Name: CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
Start: 2018-05-28T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2018-06-03T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center

CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

from Monday, 28 May 2018 (14:00) to Sunday, 3 June 2018 (13:00)

Monday, 28 May 2018

16:00 Open 16:00 – 20:00
Open 16:00 – 20:00
16:00 - 20:00
Room: East Foyer
Tuesday, 29 May 2018

07:00 Open 07:00 – 18:00
Open 07:00 – 18:00
07:00 - 08:00
Room: East Foyer
08:00 Opening | Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity | Special Topic
Opening | Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity | Special Topic
08:00 - 09:50
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

08:00 Opening - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

08:05 New Results from the Dark Energy Survey and the South Pole Telescope - Eric Baxter (University of Pennsylvania)

08:40 Theories of Cosmic Acceleration - Austin Joyce (Columbia University)

09:15 Recent Developments in the Proton Radius Puzzle - Helene Fleurbaey (NIST)
09:50 Break
Break
09:50 - 10:10
10:10 Physics at High Energies | QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics
Physics at High Energies | QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics
10:10 - 12:30
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 Frontiers in Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Sally Dawson (BNL)

10:45 Latest LHC Results - Petar Maksimovic (Johns Hopkins University)

11:20 Recent Progress in Hadron Spectroscopy Using Lattice QCD - Jozef Dudek (William & Mary / Jefferson Lab)

11:55 Recent Results from GlueX - Justin Stevens (William & Mary)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Parallel 1 — Dark Matter and Hadronic Systems
Parallel 1 — Dark Matter and Hadronic Systems
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

14:00 Dark Matter Interpretation of the Neutron Decay Anomaly - Bartosz Fornal (University of California, San Diego)

14:20 Search for Dark Matter Decay of the Free Neutron from the UCNA Experiment: $n \to \chi+e^+e^-$ - Christopher Swank (Caltech)

14:40 Dark Decay of the Neutron - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)

15:00 Composite Dark Matter - Enrico Rinaldi (RIKEN-BNL)

15:20 Sexaquark Dark Matter - Glennys Farrar (NYU)
Parallel 1 — Rare Decays
Parallel 1 — Rare Decays
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

14:00 Rare Decays Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Gerco Onderwater (University of Groningen)

14:30 $B\to \pi\ell\ell$ and $B\to K\ell\ell$ Decay Form Factors from Lattice QCD - Yuzhi Liu (Indiana University Bloomington)

15:00 Search for LNV by the NA48 Experiment - Cristina Biino (INFN Torino)

15:20 Search for $K^+\to \pi^+ \nu\nu$ at CERN - Bob Velghe (TRIUMF)
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Mass and Astrophysical Neutrinos
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Mass and Astrophysical Neutrinos
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

14:00 The KATRIN Neutrino Mass Measurement: Experiment, Status, and Outlook - Gregg Franklin (Carnegie Mellon University)

14:20 Project 8: Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy, a New Technique in Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement - Ali Ashtari Esfahani (University of Washington)

14:40 Recent Borexino Measurements of Solar Neutrinos from the pp-Chains with Prospects for Detection of CNO Neutrinos - Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)

15:00 Solar and Supernova Neutrino Detection in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - Erin Conley (Duke University)

15:20 The Myriad Wonders and Challenges of Gd-Loading in WC Detectors - Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU/UC Irvine)
Parallel 1 — Neutron-Rich Matter and the EOS
Parallel 1 — Neutron-Rich Matter and the EOS
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

14:00 Laboratory Probes of the Neutron-Matter Equation of State - Betty Tsang (Michigan State University)

14:20 Overview of Experimental Data on the Neutron-Matter Equation of State and the Neutron Skins of $^{48}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb - Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:40 Neutron Skins and Neutron Star Properties - Farrooh Fattoyev (Indiana University)

15:00 Nuclear-Matter Equation of State from Chiral Effective Field Theory - Christian Drischler (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:20 Constraining Ab Initio Models and the Nuclear Force with Rare Isotopes - Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Astrophysics
Parallel 1 — Neutrino Astrophysics
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

14:00 Astrophysical Neutrinos from IceCube - Spencer Klein

14:20 Results from ANITA - Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago / KICP)

14:40 Precision Constraints on Nuclear and Neutrino Reactions via Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Mark Paris (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:00 Neutrinos from Beta Processes in Presupernovae - Kelly Patton (University of Washington/Institute for Nuclear Theory)

15:20 Multi-Angle Simulations of Matter-Neutrino Resonance - Alexey Vlasenko (North Carolina State University)
Parallel 1 — Standard Model Tests | Theory
Parallel 1 — Standard Model Tests | Theory
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

14:00 Studying the Electroweak Sector with the ATLAS Detector - Margherita Spalla (Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich)

14:30 Recent Developments in Higgs Physics Precision Calculations - Tobias Neumann (Illinois Tech / Fermilab)

14:55 Neutrino Masses from a Pseudo-Dirac Bino and Its LHC Implications - Seyda Ipek (UC Irvine)

15:20 Modification of Higgs Pair Production at the LHC - Aniket Joglekar (UC Riverside)
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Parallel 2 — Axions and Light Mass Dark Matter
Parallel 2 — Axions and Light Mass Dark Matter
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

16:10 Experimental Signatures of Ultra-Light Dark Matter - Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)

16:30 Recent Results from the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) - Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab)

16:50 Status and Future Plans for the HAYSTAC Experiment - Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)

17:10 DM Radio: An Optimized Resonant Search for Axion and Hidden-Photon Dark Matter - Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Stanford University)

17:30 ABRACADABRA: A New Approach to the Search for Axion Dark Matter - Jonathan Ouellet

17:50 Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium - Daniel McKinsey

18:10 The Light Dark Matter eXperiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Parallel 2 — LFU/CLF Violation
Parallel 2 — LFU/CLF Violation
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

16:10 The MEG Experiment: Run I Final Results and Preparation for Run II - Terence Libeiro (UCI)

16:40 The Mu2e Experiment - Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)

17:10 PEN Experiment: a Precise Test of Lepton Universality - Dinko Pocanic (University of Virginia)

