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Session E2: Supernovae, Supernova Remnants, and Other Galactic Sources

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Terri Brandt, NASA
Room: Holiday 1

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E2.00001: The First Fermi-LAT Supernova Remnant Catalog T. J. Brandt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E2.00002: Searching for the highest energy gamma rays from Nova V339 Del with Fermi-LAT and MAGIC Elizabeth Hays Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E2.00003: Towards Multimessenger Pulsar Astronomy: A Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources in LIGO S6 Data J.R. Sanders Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E2.00004: Observing Gamma-Ray Sources along the Galactic Plane with HAWC Hugo Ayala Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E2.00005: Reconstructing core-collapse supernovae waveforms with advanced era interferometers Jessica McIver Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E2.00006: Neutrino-driven turbulent convection in stalled supernova cores David Radice, Christian Ott, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Sean Couch, Roland Haas, Erik Schnetter Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E2.00007: The Supernova Explosion Code (SNEC) Viktoriya Giryanskaya, Christian Ott, Anthony Piro, Mathieu Renzo, Sean Couch, Drew Clausen, Justin Ellis, Luke Roberts Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E2.00008: Analytic Closure Relations in M1 Neutrino Radiation Transport in Core-Collapse Supernovae Elena Murchikova, Christian D. Ott, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Evan O'Connor, John Wendell, Todd Urbatsch Preview Abstract

Session E3: Invited Session: Hard Probes in pA Collisions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Anne Sickles, University of Illinois
Room: Holiday 2

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E3.00001: Color fluctuations in pA collisions at collider energies Invited Speaker: Mark Strikman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E3.00002: Experimental Results on Jets in pA Invited Speaker: Eric Appelt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E3.00003: Quarkonia production in p+A collisions - what have we learned? Invited Speaker: Anthony Frawley Preview Abstract

Session E4: Instrumentation II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Nilanga Liyanage, University of Virginia
Room: Holiday 3

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E4.00001: Characterization of an amplification read-out gas chamber with stacked GEM and MicromeGas detectors Salvatore Aiola Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E4.00002: Characterization of Gas Amplification in Varied Gas Mixtures for Stacked Gas Electron Multiplier and Micromegas Detectors Raymond Ehlers Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E4.00003: Studies of the hadronic calorimeter prototype for sPHENIX Liang Xue Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E4.00004: Test Beam Results for ALICE TPC Upgrade Prototypes James Mulligan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E4.00005: Track Finding and Reconstruction for the OLYMPUS Experiment Lauren Ice Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E4.00006: Parameterization Measurements of a 963 cm$^{3}$ LaBr$_{3}$:Ce Crystal J.C. Marsh, M.S. Litz, C.J. Chiara, J.J. Carroll Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E4.00007: A Cryogenic Target for Compton Scattering Experiments at HI$\gamma$S David Kendellen, Mohammad Ahmed, Henry Weller, Gerald Feldman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E4.00008: The GlueX Start Counter Eric Pooser Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E4.00009: Software Development for the Commissioning of the Jefferson Lab Hall B Silicon Vertex Tracker Justin Ruger, Veronique Ziegler, Yuri Gotra, Gagik Gavalian Preview Abstract

Session E5: Nuclear Structure I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Con Beausang, University of Richmond
Room: Key 1

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E5.00001: The Quasi-Electron Shell Structure of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Wick Haxton, Daniel Haxton Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E5.00002: Studying the Delta-Delta component in the Deuteron Shankar Adhikari, Misak Sargsian Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E5.00003: Deuteron Momentum Distributions at Large Momentum Transfers Werner Boeglin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E5.00004: The $^{3}{\rm H}(d,\gamma)$ Reaction at $E_{\rm c.m.}\leq300$~keV C.E. Parker, C.R. Brune, T.N. Massey, J.E. O'Donnell, A.L. Richard, D.B. Sayre Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E5.00005: Hard Photodisintegration of $^3He$ into pd pair Dhiraj Maheswari, Misak Sargsian Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E5.00006: Two-proton decay correlations in the sd-shell Kyle Brown Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E5.00007: Searching for isovector signatures in the neutron-rich oxygen and calcium isotopes Wei-Chia Chen, Jorge Piekarewicz Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E5.00008: Deformed suq(2) with deformed Coriolis effect description of superdeformed nuclei in A$\sim$190 region Hamoud Alharbi, Hamad Alhendi, Turki AlOyayd Preview Abstract

