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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
  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
• BRIEF REPORTS
• ERRATA
• MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Spectroscopy of 194Po W. Younes, J. A. Cizewski, H. -Q. Jin, L. A. Bernstein, D. P. McNabb, C. N. Davids, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, C. J. Lister, D. J. Blumenthal, M. P. Carpenter, D. Henderson, R. G. Henry, T. Lauritsen, D. T. Nisius, H. T. Penttilä, and M. W. Drigert pp. R1723-R1726 [View Page Images , PDF (604 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Signatures of multiphonon and neutron transfer couplings in the fusion of 36,32S+110Pd A. M. Stefanini, D. Ackermann, L. Corradi, J. H. He, G. Montagnoli, S. Beghini, F. Scarlassara, and G. F. Segato pp. R1727-R1731 [View Page Images , PDF (1011 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Polarized proton capture by deuterium and the 2H(p, γ)3He astrophysical S factor G. J. Schmid, R. M. Chasteler, C. M. Laymon, H. R. Weller, R. M. Prior, and D. R. Tilley pp. R1732-R1735 [View Page Images , PDF (796 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gamow-Teller strength in 54Fe and 56Fe E. Caurier, G. Martínez-Pinedo, A. Poves, and A. P. Zuker pp. R1736-R1740 [View Page Images , PDF (841 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spherical shell model description of rotational motion A. P. Zuker, J. Retamosa, A. Poves, and E. Caurier pp. R1741-R1745 [View Page Images , PDF (829 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Isospin nonequilibrium in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies Bao-An Li and Sherry J. Yennello pp. R1746-R1749 [View Page Images , PDF (690 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Strangeness form factors of the nucleon and the anomalous magnetic moments of constituent quarks Hiroshi Ito pp. R1750-R1754 [View Page Images , PDF (794 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cold-fission yields at effective excitation energies V. Avrigeanu, A. Florescu, A. Săndulescu, and W. Greiner pp. R1755-R1759 [View Page Images , PDF (745 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Pre-equilibrium particle emission and critical exponent analysis Wolfgang Bauer and Alexander Botvina pp. R1760-R1763 [View Page Images , PDF (622 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron halo and spin-orbit splitting in some neutron-rich nuclei Zhongzhou Ren, M. Mittig, Baoqiu Chen, Zhongyu Ma, G. Auger, and Gongou Xu pp. R1764-R1767 [View Page Images , PDF (681 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Role of the ρ meson in the nonmesonic hypernuclear decay A. Parreño, A. Ramos, and C. Bennhold pp. R1768-R1772 [View Page Images , PDF (779 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Three-baryon ΛNN potential A. A. Usmani pp. 1773-1777 [View Page Images , PDF (595 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Longitudinal response functions of 3He and 3H by Lorentz kernel transformations S. Martinelli, H. Kamada, G. Orlandini, and W. Glöckle pp. 1778-1782 [View Page Images , PDF (664 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Search for enhanced octupole correlations in 65Ge U. Hermkens, F. Becker, T. Burkardt, J. Eberth, S. Freund, T. Mylaeus, S. Skoda, W. Teichert, H. G. Thomas, and A. v. Werth pp. 1783-1791 [View Page Images , PDF (1280 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetime measurements in 120Xe J. C. Walpe, B. F. Davis, S. Naguleswaran, W. Reviol, U. Garg, Xing-Wang Pan, Da Hsuan Feng, and J. X. Saladin pp. 1792-1795 [View Page Images , PDF (612 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the magnetic moment of the 10+ isomer in 132Ba S. Harissopulos, A. Gelberg, A. Dewald, M. Hass, L. Weissman, and C. Broude pp. 1796-1800 [View Page Images , PDF (616 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Are octupole vibrations harmonic? M. P. Metlay, J. L. Johnson, J. D. Canterbury, P. D. Cottle, C. W. Nestor, S. Raman, and V. G. Zelevinsky pp. 1801-1806 [View Page Images , PDF (1057 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation energy of the πs1/2 intruder state in 189Bi J. C. Batchelder, K. S. Toth, D. M. Moltz, T. J. Ognibene, M. W. Rowe, C. R. Bingham, E. F. Zganjar, and B. E. Zimmerman pp. 1807-1809 [View Page Images , PDF (519 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bands observed in 102Ru using the incomplete fusion reaction H. Dejbakhsh and S. Bouttchenko pp. 1810-1817 [View Page Images , PDF (1324 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chaotic behavior in the cranking and particles-rotor models A. T. Kruppa, K. F. Pál, and N. Rowley pp. 1818-1826 [View Page Images , PDF (1551 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-odd components in the mean field of rotating superdeformed nuclei J. Dobaczewski and J. Dudek pp. 1827-1839 [View Page Images , PDF (2520 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified treatment of scattering and cluster structure in α+closed shell nuclei: 20Ne and 44Ti B. Buck, J. C. Johnston, A. C. Merchant, and S. M. Perez pp. 1840-1844 [View Page Images , PDF (785 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing correlations between the normal and abnormal parity orbits and the mechanism of the stretching effect Lian-Ao Wu, Hui-Ming Ding, and Xiao-Gong Jing pp. 1845-1852 [View Page Images , PDF (1226 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified description of the low lying states of the ground bands of even-even nuclei S. Drenska, A. Georgieva, V. Gueorguiev, R. Roussev, and P. Raychev pp. 1853-1863 [View Page Images , PDF (1632 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-parameter formula for rotational spectra Guo-Mo Zeng, Wei Liu, and En-Guang Zhao pp. 1864-1870 [View Page Images , PDF (873 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous-fission half-lives of deformed superheavy nuclei R. Smolańczuk, J. Skalski, and A. Sobiczewski pp. 1871-1880 [View Page Images , PDF (1576 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model study of the high spin states in the N=50 isotones 92Mo, 93Tc, 94Ru, and 95Rh S. S. Ghugre and S. K. Datta pp. 1881-1893 [View Page Images , PDF (1877 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Unique potentials for the elastic scattering of 350 MeV 7Li from 12C and 28Si A. Nadasen, J. Brusoe, J. Farhat, T. Stevens, J. Williams, L. Nieman, J. S. Winfield, R. E. Warner, F. D. Becchetti, J. W. Jänecke, T. Annakkage, J. Bajema, D. Roberts, and H. S. Govinden pp. 1894-1899 [View Page Images , PDF (991 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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The sphericity of central heavy-ion reactions W. J. Llope, W. Bauer, D. Craig, E. E. Gualtieri, S. Hannuschke, R. A. Lacey, J. Lauret, T. Li, C. M. Mader, A. Nadasen, E. Norbeck, R. Pak, G. Peilert, N. T. Stone, A. M. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, J. Yee, and S. J. Yennello pp. 1900-1914 [View Page Images , PDF (2921 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Emission of photons in spontaneous fission of 252Cf H. van der Ploeg, J. C. Bacelar, A. Buda, C. R. Laurens, A. van der Woude, J. J. Gaardho/je, Z. Żelazny, G. van ’t Hof, and N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki pp. 1915-1923 [View Page Images , PDF (1592 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tensor effects in 6Li→+12C scattering P. L. Kerr, K. W. Kemper, P. V. Green, K. Mohajeri, E. G. Myers, D. Robson, and B. G. Schmidt pp. 1924-1933 [View Page Images , PDF (1327 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Population of collective bands in Dy isotopes using heavy ion induced transfer reactions A. J. Cresswell, P. A. Butler, D. Cline, R. A. Cunningham, M. Devlin, F. Hannachi, R. Ibbotson, G. D. Jones, P. M. Jones, M. Simon, J. Simpson, J. F. Smith, and C. Y. Wu pp. 1934-1939 [View Page Images , PDF (876 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation functions and isomeric cross section ratio of the 58Ni(n,p)58Com,g reactions from 2 to 15 MeV Cs. M. Buczkó, J. Csikai, S. Sudár, Á. Grallert, S. A. Jonah, B. W. Jimba, T. Chimoye, and M. Wagner pp. 1940-1946 [View Page Images , PDF (1115 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological transition amplitudes in selected 1p-shell nuclei B. C. Doyle and Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay pp. 1947-1956 [View Page Images , PDF (1548 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exclusive charged pion photoproduction in selected light nuclei B. C. Doyle, Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay, and R. S. Wittman pp. 1957-1962 [View Page Images , PDF (869 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon polarization in the 4He(γ,d→)2H reaction Edward L. Tomusiak, Winfried Leidemann, and Hartmut M. Hofmann