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Session MA: Quantum Computing and Machine Learning for Nuclear Physics

Chair: Phiala Shanahan, MIT
Room: Hilton Kona 4

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:45PM		MA.00001: Quantum computing for nuclear physics: status and expectations Invited Speaker: Natalie Kloco
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:30PM		MA.00002: Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer Invited Speaker: Christine Muschik
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 4:15PM		MA.00003: Machine learning and its application to lattice Monte Carlo simulations Invited Speaker: Akinori Tanaka
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 5:00PM		MA.00004: Tensor network approach to quantum field theories suffering from sign problem Invited Speaker: Shinji Takeda
Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:00PM - 5:15PM		MA.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:15PM - 5:30PM		MA.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:30PM - 5:45PM		MA.00007: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

Session MB: Quiescent Stellar Burning

Chair: Frank Strieder, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
Room: Hilton Kohala 1

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MB.00001: First Measurement of the Neutron Capture Cross Sections of Stable Germanium Isotopes Alexander Laminack, Jeffery C Blackmon, Aaron J Couture, John Leonard Ullmann, Kevin T Macon, Ashley A Hood, Graeme Morgan, Erin Good, Scott T Marley, Catherine M Deibel, Gemma L Wilson
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MB.00002: Measurement of the 65Cu Neutron-Capture Cross Section for Constraining s-process Nucleosynthesis Christopher J Prokop, Aaron Couture, Shea Mosby, Gencho Y Rusev, John Leonard Ullmann
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MB.00003: Commissioning and first measurements at the CASPAR underground accelerator facility Daniel Robertson, Axel Boeltzig, Tyler Borgwardt, Manoel Couder, Bryce Frentz, Uwe Greife, Mark Hanhardt, Thomas Kadlecek, Frank Strieder, Michael Wiescher
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MB.00004: Measurement of the 14N(p,γ)15O CNO cycle reaction at CASPAR Bryce Frentz, Daniel J Robertson, Ani Aprahamian, Axel Boeltzig, Tyler Borgwardt, Joachim Goerres, Mark Hanhardt, Thomas Kadlecek, Frank Strieder, Michael Wiescher
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MB.00005: R-matrix analyses of secondary γ-ray angular distributions for recent reaction studies at the University of Notre Dame Richard J DeBoer, Axel Boeltzig, Qian Liu, Kevin T Macon, Michael C F Wiescher, Carl Richard Brune, Michael T Febbraro, Kate L Jones, Jesus Pereira Lopez
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MB.00006: Measuring the 13C(d,n)14N Cross Section—A Prominent Beam-Induced Background Reaction in Underground Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments Chad C. Ummel, Michael Febbraro, Eli Temanson, Mark E. Bannister, Kelly A. Chipps, Jolie A. Cizewski, Francesca Corrado, Charles C. Havener, Spencer Jones, Steven D. Pain, William A. Peters, David Walter
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MB.00007: Understanding photoneutron sources for ultra-low background astrophysics measurements Michael T Febbraro, Steven D. Pain, Kelly A. Chipps, David G Walter, Rebecca Toomey, Axel Boeltzig, Daniel J Robertson, Daniel W. Stracener, Mark E Bannister, Michael Wiescher, Frank Strieder
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MB.00008: Abstract Withdrawn
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MB.00009: Elastic scattering of 3He + α with SONIK Devin Connolly, Som N Paneru, Jonathan Karpesky, Martin Alcorta, Carl Richard Brune, Michael Bowry, Barry S Davids, Matilda Delgado, Nicholas Esker, Jennifer Fallis, Adam Garnsworthy, Rekam Giri, Uwe Greife, Dave Hutcheon, Fitzpatrick Laddaran, Annika Lennarz, Matthew A Lovely, Chris Pearson, Chris Ruiz, Caleb Seeman
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MB.00010: Every Nucleus, When Created, Will Exhibit No Motion, Linear Motion, Rotational, and/or Vibratory Motion, Singly, or In Some Combination, Which May Later Be Modified By Outside Forces: A Natural Law. Stewart E Brekke

Session MC: Nuclear Reactions 2

Chair: Takashi Nakamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Room: Hilton Kohala 2

