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Session P1: Sakurai Prize

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: R. Sekhar Chivukula, Michigan State University
Room: Marriott Ballroom Salon 2

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:25AM		P1.00001: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:25AM - 11:45AM		P1.00002: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:58AM		P1.00003: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:58AM - 12:11PM		P1.00004: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:11PM - 12:24PM		P1.00005: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Talk Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:24PM - 12:33PM		P1.00006: Discussion Preview Abstract

Session P2: Neutrinos - Mixing Angles

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Thurgood Marshall East

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		P2.00001: Accelerator Neutrino Experiments: Current status of the neutrino sector and what we would like to learn from future experiments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		P2.00002: Probing Neutrino Mixing with Non-Accelerator Experiments Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		P2.00003: Leptogenesis Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session P3: QCD Structure of the Nucleon

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Ronald Gilman, Rutgers University
Room: Thurgood Marshall South

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		P3.00001: New measurement of the EMC effect in light nuclei Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		P3.00002: Strange sea contribution to the ground state charge and magnetization of the nucleon Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		P3.00003: Novel Features of Hadronic Form Factors Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session P4: Cross-fertilization Between Astrophysics and Laboratory Magnetized Plasma Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPP GPAP
Chair: Vyacheslav Lukin, Naval Research Laboratory
Room: Thurgood Marshall North

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		P4.00001: Experimental/observational overview: what laboratory can offer to astro- and vice-versa Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		P4.00002: Large scale dynamics of laboratory and astrophysical plasmas: bridging the lab/astro scale gaps and its limitations Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		P4.00003: Gyrokinetics in astrophysics -- from tokamaks to galaxies Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session P5: Energy Education

Sponsoring Units: FPS FEd AAPT
Chair: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists
Room: Thurgood Marshall West

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		P5.00001: Teaching the Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		P5.00002: Energy Education: The Quantitative Voice Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		P5.00003: Educating High School and Middle School Teachers and Students about Energy Systems Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session P6: Developing Exemplary Undergraduate Physics Programs: The SPIN-UP Regional Workshops

Sponsoring Units: FEd AAPT
Chair: Ruth Howes, Ball State University
Room: Washington 5

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		P6.00001: SPIN-UP Ten Years Later: What's Still Solid and What's New Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:57AM		P6.00002: Growing Physics and Astronomy at James Madison University Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:33PM		P6.00003: A Strong Sense of Belonging Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract

Session P7: Mini-Symposium: Electromagnetic Radiation from Quark-Gluon Plasma

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Charles Gale, McGill University
Room: Delaware A

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 11:21AM		P7.00001: Enhanced production of direct photons in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV and implications for the initial temperature Invited Speaker: Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P7.00002: Feasibility study of the two-photon intensity interferometry in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV from PHENIX at RHIC Xiaoyang Gong, Roy Lacey, Jiangyong Jia, Rui Wei Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P7.00003: Medium and high $p_T$ direct photons in PHENIX Gabor David Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P7.00004: High $p_T$ hadron production and its quantitative constraint to model parameters at PHENIX Takao Sakaguchi Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P7.00005: Measurement of Low Transverse Momentum Direct Photons Via External Conversions in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV with the PHENIX Detector at RHIC Richard Petti Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P7.00006: Direct Photon-Hadron Correlations Measured in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ with the PHENIX Detector Megan Connors Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P7.00007: A New Method for Detecting a Possible Parity Violating Signal in Heavy Ion Reactions at RHIC N.N. Ajitanand Preview Abstract

Session P8: Hadronic Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Volker Burkert, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Delaware B

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P8.00001: Mesurements of Spin-Orbit Correlations at CLAS Harut Avakian Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P8.00002: The Photoproduction of K$^{+}\Sigma^{\ast -}$(1385) Haiyun Lu, Ralf Gothe, Lewis Graham, Zhiwen Zhao, Kijun Park Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P8.00003: First results on the electrocouplings of high lying N* states from N$\pi\pi$ electroproduction off protons with the CLAS detector Victor Mokeev, Volker Burkert Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P8.00004: Exclusive Analysis of the $\vec{\gamma}\, n \rightarrow K^{^+} \vec{\Sigma}^{^-}$ Reaction at $E_{\gamma}$=1.1-2.3 GeV Edwin Munevar, Barry Berman Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P8.00005: Search for Missing Resonances in $\gamma p\to K^+\Lambda$ using circularly polarized photons on longitudinally polarized target Liam Casey Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P8.00006: $K^{*0}(892)\Lambda$ \& $K^{+}\Sigma^{-}(1385)$ Photoproduction on the Deuteron Paul Mattione, Daniel Carman Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P8.00007: $\phi$(1020) Photoproduction on the Neutron Anna Micherdzinska, Barry Berman Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P8.00008: Towards more precise parameters of the $a_1(1260)$ resonance Peter Lichard, Martin Vojik Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P8.00009: Factorization in Charged Meson Production Tanja Horn Preview Abstract

