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Session E2: Undergraduate Research/SPS III

Sponsoring Units: APS SPS
Chair: Cortney Bougher, American Physical Society
Room: Maryland B

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E2.00001: Investigating the Neutral-Gas Manometers in the Wendelstein 7-X Experimental Fusion Reactor Jeannette Maisano-Brown, Uwe Wenzel, Thomas Sunn-Pederson Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E2.00002: Pion Charge Exchange Cross Section on Liquid Argon Kevin Nelson Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E2.00003: Development of compact particle detectors for space based instruments Lindsey Barner, Andrew Grove, Jacob Mohler, Caleb Sisson, Alex Roth, Abaz Kryemadhi Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E2.00004: Scintillating Bolometer Monte Carlo for Rare Particle Event Searches Nicholas DePorzio Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E2.00005: Development of an Inductively Coupled Thermometer for a Cryogenic Half-Wave Plate Alexander Madurowicz, Akito Kusaka Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E2.00006: Quantum Tunneling and Complex Trajectories Max Meynig, Hal Haggard Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E2.00007: The Atmospheric Muon Lifetime, with the Lead Absorption Potential for Muons and References to the Standard Model of Particle Physics Cioli Barazandeh, Angel Gutarra-Leon, Walerian Majewski Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E2.00008: Atmospheric Muon Lifetime, Standard Model of Particles and the Lead Stopping Power for Muons Angel Gutarra-leon, Cioli Barazandeh, Walerian Majewski Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E2.00009: Determining Linac Beam Energy from C-11/O-15 Activity Ratios in Polymers Ryan Cardman, Matthew Shepherd Preview Abstract

Session E3: LIGO/Virgo and Holometer Searches for Continuous-wave, Burst and Supernova Signals

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Jacob Slutsky, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Room: Maryland C

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E3.00001: Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves in LIGO and Virgo Data Keith Riles Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E3.00002: Broadband searches for continuous gravitational waves Vladimir Dergachev Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E3.00003: Hierarchical follow-up of outliers in all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves Sinead Walsh Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E3.00004: Hunting for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in binary systems in Advanced LIGO data Evan Goetz Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E3.00005: Searching for Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 in Advanced LIGO Data Yuanhao Zhang Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E3.00006: Results from a MHz gravitational wave search using the Fermilab Holometer Brittany Kamai Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E3.00007: The all-sky search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts with Advanced LIGO Ryan Lynch Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E3.00008: Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae Marek Szczepanczyk Preview Abstract

Session E4: Multimessenger Particle Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Jim Beatty, The Ohio State University
Room: Virginia A

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E4.00001: Results and prospects in multi-messenger particle astrophysics Invited Speaker: Miguel Mostafa Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E4.00002: Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos as Complementary Probes of Ultra-High Energy Astrophysics Amy Connolly, Nathan Griffith, Shunsaku Horiuchi Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E4.00003: Multi-messenger particle astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Justin Vandenbroucke Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E4.00004: Multimessenger studies with the VERITAS Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Reshmi Mukherjee Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E4.00005: Multi-Messenger Time-Domain Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Adam Goldstein Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E4.00006: Multimessenger Astronomy with IceCube Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Erik Blaufuss Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E4.00007: Searches for correlation between UHECR events and high­-energy gamma-­ray Fermi­-LAT data Nestor Mirabal, Ezequiel Alvarez, Alessandro Cuoco, Gabrijela Zaharijas Preview Abstract

