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Session B02: New Results from the CERN LHC

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Mayda Velasco, Northwestern University
Room: Washington 1

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		B02.00001: Top Physics at the LHC Invited Speaker: Andreas Jung Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		B02.00002: What We Now Know About the Higgs Boson Invited Speaker: Isobel Ojalvo Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		B02.00003: Beyond standard model physics at the CERN LHC Invited Speaker: Evelyn Thomson Preview Abstract

Session B03: Outreach and Engaging the Public

Sponsoring Units: FOEP
Chair: Don Lincoln, Fermilab
Room: Washington 2

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Not Participating		B03.00001: Astronomers have it easy: EPO when you are asking for no sacrifices or changes in behavior Invited Speaker: Virginia Trimble Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Not Participating		B03.00002: A Brief Tour of the Zooniverse: How Crowdsourcing Science is Solving Big Data Problems in Research Invited Speaker: Lucy Fortson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Not Participating		B03.00003: Outreach to Policymakers Invited Speaker: Francis Slakey Preview Abstract

Session B04: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Physics Results and Perspectives

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: A. Galindo-Uribarri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Washington 3

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		B04.00001: EXO-200 and nEXO Invited Speaker: Michelle Dolinski Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		B04.00002: CUORE, CUPID, and Understanding the Nature of the Neutrino Mass Invited Speaker: Danielle Speller Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		B04.00003: MAJORANA and LEGEND Invited Speaker: Jason Detwiler Preview Abstract

Session B06: Our Neighborly Supermassive Black Holes

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV DAP
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology
Room: Roosevelt 1

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		B06.00001: Imaging Supermassive Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope: Current Results and Future Prospects Invited Speaker: Michael Johnson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		B06.00002: Testing the Massive Black Hole Paradigm and GR with Infrared Interferometry Invited Speaker: Reinhard Genzel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		B06.00003: Towards Understanding Black Hole Accretion and Jet Launching: Linking Simulations to EHT Images Invited Speaker: Andrew Chael Preview Abstract

Session B07: Exotic Hadrons

Sponsoring Units: GHP
Chair: Jake Bennett, University of Mississippi
Room: Roosevelt 2

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		B07.00001: What do Exotic Hadrons Require of Theory? Invited Speaker: Eric Swanson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		B07.00002: Exotic Mesons at Electron-Positron Colliders Invited Speaker: Ryan Mitchell Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		B07.00003: Exotics at hadron machines Invited Speaker: Daniel Craik Preview Abstract

Session B08: A Sampling of Career Paths Available for Early-Career Scientists

Sponsoring Units: FECS
Chair: Kevin Ludwick, LaGrange College
Room: Roosevelt 3

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		B08.00001: Career Path for Physicists. Invited Speaker: Rama Balasubramanian Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		B08.00002: Changing from academia to a contracting employment Invited Speaker: Daniel Berdichevsky Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		B08.00003: Researching Innovation: a Transition to Science and Technology Policy Research Invited Speaker: Ajinkya Kamat Preview Abstract

Session B09: Observations of Galactic Cosmic Rays

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Fred Sarazin, Colorado School of Mines
Room: Roosevelt 4

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		B09.00001: The SuperTIGER-2 flight overview and its preliminary results Makoto Sasaki Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		B09.00002: SuperTIGER Abundances of Galactic Cosmic-Rays for the Charge Interval Z=41-56 Nathan Walsh Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		B09.00003: New Measurements of the Isotopic Composition of Galactic Cosmic Ray Elements Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, As and Se W.R. Binns, E.R. Christian, A.C. Cummings, G.A. de Nolfo, M.H. Israel, R.A. Leske, R.A. Mewaldt, E.C. Stone, T.T. von Rosenvinge, M.E. Wiedenbeck Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		B09.00004: Quiescent Solar Gamma-Ray Observations with CALET on the ISS Nicholas Cannady Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		B09.00005: The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET): Continuing Operations on the ISS Brian Rauch Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM On Demand		B09.00006: Galactic Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra for Ne to Zn from 0.8 to 10 GeV/nuc with SuperTIGER Allan Labrador Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM On Demand		B09.00007: Preliminary cosmic-ray elemental spectra from the ISS-CREAM experiment Gwangho Choi Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM On Demand		B09.00008: Separation of Cosmic-Ray Electrons from Protons Using the ISS-CREAM Instrument Sinchul Kang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:21PM - 12:33PM On Demand		B09.00009: Observation of the Energy Spectra of Cosmic Ray Nuclei with CALET Yosui Akaike Preview Abstract

