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  • Nuclear Structure
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  • Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions
  • Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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• COMMENTS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Reaction mechanisms in 12C(γ, pp) near 200 MeV E. D. Hackett, W. J. McDonald, A. K. Opper, M. A. Quraan, N. L. Rodning, F. M. Rozon, G. Feldman, N. R. Kolb, R. E. Pywell, D. M. Skopik, D. E. Tiller, J. M. Vogt, E. Korkmaz, and G. V. O'Rielly pp. R1047-R1051 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Measurement of the 1H(γ, π0) cross section near threshold J. C. Bergstrom, J. M. Vogt, R. Igarashi, K. J. Keeter, E. L. Hallin, G. A. Retzlaff, D. M. Skopik, and E. C. Booth pp. R1052-R1056 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross comparisons of nuclear temperatures determined from excited state populations and isotope yields M. B. Tsang, F. Zhu, W. G. Lynch, A. Aranda, D. R. Bowman, R. T. de Souza, C. K. Gelbke, Y. D. Kim, L. Phair, S. Pratt, C. Williams, H. M. Xu, and W. A. Friedman pp. R1057-R1060 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Decreased absorption cross sections in the case of strongly coupled channels with positive Q values W. von Oertzen and I. Krouglov pp. R1061-R1064 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Spinodal instabilities within the Boltzmann-Langevin approach S. Chattopadhyay pp. R1065-R1069 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rotational inertia of superdeformed nuclei: Intruder orbitals, pairing, and identical bands G. de France, C. Baktash, B. Haas, and W. Nazarewicz pp. R1070-R1073 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Pion absorption on 3He at low energies H. Hahn, A. Altman, D. Ashery, G. Gefen, D. R. Gill, R. R. Johnson, R. Levy-Nathansohn, M. A. Moinester, M. Sevior, and R. P. Trelle pp. 1074-1091 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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np-elastic analyzing power AN0 at 485 and 788 MeV M. W. McNaughton, K. H. McNaughton, G. Glass, P. J. Riley, K. H. Auer, C. A. Davis, E. Gülmez, J. C. Hiebert, R. H. Jeppesen, R. D. Ransome, H. Spinka, V. Sum, I. Supek, G. E. Tripard, and H. Woolverton pp. 1092-1097 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bonn potential model at finite temperature Song Gao, Yi-Jun Zhang, and Ru-Keng Su pp. 1098-1101 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Consistent meson-field-theoretical description of pp bremsstrahlung J. A. Eden and M. F. Gari pp. 1102-1131 [View PDF (735 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipole analysis of spin observables in vector meson photoproduction Çetin Şavkli, Frank Tabakin, and Shin Nan Yang pp. 1132-1142 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin-violating meson-nucleon vertices as an alternate mechanism of charge-symmetry breaking S. Gardner, C. J. Horowitz, and J. Piekarewicz pp. 1143-1153 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-pion exchange contributions to nuclear charge asymmetry S. A. Coon and J. A. Niskanen pp. 1154-1160 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark delocalization, color screening, and N-N intermediate range attraction: P waves Guanghan Wu, Lijian Teng, J. L. Ping, F. Wang, and T. Goldman pp. 1161-1166 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Pion elastic and inelastic 21+ scattering on 58,60,62,64Ni at Tπ=180 MeV C. M. Laymon, W. Amos, M. G. Burlein, H. T. Fortune, T. Ekenberg, A. Kotwal, J. M. O’Donnell, J. D. Silk, J. D. Zumbro, C. L. Morris, S. J. Seestrom, K. S. Dhuga, R. Garnett, M. W. Rawool-Sullivan, C. F. Moore, S. L. Morris, and D. L. Watson pp. 1167-1172 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-K isomers in 176W and mechanisms of K violation B. Crowell, P. Chowdhury, D. J. Blumenthal, S. J. Freeman, C. J. Lister, M. P. Carpenter, R. G. Henry, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, Y. Liang, F. Soramel, and I. G. Bearden pp. 1173-1190 [View PDF (352 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Prompt γ-ray spectroscopy of the 104Mo and 108Mo fission fragments A. Guessous, N. Schulz, M. Bentaleb, E. Lubkiewicz, J. L. Durell, C. J. Pearson, W. R. Phillips, J. A. Shannon, W. Urban, B. J. Varley, I. Ahmad, C. J. Lister, L. R. Morss, K. L. Nash, C. W. Williams, and S. Khazrouni pp. 1191-1196 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alpha-particle spectroscopic strengths in 19F and 20Ne Z. Q. Mao, H. T. Fortune, and A. G. Lacaze pp. 1197-1204 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and decay of a four-quasiparticle 15- isomer in 180Ta G. D. Dracoulis, F. G. Kondev, A. P. Byrne, T. Kibédi, S. Bayer, P. M. Davidson, P. M. Walker, C. Purry, and C. J. Pearson pp. 1205-1209 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spectroscopic study of Λ10B, Λ12C, Λ28Si, Λ89Y, Λ139La, and Λ208Pb by the (π+,K+) reaction T. Hasegawa, O. Hashimoto, S. Homma, T. Miyachi, T. Nagae, M. Sekimoto, T. Shibata, H. Sakaguchi, T. Takahashi, K. Aoki, H. Noumi, H. Bhang, M. Youn, Y. Gavrilov, S. Ajimura, T. Kishimoto, A. Ohkusu, K. Maeda, R. Sawafta, and R. P. Redwine pp. 1210-1220 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High spin states in 164Lu P. Juneja, S. L. Gupta, S. C. Pancholi, Ashok Kumar, D. Mehta, L. Chaturvedi, S. K. Katoch, S. Malik, G. Shanker, R. K. Bhowmik, S. Muralithar, G. Rodrigues, and R. P. Singh pp. 1221-1232 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic realization of statistical state in finite systems Xizhen Wu, Fumihiko Sakata, Yizhong Zhuo, Zhuxia Li, and Nguyen Dinh Dang pp. 1233-1243 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rearrangement of valence neutrons by proton excitation in odd-odd Sb nuclei