Session E5: Getting a Handle on the Population of Merging Binaries

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Room: Virginia B

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E5.00001: Discriminating Formation Channels of Binary Black Hole Systems with Advanced LIGO Michael Zevin, Carl Rodriguez, Chris Pankow, Vicky Kalogera, Fred Rasio Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E5.00002: Studying Variance in the Galactic Ultra-compact Binary Population Shane Larson, Katelyn Breivik Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E5.00003: The Binary Black Hole Merger Rate from Ultraluminous X-ray Source Progenitors Justin Finke, Soebur Razzaque Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E5.00004: Detecting binarity of GW150914-like lenses in gravitational microlensing events Michael Kesden, Daniel Eilbott, Alexander Riley, Jonathan Cohn, Lindsay King Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E5.00005: Measurement of Quasi Normal Modes for a population of Binary Black Hole Mergers Carlos Filipe Da Silva Costa, Sergey Klimenko, Shubhanshu Tiwari Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E5.00006: Gravitational Wave Multi-Messenger Prospects for Pulsar Timing Arrays Joseph Simon, Sarah Burke-Spolaor Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E5.00007: Dispersion Measure Variations in the NANOGrav 9-Year Data Release Megan Jones, Maura McLaughlin, Michael Lam, Jim Cordes, Lina Levin Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E5.00008: Looking for angular information in the nHz gravitational wave background with harmonic space analysis of redshift maps Elinore Roebber, Gilbert Holder Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E5.00009: Are LIGO's Black Holes Made from Smaller Black Holes? Maya Fishbach, Daniel Holz, Ben Farr Preview Abstract

Session E6: Orbits, Spins & Tides: Analytic and Numerical Methods

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Lior Burko, Georgia Gwinnett College
Room: Virginia C

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E6.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E6.00002: Comparing the numerical redshift factor to analytic theory Aaron Zimmerman, Adam G. M. Lewis, Harald P. Pfeiffer Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E6.00003: Modeling the Schwarzschild Green's function Zachary Mark, Aaron Zimmerman, Yanbei Chen Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E6.00004: Dynamical Tidal Response of a Rotating Neutron Star Philippe Landry, Eric Poisson Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E6.00005: Tidal deformability of compact boson stars Noah Sennett, Jan Steinhoff, Tanja Hinderer, Alessandra Buonanno Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E6.00006: Eccentric Inspirals with Self-Force and Spin-Force Charles Evans, Thomas Osburn, Niels Warburton Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E6.00007: Scalar self-force for generic bound orbits on Kerr Zachary Nasipak, Thomas Osburn, Charles R. Evans Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E6.00008: Progress toward post-adiabatic EMRI waveforms using the multiscale approximation Jordan Moxon, Eanna Flanagan, Tanja Hinderer, Adam Pound Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E6.00009: Charged Matter Tests of Cosmic Censorship for Extremal and Nearly-Extremal Black Holes Jonathan Sorce, Robert Wald Preview Abstract

Session E7: Two Out of 535: The Role of Physicists in Policy

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Chair: Nicholas Weingartner, Washington University in St. Louis
Room: Delaware A

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 5:18PM

E7.00001: Panel Discussion: Two out of 535: The Role of Physicists in Policy Preview Abstract

Session E8: Online Communities Supporting Physics Education

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma
Room: Delaware B

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E8.00001: The Impact and Promise of Open-Source Computational Material for Physics Teaching Invited Speaker: Wolfgang Christian Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E8.00002: The Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics (PICUP): A Community-Building Prototype for Positively Affecting the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum Invited Speaker: Kelly Roos Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E8.00003: Research-based resources on PhysPort Invited Speaker: Eleanor Sayre Preview Abstract

Session E9: Dark Matter with Solid State Detectors

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Bob Tschirhart, FermiLab
Room: Roosevelt 1

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E9.00001: The SuperCDMS Soudan High Mass Analysis Brett Cornell Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E9.00002: Photoneutron Calibration of SuperCDMS Soudan iZIP detectors Vijay Iyer Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E9.00003: Light yield of an undoped CsI crystal coupled directly to a photomultiplier tube at 77 Kelvin Jing Liu, Masaki Yamashita, Arun Kumar Soma Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E9.00004: Characterizing germanium detectors fabricated from self-grown crystals at USD MItchell Wagner, Jing Liu, Dongming Mei Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E9.00005: An FPGA-based data acquisition system for directional dark matter detection Chen Yang, Catherine Nicoloff, Ahmed Sanaullah, Arvind Sridhar, Martin Herbordt, James Battat Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E9.00006: Investigation of Laser Driven Charge Clusters in Liquid Xenon Oumarou Njoya, Thomas Tsang, Michal Tarka, William Fairbank, Krishna Kumar, Triveni Rao Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E9.00007: New Physics search with Experiment E36 at J-PARC Dongwi H Dongwi Preview Abstract