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MC.00001: Discovery of 60Ca Oleg B. Tarasov, DeukSoon Ahn, Daniel Bazin, Naoki Fukuda, Alexandra Gade, Marc Hausmann, Naoto Inabe, S. Ishiukawa, N. Iwasa, Keita Kawata, T. Komatsubara, Toshiyuki Kubo, Kensuke Kusaka, David Joseph Morrissey, Masao Ohtake, Hideaki Otsu, Mauricio Portillo, T. Sakakibara, Hiroyoshi Sakurai, Hiromi Sato, Bradley M Sherrill, Yohei Shimizu, Andreas Stolz, Toshiyuki Sumikama, Hiroshi Suzuki
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MC.00002: Production of very neutron-rich Pd isotopes around N = 82 by projectile fragmentation of a RI beam of 132Sn at 280 MeV/u Hiroshi Suzuki, Koichi Yoshida, Naoki Fukuda, Hiroyuki Takeda, Yohei Shimizu, DeukSoon Ahn, Toshiyuki Sumikama, Naohito Inabe, Tetsuro Komatsubara, Hiromi Sato, Zeren Korkulu, Kensuke Kusaka, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Masao Ohtake, Hideki Ueno, Shin'ichiro Michimasa, Noritaka Kitamura, Keita Kawata, Nobuaki Imai, Oleg B. Tarasov, Daniel Bazin, Toshiyuki Kubo, Jerry Nolen, Walter F Henning
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MC.00003: Nucleon pickup cross sections to explore nucleon momentum distributions and nuclear structure Mitsunori Fukuda, Natsuki Tadano, Shintaro Yamaoka, Masaomi Tanaka, Junichi Ohno, Daiki Nishimura, Maya Takechi, Hang Du, Shigekazu Fukuda, Takuji Izumikawa, Yuki Kanke, Atsushi Kitagawa, Kensaku Matsuta, Mototsugu Mihara, Sadao Momota, Daiki Murooka, Takashi Ohtsubo, Hiroyuki Oikawa, Shinji Sato, Jiro Shimaya, Yuki Takeuchi, Shinji Suzuki, Takeshi Suzuki, Yutaro Tanaka, Takayuki Yamaguchi
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MC.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MC.00005: Production of n-rich nuclei via 2-proton knockout with deuterium target Midori Miwa, Tomohiro Uesaka, Yuki Kubota, He Wang, Alexandre Obertelli, Hideaki Otsu, Pieter Doornenbal
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MC.00006: Neutron spectroscopic studies with the CATRiNA array Jesus F Perello, Sergio J Almaraz-Calderon, Benjamin Asher, Lagy T Baby
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MC.00007: Development of dispersion matching optics of primary beam for SRC – BigRIPS system at RIBF Shota Y Matsumoto, DeukSoon Ahn, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Naoki Fukuda, Nobuhisa Fukunishi, Geissel Hans, Naohito Inabe, Kenta Itahashi, Kensuke Kusaka, Takahiro Nishi, Yohei Shimizu, Toshiyuki Sumikama, Hiroshi Suzuki, Motonobu Takaki, Hiroyuki Takeda, Yoshiki Tanaka, Tomohiro Uesaka, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Koichi Yoshida
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MC.00008: Kr+C Reactions to Explore the Asymmetry Dependence of the Nuclear Caloric Curve Alan McIntosh, Lauren Heilborn, Sherry J Yennello
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MC.00009: Projectile-like fragment production studies using coincident neutrons Sharon Stephenson, the MoNA Collaboration
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MC.00010: Proton-proton correlation functions measured near the Fermi Energy using the FAUST Lauren Heilborn, Alan McIntosh, Sherry J Yennello
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:30PM - 4:45PM		MC.00011: Experimental constraint on an exotic spin- and velocity-dependent interaction with a spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometer Young Jin Kim, Pinghan Chu, Igor Savukov

