Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS April Meeting 2015

Volume 60, Number 4

Saturday–Tuesday, April 11–14, 2015; Baltimore, Maryland

Session Index

Session B2: Dark Matter I

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Rouven Essig, SUNY Stonybrook
Room: Holiday 1

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B2.00001: XENON1T - Direct Dark Matter Search on the Verge of a New Detector Generation Invited Speaker: Elena Aprile Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B2.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B2.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B2.00004: Dark Sector Searches in LArTPC Experiments Elizabeth Himwich Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B2.00005: Results from the XENON100 Experiment Marc Weber Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B2.00006: Using XENON100 Data to Probe Dark Matter-Induced Electronic Recoils as an Explanation of the DAMA/LIBRA Anomaly Mayra Cervantes Preview Abstract

Session B3: Invited Session: New Developments in Understanding the R-Process

Sponsoring Units: DNP DAP
Chair: Rebecca Surman, University of Notre Dame
Room: Holiday 2

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B3.00001: Nuclear data sensitivities and the rapid neutron capture process Invited Speaker: Matthew Mumpower Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B3.00002: Inferring neutron capture rates of short-lived isotopes Invited Speaker: Sean Liddick Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B3.00003: New developments in understanding the r-process from observations of metal-poor stars Invited Speaker: Anna Frebel Preview Abstract

Session B4: Electroweak Interactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Room: Holiday 3

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B4.00001: Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries from Elastic Electron Scattering on $^{27}$Al and $^{12}$C Kurtis Bartlett Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B4.00002: Analysis status of the Q-weak experiment Emmanouil Kargiantoulakis Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B4.00003: 1 Higgs search result in the tau-pair decay mode with ATLAS Xin Chen Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B4.00004: Vector and Axial Vector Pion Form Factors Michael Vitz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B4.00005: Realistic Monte Carlo Simulation of PEN Apparatus Charles Glaser Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B4.00006: Constraints on the electroweak tensor interaction from exclusive and semi-inclusive hadron production Simonetta Liuti, Aurore Courtoy, Martin Gonzalez-Alonso Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B4.00007: The Muon Capture Rate on the Deuteron in the MuSun Experiment Michael Murray Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B4.00008: Measurement of Fusion Neutrons and Capture Neutrons From Muon Stops in Deuterium for MuSun R. Kreswell Neely Preview Abstract

Session B5: Undergraduate Research - SPS I

Sponsoring Units: APS SPS
Chair: Crystal Bailey, American Physical Society
Room: Key 1

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B5.00001: CMB Polarization Detector Operating Parameter Optimization Kirsten Randle, David Chuss, Karwan Rostem, Ed Wollack Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B5.00002: Cosmic Ray Induced Bit-Flipping Experiment Edward Callaghan, Matthew Parsons Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B5.00003: Classical-physics applications for Finsler $b$ space Josh Foster, Ralf Lehnert Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B5.00004: Optimizing the Constrained Conformal Bootstrap Vijay Narayan, Jason Parisi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B5.00005: Theoretical Study of Low Energy Scattering from Metal Nuclei. Bernadette Gomez, Ajit Hira, Joe Duran, Danelle Jaramillo Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B5.00006: A Study to Enhance the Sensitivity for the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Coupling to Dimuons in Association with a Vector Boson Brendan Regnery, Darin Acosta, Justin Hugon Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B5.00007: Simulation Studies of the DCAL Performance for the ALICE Experiment at the LHC Ryan Goode, Niya Taylor, Austin Harton, Edmundo Garcia-Solis Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B5.00008: Strangeness Production in the ALICE Experiment at the LHC Harold Johnson, Kiara Fenner, Austin Harton, Edmundo Garcia-Solis, Ron Soltz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B5.00009: Third Elementary Dipole Moment: Toroidal Vincent Cordrey, Amanuel Eshete, Walerian Majewski Preview Abstract

Session B6: Hadronic Physics

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Igor Strakovsky, George Washington University
Room: Key 2

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B6.00001: Preliminary Results of Polarization Observables $T$ and $F$ in the $\vec p(\vec \gamma,\pi^0)p$ Reaction from CLAS Hao Jiang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B6.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B6.00003: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B6.00004: Light Meson Decays from Photon-Induced Reactions with CLAS Michael Kunkel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B6.00005: Timelike Compton Scattering Arthur Mkrtchyan, Ibrahim Albayrak, Tanja Horn, Pawel Nadel-Turonski Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B6.00006: Strangeness asymmetry in the proton Mary Alberg Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B6.00007: Exploring hadron structure through exclusive kaon electroproduction Marco Carmignotto, Indra Sapkota, Tanja Horn Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B6.00008: Studies of partonic distributions using semi-inclusive production of Kaons Fatiha Benmokhtar Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B6.00009: Luminosity Monitoring at the OLYMPUS Two-Photon Exchange Experiment Colton O'Connor Preview Abstract

