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Kπ=4+ double-γ vibration in 164Dy F. Corminboeuf, J. Jolie, H. Lehmann, K. Föhl, F. Hoyler, H. G. Börner, C. Doll, and P. E. Garrett pp. R1201-R1205 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Proton scattering on the unstable 38S nucleus: Isovector contribution to the 21+ state J. H. Kelley, T. Suomijärvi, S. E. Hirzebruch, A. Azhari, D. Bazin, Y. Blumenfeld, J. A. Brown, P. D. Cottle, S. Danczyk, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, J. K. Jewell, K. W. Kemper, F. Maréchal, D. J. Morrissey, S. Ottini, J. A. Scarpaci, and P. Thirolf pp. R1206-R1209 [View PDF (959 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

πg9/2 structures in odd-odd 130Pr and alignment processes in superdeformed praseodymium nuclei T. B. Brown, J. Pfohl, M. A. Riley, D. J. Hartley, D. G. Sarantites, M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, F. Lerma, D. E. Archer, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, I. M. Hibbert, D. T. Joss, P. J. Nolan, N. J. O'Brien, E. S. Paul, R. K. Sheline, J. Simpson, R. Wadsworth, and Y. Sun pp. R1210-R1214 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Unitarity constraint for threshold coherent pion photoproduction on the deuteron P. Wilhelm pp. R1215-R1217 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	ππ, Kπ, and πN potential scattering and a prediction of a narrow σ meson resonance M. Sander and H. V. von Geramb pp. 1218-1230 [View PDF (339 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	pd↔π+t reaction around the Δ resonance L. Canton and W. Schadow pp. 1231-1245 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral perturbation theory and the pp→ppπ0 reaction near threshold T. Sato, T.-S. H. Lee, F. Myhrer, and K. Kubodera pp. 1246-1255 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Dipole excitations in the transitional nucleus 144Nd studied in photon scattering experiments T. Eckert, O. Beck, J. Besserer, P. von Brentano, R. Fischer, R.-D. Herzberg, U. Kneissl, J. Margraf, H. Maser, A. Nord, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, S. W. Yates, and A. Zilges pp. 1256-1265 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spins of resonances in reactions of neutrons with 238U and 113Cd F. Gunsing, K. Athanassopulos, F. Corvi, H. Postma, Yu. P. Popov, and E. I. Sharapov pp. 1266-1275 [View PDF (569 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fragmentation of low-lying dipole strength in the odd-mass nucleus 133Cs J. Besserer, O. Beck, P. von Brentano, T. Eckert, R.-D. Herzberg, D. Jäger, U. Kneissl, J. Margraf, H. Maser, A. Nord, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, and A. Zilges pp. 1276-1280 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High spin states in 162Lu S. L. Gupta, S. C. Pancholi, P. Juneja, D. Mehta, Ashok Kumar, R. K. Bhowmik, S. Muralithar, G. Rodrigues, and R. P. Singh pp. 1281-1295 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopy of neutron-rich odd-A Ce isotopes F. Hoellinger, N. Schulz, J. L. Durell, I. Ahmad, M. Bentaleb, M. A. Jones, M. Leddy, E. Lubkiewicz, L. R. Morss, W. R. Phillips, A. G. Smith, W. Urban, and B. J. Varley pp. 1296-1301 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymptotic normalization coefficients for 10B→9Be+p A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, H. L. Clark, C. A. Gagliardi, Y.-W. Lui, L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, H. M. Xu, X. G. Zhou, V. Burjan, J. Cejpek, V. Kroha, and F. Carstoiu pp. 1302-1312 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Band termination and second backbending in 50Cr S. M. Lenzi, C. A. Ur, D. R. Napoli, M. A. Nagarajan, D. Bazzacco, D. M. Brink, M. A. Cardona, G. de Angelis, M. De Poli, A. Gadea, D. Hojman, S. Lunardi, N. H. Medina, and C. Rossi Alvarez pp. 1313-1319 [View PDF (1186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Study of excited states in 208Pb by particle-γ coincidences with the 207Pb(d,p)208Pb and 209Bi(t,α)208Pb reactions M. Schramm, K. H. Maier, M. Rejmund, L. D. Wood, N. Roy, A. Kuhnert, A. Aprahamian, J. Becker, M. Brinkman, D. J. Decman, E. A. Henry, R. Hoff, D. Manatt, L. G. Mann, R. A. Meyer, W. Stoeffl, G. L. Struble, and T.