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  • Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems
  • Nuclear Structure
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions
  • Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
• BRIEF REPORTS
• COMMENTS
• MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Measurement of the resonance at ER=1422 keV in 36Ar(p,γ)37K C. Iliadis, J. Höhne, F. Käppeler, J. Meissner, H. P. Trautvetter, and M. Wiescher pp. R1479-R1483 [View Page Images , PDF (920 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Momentum distributions for 12,14Be fragmentation M. Zahar, M. Belbot, J. J. Kolata, K. Lamkin, R. Thompson, N. A. Orr, J. H. Kelley, R. A. Kryger, D. J. Morrissey, B. M. Sherrill, J. A. Winger, J. S. Winfield, and A. H. Wuosmaa pp. R1484-R1487 [View Page Images , PDF (642 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effective fermion SO(6) dynamical symmetry in the platinum nuclei Da Hsuan Feng, Mike W. Guidry, Xing-Wang Pan, Cheng-Li Wu, and Ivaylo Zlatev pp. R1488-R1491 [View Page Images , PDF (636 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rotational behavior in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions Y. G. Ma, W. Q. Shen, J. Feng, and Y. Q. Ma pp. R1492-R1496 [View Page Images , PDF (877 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Compton scattering from the proton E. L. Hallin, D. Amendt, J. C. Bergstrom, H. S. Caplan, R. Igarashi, D. M. Skopik, E. C. Booth, D. Delli Carpini, J. P. Miller, F. J. Federspiel, B. E. MacGibbon, and A. M. Nathan pp. 1497-1507 [View Page Images , PDF (1805 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unitarity cusp in proton Compton scattering J. C. Bergstrom and E. L. Hallin pp. 1508-1517 [View Page Images , PDF (1604 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo evaluation of path integrals for the nuclear shell model G. H. Lang, C. W. Johnson, S. E. Koonin, and W. E. Ormand pp. 1518-1545 [View Page Images , PDF (3845 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion double-charge-exchange operator W. R. Gibbs, M. Elghossain, and W. B. Kaufmann pp. 1546-1554 [View Page Images , PDF (1217 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Off-shell behavior of the π-η mixing amplitude J. Piekarewicz pp. 1555-1561 [View Page Images , PDF (1243 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion absorption on 3He. II. Antisymmetrization and angular decomposition of the Faddeev-based amplitude Luciano Canton, J. P. Svenne, and Giorgio Cattapan pp. 1562-1572 [View Page Images , PDF (1682 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	f7/2 proton alignment in 49Cr A. A. Pakou, J. Billowes, A. W. Mountford, C. Tenreiro, and D. D. Warner pp. 1573-1578 [View Page Images , PDF (989 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level structure of the odd mass Pr isotopes. III. Levels of 147Pr88 populated in the beta decay of 56-s 147Ce P. F. Mantica, J. D. Robertson, E. M. Baum, and W. B. Walters pp. 1579-1593 [View Page Images , PDF (2235 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of pion-related effects in the photofission of preactinide nuclei J. D. Arruda-Neto, T. Saito, M. Sugawara, T. Tamae, H. Miyase, K. Abe, K. Takahisa, O. Konno, M. Oikawa, and S. Simionatto pp. 1594-1600 [View Page Images , PDF (1193 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron resonance spectroscopy of 113In and 115In C. M. Frankle, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, P. P. Delheij, C. R. Gould, D. G. Haase, J. N. Knudson, G. E. Mitchell, S. S. Patterson, S. I. Penttilä, Yu. P. Popov, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, E. I. Sharapov, Yi-Fen Yen, S. H. Yoo, V. W. Yuan, and X. Zhu pp. 1601-1608 [View Page Images , PDF (1169 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High spin states of 91Mo and 89Nb Pragya Singh, R. G. Pillay, J. A. Sheikh, and H. G. Devare pp. 1609-1616 [View Page Images , PDF (979 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Seniority v=5 states in 4189Nb48 A. Bödeker, K. P. Lieb, C. J. Gross, M. K. Kabadiyski, D. Rudolph, M. Weiszflog, J. Eberth, H. Grawe, J. Heese, and K.