Session B7: Neutrino Oscillations

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Ke Han, Yale University
Room: Key 3

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B7.00001: The NOvA Electron Neutrino Appearance Analysis Evan Niner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B7.00002: Status of the NO$\nu$A Near Detector and its role in $\nu_{\mu}$ Analysis Jose Sepulveda-Quiro Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B7.00003: Status and Future Sensitivities from the $\nu_{\mu}$ Disappearance Analysis in the NOvA Experiment Michael Baird Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B7.00004: Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with IceCube/DeepCore Matt Dunkman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B7.00005: Muon Neutrino Disappearance Measurements at MINOS+ Will Flanagan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B7.00006: T2K far detector event reduction, reconstruction and selection Xiaoyue Li Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B7.00007: Inelastic Single Pion Signal Study in T2K $\nu_e$ Appearance using Modified Decay Electron Cut Konosuke Iwamoto Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B7.00008: CHIPS Neutrino Detector Research and Development Ramon Salazar, Patricia Vahle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B7.00009: An Experimental Program in Neutrinos, Nucleon Decay and Astroparticle Physics Enabled by the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility Milind Diwan Preview Abstract

Session B8: Invited Session: Search for New Physics with Atoms, Molecules and Nuclei

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC GFB
Chair: Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Room: Key 4

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B8.00001: Tests of fundamental symmetries Invited Speaker: Dmitry Budker Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B8.00002: Manifestations of Symmetry Violation in Nuclei Invited Speaker: Wick Haxton Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B8.00003: New Upper Limit on the Electron's Electric Dipole Moment Invited Speaker: John Doyle Preview Abstract

Session B9: Invited Session: Thesis Prize Talk

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: John Beacom, Ohio State University
Room: Key 5

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B9.00001: The End of Accretion: The X-Ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038 Invited Speaker: Anne Archibald Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B9.00002: Photometric ``Flicker:'' Tracer of Granulation and an Accurate Measure of Stellar Surface Gravity Invited Speaker: Fabienne Bastien Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B9.00003: Dynamical Tides and Oscillations in Star and Planetary Systems Invited Speaker: Jim Fuller Preview Abstract

Session B10: Invited Session: The Higgs Boson as a Tool for Discovery

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Haber Howard, University of California, Santa Cruz
Room: Key 6

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B10.00001: Physics of the Higgs boson at the LHC Invited Speaker: Lashkar Kashif Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B10.00002: Precision Higgs Physics Invited Speaker: Radja Boughezal Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B10.00003: Higgs Properties in the Standard Model and Beyond Invited Speaker: Ian Low Preview Abstract

Session B11: Invited Session: Innovative Computing in Relativity

Sponsoring Units: GGR DCOMP
Chair: Evan O'Connor, University of Toronto
Room: Key 7

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B11.00001: Novel Numerical Approaches to Loop Quantum Cosmology Invited Speaker: Peter Diener Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B11.00002: Numerical Relativity's Contributions to Theoretical Astrophysics, and Its Path Forward Invited Speaker: Zachariah Etienne Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B11.00003: Computational approaches in gravitational wave data analysis Invited Speaker: Tyson Littenberg Preview Abstract

Session B12: Invited Session: Energy Research at ARPA-E

Sponsoring Units: FPS GERA
Chair: Valerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: Key 8

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 11:21AM		B12.00001: An Overview of ARPA-E Invited Speaker: Eric Rohlfing Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:57AM		B12.00002: No Photon Left Behind: Advanced Optics at ARPA-E for Buildings and Solar Energy Invited Speaker: Howard M. Branz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:33PM		B12.00003: The Solar Vortex: Electric Power Generation using Anchored, Buoyancy-Induced Columnar Vortices Invited Speaker: Ari Glezer Preview Abstract

Session B13: Tests of General Relativity and Gravitation

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Steven Carlip, University of California, Davis
Room: Key 9

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B13.00001: Improved Measurements of Short Term Variations in the Earth's Mass Distribution Peter L. Bender Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B13.00002: Inflight alignment and calibration of SR-POEM Robert Reasenberg, James Phillips Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B13.00003: Ultra-sensitive force measurement using optically levitated microspheres Alexander Rider, David Moore, Giorgio Gratta Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B13.00004: Spontaneous Scalarization: Dead or Alive? Emanuele Berti, Luis Crispino, Davide Gerosa, Leonardo Gualtieri, Michael Horbatsch, Caio Macedo, Hector Okada da Silva, Paolo Pani, Hajime Sotani, Ulrich Sperhake Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B13.00005: Projected Constraints on Lorentz-Violating Gravity with Gravitational Waves Devin Hansen, Nicolas Yunes, Kent Yagi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B13.00006: Short-Range Test for Lorentz Violation in Gravity Rui Xu, Quentin G. Bailey, V. Alan Kosteleck\'y Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B13.00007: Projected Constraints on Scalarization with Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Binaries Laura Sampson, Nicolas Yunes, Neil Cornish, Marcelo Ponce, Enrico Barausse, Antoine Klein, Carlos Palenzuela, Luis Lehner Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B13.00008: Testing Einstein's theory of gravity in a millisecond pulsar triple system Anne Archibald Preview Abstract

