Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS April Meeting 2020

Volume 65, Number 2

Saturday–Tuesday, April 18–21, 2020; Washington D.C.

Session Index

Session X02: Advances in Instrumentation and Detectors for Particle Physics

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Room: Washington 1

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		X02.00001: ProtoDUNE. The how and the why. Invited Speaker: Laura Manenti Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		X02.00002: Modern AI Tools for Event Reconstruction Invited Speaker: Lindsey Gray Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Not Participating		X02.00003: Discovery in the Fourth Dimension: Precision Timing in Particle Physics Invited Speaker: Frank Golf Preview Abstract

Session X03: Axion Cosmology and Astrophysics

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute
Room: Washington 2

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		X03.00001: Intensity Mapping: a New Tool for Dark Matter (and more) Invited Speaker: Anthony Pullen Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		X03.00002: Axion Cosmology and Dark Matter Abundance Invited Speaker: Giovanni Villadoro Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		X03.00003: Searching for Ultralight Axions with Gravitational Waves Invited Speaker: Masha Baryakhtar Preview Abstract

Session X04: Increasing Nuclear Literacy for the Public and for Professionals

Sponsoring Units: FEd DNP
Chair: Gerald Feldman, George Washington University
Room: Washington 3

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		X04.00001: What health professionals need to know: Teaching nuclear physics without calculus Invited Speaker: Shelly Lesher Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		X04.00002: The Science of Nuclear Materials: a one semester graduate course for policy students at GW Invited Speaker: Christopher Cahill Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		X04.00003: New approaches to nuclear science communication and public engagement Invited Speaker: Artemis Spyrou Preview Abstract

Session X06: Isaacson Award Session: Challenges in Gravitational Wave Research

Sponsoring Units: DGRAV
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
Room: Roosevelt 1

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		X06.00001: The roots of LIGO data analysis and the GW pulsar challenge Invited Speaker: Bernard Schutz Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		X06.00002: Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves: Probing the Dark Side Invited Speaker: William East Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		X06.00003: The roots of LIGO data analysis and the GW stochastic background challenge Invited Speaker: Bruce Allen Preview Abstract

Session X07: Data Analysis Applications in Astrophysics: Past and Future

Sponsoring Units: FGSA
Chair: Tiffany Nichols, Harvard University
Room: Roosevelt 2

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 11:12AM Not Participating		X07.00001: Parameter Extraction for Black Hole Images with Neural Networks Invited Speaker: Joshua Yao-Yu Lin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:12AM - 11:39AM Not Participating		X07.00002: Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Invited Speaker: Tejaswi Venumadhav Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:39AM - 12:06PM Not Participating		X07.00003: The great challenges of gravitational-wave analysis Invited Speaker: Christopher Berry Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:06PM - 12:33PM Not Participating		X07.00004: Data Analysis for Cosmic Explorer Invited Speaker: Duncan Brown Preview Abstract

Session X08: Science and International Relations

Sponsoring Units: FPS
Chair: Anna Quider, Northern Illinois University
Room: Roosevelt 3

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 11:21AM Live		X08.00001: Current Challenges in International Scientific Cooperation Invited Speaker: Rebecca Keiser Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:57AM Live		X08.00002: Challenges and Imperatives of International Scientific Cooperation : Working with the InterAcademy Partnership Invited Speaker: Cherry Murray Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:33PM Live		X08.00003: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee on International Scientific Partnerships Invited Speaker: Arthur Bienenstock Preview Abstract

Session X09: Supernovae and Tidal Disruption Events

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Room: Roosevelt 4

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM On Demand		X09.00001: Improving Cosmology Measurements with Type Ia Supernova Spectral Time Series Greg Aldering Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X09.00002: CSP-II SE-SNe spectroscopy in the NIR Melissa Shahbandeh, Eric Hsiao, Peter Hoeflich, Chris Ashall Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Not Participating		X09.00003: Proto-neutron star convection in 3D supernova simulations Hiroki Nagakura, Adam Burrows, David Radice, David Vartanyan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Not Participating		X09.00004: A Parametric Study of the SASI in 2D: Newtonian vs. GR Hydrodynamics Samuel Dunham, Eirik Endeve, Anthony Mezzacappa, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Not Participating		X09.00005: Multimessenger Asteroseismology of Core-Collapse Supernovae John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider, Evan O'Connor, Erin O'Sullivan, Irene Tamborra, Meng-Ru Wu, Sean M. Couch, Felix Malmenbeck Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X09.00006: Galactic Supernova Neutrino Detection with the NOvA Detectors Justin Vasel, Andrey Sheshukov, Alec Habig Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM On Demand		X09.00007: On The general characteristics of neutrino-driven outflows Payel Mukhopadhyay Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM On Demand		X09.00008: The CEvNS Glow of a Supernova in Large Underground Detectors Adryanna Smith Preview Abstract

