2009 APS April Meeting
Volume 54, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, May 2–5, 2009;
Denver, Colorado
Session Index
Session D2: The State of HEP Theory
Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Room: Plaza D
Session D3: Few Body Physics I
Sponsoring Units: DNP GFB
Chair: A.R.P. Rau, Lousiana State University
Room: Plaza E
Session D4: Panel Discussion: Global Physics Projects
Sponsoring Units: FPS FIP
Chair: Pushpa Bhat, Fermi National Accelerator Facility, and Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
Room: Plaza F
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 4:00PM
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D4.00001: Beller Lectureship Talk: International Scientific Collaboration
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:00PM - 4:10PM
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D4.00002: Global Physics Projects - Panelist
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:10PM - 4:20PM
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D4.00003: A Perspective on the Art of Mega Physics Progress and the Future of International Science
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:20PM - 4:30PM
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D4.00004: Global Physics Projects -Panelist
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 5:30PM
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D4.00005: Panel Discussion
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Session D5: Spanning the Gravitational Wave Spectrum
Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Stanley Whitcomb, California Institute of Technology
Room: Governor's Square 15
Session D6: Ion Heating in Turbulent Plasmas
Sponsoring Units: GPAP DPP
Chair: Michael Brown, Swarthmore College
Room: Governor's Square 16
Session D7: Teaching Physics of Energy II
Sponsoring Units: FEd DPB
Chair: Thomas Rossing, Stanford University
Room: Governor's Square 12
Session D8: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Instruments
Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room: Governor's Square 17
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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D8.00001: Physics of the Telescope Array Experiment
Pierre Sokolsky
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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D8.00002: The Fluorescence Detectors of the Telescope Array Experiment
Lauren Scott
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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D8.00003: The Telescope Array's Low Energy Extension: TALE
John Matthews
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D8.00004: The TALE Infill Array
Douglas Bergman
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D8.00005: The TALE Fluorescence Detectors
Charles Jui
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D8.00006: Using laser shots to determine the speed resolution of air showers at the southern Pierre Auger observatory
Kathleen Gesterling, Fred Sarazin, Lawrence Wiencke
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D8.00007: Mission preparation status of Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) on Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of International Space Station (ISS)
Yoshiyuki Takahashi
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM
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D8.00008: Weather effects on the rate of events at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Adrienne Criss, Paul Sommers
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM
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D8.00009: Extensive air shower simulation: $10^{19}$ eV and beyond
Benjamin Stokes
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:18PM - 5:30PM
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D8.00010: Updates on IceCube's Radio Frequency extension
Dave Besson
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Session D9: Mini-Symposium on Standard Model and Higgs Physics
Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University
Room: Governor's Square 11
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 4:06PM
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D9.00001: Status and prospects for Higgs searches at the Tevatron
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D9.00002: Search for Associated Production of W and Higgs Bosons in the all Hadronic Decay Mode in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV
Justace Clutter
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D9.00003: Search for $ZH$ in the $\ell \ell b\overline{b}$ Final State using a Neural Network Discriminant at CDF
Shalhout Shalhout
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D9.00004: Search for the Higgs Boson in $WW^{(*)}\to \ell\nu\ell\nu-$ Decays in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV
Bjoern Penning
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D9.00005: Improved search for a Higgs boson in the $H \rightarrow \tau \tau$ decay channel at CDF
Andrey Elagin
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM
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D9.00006: Search for Associated Production of Z and Higgs Bosons in $\nu\nu bb$ Final States in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV
Gabriel Facini
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM
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D9.00007: Combined Upper Limit on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production at D0 in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV
Michael Kirby
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Session D10: Neutrino Physics II
Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Bill Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Governor's Square 10
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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D10.00001: Precision atomic masses for neutrinoless double-beta-decay and double-electron-capture
Edmund Myers, Matthew Redshaw, Brianna Mount
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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D10.00002: Double-Beta Decay of $^{150}$Nd to Excited Final States
M.F. Kidd, J.H. Esterline, W. Tornow
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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D10.00003: Double beta decay daughter ion detection on an optical fiber for EXO
Brian Mong, Shon Cook, William Fairbank
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D10.00004: The MAJORANA Demonstrator: An R\&D project towards a tonne-scale germanium neutrinoless double-beta decay search
Reyco Henning
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D10.00005: Surface-Alpha Backgrounds for HPGe Detectors in Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiments
R.A. Johnson, T.H. Burritt, S.R. Elliott, V.M. Gehman, V.E. Guiseppe, J.F. Wilkerson
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D10.00006: EXO-200 Status
Steven Herrin
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D10.00007: The production of Ge-68 in Ge detectors due to fast neutrons
V.E. Guiseppe, S.R. Elliott, V.M. Gehman, S.A. Wender
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM
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D10.00008: The Energy Calibration System for the CUORE Bolometric Double Beta Decay Experiment
Samuele Sangiorgio
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM
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D10.00009: KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) detector and backgrounds
Michelle Leber
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Session D11: Theoretical and Quantum Gravity
Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: David Garfinkle, Oakland University
Room: Plaza Court 1
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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D11.00001: Unitarity and Holography in Gravitational Physics
Donald Marolf
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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D11.00002: Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Rajesh Kommu
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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D11.00003: Gauge invariant observables in de Sitter
Ian Morrison
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D11.00004: Effective Four-Dimensional Actions in Braneworld Scenarios
Jolyon Bloomfield, Eanna Flanagan
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D11.00005: Particle emission from a static black-hole on a tense codimension-2 brane
Usama al-Binni, George Siopsis
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D11.00006: Quantum Corrections to the Mass of a Black Hole coupled to $N$scalars
Martin Schaden
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D11.00007: Anisotropic Evolution of $D$-dimensional FRW Spacetime
Chad Middleton
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM
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D11.00008: Self Coupled Gravity: Another Approach to General Relativity
James Crawford
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM
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D11.00009: The Geometry of Time in General Relativity
Alexander Mayer
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Session D12: Hadronic Physics
Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Pete Markowtiz, Florida International University
Room: Plaza Court 2
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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D12.00001: $\gamma p \rightarrow K^{+}\Lambda$ Differential Cross Section and Recoil Polarization Measurements from the CLAS \textit{g11a} Dataset
Michael McCracken
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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D12.00002: $\eta$ and $\eta\prime$ photoproduction off the proton
Nathan Sparks, Volker Crede
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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D12.00003: $K^{+}\Sigma^0$ Photo-production at CLAS, Jefferson Laboratory
Biplab Dey
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D12.00004: Measurement of the Beam Asymmetry $\Sigma$ in $\pi^+$ $\pi^-$ Photoproduction using the CLAS Spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory
Charles Hanretty
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D12.00005: Kaon Electroproduction at low Q$^{2}$ and W=2.2 GeV off hydrogen
Armando Acha, Pete Markowitz
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D12.00006: Nucleon resonance electrocouplings from the CLAS data on charged double pion electroproduction.
Victor Mokeev
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D12.00007: Measurement of the Neutron ($^3$He) Spin Structure Functions at low $Q^{2}$
Vincent Sulkosky
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM
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D12.00008: Possibility for a New Measurement of the Proton Elastic Form Factor Ratio at Very Low $Q2$
G. Ron, E. Piasetzky, R. Gilman
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM
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D12.00009: Self-Energy Effect to Two-Body Bound-State in Light-Front Dynamics
Yukihisa Tokunaga, Chueng-Ryong Ji
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Session D13: Nuclear Astrophysics Modelling
Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Peter Moller, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Plaza Court 3
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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D13.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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D13.00002: X-ray Burst Reaction Rate Sensitivities
Richard Cyburt
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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D13.00003: Matching of experimental and statistical-model thermonuclear reaction rates at high temperatures
Joseph Newton, Richard Longland, Christian Iliadis
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D13.00004: Constraints on Neutron Star Crusts From Oscillations in Giant Flares
Andrew Steiner, Anna Watts
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D13.00005: Nuclear Gamma-Ray Deexcitation Lines and Continuum from Accelerated-Particle Interactions in Solar Flares
Ronald Murphy, Ben-Zion Kozlovsky, Jurgen Kiener, Gerald Share
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D13.00006: New results in neutron star crust nucleosynthesis and implications for X-ray Superburst ignition
Sanjib Gupta, Peter Moller, Toshihiko Kawano, Daniel Page
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D13.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
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Session D14: Undergraduate Research (including SPS) I
Sponsoring Units: SPS
Chair: Thomas Olsen, AIP Education: SPS
Room: Plaza Court 4
Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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D14.00001: Six degree-of-freedom thrust sensor for hybrid rocket
Ryan Strickland
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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D14.00002: Using ring laser gyroscopes to measure seismic induced rotation
Kirk Kimery
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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D14.00003: Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in the Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Blue Phase
Dennis Gardner, Bethany Wilcox, Ivan Smalyukh
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM
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D14.00004: Optical Constants for Y$_{2}$O$_{3}$ in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Joseph Muhlestein
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM
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D14.00005: Monopole Detection with the ANITA Experiment
Miles Detrixhe
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM
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D14.00006: SISPI - The Data Acquisition System for the Dark Energy Survey
Jacob Eiting, Klaus Honscheid
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM
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D14.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM
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D14.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM
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D14.00009: Neutrino-Stimulated Pair-Creation in Supernovae
Mallory Young
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
5:18PM - 5:30PM
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D14.00010: Measuring neutron flow with an upgrade of the CMS Zero Degree Calorimeter
Jessica Snyder, Michael Murray
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