Session E6: Fundamental Symmetries II

Sponsoring Units: GPMFC DNP
Chair: Jaideep Singh, Michigan State University
Room: Key 2

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E6.00001: Searches for Lorentz and CPT Violation with Fermions in Penning Traps Yunhua Ding, V. Alan Kosteleck\'y Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E6.00002: Prospects for Lorentz violation in atomic spectroscopy and spin-precession experiments Arnaldo J. Vargas, V. Alan Kosteleck\'y Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E6.00003: South Pole Lorentz Invariance Test Morgan Hedges, Marc Smiciklas, Michael Romalis Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E6.00004: On measurement of the isotropy of the maximum attainable speed Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E6.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E6.00006: Construction of a new watt balance with the goal to realize the kilogram in the US Stephan Schlamminger, Darine Haddad, Frank Seifert, Leon Chao, David Newell, Jon Pratt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E6.00007: Status of the TREK/E36 Experiment at J-PARC Michael Kohl Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E6.00008: Calculation of higher order corrections to the positronium hyperfine splitting Gregory Adkins, Richard Fell Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E6.00009: The Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE) Andrew Geraci Preview Abstract

Session E7: Reactor Neutrinos

Sponsoring Units: DPF DNP
Chair: Steve Brice, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Room: Key 3

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E7.00001: Measurement of Absolute Reactor Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay Jaewon Park Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E7.00002: PROSPECT Background Studies and Operation of Li-Loaded Liquid Scintillator Detectors at a Research Reactor Thomas Langford Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E7.00003: NuLat: A Novel Design for a Reactor Anti-Neutrino Detector S. Derek Rountree Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E7.00004: Progress With the Double Chooz Time Projection Chamber (DCTPC) Neutron Detector Allie Hexley Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E7.00005: Optimization of Pulse Shape Discrimination of PROSPECT Liquid Scintillator Signals Ke Han Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E7.00006: NuLat: 3D Event Reconstruction of a ROL Detector for Neutrino Detection and Background Rejection Zachary Yokley Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E7.00007: The WATCHMAN Project Steven Dazeley Preview Abstract

Session E8: Invited Session: Future Facilities: High Intensity Accelerators

Sponsoring Units: DPB
Chair: Stuart Henderson, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Key 4

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E8.00001: High Power Proton Facilities Invited Speaker: Sergei Nagaitsev Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E8.00002: Precision Studies in Neutrino Physics: Prospects and Opportunities Invited Speaker: Karsten Heeger Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E8.00003: Report of the HEPAP Accelerator R\&D Subpanel Invited Speaker: Donald Hartill Preview Abstract

Session E9: Invited Session: It's a Small World After All: Global Opportunities in Physics

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Chair: Valerie Gray, College of William and Mary
Room: Key 5

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E9.00001: SESAME: science for intercultural dialogue Invited Speaker: Giorgio Paolucci Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E9.00002: Global Entrepreneurship, Creating and Working Across Cultures Invited Speaker: Surya Raghu Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E9.00003: International Professional Positions -- Adjusting to the Japanese Culture Invited Speaker: Megan Friend Preview Abstract

Session E10: Invited Session: Indirect Detection of Dark Matter

Sponsoring Units: DPF DAP
Chair: Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
Room: Key 6

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E10.00001: Searching for Dark Matter with Gamma Rays Invited Speaker: Andrea Albert Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E10.00002: Latest results from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station Invited Speaker: Paolo Zuccon Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E10.00003: Dark Matter Particle Physics in Dwarf Galaxies Invited Speaker: Alex Geringer-Sameth Preview Abstract

