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Session K01: Fission of Exotic Nuclei and its Impact in Astrophysics

Chair: Nicolas Schunck, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Georgian, Mezzanine Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 11:06AM		K01.00001: Fission of r-process elements Invited Speaker: Matthew R Mumpower
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:42AM		K01.00002: Studying Fission Cross Sections near 198Pb Invited Speaker: Curtis Hunt
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 12:18PM		K01.00003: Measuring Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Sections with Precision Invited Speaker: Maria Anastasiou

Session K02: Mini-Symposium: Probing Deeper into Neutrinoless DBD IV

Chair: Pranava Teja Surukuchi, University of Pittsburgh
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Studio 2, Lobby Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K02.00001: Tracking and Mitigating Radon Backgrounds in nEXO Benjamin T Foust
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K02.00002: Reducing Environmental Noise in Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiments and Axion Searches Kenneth Vetter
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K02.00003: Characterization of HPGe Detectors for Materials Screening Aaron Torres
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K02.00004: The CAGE Scanner: Developing PSD Techniques for LEGEND-1000 Grace Song, Clint Wiseman, Jason A Detwiler
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K02.00005: Calibration of the nEXO search for neutrinoless double beta decay Brian G Lenardo
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K02.00006: Projecting Sensitivity for BSM Spectral Effects in LEGEND-1000 Lars Hebenstiel, Samuel Linton Watkins
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K02.00007: Light Collection and Simulation for nEXO Molly Watts

Session K03: Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ions III

Chair: Cesar Da Silva, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza White Hill, 4th Floor

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K03.00001: Baryon Stopping in pp and AA at high energies Flemming Videbaek
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K03.00002: Critical point in the chiral phase diagram of soft-wall holographic QCD Sean P Bartz, Robert Cesar Meadows, Glenn Brock
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K03.00003: Equation of state for QCD from universality with a description of the first order phase transition region Jamie M Karthein, Volker Koch, Claudia Ratti
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K03.00004: Baryon Stopping Signal in Net-Proton Fluctuations Oleh Savchuk
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K03.00005: Finite Size Scaling Analysis of Proton Cumulants Agnieszka M Sorensen, Paul Richard Sorensen
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K03.00006: Strange hadron production in O+O collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV at STAR Iris D Ponce
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K03.00007: Flavor equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma Andrew Gordeev, Steffen A Bass, Berndt Mueller, Jean-Francois Paquet
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K03.00008: Sequentially Charming Chemical Freeze-out in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC and RHIC Fernando A Flor, Selma Mazioud

Session K04: Undergraduates Oral Session III

Chair: Christopher Crawford, University of Kentucky
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Park & Scollay, Lobby Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K04.00001: Investigating Charge Trapping Effects in Germanium Detectors: Mechanical Design Upgrades to the GRITTS Test Stand Vyshnavi M Sabbi
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K04.00002: Pulse Shape Discrimination Between Alpha and Beta Particles in Silicon Radiation Detectors Forest Si An Tschirhart, Louis Varriano, Jason A Detwiler
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K04.00003: Characterization of Silicon Photomultiplier Photon Detection Efficiency for Variable Wavelength at Liquid Nitrogen Temperature Ian Wang, Sam Borden, Jason A Detwiler, Nicholas Wiiliam Ruof, Walter C Pettus
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K04.00004: Optimizing a New Reaction Plane Detector for ATLAS and CMS in Heavy-Ion Run 4 Nivedha Vasanth, Riccardo Longo, Kristopher Daniel Young, Shreyas Rao
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K04.00005: Optical potential uncertainties in tens-of-MeV neutrino-argon scattering Lucas H Abu El-Haj, Steven James Gardiner, Pablo Barham Alzas
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K04.00006: Printed Circuit Board Coils for the Mirror Neutron Oscillation Experiment Andrew Winterman, Andrew Mullins, Christopher B Crawford
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K04.00007: Analysis of a Lead Tungstate Calorimeter Jared Machtinger
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K04.00008: Probing Quantum Interference and Spin Effects in Parton Showers through Multi-Point Energy-Energy Correlators Matthew P Gratrix