Session X10: Pulsar Timing

Sponsoring Units: DAP DGRAV
Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara, Univ. Maryland/GSFC
Room: Roosevelt 5

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		X10.00001: The NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array Observing Program David Nice Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		X10.00002: Limits on Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the NANOGrav 11-year data set Sarah Vigeland Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		X10.00003: Injection analysis with the NANOGrav 11-yr dataset Nihan Pol, Stephen Taylor, Jeffrey Hazboun Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		X10.00004: The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Results from the search for a stochastic gravitational wave background Joseph Simon Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		X10.00005: Persistent Astrometric Deflections from Gravitational Wave Memory Dustin Madison Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Live		X10.00006: Modeling the multi-messenger signatures of massive black hole evolution Laura Blecha, Luke Kelley, Mohammad Sayeb, July Thomas, Megan Newsome, Gregory Snyder, Shobita Satyapal, Sara Ellison Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Live		X10.00007: Fundamental Relation Between the Masses and Spins of the Heaviest Black Hole Mergers Karan Jani, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM On Demand		X10.00008: Effect of Black Hole Spins on Christodoulou Memory in Binary Mergers and its implication on Observing Gravitational Wave Bursts With Memory in Pulsar Timing Array Ashok Choudhary, Sean T. McWilliams Preview Abstract

Session X11: Neutrino Detection

Sponsoring Units: DAP
Chair: Justin Vandenbroucke, University of Wisconsin
Room: Maryland A

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		X11.00001: Applying Recurrent Neural Networks to IceCube event reconstructions Johannes Wagner Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		X11.00002: A neural network based neutrino vertex reconstruction method for the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) Yue Pan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		X11.00003: \emph{Trinity}: An air-shower imaging instrument to detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos Nepomuk Otte Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X11.00004: Measuring the High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flux with IceCube Austin Schneider Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Not Participating		X11.00005: A Transient Search with IceCube-DeepCore Michael Larson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Not Participating		X11.00006: Searching for an Excess of Sub-Threshold Neutrino Flares in IceCube Data William Luszczak, Jim Braun, Albrecht Karle Preview Abstract

Session X12: Flavor Physics In and Beyond the Standard Model

Sponsoring Units: DPF
Chair: George Hou, Natl Taiwan Univ
Room: Maryland B

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		X12.00001: Light Scalars and the KOTO Anomaly Samuel Homiller, Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic, Patrick Meade Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		X12.00002: Leptoquark-portal Dark Matter and the B-Meson Anomalies at the LHC Jethro Gaglione, Alfredo Gurrola Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		X12.00003: Tests of Lepton Flavor Universality in Semileptonic B Decays Zishuo Yang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		X12.00004: Flavor Changing Neutral Higgs Boson Meets the Top and the Tau at Hadron Colliders Chung Kao Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		X12.00005: The Status of Muon Accelerator R{\&}D for Future High Energy Colliders Mark Palmer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Live		X12.00006: Prospects on Muon Colliders Nadia Pastrone, Daniel Schulte, Jean-Pierre Delahaye, Kenneth Long, Marcella Diemoz, Bruno Mansoulie, Leonid Rivkin, Alexander Skrinsky, Andrea Wulzer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Not Participating		X12.00007: Photon Angle Reconstruction with Machine Learning Melissa Hutcheson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM Not Participating		X12.00008: Probing mass degeneracies in Supersymmetric Higgs sectors at the LHC Shoaib Munir, Biswaranjan Das, Stefano Moretti, Poulose Poulose Preview Abstract

Session X13: Computational Techniques For Event Reconstruction I

Chair: MInerba Betencourt, FNAL
Room: Maryland C

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		X13.00001: Deep Neural Network Signal Processing for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Haiwang Yu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		X13.00002: Recent Progress on Wire-Cell 3D Event Reconstruction in MicroBooNE Wenqiang Gu Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		X13.00003: Impact of Alternative Inputs and Grooming Methods on Large-R Jet Reconstruction in ATLAS Jennifer Roloff Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		X13.00004: Fast pattern recognition for ATLAS track triggers in HL-LHC Charles Kalderon, Viviana Cavaliere Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		X13.00005: Identifying Final State Particles in the NOvA Detectors with CNN Derek Doyle Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Live		X13.00006: Calorimetry Likelihood: A New Particle Identification Method in MicroBooNE's LArTPC Nicolò Foppiani Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Live		X13.00007: A Charge Calibrated Track Reconstruction for the Low Energy Excess Search in MicroBooNE. Elizabeth Hall Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM On Demand		X13.00008: Wire Cell Reconstruction Studies for Liquid Argon TPC Orgho Neogi Preview Abstract

