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Session X2: From Valence to Glue: Current Status and Future Directions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Abhay Deshpande, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 1

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X2.00001: The Landscape of Polarized Sea and Glue Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X2.00002: Towards Precision Proton Tomography Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X2.00003: Probing Dense Gluonic Matter in Nuclei at High Energies Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X3: Neutron Star Physics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Tod Strohmayer, NASA-GSFC
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 2

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X3.00001: Neutron Star Equation of State Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X3.00002: The cooling of neutron star transients Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X3.00003: Observations of Cooling Neutron Star Transients Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X4: B Physics: CP & CKM

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Sharon Hagopian, Florida State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 3

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X4.00001: CP Violation and CKM Physics at the B Factories Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X4.00002: Rare Decays and New Physics at the B Factories Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X4.00003: B Physics at the Tevatron Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X5: Few Body Computational Challenges for Large Scale Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP GFB
Chair: Anne Chaka, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Grand 6

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X5.00001: Celestial Mechanics and Mission Design Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X5.00002: Simulations of black hole binaries Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X5.00003: Advances in Galactic Dynamics: Classical Physics in the 21st Century Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X8: Minisymposium on Gamma Ray Spectroscopy at the Limits I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Mark Riley, Florida State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 4

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X8.00001: Gamma Ray Spectroscopy: Some highlights from the past, present and future Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X8.00002: Exotic low-energy vibrational modes Nico Orce, Esmat Elhami, Jason Holt, Andreas Linnemann, Shelly Lesher, Christoph Fransen, Norbert Pietralla, Sharmistha Mukhopadhyay, Sadia Choudry, Marcus Scheck, Volker Werner, Marcus McEllistrem, Tom Kuo, Steve Yates Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X8.00003: Detailed level scheme of $^{92}$Rh and its relevance to the decay of $^{94m}$Ag O.L. Pechenaya, C.J. Chiara, D.G. Sarantites, W. Reviol, R.J. Charity, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu, L.-L. Andersson, E.K. Johansson, D. Rudolph Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X8.00004: Determination of spin alignment in fusion-evaporation reactions with a 4$\pi$ charged-particle detector array C.J. Chiara, D.G. Sarantites, W. Reviol, R.J. Charity, O.L. Pechenaya, A.E. Stuchbery Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X8.00005: Short-lived excited-state $g$ factors of fast $^{38,40}$S fragments Kei Minamisono, Andrew Stuchbery, Andrew Davies, Paul Mantica Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X8.00006: Spectroscopy inside the ``Island of Inversion'': $^{30}$Na Vandana Tripathi, S.L. Tabor, Paul Mantica, P. Bender, J. Cook, C.R. Hoffman, Sangjin Lee, J. Pereira, M. Perry, K. Pepper, J. Pinter, J. Stoker, D. Weisshaar Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X8.00007: Transition Rate Measurement in $^{18}$N Mathis Wiedeking, P. Fallon, A.O. Macchiavelli, L.W. Phair, D.L. Bleuel, R.M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M-A. Deleplanque, J.D. Gibelin, I-Y. Lee, M.A. McMahan, L.G. Moretto, E. Rodriguez-Vieitez, D. Ward, L.A. Bernstein, J.T. Burke, B.F. Lyles, A. Volya Preview Abstract

Session X9: Cooling of Beams

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPB
Chair: Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 5

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X9.00001: Cooling at BNL Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X9.00002: Cooling and Stacking of Antiprotons in Fermilab. Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X9.00003: Particle beam dynamics in the Optical Stochastic Cooling Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X11: Cosmology I

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Ram Cowsik, Washington University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 7

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X11.00001: Dark energy is the cosmological quantum vacuum energy of light particles. The axion and the lightest neutrino. H.J. de Vega Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X11.00002: Systematic Corrections to the Deceleration Parameter due to Local Cosmological Inhomogeneity Ali Vanderveld, Ira Wasserman, Eanna Flanagan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X11.00003: Locally inhomogeneous cosmology as a possible explanation of dark energy Xinghai Zhao, Grant Mathews, In-Saeng Suh, James Wilson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X11.00004: Structure Formation Limits on f(R) Gravity David Bernat, Rachel Bean, Levon Pegosian, Alessandra Silvestri, Mark Trodden Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X11.00005: Some exact solutions exhibiting inflation and dark energy Chris Vuille Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X11.00006: Primordial Black Hole Minimum Mass James Chisholm Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X11.00007: Nucleosynthesis in plasma-redshift cosmology Ari Brynjolfsson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X11.00008: How can Brane World physics influence Axion temperature dependence, initial vacuum states, and permissible solutions to the Wheeler-De Witt equation? Andrew Beckwith Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X11.00009: What is Fine-Structure Constant? Shantilal Goradia Preview Abstract

Session X12: Recent Developments in Quantum Gravity

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 8

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X12.00001: Recent Advances in Loop Quantum Cosmology Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:57AM		X12.00002: Graviton propagator from Loop Quantum Gravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:33PM		X12.00003: The Asymptotic Safety Scenario in Quantum Gravity Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session X13: Single Top

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kirsten Tollefson, Michigan State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 9