-F. Wang pp. 1320-1337 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Lowest four-quasiparticle magnetic dipole band in 128Ba O. Vogel, A. Dewald, P. von Brentano, J. Gableske, R. Krücken, N. Nicolay, A. Gelberg, P. Petkov, A. Gizon, J. Gizon, D. Bazzacco, C. Rossi Alvarez, S. Lunardi, P. Pavan, D. R. Napoli, S. Frauendorf, and F. Dönau pp. 1338-1343 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification of 109Mo and possible octupole correlations in 107,109Mo J. K. Hwang et al. pp. 1344-1349 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible deviation of the sum of strengths for the double giant dipole resonance from the harmonic oscillator limit N. Dinh Dang, A. Arima, V. G. Soloviev, and S. Yamaji pp. 1350-1356 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced T-odd, P-odd electromagnetic moments in reflection asymmetric nuclei V. Spevak, N. Auerbach, and V. V. Flambaum pp. 1357-1369 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of superdeformed nuclear states in the interacting boson model Yu-xin Liu, Jian-gang Song, Hong-zhou Sun, and En-guang Zhao pp. 1370-1379 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the vacuum in nuclear matter: A nonperturbative approach A. Mishra, P. K. Panda, S. Schramm, J. Reinhardt, and W. Greiner pp. 1380-1388 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	α decay and shape coexistence in the α-rotor model J. D. Richards, T. Berggren, C. R. Bingham, W. Nazarewicz, and J. Wauters pp. 1389-1397 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear overlap functions determined by the asymptotic behavior of the one-body density matrix D. Van Neck, L. Van Daele, Y. Dewulf, and M. Waroquier pp. 1398-1409 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic study of the ground state properties of light nuclei Xinhua Bai and Jimin Hu pp. 1410-1417 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarized nuclear matter using extended Seyler-Blanchard potentials H. M. Mansour, M. Hammad, and M. Y. Hassan pp. 1418-1423 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Double-differential neutron emission cross sections of 14-MeV neutron induced reactions on Na and Pb A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Pavlik, B. Strohmaier, H. Vonach, A. Wallner, G. Winkler, and M. B. Chadwick pp. 1424-1437 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tests of pseudospin symmetry via Coulomb excitation measurements on 187Os and 189Os A. M. Bruce, C. Thwaites, W. Gelletly, D. D. Warner, S. Albers, M. Eschenauer, M. Schimmer, and P. von Brentano pp. 1438-1443 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entrance channel dependence of fragmentation dynamics in heavy-ion collisions C. B. Das, A. Das, M. Satpathy, and L. Satpathy pp. 1444-1451 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle production in quantum transport theories P. Bożek pp. 1452-1466 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Outer volume integrals and mean square radii of heavy ion optical potentials Mervat H. Simbel pp. 1467-1471 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoabsorption on a nucleon in the D13 resonance energy region Kazuyuki Ochi, Michihiro Hirata, and Takashi Takaki pp. 1472-1482 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Halo excitation of 6He in inelastic and charge-exchange reactions S. N. Ershov, T. Rogde, B. V. Danilin, J. S. Vaagen, I. J. Thompson, and F. A. Gareev (Russian-Nordic-British Theory (RNBT) Collaboration) pp. 1483-1499 [View PDF (412 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Klein-Gordon equation in a coupled channels description of elastic and inelastic scattering H. Sarafian, M. A. Kagarlis, and Mikkel B. Johnson pp. 1500-1503 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical nature of nuclear multifragmentation R. Donangelo and S. R. Souza pp. 1504-1510 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy extensions of the eikonal approximation to heavy-ion scattering C. E. Aguiar, F. Zardi, and A. Vitturi pp. 1511-1515 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of nonlocality on sub-barrier fusion enhancement S. V. Sastry, A. K. Mohanty, and S. K. Kataria pp. 1516-1520 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Antiproton distributions in Au+nucleus collisions M.J. Bennett et al. pp. 1521-1535 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Systematics of isotopic production cross sections from interactions of relativistic 40Ca in hydrogen C.