Session P9: Higgs Searches II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Rob Roser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Maryland A

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P9.00001: New techniques for improving $Z \rightarrow \mu\mu$ acceptance for the SM Higgs search in the $ZH \rightarrow \ell^{+} \ell^{-} b\bar{b}$ final state at CDF Justin Pilot Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P9.00002: Search for Associated Production of $Z$ and Higgs Bosons in the $\ell \ell bb$ Final State in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV Betty Calpas Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P9.00003: Search for Associated Production of $Z$ and Higgs Bosons in the $ \nu \nu bb$ Final State in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV Abhinav Dubey Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P9.00004: Improvements in tau identification and energy scale calibration at DZero Romain Madar Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P9.00005: Search for the standard model Higgs boson in the $\tau\tau q \bar q$ final state Katy Tschann-Grimm Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P9.00006: Search for a Standard Model Higgs boson in the $WH\to \tau\nu b \bar{b}$ channel with 4.0 fb$^{-1}$ at D0 Melvin Meijer Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P9.00007: Search for SM Higgs in associated production with a $W$ boson in the $\tau\nu b\bar{b}$ final state at CDF Elisabetta Pianori Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P9.00008: Search for a SM Higgs Boson in the all-hadronic decay channel at CDF Ankush Mitra Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P9.00009: Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in $bbb(b)$ Final States in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV Nicolas Osman Preview Abstract

Session P10: Dark Matter III

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Dan Akerib, Case Western Reserve University
Room: Maryland B

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P10.00001: Studies of xenon gas purity for next generation detectors Attila Dobi Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P10.00002: The \textsc{Majorana} \textsc{Demonstrator} Low-Energy Program Michael Miller Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P10.00003: Design and Performance of Next Generation Cryogenic Dark Matter Detectors Jeff Yen, Matt Pyle, Bruno Serfass, Paul Brink, Blas Cabrera, Matt Cherry, Nader Mirabolfathi, Larry Novak, Bernard Sadoulet, Dennis Seitz, Kyle Sundqvist, Astrid Tomada, Betty Young Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P10.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P10.00005: High Energy Lepton Production Underground Alexander Bulmahn, Mary Hall Reno Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P10.00006: External Background Characterization of Homestake Mine for DUSEL Keenan Thomas, Dongming Mei, Frederick Gray, Chao Zhang Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P10.00007: Discrimination of events in superheated liquid Simon Archambault Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P10.00008: Calibration of the LUX Dark Matter Detector Louis Kastens Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P10.00009: IceCube update on point-source searches Jon Dumm, Mike Baker, Juan A Aguilar, Chad Finley, Teresa Montaruli Preview Abstract

Session P11: Electromagnetic Interactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Douglas Higinbotham, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Maryland C

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P11.00001: Measurement of Single-spin Asymmetry in Charged Kaon Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target Youcai Wang Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P11.00002: Target Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Inclusive DIS Timothy Holmstrom Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P11.00003: Measuerment of generalized form factors near the pion threshold in high $Q^2$ region with CLAS Kijun Park Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P11.00004: Measurement of the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio with polarized target at high momentum transfer Anusha Liyanage Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P11.00005: High Acceptance Proton Form Factor Measurements Up To 15 GeV$^2$ Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Lubomir Pentchev Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P11.00006: Proton Elastic Form Factor Ratio Measurements at Low $Q^2$ Vincent Sulkosky Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P11.00007: The OLYMPUS Luminosity Monitors Ozgur Ates Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P11.00008: Polarization Measurements of the Recoil Proton in $\pi^{0}$ Photoprodcution Wei Luo, Mark Jones, Lubomir Pentchev Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P11.00009: Recent Results From the Two Photon Exchange Experiment at CLAS Megh Niroula Preview Abstract

Session P12: Instrumentation for Particle Physics II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room: Virginia A