Zs. Dombrádi, I. Dankó, S. Brant, and V. Paar pp. 1244-1248 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Green’s function method with energy-independent vertex functions S. Y. Tsay Tzeng, T. T. Kuo, Yiharn Tzeng, H. B. Geyer, and P. Navratil pp. 1249-1253 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Restoration of overlap functions and spectroscopic factors in nuclei M. V. Stoitsov, S. S. Dimitrova, and A. N. Antonov pp. 1254-1257 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition charge densities at the onset of deformations for even-even 98–112Ru nuclei A. J. Singh and P. K. Raina pp. 1258-1265 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Inelastic deuteron scattering from the high-spin isomer 178Hfm2 (16+) S. Deylitz, B. D. Valnion, K. El Abiary, J. de Boer, A. Gollwitzer, R. Hertenberger, G. Graw, R. Kulessa, Ch. Briançon, D. Le Du, R. Meunier, M. Hussonnois, O. Constantinescu, S. Fortier, J. B. Kim, L. H. Rosier, G. Rotbard, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, S. A. Karamian, H. J. Wollersheim, H. Folger, J. Gerl, Th. Happ, and C. Hategan pp. 1266-1272 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distributions of γ rays from the 7Li(p,γ) reaction at low energies K. I. Hahn, C. R. Brune, and R. W. Kavanagh pp. 1273-1277 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inclusive positive pion photoproduction K. G. Fissum, H. S. Caplan, E. L. Hallin, D. M. Skopik, J. M. Vogt, M. Frodyma, D. P. Rosenzweig, D. W. Storm, G. V. O’Rielly, and K. R. Garrow pp. 1278-1289 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conclusive evidence for the influence of nuclear orientation on quasifission D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, J. R. Leigh, J. C. Mein, C. R. Morton, J. O. Newton, and H. Timmers pp. 1290-1300 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Sub- and near-barrier reactions for 12C+108,110Pd and 7Li+113,115In O. A. Capurro, D. E. DiGregorio, S. Gil, D. Abriola, M. di Tada, J. O. Fernández Niello, A. O. Macchiavelli, G. V. Martí, A. J. Pacheco, J. E. Testoni, D. Tomasi, and I. Urteaga pp. 1301-1308 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Triton and alpha-particle production in neutron-induced reactions on carbon at En=42.5, 62.7, and 72.8 MeV I. Slypen, V. Corcalciuc, J. P. Meulders, and M. B. Chadwick pp. 1309-1318 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice gas model for fragmentation: From argon on scandium to gold on gold Subal Das Gupta and Jicai Pan pp. 1319-1324 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Recurrence of the compound nucleus in neutron resonance reactions Makio Ohkubo pp. 1325-1335 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniform α-nucleus potential in a wide range of masses and energies U. Atzrott, P. Mohr, H. Abele, C. Hillenmayer, and G. Staudt pp. 1336-1347 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Photon emission from a parton gas at chemical nonequilibrium Christoph T. Traxler and Markus H. Thoma pp. 1348-1352 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of temperature and transverse flow velocity at chemical freeze-out in relativistic nuclear interactions A. D. Panagiotou, G. Mavromanolakis, and J. Tzoulis pp. 1353-1362 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	gKNΛ and gKNΣ from QCD sum rules Seungho Choe, Myung Ki Cheoun, and Su Houng Lee pp. 1363-1367 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon interaction in the chromodielectric soliton model: Dynamics S. Pepin, Fl. Stancu, W. Koepf, and L. Wilets pp. 1368-1373 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many-body theory of ρ-ω mixing Shun-fu Gao, C. M. Shakin, and Wei-Dong Sun pp. 1374-1382 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	UA(1) breaking and scalar mesons in the Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model V. Dmitrašinović pp. 1383-1396 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Neutron capture cross sections of the cerium isotopes for s- and p-process studies F. Käppeler, K. A. Toukan, M. Schumann, and A. Mengoni pp. 1397-1408 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charged current neutrino-nucleus reaction cross sections at intermediate energies T. S. Kosmas and E. Oset pp. 1409-1415 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperon-rich matter in neutron stars Jürgen Schaffner and Igor N. Mishustin pp. 1416-1429 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Continuity equation in electron scattering from nuclei J. E. Amaro, B. Ameziane, and A. M. Lallena pp. 1430-1433 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Amplitude ambiguities in pseudoscalar meson photoproduction Greg Keaton and Ron Workman pp. 1434-1436 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compressibility probed by linear momentum transfer F. Haddad, J. B. Natowitz, B. Jouault, V. de la Mota, G. Royer, and F. Sébille pp. 1437-1439 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle evaporation from semiclassical dynamics G. F. Bertsch, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud pp. 1440-1443 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Large-space shell-model calculations for light nuclei’’ Attila Csótó and Rezső G. Lovas pp. 1444-1446 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Large-space shell-model calculations for light nuclei’ ’’ D. C. Zheng, J. P. Vary, and B. R. Barrett pp. 1447-1448 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Energies and widths of low-lying levels in 11Be and 11’ F. C. Barker pp. 1449-1451 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka rule violation in the reaction p¯p→φπ0’’ Bingsong Zou pp. 1452 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka rule violation in the reaction p¯p→φπ0’ ’’ D. Buzatu and F. M. Lev pp. 1453 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]