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Session R02: Future Accelerators for Nuclear and Particle Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPB DNP
Chair: Michiko Minty, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Plaza D

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		R02.00001: PIP-II: A DOE International Project for Powering Discoveries in High Energy Physics Invited Speaker: Lia Merminga
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		R02.00002: JLEIC Electron-Ion Collider Advances and Opportunities Invited Speaker: Andrei A Seryi
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		R02.00003: eRHIC Electron-Ion Collider Advances and Opportunities Invited Speaker: Christoph Montag

Session R03: Multipurpose Dark Matter Detectors

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Matthew Szydagis, University of Albany
Room: Sheraton Plaza E

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		R03.00001: Theoretical motivation for the WIMP dark mattermodel and probable parameter space Invited Speaker: JiJi Fan
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		R03.00002: Neutrino science in multipurpose dark matter detectors Invited Speaker: Louis Strigari
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		R03.00003: Technologies for Generation 3 Detectors Invited Speaker: Daniel McKinsey

Session R04: DAP Prize & Award Session

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Josh Frieman, Fermilab
Room: Sheraton Plaza F

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		R04.00001: First Stars: Their Supernova Explosions and Connections to Extremely Iron-Poor Stars Invited Speaker: Ken'ichi Nomoto
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		R04.00002: Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize talk: The Dark Matter in the Universe Invited Speaker: Katherine Freese
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		R04.00003: Re-examining Astrophysical Constraints on the Dark Matter Model Invited Speaker: Alyson Brooks

Session R05: Detection and Modeling of Binary Neutron-Star Collisions

Sponsoring Units: DNP DGRAV
Chair: Tonia Venters, NASA GSFC
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		R05.00001: Neutron rich dense matter, neutron star mergers, and laboratory experiments Invited Speaker: Charles J Horowitz
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		R05.00002: The astrophysics of compact object mergers with gravitational wave and electromagnetic emission Invited Speaker: Samaya Nissanke
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		R05.00003: The Discovery, Follow-up, and Implications of Electromagnetic Counterparts to BNS Mergers  Invited Speaker: Maria R. Drout

Session R06: Publishing in Areas Outside of Peer Reviewed Journals

Sponsoring Units: FGSA FECS
Chair: Ana Vizcaya Hernandez, Carengie Mellon University, and Jason S Gardner, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 15

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:54PM		R06.00001: Losing the Nobel Prize: a cosmological memoir  Invited Speaker: Brian G Keating
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:18PM		R06.00002: Capturing LIGO Through Comics Invited Speaker: Nutsinee Kijbunchoo
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:42PM		R06.00003: Science in the Public Sphere: Pitfalls and Possibilities Invited Speaker: James Weatherall
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:06PM		R06.00004: The Ins and Outs of Book Publishing in the 21st Century Invited Speaker: Jermey N.A. Matthews

Session R07: Disentangling Intuition, Reasoning, and Conceptual Understanding in Physics

Sponsoring Units: FEd GPER
Chair: Mila Kryjevskaia, North Dakota State University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 16

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		R07.00001: Probing student reasoning in physics through the lens of dual-process theories Invited Speaker: Paula R L Heron
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:42PM		R07.00002: Using reasoning chain construction tasks to explore the nature of student reasoning in physics Invited Speaker: MacKenzie R Stetzer
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 3:18PM		R07.00003: Why is scientific reasoning so hard, and what can we do about it? Invited Speaker: Andrew F Heckler

Session R08: Ultra High Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Hallsie Reno, University of Iowa
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 10

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R08.00001: New Detection Signatures for IceCube at High Energies Bei Zhou, John F Beacom
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R08.00002: Simulations of radio-based Ultra-High Energy (UHE) in-ice neutrino experiments. Jorge Torres
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R08.00003: The Radio Neutrino Observatory Amy L Connolly
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R08.00004: Searching for Neutrinos & Cosmic Rays and Studying Antarctic ice with the Askaryan Radio Array Brian Allen Clark
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R08.00005: Evolving Antennas for Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Detection Suren R Gourapura, Amy L Connolly, Kai Staats, Stephanie Ann Wissel, Dean Arakaki, Ian Best, Adam D Blenk, Brian Allen Clark, Maximilian Clowdus, Corey Harris, Hannah C Hasan, Luke Letwin, David Liu, Carl G Pfendner, Jordan Potter, Julie Rolla, Cade Sbrocco, Thomas Sinha, Jacob Trevithick
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R08.00006: The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection Miguel A Mostafa
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R08.00007: Earth-skimming tau neutrinos: air Cherenkov signals from tau decays Mary Hall Reno
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		R08.00008: Demonstration and Performance of a Low-Threshold Trigger System for Radio Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos Abigail Vieregg

