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Session Y02: The High Luminosity LHC Upgrade and New Physics Windows

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Jeremiah Mans, University of Minnesota
Room: A112-113

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:57PM		Y02.00001: Physics at the HL-LHC Invited Speaker: Douglas Schaefer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:57PM - 2:24PM		Y02.00002: Tracking at the HL-LHC Invited Speaker: Jessica Metcalfe Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:24PM - 2:51PM		Y02.00003: Calorimetry at the HL-LHC Invited Speaker: Alberto Belloni Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:51PM - 3:18PM		Y02.00004: The Timing Frontier Invited Speaker: Lindsey Gray Preview Abstract

Session Y04: Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV DAP
Chair: Michele Vallisneri, Caltech
Room: A120-122

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y04.00001: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: A space-based Gravitational Wave Observatory Invited Speaker: John Baker Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y04.00002: Pulsar Timing Arrays: Building a Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detector Invited Speaker: Maura McLaughlin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y04.00003: Pulsar Timing Arrays: New Advances Toward Detecting Low-frequency Gravitational Waves Invited Speaker: Stephen Taylor Preview Abstract

Session Y05: Weakly-Bound Systems

Sponsoring Units: GFB DNP
Chair: Kenneth Nollett, San Diego State University
Room: A123-125

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y05.00001: Precision measurements in light, weakly bound nuclei Invited Speaker: Peter Mueller Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y05.00002: Searches for beyond-the-Standard Model physics with light nuclei Invited Speaker: Jordy de Vries Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y05.00003: Effective field theory for halo nuclei Invited Speaker: Xilin Zhang Preview Abstract

Session Y06: The Chapel Hill Conference and its Role in the Renaissance of General Relativity

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV FHP
Chair: Don Salisbury, Austin College, Texas
Room: B130

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:54PM		Y06.00001: How Felix Pirani launched the effort to detect gravitational waves Invited Speaker: Peter Saulson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:54PM - 2:18PM		Y06.00002: Chapel Hill, Wheeler, and I Invited Speaker: Dieter Brill Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:18PM - 2:42PM		Y06.00003: Behind the Scenes at Chapel Hill Invited Speaker: Dean Rickles Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 3:06PM		Y06.00004: US Air Force Support of General Relativity: Chapel Hill and Beyond Invited Speaker: Joshua Goldberg Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 3:06PM - 3:18PM		Y06.00005: General Discussion Preview Abstract

Session Y07: Lensing Probes of Dark Matter

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University
Room: B131-132

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y07.00001: Mapping Dark Matter from the Hubble Frontier Fields Clusters Invited Speaker: Mathilde Jauzac Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:42PM		Y07.00002: Measuring the mass function of dark matter subhalos with ALMA observations of strong gravitational lenses Invited Speaker: Yashar Hezaveh Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 3:18PM		Y07.00003: Mapping the Cosmos with the Dark Energy Survey: Y1 and Beyond Invited Speaker: Chihway Chang Preview Abstract

Session Y08: Electroweak Physics, and Lepton Non-Universality

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Stephen Sekula, Southern Methodist University
Room: A110

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y08.00001: Generation of magnetic field in a first-order electroweak phase transition Yiyang Zhang, Francesc Ferrer, Tanmay Vachaspati Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y08.00002: Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of high mass Drell-Yan lepton pairs at 13 TeV Oz Amram Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y08.00003: Preliminary Results from the AlCap Experiment John Quirk Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y08.00004: A Search for CPT-Violation in Ortho-Positronium Chelsea Bartram Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y08.00005: Update on PEN: A Precision Measurement of $\pi\rightarrow $e$\nu (\gamma)$ Branching Ratio Charles Glaser Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y08.00006: Probing New Physics with Experiment E36 at J-PARC Dongwi H Dongwi Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y08.00007: Constraining New Physics in Lepton Flavor Universality Cheyenne Nelson, Michele Papucci, Simone Pagan Griso, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y08.00008: Constraining anomalous gauge boson couplings in $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-$ using polarization asymmetries with polarized beams RAFIQUL RAHAMAN, Ritesh K. Singh Preview Abstract

Session Y09: Axions II

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: A111

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y09.00001: Search for the axion dark matter in CULTASK Jongkuk Kim Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y09.00002: Multiple-cell cavity for axion dark matter search Saebyeok Ahn, Junu Jeong, Sungwoo Youn, Yannis Semertzidis Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y09.00003: The Any Light Particle Search II (ALPS II) experiment Giuseppe Messineo Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y09.00004: Results from a microwave cavity axion search with Phase 1 of the HAYSTAC Experiment Kelly Backes Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y09.00005: Phase II of the HAYSTAC Experiment Danielle Speller Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y09.00006: Effective Approximation of Electromagnetism for Axion Haloscope Searches Younggeun Kim, Dong-Ok Kim, Junu Jeong, Yun Chang Shin, Yannis Semertzidis Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y09.00007: Effects of Gravity on Dense Nonrelativistic Axions Eric Braaten, Abhishek Mohapatra, Hong Zhang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y09.00008: Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theory for the Axion in General Relativity Abhishek Mohapatra, Eric Braaten, Hong Zhang Preview Abstract

