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Session CB: Nuclear Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Brad Plaster, University of Kentucky
Room: Pavilion Ballroom D

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 9:06AM		CB.00001: Recent Results on the Electric Dipole of $^{199}$Hg Atoms Invited Speaker: Blayne Heckel Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:42AM		CB.00002: Status and Initial Results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Invited Speaker: Jason Detwiler Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 10:18AM		CB.00003: Multimessenger Observations of Neutron Star Mergers: Probing the Physics of High-Density Matter Invited Speaker: David Radice Preview Abstract

Session CC: Mini-symposium on Light Meson Spectroscopy: First Results from GlueX I

Chair: Zisis Papandreou, University of Regina
Room: Junior Ballroom B

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 9:06AM		CC.00001: Light Meson Spectroscopy: First Results from GlueX Invited Speaker: Matthew Shepherd Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CC.00002: Single Meson Photoproduction at JLab Energies Vincent Mathieu Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CC.00003: Photoproduction of the $\rho^0$(770) meson at GlueX Alexander Austregesilo Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CC.00004: Beam asymmetry $\Sigma$ for $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ photoproduction on the proton at GlueX Zhenyu Zhang Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CC.00005: Photoproduction of ππ Resonances at GlueX Jonathan Zarling Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		CC.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 10:06AM - 10:18AM		CC.00007: Analysis of the $\eta(548)~\rightarrow~\pi^+~\pi^-~\pi^0$ and $\eta^\prime(958)~\rightarrow~\pi^+~\pi^-~\eta$ channels using a 8-9 GeV tagged photon beam for the GlueX Experiment Tegan Beattie, Zisis Papandreou, Justin Stevens Preview Abstract

Session CD: Nuclear Instrumentation I

Chair: Corina Andreoiu, Simon Fraser University
Room: Junior Ballroom C

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 8:42AM		CD.00001: Progress towards the Advanced Cryogenic Gas Stopper at NSCL Kasey Lund, Georg Bollen, Antonio Villiari, Don Lawton, Dave Morrissey, Jack Otterson, Ryan Ringle, Stefan Schwarz, Chandana Sumithrarachchi, John Yurkon Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:42AM - 8:54AM		CD.00002: TITAN’s multiple-reflection time-of-flight isobar separator Moritz Pascal Reiter Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:54AM - 9:06AM		CD.00003: Construction of a multi-reflection time-of-flight spectrometer at the University of Notre Dame Brad Schultz Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CD.00004: Mass measurements of rare isotopes with the Single Ion Penning Trap Martin Eibach, Georg Bollen, Kerim Gulyuz, Christopher Izzo, Matthew Redshaw, Ryan Ringle, Rachel Sandler, Stefan Schwarz, Adrian Valverde Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CD.00005: Simulations for a Multi-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer at the University of Notre Dame James M Kelly, Catherine Nicoloff, Bradley E Schultz, Maxime Brodeur Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CD.00006: Trapping in TITANs Cooler Penning Trap Brian Kootte, Daniel Lascar, Stefan Paul, Gerald Gwinner, Jens Dilling Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CD.00007: Instrumentation Upgrades to TITAN's Cooler Penning Trap Daniel Lascar Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		CD.00008: CryoMPET: the Cryogenic Upgrade to TITAN`s Mass Measurement Penning Trap Erich Leistenschneider Preview Abstract

Session CE: Mini-symposium on New Results from GRETINA I

Chair: Mike Carpenter, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Junior Ballroom D

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 9:06AM		CE.00001: An Overview of GRETINA and its Physics Program Invited Speaker: Augusto Macchiavelli Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CE.00002: Coulomb Excitation of Radioactive Mo-Ru Isotopes J.M. Allmond Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CE.00003: Single-neutron states and the role of the $\nu$g$_{9/2}$ orbital in $^{71}$Zn Simone Bottoni Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CE.00004: Shell Evolution in the Neutron-Rich Cu and Zn Isotopes Joe Belarge, Daniel Bazin, Alexandra Gade, Yassid Ayyad, Peter Bender, Robert Elder, Brandon Elman, Hiro Iwasaki, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Charles Loelius, Brenden Longfellow, Eric Lunderberg, Pierre Morfouace, Chris Sullivan, Dirk Weisshaar, Kenneth Whitmore Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CE.00005: Shape coexistence and the role of axial asymmetry in $^{72,76}$Ge A. D. Ayangeakaa, R. V. F. Janssens, C. Y. Wu, J. M. Allmond, J. L. Wood, S. Zhu, M. Albers, S. Almaraz-Calderon, B. Bucher, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Chiara, D. Cline, H. L. Crawford, H. M. David, J. Harker, A. B. Hayes, C. R. Hoffman, B. P. Kay, K. Kolos, A. Korichi, T. Lauritsen, A. O. Macchiavelli, A. Richards, D. Seweryniak, A. Wiens Preview Abstract
(Author Not Attending)		CE.00006: Nature of Collective Dipole and Octupole Transitions in Neutron-Rich Barium Isotopes B. Bucher, S. Zhu Preview Abstract