17:30 Improved Search for Heavy Neutrinos and a Test of Lepton Universality in the Decay $\pi \to e \nu$ - Richard Mischke (TRIUMF)

17:50 RD and RD*: Theoretical Developments - Ryotaro Watanabe (University of Montreal)

18:10 Diagnosing New Physics with Lepton Universality Violation and Lepton Flavor Violation - Alakabha datta (University of Mississippi)
Parallel 2 — Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Parallel 2 — Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

16:10 First $0\nu\beta\beta$ Decay Search Results from CUORE and Status of CUPID R&D - Bradford Welliver (LBNL)

16:40 Status and Initial Results of the Majorana Demonstrator - Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)

17:10 LEGEND: The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay - Jordan Myslik (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:30 Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200 - Manuel Weber (Stanford University)

17:50 Status and Future for the NEXT Collaboration in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - Sereres Johnston (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:10 Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with SNO+ - Vincent Fischer (UC Davis)
Parallel 2 — Higgs Physics
Parallel 2 — Higgs Physics
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

16:10 Measurements and Searches of Higgs Boson Decays to Two Fermions - Tatsuya MASUBUCHI (The University of Tokyo, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics)

16:30 Evidence for Higgs Boson Production in Association with a $t\bar{t}$ Pair - Jannik Geisen (II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen)

16:55 Measurement of Cross Sections and Properties of the Higgs Boson in Decays to Bosons Using the ATLAS Detector - Lucrezia Stella Bruni (NIKHEF)

17:20 Searches for Rare and Non-Standard Model Decays of the Higgs Boson - Elliot Reynolds (University of Birmingham)

17:45 Precision Measurements with Di-Bosons at the LHC - Da Liu (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:10 Heavy Higgs Search in the Models with Vectorlike Fermions - Seodong Shin (University of Chicago / Yonsei University)
Parallel 2 — Heavy Spectroscopy
Parallel 2 — Heavy Spectroscopy
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

16:10 Model Independent Constraints on $R(J/\psi)$ - Henry Lamm (University of Maryland)

16:30 Implication of Chiral Symmetry on the Heavy-Light Spectroscopy - Meng-Lin DU (Helmholtz-Institut f\"ur Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universit\"at Bonn)

17:00 Precise Measurement of the $D^\star(2010)^+ - D^+$ Mass Difference - Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

17:20 Dibaryon Searches in Decuplet Baryons from Lattice QCD - Shinya Gongyo (RIKEN Nishina Center, RIKEN)

17:50 Single-Top Production in the Standard Model and Beyond - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)

18:10 Measurement of Polarization Observables in the Reaction $\gamma p \to K^+ \Lambda$ - Shankar Adhikari (Florida International University)
Parallel 2 — Nucleon and Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments
Parallel 2 — Nucleon and Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

16:10 EDMs: Theory Overview - Emanuele Mereghetti (LANL)

16:30 Worldwide Search for a Neutron EDM - brad filippone (caltech)

16:50 Towards TUCAN’s Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment - Wolfgang Schreyer (TRIUMF)

17:10 Status of the Storage Ring Proton EDM Experiment - Selcuk Haciomeroglu (Institute for Basic Science, Korea)

17:30 The Radium-225 Experiment - Matthew Dietrich (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:50 Progress on the Nucleon EDM in Lattice QCD - Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)

18:10 Search for Time Reversal Invariance Violation in Resonances of Compound Nuclei Accessible Using Epithermal Neutrons - Libertad Barrón-Palos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
18:30 RECEPTION
RECEPTION
18:30 - 19:30
Wednesday, 30 May 2018

07:30 Open 07:30 – 17:30
Open 07:30 – 17:30
07:30 - 08:00
Room: East Foyer
08:00 Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix | Special Topic
Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix | Special Topic
08:00 - 09:45
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

08:00 Lepton Universality Violation - Gerco Onderwater (University of Groningen)

08:35 Experimental Status of $V_{ub}/V_{cb}$ and the CKM Angle $\gamma$ - Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

09:10 Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton by the Qweak Collaboration - Kent Paschke (University of Virginia)
09:45 Break
Break
09:45 - 10:10
10:10 Precision Physics at High Intensities | Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
Precision Physics at High Intensities | Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction
10:10 - 12:30
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 Electromagnetic Properties of Antihydrogen and the Antiproton: Recent Results from ALPHA and BASE - Daniel Maxwell (Swansea University)

10:45 Symmetries and Interactions from Lattice QCD - Amy Nicholson (UNC Chapel Hill)

11:20 NPDGamma: The Final Chapter - Nadia Fomin (University of Tennessee)

11:55 Standard Model Tests in Neutron and Nuclear Beta Decay - Martin Gonzalez-Alonso (CERN)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Parallel 3 — The Early Universe
Parallel 3 — The Early Universe
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

14:00 Inflation Ends, What is Next? - Mustafa Amin (Rice University)

14:20 Using Microhalos to Probe the Universe's First Second - Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

14:40 Cosmology with a Helical Flavor - Mohamed Anber (Lewis & Clark College)

15:00 Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Interactions - Vera Gluscevic (Institute for Advanced Study)

15:20 Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Diverse Galactic Rotation Curves - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Riverside)
Parallel 3 — Accelerator Searches for Dark Matter
Parallel 3 — Accelerator Searches for Dark Matter
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

14:00 Dark Matter Searches with the ATLAS Detector - Young-Kee Kim (Chicago University)

14:30 Mono-X Searches for Dark Matter with the CMS Detector - Siddharth Narayanan (MIT)

15:00 Searches for Dark Matter Mediators with the ATLAS Detector - Peter McNamara (The University of Melbourne)

15:20 Searches for Dark Matter Mediators with the CMS Detector - Javier Duarte (Fermilab)
Parallel 3 — Belle / Belle II and the CKM Matrix
Parallel 3 — Belle / Belle II and the CKM Matrix
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

14:00 Introduction to the CKM Matrix - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

14:30 Combined Measurement of the CP Violating Angle $\beta$ by the BaBar and Belle Experiments - Tomonari Miyashita (Caltech)

