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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Excitation energy deposition in central collisions of 40A MeV 40Ar with 232Th D. Utley, R. Wada, K. Hagel, J. Li, X. Bin, M. Gui, Y. Lou, R. Tezkratt, J. B. Natowitz, and M. Gonin pp. R1737-R1741 [View Page Images , PDF (882 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Large fragmentation of the pairing-vibration⊗particle strength in 145Sm L. Trache, A. M. Oros, Gh. Cata-Danil, K. O. Zell, P. von Brentano, G. Graw, D. Hofer, and E. Müller-Zanotti pp. R1742-R1746 [View Page Images , PDF (796 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Intermittency and fragmentation of target residue in high-energy nuclear interactions Dipak Ghosh, Premomoy Ghosh, Alokananda Ghosh, and Jaya Roy pp. R1747-R1750 [View Page Images , PDF (727 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Limits for the 3α branching ratio of the decay of the 7.65 MeV, 02+ state in 12C M. Freer, A. H. Wuosmaa, R. R. Betts, D. J. Henderson, P. Wilt, R. W. Zurmühle, D. P. Balamuth, S. Barrow, D. Benton, Q. Li, Z. Liu, and Y. Miao pp. R1751-R1754 [View Page Images , PDF (686 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

The ‘‘hot CNO cycle’’ 13N(p,γ) resonance energy and the 18Ne mass P. V. Magnus, E. G. Adelberger, and A. García pp. R1755-R1758 [View Page Images , PDF (508 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Global systematics of unique parity quasibands in odd-A collective nuclei D. Bucurescu, G. Cǎta-Danil, M. Ivaşcu, L. Stroe, and C. A. Ur pp. R1759-R1762 [View Page Images , PDF (688 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

s-wave pion-nucleus interaction and weak coupling constants J. Delorme and M. Ericson pp. R1763-R1767 [View Page Images , PDF (765 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Novel aspects of hypernuclei B. F. Gibson pp. R1768-R1770 [View Page Images , PDF (441 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

E2 contribution to the 8p+7Be Coulomb dissociation cross section K. Langanke and T. D. Shoppa pp. R1771-R1774 [View Page Images , PDF (593 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Role of intrinsic width in fragment momentum distributions in heavy ion collisions R. K. Tripathi, L. W. Townsend, and F. Khan pp. R1775-R1777 [View Page Images , PDF (465 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fragmentation barriers of toroidal and bubble nuclei H. M. Xu, C. A. Gagliardi, R. E. Tribble, and C. Y. Wong pp. R1778-R1782 [View Page Images , PDF (740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Separation of the 2H(e,e’p) structure functions up to 0.9 GeV/c momentum transfer J. E. Ducret, M. Bernheim, J. F. Danel, L. Lakehal-Ayat, J. M. Le Goff, A. Magnon, C. Marchand, J. Morgenstern, P. Vernin, M. K. Brussel, H. Arenhövel, G. Beck, T. Wilbois, G. P. Capitani, E. De Sanctis, S. Frullani, F. Garibaldi, F. Ghio, and M. Jodice pp. 1783-1798 [View Page Images , PDF (2610 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of a quark-model-based nucleon-Δ potential on the two-nucleon system above pion threshold A. Valcarce, F. Fernández, H. Garcilazo, M. T. Peña, and P. U. Sauer pp. 1799-1813 [View Page Images , PDF (2006 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New effective internucleon forces in microscopic α-cluster model Akihiro Tohsaki pp. 1814-1817 [View Page Images , PDF (595 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two pion exchange nucleon-nucleon potential: The minimal chiral model C. A. da Rocha and M. R. Robilotta pp. 1818-1826 [View Page Images , PDF (1174 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization of the P- and T-odd nuclear potentials by the strong interaction and enhancement of P-odd effective field V. V. Flambaum and O. K. Vorov pp. 1827-1831 [View Page Images , PDF (780 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon potentials and their test with bremsstrahlung M. Jetter and H. V. von Geramb pp. 1832-1836 [View Page Images , PDF (897 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Multiphonon vibrational states in deformed nuclei X. Wu, A. Aprahamian, S. M. Fischer, W. Reviol, G. Liu, and