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  • Nuclear Structure
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  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
• BRIEF REPORTS
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

First observation of excited states in 192Po K. Helariutta, T. Enqvist, P. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, P. Jämsen, H. Kankaanpää, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, M. Muikku, M. Piiparinen, A. Savelius, W. H. Trzaska, S. Törmänen, J. Uusitalo, R. G. Allatt, P. A. Butler, P. T. Greenlees, and R. D. Page pp. R2799-R2801 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Production and identification of new neutron-rich nuclei, 31Ne and 37Mg, in the reaction 80A MeV 50Ti+181Ta H. Sakurai, N. Aoi, A. Goto, M. Hirai, N. Inabe, M. Ishihara, H. Kobinata, T. Kubo, H. Kumagai, T. Nakagawa, T. Nakamura, M. Notani, Y. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, and A. Yoshida pp. R2802-R2805 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superdeformed band in 155Dy: Where does the ‘‘island’’ of superdeformation end? S. M. Fischer, R. V. Janssens, M. A. Riley, R. R. Chasman, I. Ahmad, D. J. Blumenthal, T. B. Brown, M. P. Carpenter, G. Hackman, D. J. Hartley, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, W. C. Ma, D. Nisius, J. Simpson, and P. G. Varmette pp. R2806-R2810 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Laser ionization of 124Ag and its decay to levels of 124Cd T. Kautzsch, W. B. Walters, V. N. Fedoseyev, Y. Jading, A. Jokinen, I. Klöckl, K.-L. Kratz, V. I. Mishin, H. L. Ravn, P. Van Duppen, and A. Wöhr pp. R2811-R2814 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Valence correlation scheme for single nucleon separation energies G. Streletz, A. Zilges, N. V. Zamfir, R. F. Casten, D. S. Brenner, and Benyuan Liu pp. R2815-R2819 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Temperature determination from the lattice gas model S. Das Gupta, J. Pan, and M. B. Tsang pp. R2820-R2822 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Investigation of nuclear charge symmetry by pion elastic scattering from 3H and 3He K. S. Dhuga, B. L. Berman, W. J. Briscoe, R. W. Caress, S. K. Matthews, D. B. Barlow, B. M. Nefkens, C. Pillai, J. W. Price, S. J. Greene, I. Slaus, and I. Supek pp. 2823-2830 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the p¯p→Λ¯Λ and p¯p→Σ¯ 0Λ+c.c. reactions at 1.726 and 1.771 GeV/c P. D. Barnes et al. pp. 2831-2842 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pionic-decay spectra of few-body Λ hypernuclei Izumi Kumagai-Fuse, Shigeto Okabe, and Yoshinori Akaishi pp. 2843-2850 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soft two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials. I. Planar and crossed-box diagrams Th. A. Rijken and V. G. Stoks pp. 2851-2868 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soft two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials. II. One-pair and two-pair diagrams Th. A. Rijken and V. G. Stoks pp. 2869-2882 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson-baryon-baryon vertex function and the Ward-Takahashi identity Siwen Wang and Manoj K. Banerjee pp. 2883-2893 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Neutron-rich isotopes 54-57Ti T. Dörfler, W.-D. Schmidt-Ott, T. Hild, T. Mehren, W. Böhmer, P. Möller, B. Pfeiffer, T. Rauscher, K.-L. Kratz, O. Sorlin, V. Borrel, S. Grévy, D. Guillemaud-Mueller, A. C. Mueller, F. Pougheon, R. Anne, M. Lewitowicz, A. Ostrowsky, M. Robinson, and M. G. Saint-Laurent pp. 2894-2903 [View PDF (1581 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetime and g-factor measurements of the 11- isomer in 92Tc A. A. Tulapurkar, Pragya Das, S. N. Mishra, R. G. Pillay, and J. A. Sheikh pp. 2904-2909 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Favored neutron excitations in superdeformed 147Gd Ch. Theisen et al. pp. 2910-2915 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopy of the 29Si(p,γ) reaction for Ep=1.75–2.51 MeV P. M. Wallace, E. G. Bilpuch, C. R. Bybee, G. E. Mitchell, E. F. Moore, J. D. Shriner, J. F. Shriner, G. A. Vavrina, and C. R. Westerfeldt pp. 2916-2925 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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γ decay from states at low excitation energy in the neutron-deficient isotope, 200Rn, identified by correlated radioactive decay R. B. Taylor, S. J. Freeman, J. L. Durell, M. J. Leddy, A. G. Smith, D. J. Blumenthal, M. P. Carpenter, C. N. Davids, C. J. Lister, R. V. Janssens, and D. Seweryniak pp. 2926-2934 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Levels of 105Pd populated in the decay of 105Agm,g and comparison with interacting boson-fermion model calculations R. A. Meyer, S. V. Jackson, S. Brant, and V. Paar pp. 2935-2947 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited states in neutron-deficient 198Bi X. H. Zhou, X. F. Sun, Y. X. Guo, X. G. Lei, X. F. Chen, Z. Liu, Y. H. Zhang, H. J. Jin, Y. X. Luo, S. X. Wen, G. J. Yuan, G. S. Li, and C. X. Yang pp. 2948-2953 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spreading width of the isobaric analog state and isospin mixing Toshio Suzuki, H. Sagawa, and G. Colò pp. 2954-2958 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum random phase approximation method applied to the inclusive transverse electron scattering response E. Bauer, A. Ramos, and A. Polls pp. 2959-2966 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of ΔI=4 bifurcation from the projected shell model Yang Sun, Jing-ye Zhang, and Mike Guidry pp. 2967-2971 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic study of nuclear β decay H. Homma, E. Bender, M. Hirsch, K. Muto, H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, and T. Oda pp. 2972-2985 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	No-core shell-model calculations with starting-energy-independent multivalued effective interactions P. Navrátil and B. R. Barrett pp. 2986-2995 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Persisting α-planar structure in 20Ne P. K. Kakanis and G. S. Anagnostatos pp. 2996-3013 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay between one-body and collisional damping of collective motion in nuclei V. M. Kolomietz, V. A. Plujko, and S. Shlomo pp. 3014-3024 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regularity and chaos in Vlasov evolution of nuclear matter B. Jacquot, A. Guarnera, Ph. Chomaz, and M. Colonna pp. 3025-3034 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Δ excitations in compressed finite nuclei. II. Nucleon-nucleon interaction dependence Mahmoud A. Hasan and James P. Vary pp. 3035-3042 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Breakup reactions of the halo nuclei 11Be and 8B Kai Hencken, George Bertsch, and Henning Esbensen pp. 3043-3050 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Preequilibrium processes in the fusion of 12C with 103Rh up to 20 MeV/nucleon C. Birattari, M. Bonardi, M. Cavinato, E. Fabrici, E. Gadioli, E. Gadioli Erba, F. Groppi, M. Bello, C. Bovati, A. Di Filippo, T. G. Stevens, S. H. Connell, J. P. Sellschop, S. J. Mills, F. M. Nortier, G. F. Steyn, and C. Marchetta pp. 3051-3055 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Classical tests for statistical evaporation at 680 MeV 40Ar+natAg C. J. Gelderloos, John M. Alexander, J. Boger, M. T. Magda, A. Narayanan, P. A. DeYoung, A. Elmaani, and M. A. McMahan pp. 3056-3061 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling laws in 3He induced nuclear fission Th. Rubehn, K. X. Jing, L. G. Moretto, L. Phair, K. Tso, and G. J. Wozniak pp. 3062-3067 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fusion barrier distributions for heavy ion systems involving prolate and oblate target nuclei J. D. Bierman, P. Chan, J. F. Liang, M. P. Kelly, A. A. Sonzogni, and R. Vandenbosch pp. 3068-3075 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distributions for the 12C(γ,p)11B reaction H. Ruijter, J-O. Adler, B-E. Andersson, K. Hansen, L. Isaksson, B. Schrøder, J. Ryckebusch, D. Ryckbosch, L. van Hoorebeke, and R. van de Vyver pp. 3076-3087 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collisions between 48Ti + 93Nb at 917 MeV T. Kozik, V. Abenante, R. J. Charity, A. Chbihi, Z. Majka, N. G. Nicolis, D. G. Sarantites, L. G. Sobotka, D. W. Stracener, C. Baktash, M. L. Halbert, D. C. Hensley, and J. Łukasik pp. 3088-3098 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intermediate mass fragments emission in the reaction 96 MeV 19F on 12C C. Bhattacharya, D. Bandyopadhyay, S. K. Basu, S. Bhattacharya, K. Krishan, G. S. Murthy, A. Chatterjee, S. Kailas, and P. Singh pp. 3099-3108 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled channels analysis of high precision fusion data H. Esbensen and B. B. Back pp. 3109-3116 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distributions for knockout and scattering of protons in the eikonal approximation A. Bianconi and M. Radici pp. 3117-3124 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization observables in the process d+p→d+X and electromagnetic form factors of N→N* transitions M. P. Rekalo and E. Tomasi-Gustafsson pp. 3125-3132 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy dependent potentials determined by inversion: The p+α potential up to 65 MeV S. G. Cooper and R. S. Mackintosh pp. 3133-3152 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relationship between ground state and double analog cross sections in pion double charge exchange H. T. Fortune, D. Benton, and P. P. Hui pp. 3153-3155 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of nuclear absorption on nucleon transfer probabilities in heavy-ion reactions H. D. Marta, R. Donangelo, D. Tomasi, J. O. Fernández Niello, and A. J. Pacheco pp. 3156-3159 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson exchange currents in the 3He(γ,π+)3H reaction J. A. Gómez Tejedor, S. S. Kamalov, and