15:00 Determination of $V_{ub}$ and $V_{cb}$ - Matic Lubej (Jozef Stefan Institute)

15:20 First Collisions at Belle II - Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)
Parallel 3 — Reactor Neutrinos
Parallel 3 — Reactor Neutrinos
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

14:00 Reactor Neutrino Oscillation at Daya Bay - Matthew Kramer

14:30 Latest Results of the Double Chooz Experiment - Philipp Soldin (RWTH Aachen University Germany)

15:00 PROSPECT: a Precision Reactor Oscillation and SPECTrum Short-Baseline Antineutrino Experiment - Bryce Littlejohn (IIT)

15:20 Accelerator and Reactor Complementarity in Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering - Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University)
Parallel 3 — Nuclear Astrophysics
Parallel 3 — Nuclear Astrophysics
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

14:00 Stellar Explosions in the Lab: Measurements of Key Nuclear Reactions Driving Nucleosynthesis - Greg Christian (Texas A&M University)

14:20 Nuclear Astrophysics Underground: Status & Future - Frank Strieder (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)

14:40 Improving Astrophysical Nuclear Rates with New Many-Body and Fewer-Body Reaction Models - Kenneth Nollett (San Diego State University)

15:00 Probing Explosive Nucleosynthesis with TwinSol Measurements - Dan Bardayan (University of Notre Dame)

15:20 Sensitivity Study for the $^{12}$C($\alpha,\gamma$)$^{16}$O Astrophysical Reaction Rate - Roy Holt (California Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory)
Parallel 3 — g-2
Parallel 3 — g-2
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

14:00 The Commissioning Run Update of the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab - Ran Hong (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:20 Hadronic Contributions to Muon g-2 and Spin Structure Functions - Vladimir Pascalutsa (University of Mainz)

14:40 Dispersive Analysis of Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering and the Muon's (g-2) - Marc Vanderhaeghen (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

15:00 Hadronic Matrix Elements for Muon g–2 in Lattice QCD - Aaron Meyer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:20 Measurement of Hadronic Cross Sections at BESIII - Christoph Florian Redmer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Parallel 4 — 21 cm Cosmology | LIGO
Parallel 4 — 21 cm Cosmology | LIGO
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

16:10 Searching for Dark Matter at the Cosmic Dawn - Julian Munoz (Harvard University)

16:30 A Particle Physicist's Perspective on the EDGES Anomaly - Samuel McDermott (FNAL)

16:50 Realizing the Promise of 21 cm Cosmology with HERA - Josh Dillon (UC Berkeley)

17:10 21 cm Dark Energy Cosmology with CHIME - Laura Newburgh (Yale University)

17:30 Gravitational-Wave Transient Astronomy on the Rise - Chris Pankow (Northwestern University)

17:50 Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? - Simeon Bird (UCR)

18:10 The Cosmic Origin of the Heavy Elements: Implications from the Neutron Star Merger GW170817 - Daniel Siegel (Columbia University)
Parallel 4 — Dark Photons
Parallel 4 — Dark Photons
16:10 - 18:50
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

16:10 Hidden Sectors and Dark Photons - Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati)

16:30 Searches for Hidden Sectors with BABAR - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

16:50 Direct Search for Dark Photons and Dark Higgs with the SeaQuest Spectrometer at Fermilab - Sho Uemura (LANL)

17:10 The Beam Dump eXperiment - Mariangela Bondi' (INFN - Sez. Catania)

17:30 Search for Light Dark Matter with the MESA Accelerator - Luca Doria (University of Mainz)

17:50 Searching for New Forces with Dark Light - Ross Corliss (MIT)

18:10 Resonance Search for a Heavy Photon with the Heavy Photon Search Experiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

18:30 The APEX Experiment at Jefferson Lab: A Search for a New Vector Boson - Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)
Parallel 4 — Higher Energy Neutrinos
Parallel 4 — Higher Energy Neutrinos
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

16:10 Recent Long-Baseline Neutrino Mixing Results from NOvA - Kirk Bays (California Institute of Technology)

16:40 Neutrino Oscillation Results from the T2K Experiment - Cristovao Vilela (Stony Brook University)

17:10 The Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Program at Fermilab - Jyoti Joshi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:30 Characterizing Single-Phase LArTPC Detector Performance with MicroBooNE - Christopher Barnes (University of Michigan)

17:50 Event Reconstruction Techniques for ANNIE Phase II - Jingbo Wang (UC Davis)

18:10 Theia: A Multi-Purpose Water-Based Liquid Scintillator Detector - Vincent Fischer (UC Davis)
Parallel 4 — Color Transparency | EMC Effect | Coulomb Sum Rule
Parallel 4 — Color Transparency | EMC Effect | Coulomb Sum Rule
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

16:10 Understanding the EMC Effect Through Tagged Processes with ALERT - Whitney Armstrong (Argonne National Lab)

16:40 Update on the Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Experiments - Axel Schmidt (MIT)

17:10 New Measurements of the EMC Effect in Hall-C at Jefferson Lab - Eric Pooser (Jefferson Lab)

17:35 The Search for the Onset of Color Transparency - Dipangkar Dutta (Mississippi State University)

18:00 The Search for the Color Transparency in Hall C at Jefferson Lab - Holly Szumila-Vance (Jefferson Lab)
Parallel 4 — Nuclear PDFs and Heavy Ion Physics
Parallel 4 — Nuclear PDFs and Heavy Ion Physics
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

16:10 Recent Progress in Nuclear Parton Distributions - Maria Zurita (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:40 Nuclear PDF, Small $x$ Physics Results at RHIC - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Lab)

17:10 Cold-QCD Physics of the STAR Forward Upgrade - James Drachenberg (Lamar University)

17:40 EIC at Small-$x$: Connections to p+p/A & A+A Physics at RHIC & LHC - Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Lab)

18:10 Hadron in Jet Fragmentation - Felix Ringer
Parallel 4 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model I
Parallel 4 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model I
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

16:10 Search for Di-Higgs Production - Arnaud Ferrari (Uppsala University)

