Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2011 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics

Volume 56, Number 12

Wednesday–Saturday, October 26–29, 2011; East Lansing, Michigan

Session Index

Session FA: Mini-Symposium on EIC Physics

Chair: Peter Jacobs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Room: 62

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:36PM		FA.00001: The Electron-Ion Collider: Tackling QCD from the Inside (of Nucleons and Nuclei) Out Invited Speaker: Christine Aidala Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 4:48PM		FA.00002: Quark and Gluon Imaging with Meson Electroproduction at an EIC Tanja Horn Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:48PM - 5:00PM		FA.00003: The EIC: Precision tool to explore \& understand the role of gluons in QCD Abhay Deshpande Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00PM - 5:12PM		FA.00004: e+A physics at an Electron-Ion Collider Liang Zheng Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:24PM		FA.00005: High Luminosity Electron-Hadron Collider eRHIC Nicholaos Tsoupas Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:24PM - 5:36PM		FA.00006: Status Report on the Tungsten Powder/Fiber Calorimetry Program for EIC Jay Dunkelberger Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:36PM - 5:48PM		FA.00007: Physics Opportunities with STAR in the EIC Era Ernst Sichtermann Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:48PM - 6:00PM		FA.00008: The extraction of the $F_2$ and $F_L$ structure functions from inclusive e+p and e+A scatterings at the EIC Ramiro Debbe Preview Abstract

Session FB: Mini-Symposium on Experimental Advances in Transfer Reactions III

Chair: Jolie Cizewski, Rutgers University
Room: Auditorium

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:12PM		FB.00001: The (7Be,3He) Reaction: A New Tool for Alpha Spectroscopy F.D. Becchetti, H. Amro, Hao Jiang, A.N. Villano, M. Ojaruega, J.J. Kolata, A. Roberts Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:12PM - 4:24PM		FB.00002: Experimental techniques to use the $(d,n)$ reaction for spectroscopy of low-lying proton-resonances Ingo Wiedenhoever, Alexander Rojas, Lagy T. Baby, Jessica Baker, Sean Kuvin, Patrick Peplowski, Daniel Santiago-Gonzalez, Georgios Perdikakis, Dennis L. Gay Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:24PM - 4:36PM		FB.00003: First use of HELIOS at forward laboratory angles B.P. Kay, M. Alcorta, B.B. Back, J.A. Clark, C.R. Hoffman, K.E. Rehm, J.P. Schiffer, S. Zhu, C.M. Deibel Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 4:48PM		FB.00004: Low-threshold neutron detection for proton-transfer reactions with VANDLE William Peters, R. Grzywacz, M. Madurga, S. Paulauskas, J.A. Cizewski, M.E. Howard, P.D. O'Malley, B. Manning, E. Merino, T.N. Massey, C. Brune, F. Sarazin, S. Ilyuskin, D. Walter, J. Blackmon, D.W. Bardayan, I. Spassova, C. Matei Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:48PM - 5:00PM		FB.00005: Coupling the ORRUBA and Gammasphere Arrays Steven Hardy, A. Adekola, J.A. Cizewski, M.E. Howard, P.D. O'Malley, B. Manning, D.W. Bardayan, S.D. Pain, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, J.C. Blackmon, M. Matos, K.A. Chipps, K.L. Jones, R.L. Kozub, W.A. Peters Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00PM - 5:12PM		FB.00006: Deuterated Liquid Scintillators: A New Tool for Neutrons without ToF for RNB Reaction Studies Mitaire Ojaruega, Fred Becchetti, J.J. Kolata, Amy Roberts, Ramon Torres-Isea, Michael Febbraro Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:24PM		FB.00007: Prototype AT-TPC: a new active target time projection chamber for low-energy reactions D. Suzuki, D. Bazin, W. Mittig, M. Ford, W.G. Lynch, A. Fritsch, E. Galyaev, J.J. Kolata, J. Browne, B. Bucher, X. Fang, A. Howard, A.L. Roberts, X.D. Tang, F.D. Becchetti , M. Febbraro, M. Ojaruega, D. Ben Ali Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:24PM - 5:36PM		FB.00008: A Gas Jet Target for Radioactive Ion Beam Experiments K.A. Chipps Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:36PM - 5:48PM		FB.00009: The $^{12}$C($^{6}$He,$^{4}$He) transfer reaction at 5 MeV per nucleon at the ISAC-II TRIUMF facility Duane Smalley, Fred Sarazin, Ulrike Hager Preview Abstract