-X. Chen, S. Albergo, Z. Caccia, S. Costa, H. J. Crawford, M. Cronqvist, J. Engelage, L. Greiner, T. G. Guzik, A. Insolia, C. N. Knott, P. J. Lindstrom, M. McMahon, J. W. Mitchell, R. Potenza, G. V. Russo, A. Soutoul, O. Testard, C. E. Tull, C. Tuvé, C. J. Waddington, W. R. Webber, and J. P. Wefel pp. 1536-1543 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-particle rapidity correlations from the Bose-Einstein effect in central 28Si+Au collisions at 14.6A GeV/c and intermittency Y. Akiba et al. pp. 1544-1552 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Freeze-out time in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions from Coulomb effects in transverse pion spectra H. W. Barz, J. P. Bondorf, J. J. Gaardhøje, and H. Heiselberg pp. 1553-1556 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic calculations for the exclusive photoproduction of η mesons from complex nuclei M. Hedayati-Poor and H. S. Sherif pp. 1557-1569 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition to Δ matter from hot, dense nuclear matter within a relativistic mean field formulation of the nonlinear σ and ω model Zhuxia Li, Guangjun Mao, Yizhong Zhuo, and Walter Greiner pp. 1570-1575 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Constraints on the ω- and σ-meson coupling constants with dibaryons Amand Faessler, A. J. Buchmann, and M. I. Krivoruchenko pp. 1576-1581 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Δ decay in the nuclear medium Hungchong Kim, S. Schramm, and Su Houng Lee pp. 1582-1587 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QCD sum rules for the isospin-breaking axial correlator with correct chiral behavior Kim Maltman and Michael C. Birse pp. 1588-1595 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sturmian function approach and N̅ N bound states Y. Yan, R. Tegen, T. Gutsche, and A. Faessler pp. 1596-1604 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	7Li(p→,γ)8Be reaction at Ep=80–0 keV M. A. Godwin, C. M. Laymon, R. M. Prior, D. R. Tilley, and H. R. Weller pp. 1605-1612 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear level density and the determination of thermonuclear rates for astrophysics Thomas Rauscher, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, and Karl-Ludwig Kratz pp. 1613-1625 [View PDF (792 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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Improved half-life measurement of 224Pa and its 209Bi(18O,3n)224Pa production cross section P. A. Wilk, K. E. Gregorich, M. B. Hendricks, M. R. Lane, D. M. Lee, C. A. McGrath, D. A. Shaughnessy, D. A. Strellis, E. R. Sylwester, and D. C. Hoffman pp. 1626-1628 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band termination in 123I D. L. Balabanski, G. Rainovski, N. Blasi, G. Falconi, G. Lo Bianco, S. Signorelli, D. Bazzacco, G. de Angelis, D. R. Napoli, M. A. Cardona, A. J. Kreiner, and H. Somacal pp. 1629-1632 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Average strength of the effective interaction in multistep direct reactions M. Avrigeanu, A. Harangozo, V. Avrigeanu, and A. N. Antonov pp. 1633-1636 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	What is the brightest source for dilepton emissions at ultrarelativistic energies? David Fein, Zheng Huang, Peter Valerio, and Ina Sarcevic pp. 1637-1640 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anapole moment and nucleon weak interactions V. V. Flambaum and D. W. Murray pp. 1641-1644 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Δ+ mass reexamined Ron Workman pp. 1645-1646 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Expressions for the 14O(α,p)17F and 17F(p,γ)18Ne astrophysical reaction rates D. W. Bardayan and M. S. Smith pp. 1647-1650 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fragment multiplicity dependent charge distributions in projectile fragmentation at relativistic energies R. Ghetti pp. 1651-1654 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Constraints on the low-energy E1 cross section of 12C(α,γ)16O from the β-delayed α spectrum of 16N [Phys. Rev. C 50, 1194 (1994)] R. E. Azuma, L. Buchmann, F. C. Barker, C. A. Barnes, J. M. D'Auria, M. Dombsky, U. Giesen, K. P. Jackson, J. D. King, R. G. Korteling, P. McNeely, J. Powell, G. Roy, J. Vincent, T. R. Wang, S. S. Wong, and P. R. Wrean pp. 1655 [View PDF (41 kB) ]

•	Possible detection of quantum-mechanical interferences between gravitational forces and nucleus-nucleus Coulomb forces [Phys. Rev. C 55, 958 (1997)] R. da Silveira and Ch. Leclercq-Willain pp. 1656 [View PDF (28 kB) ]