J. X. Saladin pp. 1837-1844 [View Page Images , PDF (1135 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	An excited state of 229Th at 3.5 eV R. G. Helmer and C. W. Reich pp. 1845-1858 [View Page Images , PDF (1736 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electron-capture delayed fission properties of the new isotope 238Bk S. A. Kreek, H. L. Hall, K. E. Gregorich, R. A. Henderson, J. D. Leyba, K. R. Czerwinski, B. Kadkhodayan, M. P. Neu, C. D. Kacher, T. M. Hamilton, M. R. Lane, E. R. Sylwester, A. Türler, D. M. Lee, M. J. Nurmia, and D. C. Hoffman pp. 1859-1866 [View Page Images , PDF (1331 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	β-delayed α decay of 17N M. Dombsky, L. Buchmann, J. M. D’Auria, U. Giesen, K. P. Jackson, J. D. King, E. Korkmaz, R. G. Korteling, P. McNeely, J. Powell, G. Roy, M. Trinczek, and J. Vincent pp. 1867-1871 [View Page Images , PDF (776 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alpha decay of 216At and the level structure of 212Bi C. F. Liang, P. Paris, and R. K. Sheline pp. 1872-1877 [View Page Images , PDF (875 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oblate to prolate shape hindrance in 121I M. P. Waring, D. B. Fossan, D. R. LaFosse, H. Schnare, P. Vaska, and O. C. Kistner pp. 1878-1884 [View Page Images , PDF (1035 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rotational bands and neutron alignments in neutron rich odd-A cadmium isotopes P. H. Regan, J. S. Middleton, K. R. Pohl, J. E. Bush, P. E. Raines, D. P. Balamuth, S. M. Mullins, D. Ward, A. Galindo-Uribarri, V. P. Janzen, and S. Pilotte pp. 1885-1895 [View Page Images , PDF (1684 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High spin states and shell model description of the neutron deficient nuclei 90Ru and 91Ru J. Heese, H. Grawe, K. H. Maier, R. Schubart, F. Cristancho, C. J. Gross, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, D. Rudolph, J. Eberth, and S. Skoda pp. 1896-1903 [View Page Images , PDF (1257 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of 10Li virtual states on the structure of 11Li I. J. Thompson and M. V. Zhukov pp. 1904-1907 [View Page Images , PDF (682 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unstable infinite nuclear matter in stochastic mean field approach M. Colonna and Ph. Chomaz pp. 1908-1916 [View Page Images , PDF (1477 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identical energy bands of uranium isotopes in the interacting boson model H. C. Chiang, S. T. Hsieh, and H. Z. Sun pp. 1917-1921 [View Page Images , PDF (638 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurable decay modes of barium isotopes via exotic cluster emissions Satish Kumar and Raj K. Gupta pp. 1922-1926 [View Page Images , PDF (574 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photopion production in 3H and 3He M. K. Cheoun, M. Maruyama, S. Ishikawa, and T. Sasakawa pp. 1927-1939 [View Page Images , PDF (1613 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Robust predictions of the interacting boson approximation model R. F. Casten, P. von Brentano, and N. V. Zamfir pp. 1940-1948 [View Page Images , PDF (1488 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy-shell contributions of the three-particle–three-hole excitations A. Mariano, F. Krmpotić, and A. F. de Toledo Piza pp. 1949-1954 [View Page Images , PDF (620 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Canonical number projection in a simple nuclear model D. M. van der Walt and R. M. Quick pp. 1955-1960 [View Page Images , PDF (804 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic Coulomb sum rules for (e,e’) T. C. Ferrée and D. S. Koltun pp. 1961-1975 [View Page Images , PDF (2545 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat and shape transitions in light sd nuclei O. Civitarese and M. Schvellinger pp. 1976-1980 [View Page Images , PDF (669 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Medium modifications to the ω-meson mass in the Walecka model H.