Session MD: Light Elements in Nuclear Astrophysics

Chair: Carl Brune, Ohio University
Room: Hilton Kohala 3

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MD.00001: Abstract Withdrawn
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MD.00002: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with an Inhomogeneous Primordial Magnetic Field Strength Yudong Luo, Toshitaka Kajino, Motohiko Kusakabe, Grant James Mathews
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MD.00003: Newly measured 7Be+n reaction cross sections and resonance study for the BBN Seiya Hayakawa, Keijiro Abe, Marco La Cognata, Livio Lamia, Hideki Shimizu, Lei Yang, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi, for the CRIB-THM collaboration
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MD.00004: Spectroscopy of Resonances in 9B with the FSU-LSU Split-Pole Spectrograph Ingo Wiedenhoever, Nabin Rijal, Gordon McCann, Catherine M Deibel, Jeffery C Blackmon, Maria Anastasiou, Lagy T Baby, Powell E. Barber, Erin Good, Paul D. Cottle, Kenneth Hanselmann, Peter A Hoeflich, Ashley A Hood, Jon Lighthall, Khang Pham
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MD.00005: Study of the contribution of the 7Be(d, p) reaction to the 7Li problem in the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis Azusa Inoue, Atsushi Tamii, Satoshi Adachi, Masato Asai, Agnieszka Czeszumska, Mitsunori Fukuda, Seiya Hayakawa, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Makii, Kensaku Matsuta, Mototsugu Mihara, Shoken Nakamura, Tatsushi Shima, Hideki Shimizu, Dinh Trong Tran, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi, Lei Yang
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MD.00006: Cross-section measurement of 7Be+d and its implications in the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Nabin Rijal, Ingo Wiedenhover, Lagy T Baby, Jeffery C Blackmon, Peter A Hoeflich
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MD.00007: High energy density plasma experiments to study the T+T and 3He+3He six-nucleon systems at OMEGA and the NIF Maria Gatu Johnson, Alex Zylstra, Andrew Bacher, Carl Richard Brune, Daniel Casey, Chad Forrest, Matthias Hohenberger, Daniel Sayre, Steve Craxton, Johan Frenje, Warren Garbett, Emma Garcia, Vladimir Glebov, Gerald M Hale, Martin Hoppe, Brandon J Lahmann, Dennis Paul McNabb, Mark W Paris, Richard Petrasso, Jesse Pino, Bruce Remington, Michael Schoff, Hong Sio, Christian Stoeckl, Heather Whitley
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MD.00008: Proton spectra from $^3$He+T and $^3$He+$^3$He fusion at low center-of-mass energy Alex Zylstra, Johan Frenje, Maria Gatu Johnson, Gerald M Hale, Carl Richard Brune, Andrew Bacher, Dan Casey, Chikang Li, Dennis Paul McNabb, Mark W Paris, Richard Petrasso, Thomas C Sangster, Dan Sayre, Fredrick Seguin
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MD.00009: Cross Section Measurements of $^{10}$B(p,$\alpha$)$^7$Be Bryant Vande Kolk, Kevin T Macon, Richard J DeBoer, Axel Boeltzig, Patrick D O'Malley, Khachatur Manukyan, Alexander Voinov, Thomas Massey, Carl Richard Brune, Michael C F Wiescher
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MD.00010: Generating near solid density reacting ion distributions using intense short pulse lasers Gary Grim, Andreas Kemp, Edward P Hartouni, Scott Wilks, Shaun Kerr

Session ME: QCD Theory II

Chair: Atsushi Hosaka, Osaka University
Room: Hilton King's 1

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		ME.00001: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		ME.00002: Path optimization in field theories with sign problem Yuto Mori, Kouji Kashiwa, Akira Ohnishi
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		ME.00003: Lattice QCD study of the J/ψ-N interaction Takuya Sugiura, Yoichi Ikeda, Noriyoshi Ishii
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		ME.00004: Phase structures of finite density QCD from Lee-Yang zeros in lattice QCD with canonical approach Masayuki Wakayama, Vitaly Bornyakov, Denis Boyda, Vladimir Goy, Hideaki Iida, Alexander Molochkov, Atsushi Nakamura, Valentin Zakharov
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		ME.00005: Calculating the spectrum of the charmed baryons from Lattice QCD Kadir Utku Can, Guray Erkol, Makoto Oka, Toru T. Takahashi, Huseyin Bahtiyar, Philipp Gubler
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		ME.00006: Abstract Withdrawn
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		ME.00007: Wavelet discretized field theory Wayne Nicholas Polyzou, Fatih Bulut, Tracie Michlin
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		ME.00008: Gauge SU(3) connection for the geometrical collective Yang-Mills model George Rosensteel
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		ME.00009: Chiral soliton lattice effect on baryonic matter from skyrmion crystal model Mamiya Kawaguchi, Yong-Liang Ma, Shinya Matsuzaki
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		ME.00010: Mathematical relations of the Onishi formula, Neergaard-Wust formula and the Pfaffian formula of Robledo’s Makito Oi, Takahiro Mizusaki, Noritaka Shimizu, Yang Sun