-H. Maier pp. 1617-1622 [View Page Images , PDF (933 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level structure of 89Mo G. García-Bermúdez, M. A. Cardona, R. V. Ribas, A. Filevich, E. Achterberg, and L. Szybisz pp. 1623-1631 [View Page Images , PDF (1409 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High resolution 162 MeV pion scattering to 6- stretched states in 26Mg B. L. Clausen, R. J. Peterson, C. Kormanyos, J. E. Wise, A. B. Kurepin, and Y. K. Gavrilov pp. 1632-1642 [View Page Images , PDF (1722 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band crossing in the odd-particle system S. Tazaki and M. Hasegawa pp. 1643-1647 [View Page Images , PDF (725 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron-skin and proton-skin formations in exotic nuclei far from stability N. Fukunishi, T. Otsuka, and I. Tanihata pp. 1648-1655 [View Page Images , PDF (1288 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simultaneous evaluation of the shell and pairing corrections to the nuclear deformation energy N. H. Allal and M. Fellah pp. 1656-1666 [View Page Images , PDF (1471 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic variation of fission barrier heights for symmetric and asymmetric mass divisions T. Ohtsuki, H. Nakahara, and Y. Nagame pp. 1667-1676 [View Page Images , PDF (1335 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell-model calculations of Gamow-Teller strength in 51V, 54Fe, and 59Co Maurice B. Aufderheide, Stewart D. Bloom, David A. Resler, and Grant J. Mathews pp. 1677-1685 [View Page Images , PDF (1495 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Approximate particle number projection for rotating nuclei P. Magierski, S. Ćwiok, J. Dobaczewski, and W. Nazarewicz pp. 1686-1694 [View Page Images , PDF (1266 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear structure study of the odd-A Tc isotopes within the neutron-proton interacting boson-fermion model H. Dejbakhsh and S. Shlomo pp. 1695-1701 [View Page Images , PDF (956 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic calculation of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections G. Q. Li and R. Machleidt pp. 1702-1712 [View Page Images , PDF (1705 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Order parameter for pairing systems M. Marinus, H. G. Miller, R. M. Quick, F. Solms, and D. M. van der Walt pp. 1713-1718 [View Page Images , PDF (751 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge radius of the neutron: Discussion of the differences between experimental values H. Leeb and C. Teichtmeister pp. 1719-1723 [View Page Images , PDF (908 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Algebraic 12C+12C cluster model of the 24Mg nucleus J. Cseh, G. Lévai, and W. Scheid pp. 1724-1738 [View Page Images , PDF (2770 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some general constraints on identical band symmetries Mike W. Guidry, Michael R. Strayer, Cheng-Li Wu, and Da Hsuan Feng pp. 1739-1744 [View Page Images , PDF (1081 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Octupole fragmentation and O(6) symmetry in even-A Pt isotopes N. V. Zamfir, P. D. Cottle, J. L. Johnson, and R. F. Casten pp. 1745-1751 [View Page Images , PDF (1028 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-isospin strength and spectral functions G. A. Rijsdijk, W. J. Geurts, M. G. Brand, K. Allaart, and W. H. Dickhoff pp. 1752-1764 [View Page Images , PDF (2195 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of the single-particle potential insertions in the effective interaction L. Jaqua, D. C. Zheng, B. R. Barrett, and J. P. Vary pp. 1765-1769 [View Page Images , PDF (782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Configuration mixing in 56Co and 46Sc using (d→,α) reactions E. R. Crosson, E. J. Ludwig, M. Bisenberger, R. Hertenberger, D. Hofer, H. Kader, P. Schiemenz, G. Graw, A. M. Eiró, F. D. Santos, and B. A. Brown pp. 1770-1778 [View Page Images , PDF (1464 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fast neutron scattering cross sections at small angles and optical model parameters Qi Huiquan, Chen Yingtang, Chen Qiankun, Chen Zhenpeng, and Chen Zemin pp. 1779-1784 [View Page Images , PDF (836 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photofissility of 232Th measured with tagged photons from 250 to 1200 MeV N. Bianchi et al. pp. 1785-1790 [View Page Images , PDF (1131 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Mass asymmetry dependence of scission times in the reactions of 18.5A MeV 136Xe+48Ti M. Gui, K. Hagel, R. Wada, Y. Lou, D. Utley, B. Xiao, J. Li, J. B. Natowitz, G. Enders, W. Kühn, V. Metag, R. Novotny, O. Schwalb, R. J. Charity, R. Freifelder, A. Gobbi, W. Henning, K. D. Hildenbrand, R. Mayer, R. S. Simon, J. P. Wessels, G. Casini, A. Olmi, and A. A. Stefanini pp. 1791-1814 [View Page Images , PDF (3456 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Complete and incomplete fusion and emission of preequilibrium nucleons in the interaction of 12C with 197Au below 10 MeV/nucleon P. Vergani, E. Gadioli, E. Vaciago, E. Fabrici, E. Gadioli Erba, M. Galmarini, G. Ciavola, and C. Marchetta pp. 1815-1827 [View Page Images , PDF (2005 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Identification of a percolationlike