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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Absence of entrance-channel effects in the high-energy γ-ray emission from 146Gd S. Flibotte, M. Cromaz, J. DeGraaf, T. E. Drake, A. Galindo-Uribarri, G. Hackman, V. P. Janzen, S. M. Mullins, D. C. Radford, J. C. Waddington, D. Ward, and J. N. Wilson pp. R533-R536 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spectroscopy of the halo nucleus 11Li by an experimental study of 11Li+p collisions A. A. Korsheninnikov, E. Yu. Nikolskii, T. Kobayashi, A. Ozawa, S. Fukuda, E. A. Kuzmin, S. Momota, B. G. Novatskii, A. A. Ogloblin, V. Pribora, I. Tanihata, and K. Yoshida pp. R537-R540 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superdeformation in 198Po D. P. McNabb, G. Baldsiefen, L. A. Bernstein, J. A. Cizewski, H. -Q. Jin, W. Younes, J. A. Becker, L. P. Farris, E. A. Henry, J. R. Hughes, C. S. Lee, S. J. Asztalos, B. Cederwall, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and F. S. Stephens pp. R541-R543 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reexamination of the nuclear orientation model of quasifission reactions to explain anomalous fragment anisotropies at sub-barrier energies N. Majumdar, P. Bhattacharya, D. C. Biswas, R. K. Choudhury, D. M. Nadkarni, and A. Saxena pp. R544-R548 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Do we have three S11 resonances in the second resonance region? Zhenping Li and Ron Workman pp. R549-R552 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Analysis of hard two-photon correlations measured in heavy-ion reactions at intermediate energies H. W. Barz, B. Kämpfer, Gy. Wolf, and W. Bauer pp. R553-R557 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Improved analysis of parity violation at neutron p-wave resonances of 238U based on resonance spin assignments H. Postma, F. Gunsing, and F. Corvi pp. R558-R562 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

(e, e′p) reaction and the transition to the eikonal regime A. Bianconi and M. Radici pp. R563-R566 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excess production of low-mass lepton pairs in S+Au collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and the quark-hadron phase transition Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, Bikash Sinha, and Charles Gale pp. R567-R571 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

One-proton halo in 26P and two-proton halo in 27S Zhongzhou Ren, Baoqiu Chen, Zhongyu Ma, and Gongou Xu pp. R572-R575 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Quadrupole deformation of deuterons and final-state interaction in 2→(e,e′p) scattering on tensor-polarized deuterons at GeV energies A. Bianconi, S. Jeschonnek, N. N. Nikolaev, and B. G. Zakharov pp. 576-587 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Leading-order nuclear π-γ exchange force J. L. Friar and S. A. Coon pp. 588-592 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization observables in vector meson photoproduction Michael Pichowsky, Çetin Şavkli, and Frank Tabakin pp. 593-610 [View PDF (357 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Articles

•	Nuclear moments of 179Ta from optical measurement of hyperfine structure M. Wakasugi, W. G. Jin, M. G. Hies, T. T. Inamura, T. Murayama, T. Ariga, T. Ishizuka, T. Wakui, H. Katsuragawa, J. Z. Ruan, I. Sugai, and A. Ikeda pp. 611-615 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Spectroscopy of 20F levels S. Raman, E. K. Warburton, J. W. Starner, E. T. Jurney, J. E. Lynn, P. Tikkanen, and J. Keinonen pp. 616-646 [View PDF (992 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New search for 26O M. Fauerbach, D. J. Morrissey, W. Benenson, B. A. Brown, M. Hellström, J. H. Kelley, R. A. Kryger, R. Pfaff, C. F. Powell, and B. M. Sherrill pp. 647-651 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for continuum E0 transitions following the decay of high spin states in 130Ce J. X. Saladin, M. P. Metlay, D. F. Winchell, M. S. Kaplan, I. Y. Lee, C. Baktash, M. L. Halbert, N. R. Johnson, and O. Dietzsch pp. 652-659 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radioactivity of neutron deficient isotopes in the region N>82>Z R. D. Page, P. J. Woods, R. A. Cunningham, T. Davinson, N. J. Davis, A. N. James, K. Livingston, P. J. Sellin, and A. C. Shotter pp. 660-670 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of collectivity to very high spins in 160Yb N. R. Johnson, F. K. McGowan, D. F. Winchell, C. Baktash, J. D. Garrett, I. Y. Lee, J. C. Wells, L. Chaturvedi, W. B. Gao, W. C. Ma, S. Pilotte, and C.