16:30 Searches for Non-Standard Model Higgs Bosons - Ana Elena Dumitriu (IFIN,CPPM)

16:50 Highlights from SUSY Searches with the CMS Detector - James Hirschauer (FNAL)

17:10 Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Third-Generation Quarks - Siyuan Sun (University of Michigan)

17:30 ATLAS Searches for Diboson Resonances - Ines Ochoa (Columbia University)

17:50 Mining the LHC Data for Anomalies - Angelo Monteux (UC Irvine)

18:10 Theoretical Results for Charged-Higgs Production - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)
Parallel 4 — Beta Decays
Parallel 4 — Beta Decays
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

16:10 Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using a Magneto-Gravitational Trap - Nathan Callahan (Indiana Univeristy)

16:30 Measurement of the Electron-Antineutrino Correlation in Neutron Beta Decay: aCORN Experiment - Fred Wietfeldt (Tulane University)

16:50 New Results from the UCNA Experiment - Eric Dees (NCSU)

17:10 Beta Decay Asymmetry Measurements with Trapped Atoms - Dan Melconian (Texas A&M University)

17:30 Nuclear Beta Decays and CKM Unitarity - John C. Hardy (Texas A&M University)

17:50 Recent Status of Weak-Interaction Tests via Precision Superallowed Beta-Decay Measurements at TRIUMF - Kyle Leach (Colorado School of Mines)

18:10 New Evaluation of the $\gamma W$-box Correction to $0^+-0^+$ Nuclear $\beta$-Decay and $V_{ud}$ Extraction - Mikhail Gorshteyn (Mainz University)
Thursday, 31 May 2018

07:30 Open 07:30 – 17:30
Open 07:30 – 17:30
07:30 - 08:00
Room: East Foyer
08:00 Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions | Special Topic
Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions | Special Topic
08:00 - 09:45
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

08:00 Recent Results on Heavy Flavor Production in High Energy Nuclear Collisions - Xin Dong

08:35 Status of Searches for Chiral Magnetic Effects in Nuclear Collisions - Wei Li (Rice University)

09:10 Physics with an Electron-Ion Collider - Ernst Sichtermann
09:45 Break
Break
09:45 - 10:10
10:10 Dark Matter | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
Dark Matter | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
10:10 - 12:30
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 Recent Results from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)

10:45 New Directions in the Search for Light and Ultralight Dark Matter - Tongyan Lin (UCSD)

11:20 Coherent Scattering and the Flavor Physics and Detection of Supernova Neutrinos - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

11:55 IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole - Francis Halzen (WIPAC, UW-Madison)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Parallel 5 — Light Mass Dark Matter
Parallel 5 — Light Mass Dark Matter
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

14:00 Supernova 1987A Constraints on Sub-GeV Particles - Samuel McDermott (FNAL)

14:20 Initial Dark Matter Results from the SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detectors - Francisco Ponce (Stanford University)

14:40 Status and Prospects of CDEX-10 - qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

15:00 SENSEI Experiment for Direct Search of Light Dark Matter - Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)

15:20 keV Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter and the 3.5 keV Line - Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)
Parallel 5 — Double Beta Decay with Final-State Detection | Low-Energy Neutrino Scattering
Parallel 5 — Double Beta Decay with Final-State Detection | Low-Energy Neutrino Scattering
14:00 - 15:40
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

14:00 Status of the nEXO Experiment - Shuoxing Wu (Stanford University)

14:20 Demonstration of Single Barium Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Using Single Molecule Fluorescent Imaging - David Nygren (University of Texas at Arlington) David Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:40 Overview of Decay-At-Rest Neutrino Sources - Daniel Winklehner (MIT)

15:00 CEvNS Observation at the SNS with the COHERENT Experiment - Ivan Tolstukhin (Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA)

15:20 Recent MiniBooNE Results: First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions and a Search for Vector Portal Dark Matter - Rory Fitzpatrick (University of Michigan)
Parallel 5 — Short-Range Correlations
Parallel 5 — Short-Range Correlations
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

14:00 New Studies of the EMC Effect and Short-Range Correlations - Or Hen (MIT)

14:25 Isospin Dependence of the EMC Effect and Nucleon Short-Range Correlations - Barak Schmookler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:50 Short-Range Correlations - Zhihong Ye (Argonne National Lab)

15:15 New Results on Three-Nucleon Short Range Correlations - Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)
Parallel 5 — Parton Helicities and the Spin Sum Rule
Parallel 5 — Parton Helicities and the Spin Sum Rule
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

14:00 Glue Spin from Lattice QCD - Keh-Fei Liu (University of Kentucky)

14:30 Overview of Longitudinal Spin Physics Results from RHIC - Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:00 Nucleon Spin Structure Measurements at JLab - Alexandre Deur (Jefferson Lab)

15:20 Hadron Multiplicity and Fragmentation in SIDIS - Nicolas PIERRE (CEA Saclay)
Parallel 5 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model II
Parallel 5 — Physics Beyond the Standard Model II
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

14:00 Searches for New Phenomena in Leptonic Final States Using the ATLAS Detector - Sebastien Rettie (The University of British Columbia)

14:30 Searches for BSM Physics with the CMS Detector - Sunil Somalwar (Rutgers University/Dept of Physics)

15:00 EFT for Higgs Physics - Chris Murphy (Brookhaven)

15:20 Probing Hidden Sectors at the LHC - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)
Parallel 5 — γ–γ | Form Factors at High q²
Parallel 5 — γ–γ | Form Factors at High q²
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

14:00 Two-Photon Effects in Elastic Nucleon Form Factors - Marc Vanderhaeghen (University Mainz)

14:40 High $Q^2$ Elastic Form Factor Program at Jefferson Lab - Andrew Puckett (University of Connecticut)

15:10 Proton Polarizabilities from a Partial-Wave Analysis of Compton Scattering Data / Sum Rules Connecting Real and Virtual Compton Scattering on the Nucleon - Vladimir Pascalutsa (University of Mainz)
Parallel 5 — Small Systems and the Limits of the Quark Gluon Plasma
Parallel 5 — Small Systems and the Limits of the Quark Gluon Plasma
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