Session E11: Invited Session: Detecting GWs from the Ground and in Space

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Sarah Gossan, California Institute of Technology
Room: Key 7

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E11.00001: Hearing Voices in the Dark: Probing the gravitational wave Cosmos from space Invited Speaker: Shane Larson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E11.00002: Atom Interferometry for Detection of Gravitational Waves: Progress and Prospects Invited Speaker: Jason Hogan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E11.00003: LIGO and the network of terrestrial gravitational wave detectors Invited Speaker: David Shoemaker Preview Abstract

Session E12: Invited Session: Exploration for Life in the Universe: Implications for Society

Sponsoring Units: FPS DAP
Chair: Arian Pregenzer, Sandia National Laboratories
Room: Key 8

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E12.00001: Extraterrestrial Intelligence: What Would it Mean? Invited Speaker: Chris Impey Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E12.00002: Challenges for Protecting Life on Other Planets Invited Speaker: Christoph Adami Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E12.00003: Exploring the Universe: Lessons for Life on Earth Invited Speaker: David Grinspoon Preview Abstract

Session E13: Quantum Gravity II

Sponsoring Units: GGR
Chair: Martin Polacek, State University of New York - Stony Brook
Room: Key 9

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E13.00001: On the Quantization of Plane Gravitational Waves: Flat space considerations Seth Major, Franz Hinterleitner, Jeremy Adelman Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E13.00002: Graybody Factors and Infrared Divergences Paul Anderson, Alessandro Fabbri, Roberto Balbinot, Renaud Parentani Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E13.00003: Two-point function for a BEC acoustic black hole Richard Dudley, Paul Anderson, Alessandro Fabbri Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E13.00004: The effect of Quantum Gravity on astrophysical neutrino flavor observables Jonathan Miller, Roman Pasechnik Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E13.00005: Casimir effect in a quantum space-time Javier Olmedo, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E13.00006: A New Physical Meaning of Sommerfeld Fine Structure Constant Siavash Sohrab Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E13.00007: Gravitational radiation as radiation same level of electromagnetic and its generation in pulsed high-current discharge. Theory and experiment. Stanislav Fisenko, Igor Fisenko Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E13.00008: Graviton as a Grand United Gauge Boson Rasulkhozha S. Sharafiddinov Preview Abstract

Session E14: Tidal Disruption Events and Compact Object Binaries

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Brad Cenko, NASA
Room: Key 10

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E14.00001: Tidal Disruptions Events with Prompt Hyperaccretion Christopher Evans, Pablo Laguna Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E14.00002: Relativistic simulations of black hole-neutron star coalescence: the jet emerges I Vasileios Paschalidis, Milton Ruiz, Stuart Shapiro Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E14.00003: Relativistic simulations of black hole-neutron star coalescence: the jet emerges II Milton Ruiz, Vasileios Paschalidis, Stuart Shapiro Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E14.00004: Short gamma-ray bursts in the ``time-reversal" scenario Riccardo Ciolfi, Daniel Siegel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E14.00005: Electromagnetic transients and r-process nucleosynthesis from the disk wind outflows of neutron star merger remnants Rodrigo Fernandez, Daniel Kasen, Eliot Quataert, Brian Metzger, Josiah Schwab, Stephan Rosswog Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E14.00006: Light curves from binary neutron star coalescence Nestor Ortiz, Stephen Green, Luis Lehner, Marcelo Ponce Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E14.00007: Modelling precession effects with a single effective precession parameter Patricia Schmidt, Frank Ohme, Mark Hannam Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E14.00008: Distinguishing black-hole spin-orbit resonances via gravitational waves II: Full parameter estimation Daniele Trifir\`o, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Davide Gerosa, Emanuele Berti, Michael Kesden, Tyson Littenberg, Ulrich Sperhake Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E14.00009: Theoretical Study of White Dwarf Double Stars Ajit Hira, Ted Koetter, Ruben Rivera, Juan Diaz Preview Abstract

