Scientific Program

 
THURSDAY, August 23.

08:30-08:45Welcome and Overview of the workshop
Adam Sarty
SESSION 1: Nucleon Properties (Chair: H. Schmieden, Mainz)
08:45-09:30Overview - Form Factors, Polarizabilities and Sum Rules
L. Tiator (Mainz)
09:30-10:05Nucleon Form Factors - Experimental Status
H. Gao (MIT)
10:05-10:25Coffee Break
10:25-11:00Nucleon Polarizabilities and Spin Sum-rules
S. Hoblit (Brookhaven)
11:00-11:35Virtual Compton Scattering (unpolarized, polarized, out-of-plane)
J. Shaw (U. Massachusetts)
11:35-11:55Results from the GDH experiment at MAMI
A. Thomas (Mainz)
11:55-12:15Meson Retardation in the Two-Body Problem
M. Schwamb (Mainz)
12:15-14:00Lunch
SESSION 2: Pion-Neutron Physics (Chair: A. Sandorfi, Brookhaven)
14:00-14:35Threshold p0 photoproduction from the neutron: d(g, p0 n)
D. Hornidge (Saskatoon/Mainz)
14:35-15:10Overview of chiral predictions for neutral pion photo-/electroproduction off protons, neutrons and deuterons
T. Hemmert (TU Muenchen)
15:10-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-16:05Pion photoproduction from the deuteron in the Delta Region
M. Lucas (Ohio University)
16:05-16:40Dynamical studies of the Delta excitations on the nucleon and deuteron
T.S. Lee (Argonne)
16:40-17:15Coherent p0 electroproduction from the Deuteron
H. Merkel (Mainz)
17:15-17:35The OOPS program at Bates - with a focus on N-D Transition
T. Botto (MIT)
 
FRIDAY, August 24.

SESSION 3: Few-body Physics (Chair: M. Savage, Washington)
08:45-09:20Status of exact nonrelativistic 3N calculations
W. Gloeckle (Bochum)
09:20-09:55 Deuteron Compton Scattering in Effective Field Theory
S. Beane (Washington)
09:55-10:15Coffee Break
10:15-10:50The GDH Sum-Rule in few-body systems
Alexandre Deur (Virginia)
10:50-11:25Chiral Theory applied to Nucleon-Nucleon systems
E. Epelbaum (Bochum)
11:25-11:45Compton Scattering from the Deuteron
M. Lundin (Lund)
11:45-12:05Studies of the deuteron structure using polarized internal targets
Z. Zhou (MIT)
12:05-14:00Lunch
SESSION 4: Parity Violation (Chair: E. Beise, Maryland)
14:00-14:35Parity Violation and Hadronic Systems
B. Holstein (U. Mass)
14:35-15:10Status of Mainz PV Experiments
F. Maas (Mainz)
15:10-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-16:05Status of SAMPLE Parity Violation Experiments
M. Pitt (VPI)
16:05-16:40 Measuring the Longest Range P-odd Pion-Nucleon Coupling in Pion Photoproton Production Near the Threshold
J.-W. Chen (Maryland)
16:40-17:00Search for New Physics at the TeV Scale via a Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton
W. van Oers (Manitoba)
17:00-17:20HAPPEX parity violation experiments: status and plans
D.S. Armstrong (William & Mary)
18:00-? Barbeque Dinner at the Oaks
 
SATURDAY, August 25.

SESSION 5: Many Nucleon Systems (Chair: J. Matthews, MIT)
08:45-09:20Monte Carlo Calculations of Nuclei
J. Carlson (Los Alamos)
09:20-09:55Two-nucleon knockout experiments
G. Rosner (Glasgow)
09:55-10:15Coffee Break
10:15-10:50Theoretical Issues in two-nucleon knockout reactions
J. Ryckebusch (Gent)
10:50-11:10Reaction Mechanism of 12C(e,e'p) Reaction at an Energy Transfer of 60 MeV
T. Tamae (Tohuku)
11:10-11:30Microscopic Calculation of the total photoabsorption cross-section of A=6 nuclei
S. Bacca (UNITN)
11:30-11:50Simultaneous measurement of the two-body photodisintegration of 3H and 3He
G. O'Rielly (GWU)
11:50-12:10Low-q physics with BLAST
J. Calarco (UNH)
12:10-14:00Lunch
SESSION 6: Nuclear Astrophysics (Chair: M. Butler, Saint Mary's)
14:00-14:20A measurement of the photon asymmetry in d(gpol,n)p at low energies
B. Sawatzky (UVa)
14:20-14:40Measurement of p(e,e'p)p0 near threshold: a test of chiral perturbation theory
B. Norum (UVa)
14:40-15:15Radiative Captures in Astrophysics and Nucleosynthesis
K. Nollett (Caltech)
15:15-15:35Coffee Break
15:35-16:10HIGS at TUNL as a facilty for nuclear astrophysics
H. Weller (Duke/TUNL)
16:10-16:30Open Questions in Stellar Helium Burning Studied with (Real and Virtual) Photons
M. Gai (U. Conn)
16:30-16:55Measurement of the Astrophysical S Factor (E2) of 12C(a,g)16O Reaction in 16O(e,e'a)12C Experiment
G. Tsentelovitch (MIT-Bates)
16:55-17:30Electron-RI collider at RIKEN RI Beam Factory
T. Suda (Riken)
17:30-17:45Workshop Closing
Malcolm Butler