-C. Jean, J. Piekarewicz, and A. G. Williams pp. 1981-1988 [View Page Images , PDF (1396 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of the spreading width of the particle-hole giant resonances G. G. Dussel, E. C. Seva, and H. M. Sofia pp. 1989-1998 [View Page Images , PDF (1460 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple approximation for the starting-energy-independent two-body effective interaction with applications to 6Li D. C. Zheng, B. R. Barrett, J. P. Vary, and R. J. McCarthy pp. 1999-2004 [View Page Images , PDF (977 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Random-phase-approximation-type vertex corrections to the axial-vector current E. D. Izquierdo and A. O. Gattone pp. 2005-2010 [View Page Images , PDF (788 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Octupole-induced dipole moments of very deformed nuclei J. Skalski pp. 2011-2017 [View Page Images , PDF (1220 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Competing reaction mechanisms for the 16,17,18O+10,11B and 19F+9Be systems R. M. Anjos, N. Added, N. Carlin, L. Fante, M. C. Figueira, R. Matheus, E. M. Szanto, C. Tenreiro, A. Szanto de Toledo, and S. J. Sanders pp. 2018-2035 [View Page Images , PDF (2217 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotopic product distributions in the near symmetric mass region in proton induced fission of 238U P. P. Jauho, A. Jokinen, M. Leino, J. M. Parmonen, H. Penttilä, J. Äystö, K. Eskola, and V. A. Rubchenya pp. 2036-2044 [View Page Images , PDF (1411 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Asymmetries in 100 MeV π+/π--3H→e elastic scattering B. Larson, O. Häusser, J. Alster, M. Bahrami, E. J. Brash, W. J. Cummings, P. P. Delheij, R. Henderson, D. Ottewell, A. Rahav, S. Ram, M. C. Vetterli, and D. M. Whittal pp. 2045-2053 [View Page Images , PDF (1560 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Interference effects in non-analog pion double charge exchange M. G. McKinzie, H. T. Fortune, P. Hui, R. Ivie, C. Laymon, X. Li, S. Loe, D. A. Smith, A. L. Williams, J. M. O’Donnell, S. Blanchard, G. R. Burleson, and B. Lail pp. 2054-2057 [View Page Images , PDF (692 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Inclusive protonlike production cross sections from 0.757 GeV/nucleon La+La collisions Y. X. Dardenne, W. M. McHarris, J. A. Bistirlich, R. Bossingham, H. Bossy, T. Case, A. D. Chacon, K. Crowe, A. Shihab-Eldin, J. Friedrich, J. O. Rasmussen, and M. A. Stoyer pp. 2058-2067 [View Page Images , PDF (1560 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron transition densities for 48Ca from proton scattering at 200 and 318 MeV A. E. Feldman, J. J. Kelly, B. S. Flanders, M. A. Khandaker, H. Seifert, P. Boberg, S. D. Hyman, P. H. Karen, B. E. Norum, P. Welch, Q. Chen, A. D. Bacher, G. P. Berg, E. J. Stephenson, S. Nanda, A. Saha, and A. Scott pp. 2068-2085 [View Page Images , PDF (3198 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dirac coupled channel calculations for proton inelastic scattering from spherically symmetric nuclei for projectile energies of 362, 500, and 800 MeV L. Kurth, B. C. Clark, E. D. Cooper, S. Hama, S. Shim, R. L. Mercer, L. Ray, and G. W. Hoffmann pp. 2086-2103 [View Page Images , PDF (2547 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced emissions of hard photons in heavy ion reactions by the particle correlation effect Zhisong Wang, Yukun Ho, and Zhengying Pan pp. 2104-2108 [View Page Images , PDF (912 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological transition amplitudes for NN→NΔ at 800 MeV L. Ray pp. 2109-2117 [View Page Images , PDF (1262 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extraction of neutron densities from elastic proton scattering by 206,207,208Pb at 650 MeV V. E. Starodubsky and N. M. Hintz pp. 2118-2135 [View Page Images , PDF (2922 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global optical potentials for emitted alpha particles V. Avrigeanu, P. E. Hodgson, and M. Avrigeanu pp. 2136-2141 [View Page Images , PDF (981 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic cluster dynamics of nucleons and mesons. II. Formalism and examples Helmut Haberzettl pp. 2142-2163 [View Page Images , PDF (3853 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear fragmentation and its parallels K. C. Chase and