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Session B2: Invited Session: Rare Decays

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room: Regency Ballroom V

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:09AM		B2.00001: Latest results from the MEG experiment Invited Speaker: Toshiyuki Iwamoto Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:09AM - 11:33AM		B2.00002: The KOTO Experiment at J-PARC Invited Speaker: Jiasen Ma Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:33AM - 11:57AM		B2.00003: Rare b decays and CP violation at the Tevatron Invited Speaker: Luciano Ristori Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B2.00004: Rare decays at LHCb Invited Speaker: Alessio Sarti Preview Abstract

Session B3: Invited Session: Homing in on the Galactic Center Black Hole

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Clifford Will, Washington University in St. Louis
Room: Hanover CDE

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B3.00001: Evidence for a Super-massive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Invited Speaker: Mark Reid Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B3.00002: Accretion Mechanisms Invited Speaker: Ramesh Narayan Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B3.00003: Imaging Black Holes Invited Speaker: Avery Broderick Preview Abstract

Session B4: Invited Session: Numerical Relativity Beyond Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Frans Pretorius, Princeton University
Room: International Ballroom North

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B4.00001: Higher dimensional gravity and black holes Invited Speaker: Luis Lehner Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B4.00002: Dynamical Hawking radiation and holographic thermalization Invited Speaker: Paul Chesler Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B4.00003: High-speed black hole collisions with application to trans-Planckian particle scattering Invited Speaker: Ulrich Sperhake Preview Abstract

Session B5: Invited Session: Applications of Graphical Processing Units in Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP DCOMP
Chair: Matthew Shepard, Indiana University, Bloomington
Room: International Ballroom South

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B5.00001: Lattice QCD and Graphical Processing Units Invited Speaker: Balint Joo Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B5.00002: Application of Graphics Processing Units to Newtonian stellar dynamics Invited Speaker: Evghenii Gaburov Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B5.00003: GPUs in experimental particle physics Invited Speaker: Niklaus Berger Preview Abstract

Session B6: Invited Session: FPS Awards

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Pete Zimmerman, King's College, London
Room: Embassy C

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B6.00001: Joseph A. Burton Forum Award Lecture: Managing Nuclear and Biological Risks: Building Resilience through International Cooperation Invited Speaker: Arian Pregenzer Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B6.00002: Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Lecture: North Korea: Reactors, bombs and people Invited Speaker: Siegfried Hecker Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B6.00003: Remarks by the outgoing Chair Invited Speaker: Peter Zimmerman Preview Abstract

Session B7: Dark Matter: Direct Searches and Theory

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Heywood Tam, University of Florida
Room: Embassy D

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B7.00001: Study of Light Collection Efficiency for a Neutron Veto for the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Detector Shawn Westerdale, Emily Shields Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B7.00002: Preliminary Analysis of Electroluminescence from DarkSide-10 Dark Matter Detector Christina Martin Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B7.00003: Drift Field Effects on Prompt Scintillation in the DarkSide-10 Liquid Argon TPC John Tatarowicz Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B7.00004: Cross Section Measurements for Elastic and Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons from Argon and Neon Sean MacMullin Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B7.00005: Axion Dark Matter and Cosmological Parameters Heywood Tam, Ozgur Erken, Pierre Sikivie, Qiaoli Yang Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B7.00006: Axion Bose-Einstein Condensation: a model beyond Cold Dark Matter Qiaoli Yang Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B7.00007: Dark Matter from Binary Tetrahedral Flavor Symmetry David Eby, Paul Frampton Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B7.00008: Dark Matter Direct Search Rates in Self-Consistent Models of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Stream Chris Purcell Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B7.00009: Magnetic Moment of Leptons at Finite Temperature and Density Samina Masood Preview Abstract

Session B8: Current and Future Gravitational Wave Experiments

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
Room: Embassy B

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B8.00001: Prospects and challenges for gravitational-wave astronomy Invited Speaker: Stefan Ballmer Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B8.00002: Wideband, Third-generation, Gravitational-wave Antenna Invited Speaker: Rana Adhikari Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B8.00003: Advanced LIGO Status Michael Landry Preview Abstract

Session B9: Higgs Searches I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Nikos Varelas, University of Illinois at Chicago
Room: Embassy E

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B9.00001: Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the WW$\rightarrow$l$\nu$l$\nu$ final state Shannon Walch Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B9.00002: Search for the Higgs in the ZZ to llvv decay mode Kevin Sung Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B9.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B9.00004: Search for a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with a Vector Boson Using Like-Sign Dilepton Events at CDF Daisuke Yamato, Toru Okusawa, Yoshihiro Seiya, Takayuki Wakisaka, Kazuhiro Yamamoto Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B9.00005: Search for a Higgs boson in the decay channel $H \rightarrow ZZ^{(*)} \rightarrow 4l$ Matthew Snowball Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B9.00006: Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the $H\to WW\to\ell\nu q'\bar{q}$ Decay Channel Huong Nguyen Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B9.00007: Search for the SM Higgs Boson in the lepton and neutrino and four jets final state at D0 Ryuji Yamada Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B9.00008: Search for the Higgs boson in electron tau plus jet final states Ian Howley Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B9.00009: Search for the Higgs boson in muon tau plus jet final states Wanyu Ye Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:33PM - 12:45PM		B9.00010: Study of systematic uncertainties for Higgs Boson Searches in $H\rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ and $H\rightarrow W^{+}W^{-} \rightarrow l^{+} \nu l^{-} \nu$ Final States in ATLAS Hee Yeun Kim Preview Abstract