Session R09: Proton Charge Radius and Low-Energy Properties.

Sponsoring Units: GHP DNP
Chair: Tim Hobbs, Southern Methodist University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 11

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R09.00001: The Proton Charge Radius Experiment (PRad) at JLab Weizhi Xiong
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R09.00002: The Form Factor Program with the Super BigBite Spectrometer (SBS) Peter A Monaghan
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R09.00003: A Future Two-photon Exchange Experiment at DESY Douglas Hasell
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R09.00004: Beam Particle Tracking for MUSE Tanvi Patel, Michael Kohl
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R09.00005: Proton charge radius extraction from electron scattering data using dispersively improved chiral effective field theory Jose Manuel Alarcón, Douglas W Higinbotham, Christian Weiss, Zhihong Ye
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R09.00006: Proton Internal Dynamics from Thermodynamics Arne Peter Olson
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R09.00007: Non-spherical bags. Gerard J Stephenson, T. Goldman

Session R10: WIMP Dark Matter IV

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Reina Maruyama, Yale University
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 12

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R10.00001: Purification of Ge ingots for growing crystals in developing dark matter detectors Pramod Acharya, Gang Yang, Rajendra Panth, Kyler T Kooi, Alex Kirkvold, Yangyang Li, Dongming Mei
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R10.00002: Crystal growth for developing germanium detectors with internal charge amplification for low-mass dark matter searches. Hao Mei, Guojian Wang, Gang Yang, Sanjay Bhattarai, Mathbar Singh, Dongming Mei
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R10.00003: Investigation of Amorphous Germanium Contact Properties with Planar Detectors Made from USD-Grown Germanium Crystals Wenzhao Wei, Yangyang Li, Xianghua Meng, Jing Liu, Guojian Wang, Hao Mei, Gang Yang, Dongming Mei, Chao Zhang
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R10.00004: The Production and Testing of Electrode Grids for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment Randy G White
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R10.00005: The XENONnT Liquid Purification System and Its Test System Yun Zhang
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R10.00006: Measurement of the nuclear recoil ionization yield in liquid xenon from 0.3 keV to 6 keV Brian Lenardo
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R10.00007: Charge-to-light signatures of inner-shell vacancies in xenon time projection chambers Dylan J Temples
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		R10.00008: An Improved Nuclear Recoil Calibration in the LUX Detector Using a Pulsed D-D Neutron Generator Dongqing Huang
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		R10.00009: The LZ Photoneutron Calibration Source Andreas Biekert

Session R11: Improving LIGO and Other High-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Evan Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 17

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R11.00001: Reducing technical noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors Corey Austin
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R11.00002: Reducing Quantum Noise in Advanced LIGO detectors Terra Hardwick
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R11.00003: How to Study LIGO Noise Beverly K. Berger
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R11.00004: Numerically calculating the thermal noise of mirror coatings with multiple loss angles Samuel Rodriguez, Geoffrey Lovelace
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R11.00005: Complex modulation for Advanced LIGO Hanyu Chia, Alexander Schindler-Tyka, John Conklin, Guido Mueller, David Burnham Tanner
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R11.00006: Can we cloak LIGO from Seismic Waves? Brittany Kamai

Session R12: Mini-Symposium: Constraining the Neutrino-nucleus Interaction for Neutrino Oscillations II

Sponsoring Units: DNP DPF
Chair: Alex Himmel, Fermilab
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 1