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P12.00001: The CDF Silicon Detector: Performance and Longevity Sabastian Carron Montero Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P12.00002: In situ performance of the Transition Radiation Tracker of the ATLAS detector M. Liu, A. Bocci, E.B. Klinkby, A. Goshaw Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P12.00003: Study of the behavior of highly ionizing particles in the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker K. Finelli, A. Bocci, E.B. Klinkby, M. Kruse Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P12.00004: Study of transition radiation in the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker using test beam and cosmic ray data Alex Harvey Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P12.00005: Measurement of Lorentz Angle for the CMS Pixel Detector Ashish Kumar Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P12.00006: Laser Testing for the ATLAS Forward Proton Time of Flight Detector Ian Howley, Andrew Brandt Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P12.00007: Performance of a Single-Crystal Diamond-Pixel Telescope Dmitry Hits, Steve Schnetzer, Robert Stone, Ed Bartz, John Doroshenko, Valerie Halyo, Bert Harrop, Adam Hunt, Dan Marlow, Will Johns, William Bugg, Matt Hollingsworth, Stefan Spanier, Richard Hall-Wilton, Vladimir Ryjov, Manfred Pernicka Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P12.00008: The CMS Luminosity Measurement and Results of its First Calibration using Van de Meer Scans Jeremy Werner, Nadia Adam, Valerie Halyo, Adam Hunt, John Jones, Daniel Marlow Preview Abstract

Session P13: UHECR Detection and Results

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland
Room: Washington 6

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P13.00001: Observations vs. Simulations of Golden Hybrid Events at the Pierre Auger Observatory Jeff Allen Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P13.00002: Measurement of the longitudinal profile of extensive air showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory Florin Ionita Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P13.00003: Measurement of the Flux of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays at the Pierre Auger Observatory Segev BenZvi Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P13.00004: Ultra-high energy photon studies with the Pierre Auger Observatory Viviana Scherini Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P13.00005: Hybrid Observation with the Telecsope Array Observatory Benjamin Stokes, Dmitri Ivanov, Gordon Thomson Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P13.00006: Measurement of the Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays by the Surface Detector of the Telescope Array Experiment Gordon Thomson, Dmitri Ivanov, Benjamin Stokes Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P13.00007: Measurement of the UHECR Flux by the Telescope Array Fluorescence Detectors Sean Stratton, Lauren Scott Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P13.00008: Multi-spectra Cosmic Ray Flux Measurement Xiaochun He, Mathes Dayananda Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P13.00009: A Primary Energy Reconstruction Method for Air Shower Array Experiments Samvel ter-Antonyan, Ali Fazely Preview Abstract

Session P14: Numerical Simulations of Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Roland Haas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: Washington 4

Monday, February 15, 2010 10:45AM - 10:57AM		P14.00001: Exploring the Magnetic field and Black Hole Spin in Black Hole--Neutron star mergers Sarvnipun Chawla, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Steven Liebling, Miguel Megevand, Patrick Motl, David Neilsen, Carlos Palenzuela Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 10:57AM - 11:09AM		P14.00002: Merger of white dwarf-neutron star binaries: Prelude to hydrodynamic simulations in general relativity Vasileios Paschalidis, Morgan MacLeod, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:09AM - 11:21AM		P14.00003: Gravitational Waves from Magnetized Binary Neutron Star Mergers Bruno Giacomazzo, Luciano Rezzolla, Luca Baiotti Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:21AM - 11:33AM		P14.00004: Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries Francois Foucart, Matthew Duez, Lawrence Kidder, Saul Teukolsky Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:33AM - 11:45AM		P14.00005: Simulations of Neutron-Star Binaries using the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC) Jeffrey Kaplan, Christian Ott, Curran Muhlberger, Matthew Duez, Francois Foucart, Mark Scheel Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:45AM - 11:57AM		P14.00006: Neutron Star-Spinning Black Hole Binary Mergers: Simulations in Full General Relativity Zachariah Etienne, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart Shapiro, Thomas Baumgarte Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 11:57AM - 12:09PM		P14.00007: Constructing initial data for magnetized rotating and binary compact objects Charalampos Markakis, Koji Uryu, Eric Gourgoulhon Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:09PM - 12:21PM		P14.00008: Near-extremal-spin Black Hole: New Initial Data and Evolution Yuk Tung Liu, Zachariah Etienne, Stuart Shapiro Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:21PM - 12:33PM		P14.00009: Extreme Black-Hole Binaries Yosef Zlochower, Carlos Lousto, Manuela Campanelli Preview Abstract
Monday, February 15, 2010 12:33PM - 12:45PM		P14.00010: Looking at Black Holes Mathematically James Graber Preview Abstract

Session P15: DPB Business Meeting

Sponsoring Units: DPB
Room: Wilson B