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International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) Sunday 04 July 2010 - Friday 09 July 2010 Vancouver, BC, Canada Programme International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Thursday 01 July 2010 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Table of contents Monday 05 July 2010 5 Opening Plenary Session 5 Hot and Dense QCD Plenary Session 6 Hadrons in Nuclei Plenary Session 7 HS1 8 NA1 9 NF1 10 NI1 11 NR1 12 NS1 14 NS7 16 SM1 18 Coffee Break 20 HS2 20 NA2 21 NF2 23 NI2 25 NR2 26 NS2 28 NS8 30 SM2 32 Poster Session 1 34 Student Poster Session 1 60 Tuesday 06 July 2010 72 Nuclear Astrophysics Plenary Session 72 Coffee Break 73 Nuclear Reactions Plenary Session 73 HN1 74 NI3 75 NN1 76 NR3 77 NR5 78 NS3 80 Page 2 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme NS9 81 SM3 83 Coffee Break 85 HD1 85 HN2 86 NA3 87 NF3 89 NN2 91 NR4 93 NS10 95 NS4 97 Poster Session 2 99 Student Poster Session 2 123 Wednesday 07 July 2010 135 New Facilities and Instrumentation Plenary Session 135 Nuclear Applications and Interdisciplinary Research Plenary Session 136 Award Session 136 Thursday 08 July 2010 137 Hadron Structure Plenary Session 137 Coffee Break 138 Nuclear Structure Plenary Session 138 HD2 139 HN3 141 HS3 142 NA4 143 NF4 145 NR6 147 NS11 149 NS5 151 Coffee Break 153 HD3 153 HN4 155 HS4 157 NA5 158 NF5 160 NR7 162 NS12 164 NS6 166 Friday 09 July 2010 168 Standard Model Tests and Fundamental Symmetries Plenary Session 168 Coffee Break 169 Page 3 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Neutrinos and Nuclei Plenary Session 169 Page 4 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Monday 05 July 2010 Monday 05 July 2010 Opening Plenary Session - Chan Centre (08:30-09:30) time title 08:30 Opening Remarks (00h15') Speaker: DILLING, Jens 08:45 Nuclear Physics - Selected Achievements and Perspectives (00h45') Speaker: BRAUN-MUNZINGER, Peter We will highlight recent achievements in the field of nuclear physics and explore promising areas for future research. Page 5 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Monday 05 July 2010 Hot and Dense QCD Plenary Session - Chan Centre (09:30-11:30) time title 09:30 Hot QCD Matter: Lessons Learned over the Past Decade, and New Questions for the Next Decade (00h30') Speaker: NAGLE, James We review the key physics learned about hot QCD matter (the quark-gluon plasma) from experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The surprising properties and their implications are discussed. Additionally, we speculate about the next decade of new questions and hopefully new discoveries. 10:00 The Phase Diagram of Dense QCD (00h30') Speaker: FUKUSHIMA, Kenji Understanding the phase diagram of QCD under extreme conditions at finite temperature and baryon density is a longstanding problem. Theoretical and experimental efforts have been revealing the structure of the phase diagram at zero baryon density, which is being extended towards higher baryon density. In fact several facilities such as the FAIR at GSI, the NICA at JINR and future project of RHIC at BNL are planning heavy-ion collision experiments at moderate energy (collision energy per NN is around 10GeV) to explore dense-QCD physics. In this talk recent developments and remaining problems related to dense QCD, which include the QCD critical point, relation between deconfinement and chiral restoration, quarkyonic (baryon-rich) matter, hypothetical triple-point structure, will be reviewed. 10:30 Coffee Break (00h30') 11:00 Phenomenology of the Little Bang (00h30') Speaker: OLLITRAULT, Jean-Yves I discuss selected topics in heavy-ion phenomenology where significant progress has been made since the last INPC conference. Viscous relativistic hydrodynamics provides a well-defined theoretical framework for modeling the expansion of the strongly-interacting system created in a collision. These calculations are now able to put tight constraints on thermodynamical properties of QCD such as its viscosity and equation of state. Initial conditions are still a great source of uncertainty. The role of fluctuations in the wavefunctions of the incoming nuclei has been revealed by several analyses, such as the ridge structure observed in two-particle correlations. I discuss the current understanding of the ridge and of other correlation measurements. Finally, I discuss uncertainties in the description of the late, freeze-out stage where the system dissociates into hadrons. Page 6 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Monday 05 July 2010 Hadrons in Nuclei Plenary Session - Chan Centre (11:30-12:30) time title 11:30 Strangeness in Nuclear Physics (00h30') Speaker: NAGAE, Tomofumi Strangeness degree of freedom is not so evident in traditional low-energy nuclear physics. Some effects of sea-quark components, ssbar, in a nucleon have been looked for in several measurements. However, they are found to be not so large effects. Strangeness is, somehow, hidden in nature. Nevertheless, it always plays an important role when