Session MF: Nuclear Matter and Nuclear Astrophysics

Chair: Jeremy Holt, Texas A&M University
Room: Hilton King's 2

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MF.00001: Equilibration chronometry in two and three bodies dynamically deformed nuclear systems. Alis Rodriguez Manso, Alan B McIntosh, Jerome Gauthier, Kris Hagel, Lauren Heilborn, Andrea Jedele, Aditya Wakhle, Andrew Zarrella, Sherry J Yennello
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MF.00002: Effective mass constraints from heavy-ion collisions Kyle Wayne Brown, Zbigniew Chajecki, Manyee Betty Tsang, William Gregory Lynch, Juan J Manfredi, Sean R Sweany, Kuan Zhu, Adam Anthony, Jin-Hee Chang, Daniele Dell'Aquila, Chi-En Teh, Jonathan E Barney, Justin B Estee, Chun Yuen Tsang, Mira Ghazali, Om Bhadra Khanal
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MF.00003: Study of light cluster production in intermediate energetic heavy-RI collision at RIBF Masanori Kaneko
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MF.00004: The Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta Matthew E Caplan, Andre Da Silva Schneider, Charles J Horowitz
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MF.00005: Effects of strong magnetic fields on neutron 3P2 vortices in LS potentials Shigehiro Yasui, Chandrasekhar Chatterjee, Muneto Nitta
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MF.00006: Magnetized rotational neutron stars and mass-radius relations Chinatsu Watanabe, Kota Yanase, Naotaka Yoshinaga, Ai Uehara
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MF.00007: Inhomogeneous Nuclear Matter of Neutron Stars with Strong Magnetic Field Toshiki Maruyama, Cheng-Jun Xia, Nobutoshi Yasutake
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MF.00008: Quark-meson coupling model with the cloudy bag and its application to nuclear and neutron-star properties Tsuyoshi Miyatsu, Koichi Saito
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MF.00009: Variational method with explicit energy functionals for hot nuclear matter with the tensor force Kaoru Shoji, Hajime Togashi, Masatoshi Takano
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MF.00010: Constraining dark matter with neutron stars Sanjay Reddy
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:30PM - 4:45PM		MF.00011: Systematic study of supernova equations of state at sub-nuclear densities with the Thomas-Fermi calculation Hajime Togashi
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:45PM - 5:00PM		MF.00012: Higher-order symmetry energy parameters and neutron star properties Akira Ohnishi, Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev, James M. Lattimer, Ingo Tews, Xuhao Wu

Session MG: Nuclear Theory 4

Chair: Yutaka Utsuno, Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Room: Hilton King's 3

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MG.00001: Microscopic Calculations of Nuclear Level Densities with the Extrapolated Lanczos Matrix (ELM) Method B. Alex Brown, William Ormand, Sofia Karampagia
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MG.00002: Vorticity and deformation in Carbon-12 within a symplectic shell-model framework David Kekejian, Jerry P Draayer, Kristina D Launey
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MG.00003: Configuration Interaction studies of Nuclear Clustering Konstantinos Kravvaris, Alexander Volya
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MG.00004: Self-consistent multiparticle-multihole configuration mixing description of nuclear many-body systems Caroline Robin, Nathalie Pillet
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MG.00005: Short-range correlations and the proton 3s1/2 wave function in 206Pb Shalom Shlomo, Igal Talmi, Mason Robert Anders, Giacomp Bonasera
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MG.00006: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MG.00007: Microscopic optical potential for proton elastic scattering off light exotic nuclei Matteo Vorabbi
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MG.00008: YAHFC-MC: A Monte Carlo based Hauser-Feshbach Reaction Code System William Ormand