Session FC: Trends in Nuclear Physics

Chair: Warren Rogers, Westmont College
Room: 101

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:36PM		FC.00001: Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution: Undergraduate Participation in the Study of Ultraperipheral Collisions at RHIC Invited Speaker: Janet Seger Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 5:12PM		FC.00002: New Applications of Renormalization Group Methods in Nuclear Physics Invited Speaker: Kai Hebeler Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:48PM		FC.00003: Hypernuclear physics via $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy Invited Speaker: Hirokazu Tamura Preview Abstract

Session FD: Instrumentation III

Chair: Yordanka Ilieva, South Carolina
Room: Heritage

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:12PM		FD.00001: Facilitating Precision Mass Measurements at CARIBU Daniel Lascar, Jon Van Schelt, Guy Savard, Ralph Segel, Jason Clark, Kumar Sharma, Shane Caldwell, Li Gang, Matthew Sternberg, John Greene, Anthony Levand, Bruce Zabransky Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:12PM - 4:24PM		FD.00002: Commissioning a Tape Transport System for Decay Studies and Beam Diagnostics at CARIBU P.F. Bertone, B. Digiovine, C.J. Lister, K. Teh, F.G. Kondev, C. Nair, P. Chowdhury, A.Y. Deo, S. Lakshmi Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:24PM - 4:36PM		FD.00003: New detector array - the HRIBF Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer Marzena Wolinska-Cichocka, Krzysztof Rykaczewski, Marek Karny, Aleksandra Kuzniak, Robert Grzywacz, Charlie Rasco, David Miller, Carl J. Gross, Jim Johnson Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 4:48PM		FD.00004: Vertical Charge Exchange Cell for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy at NSCL Andrew Klose, Kei Minamisono, Nadja Froemmgen, Christopher Geppert, Michael Hammen, Joerg Kraemer, Andreas Krieger, Phil Levy, Paul Mantica, Wilfried Noertershaeuser, Sophia Vinnikova Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:48PM - 5:00PM		FD.00005: Status of the ReAccelerator Facility ReA for Rare Isotopes Daniela Leitner, John Popielarski, Alain Lapierre, Fernando Montes, Georgios Perdikakis, Stefan Schwarz, Walter Wittmer, Xiaoyu Wu Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00PM - 5:12PM		FD.00006: Summing NaI(Tl) detector (SuN) for radioactive beam experiments relevant for the p-process Anna Simon, Ilya Beskin, Sean Liddick, Karthik Padmanabhan, Jessica Peace, Stephen Quinn, Artemis Spyrou, Benjamin Stefanek Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:24PM		FD.00007: Designing Magnetic Coils From the Inside Out Daniel Wagner Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:24PM - 5:36PM		FD.00008: Simulation of the NSCL Cyclotron Gas Stopper Ninad Joshi, Georg Bollen, Shailendra Chouhan, David Morrissey, Stefan Schwarz Preview Abstract

Session FE: Electroweak Interactions I

Chair: John Hardy, Texas A&M University
Room: 103AB

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:12PM		FE.00001: High-precision digital $\beta$ counting for superallowed $\beta$-decay studies Lixin Chen, John C. Hardy Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:12PM - 4:24PM		FE.00002: Superallowed Branching Ratio in the $\beta $ Decay of $^{34}$Ar V.E. Iacob, J.C. Hardy Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:24PM - 4:36PM		FE.00003: High-Precision Branching Ratio Measurement for the Superallowed $\beta^+$ emitter $^{74}$R\lowercase{b} Ryan Dunlop Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 4:48PM		FE.00004: High Precision Determination of the $^6$He Half-life A. Knecht, B.G. Delbridge, A. Garcia, G.C. Harper, R. Hong, R.G.H. Robertson, H.E. Swanson, S. Utsuno, D.I. Will, C. Wrede, D.W. Zumwalt, P. Mueller, W. Will Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:48PM - 5:00PM		FE.00005: High Precision Measurement of the Lifetime of $^{19}$Ne Leah Broussard Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00PM - 5:12PM		FE.00006: A Magneto-Gravitational Trap for the Measurement of the Free Neutron Lifetime Daniel Salvat Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:24PM		FE.00007: A T-odd Momentum Correlation in Radiative Beta Decay Susan Gardner, Daheng He Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:24PM - 5:36PM		FE.00008: Status of the Neutron Radiative Decay Experiment Benjamin ONeill Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:36PM - 5:48PM		FE.00009: The n-3He Parity Violation Experiment Christopher Crawford Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:48PM - 6:00PM		FE.00010: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract

Session FF: Nuclear Structure III

Chair: Volker Werner, Yale University
Room: 104AB

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:12PM		FF.00001: Extreme ground-state deformation of the N=Z nucleus $^{76}$Sr A. Lemasson, H. Iwasaki, C. Morse, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, J. Berryman, A. Gade, S. McDaniel, A. Ratkiewicz, S. Stroberg, D. Weisshaar, K. Wimmer, R. Winkler, A. Dewald, C. Fransen, A. Nichols, R. Wadsworth Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:12PM - 4:24PM		FF.00002: A=10 charge independence and the T=1, J=2-0 electromagnetic transition in $^{10}$B Christopher Lister, E.A. McCutchan, J.P. Greene, R.B. Wiringa, Steven Pieper, M. Elvers, A. Heinz, D. Savran, T. Ahn, G. Illie, R. Radeck, V. Werner, N. Cooper, T. Ahmed, R.O. Hughes, P. Pauerstein, N. Shenkov Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:24PM - 4:36PM		FF.00003: Low energy states in $^{124,126}$Cd Populated via the Beta Decay of $^{124,126}$Ag J.C. Batchelder, S.-H. Liu, N.T. Brewer, J.H. Hamilton, A.V. Ramayya, C.J. Gross, M. Karny, A.J. Mendez II, K. Miernik, K.P. Rykacewski, D.W. Stracener, R. Grzywacz, M. Madurga, D.T. Miller, S.W. Padgett, S.V. Paulaskas, A. Kuzniak, M. Wolinska-Cichocka Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 4:48PM		FF.00004: Low-lying Level Structure of $^{150}$Nd A. Chakraborty, F.M. Prados-Est\'{e}vez, S.W. Yates, S.N. Choudry, B.P. Crider, A. Kumar, M.T. McEllistrem, S. Mukhopadhyay, J.N. Orce, M.G. Mynk, E.E. Peters, P.E. Garrett, W.D. Kulp, J.L. Wood Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:48PM - 5:00PM		FF.00005: Low-lying Structure of $^{132}$Xe from Inelastic Neutron Scattering E.E. Peters, A. Chakraborty, B.P. Crider, A. Kumar, F.M. Prados-Est\'{e}vez, S.F. Ashley, M.T. McEllistrem, S.W. Yates Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00PM - 5:12PM		FF.00006: Triple configuration coexistence in $^{44}$S Daniel Santiago-Gonzalez, I. Wiedenhoever, V. Abramkina, M.L. Avila, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, B.A. Brown, P.D. Cottle, A. Gade, T. Glasmacher, K.W. Kemper, S. McDaniel, A. Rojas, A. Ratkiewicz, R. Meharchand, E.C. Simpson, J.A. Tostevin, A. Volya, D. Weisshaar Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:24PM		FF.00007: Coulomb Excitation of 78,80Se and the radioactive 84Se (N=50) isotopes A. Galindo-Uribarri, E. Padilla-Rodal, R.F. Garcia-Ruiz, J.M. Allmond, J.C. Batchelder, J.R. Beene, K.B. Lagergren, P.E. Mueller, D.C. Radford, D.W. Stracener, J.P. Urrego-Blanco, R.L. Varner, C.-H. Yu Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:24PM - 5:36PM		FF.00008: $\alpha$-Clustering in $^{18}$O Melina Avila, Grigory Rogachev, Eric Johnson, Amy Crisp, J. Giles, Bert Green, Kirby Kemper, K. Lee, Donald Robson, Brian Roeder, Vladilen Goldberg, Changbo Fu, Robert Tribble, Simon Brown Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:36PM - 5:48PM		FF.00009: In-beam and decay properties of the proton-rich nucleus $^{179}$Tl C. Nair, F.G. Kondev, M.P. Carpenter, S. Zhu, I. Ahmad, B.B. Back, P.F. Bertone, C.J. Chiara, C.A. Copos, J.P. Greene, G. Gurdal, G. Henning, C.R. Hoffman, R.V.F. Janssens, B.P. Kay, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, E.A. Mccutchan, A. Rogers, D. Seweryniak, M.L. Smith, D.J. Hartley Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:48PM - 6:00PM		FF.00010: Model-Independent Calculation of Radiative Neutron Capture on Lithium-7 Gautam Rupak, Lakma Fernando, Renato Higa Preview Abstract