Session E10: W.K.H Panofsky Prize and Robert R. Wilson Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Joe Incandela, University of California, Santa Barbara
Room: Roosevelt 2

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:54PM		E10.00001: W.K.H. Panofsky Prize: The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson: CMS Invited Speaker: Tejinder Virdee Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:18PM		E10.00002: W.K.H. Panofsky Prize: The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson: ATLAS Invited Speaker: Peter Jenni Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:54PM		E10.00003: Robert R. Wilson Prize I : Intrabeam Scattering and Touschek Effect Invited Speaker: Anton Piwinski Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E10.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E10.00005: Robert R. Wilson Prize III: Applications of Intrabeam Scattering Formulae to a Myriad of Accelerator Systems Invited Speaker: Sekazi K. Mtingwa Preview Abstract

Session E11: Beyond-Standard-Model Searches I

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: JoAnne Hewett, SLAC
Room: Roosevelt 3

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E11.00001: Study of Vector-Like Quarks Using Dilepton and Trilepton + b-Jets Events in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Sarah Jones Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E11.00002: Duration of classicality in highly degenerate interacting Bosonic system Elisa Todarello, Pierre Sikivie Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E11.00003: Search for Light Higgs and Low Mass Dark Matter at Belle Ilsoo Seong Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E11.00004: Background estimation methods and exclusion limits for scalar top-quark production with top quark tagging in the all-hadronic channel at 13 TeV with the CMS detector Hua Wei Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E11.00005: Search for new resonances in the $ ZV \rightarrow \nu\nu qq $ final state in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector Yicheng Guo Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E11.00006: Distinguishing Standard Model Extensions using MonoTop Chirality at the LHC Ryan Mueller, Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Mykhailo Dalchenko, Bhaskar Dutta, Andrés Flórez, Yu Gao, Teruki Kamon, Nikolay Kolev, Manuel Segura Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E11.00007: Search for Contact Interactions in Dilepton Final State in the CMS Experiment: Generator-Level Studies Shawn Zaleski Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E11.00008: Search for light pseudoscalar Higgs bosons in 2HDM using 13 TeV LHC Data Kyle Tos Preview Abstract

Session E12: Instrumentation for Hadron Structure Studies

Sponsoring Units: DNP GHP
Chair: Tanja Horn, Catholic University of America
Room: Roosevelt 4

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 3:42PM		E12.00001: The CLAS12-RICH hybrid geometry Giovanni Angelini Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:42PM - 3:54PM		E12.00002: Nucleon transverse spatial and momentum structure with the Neutral Particle Spectrometer at Jefferson Lab Hall C Andres Vargas, Tanja Horn Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:54PM - 4:06PM		E12.00003: The Coordinate Detector for SuperBigBite Peter Monaghan, Vitaly Batourine, Mark Jones, Mahbub Khandaker, Lubomir Pentchev, Adam Sarty, Albert Shahinyan, Concetta Sutera, Francesco Tortorici, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E12.00004: Exclusive reactions and the PbWO4-based Inner Calorimeter for the Electron-Ion Collider Richard Trotta, Tanja Horn, Andres Vargas, Marco Carmignotto, Salina Ali, Rishabh Uniyal Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E12.00005: Calibration of the HyCal calorimeter for the PRad Experiment at JLab Li Ye Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E12.00006: Confirming the potential for nucleon structure studies with neutral final states and the Neutral Particle Spectrometer at JLab Hall C Rishabh Uniyal, Tanja Horn Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E12.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E12.00008: Low momentum recoil detectors in CLAS12 at Jefferson Lab Gabriel Charles Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E12.00009: GEM Detectors of Proton Charge Radius (PRad) Experiment Xinzhan Bai Preview Abstract