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R12.00001: The Current Challenges in Understanding the Shallow- and Deep Inelastic Regimes in Neutrino Nucleus Scattering Jorge G Morfin
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R12.00002: Measuring Charged Current Muon Neutrino Cross Sections in the MINERvA Experiment Amy N Filkins
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R12.00003: Combined on/off-axis inclusive charged current cross-section measurement on carbon in the T2K near detector complex Andrew B Cudd
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R12.00004: $\nu_\mu$ Charged-Current Inclusive Cross-Section Measurement in the NOvA Near Detector Shih-Kai Lin
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R12.00005: Studying Nuclear Effects in the MicroBooNE Detector  Samantha R. Sword-Fehlberg
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R12.00006: Constraining Electron Neutrino Systematic Uncertainties with Muon Neutrino Events in MicroBooNE Lauren E. Yates
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R12.00007: MicroBooNE's Search for a Photon-like Low Energy Excess Kathryn Sutton
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		R12.00008: Constraining the Neutral Current π0 Background for MicroBooNE's Single-Photon Search Andrew J Mogan
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		R12.00009: Systematic Studies in the Single Photon Analysis of the MicroBooNE Experiment Gray Langley Yarbrough

Session R13: Mini-Symposium: FRIB and ReA instrumentation II

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Matt Amthor, Bucknell University
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 2

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R13.00001: The Development of a Tritium Target TPC for FRIB Yassid Ayyad, Augusto O Macchiavelli
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R13.00002: A Radio-Frequency Fragment Separator for FRIB Daniel E Hoff, Andrew M Rogers, Daniel Bazin, Alexander Plastun
(Author Not Attending)		R13.00003: Using GODDESS to Constrain r-Process Neutron Capture Rates with (d,pγ) Reactions Chad C. Ummel, Jolie A. Cizewski, Steven D. Pain, Andrew Ratkiewicz, Harrison E. Sims, GODDESS Collaboration, ORRUBA Collaboration, GRETINA Collaboration
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R13.00004: A Hybrid Technique for Neutron Spectroscopy Using Deuterated Scintillators and Spectrum Unfolding for FRIB. Rebecca Toomey, Michael T Febbraro, Steven D. Pain, Kelly A. Chipps, Richard J DeBoer, Thomas N Massey, Zachary P Meisel, Kevin Macon, Axel Boeltzig, Carl Richard Brune, Qian Liu
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R13.00005: The next generation neutron detector for the studies of exotic nuclei Joseph Heideman, David Perez-Loureiro, Robert K. Grzywacz, Cory R Thornsberry, Shree K Neupane, Mustafa M Rajabali, Lawrence Harvey Heilbronn, Kyle Schmitt, Jason Chan, Leonard D Mostella III, Cole Howell, Joseph Owens
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R13.00006: Measuring the fusion excitation functions for $^{41,45}K + $^{28}Si and $^{36,44}Ar + $^{28}Si James E Johnstone, Carley N Folluo, Sylvie Hudan, Romualdo T Desouza, D Ackermann, A Chbihi, Q Hourdille, G Verde, Alan B McIntosh, Sherry J Yennello, Kyle W Brown

Session R14: Theoretical Aspects of Nuclear Structure

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Maxime Brodeur, University of Notre Dame
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 3

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R14.00001: Improved trial wave functions with 4-body correlations for Nuclear Quantum Monte Carlo Cody L Petrie, Kevin E Schmidt
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R14.00002: Self-Consistent Calculation of Chiral Effective Operator Observables in Two-Nucleon Systems Robert Basili, Soham Pal, Shiplu Sarker, Pieter Maris, James P Vary
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R14.00003: Nuclear response in a finite-temperature relativistic framework Herlik Wibowo, Elena Litvinova
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R14.00004: Dispersive optical model calculations for neutron rich nuclei  Natalia Calleya, Mackenzie C. Atkinson, Willem H. Dickhoff
(Author Not Attending)		R14.00005: Nucleon-Nucleus Effective field theory Aaina Bansal, Thomas F Papenbrock
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R14.00006: Tests of ab initio nuclear theory via the isobaric multiplet mass equation in T=1 superallowed β decay systems Matthew S Martin, Kyle G Leach, Jason D Holt, S Ragnar Stroberg
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R14.00007: Order and Chaos in a generalized Interacting Boson Model Declan Mulhall
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		R14.00008: Complex-energy description of open molecular and nuclear systems Xingze Mao
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		R14.00009: Ab-initio wave-function approach to aperiodic helical lattices Matej Veis, Jozef Noga