14:00 Influence of the QCD Equation of State by System Size - Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (Rutgers University)

14:20 CMS Results on Small Systems - Zhenyu Chen (Rice University)

14:40 PHENIX Results on Collectivity in Small Systems - Sylvia Morrow (Vanderbilt University)

15:00 Signatures of Hydrodynamic Behavior in Small Collision Systems - Giuliano Giacalone (IPhT Saclay)

15:20 Current Status of Hydrodynamic Modeling from $p$+$p$ to Heavy Ions - Ryan Weller (MIT)
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Parallel 6 — Cosmological Surveys
Parallel 6 — Cosmological Surveys
16:10 - 18:40
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

16:10 Recent Results from the Dark Energy Survey - Eric Baxter (University of Pennsylvania)

16:40 The eBOSS Survey: Recent Results and Prospects - Anand Raichoor (EPFL)

17:10 Cosmology with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope - Simone Aiola (Princeton University)

17:40 BICEP/Keck: Constraining the Primordial Gravitational-Wave Signal with CMB Polarization Observations from the South Pole - Lorenzo Moncelsi (California Institute of Technology)

18:10 The Simons Observatory and CMB-Stage IV - Nicholas Galitzki (University of California, San Diego)
Parallel 6 — High Mass Dark Matter
Parallel 6 — High Mass Dark Matter
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

16:10 Searching for Ultra-Heavy Dark Matter - Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)

16:30 Darkside Status and Prospects - Luca Pagani (UC Davis)

16:50 Results and Plans for the PICO Dark Matter Bubble Chamber - Anthony Noble (Queens University)

17:10 The Latest Analyses of the LUX Dark Matter Project - Matthew Szydagis (U Albany)

17:30 LUX Sensitivity to Effective Field Theory Interactions - Nicole Larsen (University of Chicago / Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)

17:50 Position Reconstruction Using Photon Timing for the DEAP-3600 Liquid Argon Dark Matter Experiment - Yu Chen (University of Alberta)

18:10 COSINE-100 and Tests of DAMA - Reina Maruyama (Yale University)
Parallel 6 — LBNE | Neutrino Cross Sections
Parallel 6 — LBNE | Neutrino Cross Sections
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

16:10 Overview of DUNE - Jianming Bian (UC Irvine)

16:40 Measurements of Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering from 0.1–10 GeV - Christopher Marshall

17:10 The CAPTAIN Program: Status and Plans - Christopher Mauger (University of Pennsylvania)

17:30 Neutrino Scattering Studies in MicroBooNE - Vassili Papavassiliou (New Mexico State University)

17:50 Hadron Production Measurements for Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments with NA61/SHINE - Yoshikazu Nagai (University of Colorado Boulder)

18:10 Isolating Neutrino Cross Section Uncertainties with Theory - Aaron Meyer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Parallel 6 — Nucleon/Nuclear Structure and Fundamental Symmetries
Parallel 6 — Nucleon/Nuclear Structure and Fundamental Symmetries
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

16:10 The Nucleon Axial Coupling from Quantum Chromodynamics - Chia Cheng Chang (LBL)

16:40 The Nucleon Axial Form Factor from Quantum Chromodynamics - Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Lab)

17:10 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Chiral Effective Field Theory - Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

17:30 Current Status of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Matrix Elements - Javier Menendez (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo)

17:50 Overview of Nuclear Beta Decay Tests of Fundamental Symmetries - Alejandro Garcia (University of Washington)

18:10 Multi-Wire 3D Gas Tracker for Searching New Physics in Nuclear Beta Decay - Dagmara Rozpedzik (Jagiellonian University)
Parallel 6 — Symmetry Tests
Parallel 6 — Symmetry Tests
16:10 - 18:30
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

16:10 Precision Atomic Tests of Physics Beyond the Standard Model - Holger Mueller

16:40 Muon g-2 Experiments at FNAL and J-PARC - Joseph Price (University of Liverpool)

17:10 New Results on Low-Energy Exclusive Hadronic Cross Sections from BaBar and Implications for g-2 of the Muon - Bill GARY (University of California, Riverside)

17:30 Baryogenesis via Particle–Antiparticle Oscillations - Seyda Ipek (University of California Irvine)

17:50 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - Marc Bergevin (LLNL)

18:10 Neutron-Antineutron Conversion to Search for B-L Violation - Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)
Parallel 6 — Particle Astrophysics
Parallel 6 — Particle Astrophysics
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

16:10 Latest Results from the AMS Experiment on the International Space Station - francesca giovacchini (ciemat)

16:40 New Results and Update on Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays - Glennys Farrar (NYU)

17:10 Recent Highlights from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Andrea Albert (SLAC)

17:30 IceCube/DeepCore Results on Neutrino Properties Using Atmospheric Neutrinos - Feifei Huang (The Pennsylvania State University)

17:50 Recent Status and Future Plans for the China JinPing Underground Laboratory - Qian Yue (Tsinghua University)

18:10 NuSTAR and Super-Eddington Accretion onto Neutron Stars - Murray Brightman (Caltech)
Parallel 6 — Heavy Ions at the LHC
Parallel 6 — Heavy Ions at the LHC
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

16:10 Overview of Recent Results from the ATLAS Experiment - Brian Cole (Columbia University)

16:40 Overview of Recent Heavy Ion Results from the CMS Experiment - Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez (UC Davis)

17:10 ALICE Upgrades for Run3 and Physics Projections - Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla)

17:30 Parton Shower Modification Studied with Jet Substructure in ALICE - Davide Caffarri (NIKHEF - Amsterdam)

17:50 $b$-Jet Tagging Performance with ALICE - Barbara Trzeciak (Utrecht Univeristy)

18:10 The Application of Deep Learning to Event-by-Event Simulations of Relativistic Hydrodynamics - LongGang Pang (UC Berkeley and LBNL)
Friday, 1 June 2018