Session X14: Computational Physics I

Sponsoring Units: DCOMP
Chair: Huey-Wen Lin, Michigan State University
Room: Virginia A

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM On Demand		X14.00001: The L\"{u}scher method for scattering on the lattice Frank Lee, Andrei Alexandru Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM		X14.00002: Lattice calculation of $F_K / F_\pi$ from a mixed domain-wall on HISQ action. N. B. Miller, H. Monge-Camacho, C. C. Chang, B. H\"orz, E. Rinaldi, D. Howarth, E. Berkowitz, D. A. Brantley, A. S. Gambhir, C. K\"orber, C. Monahan, C. Bouchard, M. A. Clark, B. Jo\'o, A. Nicholson, K. Orginos, P. Vranas, A. Walker-Loud Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM		X14.00003: Sparsening algorithms for lattice QCD calculations William Detmold Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM		X14.00004: Light Scalar Dark Matter and the Lyman-$\alpha$ Forest Miguel Correa, Grant J. Mathews, Lara A. Phillips, In-Saeng Suh, Jared Coughlin Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM On Demand		X14.00005: The Hiperwall tiled-display wall system for Big-Data research. Muhammad Saleem Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X14.00006: CMS Tracker Geometry Migration to the DD4hep Framework Andres Vargas Hernandez Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM On Demand		X14.00007: Modeling Charge and Light Yields in Liquid Argon with NEST Justin Mueller Preview Abstract

Session X15: Topics in Physics Education

Sponsoring Units: FEd
Chair: Eric Brewe, Drexel University
Room: Virginia B

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		X15.00001: Energy Transformations in a Class of Common Physics Problems Jonathan Bougie, Asim Gangopadhyaya Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		X15.00002: Teaching Quantum Mechanics in the Undergraduate Core Curriculum Eric Raymer Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		X15.00003: A completely algebraic derivation of the simple harmonic oscillator wavefunction James Freericks, Michael Rushka Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		X15.00004: The Combined Plot -- A new tool for viewing patterns in physics. Benjamin Shu, Alejandro Sonzogni, Elizabeth Ricard-McCutchan Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		X15.00005: Education and Public Outreach in the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves Physics Frontiers Center Timothy Dolch, Fronefield Crawford, Joey Key, Maura McLaughlin, Joseph Swiggum, Kathryn Williamson Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM		X15.00006: Enhancing Introductory Physics Courses Using The SCALE-UP Active Learning Model. Abdellah Ahmidouch, Shiva phuyal, Bashar Aljawrneh Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM		X15.00007: Dynamic design and progressive implementation of combinative pedagogical modalities Saami Shaibani Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:09PM - 12:21PM Not Participating		X15.00008: The AP Physics 2 course: Content, depth, and sample test items. Angela Jensvold, John Pinizzotto Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:21PM - 12:33PM Not Participating		X15.00009: I’m Uncomfortable Getting Rid of the Physics GRE Matthew Bellis Preview Abstract

Session X16: Neutrinos VIII - Neutrino Interactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Vince Guiseppe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Virginia C

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:45AM - 10:57AM Live		X16.00001: Progress on Pion Cross Section Measurements at ProtoDUNE Jake Calcutt Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:57AM - 11:09AM Live		X16.00002: Charge and energy calibration of the ProtoDUNE-SP detector using cosmic muons Ajib Paudel Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:09AM - 11:21AM Live		X16.00003: NuMI Beam Muon and Hadron Monitor Data Analysis and Simulation for Neutrino Beam Quality Improvement Yiding Yu, Pavel Snopok, Katsuya Yonehara, Don Wickremasinghe, Amit Bashyal, Tyler Rehak, Pierce Weatherly, Karol Lang Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:21AM - 11:33AM Live		X16.00004: The NOvA Test Beam Program. David Duenas Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:33AM - 11:45AM Live		X16.00005: The status of the inclusive electron neutrino charged-current cross-section measurement using the NOvA near detector Matthew Judah Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:45AM - 11:57AM Live		X16.00006: Prospects to evidence of Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (CNO) fusion cycles using solar neutrinos by Borexino experiment Xuefeng Ding Preview Abstract
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:57AM - 12:09PM Live		X16.00007: Observe Supernova Neutrinos with JUNO Ziping Ye Preview Abstract

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