Session MH: Instrumentation V

Chair: Shaofei Zhu, Argonne National Laboratory
Room: Hilton Kona 2/3

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MH.00001: Modifying Semi-Coaxial Ge Detectors for Use in 0𝜈𝛽𝛽&[nu]ββ Experiments Anna Reine, David C Radford, Benjamin E Shanks, John F Wilkerson
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MH.00002: Development of a gamma-ray tracking detector and its performance test Asahi Kohda, Nori Aoi, Yasutaka Yamamoto, Eiji Ideguchi, Mukhi Kumar Raju, Hoang Thi Ha, Tung Thanh Pham, Tatsushi Shima, Viljamaa Topi Benjamin, Shuji Miyamoto, Toshiyuki Shizuma, Nobuaki Imai, Kathrin Wimmer, Pieter Doornenbal, Rudrajyoti Palit
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MH.00003: GRETINA as a Compton Polarimeter Peter C Bender, Dirk W Weisshaar, Alexandra Gade, Andreas Wiens, Augusto O Macchiavelli, Christopher M Campbell, Roderick M Clark, Heather L Crawford, Mario Cromaz, Paul Fallon, I-Yang Lee, Samuel L Tabor, Vandana Tripathi, Akaa D Ayangeakaa, Michael P Carpenter, Helena David, Robert V F Janssens, Torben Lauritsen, Shaofei Zhu, Partha Chowdhury, Christopher J Lister
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MH.00004: Development of HPGe Detectors for Ultra High Rate Spectroscopy and Imaging Joanna M Szornel, Paul Barton, Reynold J Cooper, Heather L Crawford, Alexey Drobizhev, Mustapha Saad, Marco Salathe, Kai Vetter
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MH.00005: The next generation neutron detector for the studies of exotic nuclei Joseph Heideman, David Perez-Loureiro, Robert K. Grzywacz, Mustafa M Rajabali, Lawrence Harvey Heilbronn, Kyle Schmitt
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MH.00006: Development of an array of liquid-scintillator-based bar detectors: SABRE Rebecca Toomey, Michael T Febbraro, David G Walter, Kelly A. Chipps, Steven D. Pain, Eli S Temanson, Ariella M Atencio, Cory R Thornsberry, Karl Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Kate L Jones, Charles C. Havener
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MH.00007: Preparing for beta-delayed neutron emission studies in 78Ni region with VANDLE at RIBF Robert K. Grzywacz, Thomas T King, Jeremy J Bundgaard, Ian C Cox, Aleksndra Fijalkowska, Shintaro Go, Andrew M Keeler, Miguel Madurga Flores, Shree Neupane, Shunji Nishimura, Maninder Singh, Rin Yokoyama
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MH.00008: Proton Transfer Reactions Studied Using the Versatile Array of Neutron Detectors at Low Energy (VANDLE) Cory R Thornsberry, Sean P Burcher, Robert Grzywacz, Kate L Jones, Karl Smith, Marija Vostinar, Jacob Allen, Daniel W Bardayan, Drew T Blankstein, Matthew Hall, Patrick D O'Malley, Craig Reingold, Wanpeng Tan, Jolie Antonia Cizewski, Aleksandra Fijalkowska, Alexandre A Lepailleur, David G Walter, Kelly A. Chipps, Michael T Febbraro, Steven D. Pain, Scott T Marley, Miguel Madurga Flores, Steven Taylor, William A Peters, Stan V Paulauskas
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MH.00009: A New Dedicated Setup for Beta-Delayed Neutron Studies Gemma L Wilson, Barbara S Alan, Ani Aprahamian, Jason A Clark, Kay Kolos, Alexander Laminack, Scott T Marley, Graeme Morgan, Justin M Munson, Eric B Norman, Guy Savard, Nicholas D Scielzo, Kevin Siegl
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MH.00010: Characterisation of light output in a deuterated stilbene crystal for use in fast neutron detection Joseph O'Neill, Michael T Febbraro, Rebecca Toomey, Steven D. Pain, David G Walter, Frederick D Becchetti, Angela Di Fulvio, Natalia P. Zaitseva
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:30PM - 4:45PM		MH.00011: Direct Neutron Scattering Observations in BC408 Scintillator, and Comparison to Simulation W.F. Rogers, J.E. Boone, A. Wantz, N. Frank, A.N. Kuchera, S. Mosby, M. Thoennessen