-H. Yu pp. 671-678 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spectroscopy in the second well of the 148Gd nucleus: Two quasiparticle and collective excitations G. de Angelis, R. Wyss, D. Bazzacco, M. De Poli, A. Gadea, S. Lunardi, D. R. Napoli, C. M. Petrache, C. Rossi Alvarez, M. Sferrazza, and B. Rubio pp. 679-688 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous angular distributions in pion and α particle scattering to the 22+ state of 52Cr D. S. Oakley, R. J. Peterson, C. L. Morris, and H. T. Fortune pp. 689-694 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrinoless double beta decay within the quasiparticle random-phase approximation with proton-neutron pairing G. Pantis, F. Šimkovic, J. D. Vergados, and Amand Faessler pp. 695-707 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and reactions of the 12,14Be nuclei I. J. Thompson and M. V. Zhukov pp. 708-714 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermion dynamical symmetry model for the even-even and even-odd nuclei in the Xe-Ba region Xing-Wang Pan, Jia-Lun Ping, Da Hsuan Feng, Jin-Quan Chen, Cheng-Li Wu, and Michael W. Guidry pp. 715-729 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron decay of high angular momentum states excited in transfer reactions N. Van Giai, Ch. Stoyanov, V. V. Voronov, and S. Fortier pp. 730-739 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of proton drip-line nuclei around doubly magic 48Ni W. Nazarewicz, J. Dobaczewski, T. R. Werner, J. A. Maruhn, P.-G. Reinhard, K. Rutz, C. R. Chinn, A. S. Umar, and M. R. Strayer pp. 740-751 [View PDF (361 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Articles

•	Selection rule for fragmentations of doorway s-hole states in light nuclei Taiichi Yamada, Miho Takahashi, and Kiyomi Ikeda pp. 752-764 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Single-particle and collective properties of drip-line nuclei I. Hamamoto, H. Sagawa, and X. Z. Zhang pp. 765-774 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled-channels model for superdeformed prolate nuclei: α-chain states in 16O A. C. Merchant and W. D. Rae pp. 775-779 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Refined Thomas-Fermi description of hot nuclei J. N. De, N. Rudra, Subrata Pal, and S. K. Samaddar pp. 780-789 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tensor coupling and vector mesons in dense nuclear matter Abhee Kanti Dutt-Mazumder, Binayak Dutta-Roy, Anirban Kundu, and Triptesh De pp. 790-795 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Mass distribution in 19F induced fission of 232Th G. K. Gubbi, A. Goswami, B. S. Tomar, B. John, A. Ramaswami, A. V. Reddy, P. P. Burte, and S. B. Manohar pp. 796-802 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absence of isotopic dependence in the sub-barrier fusion of 48Ti+58,60,64Ni systems A. M. Vinodkumar, K. M. Varier, N. V. Prasad, D. L. Sastry, A. K. Sinha, N. Madhavan, P. Sugathan, D. O. Kataria, and J. J. Das pp. 803-810 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Pion-nucleus single charge exchange induced by stopped negative pions R. Nair, H. S. Plendl, E. P. Gavathas, L.-C. Liu, R. J. Estep, B. J. Dropesky, J. D. Bowman, J. N. Knudson, B. J. Lieb, C. E. Stronach, H. O. Funsten, and J. Mackenzie pp. 811-814 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant structures in the 20Ne+16O system Y. Miao, R. W. Zurmühle, S. P. Barrow, N. G. Wimer, J. T. Murgatroyd, C. Lee, and Z. Liu pp. 815-822 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dependence of intermediate mass fragment production on the reaction mechanism in light heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energy Y. Larochelle, L. Beaulieu, G. Anctil, B. Djerroud, D. Doré, R. Laforest, J. Pouliot, R. Roy, M. Samri, C. St-Pierre, G. C. Ball, D. R. Bowman, A. Galindo-Uribarri, E. Hagberg, D. Horn, D. Guinet, and P. Lautesse pp. 823-837 [View PDF (453 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multi-ħω shell model analyses of elastic and inelastic proton scattering from 14N and 16O S. Karataglidis, P. J. Dortmans, K. Amos, and R. de Swiniarski pp. 838-844 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improvement of the nucleon emission process and the statistical property in molecular dynamics Akira Ono and Hisashi Horiuchi pp. 845-848 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron elastic and inelastic breakup in reactions induced by 20Ne Angela Bonaccorso pp. 849-854 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Preequilibrium decay in the exciton model for nuclear potential with a finite depth Ye. A. Bogila, V. M. Kolomietz, A. I. Sanzhur, and S. Shlomo pp. 855-859 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar and vector interactions of a composite spin-1/2 system S. J. Wallace, Franz Gross, and J. A. Tjon pp. 860-870 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of shell structure and N/Z ratio of a projectile on the excitation energy distribution between interacting nuclei in deep-inelastic collisions G. G. Adamian, R. V. Jolos, A. K. Nasirov, and