08:00 EXCURSION
EXCURSION
08:00 - 13:30

13:30 Open 13:30 – 17:30
Open 13:30 – 17:30
13:30 - 14:00
Room: East Foyer
14:00 Parallel 7 — Dark Matter in Astrophysics
Parallel 7 — Dark Matter in Astrophysics
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

14:00 Dark Matter Interpretation of the Galactic Center Gamma Ray Excess - Ryan Keeley (University of California Irvine)

14:30 GAPS: a New Cosmic-Ray Antimatter Experiment - Sean Quinn (University of California, Los Angeles)

15:00 Cosmological Bounds on Non-Abelian Dark Forces - Lindsay Forestell (TRIUMF, UBC)

15:20 Signatures of Superradiant Axions from Lasing and Binary Merger Events - Srimoyee Sen (University of Washington)
Parallel 7 — Lattice QCD | Mixing | Decays
Parallel 7 — Lattice QCD | Mixing | Decays
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

14:00 Short-Distance Matrix Elements for $D^0$-Meson Mixing from $N_f=2+1$ Lattice QCD - Chia Cheng Chang (LBL)

14:30 $B$ and $D$ Meson Leptonic Decay Constants and Quark Masses from Four-Flavor Lattice QCD - Carleton DeTar (University of Utah)

15:00 Semileptonic $B_s$ Decays - Oliver Witzel (University of Colorado Boulder)

15:20 Unify the SU(3) Topological Diagram and Irreducible Representation Amplitudes for B Decays - XIAO-GANG HE (NTU/SJTU)
Parallel 7 — The QCD–Nuclear Structure Interface
Parallel 7 — The QCD–Nuclear Structure Interface
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

14:00 Status of Baryon-Baryon Interactions from Lattice QCD - Silas Beane (University of Washington)

14:30 HOBET: The SM as an Effective Theory and its Direct Matching to LQCD - Kenneth McElvain

15:00 Effective-Field-Theory Extrapolations of Lattice-QCD Predictions for Light Nuclei - Johannes Kirscher (The City College of New York)

15:20 New Developments in Lattice Effective Field Theory - Dean Lee (Michigan State University)
Parallel 7 — Unpolarized PDFs
Parallel 7 — Unpolarized PDFs
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

14:00 Unpolarised Parton Distribution Functions Today: Needs, Achievements and Challenges - Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)

14:30 Parton Distribution Functions with Intrinsic Charm and Other News from CTEQ - Marco Guzzi (Kennesaw State University)

14:50 Probing the Nucleon and Nucleus Structures with Drell-Yan Process Induced by a 120 GeV/c Proton Beam - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)

15:10 Electroweak, Jet and Heavy Flavor Probes in Proton-Lead Collisions at the LHC - Soumya Mohapatra (Columbia University)
Parallel 7 — Muons and Electrons
Parallel 7 — Muons and Electrons
14:00 - 15:40
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

14:00 Probing BSM and High-$x$ Physics with SoLID at JLab - Paul Souder (Syracuse University)

14:20 Physics with Electroweak Probes at the Electron-Ion Collider - Nils Feege (Stony Brook University)

14:40 Latest Updates from the AlCap Experiment - Andrew Edmonds

15:00 Muon Capture as a Probe of the Weak Axial Current - Peter Kammel (CENPA, UW Seattle)

15:20 Antimatter Gravity with Muonium - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Parallel 7 — Weak Parameters
Parallel 7 — Weak Parameters
14:00 - 15:40
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

14:00 Review of the First $W$ Boson Mass Measurement with the ATLAS Detector - Fabrice Balli (CEA Saclay)

14:20 The Weak Charge: From Atoms to the Z-Pole - Mikhail Gorshteyn (University of Mainz)

14:40 Prospects for New Atomic Parity Violation Experiments - Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)

15:00 Parity Violating Electron Scattering Experiments for an Ultra Precise Determination of the Weak Mixing Angle at Low Energies - Frank Maas (Helmholtz Institute Mainz)

15:20 High Precision Extraction of $A_{FB}$ at the LHC - Arie Bodek (University of Rochester)
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Parallel 8 — Neutrinos and Symmetries
Parallel 8 — Neutrinos and Symmetries
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

16:10 Sterile Neutrinos in the Early Universe - George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

16:35 Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

17:00 Detecting CP Violation in the Presence of Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions - Jeffrey Hyde (Goucher College)

17:25 Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Nucleosynthesis - Akif Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17:50 Collective Neutrino Oscillations in the Presence of Collisions - Shashank Shalgar (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

18:10 Neutrino Flavor Transformation and the Cosmic Lepton Asymmetry - Luke Johns (UC San Diego)
Parallel 8 — Ab Initio Forces, Models, and Nuclei at Weak Binding
Parallel 8 — Ab Initio Forces, Models, and Nuclei at Weak Binding
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

16:10 Current Status of Nuclear Forces from Chiral EFT - Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr-University Bochum)

16:40 Microscopic Shell Model Interactions and Effective Operators - Scott Bogner (Michigan State University)

17:10 Experimental Tests of Ab Initio Calculations of Nuclear Structure - Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut)

17:30 Current Status of Very-Large-Basis Hamiltonian Diagonalizations for Nuclear Physics - Calvin Johnson (San Diego State University)

17:50 Prospects for ab-initio Calculations of Nuclei with Quantum Computing - Eugene Dumitrescu (ORNL)

18:10 Weakly Bound Neutron-Rich Nuclei and Cosmic Phenomena - Ushasi Datta (Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics)
Parallel 8 — Neutron Stars
Parallel 8 — Neutron Stars
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

16:10 Sites of the r-process: supernovae and mergers: Recent Successes and Current Issues - Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:40 Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 - Benjamin Lackey (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

17:10 Numerical Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers - Francois Foucart (University of New Hampshire)

17:30 Applications of Chiral Forces to Nuclear Matter and Neutron Stars - Christian Drischler (University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:50 Studying Lanthanide Production in r-Process Nucleosynthesis - Nicole Vassh (University of Notre Dame)