Session K05: Hadronic Physics: CLAS+GlueX

Chair: Julian Kahlbow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Whittier, 4th Floor

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K05.00001: Exclusive η Electro-Production Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements using CLAS12 at Jefferson Lab Isabella T Illari
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K05.00002: Charged Two-Pion Electroproduction in the Resonance Region with CLAS12 Krishna C Neupane
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K05.00003: ρ0 Photoproduction off Protons in CLAS Brandon Steven Tumeo
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K05.00004: Hadronization Studies via SIDIS Lambda Electroproduction with CLAS12 at Jefferson Lab Uditha Weerasinghe
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K05.00005: The Photo-nuclear Transparency of Rho0 Mesons in Hall D at JLab BHESHA RAJ DEVKOTA
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K05.00006: Partial wave analysis of the reaction γp→pK+K−π0 for low K+K−π0 invariant mass Alan Gardner
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K05.00007: Extracting the Cross Section of ρ Meson Photoproduction in Deuterium Cheng-Wei Lin
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K05.00008: Jefferson Lab Eta Factory experiment Laveen Puthiya Veetil

Session K06: Nuclear Astrophysics I

Chair: Andrea Richard, Ohio University
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Copley & Kenmore, Lobby Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K06.00001: r-Process Nucleosynthesis from Neutron Star Merger Winds Kelsey A Lund
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K06.00002: Neutron Star Mass Distributions and the Equation of State of Dense Matter Mahmudul Hasan Anik, Andrew W Steiner, Richard W O'Shaughnessy
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K06.00003: Surrogate 75Ga(d,pγ)76Ga measurement to inform i-process nucleosynthesis using GODDESS at FRIB Sudarsan Balakrishnan, Steven D Pain, Kelly A. Chipps, Jolie Antonia Cizewski, Mara M Grinder, Andrew Ratkiewicz, Timothy Gray, Kate L Jones, Alan B McIntosh
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K06.00004: Beta-delayed neutron spectroscopy of 132Cd Miguel Madurga, Zhengyu Xu, Robert K. Grzywacz
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K06.00005: 80Ge(d,p) measurements at FRIB to inform (n,γ) reaction rates in weak r-process nucleosynthesis Mara M Grinder, Sudarsan Balakrishnan, Jolie Antonia Cizewski, Kelly A. Chipps, Steven D Pain, Andrew Ratkiewicz, Timothy Gray, Kate L Jones, Alan B McIntosh
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K06.00006: Mass Measurements for the r-Process using the Canadian Penning Trap Alicen M Houff, Maxime Brodeur, Daniel P Burdette, Jason A Clark, Andrew Jacobs, Russell A Knaack, Biying Liu, William S Porter, Dwaipayan Ray, John Rohrer, Fabio Rivero, Guy Savard, Kumar S Sharma, Adrian A Valverde
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K06.00007: The Exploration of the Indirect Neutron-Capture Constraints of 87,89Kr(n,γ)88,90Kr reaction in the Astrophysical i-process using the β-Oslo method. Sivahami Uthayakumaar, Artemis Spyrou, Caley Harris, Hannah C Berg, Darren L Bleuel, Aaron J Couture, Iris Dillmann, Alexander C Dombos, Beau Greaves, Magne Guttormsen, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N Liddick, Stephanie M Lyons, Shea Mosby, Dennis Muecher, Farheen Naqvi, Gerard Jordan Owens-Fryar, Andrea L Richard, Sunniva Siem, Anna Simon, Mallory K Smith, Mathis Wiedeking
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K06.00008: Enhanced Sensitivity in the Detection of 129I Using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the University of Notre Dame David Lund, Calvin M Bacall, Thomas L Bailey, Philippe A. Collon, Griffin Robert Mulcahy, William Peeler