Session MJ: Mini-Symposium on Fundamental Neutron Physics VI

Chair: Beatrice Franke, TRIUMF
Room: Hilton Kona 5

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MJ.00001: Cryogenic Design for TUCAN's New UCN Source Ryohei Matsumiya
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MJ.00002: Magnetic Field Monitoring in the SNS Neutron EDM Experiment Alina Aleksandrova for the SNS nEDM Collaboration
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MJ.00003: Abstract Withdrawn
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MJ.00004: Development of Homogeneous Magnetic Field for the Measurement of Neutron EDM Kensaku Matsuta, Yasuhiro Masuda, Mototsugu Mihara
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MJ.00005: In Situ Magnetic Field Mapping System for the LANL Neutron EDM Experiment Jared Brewington behalf of the LANL-nEDM Collaboration
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MJ.00006: Spin Dressed Relaxation and Frequency Shifts from Field Imperfections. Christopher Swank, Ezra Webb, Xiaoling Liu, Bradley Filippone
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MJ.00007: A Resonance Guide for eV Neutrons William Snow, Kylie Dickerson, Jesse Devaney
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MJ.00008: Behavior of Neutron Spin in Polarized Nuclear Target for the T-violation Search in Compound Nuclei Hirohiko Shimizu
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MJ.00009: Development of polarized nuclear targets using dynamic nuclear polarization of mechanically ground nano-particles dissolved in ethanol matrix with TEMPO Takahiro Endo, Takahiro Iwata, Daisuke Kaneko, Daisuke Miura, Yoshiyuki Miyachi, Genki Nukazuka, Hikari Wauke
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MJ.00010: Abstract Withdrawn
(Author Not Attending)		MJ.00011: Compensation of Magnetic Fields at the TRIUMF nEDM Experiment Shomi Ahmed

Session MK: Applications II

Chair: Werner Tornow, Duke University; TUNL
Room: Hilton Queen's 4

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MK.00001: Development and Implementation of 41Ca for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Measurements Austin D. Nelson, Tyler Anderson, Lauren Callahan, Adam M. Clark, Michael Skulski, Philippe Collon
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MK.00002: Development of 129I AMS at the NSL: Environmental Sampling in the Great Lakes Region Michael Skulski, Tyler Anderson, Lauren Callahan, Adam M Clark, Austin D Nelson, Philippe Collon, Michael Paul
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MK.00003: Developments of time-of-flight detector for mass measurements with the Rare-RI Ring Daiki Kamioka, Akira Ozawa, Shinji Suzuki, Tetsuaki Moriguchi, Momo Mukai, Masamichi Amano, Daisuke Nagae, Yasushi Abe, Sarah Naimi, Honghu Li, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Shunichiro Ohmika, Zhuang Ge, Kiyoshi Wakayama, Hiroki Arakawa, Kumi Inomata, Takaaki Kobayashi, Atsushi Kitagawa, Shinji Sato
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MK.00004: The Wide Reach of Nuclear Physics at LANL Michelle Mosby, Aaron J Couture, Krista Meierbachtol, Kyle Schmitt
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MK.00005: High-energy proton radiography at Los Alamos National Laboratory Zhaowen Tang
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MK.00006: The mystery of the totally-consumed target: Measuring the 88Zr neutron-capture cross section Nicholas Scielzo, Jennifer Shusterman, Eric B Norman, Suzanne Lapi, C. Shaun Loveless, Nickie Peters, J. David Robertson, Dawn Shaughnessy, Keenan Thomas, Anton P Tonchev
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MK.00007: Measurement of the Ratio of 71Ga(n,p)71mZn to 69Ga(n,p)69mZn Yields for Fission Spectrum Neutrons Daniel Dale, Frank Harmon, Jon Stoner, Tony Forest, Jeff Burggraf, Jenna Deaven
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MK.00008: Experimentally constrained $^{92}$Sr($n,\gamma$) reaction rate Adriana Ureche, Darren L. Bleuel, Nicholas David Scielzo, Lee Allen Bernstein, Bethany L. Goldblum, Magne S. Guttormsen, Thibault A. Laplace, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Mallory K. Smith, Artemis Spyrou, Jasmina Vujic
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MK.00009: Systematic Studies of Fission Product-Yield Distributions from Neutron Induced Fission of 235U,238U, and 239Pu Anton P Tonchev, Jack A. Silano, Mark A. Stoyer, Matthew E. Gooden, Jerry Wilhelmy, Todd A. Bredeweg, Werner Tornow, Calvin R Howell, Sean Finch, FNU Krishichayan
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MK.00010: Bringing Nuclear Science Experiments to the Classroom Eric B Norman
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:30PM - 4:45PM		MK.00011: Intracavity Optogalvanic Spectroscopy System for Radiocarbon Analysis Joshua H Thompson, Daniel E Murnick, Mark DeGuzman, Alessandra Panuccio, Sharon Immanuel