pp. 1963-1971 [View Page Images , PDF (1169 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-medium effects at low temperatures in the photon bremsstrahlung T. Alm, E. L. Bratkovskaya, G. Röpke, A. D. Sedrakian, and V. D. Toneev pp. 1972-1979 [View Page Images , PDF (1360 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous anisotropies of fission fragments for sub-barrier fusion-fission reactions D. Vorkapić and B. Ivanišević pp. 1980-1985 [View Page Images , PDF (795 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparing the p-wave multipoles for π0 photoproduction with low-energy predictions J. C. Bergstrom pp. 1986-1991 [View Page Images , PDF (1057 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagator modifications in elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering within the spectator expansion C. R. Chinn, Ch. Elster, R. M. Thaler, and S. P. Weppner pp. 1992-2003 [View Page Images , PDF (2150 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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The fragment coalescence model W. J. Llope, S. E. Pratt, N. Frazier, R. Pak, D. Craig, E. E. Gualtieri, S. A. Hannuschke, N. T. Stone, A. M. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, J. Yee, R. A. Lacey, J. Lauret, A. C. Mignerey, and D. E. Russ pp. 2004-2012 [View Page Images , PDF (1815 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of Gogny-type interactions on the nuclear flow F. Haddad, F. Sébille, M. Farine, V. de la Mota, P. Schuck, and B. Jouault pp. 2013-2020 [View Page Images , PDF (1386 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective reactions to the continuum in neutron scattering by niobium A. Marcinkowski, B. Marianski, P. Demetriou, and P. E. Hodgson pp. 2021-2027 [View Page Images , PDF (1180 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Tranverse energy and charged particle multiplicity in p-nucleus collisions at 14.6 GeV/c J. Barrette et al. pp. 2028-2036 [View Page Images , PDF (1622 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of superdense hadronic matter in high energy heavy-ion collisions Bao-An Li and Che Ming Ko pp. 2037-2063 [View Page Images , PDF (4233 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy constraint effects on pion multiplicity distribution Q. H. Zhang, W. Q. Chao, and C. S. Gao pp. 2064-2068 [View Page Images , PDF (636 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ratios of strange antibaryons to baryons in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions Ben-Hao Sa, An Tai, and Zhong-Dao Lu pp. 2069-2071 [View Page Images , PDF (525 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transitions in warm, asymmetric nuclear matter Horst Müller and Brian D. Serot pp. 2072-2091 [View Page Images , PDF (3485 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Factorial correlator study in 32Ag/Br interaction at 200A GeV Dipak Ghosh, Madhumita Lahiri, Argha Deb, Susobhan Das, Krishnadas Purkait, Biswanath Biswas, Jayanta Roychoudhury, Rini Chatterjee, and Abdul Kayum Zafri pp. 2092-2096 [View Page Images , PDF (700 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Measurement of the electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the proton B. E. MacGibbon, G. Garino, M. A. Lucas, A. M. Nathan, G. Feldman, and B. Dolbilkin pp. 2097-2109 [View Page Images , PDF (2326 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic meson form factors in a covariant Salpeter model C. R. Münz, J. Resag, B. C. Metsch, and H. R. Petry pp. 2110-2119 [View Page Images , PDF (1537 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Updated analysis of πN elastic scattering data to 2.1 GeV: The baryon spectrum Richard A. Arndt, Igor I. Strakovsky, Ron L. Workman, and Marcello M. Pavan pp. 2120-2130 [View Page Images , PDF (1490 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Baryon mappings applied to the three-color delta model A. I. Georgieva, R. P. Roussev, P. P. Raychev, M. V. Stoitsov, S. Pittel, and J. Dukelsky pp. 2131-2143 [View Page Images , PDF (1782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	K-N S channel I=1,0 phase shifts as a direct measure of chiral condensation P. Bicudo, J. Ribeiro, and J. Rodrigues pp. 2144-2157 [View Page Images , PDF (2027 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NN¯ annihilation in large NC QCD with ρ and ω mesons Yang Lu and R. D. Amado pp. 2158-2171 [View Page Images , PDF (1919 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model compared with chiral perturbation theory: The pion radius in SU(2) revisited H.