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CIPANP 2006 PHYSICS PROGRAM
1) Fundamental Symmetries and CKM
P, CP, T, CPT symmetries in atomic, nuclear and particle physics, CKM results
Conveners: David Williams (UCSC), Tim Chupp (U. Michigan), Aida El-Khadra (U. Illinois), Soeren Prell (Iowa State U.)
Examples : CLEO, BaBar, Belle-related results; Tevatron B-physics program; EDMs (atomic, other); n beta decay, lifetime; new Vud, Vus measurements; new GF measurement, antihydrogen results, time variations of fundamental coupling constants
2) Neutrino Masses and Mixings
Neutrino oscillations, double-beta decays, direct neutrino mass measurements
Conveners: André de Gouvêa (Northwestern), Regina Rameika (FNAL), Steve Elliott (LANL)
Examples: SNO, KamLand, MiniBooNe, MiNos, K2K, new efforts on Q13 , neutrinoless bb , n-stars; possibility of strange condensate or quark matter; limits on neutrino masses from CMB and gravitational microlensing
3) Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, dark matter/energy, big-bang nucleosynthesis, cosmology, supernovae, neutron stars
Conveners: Brian Fields (U. Illinois), Stefan Westerhoff (Columbia), Bob Tribble (TAMU)
Examples: Icecube, Pierre Auger, AKASA, HighRes, CDMS, SNAP, theory
4) Electroweak Physics and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Direct searches for Higgs, SUSY, extra dimensions; Wg, Zg; single top production, rare decays including B®mm; top mass, low-energy precision measurements
Conveners:
Beate Heinemann (Liverpool), Krishna Kumar (U. Mass), Chris Kolda (Notre Dame)
Examples : Collider results from FNAL, SLAC Møller, m®eg, Qweak, new g–2 experiment, other tests, plans and sensitivities at LHC
5) Hadron Spectroscopy and Exotics
Light-quark meson and baryon spectroscopy; b/c production, spectroscopy and decays; hybrids, glueballs, pentaquarks; other exotic or unclassified states; models
Conveners: Ted Barnes (ORNL), Valerie Halyo (Princeton), Ian Shipsey (Purdue)
Examples: Strange-quark spectroscopy, hyperons; heavy-quark hyperons, mesons, HQ theory, lattice predictions; results from CLEO, BaBar, Belle, Tevatron experiments; lattice QCD calculations
6) Quark Matter and Heavy Ion Collisions
Global observables, flows, hard probes, correlations, hydrodynamics, and other results from relativistic heavy ion collisions
Conveners: Steffen Bass (Duke), Jamie Dunlop (BNL)
Examples: mostly RHIC results here + lattice calculations + other theoretical interpretations; plans and sensitivities for LHC HI program
7) Nucleon Structures
Nucleon form factors, spin physics, unpolarized and polarized parton distributions, generalized parton distributions, large- and small-x physics, calculations from lattice, pQCD, hard scattering, total and differential cross sections
Conveners: Feng Yuan (RIKEN/BNL), Ed Kinney (U. Colorado), John Arrington (ANL)
Examples: Data from: G0, HERMES, JLab, DESY. Future plans: Drell-Yan, others
8) Low-Energy Hadron Physics
Nucleon resonances, hypernuclear physics, nuclear structure, hadronic interactions, effective field theories
Conveners: Reinhard Schumacher (CMU), Osamu Hashimoto (Tohoku U.), Jim Ritman (Jülich)
Examples: JLab experiments on N*, hypernuclei, etc.; Mainz, COSY, Spring-8, BNL, JPARC plans, quark-level view of nuclear physics; nuclear structure functions; change of hadron properties in-medium
9) High-Energy Hadron Physics
Differential and total cross sections, jets, Drell-Yan process, prompt photons, angular distributions, polarizations
Conveners: Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook U.), Fabio Maltoni (Brussels)
Examples: Results from the Tevatron, DESY, KEK, JLAB, BNL; production dynamics of heavy quarks and other systems; calculations in perturbative QCD; plans for future work at JPARC and the LHC
10) New Facilities and Instrumentation
New facilities, facility upgrades, new major detectors, new measurement techniques
Conveners: Axel Drees (SUNY-Stony Brook), Rolf Ent (JLab)
Examples: JLab Upgrade, RHIC-II, GSI, JPARC, LHC, ILC, eRHIC, proton driver
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