critical region in the decay of excited calcium nuclei P. Désesquelles, A. J. Cole, A. Giorni, D. Heuer, A. Lleres, J. B. Viano, B. Chambon, B. Cheynis, D. Drain, and C. Pastor pp. 1828-1839 [View Page Images , PDF (2012 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Quasifree pion scattering at 500 MeV J. E. Wise, M. R. Braunstein, S. Høibråten, M. D. Kohler, B. J. Kriss, J. Ouyang, R. J. Peterson, J. A. McGill, C. L. Morris, S. J. Seestrom, R. M. Whitton, J. D. Zumbro, C. M. Edwards, and A. L. Williams pp. 1840-1848 [View Page Images , PDF (1654 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Inclusive electron-nucleus scattering at high momentum transfer D. B. Day, J. S. McCarthy, Z. E. Meziani, R. Minehart, R. Sealock, S. T. Thornton, J. Jourdan, I. Sick, B. W. Filippone, R. D. McKeown, R. G. Milner, D. H. Potterveld, and Z. Szalata pp. 1849-1863 [View Page Images , PDF (2647 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-body disintegration of the deuteron with 0.8–1.8 GeV photons S. J. Freedman et al. pp. 1864-1878 [View Page Images , PDF (2582 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for diabolical pair transfer in two-neutron transfer reactions K. G. Helmer, C. Y. Wu, D. Cline, A. E. Kavka, W. J. Kernan, E. G. Vogt, M. W. Guidry, X. L. Han, R. W. Kincaid, X. T. Liu, H. Schecter, J. O. Rasmussen, A. Shihab-Eldin, M. A. Stoyer, and M. L. Halbert pp. 1879-1883 [View Page Images , PDF (860 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Absolute differential cross sections and charge asymmetries for π±d elastic scattering at 30, 50, and 65 MeV M. D. Kohler, R. A. Ristinen, J. J. Kraushaar, B. J. Kriss, E. F. Gibson, G. R. Smith, D. F. Ottewell, J. T. Brack, M. Kermani, J. Jaki, and M. Metzler pp. 1884-1889 [View Page Images , PDF (927 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin correlation measurements for p-3He elastic scattering between 4.0 and 10.0 MeV M. T. Alley and L. D. Knutson pp. 1890-1900 [View Page Images , PDF (1724 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective range parametrization of phase shifts for p-3He elastic scattering between 0 and 12 MeV M. T. Alley and L. D. Knutson pp. 1901-1909 [View Page Images , PDF (1286 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism of intermediate mass fragment emission at low energy Asish K. Dhara, C. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, and K. Krishan pp. 1910-1914 [View Page Images , PDF (892 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Explanation of recent observations of very large electromagnetic dissociation cross sections. II. Higher order corrections John W. Norbury and Gerhard Baur pp. 1915-1918 [View Page Images , PDF (670 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of strange quarks in quasielastic neutrino scattering G. Garvey, E. Kolbe, K. Langanke, and S. Krewald pp. 1919-1925 [View Page Images , PDF (1157 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of the reaction π+d→pp to 500 MeV Richard A. Arndt, Igor I. Strakovsky, Ron L. Workman, and David V. Bugg pp. 1926-1938 [View Page Images , PDF (1844 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion scattering from spin 1/2 nuclei P. B. Siegel and W. R. Gibbs pp. 1939-1947 [View Page Images , PDF (1574 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge invariance and Compton scattering from relativistic composite systems Hiroshi Ito and Franz Gross pp. 1948-1972 [View Page Images , PDF (2788 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase shift analysis of π±-4He elastic scattering B. Brinkmöller and H. G. Schaile pp. 1973-1981 [View Page Images , PDF (1419 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear flow excitation function Dietrich Klakow, Gerd Welke, and Wolfgang Bauer pp. 1982-1987 [View Page Images , PDF (912 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Medium modification of meson propagation between two nucleons in finite nuclei H. Sarafian, M. B. Johnson, and E. R. Siciliano pp. 1988-1998 [View Page Images , PDF (1394 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Photon-hadron interactions in relativistic heavy ion collisions N. Baron and G. Baur pp. 1999-2010 [View Page Images , PDF (1963 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic dissociation of Pb nuclei in peripheral ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions Mario Vidović, Martin Greiner, and Gerhard Soff pp. 2011-2015 [View Page Images , PDF (716 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Nuclear shadowing in a parton recombination model S. Kumano pp. 2016-2028 [View Page Images , PDF (1878 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified Skyrme model and the nucleon-nucleon