-J. Hippe and S. P. Klevansky pp. 2172-2184 [View Page Images , PDF (1647 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral prediction for the πN S-wave scattering length a- to order O(Mπ4) V. Bernard, N. Kaiser, and Ulf-G. Meissner pp. 2185-2187 [View Page Images , PDF (408 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ηN S-wave scattering length in a three-coupled-channel, multiresonance, unitary model Mijo Batinić, Ivo Šlaus, and Alfred Švarc pp. 2188-2194 [View Page Images , PDF (1155 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-flavor quark matter in the chiral color dielectric model Sanjay K. Ghosh and S. C. Phatak pp. 2195-2202 [View Page Images , PDF (1181 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Neutrino magnetic moment effects in neutrino nucleus reactions S. K. Singh and M. Sajjad Athar pp. 2203-2209 [View Page Images , PDF (1017 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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Excitation of the 2.65 MeV state in the 20Ne(p,n)20Na reaction at 135 MeV B. D. Anderson, B. Wetmore, A. R. Baldwin, L. A. Garcia, D. M. Manley, R. Madey, J. W. Watson, W. M. Zhang, B. A. Brown, C. C. Foster, and Y. Wang pp. 2210-2215 [View Page Images , PDF (939 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Response of mica to weakly interacting massive particles J. Engel, M. T. Ressell, I. S. Towner, and W. E. Ormand pp. 2216-2221 [View Page Images , PDF (1024 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion and neutron production by cosmic-ray muons underground Jean Delorme, Magda Ericson, Torleif Ericson, and Petr Vogel pp. 2222-2230 [View Page Images , PDF (1586 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-neutron capture reactions in supernovae neutrino bubbles J. Görres, H. Herndl, I. J. Thompson, and M. Wiescher pp. 2231-2235 [View Page Images , PDF (870 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Decays of 160-162Hf T. Hild, W.-D. Schmidt-Ott, V. Kunze, F. Meissner, H. Salewski, K. S. Toth, and R. Michaelsen pp. 2236-2239 [View Page Images , PDF (569 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Half-lives of isomeric states in 57Fe and 83Kr I. Ahmad, K. E. Rehm, E. P. Kanter, W. Kutschera, W. R. Phillips, and A. R. Barnett pp. 2240-2241 [View Page Images , PDF (362 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-state properties of strontium isotopes Andrzej Baran and Walter Höhenberger pp. 2242-2245 [View Page Images , PDF (544 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extraction of the πNN coupling constant from NN scattering data Richard A. Arndt, Igor I. Strakovsky, and Ron L. Workman pp. 2246-2249 [View Page Images , PDF (602 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crystalline structure of the mixed confined-deconfined phase in neutron stars N. K. Glendenning and S. Pei pp. 2250-2253 [View Page Images , PDF (645 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Even-odd staggering of pairing-force strength R. C. Nayak and J. M. Pearson pp. 2254-2256 [View Page Images , PDF (548 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum Tamm-Dancoff approximation calculations for the escape widths of the isobaric analog state and Gamow-Teller resonance in 208Bi D. P. Knobles, S. A. Stotts, and T. Udagawa pp. 2257-2260 [View Page Images , PDF (611 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1d5/2-2s1/2 splitting in light nuclei H. T. Fortune pp. 2261-2263 [View Page Images , PDF (404 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle evaporation following multinucleon transfer processes with radioactive beams C. H. Dasso, G. Pollarolo, and A. Winther pp. 2264-2265 [View Page Images , PDF (187 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Can one see Coulomb-nuclear interference effects in nucleon-nucleus scattering? N. Van Giai, J. Van de Wiele, and L. N. Savushkin pp. 2266-2268 [View Page Images , PDF (453 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Medium effects on spin observables of proton knockout reactions G. Krein, Th. A. Maris, B. B. Rodrigues, and E. A. Veit pp. 2269-2270 [View Page Images or PDF (98 kB) ]

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

•	Selected Abstracts from Physical Review D pp. 2271 [View Page Images , PDF (176 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]