Mark Neubauer, Matthew Norman, Frank Wurthwein Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E13.00006: WZ di-boson production cross section Rahmi Unalan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E13.00007: A search for Z boson pair production at the Tevatron Chad Jarvis Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E13.00008: Measurement of Z boson production in association with Heavy Flavor jets at CDF Viviana Cavaliere Preview Abstract

Session E14: Dark Matter II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 10

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E14.00001: Quenching of Nuclear Recoil Scintillation Signals in Liquid Argon Laura Stonehill Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E14.00002: A DEAP \& CLEAN Program for WIMP Dark Matter Andrew Hime Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E14.00003: Optimization of Background Rejection in XENON10 Luiz de Viveiros Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E14.00004: Gamma background in the XENON-10 detector Jesse Angle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E14.00005: Liquid neon as a scintillator for low energy particle detection James Nikkel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E14.00006: Physics of background discrimination in liquid xenon-based dark matter detectors Carl Dahl Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E14.00007: Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) in Liquid Argon from DEAP-1 Bei Cai, Mark Boulay, Fraser Duncan, Kevin Graham, Aksel Hallin, Philip Harvey, Charles Hearns, Chris Jillings, Jeff Lidgard, Reuble Matthew, Paradorn Pasuthip, Peter Skensved Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E14.00008: The Next Generation ZIP Detector for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Matt Pyle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E14.00009: Pulse shape discrimination in liquid argon W. Hugh Lippincott Preview Abstract

Session E15: Nuclear Astrophysics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: J. Piekarewicz, Florida State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 11

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E15.00001: Hot Dilute Neutron Matter and Neutrino Interactions Gautam Rupak Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E15.00002: Heavy Element Synthesis in the Outflow from Black Hole Accretion Disks Rebecca Surman, Sean Kane, Crystal Smith Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E15.00003: Equation of State for Cold Neutron Star Crust Helber Dussan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E15.00004: Spin Response of the Nuclear Pasta Jutri Taruna, Jorge Piekarewicz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E15.00005: Quantum Monte Carlo and Neutron Star Matter Superfluidity Alex Gezerlis, Joe Carlson, Vijay Pandharipande Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E15.00006: Relativistically Induced Supernovae M. Dolan, D. Dearborn, G. Mathews, J. Wilson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E15.00007: Weak Neutrino Magnetism and the r-Process in the Neutrino-Heated Supernova Bubble Grant Mathews, James Wilson, Kaori Otsuki Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E15.00008: Decrease in Coulomb Barrier Height Due to Nuclear Vibration allowing solar Nuclear Reactions w/o Tunnelling Stewart Brekke Preview Abstract

Session E16: Hadronic Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Paul Stoler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 12

Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E16.00001: Polarization of Hyperons in Elementary Photoproduction Reinhard Schumacher Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E16.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E16.00003: Search for $\Phi(1860)$ Pentaquark States with CLAS Hovanes Egiyan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E16.00004: First measurement of coherent $\phi$-meson photoproduction on deuteron Tsutomu Mibe, Haiyan Gao, Ken Hicks, Kevin Kramer, Stepan Stepanyan, David Tedeschi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E16.00005: Preliminary Analysis to Extract the $\omega$-N and $\phi$-N Total Cross Sections M.H. Wood, R. Nasseripour, C. Djalali, D.P. Weygand Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E16.00006: Medium modifications of the $\rho$ vector meson in photoproduction off nuclei Rakhsha Nasseripour, Chaden Djalali, Michael Wood, Dennis Weygand Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E16.00007: New Measurements of the Proton Double-Spin Asymmetries $A_1$ and $A_2$ In and Above the Resonance Region Robert Fersch Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E16.00008: BigBite: A new large acceptance spectrometer for Jefferson Lab Hall A Nilanga Liyanage, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract