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  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Complete valence particle yrast lines in N=84 nuclei above gadolinium C. T. Zhang, P. Kleinheinz, M. Piiparinen, R. Broda, R. Collatz, P. J. Daly, K. H. Maier, R. Menegazzo, G. Sletten, J. Styczen, and J. Blomqvist pp. R1-R5 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quasifree π+ production studied using the 12C(γ, π+n)11B reaction in the Δ(1232) resonance region J. A. MacKenzie, D. Branford, J. Ahrens, J. R. Annand, R. Beck, G. E. Cross, T. Davinson, P. Grabmayr, S. J. Hall, P. D. Harty, T. Hehl, D. G. Johnstone, J. D. Kellie, T. Lamparter, M. Liang, I. J. MacGregor, J. C. McGeorge, R. O. Owens, M. Sauer, R. Schneider, A. C. Shotter, K. Spaeth, P. J. Woods, and T. Yau pp. R6-R9 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

40Ca+40Ca reaction at Elab=35 MeV/nucleon: Filters and signatures to distinguish nearly central from peripheral collisions P. Pawłowski et al. pp. R10-R14 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Strangelet search and light nucleus production in relativistic Si+Pt and Au+Pt collisions A. Rusek et al. (The E886 Collaboration) pp. R15-R19 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Identification of 166Pt and 167Pt C. R. Bingham, K. S. Toth, J. C. Batchelder, D. J. Blumenthal, L. T. Brown, B. C. Busse, L. F. Conticchio, C. N. Davids, T. Davinson, D. J. Henderson, R. J. Irvine, D. Seweryniak, W. B. Walters, P. J. Woods, and B. E. Zimmerman pp. R20-R23 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Double-Λ hypernuclear formation via a neutron-rich Ξ state Izumi Kumagai-Fuse and Yoshinori Akaishi pp. R24-R27 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Early fragment formation in heavy-ion collisions Rajeev K. Puri, Christoph Hartnack, and Jörg Aichelin pp. R28-R31 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Coherent electroproduction of pions from 3He R. J. Loucks and V. R. Pandharipande pp. 32-41 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for large discrepancies between data and calculations for the kinematically incomplete neutron-deuteron breakup reaction W. Tornow, R. T. Braun, H. Witała, and N. Koori pp. 42-49 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb-Sturmian separable expansion approach: Three-body Faddeev calculations for Coulomb-like interactions Z. Papp and W. Plessas pp. 50-56 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Excited states in 139Sm described with the interacting boson model plus broken pairs C. Rossi Alvarez, D. Vretenar, Zs. Podolyák, D. Bazzacco, G. Bonsignori, F. Brandolini, S. Brant, G. de Angelis, M. De Poli, M. Ionescu-Bujor, Y. Li, S. Lunardi, N. H. Medina, and C. M. Petrache pp. 57-71 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High energy octupole resonance in 116Sn H. L. Clark, D. H. Youngblood, and Y.-W. Lui pp. 72-77 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nuclear structure of 170Tm from neutron-capture and (d,p)-reaction measurements R. W. Hoff, H. G. Börner, K. Schreckenbach, G. G. Colvin, F. Hoyler, W. Schauer, T. von Egidy, R. Georgii, J. Ott, S. Schründer, R. F. Casten, R. L. Gill, M. Balodis, P. Prokofjevs, L. Simonova, J. Kern, V. A. Khitrov, A. M. Sukhovoj, O. Bersillon, S. Joly, G. Graw, D. Hofer, and B. Valnion pp. 78-116 [View PDF (508 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Shell-model influence in the rotational nucleus 86Mo D. Rudolph, C. J. Gross, Y. A. Akovali, C. Baktash, J. Döring, F. E. Durham, P.-F. Hua, G. D. Johns, M. Korolija, D. R. LaFosse, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, W. Rathbun, D. G. Sarantites, D. W. Stracener, S. L. Tabor, A. V. Afanasjev, and I. Ragnarsson pp. 117-124 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The (7Li, 7Beγ) reaction and isovector spin strength in 40Ca J. S. Winfield, D. Beaumel, S. Galès, H. Laurent, I. Lhenry, J. M. Maison, G. M. Crawley, S. Danczyk, S. E. Hirzebruch, J. C. Stas̆ko, and T. Suomijärvi pp. 125-131 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the mirror nuclei 9Be and 9B in a microscopic cluster model K. Arai, Y. Ogawa, Y. Suzuki, and K. Varga pp. 132-146 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal predictions for statistical nuclear correlations Dimitri Kusnezov and David Mitchell pp. 147-158 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular-momentum cranking applied to multiphonon anharmonic collective vibrations: Cranked bifurcation theory E. R. Marshalek pp. 159-175 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic behavior of octupole states in deformed rare earth nuclei and the interacting boson approximation P. D. Cottle and N. V. Zamfir pp. 176-188 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anharmonicities of γ vibrations in odd-mass deformed nuclei J. C. Durand and R. Piepenbring pp. 189-200 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Multinucleon transfer reactions in 40Ca+124Sn L. Corradi, J. H. He, D. Ackermann, A. M. Stefanini, A. Pisent, S. Beghini, G. Montagnoli, F. Scarlassara, G. F. Segato, G. Pollarolo, C. H. Dasso, and A. Winther pp. 201-205 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of cold fission in 242Pu spontaneous fission Y. X. Dardenne, R. Aryaeinejad, S. J. Asztalos, B. R. Babu, K. Butler-Moore, S. Y. Chu, J. D. Cole, M. W. Drigert, K. E. Gregorich, J. H. Hamilton, J. Kormicki, I. Y. Lee, R. W. Lougheed, Q. H. Lu, W.-C. Ma, M. F. Mohar, K. J. Moody, S. G. Prussin, A. V. Ramayya, J. O. Rasmussen, M. A. Stoyer, and J. F. Wild pp. 206-210 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of quasideuteron absorption in the 6Li(π+, pp) reaction at T π+=100, 165 MeV G. J. Lolos, G. M. Huber, E. L. Mathie, S. I. Naqvi, Z. Papandreou, D. F. Ottewell, P. L. Walden, G. Jones, X. Aslanoglou, and J. L. Visschers pp. 211-221 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross section for the 103Rh(n,n′)103Rhm reaction in the energy range 5.7–12 MeV M. M. Miah, B. Strohmaier, H. Vonach, W. Mannhart, and D. Schmidt pp. 222-226 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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35Cl+12C asymmetrical fission excitation functions C. Beck, D. Mahboub, R. Nouicer, T. Matsuse, B. Djerroud, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, A. Hachem, A. Morsad, M. Youlal, S. J. Sanders, R. Dayras, J. P. Wieleczko, E. Berthoumieux, R. Legrain, E. Pollacco, Sl. Cavallaro, E. De Filippo, G. Lanzanó, A. Pagano, and M. L. Sperduto pp. 227-236 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	12C(p,n)12N reaction at 135 MeV B. D. Anderson, L. A. Garcia, D. J. Millener, D. M. Manley, A. R. Baldwin, A. Fazely, R. Madey, N. Tamimi, J. W. Watson, and C. C. Foster pp. 237-253 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition among the decay modes of projectile remnants in (600 MeV/nucleon) Au + Cu reactions Fei Wang, Ben-Hao Sa, Yu-Ming Zheng, and Xiao-Ze Zhang pp. 254-257 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotopic yields for the cold fission of 252Cf A. Sandulescu, A. Florescu, F. Carstoiu, W. Greiner, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, and B. R. Babu pp. 258-265 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	4He fragments from the 14N + 12C collision at 35 MeV/nucleon and clustering in colliding nuclei Hiroki Takemoto, Hisashi Horiuchi, Andreas Engel, and Akira Ono pp. 266-275 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Clustering recognition model for intermediate energy heavy ion reactions E. J. Garcia-Solis and A. C. Mignerey pp. 276-284 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analysis of proton-induced fragment production cross sections by the quantum molecular dynamics plus statistical decay model Satoshi Chiba, Osamu Iwamoto, Tokio Fukahori, Koji Niita, Toshiki Maruyama, Tomoyuki Maruyama, and Akira Iwamoto pp. 285-291 [View PDF (1140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New single particle basis for microscopic description of decay processes D. S. Delion, A. Insolia, and R. J. Liotta pp. 