US-Japan Symposium on Collision-induced X-ray Emission and Antimatter Physics

Program

April 13-15, 2006
@
International House - Tokyo Metropolitan University

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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