Session B10: Non-accelerator Neutrino Experiments

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Yuri Efremenko, University of Tennessee
Room: Embassy A

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B10.00001: SNO+ Readout Electronics Upgrades Richard Bonventre, Timothy Shokair, Robert Knapik Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B10.00002: Trigger System Upgrades for the SNO+ Experiment Andrew Mastbaum Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B10.00003: Environmental Effects on TPB Films Christie Chiu Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B10.00004: Tests of Magnetic Shielding of MicroBooNE Photomultiplier Tubes at Cryogenic Temperatures: Demonstration of Efficacy Evan Shockley, Timothy McDonald, Paul Nienaber Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B10.00005: EXO--200 Muon Veto System David Auty Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B10.00006: Status of the EXO-200 double beta decay search Ryan MacLellan Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B10.00007: Directed Neutrino Beam with Electron Capture Beta Decay Vladimir Tsifrinovich, Lorcan Folan, Christina DeAngelis Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B10.00008: Double Chooz Neutron Detection Efficiency with Calibration System Pi-Jung Chang Preview Abstract

Session B11: Nuclear Theory

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University
Room: Embassy F

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B11.00001: Contribution of isovector mesons to the symmetry energy in a microscopic model Francesca Sammarruca Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B11.00002: Charge form factors of light nuclei in chiral effective field theory Maria Piarulli Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B11.00003: Spin-Orbit interactions in auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo Jie Zhang, Kevin Schmidt Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B11.00004: Building Real-Space, Imaginary-Time Propagators for Non-Local Nucleon-Nucleon Potentials Joel Lynn Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B11.00005: Evidence of nonlocality due to a gradient term in the optical model Mahmoud Jaghoub, George Rawitscher Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B11.00006: An Exactly Solvable Many-Body Model Nouredine Zettili, Abdelkrim Boukahil Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B11.00007: Single j-shell studies of cross-conjugate nuclei and isomerism Larry Zamick, Alberto Escuderos Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B11.00008: Violation of time reversal invariance in ensembles with random interactions. Volha Abramkina, Alexander Volya, Vladimir Zelevinsky Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B11.00009: Electron in Strong Time-Dependent Laser Field Xingbo Zhao, Anton Ilderton, Pieter Maris, James Vary Preview Abstract

Session B12: Invited Session: Longitudinal and Transverse Structure of the Nucleon

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Wally Melnitchouk, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Room: Grand Hall East A/B

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B12.00001: Measurement of Single/Double Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target Invited Speaker: Xin Qian Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B12.00002: Spin Structure Functions of the Proton - SANE experiment Invited Speaker: Hovhannes Baghdasaryan Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B12.00003: Recent theory developments in the spin structure of the nucleon Invited Speaker: Andreas Metz Preview Abstract

Session B15: SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach I

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Kendra Redmond, Am. Inst. of Physics/Soc. of Physics Students
Room: Grand Hall East D

Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B15.00001: A Cosmic Ray Muon Tracker and its Applications to Astronomy and Archaeology Joann Sydney Rist, Edmundo Garcia Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B15.00002: Study of the Sensitivity of Plastic Scintillator to Fast Neutrons David Abbott Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B15.00003: Improving Event Identification in the HF Calorimeter of CMS Christopher Frye, Jeremiah Mans Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B15.00004: Characterization of GEM Digital Hadron Calorimeter with 13bit KPiX Readout System Using Particle Beams Safat Khaled, Danrae Pray, Seongtae Park, Jaehoon Yu, Andrew Jones, Nam Tran, Benjamin Bloom, Andrew White, Changhie Hahn Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B15.00005: Modeling the Effects of Mirror Misalignment in a Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector Tawanda Hitchcock, Austin Harton, Edmundo Garcia Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B15.00006: Total Pair Production Rate for Electron Neutrinos in Magnetic Fields B. Jordan Russell, Todd Tinsley Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B15.00007: Computational Analysis of the Bugey Neutrino Oscillation Experiment Mason Yost Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B15.00008: Antineutrino Stimulated Pair Production Tyler Webb, Todd Tinsley Preview Abstract
Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B15.00009: The Global Youth Service Team: students applying science and technology in remote, developing region of the world Doug Hollinger Preview Abstract

Session B20: FPS Business Meeting

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Room: Embassy C

Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:35PM - 1:25PM

B20.00001: FPS Business Meeting Preview Abstract