Session E13: Minisymposium: Spin Structure of the Nucleon

Sponsoring Units: DNP GHP
Chair: Xiaochao Zheng, University of Virginia
Room: Roosevelt 5

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E13.00001: Chiral effective-field theory of the nucleon spin structure Invited Speaker: Vladimir Pascalutsa Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:18PM		E13.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:18PM - 4:30PM		E13.00003: Incorporating metal into polarized $^3$He target cells Sumudu K. Katugampola, Daniel J. Matyas, Yunxiao Wang, William A. Tobias, Vladimir Nelyubin, Gordon D. Cates Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:30PM - 4:42PM		E13.00004: New results on spin structure functions at very low momentum transfers from Hall B in Jefferson Lab Krishna Adhikari Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 4:54PM		E13.00005: The Nucleon Spin Structure Program with CLAS and CLAS12 Sebastian Kuhn Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:54PM - 5:06PM		E13.00006: Probing for high momentum protons in $^{\mathrm{4}}$\textit{He} via the $^{\mathrm{4}}$\textit{He(e,e'p)}$^{\mathrm{3}}H$ reaction. Fatiha Benmokhtar, Sophia Iqbal, Nathalian See, Drew Finton, Konrad A. Aniol, Martin Ivanov, Jose M. Udias, Douglas Higinbotham Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:06PM - 5:18PM		E13.00007: Measurement of $W^{\pm}$ single spin asymmetries in polarized $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=510$ GeV at RHIC Devika Gunarathne Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:18PM - 5:30PM		E13.00008: Measurement of Longitudinal Single-Spin Asymmetries at Forward Rapidity for W Boson Production in Polarized proton+proton Collisions at √s=510 GeV at STAR Amani Krishna Preview Abstract

Session E14: Isotope Production and Accelerator Technology

Sponsoring Units: DPB DNP
Chair: Ed Hartouni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: Washington 1

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E14.00001: Production of Mo-99 without highly enriched uranium Invited Speaker: Kevin Crowley Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E14.00002: Isotope Harvesting Opportunities at FRIB Invited Speaker: David Morrissey Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E14.00003: Nb$_{\mathrm{3}}$Sn SRF Cavities for Nuclear Physics Applications Invited Speaker: Grigory Eremeev Preview Abstract

Session E15: DAP Thesis Prize Session

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Room: Washington 2

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 4:03PM		E15.00001: Distributions of Gas and Galaxies from Galaxy Clusters to Larger Scales Invited Speaker: Anna Patej Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:03PM - 4:36PM		E15.00002: Exploring non-standard stellar physics with lithium depletion Invited Speaker: Garrett Somers Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:36PM - 5:09PM		E15.00003: Social Stars: Modeling the Interactive Lives of Stars in Dense Clusters Invited Speaker: Morgan MacLeod Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 5:09PM - 5:42PM		E15.00004: New Physics with Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrinos Invited Speaker: Carlos Arguellas Delgado Preview Abstract

Session E16: Physics of Weakly-Bound Nuclear Systems

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Hiro Iwasaki, Michigan State University
Room: Washington 3

Saturday, January 28, 2017 3:30PM - 4:06PM		E16.00001: Single-particle and collective motion in nuclear open quantum systems Invited Speaker: Kevin Fossez Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:06PM - 4:42PM		E16.00002: Precision lifetime measurements in light exotic nuclei Invited Speaker: Elizabeth McCutchan Preview Abstract
Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:42PM - 5:18PM		E16.00003: Proton-decaying, light nuclei accessed via the invariant-mass method Invited Speaker: Kyle Brown Preview Abstract