292-301 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superasymmetric two-center shell model for spontaneous heavy-ion emission M. Mirea pp. 302-314 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic scattering of a halo nucleus in the relativistic mean field theory M. Rashdan pp. 315-318 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal effects in a semiclassical WKB approach to sub-barrier nuclear fusion processes R. Dutt, T. Sil, and Y. P. Varshni pp. 319-324 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of nuclear friction in strongly damped reactions from prescission neutron multiplicities J. Wilczyński, K. Siwek-Wilczyńska, and H. W. Wilschut pp. 325-331 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiproton-nucleus elastic and inelastic scattering at intermediate energies Yu-shun Zhang, Ji-feng Liu, B. A. Robson, and Yang-guo Li pp. 332-337 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Modeling cluster production at the BNL Alternating Gradient Synchrotron D. E. Kahana, S. H. Kahana, Y. Pang, A. J. Baltz, C. B. Dover, E. Schnedermann, and T. J. Schlagel pp. 338-352 [View PDF (3653 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Field-theoretical description of nuclear matter with only the pion-nucleon interaction S. Jena and B. B. Deo pp. 353-358 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark-meson coupling model for finite nuclei Peter G. Blunden and Gerald A. Miller pp. 359-370 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Parity violation in charged-particle resonance reactions G. E. Mitchell and J. F. Shriner pp. 371-382 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Measurement of 7Li(n,γ0)8Li cross sections at En=1.5–1340 eV J. C. Blackmon, A. E. Champagne, J. K. Dickens, J. A. Harvey, M. A. Hofstee, S. Kopecky, D. C. Larson, D. C. Powell, S. Raman, and M. S. Smith pp. 383-388 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the thermal neutron induced 36Cl(n,p)36S and 36Cl(n,α)33P reaction cross sections C. Wagemans, R. Bieber, and P. Geltenbort pp. 389-392 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of the total 12C(α,γ)16O cross section based on available angular distributions and other primary data L. Buchmann, R. E. Azuma, C. A. Barnes, J. Humblet, and K. Langanke pp. 393-410 [View PDF (397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Standard neutrino spectrum from 8B decay John N. Bahcall, E. Lisi, D. E. Alburger, L. De Braeckeleer, S. J. Freedman, and J. Napolitano pp. 411-422 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Precision measurement of the half-life of 7Be M. Jaeger, S. Wilmes, V. Kölle, G. Staudt, and P. Mohr pp. 423-424 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excited superdeformed band in 131Ce A. T. Semple, P. J. Nolan, C. W. Beausang, S. A. Forbes, E. S. Paul, J. N. Wilson, R. Wadsworth, K. Hauschild, R. M. Clark, C. Foin, J. Genevey, J. Gizon, A. Gizon, J. A. Pinston, D. Santos, B. M. Nyako, L. Zolnai, W. Klamra, and J. Simpson pp. 425-428 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-order eikonal approximation for the elastic scattering of 800 MeV/c pions from 12C and 40Ca nuclei Moon Hoe Cha and Yong Joo Kim pp. 429-431 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Core-polarization effects in pion single-charge-exchange reaction on p-shell nuclei Naoko Nose and Kenji Kume pp. 432-434 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the dynamical polarization potential M. A. Nagarajan and F. Zardi pp. 435-438 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Very weak γ transitions in the ε/β+ decay of 68’ M. Skalsey pp. 439-440 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Very weak γ transitions in the ε/β+ decay of 68’ D. T. Vo, W. H. Kelly, F. K. Wohn, J. C. Hill, J. P. Vary, M. A. Deleplanque, F. S. Stephens, R. M. Diamond, J. R. Oliveira, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. A. Becker, E. A. Henry, M. J. Brinkman, M. A. Stoyer, and J. E. Draper pp. 441-442 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]