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X13.00001: Search for Electroweak Single Top Quark Production at CDF using a Matrix Element Method Peter Dong Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X13.00002: Search for non-standard production of single top quarks at D0 Reinhard Schwienhorst Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X13.00003: Measurement of single top quark production at D0 using Bayesian neural networks Monica Pangilinan, Shabnam Jabeen, Meenakshi Narain Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X13.00004: Combined single top quark production cross section and measurement of $|V_{tb}|$ at D0 Jorge Benitez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X13.00005: Measurement of single top quark production at D0 using a matrix element discriminant Chris Potter Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X13.00006: Measurement of single top quark production at D0 using decision trees John BackusMayes Preview Abstract

Session X14: Higgs

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Al Goshaw, Duke University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 10

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X14.00001: Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in $bbh$ Final States Stephen Robinson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X14.00002: Search for $H \rightarrow WW^\ast$ at CDF Dean Hidas, Toby Davies, Doug Benjamin, Peter Bussey, Mark Kruse, Aidan Robson, Richard St. Denis, A.S. Thompson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X14.00003: Search for Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF Tatsuya Masubuchi, Yoshio Ishizawa, Shinhong Kim, Kunitaka Kondo, Yoshiaki Kusakabe, Michael McFarlane, Jason Nielsen, Anyes Taffard, Weiming Yao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X14.00004: Search for Higgs Bosons in $WW^*\rightarrow\ell^+\ell'^-$ Decays Jonas Strandberg Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X14.00005: Search for Higgs Bosons in $WW^*\rightarrow\ell\tau$ Decays Bjoern Penning Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X14.00006: Combined Upper Limit on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production at D0 Jeremie Lellouch Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X14.00007: Search for Associated Production of W and Higgs Bosons in $\ell\nu b\bar{b}$ Final States Miruna Anastasoaie Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X14.00008: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in $\ell^+\ell^- b\bar{b}$ Final States Lucian Ancu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X14.00009: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in $\nu\nu b\bar{b}$ Final States Theodoros Christoudias Preview Abstract

Session X15: Minisymposium on Nuclear Astrophysics with Transfer Reactions I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Carl Brune, Ohio University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 11

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 11:21AM		X15.00001: Transfer reactions: challenges for the future Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X15.00002: Charge-exchange reactions: a tool for extracting weak rates for stellar evolution Remco G.T. Zegers Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X15.00003: The $^{15}$O($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{19}$Ne trigger for X-ray bursts Wanpeng Tan, Jacob Fisker, Joachim G{\"o}rres, Manoel Couder, Michael Wiescher Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X15.00004: Exploring the $\alpha$p process with transfer reactions at RCNP Shawn O'Brien, G.P.A. Berg, J. G\"orres, P. LeBlanc, M. Wiescher, A. Matic, A.M. van den Berg, M. Harakeh, H.J. W\"ortche, T. Adachi, Y. Fujita, Y. Shimbara, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, Y. Kitamura, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimizu, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, M. Yosoi, H. Schatz, T. Wakasa Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X15.00005: Experimental evidence of a natural parity state in $^{26}Mg$ at astrophysically relevant energies via the $^{22}Ne(^{6}Li,d)^{26}Mg$ reaction. C. Ugalde, A. Champagne, S. Daigle, C. Iliadis, J. Newton, E. Osenbaugh, J. Clark, C. Deibel, A. Parikh, P. Parker, C. Wrede Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:09PM - 12:21PM		X15.00006: Cross sections for reactions in explosive H burning from transfer reactions at 10 MeV/u L. Trache, T. Al-Abdullah, A. Banu, C. Fu, C.A. Gagliardi, A.M. Mukhamedzhanov, G. Tabacaru, R.E. Tribble, Y. Zhai, F. Carstoiu, V. Burjan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:21PM - 12:33PM		X15.00007: Unbound States of Neutron-Rich Oxygen Isotopes: Investigation into the N=16 Shell Gap C. Hoffman, S.L. Tabor, T. Baumann, W.A. Peters, H. Scheit, A. Schiller, M. Thoennessen, N. Frank, P.A. DeYoung, J. Hinnefeld Preview Abstract

Session X16: Nuclear Theory II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Alexander Volya, Florida State University
Room: Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront City Terrace 12

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45AM - 10:57AM		X16.00001: Structure of p-shell nuclei with two- plus three-nucleon interactions from chiral effective field theory Petr Navratil, Vesselin Gueorguiev, James Vary, Erich Ormand, Andreas Nogga Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X16.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X16.00003: A Cluster Model of $^{ 6}$He and $^{6}$Li Jeremy Armstrong, Alexander Sakharuk, Vladimir Zelevinsky Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X16.00004: Coupled-Cluster and Configuration-Interaction Calculations for Heavy Nuclei M. Horoi, J.R. Gour, M. Wloch, M.D. Lodriguito, P. Piecuch, B.A. Brown Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:33AM - 11:45AM		X16.00005: Alpha, Proton and Ion Decay Made Possible by Variable Nuclear Barrier Heights Stewart Brekke Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X16.00006: Checker Board Model Thedore Lach Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X16.00007: Renormalization of chiral NN potentials and Weinberg power counting Ruprecht Machleidt, David Entem Preview Abstract