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  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Measurements of electromagnetic decay strengths in 92Ru with cluster detectors C. Lingk, A. Jungclaus, D. Kast, K. P. Lieb, C. Teich, M. Weiszflog, C. Ender, T. Härtlein, F. Köck, D. Schwalm, A. Dewald, J. Eberth, R. Peusquens, H. G. Thomas, M. Górska, and H. Grawe pp. R2349-R2353 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

2+ mixed symmetry state in the O(6)-like nucleus 128Xe I. Wiedenhöver, A. Gelberg, T. Otsuka, N. Pietralla, J. Gableske, A. Dewald, and P. von Brentano pp. R2354-R2357 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Identification of Δν=2 identical bands in the nuclei 78Kr and 80Rb S. K. Tandel, S. B. Patel, R. K. Bhowmik, A. K. Sinha, S. Muralithar, and N. Madhavan pp. R2358-R2362 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Yrast states of neutron-rich N=83 nuclei from fission product γ-ray studies P. Bhattacharyya, C. T. Zhang, B. Fornal, P. J. Daly, Z. W. Grabowski, I. Ahmad, T. Lauritsen, L. R. Morss, W. R. Phillips, J. L. Durell, M. J. Leddy, A. G. Smith, W. Urban, B. J. Varley, N. Schulz, E. Lubkiewicz, M. Bentaleb, and J. Blomqvist pp. R2363-R2367 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutrino scattering from 12C and 16O N. Auerbach, N. Van Giai, and O. K. Vorov pp. R2368-R2372 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nucleon strange magnetic moment and relativistic covariance M. Malheiro and W. Melnitchouk pp. R2373-R2377 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Universal aspects of Efimov states and light halo nuclei A. E. Amorim, T. Frederico, and Lauro Tomio pp. R2378-R2381 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	ρ-ω oscillation and charge symmetry breaking Sachiko Ogushi, Mariko Terasawa, and Hirokazu Tezuka pp. 2382-2386 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of retardation in three-dimensional relativistic equations A. D. Lahiff and I. R. Afnan pp. 2387-2395 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Covariant equations for the three-body bound state Alfred Stadler, Franz Gross, and Michael Frank pp. 2396-2430 [View PDF (620 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New constraints on the Δ production cross section J. Cugnon, S. Leray, E. Martinez, Y. Patin, and S. Vuillier pp. 2431-2439 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Octupole states in 196Pt(p,p′γ) J. K. Jewell, P. D. Cottle, K. W. Kemper, and L. A. Riley pp. 2440-2444 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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New interpretation of shape coexistence in 99Zr G. Lhersonneau, P. Dendooven, A. Honkanen, M. Huhta, P. M. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, M. Oinonen, H. Penttilä, J. R. Persson, K. Peräjärvi, A. Savelius, J. C Wang, and J. Äystö pp. 2445-2450 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double β decays of 100Mo and 150Nd A. De Silva, M. K. Moe, M. A. Nelson, and M. A. Vient pp. 2451-2467 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level structures in 147Pm from 147Nd decay M. Sainath, K. Venkataramaniah, and P. C. Sood pp. 2468-2473 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Decay and properties of the yrast superdeformed band in 192Pb D. P. McNabb, J. A. Cizewski, K. Y. Ding, N. Fotiades, D. E. Archer, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, K. Hauschild, W. Younes, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and R. W. MacLeod pp. 2474-2483 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of an octupole⊗quasiparticle band in 175Lu using photon scattering experiments R.