18:10 R-Process Experiments with Unstable Isotope Beams - Alfredo Estrade (Central Michigan University)
Parallel 8 — Transverse Spin Structure and Fragmentation
Parallel 8 — Transverse Spin Structure and Fragmentation
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

16:10 TMDs - Transverse Connections Between Nuclear and Particle Physics - Andrea Signori (Jefferson Lab)

16:40 Transverse Spin Related Measurements at RHIC - Oleg Eyser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:10 Transverse Momentum Distributions: Recent News from HERMES and COMPASS - Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)

17:30 First Extraction of Transversity from Data on Lepton-Hadron Scattering and Hadronic Collisions - Marco Radici (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)

17:50 Light Quark Fragmentation Studies at the B-Factories - Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)

18:10 Achievements and Open Issues in the Determination of Fragmentation Functions - Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Parallel 8 — Light Spectroscopy | Perturbative QCD
Parallel 8 — Light Spectroscopy | Perturbative QCD
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Ocotillo Room
Contributions

16:10 Analysis of $\eta\pi^0$ and $\eta^{^{_/}}\pi^0$ Systems at GlueX - Alexander Austregesilo (Jefferson Lab)

16:40 Toward Precise Determination of Resonant Hadron Scattering Amplitudes from Lattice QCD - John Bulava (CP3-Origins, U. of Southern Denmark)

17:10 A Lattice QCD Study of the $\rho$ Resonance - Luka Leskovec (University of Arizona)

17:35 Measurement of Transition Form Factors at BESIII - Christoph Florian Redmer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

18:00 Unitary Reaction Models and PWA Formalisms - Alessandro Pilloni (Jefferson Lab)
Parallel 8 — Jet Substructure and Quenching / Flavor
Parallel 8 — Jet Substructure and Quenching / Flavor
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

16:10 Jet Measurements in Heavy Ion Collisions - Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

16:40 The Theory of Jets in Dense Matter - Abhijit Majumder (Wayne State University)

17:10 Using Photon-Jet Analyses to Probe the QGP - Saskia Mioduszewski (Texas A&M University)

17:30 Jet Mass for the Inclusive Jet Production at the LHC - Kyle Lee (Stony Brook University)

17:50 Heavy Flavor Jet Quenching at RHIC and LHC Energies - Shanshan Cao (Wayne State University)

18:10 Energy and System Dependent Heavy Flavor Measurements at PHENIX at RHIC - Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Lab)
18:30
18:30 - 19:30
Room: East Foyer
Contributions

18:30 New Techniques in the ANITA-IV Analysis - Andrew Ludwig (University of Chicago)

18:30 Neutrino Burst-Generated Gravitational Radiation from Collapsing Supermassive Stars - Jung-Tsung Li (UC San Diego)

18:30 Search for Anomalous Decay of the Free Neutron Using the UCNA Experiment: $n \to \chi + e^+ + e^-$ - Xuan Sun (California Institute of Technology)

18:30 A New Symmetry of Electroweak Lagrangian - Dmytro Ptashynskyi (Odessa National Polytechnic University)

18:30 Visualizing Invisible Dark Matter Annihilation with the CMB and Matter Power Spectrum - Ran Huo (UC Riverside)

18:30 In-Ice Phased Antenna Arrays for Radiodetection of Energetic Neutrinos - Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago / KICP)

18:30 Composite Higgs from Mass-Split Models - Oliver Witzel (University of Colorado Boulder)

18:30 Demonstration of 3D Micro-Power Readout for Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers - Daniel Dwyer

18:30 Results from MICE: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

18:30 Phases of UV Dark Matter Freeze In - Lindsay Forestell (TRIUMF, UBC)

18:30 Possibilities for Underground Physics in the Pyhäsalmi Mine - Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (University of Jyvaskyla)

18:30 Progress Towards Measurement of the Nuclear Anapole Moment of Ba-137 Using BaF Molecules - Sidney Cahn (Yale University)

18:30 Using X-Ray Femtoscope and X-Ray Telescope We Verified that Dark Matter Behaves as Catalyst or as Inhibitor of the Nuclear Reactions - Edward Jimenez (Chemistry Engineering Faculty)

18:30 Lessons from HAWC PWNe Observations: The Diffusion Constant is Not a Constant; Pulsars Remain the Likeliest Sources of the Anomalous Positron Fraction; Cosmic Rays are Trapped for Long Periods of Time in Pockets of Inefficient Diffusion - Nicholas Omahen (University of California, Santa Cruz)

18:30 Introducing the SnowBall Chamber, Supercooled Water for Dark Matter and Neutron Detection - Matthew Szydagis (U Albany)

18:30 Search for a Nuclear Magnetic Quadrupole Moment in $^{173}$Yb - Nick Hutzler (Caltech)

18:30 Half-Lives of the Neutron-Rich $N=82$ Isotopes $^{130}$Cd and $^{131}$In - Ryan Dunlop (University of Guelph)
19:30

19:30 - 21:00
Room: Desert Vista Ballroom
Saturday, 2 June 2018

07:30 Open 07:30 – 17:30
Open 07:30 – 17:30
07:30 - 08:00
Room: East Foyer
08:00 Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing | Special Topic
Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing | Special Topic
08:00 - 09:45
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

08:00 Recent Progress on Double Beta Decay and Latest GERDA Results - Karl Tasso Knoepfle (MPI Kernphysik)

08:35 Neutrino Oscillations - Pedro Machado (Fermilab)

09:10 Fingerprints of the First Stars in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum - Raul Monsalve (Colorado / McGill)
09:45 Break
Break
09:45 - 10:10
10:10 Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects | Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei
Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects | Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei
10:10 - 12:30
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 The EMC Effect – New Insights and Future Studies - David Gaskell (Jefferson Lab)

10:45 Short-Range Correlations in Nuclei - Alexandra Gade (NSCL/MSU)

11:20 Light-Cone Physics and Large-Momentum Effective Field Theory - Yong Zhao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:55 The Structure of the Nucleon - Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC, Department of Physics)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Neutron Star Mergers
Neutron Star Mergers
14:00 - 15:45
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

14:00 LIGO/VIRGO Observations of Neutron Star Merger GW170817 - Jocelyn Read (CSU Fullerton)