A. I. Muminov pp. 871-879 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonexistence of the Oppenheimer-Phillips process in low-energy deuteron-nucleus collisions Gy. Bencze and Colston Chandler pp. 880-886 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Hadronization during quark-gluon plasma phase transition A. K. Mohanty and S. K. Kataria pp. 887-895 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hanbury-Brown–Twiss analysis of anisotropic transverse flow S. A. Voloshin and W. E. Cleland pp. 896-900 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparisons between rescattering calculations and boson interferometry experiments T. J. Humanic pp. 901-907 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cumulants, coherence, and contamination in multiparticle Bose-Einstein interferometry J. G. Cramer and K. Kadija pp. 908-917 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse momentum dependence of Hanbury-Brown–Twiss correlation radii Urs Achim Wiedemann, Pierre Scotto, and Ulrich Heinz pp. 918-931 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Study of time reversal violation in β decay of polarized 8Li J. Sromicki, M. Allet, K. Bodek, W. Hajdas, J. Lang, R. Müller, S. Navert, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, J. Zejma, and W. Haeberli pp. 932-955 [View PDF (507 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear muon capture by 3He: Meson exchange currents for the triton channel J. G. Congleton and E. Truhlík pp. 956-976 [View PDF (450 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Neutron capture cross section of 15N at stellar energies J. Meissner, H. Schatz, H. Herndl, M. Wiescher, H. Beer, and F. Käppeler pp. 977-981 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying levels in 57Cu and the rp process X. G. Zhou, H. Dejbakhsh, C. A. Gagliardi, J. Jiang, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble pp. 982-988 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	High-spin results for 155Tb M. A. Riley, D. J. Hartley, J. Simpson, J. F. Sharpey-Schafer, D. E. Archer, T. B. Brown, J. Döring, P. Fallon, C. A. Kalfas, and S. L. Tabor pp. 989-992 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge pickup of 238U at relativistic energies Th. Rubehn et al. pp. 993-996 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binary decay fragment cross sections and prescission charge multiplicity in 84Kr+27Al at 10.6 MeV/nucleon K. Yuasa-Nakagawa, J. Kasagi, T. Nakagawa, K. Yoshida, Y. Futami, S. M. Lee, K. Furutaka, K. Matsuda, and W. Q. Shen pp. 997-1000 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition quadrupole moments in 84Zr S. Chattopadhyay, H. C. Jain, and J. A. Sheikh pp. 1001-1004 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analyzing powers for 1→(π+,π+p) at Tπ=165 and 240 MeV B. A. Raue et al. pp. 1005-1008 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	g-factor measurement of 132Ba in the backbending region Pragya Das, R. G. Pillay, V. V. Krishnamurthy, S. N. Mishra, and S. H. Devare pp. 1009-1011 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prescission neutron multiplicities and nuclear viscosity: A systematic study C. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, and K. Krishan pp. 1012-1015 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron halos and E1 resonances in 208Pb J. P. Adams, B. Castel, and H. Sagawa pp. 1016-1017 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear curvature energy in relativistic models M. Centelles, X. Viñas, and P. Schuck pp. 1018-1021 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying magnetic dipole strength in 163Dy V. G. Soloviev, A. V. Sushkov, and N. Yu. Shirikova pp. 1022-1024 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperon-accompanied fission with an incompletely equilibrated Λ particle H. J. Krappe and V. V. Pashkevich pp. 1025-1027 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical convergence in solving the Vlasov equation C. Jarzynski and G. F. Bertsch pp. 1028-1031 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Relativistic cluster dynamics of nucleons and mesons. II. Formalism and examples’’ A. Stadler and J. A. Tjon pp. 1032-1034 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Comment on ‘‘Shape and superdeformed structure in Hg isotopes in relativistic mean field model’’ and ‘‘Structure of neutron-deficient Pt, Hg, and Pb isotopes’’ K. Heyde, C. De Coster, P. Van Duppen, M. Huyse, J. L. Wood, and W. Nazarewicz pp. 1035-1037 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Shape and superdeformed structure in Hg isotopes in relativistic mean field model’ and ‘Structure of neutron-deficient Pt, Hg, and Pb isotopes’ ’’ N. Takigawa, S. Yoshida, K. Hagino, S. K. Patra, and C. R. Praharaj pp. 1038-1040 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]