Session ML: Hard Probes in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions

Chair: Cesar Luiz da Silva, LANL
Room: Hilton Queen's 5

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		ML.00001: Open heavy-flavor production in Pb-Pb collisions measured with ALICE at the LHC Erin Gauger
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		ML.00002: Open heavy flavor measurements with the Forward Silicon Vertex Detector at PHENIX Xuan Li
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		ML.00003: Measurement of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions at &[root]s = 13 TeV with ALICE Toma Suzuki
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		ML.00004: High-pT electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in p-Pb collisions at &[root]sNN = 8.16 TeV with ALICE Daichi Kawana
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		ML.00005: Isolated photon + hadron and jet correlation in pPb and pp collisions measured by ALICE Miguel I Arratia
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		ML.00006: Measurement of neutral mesons in pp and Pb--Pb at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV with ALICE Daiki Sekihata
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		ML.00007: Bayesian Study of Jet Background Subtraction in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Ron Ariel Soltz, Aaron Angerami, Jason Bernstein
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		ML.00008: High-pT π0-Triggered Two-Particle Azimuthal Correlations in &[root]sNN = 200 GeV d+Au Collisions at PHENIX Nathan C Grau
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		ML.00009: Multiplicity-dependent di-hadron correlations with identified leading hadrons in &[root]sNN=200 GeV d+Au collisions at STAR Kazuya Nakagawa
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		ML.00010: Study of azimuthal anisotropy of charged hadrons at high pT in Au+Au collisions at &[root]sNN = 200GeV at RHIC-PHENIX Risa Nishitani

