• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
• ARTICLES
  • 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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Internal pair conversion in heavy nuclei I. Ahmad et al. (APEX Collaboration) pp. R2755-R2759 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Do superdeformed bands decay via electric monopole transitions? R. Krücken and I. Y. Lee pp. R2760-R2763 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Nuclear polarizabilities and logarithmic sum rules J. L. Friar and G. L. Payne pp. 2764-2767 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Transitional nature of the level structure of 217Rn C. F. Liang, P. Paris, and R. K. Sheline pp. 2768-2772 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	2s1/2 occupancies in 30Si, 31P, and 32S J. Wesseling, C. W. de Jager, L. Lapikás, H. de Vries, L. W. Fagg, M. N. Harakeh, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, R. A. Lindgren, E. Moya De Guerra, and P. Sarriguren pp. 2773-2786 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational bands and shape changes in 105Rh F. R. Espinoza-Quiñones, E. W. Cybulska, J. R. Oliveira, R. V. Ribas, M. N. Rao, M. A. Rizzutto, N. H. Medina, L. G. Emediato, W. A. Seale, and S. Botelho pp. 2787-2793 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Lifetimes of low-lying states in 125,127La measured by the recoil distance method K. Starosta, Ch. Droste, T. Morek, J. Srebrny, D. B. Fossan, S. Gundel, J. M. Sears, I. Thorslund, P. Vaska, M. P. Waring, S. G. Rohoziński, W. Satuła, U. Garg, S. Naguleswaran, and J. C. Walpe pp. 2794-2801 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Gamow-Teller strength from the 76Se(n,p)76As reaction: Implications for the double β decay of 76Ge R. L. Helmer, M. A. Punyasena, R. Abegg, W. P. Alford, A. Celler, S. El-Kateb, J. Engel, D. Frekers, R. S. Henderson, K. P. Jackson, S. Long, C. A. Miller, W. C. Olsen, B. M. Spicer, A. Trudel, and M. C. Vetterli pp. 2802-2810 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant monopole resonance strength in 40Ca D. H. Youngblood, Y.-W. Lui, and H. L. Clark pp. 2811-2818 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Yrast superdeformed band in 194Pb: Jπ and Ex K. Hauschild, L. A. Bernstein, J. A. Becker, D. E. Archer, R. W. Bauer, D. P. McNabb, J. A. Cizewski, K.-Y. Ding, W. Younes, R. Krücken, R. M. Diamond, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, I.-Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. MacLeod, G. J. Schmid, M. A. Deleplanque, F. S. Stephens, and W. H. Kelly pp. 2819-2825 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model structures of low-lying excited states in 6,7Li S. Karataglidis, B. A. Brown, K. Amos, and P. J. Dortmans pp. 2826-2837 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature and density dependence of the nucleon mean free path in the relativistic mean field model Han Yinlu, Zhang Zhengjun, and Sun Xiuquan pp. 2838-2843 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thomas-Fermi theory of the breathing mode and nuclear incompressibility C. S. Wang, K. C. Chung, and A. J. Santiago pp. 2844-2859 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Opposite deformations between protons and neutrons in proton-rich C isotopes Y. Kanada-En’yo and H. Horiuchi pp. 2860-2865 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of excited-state properties with an auxiliary-field Monte Carlo method Kenji Kume, Kanako Sato, and Yukiko Umemoto pp. 2866-2871 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal damping width of the giant dipole resonance in hot nuclei Nguyen Dinh Dang and Fumihiko Sakata pp. 2872-2884 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular-momentum structure of the yrast bands of deformed nuclei S. Kahane, S. Raman, and K. H. Bhatt pp. 2885-2908 [View PDF (563 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Gamow-Teller strength of 90Nb in the continuum studied via multipole decomposition analysis of the 90Zr(p,n) reaction at 295 MeV T. Wakasa, H. Sakai, H. Okamura, H. Otsu, S. Fujita, S. Ishida, N. Sakamoto, T. Uesaka, Y. Satou, M. B. Greenfield, and K. Hatanaka pp. 2909-2922 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the 12C(γ,π0) reaction near threshold J. C. Bergstrom, R. Igarashi, and J. M. Vogt pp. 2923-2930 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion absorption on 3He and 4He with emission of three energetic protons A. Lehmann et al. (LADS Collaboration) pp. 2931-2950 [View PDF (10849 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Studies of one- and two-proton transfer in 12C,16O+154Sm, and 16O+115In reactions B. K. Nayak, R. K. Choudhury, D. C. Biswas, L. M. Pant, A. Saxena, D. M. Nadkarni, and S. S. Kapoor pp. 2951-2958 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deep-inelastic scattering in 124,136Xe+58,64Ni at energies near the Coulomb barrier J. Gehring, B. B. Back, K. C. Chan, M. Freer, D. Henderson, C. L. Jiang, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Schiffer, M. Wolanski, and A. H. Wuosmaa pp. 2959-2964 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutrons in coincidence with fission of 238U induced by stopped antiprotons W. Schmid, T. von Egidy, F. J. Hartmann, J. Hoffmann, S. Schmid, D. Hilscher, D. Polster, H. Rossner, A. S. Iljinov, M. V. Mebel, D. I. Ivanov, V. G. Nedorezov, A. S. Sudov, H. Machner, H. S. Plendl, J. Eades, and S. Neumaier pp. 2965-2974 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absorption and tunneling effects in one- and two-proton transfer reactions H. D. Marta, R. Donangelo, D. Tomasi, J. O. Fernández Niello, and A. J. Pacheco pp. 2975-2977 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-size corrections in the spatial contribution to the density of states in nuclear multifragmentation A. J. Cole, D. Heuer, and M. Charvet pp. 2978-2984 