Session R15: Gravitational Waves and Strong-field Dynamics

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Kent Yagi, University of Virginia
Room: Sheraton Plaza Court 4

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R15.00001: Testing for Lorentz Invariance Violation through Birefringence Effects of Gravitational Waves Kellie Ault-O'Neal, Quentin G Bailey
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R15.00002: Validation of the non-linearities in general relativity from a population of gravitational wave observations Carl-Johan O Haster
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R15.00003: Probing Screening and the Graviton Mass with Gravitational Waves Scott E Perkins, Nicolás Yunes
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R15.00004: Dynamics of Collapsing Spherically Symmetric Massive Scalar Domain Wall Soumyajit Bose, David F Chernoff
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R15.00005: Beyond Force-free Electrodynamics: Effective Field Theory and Bosonization Samuel Elliot Gralla
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R15.00006: Polarization Whorls from High-Spin Black Holes Delilah E Gates, Daniel Kapec, Alexandru Lupsasca, Yichen Shi, Andrew Eben Strominger
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R15.00007: Small nonspherical perturbations of the Choptuik spacetime decay, but large ones may grow Thomas W Baumgarte
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		R15.00008: Parametrising the black hole quasinormal ringdown Ryan McManus, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Andrea Maselli, Masashi Kimura, Caio Macedo
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		R15.00009: The outflying singularity inside fast spinning black holes Lior M Burko, Gaurav Khanna

Session R16: Compact Binary Formation Channels and Dynamics

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Chair: Zoheyr Doctor, University of Chicago
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom I

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 1:42PM		R16.00001: Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo Chris Pankow
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:42PM - 1:54PM		R16.00002: Inferring Binary-Black-Hole Formation Channels in Third-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors Ken K. Y. Ng, Salvatore Vitale, Will Meierjurgen Farr, Carl Rodriguez
Monday, April 15, 2019 1:54PM - 2:06PM		R16.00003: Double Neutron-Star Formation from Supernova Natal Kicks A. Miguel Holgado, Paul Milton Ricker
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R16.00004: Relativistic Dynamics in Black Hole Triples Halston Lim, Carl Rodriguez
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R16.00005: Spin misalignments of binary black holes produced in the isolated field channel Michael Kesden, Nathan A Steinle
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R16.00006: Non-Parametric Population Models of Gravitational Waves Zoheyr Doctor

Session R17: Mini-Symposium: Streaming Readout for Future Experiments

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Doug Hasel, MIT
Room: Sheraton Grand Ballroom II

Monday, April 15, 2019 1:30PM - 2:06PM		R17.00001: Streaming trigger-less readout for current and future Experiments Invited Speaker: Jan Christopher Bernauer
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:06PM - 2:18PM		R17.00002: A triggerless DAQ for the Electron Ion Collider Marco Battaglieri
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:18PM - 2:30PM		R17.00003: Streaming readout for sPHENIX and a sPHENIX-based EIC detector Jin Huang, Martin L Purschke
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30PM - 2:42PM		R17.00004: A streaming readout DAQ system for the BDX experiment Fabrizio Ameli, Marco Battaglieri, Andrea Celentano, Paolo Musico, Luca Marsicano, Tommaso Chiarusi, Carmelo Pellegrino, Riccardo Lunadei, Giacomo Chiodi, Luigi Recchia, Manlio Capodiferro, Lorena Stellato, Daniele Ruggieri, Antonio Girardi, Carlo Alessandro Nicolau
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:42PM - 2:54PM		R17.00005: Evaluation of the adoption of a Streaming Data Model for Experimental Nuclear Physics Markus Diefenthaler, Graham Heyes
Monday, April 15, 2019 2:54PM - 3:06PM		R17.00006: Overview of the MOLLER Experiment Integrating Cherenkov Detector Readout and Front-end Electronics  Michael Gericke
Monday, April 15, 2019 3:06PM - 3:18PM		R17.00007: Development of Integrating Electronics for the MOLLER Experiment Jie Pan