E. Oset pp. 3160-3169 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections from the data of proton-induced reaction cross sections Eiji I. Tanaka, Hisashi Horiuchi, and Akira Ono pp. 3170-3174 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of nuclear shape of neutron rich isotopes in heavy ion reactions S. E. Chernyshev and K. V. Shitikova pp. 3175-3184 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Target and projectile fragmentations in 208emulsion collisions at 160A GeV G. Singh and P. L. Jain pp. 3185-3194 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nuclear dependence of single-hadron and dihadron production in p-A interactions at √s=38.8 GeV C. N. Brown, W. E. Cooper, C. S. Mishra, D. M. Kaplan, R. S. Preston, V. Tanikella, L. D. Isenhower, M. E. Sadler, L. M. Lederman, M. H. Schub, G. Gidal, M. S. Kowitt, K. B. Luk, T. A. Carey, M. J. Leitch, P. L. McGaughey, J. M. Moss, J. C. Peng, R. L. Childers, C. W. Darden, and P. K. Teng pp. 3195-3198 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy production by resonance decays Stefan Ochs and Ulrich Heinz pp. 3199-3211 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic transverse flow and the Hanbury-Brown–Twiss correlation function S. A. Voloshin and W. E. Cleland pp. 3212-3217 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion electromagnetic form factor at finite temperature Chungsik Song and Volker Koch pp. 3218-3231 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Covariant diquark-quark model of the nucleon in the Salpeter approach V. Keiner pp. 3232-3239 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of pion-baryon coupling constants from QCD sum rules Michael C. Birse and Boris Krippa pp. 3240-3246 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Axial current conservation in the Bethe-Salpeter approach to the nuclear two-body problem V. Dmitrašinović pp. 3247-3265 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Gamow-Teller strength of 26Mg H. M. Xu, C. A. Gagliardi, G. K. Ajupova, B. Kokenge, and Y.-W. Lui pp. 3266-3269 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Population of the 283 keV level of 137Ba by the β decay of 137Cs I. Bikit, I. Aničin, J. Slivka, M. Krmar, J. Puzović, and Lj. Čonkić pp. 3270-3272 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compound-nucleus contributions to 6Li+12C scattering D. L. Gay, E. E. Bartosz, P. D. Cathers, D. D. Caussyn, T. L. Drummer, K. W. Kemper, P. L. Kerr, and D. Robson pp. 3273-3276 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distribution of electrons over final states in β decay of atomic tritium beyond the shakeoff approximation E. G. Drukarev pp. 3277-3278 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-particle–one-hole excitations in the continuum S. Fortunato, A. Insolia, R. J. Liotta, and T. Vertse pp. 3279-3282 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon dispersion relation and flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Bao-An Li and C. M. Ko pp. 3283-3285 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical model approach for heavy ion fusion S. V. Sastry, S. K. Kataria, A. K. Mohanty, and I. J. Thompson pp. 3286-3289 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entrance-channel mass-asymmetry dependence of compound nucleus formation time in light heavy-ion reactions A. Szanto de Toledo, B. V. Carlson, C. Beck, and M. Thoennessen pp. 3290-3293 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photoexcitation mechanisms investigated through the fission channel J. D. Arruda-Neto, T. Saito, M. Sugawara, T. Tamae, H. Miyase, K. Abe, O. Konno, M. Oikawa, S. Simionatto, M. L. Yoneama, J. F. Dias, A. Deppman, B. S. Bhandari, V. P. Likhachev, and A. C. Lima pp. 3294-3297 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous transverse distribution of pions as a signal for the production of disoriented chiral condensates Fred Cooper, Yuval Kluger, and Emil Mottola pp. 3298-3301 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time scale of the preequilibrium process in intermediate-energy nucleon-induced reactions Satoshi Chiba, Koji Niita, and Osamu Iwamoto pp. 3302-3304 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Core contribution to the nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment V. F. Dmitriev, V. B. Telitsin, V. V. Flambaum, and V. A. Dzuba pp. 3305-3307 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accuracy of calculating the exchange part of the real alpha-nucleus potential M. Ismail, F. Salah, and M. M. Osman pp. 3308-3310 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Multinucleon mechanisms in (γ,N) and (γ,NN) reactions’’ Th. Wilbois, P. Wilhelm, and H. Arenhövel pp. 3311-3312 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Multinucleon mechanisms in (γ,N) and (γ,NN) reactions’ ’’ J. Ryckebusch, L. Machenil, M. Vanderhaeghen, V. Van der Sluys, and M. Waroquier pp. 3313-3314 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]