Session CF: Proton Structure

Chair: Paul Reimer, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Pavilion Ballroom A

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 8:42AM		CF.00001: Drell-Yan Angular Distributions at the E906 SeaQuest Experiment David Kleinjan Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:42AM - 8:54AM		CF.00002: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:54AM - 9:06AM		CF.00003: Drell-Yan with a polarized target and SeaQuest Andi Klein Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CF.00004: Measurement of Drell-Yan longitudinal double spin asymmetry in polarized p + p collisions at PHENIX Gonaduwage Perera, Stephen Pate Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CF.00005: Measurement of the parity-violating longitudinal single-spin asymmetry $A_{L}$ for $W^{-(+)}$ boson production in polarized proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=510$ GeV at RHIC Bernd Surrow Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CF.00006: Transverse double-spin asymmetries for electroweak gauge-boson production in high-energy polarized $\vec{p}+\vec{p}$ collisions Bernd Surrow, Jacques Soffer, Claude Bourrely Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CF.00007: Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetries for Forward Di-jet Production in Polarized $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV Ting Lin Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		CF.00008: Double-Spin Asymmetry in Neutral Pion Production at Intermediate Pseudorapidity in Longitudinally Polarized $p+p$ Collisions in the STAR Detector at RHIC Adam Gibson Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 10:06AM - 10:18AM		CF.00009: The RHIC Cold QCD Plan for 2017 to 2023: A Portal to the EIC Renee Fatemi Preview Abstract

Session CG: Nuclear Structure Theory I

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Francesca Sammarruca, University of Idaho
Room: Pavilion Ballroom B

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 8:42AM		CG.00001: Ab initio no-core configuration interaction calculations of electromagnetic observables for $p$-shell nuclei using natural orbitals Chrysovalantis Constantinou, Mark A. Caprio, James P. Vary, Pieter Maris Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:42AM - 8:54AM		CG.00002: The nuclear geometric Yang-Mills equation for incompressible nuclei Nicholas Sparks, George Rosensteel Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:54AM - 9:06AM		CG.00003: SU(3) gauge symmetry for collective rotational states in deformed nuclei George Rosensteel, Nick Sparks Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CG.00004: Isospin Considerations in Energy Level Spacings within the Shell Model Michael Quinonez, Arun Kingan, Larry Zamick Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CG.00005: Ab initio treatment of fully open-shell medium-mass nuclei with the IM-SRG Ragnar Stroberg, Angelo Calci, Jason Holt, Petr Navratil, Scott Bogner, Heiko Hergert, Robert Roth, Achim Schwenk Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CG.00006: Nucleon localization within nuclear density functional theory Chunli Zhang, Bastian Schuetrumpf, Witold Nazarewicz Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CG.00007: Survey of Reflection-Asymmetric Nuclear Deformations Erik Olsen, Yuchen Cao, Witold Nazarewicz, Nicolas Schunck Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		CG.00008: Nuclear spin-isospin excitations from covariant quasiparticle-vibration coupling Caroline Robin, Elena Litvinova Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 10:06AM - 10:18AM		CG.00009: Revisiting Grodzins Systematics of B(E2) values Boris Pritychenko, Michael Birch, Balraj Singh Preview Abstract

Session CH: Nuclear Astro I

Chair: Kelly Chipps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Pavilion Ballroom C