Session B10: Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmic Ray Observation

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Room: Roosevelt 5

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B10.00001: The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) Sumit Dahal Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM On Demand		B10.00002: CMB polarization low-frequency noise level reduction enabled by the CLASS telescope polarization modulators Joseph Cleary Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Not Participating		B10.00003: SPIDER: First-Flight Data Analysis Update Jeffrey Filippini Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B10.00004: Observations of Interstellar Atomic Species by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) Roman Gomez, Stephen Fuselier, James Burch, Joey Mukherjee, Carrie Gonzalez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM On Demand		B10.00005: Determining Angle Dependent Effective Rigidity Cutoffs for ISS-CALET Ultra-Heavy Cosmic-Ray Analysis Wolfgang Zober Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Not Participating		B10.00006: Performance and Preliminary Results of the ISS-CREAM Instrument Jason Link, Tyler Anderson, Yu Chen, Stephane Coutu, Tyler LaBree, John Mitchell, Isaac Mognet, Scott Nutter, Kenichi Sakai, Jacob Smith, Monong Yu Preview Abstract

Session B11: Few-Body Nuclear Physics

Sponsoring Units: DNP GFB
Chair: Maxim Mai, George Washington University
Room: Maryland A

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM		B11.00001: $\omega$ photoproduction within a novel unitary isobar model Shahab Razavi, Kanzo Nakayama Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM		B11.00002: A new comparison of the F2A/F2p and F2A/F2n structure function ratios Narbe Kalantarians, Holly Szumila-Vance, Cynthia Keppel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Not Participating		B11.00003: Nucleon Polarisabilities from Few-Nucleon Systems: An Update Harald W. Griesshammer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Not Participating		B11.00004: Inelastic Compton Scattering on the Deuteron Junjie Liao Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM On Demand		B11.00005: Efficient excited state preparation for linear response Chenyi Gu, Alessandro Roggero, Alessandro Baroni, Thomas Papenbrock, Joseph Carlson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Not Participating		B11.00006: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electron scattering from A=3 and 4 nuclei Lorenzo Andreoli, Saori Pastore, Stefano Gandolfi, Joseph Carlson Preview Abstract

Session B12: Axions I

Chair: Gianpaolo Carosi, LLNL
Room: Maryland B

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM On Demand		B12.00001: First Data and Operations of HAYSTAC Phase 2, Squeezed State Receiver Run Kelly Backes Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM On Demand		B12.00002: Data analysis for HAYSTAC's Phase 2: the first quantum-enhanced run Daniel Palken, Konrad Lehnert Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM On Demand		B12.00003: Design of the ADMX G2 Experiment Nick Du Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM On Demand		B12.00004: Analysis Results from ADMX-G2 Run 1B Chelsea Bartram Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Not Participating		B12.00005: A search for unvirialized axions in ADMX Shriram Jois Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B12.00006: Results and update from the ABRACADABRA search for sub-$\mu$eV axion dark matter Reyco Henning Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM		B12.00007: First limits on the gluon coupling of axionlike dark matter from CASPEr-Electric Deniz Aybas Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM		B12.00008: Next generation dark photon search using superconducting RF cavities: "DarkSRF" experiment Alexander Romanenko, Anna Grassellino, Roni Harnik, Roman Pilipenko, Oleksandr Melnychuk, Yuriy Pischalnikov, Timergali Khabiboulline, Oleg Pronitchev, Daniil Frolov, Sam Posen, Sergey Belomestnykh Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:21PM - 12:33PM Not Participating		B12.00009: Search for Axion-like Particles, Dark Photons and Solar Axions with XENON1T Jingqiang Ye Preview Abstract

