Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS April Meeting 2010

Volume 55, Number 1

Saturday–Tuesday, February 13–16, 2010; Washington, DC

Session Index

Session D1: Inflation

Sponsoring Units: DAP DPF
Chair: Michael Turner, University of Chicago
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D1.00001: Eternal Inflation: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM		D1.00002: Inflation Confronts Observations Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM		D1.00003: Inflation as a Probe of Fundamental Physics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session D2: Bethe and Bonner Prizes

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Lawrence Cardman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Thurgood Marshall East

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D2.00001: Hans A. Bethe Prize Talk: LUNA: a Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM		D2.00002: Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Talk: Nuclear Forces and the Universe Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM		D2.00003: Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Talk: Finding Real Nuclei in Imaginary Time Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session D3: Mentoring Perspectives of Mentor and Mentee

Sponsoring Units: COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT
Chair: Pablo Laguna, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: Thurgood Marshall South

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D3.00001: ``Crossing the Bridge'' One Student's Journey Through the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to Ph.D. Program Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM		D3.00002: Mentoring Masters-to-PhD Students: Reflections of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to PhD Bridge Program Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM		D3.00003: Systemic Mentoring for Competitiveness: The Model of the Timbuktu Academy Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session D4: Probing Strong-Field Gravity with Observations of the Galactic Center Black Hole

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Thurgood Marshall North

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D4.00001: Probing strong-field gravity at the galactic center using stellar motions Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM		D4.00002: Observing an Event Horizon: (sub)mm Wavelength VLBI of SgrA* Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM		D4.00003: Nature of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session D5: Nonproliferation

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Arizona State University
Room: Thurgood Marshall West

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D5.00001: Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Talk: Controlling and eliminating nuclear-weapon materials Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM		D5.00002: U.S.-Russian cooperation in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM		D5.00003: In search of plutonium: A nonproliferation journey Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session D6: Particle Beams and Accelerators in Energy Research and Applications

Sponsoring Units: DPB GERA
Chair: Jill Dahlburg, Naval Research Laboratory
Room: Washington 5

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D6.00001: Increasing the Acceptance of Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal by the Transmutation of Minor Actinides Using an Accelerator Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM		D6.00002: Plasma Heating and Current Drive for Fusion Reactors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM		D6.00003: Light Driven Energy Research at LCLS: Planned Pump-Probe X-ray Spectroscopy Studies on Photosynthetic Water Splitting Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session D7: Soft and Hard Interactions at RHIC

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Nathan Grau, Columbia University
Room: Delaware A

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D7.00001: Measurements of High pT $\pi^0$ Azimuthal Anisotropy in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV at PHENIX Rui Wei Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D7.00002: Effects of Fluctuations in the Fireball on Jet Quenching Observables at RHIC Ricardo Rodriguez-Pedraza, Rainer Fries, Enrique Ramirez-Homs Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D7.00003: Inclusive Jet and Dijet Cross Section Measurements in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at 200 GeV at STAR Tai Sakuma Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D7.00004: Determining sampled luminosity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 500$~GeV at STAR using the vernier scan technique Ross Corliss Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D7.00005: A new pixel sensor concept for Heavy Flavor Tracker in STAR at RHIC Xiangming Sun, Leo Greiner, Michal Szelezniak, Howard Wieman Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D7.00006: Study of mutual influence of jet and flow In heavy ion collisions using AMPT model Soumya Mohapatra, Jiangyong Jia, Zi-Wei Lin, ShinIchi Esumi Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D7.00007: RHIC Motivated Hydrodynamics from a Schwarzschild Black Hole James Alsup, George Siopsis Preview Abstract

Session D8: Mini-Symposium on Physics with an Electron-Nucleus Collider

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
Room: Delaware B

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM		D8.00001: Nuclear Physics with an Electron-Ion Collider Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D8.00002: The Electron-Ion Collider at BNL: Capabilities and Physics Highlights J.H. Lee Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D8.00003: Detector Studies for an Electron Ion Collider Matthew Lamont Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D8.00004: The nucleon structure, what an Electron-Ion Collider will teach us Thomas Burton Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D8.00005: Nucleon structure studies through exclusive reactions with an EIC at JLab Tanja Horn Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:54PM - 3:06PM		D8.00006: The Nucleon Form Factors measurement at EIC Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:06PM - 3:18PM		D8.00007: Possibility for a New Measurement of the Proton Elastic Form Factor Ratio at Very Low $Q^2$ Guy Ron, Eli Piasetzky, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:18PM - 3:30PM		D8.00008: Delta-Isobar Production in the Hard Photodisintegration of a Deuteron Carlos Granados, Misak Sargsian Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:30PM - 3:42PM		D8.00009: Expected improvements in polarized parton distribution uncertainties from, proposed, Electron Ion Collider using a Global analysis approach. Swadhin Taneja Preview Abstract