Session FG: Astrophysics II: s-d Shell

Chair: Filomena Nunes, Michigan State University.
Room: 105AB

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:00PM - 4:12PM		FG.00001: Studying the $\alpha p$-process waiting points using Radioactive Ion Beams C.M. Deibel, M. Alcorta, P. Bertone, J. Clark, C.R. Hoffman, C.L. Jiang, B.P. Kay, H.Y. Lee, R. Pardo, K.E. Rehm, A.M. Rogers, J.M. Figueira, S. Bedoor, D. Shetty, A.H. Wuosmaa, J.C. Lighthall, S.T. Marley, M. Paul, C. Ugalde Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:12PM - 4:24PM		FG.00002: Asymptotic normalization of mirror states and the effect of couplings Luke Titus, Pierre Capel, Filomena Nunes Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:24PM - 4:36PM		FG.00003: High Precision Measurement of Resonance States in $^{18}\textrm{Ne}$ , $^{30}\textrm{S}$, and $^{38}\textrm{Ca}$ Nuclei using the (p,t) Reaction, and Reaction Rates in the $\alpha$p- and rp-Processes T. Adachi, G.P.A. Berg, E.Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, M. Couder, R. Fearick, S.V. F\"ortsch, J. G\"orres, Y. Kheswa, J. Mira, S. Murray, R. Neveling, P. Papka, E. Sideras-Haddad, F.D. Smit, J.A. Swartz, R. Talwar, I. Usman, J.J. van Zyl, M. Wiescher, S. O'Brien Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:36PM - 4:48PM		FG.00004: Resonance strengths in $^{20}$Ne(p, $\gamma )^{22}$Na and $^{22}$Ne(p, $\gamma )^{23}$Na and the NeNa cycle Stephanie Lyons, Joachim Goerres, Antonios Kontos, Ed Stech, Michael Wiescher Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:48PM - 5:00PM		FG.00005: Measurement of $^{26}$Si+p resonant elastic scattering for studying the $^{26}$Si(p,$\gamma )^{27}$P reaction Hyo Soon Jung, Y.K. Kwon, J.Y. Moon, J.H. Lee, C.C. Yun, C.S. Lee, Seonho Choi, M.J. Kim, Y.H. Kim, Y.K. Kim, J.S. Park, E.J. Kim, C.B. Moon, S. Kubono, H. Yamaguchi, D. Kahl, T. Teranishi, Y. Wakabayshi, N. Iwasa, Y. Togano, S. Cherubini Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:00PM - 5:12PM		FG.00006: Beta-Delayed Proton- and Gamma-Decay of $^{27}$P for Nuclear Astrophysics E. Simmons, L. Trache, A. Banu, M. McCleskey, B. Roeder, A. Spiridon, R.E. Tribble, T. Davinson, P.J. Woods, G.J. Lotay, J. Wallace, D. Doherty, A. Saastamoinen Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:12PM - 5:24PM		FG.00007: A new method of measuring the~$^{12}$C+$^{12}$C fusion cross sections towards astrophysical energies X. Fang, C.L. Jiang, M. Alcorta, B.B. Back, C.M. Deibel, B. DiGiovine, J.P. Greene, D.J. Henderson, R.V.F. Janssens, C.J. Lister, S.T. Marley, R.C. Pardo, K.E. Rehm, D. Seweryniak, C. Ugalde, S. Zhu, A. Alongi, B. Bucher, C. Cahillane, P. Collon, X.T. Tang, E. Dahlstrom Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:24PM - 5:36PM		FG.00008: A new source of neutrons for weak s-process nucleosynthesis Brian Bucher, Justin Browne, Sergio Almaraz-Calderon, Adam Alongi, Akaa Ayangeakaa, Andreas Best, Manoel Couder, James DeBoer, Xiao Fang, Wenting Lu, Masahiro Notani, Darshana Patel, Nancy Paul, Amy Roberts, Rashi Talwar, Wanpeng Tan, Xiaodong Tang Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:36PM - 5:48PM		FG.00009: Quarkeosynthesis -- Concise New Laws of Nuclear Physics William Webb Preview Abstract

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