Session B13: Beyond the Standard Model Searches at the LHC I

Chair: Marina Artuso, Syracuse University
Room: Maryland C

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		B13.00001: Search for charged Higgs Boson in di-jet resonances along with a charged lepton at √s = 13 TeV p-p collision with the ATLAS detector Wasikul Islam Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		B13.00002: Projections of Top Quark Spin Correlations to 14TeV and 3 ab-1 Amandeep SIngh Bakshi, Andreas Jung Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		B13.00003: Searching for Displaced Leptons in the ATLAS Detector Lesya Horyn Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		B13.00004: Measurement of the Cross Section for $\text{tt}\gamma$ Production in pp Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with CMS Nabin Poudyal Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		B13.00005: Search for Supersymmetric Top Squark Production at CMS with Heavy Object Taggers Caleb Smith Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Live		B13.00006: Estimation of ttZ, QCD and rare SM processes for Top Squark Search in All Hadronic Final States Anna Merritt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Live		B13.00007: Z to Invisible Background Measurement for the Top Squark Search in All Hadronic Final States Angel Rosado Trinidad Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM Not Participating		B13.00008: Search for supersymmetric exotic Higgs decays in vector boson fusion with the ATLAS detector Nicholas Suarez, Tae Hong, Ben Carlson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:21PM - 12:33PM Not Participating		B13.00009: Search for an Exotic Decay of the Higgs Boson to a Pair of Light Pseudoscalars in the Final State with Four b Quarks in pp Collisions at 13 TeV Yuan Chen, Bill Gary, Georgia Karapostoli, Owen Long Preview Abstract

Session B14: Fundamental Symmetries

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee
Room: Virginia A

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM On Demand		B14.00001: Large-$N_c$ constraints on parity-violating low-energy constants in three-derivative pionless effective field theory Son T. Nguyen, Roxanne Springer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM On Demand		B14.00002: A Fourier Method for Recovering the Muon Beam Momentum Distribution for the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment Joshua Fagin, Antoine Chapelain, David Rubin, Tyler Barrett Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM On Demand		B14.00003: Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Violation in Light Polyatomic Molecules Eric Norrgard, Daniel Barker, Anastasia Borschevsky, Stephen Eckel, James Fedchak, Yongliang Hao, Nikolai Klimov, Julia Scherschligt Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM On Demand		B14.00004: Update on the BL2 Experiment: An In-Beam Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Jimmy Caylor Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B14.00005: Status of the Nab Detector System Glenn Randall Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM		B14.00006: GPU Based Nearline Analysis System for the Nab Experiment David Mathews Preview Abstract

Session B15: Quantum Theory of Cosmology and Black Holes

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland
Room: Virginia B

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		B15.00001: Do black holes store negative entropy? Koji Azuma, Sathyawageeswar Subramanian Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		B15.00002: Thermodynamic ensembles for Schwarzschild-de Sitter Batoul Banihashemi, Ted Jacobson Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		B15.00003: Holographic Randall-Sundrum Braneworld from charged Black Hole Microstates Stefano Antonini, Brian Swingle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		B15.00004: Firewall quasinormal modes Ryan McManus, Emanulele Berti, Caio Filipe Bezerra Macedo, David Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		B15.00005: A Particle Description of Black Holes Hal Haggard, Laurent Freidel Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Live		B15.00006: Consistent quantum prediction in spin-foam quantum cosmology David Craig Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Live		B15.00007: Phenomenological implications of modified loop quantum cosmology Baofei Li, Parampreet Singh, Anzhong Wang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM Live		B15.00008: Primordial power spectrum from the dressed metric approach in loop cosmologies Bao-Fei Li, Parampreet Singh, Anzhong Wang Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:21PM - 12:33PM Not Participating		B15.00009: Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant Steven Carlip Preview Abstract