Session MM: Nuclear Structure A=30-60

Chair: Adam Fritsch, Gonzaga University
Room: Hilton Queen's 6

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MM.00001: Shell-model Interpretation of the Intruder States in 38Cl Rebeka Sultana Lubna, Konstantinos Kravvaris, Samuel L Tabor, Vandana Tripathi, Alexander Volya, Elizabeth Rubino, Maria Anastasiou, Benjamin Asher, Lagy T Baby, Jonathan Baron, David Dwaine Caussyn, David Clarke, Jesus Perello, Nabin Rijal, Kalisa Villafana, James Allmond
(Author Not Attending)		MM.00002: Exploring High-Spin States in $^{39}$Ar using a Fusion-Evaporation Reaction Brittany Abromeit, Samuel L Tabor, Vandana Tripathi, Rebeka Sultana Lubna, Konstantinos Kravvaris, Elizabeth Rubino, Alexander Volya
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MM.00003: Cross-Shell Excitations and High Spins in 41K and 41Ca Elizabeth Rubino, Samuel L. Tabor, Vandana Tripathi, Maria Anastasiou, Benjamin Asher, Lagy T Baby, Jonathan Baron, David Dwaine Caussyn, David Clarke, Jesus Perello, Konstantinos Kravvaris, Nabin Rijal, Kalisa A Villafana, Alexander S Volya, James M Allmond
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MM.00004: Electroweak transitions in intermediate mass nuclei Grigor H Sargsyan, Kristina D Launey, Tomas Dytrych, Jerry P Draayer
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MM.00005: Direct determination of the neutron skin thickness of 48Ca probed via proton elastic scattering and the ESPRI project Juzo Zenihiro
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MM.00006: Direct mass measurements of very neutron-rich calcium isotopes beyond N=34 Shin'ichiro Michimasa, Motoki Kobayashi, Yu Kiyokawa, Shinsuke Ota, D. S. Ahn, H. Baba, G. P. A. Berg, M. Dozono, N. Fukuda, E. Ideguchi, S. Kawase, T. Kubo, Y. Kubota, C. S. Lee, D. Nishimura, H. Sakai, Y. Shimizu, A. Stolz, H. Suzuki, M. Takaki, H. Takeda, S. Takeuchi, T. Uesaka, R. Yokoyama, S. Shimoura
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MM.00007: Coulomb excitation of 52Ca Yusuke Fujino, Yasuhiro Togano, Kazuo Ieki
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:45PM - 4:00PM		MM.00008: Production of isomers around 52Fe nucleus via projectile fragmentation Keita Kawata, Shinsuke Ota, Masanori Dozono, Shin'ichiro Michimasa, Hiroki Nishibata, Chihiro Iwamoto, Noritaka Kitamura, Shoichiro Masuoka, Rieko Tsunoda, Tomoya Harada, Hideyuki Sakai, Nobuaki Imai, Kentaro Yako, Tomoya Sato
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:00PM - 4:15PM		MM.00009: In-beam γ spectroscopy of 55Ca and 55K via nucleon knockout reactions Takuma Koiwai, Kathrin Wimmer, Pieter Doornenbal, Alexandre Obertelli
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:15PM - 4:30PM		MM.00010: Investigation of decay properties of neutron-rich isotopes in the vicinity of 60Ca Andreas Stolz, DeukSoon Ahn, Thomas Baumann, Daniel Bazin, Jill S. Berrryman, Georg Bollen, Marco Cortesi, Alex C. Dombos, Alexandra Gade, Thomas N. Ginter, Caley Harris, Marc Hausmann, Toshiyuki Kubo, Elaine Kwan, Sean N. Liddick, Stephanie Lyons, David J. Morrissey, Naoki Fukuda, Alicia Palmisano, Jorge Pereira, Mauricio Portillo, Yohei Shimizu, Mallory Smith, Artemis Spyrou, Mathias Steiner
Saturday, October 27, 2018 4:30PM - 4:45PM		MM.00011: Geant4 Simulations of Nuclear Isomer Gamma Emission Detection Adam L Fritsch, James Aaron Brown, Andrew Clusserath, Bryce Makela

Session MN: Mini-Symposium Intersections of Neutrino Physics and Nuclear Physics II

Chair: David Radford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Hilton Kohala 4

Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:00PM - 2:15PM		MN.00001: Double-beta decay nuclear matrix element using finite-amplitude method Nobuo Hinohara, Jonathan H Engel
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:15PM - 2:30PM		MN.00002: Double Gamow Teller transition and its relation to neutrinoless double beta decay matrix element Noritaka Shimizu, Javier Menendez, Kentaro Yako
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:30PM - 2:45PM		MN.00003: A percent-level determination of the nucleon axial coupling from quantum chromodynamics Chia Cheng Chang, Amy N Nicholson, Enrico Rinaldi, Evan Berkowitz, Nicolas Garron, David Brantley, Henry Monge-Camacho, Christopher Monahan, Christopher M Bouchard, M. A. Clark, Balint Joo, Thorsten Kurth, Kostas Orginos, Pavlos Vranas, Andre P Walker-Loud
Saturday, October 27, 2018 2:45PM - 3:00PM		MN.00004: Measurement of Quenched Axial Vector Coupling Constant in In-115 Beta Decay and its Impact on Future 0$\nu\beta\beta$ Searches Alexander Friedrich Leder, Claudia Nones, Anastasiia Zolotarova, Fedor Danevich, Andrea Giuliani, Pierre de Marcillac, Valentina Novati, Emiliano Olivieri, Denys Poda, Vladimir Tretyak, Joel Kostensalo, Jouni Suhonen, Jonathan Ouellet, Lindley A Winslow
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:00PM - 3:15PM		MN.00005: KamLAND-Zen Azusa Gando
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:15PM - 3:30PM		MN.00006: CANDLES Collaboration Progress Update and Future Prospects Temuge Batpurev
Saturday, October 27, 2018 3:30PM - 3:45PM		MN.00007: CUORE Measurement of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay Christopher Davis
(Author Not Attending)		MN.00008: Cherenkov and scintillation light separation in water-based liquid scintillator with the CHESS experiment Gabriel Orebi Gann, Javier Caravaca, Benjamin J Land