we discuss some exotic phenomena at high temperature, high density, etc. This is because the s quark mass (92.4±2.5 MeV/c2) is close to the typical energy scale of QCD (ΛQCD=150-250 MeV). The effect of strangeness is not trivial and essential in some cases; for example, hadronic matters inside of a neutron star. The strangeness can be explicitly implanted into a nucleus as strong bound states of strange hadrons with a nucleus. Thereby, we can extend our scope of hadron many-boody systems into the flavor SU(3), and create new types of hadronic systems. In this talk, I will review the recent topics in the field of Strangeness Nuclear Physics, and discuss future prospects in a new facility J-PARC. 12:00 Nuclear Studies with Hard Knockout Reactions (00h30') Speaker: PIASETZKY, Eliezer The combination of hard knockout reactions induced by electrons (data from JLab)and protons (data from BNL) in kinematic regimes that were not reachable before, reveals the details of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations in nuclei. This talk will discuss the experiments involving the two-nucleon knock-out reactions 12C(e,e'pp), 12C(e,e'pn) and 12C(p,ppn). The most significant result is the demonstration of the dominance of correlated np pairs over pp pairs in the range of relative momenta 300-600 MeV/c. This can be explained in terms of short-range tensor-force dominance. These new results are essential for refining our understanding of the short-range behavior of the N-N force. Moreover, short range pp pairs are manifestation of asymmetric dense cold nuclear matter that can be studied in the laboratory, and are relevant to studying neutron stars. Page 7 International Nuclear Physics Conference 2010 (INPC2010) / Programme Monday 05 July 2010 HS1 - Forest Sciences Centre 1001 (14:00-15:35) time title 14:00 Experimental Studies of Nucleon Spin Structure: from the Past to the Future (00h25') Speaker: BADELEK, Barbara Since 1988 the nucleon spin structure is one of hottest and mostly challenging problems in the QCD. Originally formulated by the European Muon Collaboration and followed by a wide experimental and theoretical activity, it is still largely unsettled. This is a review talk where open problems, tools, experiments, their limitations and results will be presented. 14:25 Recent DVCS Results from HERMES (00h15') Speaker: KAISER, Ralf The HERMES experiment at DESY used the polarised electron/positron beam of HERA to investigate the spin structure of the nucleon. A particular focus of the ongoing physics analysis are Generalised Parton Distributions studied via Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS). This talk will present the most recent HERMES DVCS analysis results. These include the first extraction of the longitudinal double spin asymmetry as well as DVCS beam spin and beam charge asymmetries extracted from the final two years of data taking in 2006/7. 14:40 Present and Future Exploration of the Nucleon Spin and Structure at COMPASS (00h15') Speaker: MARCHAND, Claude COMPASS is a multi-purpose fixed target experiment at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, dedicated to the study of the structure of the nucleon. From 2002 to 2011, high statistics data for inclusive and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering will have been collected using polarized 160 GeV/c muons on polarized Li6D and NH3 targets. Measurements in longitudinal spin configuration give access to the gluon polarization, additional piece to the nucleon spin. They also allow to constrain the g1 structure function, and thus the Björken sum rule, with greater accuracy. Measurements in transverse spin configuration allow to extract Collins and Sivers asymmetries, sensitive to transverse spin distributions. From 2012 and onwards, COMPASS foresees a measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, which gives access to some Generalized Parton Distributions which represent the ultimate theoretical description of nucleon structure. Of special importance is the GPD E, connected to the orbital momentum of the quarks in the nucleon. Also, a Drell-Yann measurement is foreseen to give access to Transverse Momentum Dependant Parton Distribution Functions, without involving Fragmentation Functions. 14:55 Measurement of Sea Quark Polarization with W Boson Production at PHENIX (00h15') Speaker: KARATSU, Kenichi The collisions of polarized protons at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) provide us good opportunities to study proton spin structure. One of the main goals of the RHIC spin program is to measure the polarization of sea quarks using W boson production. The uncertainty of sea quark polarization still remains large, though the polarizations of valence quarks have been determined well by DIS and Semi-Inclusive DIS. Spin asymmetry of W boson production is a clean way to measure the sea quark polarization since the chirality of interacting quarks are almost fixed in the V-A coupling and the flavor identification of sea quarks is possible by separate measurement of W+/W- production.