Session B16: Interface of Numerical Relativity and Classical General Relativity

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Beverly Berger, Stanford University
Room: Virginia C

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		B16.00001: Angular momentum at null infinity in Einstein-Maxwell theory Kartik Prabhu, Beatrice Bonga, Alexander Grant Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		B16.00002: Persistent gravitational wave observables in nonlinear plane wave spacetimes Alexander Grant, Eanna Flanagan, Abraham Harte, David Nichols Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		B16.00003: Numerical simulations of spacetime singularities David Garfinkle Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		B16.00004: Self-torque and frame nutation in binary black hole simulations Aaron Zimmerman, Maria Jose Bustamante Rosell Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM On Demand		B16.00005: Spin Self-Force Kristian Mackewicz, Robert Wald Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Not Participating		B16.00006: Supermomentum balance laws as a tool to improve gravitational waveforms Neev Khera, Abhay Ashtekar, Tommaso De Lorenzo, Badri Krishnan Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Not Participating		B16.00007: Critical Phenomena in the Gravitational Collapse of Electromagnetic Waves Thomas Baumgarte, Carsten Gundlach, David Hilditch Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM Not Participating		B16.00008: Near-field gravitational lensing with SpECTRE William Throwe Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:21PM - 12:33PM Not Participating		B16.00009: Pathologies of van Stockum dust/Tipler's time machine David Lindsay Preview Abstract

Session B17: Undergraduate Research I

Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
Room: Delaware A

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM On Demand		B17.00001: Capacitive Distance Sensing for CMB Instrumentation Ethan Lu Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM On Demand		B17.00002: Readout Electronics of Cosmic Ray Muon Detector Gracyn Jewett, Emma Pearson, Katie Bishop, Hana Weinstein, Christian Perez Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM		B17.00003: Search for Higgsino inside Large Hadron Collider via Vector Boson Fusion Cheng Tao, Alfredo Gurrola, Andres Florez, Nathalia Cardona, Will Johns, Paul Sheldon Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM		B17.00004: Ultralight Dark Matter in the Solar System: Numerical Approaches Noah Anderson, Angelina Partenheimer, Tim Wiser Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM		B17.00005: Synthesis of fluorescent gold nanoparticle and their application in the photothermal treatment of HCC 1395 cell lines Ed Kneeland, Birgit Mellis Preview Abstract

Session B19: Accelerator Technology

Sponsoring Units: DPB
Chair: Michiko Minty, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Room: Washington 4

Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		B19.00001: LLRF and Beam Dynamics estimates for a strawman EIC design with operational implications including Crab Cavity systems John Fox, Themis Mastoridis, Robert Rimmer Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		B19.00002: Design of a Dielectric Loaded Normal Conducting Standing Wave Structure for Higher Shunt Impedance. Janardan Upadhyay, John Lewellen Preview Abstract
Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		B19.00003: Measurement of RF Cavity Amplitude via Delta-T Phase Scan at LANSCE En-Chuan Huang, Charles Taylor, Prabir Roy, Janardan Upadhyay Preview Abstract

Session B21: Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion on Physics Graduate School

Sponsoring Units: Careers
Chair: Midhat Farooq, American Physical Society
Room: Wilson A/B

Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:30PM - 1:30PM

B21.00001: Lunch with the Grads: A Panel Discussion on Physics Graduate School Preview Abstract

Session B23: DPF Grad Slam

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Room: Washington 1

Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:40PM - 1:20PM

B23.00001: DPF Grad Slam Preview Abstract

Session B24: APS Press Conference: A Q&A with Reinhard Genzel

Sponsoring Units: APS
Chair: David Barnstone, APS Science Communications Manager
Room: Washington 6

Saturday, April 18, 2020 12:00PM - 12:30PM

B24.00001: APS Press Conference: A Q&A with Reinhard Genzel Reinhard Genzel Preview Abstract