A. Z. Mekjian pp. 2164-2176 [View Page Images , PDF (1986 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantal inversion of the cross section for the elastic scattering of 200 MeV protons from 12C L. J. Allen, K. Amos, and P. J. Dortmans pp. 2177-2181 [View Page Images , PDF (846 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of the quasielastic (e,e’p) and the (γ,p) reactions D. G. Ireland and G. van der Steenhoven pp. 2182-2190 [View Page Images , PDF (1664 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Color collective effects at the early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions Stanisław Mrówczyński pp. 2191-2197 [View Page Images , PDF (1192 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	What can we learn from a second phi meson peak in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions? Che Ming Ko and David Seibert pp. 2198-2202 [View Page Images , PDF (668 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Gluon multiplication in high energy heavy ion collisions Li Xiong and Edward V. Shuryak pp. 2203-2211 [View Page Images , PDF (1478 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-pion exchange and chiral symmetry restoration Michael C. Birse pp. 2212-2218 [View Page Images , PDF (1166 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic gauge invariance of chiral hybrid quark models W. Koepf and E. M. Henley pp. 2219-2225 [View Page Images , PDF (991 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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Negative pion-nucleus elastic scattering at 20 and 40 MeV G. Burleson, G. Blanpied, W. Cottingame, G. Daw, B. Park, K. K. Seth, D. Barlow, S. Iversen, M. Kaletka, H. Nann, A. Saha, D. Smith, R. P. Redwine, W. Burger, M. Farkhondeh, B. Saghai, and R. Anderson pp. 2226-2229 [View Page Images , PDF (610 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alpha decay of 231U to levels in 227Th C. F. Liang, R. K. Sheline, P. Paris, M. Hussonois, J. F. Ledu, and D. B. Isabelle pp. 2230-2232 [View Page Images , PDF (456 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-neutrino double beta decay of 48Ca S. S. Hsiao, Yiharn Tzeng, and T. T. Kuo pp. 2233-2236 [View Page Images , PDF (700 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple parametrization of fragment reduced widths in heavy ion collisions R. K. Tripathi and L. W. Townsend pp. 2237-2239 [View Page Images , PDF (312 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Half-lives for two neutrino double-beta-decay transitions to first 2+ excited states S. Stoica pp. 2240-2243 [View Page Images , PDF (574 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body resonances by complex scaling Attila Csótó pp. 2244-2247 [View Page Images , PDF (672 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Checking a neutron halo from elastic scattering F. Carstoiu, M. Lassaut, and R. J. Lombard pp. 2248-2250 [View Page Images , PDF (449 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Macroscopic models for the fusion of very heavy ions’’ P. Fröbrich pp. 2251-2252 [View Page Images , PDF (220 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Macroscopic models for the fusion of very heavy ions’ ’’ C. E. Aguiar, V. C. Barbosa, S. R. Souza, and E. C. de Oliveira pp. 2253 [View Page Images , PDF (181 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Elastic scattering of 318 MeV 6Li from 12C and 28Si: Unique phenomenological and folding-model potentials’’ and the validity of the M3Y effective interaction G. R. Satchler and W. G. Love pp. 2254-2257 [View Page Images , PDF (566 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Elastic scattering of 318 MeV 6Li from 12C and 28Si: Unique phenomenological and folding-model potentials’ and the validity of the M3Y effective interaction’’ A. Nadasen, J. Winfield, P. Schwandt, J. Farhat, L. Nieman, R. E. Warner, F. D. Becchetti, J. W. Jänecke, and N. Anantaraman pp. 2258-2260 [View Page Images , PDF (414 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

•	Selected Abstracts from Physical Review D pp. 2261-2262 [View Page Images , PDF (279 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]