14:35 Outflow from Neutron Star Mergers - Kenta Hotokezaka (Princeton University)

15:10 Physics from the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves of a Neutron Star Merger - Daniel Kasen (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
15:45 Break
Break
15:45 - 16:10
16:10 Parallel 9 — Exclusive Physics and Future
Parallel 9 — Exclusive Physics and Future
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Pinon Room
Contributions

16:10 Accessing the Generalized Parton Distributions in the Valence Region at Jefferson Laboratory - Maxime DEFURNE (CEA-Saclay)

16:40 Drell-Yan Physics with Negative Pion Beams and Polarized Proton Targets at COMPASS - Matthias Grosse Perdekamp (UIUC)

17:10 Generalized Parton Distributions of the Deuteron in a Covariant Framework - Adam Freese (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:40 Probing the Strange Sea Quarks with Kaon SIDIS - Fatiha Benmokhtar (Duquesne University)

18:10 Novel Experimental Probes of QCD in SIDIS and $e^+e^-$ Annihilation - Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)
Parallel 9 — LHC Future | Theory
Parallel 9 — LHC Future | Theory
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room
Contributions

16:10 CMS Physics Performance with Precision Timing - Olmo Cerri (Caltech)

16:35 Expected Performance of the Upgraded ATLAS Experiment for HL-LHC - Peilian Liu (UC Berkeley)

17:00 Precision Timing with the CMS Detector - Irene Dutta (Caltech)

17:25 Muon Spectrometer Phase I Upgrade for the ATLAS Experiment: The New Small Wheels Project - Benoit Lefebvre (McGill University)

17:50 Machine Learning for New Physics Searches - Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo (SLAC)

18:10 How a Future Leptonic Collider Will Indirectly Probe Neutralino Dark Matter - Ran Huo (UC Riverside)
Parallel 9 — The Proton Radius Puzzle
Parallel 9 — The Proton Radius Puzzle
16:10 - 18:30
Room: South Foyer | Nopales Room
Contributions

16:10 The Proton Radius Puzzle – Why We All Should Care - Gerald Miller (University of Washington)

16:40 The Rydberg Constant and Proton Size from Atomic Hydrogen - Lothar Maisenbacher (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)

17:10 Data Analysis and Preliminary Results of the Proton Charge Radius Experiment (PRad) at JLab - Weizhi Xiong (Duke University)

17:30 Determination of the Proton’s Charge Radius by Simultaneous Measurement of Electron- and Muon-Proton Elastic Scattering with the MUSE Experiment at PSI - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:50 Lattice QCD and the Proton Radius - Sergey Syritsyn (Stony Brook University)

18:10 Nucleon Form Factors in Dispersively Improved Chiral Effective Theory - Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)
Parallel 9 — QCD Phase Transition | New Instrumentation
Parallel 9 — QCD Phase Transition | New Instrumentation
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Ironwood Room
Contributions

16:10 QCD Phase Diagram - Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

16:40 Lattice QCD Constraints on the QCD Critical Point - Alexei Bazavov (Michigan State University)

17:10 Searching for the QCD Critical Point Through Fluctuations at RHIC - Roli Esha (UCLA)

17:30 What Have We Leant from Quarkonia Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions? - Che-Ming Ko (Texas A&M University)

17:50 The sPHENIX Detector - Ron Soltz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

18:10 The RHIC Beam Energy Scan Phase II Physics and Upgrades - David Tlusty (Rice University)
Parallel 9 — Hadronic Parity Violation | Symmetries in Atoms
Parallel 9 — Hadronic Parity Violation | Symmetries in Atoms
16:10 - 18:30
Room: North Foyer | Kachina Room
Contributions

16:10 Hadronic Parity Violation and the Large-$N_c$ Expansion - Matthias Schindler (University of South Carolina)

16:40 Final Results from the n3He Experiment: Parity Violation in n-$^3$He Capture - Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba)

17:10 Large-Nc HPNC Analyses Post NPDGamma - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

17:30 Lattice QCD for Hadronic Parity Violation - Andre Walker-Loud

17:50 Nuclear Anapole Moments - Sidney Cahn (Yale University)

18:10 Searching for Hadronic CP Violation in Deformed Nuclei with Polar Molecules - Nick Hutzler (Caltech)
20:00 Barry Barish, Caltech "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves"
Barry Barish, Caltech "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves"
20:00 - 21:00
Contributions

20:00 Merging Black Holes and Einstein's Ripples in Space Time: The Story of Advanced LIGO - Barry C. Barish (Caltech)
Sunday, 3 June 2018

07:30 Open 07:30 – 12:00
Open 07:30 – 12:00
07:30 - 08:00
Room: East Foyer
08:00 Conveners' Highlights
Conveners' Highlights
08:00 - 09:45
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

08:00 Physics at High Energies - Stefania Gori (University of Cincinnati) Verena Martinez Outschoorn (UMass Amherst)

08:21 Precision Physics at High Intensities - Aida El-Khadra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Renee Fatemi (University of Kentucky)

08:42 Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing - Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern University)

09:03 Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics - Barry Davids (TRIUMF)

09:24 Nuclear Forces and Structure, NN Correlations, and Medium Effects - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)
09:45 Break
Break
09:45 - 10:10
10:10 Conveners' Highlights
Conveners' Highlights
10:10 - 12:45
Room: East Foyer | Larkspur/Mesquite Rooms
Contributions

10:10 Heavy Flavors and the CKM Matrix - Wolfgang Altmannshofer (University of Cincinnati)

10:31 QCD, Hadron Spectroscopy, and Exotics - Seamus Riordan (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:52 Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei - Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

11:13 Cosmic Physics and Dark Energy, Inflation, and Strong-Field Gravity - Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine)

11:34 Dark Matter - George Fuller (University of California, San Diego)

11:55 Tests of Symmetries and the Electroweak Interaction - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

12:16 Quark Matter and High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions - Wick Haxton (UC Berkeley)

12:37 Closing Remarks - Brendan Casey (Fermilab)