Session K10: Fundamental Neutron Physics II

Chair: Jason Fry, Eastern Kentucky University
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Statler, Mezzanine Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K10.00001: Recoil-order and radiative corrections to the aCORN experiment Fred E Wietfeldt
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K10.00002: Slow Neutron Polarimetry for a Spin-Dependent Fifth Force Search in Terbium Iron Garnet: Overview and Neutron Imaging Analysis Katherine Li
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K10.00003: Slow Neutron Polarimetry for a Spin-Dependent Fifth Force Search in Terbium Iron Garnet: Advanced Data Analysis Techniques Rashmi Parajuli, Thomas Mulkey
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K10.00004: Characterizing the AFP Spin Flipper for the Nab Experiment Rebecca Godri
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K10.00005: Measurement of neutron beam polarization at SNS Hitesh V Rahangdale
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K10.00006: Enhancing the trapezoid filter into a Sliding Least Squares fitter for the Nab DAQ Kyle L Feist
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K10.00007: Evaluation of detectors for the UCNA+ experiment Robert W Pattie
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K10.00008: Applied Ultracold Neutrons: Surface Contamination Profiles Marie A Blatnik, Zhaowen Tang
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:06PM - 12:18PM		K10.00009: Neutron-Nucleus Scattering Length Measurements using the new Etalon-Based Multilayer Mirror Neutron Interferometer at JPARC Anna L McElhannon, William Michael Snow
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:18PM - 12:30PM		K10.00010: Design of a low enriched uranium fission plate for boosting the UCN density at the LANL UCN source Christopher Martin O'Shaughnessy, Marie A Blatnik, Steven M Clayton, Chris Cude-Woods, N. Fotiades, James Kuropatwinski, Mark F Makela, Christopher Lee Morris, William Meijer, Robert W Pattie, Zhaowen Tang, Albert Young

Session K11: Instrumentation IV

Chair: Anthony Kuchera, Davidson College
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Arlington, Mezzanine Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K11.00001: Commissioning the NNDC Decay Station: A high-resolution α-γ coincidence detector for nuclear applications Victoria L Su, Sanjanee W Waniganeththi, Shuya Ota, Elizabeth A McCutchan, Samuel Kim, Andrea Mattera, Christopher Morse, Alejandro A Sonzogni, Jin Wu
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K11.00002: Understanding Silicon Detectors for Precision Beta Decay August G Mendelsohn
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K11.00003: ARIES: A new High-Efficiency, High-Granularity Beta-Tagging scintillator array with Ultra-Fast Timing capabilities for Decay Spectroscopy Studies. Victoria Vedia, Rashmi Umashankar, Adam B Garnsworthy, Daryl Bishop, Miles Constable, Luke Mantle, Gabriel Pasquino, Mike Qiu, Shaun Georges, Kurtis Raymond, Heather Robertson, Serene Rodriguez, William Royer, Javier Rodriguez, Annabelle L Grimes, Annabelle L Grimes, Lana Tomlin, Michael Spinazze
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K11.00004: CHICOX, the latest upgrade of CHICO Ching-Yen Wu
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K11.00005: Development and Testing of Prototypes for the Next Generation Neutron Detector Thomas Baumann, Paul Gueye, Nathan H Frank, Anthony N Kuchera, Belen Monteagudo, Paul A Deyoung, Warren F Rogers, Adriana Banu, Thomas Redpath, James Aaron Brown
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K11.00006: Advances in High Purity Germanium Single Crystals: Characterization and Progress at the USD Sanjay Bhattarai, Dongming Mei, Narayan Budhathoki, Kunming Dong, Austin Warren
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K11.00007: Growth and Characterization of Inorganic Perovskite Crystals for Gamma Detectors Alexander Barzilov, Charles Han, Monica Rivera, Shea Tonkinson, Alexandria Ragsdale, Maya N Kutty, Joseph Martinez, ganesh balakrishnan, Adam A Hecht
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K11.00008: Development of Low-Threshold Ionization Detectors Using USD-Grown Germanium Crystals for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches Narayan Budhathoki
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 12:06PM - 12:18PM		K11.00009: Developing Ge-Strip Detectors for Superheavy Physics Christian M Burns, Partha Chowdhury, Darek Seweryniak, Shaikh Gholam Wahid, Peter C Bender, Sean Patrick Byrne, Michael P Carpenter, Rikel Chakma, Aysegul Ertoprak, R.-D. Herzberg, Vasil Karayonchev, Amel Korichi, Eilens Lopez-Saavedra, Anthony McFarlane, Chris Morse, Claus Müller-Gatermann, Walter Reviol, Andrew M Rogers, Nirupama Sensharma, Marco Siciliano, Ragandeep Singh Sidhu, Sanjanee W Waniganeththi

