US-Japan
Symposium
on Collision-induced
X-ray Emission and Antimatter Physics
Program
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Abstracts
Thursday April 13
9:20-9:30 Opening Phillip Stancil
I. X-ray
Observations
Chair: David Schultz
9:30-10:00 Vladimir Krasnopolsky (Catholic U.)
Observations of X-rays in the Solar System
10:00-10:30 Dan McCammon (U. Wisconsin)
Evaluation of Charge Exchange Contributions to the Soft X-ray
Background
10:30-11:00 Kazu Mitsuda (ISAS)
Charge Exchange Emissions Observed from Suzaku
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 Katsuji Koyama and the Suzaku GC Team (Kyoto U.)
The Suzaku Results of the Galactic Center X-rays - Solving Collisional
Excitation or Electron Capture Process
11:45-12:15 Carey Lisse (Johns Hopkins Univ. - Applied Physics Lab.)
X-ray Observations of the the Collisionally Thin
System Comet 2P/Encke 2003 and the Deep Impact Encounter with Comet
9P/Tempel 1
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
II. Charge
Exchange Measurements
Chair: Toshiyuki Azuma
13:30-14:00 Peter Beiersdorfer (LLNL)
Laboratory Measurements of Charge Exchange Induced X-ray Emission
14:00-14:30 Ara Chutjian (JPL/Caltech)
X-Ray Emission Spectra and Absolute Charge-Exchange Measurements for
Solar Wind-Comet and Solar Wind-Surface Interactions
14:30-15:00 Charlie Havener (ORNL)
Merged-Beam Measurements of Total Charge-Exchange Cross Sections and
Proposed X-Ray Emission Studies
15:00-15:30 Hajime Tanuma (TMU)
UV Light Emission from Multiply-Charged Ions in Collisions with He
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:30 Haruo Shiromaru (TMU)
The Electrostatic Ion Storage Ring at TMU
16:30-17:00 Joseph Tan (NIST)
Some Experiments on (e+,e-) Capture/Deexcitation
in Antihydrogen Production and Ion-Atom (Beam-Jet) Collisions
Public Lectures
17:10-17:50 Mitsuru Ebihara (TMU)
Asteroid Sample-Return by Spacecraft Hayabusa and its Scientific
Significance
17:50-18:30 Takaya Ohashi (TMU)
X-ray Astronomy in Japan
18:30-20:30 Conference Dinner
Friday
April 14
III.
Antihydrogen Formation and Antiparticle Physics
Chair: Isao Shimamura
10:00-10:30 Ryu Hayano (U. Tokyo)
Spectroscopy of Long-Lived Antiprotonic He and Antihydrogen Formation
10:30-11:00 Thomas Pohl (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Positron Capture from Strongly Magnetized Rydberg Antihydrogen Atoms
11:00-11:30 Daniel Vrinceanu (LANL)
Formation, Capture and Detection of Antihydrogen Atoms and Ions in a
Penning Trap
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Jim Cohen (LANL)
Products and States Populated in Reactive Collisions of Antiprotons and
Antihydrogen with Simple Atoms and Molecules
12:15-12:45 Hui Chen (LLNL)
Relativistic Antimatter Plasmas Created by Ultra-intense Lasers
12:45- 14:00 Lunch
IV. X-ray
Emission Modeling
Chair: Phil Stancil
14:00-14:30 Tom Cravens (U. Kansas)
Solar Wind Charge Exchange X-ray Emission as a Probe of the Solar Wind
Interaction with Planets and Comets
14:30-15:00 Takako Kato (NIFS)
X-Ray and EUV Emission from Magnetic Fusion Plasmas
15:00-15:30 David Schultz (ORNL)
Ionization, Stripping, and Charge Exchange for Jovian X-Ray Emission
Modeling
15:30-16:00 Vasili Kharchenko (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Modeling of the Jovian X-ray Auroras
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
V. Charge
Exchange Calculations
Chair: Peter Beiersdorfer
16:30-17:00 Mineo Kimura (Kyushu U.)
Charge Exchange in Ion-Molecule Collisions: CmHn,
H2O, CO and H2 molecules
17:00-17:30 Lukas Pichl (International Christian U.)
Double Electron Capture in C4+ + He Collisions
17:30-18:00 Teck Lee (ORNL/U. Kentucky)
Close-Coupling Calculations of Cross Sections for Electron Capture
from Atomic Hydrogen by Fully and Partially Stripped Ions
18:00-18:30 Phillip Stancil (U. Georgia)
Non-statistical Triplet-Singlet Ratios of Helium-like Ions following
Charge Exchange
Saturyday,
April 15
VI. Antiproton
Collisions and Antiprotonic Atom Formation
Chair: Haruo Shiromaru
10:00-10:30 Akinori Igarashi (Miyazaki U.)
Excitation and Ionization of H and He in Antiproton Collisions
10:30-11:00 Yasunori Yamazaki (RIKEN & U. Tokyo)
Accumulation of a Large Number of Antiprotons for the Production of
Spin-Polarized Antihydrogen Atoms and Antiprotonic Atoms
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Ultralow-Energy Antiprotonic Collisions
11:45-12:15 Kazuhiro Sakimoto (ISAS)
Low-Energy Collisions of Antiprotons with Ions
12:15-13:30 Lunch
VII.
Antiproton Atom Formation, and Other Processes
Chair: Jim Cohen
13:30-14:00 Isao Shimamura (RIKEN)
Formation of Long-Lived Antiprotonic Lithium
14:00-14:30 Xiao-Min Tong (Tsukuba U.)
Time-Dependent Formal Scattering Theory and Its Application to
the
Formation of Protonium
14:30-15:00 Toshiyuki Azuma (TMU)
Crystal-Dressed Atom Observed through Doubly-Resonant Coherent
Excitation
15:00-15:10
Closing Mineo Kimura
15:30- TMU Lab Tours