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 8:42AM		CH.00001: Enhancement of the triple alpha process in hot, dense environments Mary Beard, Sam M. Austin, Richard Cyburt Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:42AM - 8:54AM		CH.00002: $^{\mathrm{10}}$B($\alpha $,$n )^{\mathrm{13}}$N cross section measurement$^1$ Qian Liu, Michael FEBBRARO, RICHARD DEBOER, MICHAEL WIESCHER Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:54AM - 9:06AM		CH.00003: Measurements Of Stellar And Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis Reactions Using Inertially-Confined Plasmas Alex Zylstra, Hans Herrmann, Maria Gatu Johnson, Yongho Kim, Johan Frenje, Gerry Hale, Chikang Li, Mike Rubery, Mark Paris, Andy Bacher, Carl Brune, Chad Forrest, Vladimir Glebov, Roger Janezic, Dennis McNabb, Abbas Nikroo, Jesse Pino, Craig Sangster, Fredrick Seguin, Hong Sio, Christian Stoeckl, Richard Petrasso Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CH.00004: A Measurement of the Interaction of Neutrons With $^{\mathrm{7}}$Be at Cosmological Energies E.E. Kading, M. Gai, T. Palchan, M. Paul, M. Tessler, A. Weiss, D. Berkovits, Sh. Halfon, D. Kijel, A. Kreisel, A. Shor, I. Silverman, L. Weissman, R. Dressler, S. Heinitz, E.A. Maugeri, D. Schumann, M. Hass, I. Mukul, Y. Shachar, Ch, Seiffert, Th. Stora, D. Ticehurst, C.R. Howell, N. Kivel Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CH.00005: Interference solutions in the $^{\mathrm{12}}$C($\alpha $,$\gamma )^{\mathrm{16}}$O reaction Richard deBoer, R.E. Azuma, A. Best, C.R. Brune, J. Görres, S. Jones, M. Pignatari, D. Sayre, K. Smith, E. Uberseder, M. Wiescher Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CH.00006: Mass-7 destruction through $^7Be+d$ and $^7Li+d$ reactions, studied with ANASEN. Nabin Rijal, Ingo Wiedenhover, L.T. Baby, M. Anastasiou, J.J. Parker, J.C. Blackmon, K.T. Macon, D.S. Gonzalez, E. Koshchiy, G. Rogachev, J. Belarge, A. Kuchera Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CH.00007: Measuring the Nuclear Levels in $^{\mathrm{19}}$Ne using GODDESS Matthew Hall Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		CH.00008: Spectroscopic strengths of low-lying levels in $^{\mathrm{18}}$Ne Patrick OMalley, J. M. Allen, D.W. Bardayan, F.D. Becchetti, J. A. Cizewski, M. Febbraro, R. Gryzwacz, M. Hall, K. L. Jones, J.J. Kolata, S.V. Paulauskas, K. Smith, C. Thornsberry Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 10:06AM - 10:18AM		CH.00009: Status of The Facility for Experiments of Nuclear Reactions in Stars Richard Longland, John Kelley, Caleb Marshall, Federico Portillo, Kiana Setoodehnia, Daniel Underwood Preview Abstract

Session CJ: Fission & Light Ion Reactions

Sponsoring Units: DNP
Chair: Petr Navratil, TRIUMF
Room: Junior Ballroom A

Friday, October 14, 2016 8:30AM - 8:42AM		CJ.00001: Measurements of Short-Lived Fission Isomers Sean Finch, Megha Bhike, Calvin Howell, Fnu Krishichayan, Werner Tornow Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:42AM - 8:54AM		CJ.00002: Measurement of Angular-Momentum-Dependent Fission Probabilities of $^{240}$Pu Johnathon Koglin, Jason Burke, Igor Jovanovic Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 8:54AM - 9:06AM		CJ.00003: Total Kinetic Energy Release in the Fast Neutron Induced Fission of $^{235}$U Walter Loveland, Ricardo Yanez Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:06AM - 9:18AM		CJ.00004: Compound-nuclear Reactions with Unstable Isotopes: Constraining Capture Cross Sections with Indirect Data and Theory Jutta Escher Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:18AM - 9:30AM		CJ.00005: Entry-Level Spin Distributions of Sm Isotopes from the (p,t) Reaction at 25~MeV using Hyperion and STARLiTeR N. Cooper, P. Humby, C.W. Beausang, E. Wilson, R.O. Hughes, S. Ota, J. Koglin, R.J. Casperson, J. Burke, A. Simon, C. Reingold, M. McCleskey, E. McCleskey, A. Saastamoinen, R. Chyzh, M. Dag Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:30AM - 9:42AM		CJ.00006: The 13C($\alpha $,n)16O reaction: A background source for underground astrophysics measurements and geo-neutrino measurements. Michael Febbraro, Rebecca Toomey, James deBoer, Steven Pain, William Peters, Karl Smith, Fred Becchetti, Michael Wiescher Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:42AM - 9:54AM		CJ.00007: Characterization of NeutronSTARS for Surrogate (n,2n) Measurement Oluwatomi Akindele, Jason Burke, Eric Norman, Robert Casperson Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 9:54AM - 10:06AM		CJ.00008: Parameters of Density Distribution of Exotic Nuclei Extracted from a Data on Reaction Cross-section in the Glauber Model Ivan Novikov, Keiti Rueter Preview Abstract
Friday, October 14, 2016 10:06AM - 10:18AM		CJ.00009: Modernizing the Fission Basis Anton Tonchev, Roger Henderson, Nicolas Schunck, Mark Sroyer, Ramona Vogt Preview Abstract