SECTION I: NUCLEAR STRUCTURE, FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS AND ASTROPHYSICS

Giant resonances strength in ²⁸Si ................................................................................................ I-1

D. H. Youngblood, Y. -W. Lui, and H. L. Clark

Folding model analysis for 240 MeV ⁶Li elastic scattering on ²⁸Si and ²⁴Mg ............................ I-5

X. Chen, Y. -W. Lui, H. L. Clark, Y. Tokimoto, and D. H. Youngblood

Study of the ¹²N(p,γ)¹³O reaction from a (¹²N, ¹³O) proton transfer reaction.......................... I-11

A. Banu, T. Al-Abdullah, V. Burjan, F. Carstoiu, C. Fu, C. A. Gagliardi,

M. McCleskey, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Single and double proton emission from the ¹⁴O+⁴He interaction ........................................... I-15

Changbo Fu, V. Z. Goldberg, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, G. G. Chubarian, G. V. Rogachev,

B. Skorodumov, M. McCleskey, Y. Zhai, T. Al-Abdullah, G. Tabacaru, A. Banu,

L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Decay of ¹⁰C excited states above the 2p+2α threshold............................................................. I-17

R. J. Charity1, K. Mercurio, L. G. Sobotka, J. M. Elson, M. Famiano,

A. Banu, C. Fu, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Characterization of novel square-bordered position-sensitive silicon detectors with a

four-corner readout .................................................................................................................. I-20

A. Banu, Y. Li, M. McCleskey, M. Bullough, S. Walsh, C. A. Gagliardi,

L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, and C. Wilburn

Elastic scattering of ¹²N at 12 AMeV on ¹²C............................................................................. I-24

A. Banu, T. Al-Abdullah, C. Fu, C. A. Gagliardi, Y. Li, M. McCleskey,

L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Further studies of β-decay of proton-rich nucleus ²³Al.............................................................. I-27

Y. Zhai, T. Al-Abdullah, A. Banu, C. Fu, V. Golovko, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob,

N. Nica, H. I. Park, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Technique to study β-delayed p-decay of proton-rich nuclei..................................................... I-29

         L. Trache, T. Al-Abdullah, A. Banu, C. Fu, V. Golovko, J.C. Hardy, V.E. Iacob,

H.I. Park, G. Tabacaru, R.E. Tribble, Y. Zhai, J. Aysto, A. Saastamoinen,

M. A. Bentley, D. Jenkins, T. Davinson, and P. J. Woods

Breakup of sd-shell proton-rich nuclei for nuclear astrophysics............................................. I-32

A. Banu, L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, Y. Zhai, N. Orr, L. Achouri, B. Laurent, B. Roeder,
         M. Chartrier, B. Fernandez-Dominguez, S. Paschalis, B. Pietras, W. Catford, N. Patterson,

J. Thomas, M. Freer, P. Roussel-Chomaz, L. Gaudefroy, F. Carstoiu, F. Negoita,

F. Rotaru, and A. Bonaccorso

Determination of the ¹⁷F(p,γ)¹⁸Ne reaction rate using the neutron transfer reaction

¹³C(¹⁷O,¹⁸O)¹²C.......................................................................................................................... I-34

T. Al-Abdullah, F. Carstoiu, X. Chen, C. A. Gagliardi, Y.-W. Lui, G. Tabacaru,

Y. Tokimoto, L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Study of low-lying resonant states in ¹⁶F using an ¹⁵O radioactive ion beam........................... I-37

V. Z. Goldberg, D. W. Lee, K. Peräjärvi, J. Powell, J. P. O’Neil,

D. M. Moltz, and Joseph Cerny

Study of the ²⁰O+p interaction................................................................................................... I-38

Changbo Fu, V. Z. Goldberg, G. G. Chubarian, M. McCleskey, Y. Zhai,

T. Al-Abdullah, G. Tabacaru, and R. E. Tribble

Search for violation of the spin-parity and isospin conservation law in the decay of the

3.56 MeV 0⁺ level in ⁶Li.............................................................................................................. I-39

V. Z. Goldberg, J. C. Hardy, A. Mukhamedzhanov, G. Tabacaru, G. Chubarian,
R. E. Tribble, G. V. Rogachev, E. Johnson, C. Spitaleri, S. Cherubini, S. Romano,

M. Gulino, A. Tumino, R. G. Pizzone, M. La Cognata, L. Lamia,

N. Shulgina, and W.H. Trzaska

T = 3/2 states in ¹³C.................................................................................................................... I-40

V. Z. Goldberg, R. E. Tribble, B. B. Skorodumov, G. V. Rogachev, A. Aprahamian,

J. J. Kolata, S. Almaraz, H. Amro, L. O. Lamm, M. Quinn, A. Teymurazyan, and A. Woehr

Superallowed beta decay............................................................................................................ I-42

           J. C. Hardy, I. S. Towner, V. E. Iacob, N. Nica, V. Golovko, H. I. Park, J. Goodwin,

           C. A. Gagkiardi, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

The status of V_ud ........................................................................................................................ I-46

J. C. Hardy

Precise half-life measurements for the superallowed β⁺ emitter ³⁴Ar and ³⁴Cl........................ I-48

V. E. Iacob, J. C. Hardy,J. F. Brinkley, C. A. Gagliardi, V.E. Mayes, N. Nica,
M. Sanchez-Vega, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Precise β branching ratios in ³⁴Ar from β-γ coincidences ........................................................ I-51

           V. E. Iacob, J. C. Hardy, and V. Golovko

The Half Life of ¹⁰C .................................................................................................................. I-55

V. E. Iacob, J. C. Hardy, and V. Golovko, J. Goodwin, N. Nica, H. I. Park,
L. Trache and R. E. Tribble

High precision half-life measurement in ³⁸Ca ........................................................................... I-58

H. I. Park, J. C. Hardy, V. V. Golovko, V. E. Iacob, N. Nica, A. Banu, L. Trache,

R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

TRIUMF E-823: Measurements of the ^37,38mK half-lives ......................................................... I-59

V. E. Iacob and J. C. Hardy

JYFLTRAP : Q_EC-values of the superallowed decays of ⁵⁰Mn and ⁵⁴Co ................................. I-61

J. C. Hardy

Branching ratios for the beta decay of ²¹Na ............................................................................. I-62
V. E. Iacob, J. C. Hardy, C. A. Gagliardi, J. Goodwin, N. Nica, H. I. Park, G. Tabacaru,

L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, Y. Zhai and I. S. Towner

Tests of internal-conversion theory and efficiency calibration with precise γ- and x-ray
spectroscopy: ¹³⁴Cs^m, ¹³⁷Ba, ¹³⁹La..….....……..………………...……………………...…………. .I-66

         N. Nica, C. Balonek, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, J. Goodwin, H. I. Park, W. E. Rockwell

and M. B. Trzhaskovskaya

Evaluated nuclear structure data file (ENSDF) at Texas A&M: A=140....…………………………I-70

N. Nica, and J. C. Hardy

TWIST:  measuring the space-time structure of muon decay ……………………………...……....I-72

C. A. Gagliardi, R. E. Tribble, K. Williams and the TWIST Collaboration

Spin and low-x physics with STAR at RHIC..………………………………………………………..I-74

J. L. Drachenberg, C. A. Gagliardi, T. W. Henry, M. Sarsour, R. E. Tribble,

and the STAR Collaboration

Toward understanding relativistic heavy-ion collisions with the STAR detector at RHIC…...…..I-76

M. Cervantes, R. Clarke, M. Codrington, L. Dunkelberger, A. Hamed, S. Mioduszewski,

and the STAR Collaboration