Session K13: Mini-Symposium: Next Gen Techniques in Fundamental Symmetries and Neutrinos II

Chair: Arian Jadbabaie, Caltech
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Studio 1, Lobby Level

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K13.00001: Status of the Analysis of the UCNτ Neutron Lifetime Experiment Lara Blokland
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K13.00002: Monte-Carlo Simulation of Neutron Phase-Space Evolution in the UCNτ Experiment and Corrections on the Neutron Lifetime Ci-You Huang, Chen-Yu Liu
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K13.00003: Neutron Polarimetric Imaging in Searches for Exotic Spin-Dependent Neutron Interactions with Matter Michael Van Meter
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K13.00004: A Polarized Mode-Entangled Neutron Interferometer for Neutron Quantum Optics and Gravity William M Snow
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:18AM - 11:30AM		K13.00005: The FRIB-EDM3 Instrument: A Tool For Creating And Spectroscopically Studying Radioactive Molecules For Tests Of Fundamental Symmetries Aiden Robert Boyer, Nicholas Nusgart, Meyhar Dudeja, Jaideep Taggart Singh
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:30AM - 11:42AM		K13.00006: Progress towards a search for CP-violating nuclear Schiff moments using radioactive molecules in solids at FRIB Nicholas Nusgart, Aiden R Boyer, Meyhar Dudeja, Jaideep T Singh
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:42AM - 11:54AM		K13.00007: Towards quantum-enhanced tests of fundamental symmetries using ultracold radioactive molecules at FRIB Xing Wu, Sebastian Miki-Silva, Monika Fouad
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:54AM - 12:06PM		K13.00008: Towards a magnetic centrifuge decelerator for polar molecules for testing fundamental symmetries of the universe. Sebastian Miki Silva, Xing Wu, Monika Fouad, Nicholas Emtage, Bjorn Vetne, Kyle Taft

Session K17: Mini-Symposium: Entanglement in Nuclear Physics: From Theory to Measurement II

Chair: Caroline Robin, Universität Bielefeld
Room: Hilton Boston Park Plaza Beacon Hill, 4th Floor

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:30AM - 10:42AM		K17.00001: From Entanglement to Thermalization in SU(2) Gauge Theory Berndt Mueller, Xiaojun Yao, Andreas Schäfer, Lukas Ebner, Clemens Seidl
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:42AM - 10:54AM		K17.00002: Entanglement Dynamics in Splitting Quenches Joseph Dominicus Lap, Berndt Mueller, Andreas Schäfer, Clemens Seidl
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 10:54AM - 11:06AM		K17.00003: Quantum information informing nuclear structure calculations Calvin W Johnson, Oliver C Gorton
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 11:06AM - 11:18AM		K17.00004: Development of Yb tweezer arrays for quantum simulation of nuclear physics Zeyu Ye, Francesco Granato, Varun Jorapur, Kevin G Bailey, David P DeMille, Peter Mueller, Thomas P O'Connor, Michael N Bishof