Session B14: Pulsar Timing

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara, NASA
Room: Key 10

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B14.00001: Intermediate Frequency Gravitational Wave Determination in the 10 micro-Hertz to 20 milli-Hertz Band Using Dense Pulsar Timing Campaigns Timothy Dolch, Michael Lam, Justin Ellis, Shami Chatterjee, James Cordes, Dustin Madison, David Chernoff Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B14.00002: Detecting Nanohertz Gravitational Waves with Pulsars Brian Christy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B14.00003: NANOGrav limits on the isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background from the nine-year data release Justin Ellis, Rutger van Haasteren Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B14.00004: Placing limits on anisotropy in the stochastic gravitational wave background with the 9-year NANOGrav data set Chiara Mingarelli Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B14.00005: NANOGrav limits on gravitational-wave bursts with memory from the nine-year data release Rutger van Haasteren Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B14.00006: On the detection of eccentric supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays Eliu Huerta, Sean McWilliams, Jonathan Gair, Stephen Taylor Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B14.00007: Searching for GW signals from eccentric supermassive black-hole binaries with pulsar-timing arrays Stephen Taylor, Jonathan Gair, Eliu Huerta, Sean McWilliams Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B14.00008: Using Pulsar Timing observations to understand the formation and evolution of supermassive black hole binaries Neil Cornish, Laura Sampson, Sean McWilliams Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B14.00009: Timing of Large Magellanic Cloud Pulsars Demi St. John, Josh Ridley Preview Abstract

Session B15: Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Justin Frantz, Ohio University
Room: Key 11

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B15.00001: Measurements of di-hadron correlations and azimuthal anisotropies in the BES at RHIC by STAR Liao Song Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B15.00002: A New Observable for Di-Jet Di-hadron Jet Suppression Bing Xia, Justin Frantz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B15.00003: Methods for Determining Elliptic Flow of Isolated Photons and $\pi^0$'s Tyler Danley Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B15.00004: Anisotropic hydrodynamics for conformal Gubser flow Mohammad Nopoush, Radoslaw Ryblewski, Michael Strickland Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B15.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B15.00006: Anisotropic Jet Quenching in semi-Quark-Gluon Plasmas with Magnetic Monopoles Jiechen Xu, Jinfeng Liao, Miklos Gyulassy Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B15.00007: Prospect of Non-Prompt J/$\psi $ Measurements at STAR Zaochen Ye Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B15.00008: Quarkonia production in pPb collisions at CMS C. Christopher Ferraioli Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B15.00009: Non-photonic electron production in p$+$p collisions at $\surd s =$ 200 GeV Xiaozhi Bai Preview Abstract

Session B16: Higgs Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Robin Erbacher, University of California, Davis
Room: Key 12

Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B16.00001: Search for the standard model Higgs boson with mass $\sim$ 125 GeV in the H $\to$ WW $\to$ lvjj channel at CMS Joseph Goodell Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B16.00002: Observation and Measurement of the Higgs Boson with the $H\rightarrow WW^{(*)}\rightarrow \ell\nu\ell\nu$ Channel Jonathan Long Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B16.00003: Bounds on the Higgs boson lifetime with H$\to $4l events Ulascan Sarica Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B16.00004: Evidence for vector-boson fusion production of $H\rightarrow WW^\ast \rightarrow \ell\nu\ell\nu$ Philip Chang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B16.00005: Dark matter in new regions of the NMSSM with a 125 GeV Higgs Augusto Medeiros da Rosa, Francesc Ferrer, Roberto Franceschini Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B16.00006: Search for a Standard Model-like Higgs boson decaying into WW to lnu qqbar in pp collisions at sqrt s $=$ 8 TeV Bibhuti Parida Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B16.00007: Constraints on anomalous $HVV$ couplings of the Higgs boson in proton collisions at $7$ and $8\mathrm{TeV}$ Christopher Martin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B16.00008: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 12:21PM - 12:33PM		B16.00009: Search for Standard Model Higgs in ttbar-H, H$\rightarrow$$b\bar{b}$ decay channel at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV John Wood Preview Abstract

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