Session E15: Nuclear Astrophysics I: Reactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame
Room: Key 11

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E15.00001: Nuclear input for the p-process Anna Simon Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E15.00002: Measurement of $^{19}$Ne(d,n)$^{20}$Na(p) reaction at RESOLUT Joseph Belarge, Ingo Wiedenhover, Lagy Baby, Sean Kuvin, Jessica Baker, Jeff Blackmon, Catherine Deibel, Kevin Macon, Dennis Gay, Kayla Colbert, Nathan Quails Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E15.00003: Inelastic Scattering of Alphas on $^{24}Mg$ as a Surrogate for Stellar Carbon Burning Justin Munson, Eric Norman, Jason Burke, Robert Casperson, Ellen McCleskey, Matt McCleskey, Richard Hughes, Shuya Ota, Agnieszka Czeszumska, Antti Saastamoinen, Alex Spiridon Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E15.00004: Discovery of $^{34g,m}$Cl($p,\gamma$)$^{35}$Ar resonances Cathleen Fry, C. Wrede, S. Bishop, B.A. Brown, A.A. Chen, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, A. Parikh, D. Perez-Loureiro, H.-F. Wirth, A. Garcia, R. Ortez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E15.00005: Results from the NSCL TOF Mass Measurement of Neutron-rich Isotopes of Argon through Iron Zachary Meisel, Sebastian George Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E15.00006: Study of the $^{12}$C($\alpha $,$\Upsilon )^{16}$O reaction via cross section measurements of $^{12}$C($^{6}$Li,d)$^{16}$O and $^{12}$C($^{7}$Li,t)$^{16}$O Shamim Akhtar, Carl Brune, Thomas Massey, Devon Jacobs, Donald Carter, Sushil Dhakal Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E15.00007: Underground Nuclear Astrophysics -- from LUNA to CASPAR Frank Strieder Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E15.00008: Advancing Underground Nuclear Astrophysics with CASPAR Daniel Robertson, Manoel Couder, Uwe Greife, Frank Strieder, Doug Wells, Michael Wiescher Preview Abstract

Session E16: Particle Detectors II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Michael Tuts, Columbia University
Room: Key 12

Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E16.00001: 35t Prototype Detector for Experiment at Long Base Line Neutrino Facility (ELBNF) Far Detector Gabriel Santucci Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E16.00002: Measurement of Electron Transportation Properties in Liquid Argon for Large Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Jyoti Joshi, Yichen Li, Xin Qian, Craig Thorn Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E16.00003: Large Area Pico-second Photodetectors (LAPPD) in Liquid Argon Ranjan Dharmapalan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E16.00004: Production of 6cm x 6cm Micro-channel Plate Based Picosecond Photodetectors with the Argonne Small Tile Processing System (STPS) Lei Xia, Karen Byrum, Marcel Demarteau, Robert Wagner, Dean Walters, Jingbo Wang, Junqi Xie, Huyue Zhao Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E16.00005: Performance of 6cmx6cm MCP-based picosecond photo-detectors Jingbo Wang, Junqi Xie, Robert Wagner, Dean Walters, Karen Byrum, Lei Xia, Allen Zhao, Edward May, Marcel Demarteau Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E16.00006: Development of a flexible trigger board for LBNE 35t prototype Nuno Barros Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E16.00007: Study of the time evolution of hadronic and electromagnetic showers Dmitri Denisov, Nikolai Mokhov, Sergei Striganov Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E16.00008: Image Classification Applied to High Energy Physics Events Jonathan Timcheck, Richard Hughes, Garrett Merz, Brian Winer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 11, 2015 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E16.00009: Triple GEM detector sensitivity simulations with Geant4 for the CMS Forward Muon Upgrade at CERN LHC Florian Zenoni Preview Abstract