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson exchange currents in kaon scattering on the lightest nuclei S. S. Kamalov, J. A. Oller, E. Oset, and M. J. Vicente-Vacas pp. 2985-2990 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum statistical thermodynamics of hot finite nuclear systems: Temperatures and isotopic yield ratios Z. Majka, P. Staszel, J. Cibor, J. B. Natowitz, K. Hagel, J. Li, N. Mdeiwayeh, R. Wada, and Y. Zhao pp. 2991-2997 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Pion-induced pion production in nuclei F. Bonutti, P. Camerini, E. Fragiacomo, N. Grion, R. Rui, J. T. Brack, L. Felawka, E. F. Gibson, G. Hofman, M. Kermani, E. L. Mathie, S. McFarland, R. Meier, D. Ottewell, K. Raywood, M. E. Sevior, G. R. Smith, and R. Tacik (The CHAOS Collaboration) pp. 2998-3005 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon cross sections in nuclear matter H.-J. Schulze, A. Schnell, G. Röpke, and U. Lombardo pp. 3006-3014 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion nucleus potential from scattering data and a test of charge symmetry S. Jena and S. Swain pp. 3015-3020 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Heavy quarkonium spectra and J/Ψ dissociation in hot and dense matter B. Liu, P. N. Shen, and H. C. Chiang pp. 3021-3025 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemical relaxation time of pions in hot hadronic matter Chungsik Song and Volker Koch pp. 3026-3037 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detectability of strange matter in heavy ion experiments Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich, Carsten Greiner, Alexander Diener, and Horst Stöcker pp. 3038-3046 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Medium-induced parton energy loss in γ+jet events of high-energy heavy-ion collisions Xin-Nian Wang and Zheng Huang pp. 3047-3061 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

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Λ-hyperon lifetime in very heavy hypernuclei produced in the p+U interaction H. Ohm, T. Hermes, W. Borgs, H. R. Koch, R. Maier, D. Prasuhn, H. J. Stein, O. W. Schult, K. Pysz, Z. Rudy, L. Jarczyk, B. Kamys, P. Kulessa, A. Strzalkowski, W. Cassing, Y. Uozumi, and I. Zychor pp. 3062-3065 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral symmetry and the nucleon’s vector strangeness form factors M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and Hiroshi Ito pp. 3066-3082 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the properties of the σ meson in a generalized Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model with Lorentz-vector confinement L. S. Celenza, Xiang-Dong Li, and C. M. Shakin pp. 3083-3092 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin breaking in the pion-nucleon coupling from QCD sum rules T. Meissner and E. M. Henley pp. 3093-3099 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Baryon density and the dilated chiral quark model Youngman Kim and Hyun Kyu Lee pp. 3100-3107 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral bag model approach to Δ electroproduction D. H. Lu, A. W. Thomas, and A. G. Williams pp. 3108-3114 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Deuteron electroweak disintegration B. Mosconi and P. Ricci pp. 3115-3126 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	(p,γ) rates of 92Mo, 94Mo, 95Mo, 98Mo: Towards an experimentally founded database for p-process studies T. Sauter and F. Käppeler pp. 3127-3138 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equation of state of stellar nuclear matter in the temperature-dependent extended Thomas-Fermi formalism M. Onsi, H. Przysiezniak, and J. M. Pearson pp. 3139-3148 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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Comparison of low-energy resonances in 15N(α,γ)19F and 15O(α,γ)19Ne and related uncertainties F. de Oliveira, A. Coc, P. Aguer, G. Bogaert, J. Kiener, A. Lefebvre, V. Tatischeff, J.-P. Thibaud, S. Fortier, J. M. Maison, L. Rosier, G. Rotbard, J. Vernotte, S. Wilmes, P. Mohr, V. Kölle, and G. Staudt pp. 3149-3151 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Depletion of the 2f7/2 neutron hole state in 207Pb M. Matoba, K. Yamaguchi, K. Kurohmaru, O. Iwamoto, Susilo Widodo, A. Nohtomi, Y. Uozumi, T. Sakae, N. Koori, T. Maki, and M. Nakano pp. 3152-3154 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fusion and peripheral processes in the 16,18O+58,60,64Ni systems C. P. Silva, D. Pereira, L. C. Chamon, E. S. Rossi, G. Ramirez, A. M. Borges, and C. E. Aguiar pp. 3155-3158 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Running coupling constants in Walecka model and renormalization-group equations Wang Zisheng, Ma Zhongyu, and Zhuo Yizhong pp. 3159-3162 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective backbending effect in the interacting boson model G. L. Long pp. 3163-3165 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Skyrme representation of a relativistic spin-orbit field M. Onsi, R. C. Nayak, J. M. Pearson, H. Freyer, and W. Stocker pp. 3166-3169 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the shell model energies for states in a variety of configurations in 208Bi Petr Alexa, Jan Kvasil, and Raymond K. Sheline pp. 3170-3173 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic behavior of cooling processes in hot nuclei P. M. de Oliveira, J. S. Sá Martins, and A. Szanto de Toledo pp. 3174-3176 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Time-odd components in the mean field of rotating superdeformed nuclei [Phys. Rev. C 52, 1827 (1995)] J. Dobaczewski and J. Dudek pp. 3177 [View PDF (46 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Solving the four-dimensional NN-πNN equations for scalars below meson-production threshold [Phys. Rev. C 54, 1542 (1996)] D. R. Phillips and I. R. Afnan pp. 3178-3181 [View PDF (46 kB) ]