Session Y11: Computational Physics and the Cosmos

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP DGRAV
Chair: Bernard Kelly, NASA Goddard & University of Maryland
Room: A220-221

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y11.00001: Visualizing the Curvature of Spacetime: Vortex and Tendex Lines of Head-On Merging Binary Black Holes Samuel Rodriguez, Geoffrey Lovelace Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y11.00002: A new tool to check the accuracy of Analytic Spacetimes for binary black holes Jam Sadiq, Yosef Zlochower, Hiroyuki Nakano Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y11.00003: Generation of Vector Potentials for General Relativity Simulations Zachary Silberman, Joshua Faber, Thomas Adams, Zachariah Etienne, Ian Ruchlin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y11.00004: Probing The Non-Linearity in Galaxy Clusters Through The Analysis of Fractal Dimension Loay Khalifa Preview Abstract

Session Y13: New Perspectives in Gravitational Physics - II

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Yosef Zlochower, Rochester Institute of Technology
Room: A224-225

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y13.00001: Gravitational Radiation and Spiral Structure of Galaxies Shouhong Wang, Tian Ma Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y13.00002: New Einstein Field Equation Explains of Dark Matter and Dark Energy Dayong Cao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y13.00003: Inflation from vacuum pairs Allan Rosencwaig Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y13.00004: EExplanation of Cosmic Acceleration and Excessive Spiral Galaxy Rotation Speed by Postulated Unbounded Light-Speed in the Hubble Expansion Thomas Chamberlain Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y13.00005: Testing the truth of special relativity. Bharat Chaudhary Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y13.00006: Special Theory of Relativity: Logical Inconsistencies Stephen Crothers Preview Abstract

Session Y14: Particle Accelerators and Applied Plasma Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPB DPF
Chair: Michiko Minty, BNL
Room: A226

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 1:42PM		Y14.00001: Crab cavity requirements for the Jefferson Lab electron-ion collider Salvador Sosa, Vasiliy Morozov, Subashini de Silva, Fanglei Lin, Jean Delayen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:42PM - 1:54PM		Y14.00002: On FCC-hh Momentum Collimation System Aakaash Narayanan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:54PM - 2:06PM		Y14.00003: The upgrade of the CMS forward pixel detector for the HL-LHC Abraham Mathew Koshy, Joshua Leeman, Andreas Jung Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 2:18PM		Y14.00004: Modeling Magnetic Fields using Helical Solutions to Maxwell's Equations Brian Pollack, Ryan Pellico, Michael Schmitt Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:18PM - 2:30PM		Y14.00005: Dynamical bunching and density peaks in expanding Coulomb clouds Brandon Zerbe, Xukun Xiang, Chong-Yu Ruan, Steve Lund, Phil Duxbury Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:30PM - 2:42PM		Y14.00006: First direct observation of runaway electron-driven whistler waves in tokamaks D.A. Spong, W.W. Heidbrink, C. Paz-Soldan, X.D. Du, K.E. Thome, M.A. Van Zeeland, C. Collins, A. Lvovskiy, R.A. Moyer, D.P. Brennan, C. Liu, E.F. Jaeger, C. Lau Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:42PM - 2:54PM		Y14.00007: Abstract Withdrawn
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:54PM - 3:06PM		Y14.00008: First Ever Ionization Cooling Demonstration in MICE Varrick Suezaki, Vittorio Palladino Preview Abstract

Session Y15: Gamma Ray SIG Minisymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Sylvain Guiriec, George Washington University
Room: B230-231

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y15.00001: GAMERA: a gamma-ray telescope for the gravitational wave astrophysics era Invited Speaker: Matthew Kerr Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 3:18PM		Y15.00002: Open Business and Discussion Sylvain Guiriec Preview Abstract

Session Y16: Inflation Probe SIG Minisymposium

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Kevin Huffenberger, Florida State University
Room: B232-233

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 1:30PM - 2:06PM		Y16.00001: Update on CMB Mission Concepts Invited Speaker: Shaul Hanany Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:06PM - 3:18PM		Y16.00002: Open Business and Discussion Kevin Huffenberger Preview Abstract