Session D9: Physics Research at the LHC

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Ayana Arce, Duke University
Room: Maryland A

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D9.00001: LHC Physics Potential {\em vs.} Energy Chris Quigg Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D9.00002: Search for Pair Production of First Generation Scalar Leptoquarks at the CMS Experiment Elizabeth Twedt Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D9.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D9.00004: Search for Supersymmetry in the Same-Sign Dilepton Channel with the CMS detector Arun Luthra Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D9.00005: SUSY searches at ATLAS in di-jet and multi-jet channels using alternatives to missing transverse energy R. Pravahan, K. De Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D9.00006: Plans to Search for New Particles Decaying to Dijets at CMS Sertac Ozturk, Robert Harris Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D9.00007: MUSiC - Model-independent search for deviations from Standard Model predictions in CMS Holger Pieta Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:54PM - 3:06PM		D9.00008: MSSM $\mathbf{H^\pm \rightarrow \chi^\pm \chi^0}$ Searches Caleb Lampen Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:06PM - 3:18PM		D9.00009: Measurement of Missing Transverse Energy using the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider Adam Yurkewicz Preview Abstract

Session D10: Precision Measurements on Atomic and Subatomic Systems

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC
Chair: Jeff Nico, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Room: Maryland B

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D10.00001: Blackbody-radiation shifts in optical frequency standards with trapped ions Dansha Jiang, Bindiya Arora, Marianna Safronova, Charles W. Clark Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D10.00002: Preparation of the anapole moment measurement in a chain of isotopes Dong Sheng, Jonathan Hood, Luis Orozco Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D10.00003: $^3$He comagnetometer readout for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment at SNS Steven Clayton Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D10.00004: Neutron interferometric precision measurement of the n-$^3$He incoherent scattering length M.G. Huber, M. Arif, W.C. Chen, T.R. Gentile, D.S. Hussey, D.A. Pushin, L. Yang, F.E. Wietfeldt, T.C. Black Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D10.00005: Precision neutron polarimetry for a measurement of the n-$^3$He incoherent scattering length of $^3$He Thomas Gentile, M. Arif, W.C. Chen, D.S. Hussey, D.A. Pushin, L. Yang, M.G. Huber, F.E. Wietfeldt, T.C. Black Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D10.00006: Decoherence Free Neutron Interferometery Dmitry Pushin, Michael Huber, Muhammad Arif, David Cory Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D10.00007: Spin Dependent Absorption Cross Section of Neutron $^3He$ C.B. Fu, T.R. Gentile, T.G. Walker, F.E. Wietfeldt, M.G. Huber Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:54PM - 3:06PM		D10.00008: Search For Dinucleon Decay Into Kaon Modes Using Multivariate Techniques Michael Litos Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:06PM - 3:18PM		D10.00009: A New Beam Modulation Strategy for the Q$^{p}_{weak}$ Experiment F.N.U. Nuruzzaman Preview Abstract

Session D11: SPS Undergraduate Research II

Chair: Ann Viano, Rhodes College
Room: Maryland C

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D11.00001: Introductory Physics Experiments Using the Wii Balance Board Julian Starr, Robert Sobczak, Zohaib Iqbal, Romulo Ochoa Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D11.00002: Galileo on Two Wheels: Why Does Newton Make Me Keep Pedaling This Thing? Dave Gardner, Kate Osenbach, Joseph Connolly Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D11.00003: Classical Mechanics Experiments using Wiimotes Alexander Lopez, Romulo Ochoa Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D11.00004: The Effects of Fluid Absorption on the Mechanical Properties of Joint Prostheses Components David Yarbrough, Ann Viano Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D11.00005: Optical Tweezing of Yeast Cells Kyle Gilroy, Romulo Ochoa Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D11.00006: Raman Spectroscopy of Cocrystals Frank Rooney, Paul Reardon, Romulo Ochoa, Heba Abourahma, Marcus Marti, Rachel DiMeo Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D11.00007: Comparison of Sprite-Halo Characteristics Imaged Over the USA and South America Lance Petersen, Mike Taylor, Dominique Pautet, Matthew Bailey, Steve Cummer Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:54PM - 3:06PM		D11.00008: Examination of wave band pattern feature observed in northwestern Monterey Bay airborne imagery during the 2009 SARP project Iva Gerasimenko, Kamil Armaiz-Nolla, Michael Glotter Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:06PM - 3:18PM		D11.00009: Astronomical Dating of Edvard Munch's Summer Sky Paintings Ava Pope, Donald Olson Preview Abstract