interaction German Kälbermann pp. 2029-2034 [View Page Images , PDF (996 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of instantons in a chiral confining model Myunggyu Kim and Manoj K. Banerjee pp. 2035-2056 [View Page Images , PDF (3273 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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Study of the 13N(d,n)14O reaction cross section and its astrophysical implications for the 13N proton capture reaction P. Decrock, M. Gaelens, M. Huyse, G. Reusen, G. Vancraeynest, P. Van Duppen, J. Wauters, Th. Delbar, W. Galster, P. Leleux, I. Licot, E. Liénard, P. Lipnik, C. Michotte, J. Vervier, and H. Oberhummer pp. 2057-2067 [View Page Images , PDF (1830 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Interactions of 13.6-GeV/nucleon 16O and 28Si with carbon, aluminum, and copper J. B. Cumming, Y. Y. Chu, and P. E. Haustein pp. 2068-2071 [View Page Images , PDF (756 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron spectra from the 156Er compound nucleus populated by 12- and 64induced reactions B. Fornal, F. Gramegna, G. Prete, G. D’Erasmo, E. M. Fiore, L. Fiore, A. Pantaleo, V. Paticchio, P. Blasi, N. Gelli, F. Lucarelli, A. M. Bizzeti-Sona, P. F. Bortignon, D. Fabris, G. Nebbia, J. A. Ruiz, G. Viesti, and G. Nardelli pp. 2072-2073 [View Page Images , PDF (320 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intercalibration of 4He and 5Li nuclear thermometers for hot nuclei J. B. Natowitz, J. C. Hagel, R. Wada, X. Bin, J. Li, Y. Lou, and D. Utley pp. 2074-2077 [View Page Images , PDF (729 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Broken reflection symmetry in 114Xe S. L. Rugari, R. H. France, B. J. Lund, Z. Zhao, M. Gai, P. A. Butler, V. A. Holliday, A. N. James, G. D. Jones, R. J. Poynter, R. J. Tanner, K. L. Ying, and J. Simpson pp. 2078-2081 [View Page Images , PDF (623 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Directional correlation of γ rays in 31 yr 178Hfm decay P. Tlustý, D. Vénos, A. Kugler, M. Honusek, and B. Gorski pp. 2082-2084 [View Page Images , PDF (428 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deuteron elastic scattering at 110 and 120 MeV A. C. Betker, C. A. Gagliardi, D. R. Semon, R. E. Tribble, H. M. Xu, and A. F. Zaruba pp. 2085-2088 [View Page Images , PDF (582 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited states in neutron-deficient iridium nuclei populated in radioactive decays of 177–181Pt F. Meissner, H. Salewski, W.-D. Schmidt-Ott, U. Bosch-Wicke, V. Kunze, and R. Michaelsen pp. 2089-2092 [View Page Images , PDF (618 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of nuclear compressibility on the fission path M. M. Majumdar, J. N. De, C. Samanta, and S. K. Samaddar pp. 2093-2096 [View Page Images , PDF (688 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonating group method in momentum space Kenji Kume and Shinichiro Yamaguchi pp. 2097-2100 [View Page Images , PDF (568 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of the sign of E2/M1 multipole mixing ratio of transitions in the even Te isotopes R. R. Teixeira and I. D. Goldman pp. 2101-2104 [View Page Images , PDF (618 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic three-particle scattering equations Sadhan K. Adhikari, Lauro Tomio, and T. Frederico pp. 2105-2107 [View Page Images , PDF (442 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear shell effects at high temperatures N. J. Davidson and H. G. Miller pp. 2108-2111 [View Page Images , PDF (563 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specification of Kowalski-Noyes f ratios for coupled channels P. J. Dortmans and K. Amos pp. 2112-2113 [View Page Images , PDF (208 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	α spectrum from 16N β decay and the 12C(α,γ)16O reaction J. Humblet, B. W. Filippone, and S. E. Koonin pp. 2114-2116 [View Page Images , PDF (411 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Evidence for superdeformed shape isomeric states in 28Si at excitations above 40 MeV through observations of selective particle decays of 16O+12C resonances in 8Be and alpha channels’’ J. Zhang, A. C. Merchant, and W. D. Rae pp. 2117-2119 [View Page Images , PDF (459 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Evidence for superdeformed shape isomeric states in 28Si at excitations above 40 MeV through observations of selective particle decays of 16O+12C resonances in 8Be and alpha channels’ ’’ M. A. Eswaran and Suresh Kumar pp. 2120-2121 [View Page Images , PDF (360 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

•	Selected Abstracts from Physical Review D pp. 2122-2123 [View Page Images , PDF (294 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]