Session D12: Rare B Decays, B-Baryon

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Douglas Roberts, University of Maryland
Room: Virginia A

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D12.00001: A search for baryon and lepton number violation in $B$ decays using the BaBar dataset Matt Bellis Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D12.00002: Search for $B\rightarrow\nu\overline{\nu}(\gamma)$ Alessandro Rossi Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D12.00003: Study of charmless semileptonic $B$ decays at {\sl B{\scriptsize A}B{\scriptsize AR}} Wells Wulsin Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D12.00004: Measurement of Forward-Backward Asymmetry in $B\to K^{(*)}\mu\mu$ and Search for $B_s^0\to \phi\mu\mu$ at the CDF Experiment Hideki Miyake Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D12.00005: Measurement of $\Sigma_b$ Baryons with CDF II Detector Constantino Calancha-Paredes, Juan Pablo Fernandez, Igor Gorelov, Luis Labarga Preview Abstract

Session D13: Ground-based and Space-based Instruments and Techniques

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Eric Grove, Naval Research Laboratory
Room: Washington 6

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D13.00001: Current Status of QUIET Colin Bischoff Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D13.00002: The Science and Design of the AGIS Observatory Martin Schroedter Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D13.00003: Toward Supernova Observations with the Micro-X High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging Rocket Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D13.00004: A tunable laser system for precision wavelength calibration of spectra Claire Cramer Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D13.00005: Photoelectron Track Length Distributions in CH$_{3}$OCH$_{3}$ and Ne:CO$_{2}$:NO$_{2}$CH$_{3}$ Zachary Prieskorn, Joanne Hill, Philip Kaaret, Joel Black Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D13.00006: Database and Library Development of Organic Species using Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectral Measurements in Support of the Mars Science Laboratory Raul Garcia, Paul Mahaffy, Prabhakar Misra Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D13.00007: Non-Linear Simulation for the Disturbance of Electronic Systems in Low Earth Orbits by High Energy Electrons William Atkinson Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:54PM - 3:06PM		D13.00008: Speed Kills: Highly Relativistic Spaceflight Would be Fatal for People and Instruments William Edelstein, Arthur Edelstein Preview Abstract

Session D14: Modeling Black Hole Binaries

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Room: Washington 4

Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:30PM - 1:42PM		D14.00001: Simulations of Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments Brian Farris, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart Shapiro Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:42PM - 1:54PM		D14.00002: Binary Black Hole Mergers in a Gas Cloud and their Electromagnetic Signatures Tanja Bode, Roland Haas, Tamara Bogdanovic, Pablo Laguna, Deirdre Shoemaker Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:54PM - 2:06PM		D14.00003: Binary black hole initial data with tidal deformations and outgoing radiation Nathan Johnson-McDaniel, Nicolas Yunes, Wolfgang Tichy, Benjamin Owen Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:06PM - 2:18PM		D14.00004: Numerical simulations of binary black holes with nearly extremal spins Geoffrey Lovelace Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:18PM - 2:30PM		D14.00005: Extracting physics from numerical spacetimes with constant-expansion surfaces Eloisa Bentivegna, Erik Schnetter, Badri Krishnan Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:30PM - 2:42PM		D14.00006: Comparing binary black hole evolutions using finite difference and spectral methods Enrique Pazos, Larry Kidder, Abdul Mroue, Manuel Tiglio Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:42PM - 2:54PM		D14.00007: Binary Black Hole Mergers in SpEC Bela Szilagyi Preview Abstract
Saturday, February 13, 2010 2:54PM - 3:06PM		D14.00008: Modelling multiple modes of spinning merger waveforms Bernard Kelly, John Baker, William D. Boggs, James van Meter Preview Abstract

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