-D. Herzberg, C. Fransen, R. Fischer, O. Beck, D. Belic, J. Besserer, P. von Brentano, Th. Eckert, U. Kneissl, B. Krischok, J. Margraf, H. Maser, A. Nord, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, A. Wolpert, and A. Zilges pp. 2484-2489 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superdeformed bands in 153Ho D. E. Appelbe, C. W. Beausang, D. M. Cullen, M. B. Smith, P. J. Twin, D. Curien, G. Duche⁁ne, Ch. Finck, B. Kharraja, B. Haas, C. Rigollet, O. Stezowski, and A. N. Wilson pp. 2490-2496 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evolution of collectivity along the N=Z line: The 84Mo nucleus D. Bucurescu, C. Rossi Alvarez, C. A. Ur, N. Mărginean, P. Spolaore, D. Bazzacco, S. Lunardi, D. R. Napoli, M. Ionescu-Bujor, A. Iordăchescu, C. M. Petrache, G. de Angelis, A. Gadea, D. Foltescu, F. Brandolini, G. Falconi, E. Farnea, S. M. Lenzi, N. H. Medina, Zs. Podolyak, M. De Poli, M. N. Rao, and R. Venturelli pp. 2497-2501 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for hyperdeformation in 168Yb J. N. Wilson, S. J. Asztalos, R. A. Austin, B. Busse, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, S. Flibotte, G. Gervais, D. S. Haslip, I. Y. Lee, R. Kruecken, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, J. M. Nieminen, G. J. Schmid, F. S. Stephens, O. Stezowski, C. E. Svensson, K. Vetter, and J. C. Waddington pp. 2502-2507 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How to scale the wave functions in a simple solvable model M. C. Cambiaggio, L. M. Sanchez, and G. G. Dussel pp. 2508-2517 [View PDF (3507 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling-model analysis of nuclear breathing modes in view of a realistic relativistic mean-field parametrization T. v. Chossy and W. Stocker pp. 2518-2522 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of the Harris and ab expressions for the description of nuclear superdeformed rotational bands Z. X. Hu and J. Y. Zeng pp. 2523-2527 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy dipole γ-ray transition rates in even-even deformed nuclei V. G. Soloviev, A. V. Sushkov, and N. Yu. Shirikova pp. 2528-2541 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-basis shell-model calculation of the 10C→10B Fermi matrix element P. Navrátil, B. R. Barrett, and W. E. Ormand pp. 2542-2548 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron drops and neutron pairing energy A. Smerzi, D. G. Ravenhall, and V. R. Pandharipande pp. 2549-2556 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic models of the Efimov effect Y. Abe, B. G. Giraud, Yukap Hahn, H. Inamori, and J. LeTourneux pp. 2557-2564 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	The 2H(p→,γ)3He and 1H(d→,γ)3He reactions below 80 keV G. J. Schmid, B. J. Rice, R. M. Chasteler, M. A. Godwin, G. C. Kiang, L. L. Kiang, C. M. Laymon, R. M. Prior, D. R. Tilley, and H. R. Weller pp. 2565-2581 [View PDF (373 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Decay of the 112Sn compound nucleus: Excitation functions of evaporation residues, energy spectra, and angular distributions of evaporated protons and alphas Bency John, S. K. Kataria, B. S. Tomar, A. Goswami, G. K. Gubbi, and S. B. Manohar pp. 2582-2596 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant resonances in the 26Mg(e,e′α0)22Ne reaction L. A. Terremoto, V. P. Likhachev, M. N. Martins, H. J. Emrich, G. Fricke, Th. Kröhl, and K. W. Neff pp. 2597-2606 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetries for elastic scattering of π± from polarized 3He at Δ resonance energies M. A. Espy et al. pp. 2607-2620 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Liquid-gas phase transition in the nuclear equation of state S. J. Lee and A. Z. Mekjian pp. 2621-2625 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum statistical correlations and single-particle distributions for slowly expanding systems with temperature profile J. Helgesson, T. Csörgő, M. Asakawa, and B. Lörstad pp. 2626-2635 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deuteron lifetime in hot and dense nuclear matter near equilibrium M. Beyer and G. Röpke pp. 2636-2645 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	3 / 2+ levels of5He and5Li, and shadow poles F. C. Barker pp. 2646-2653 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production cross sections of ground and isomeric states in the reaction systems 93Nb+3He, 92Mo+α, and 94,95Mo+p B. Strohmaier, M. Faßbender, and S. M. Qaim pp. 2654-2665 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Different approach to calculating average angular distributions of elastically scattered neutrons in the resonance region H. S. Camarda pp. 2666-2671 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge ambiguities in (e→,e′N→) reactions James J. Kelly pp. 2672-2687 [View PDF (341 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of anomalous values of σ(π+,π+′p)/σ(π-,π-′p) Dean Halderson and V. A. Sadovnikova pp. 2688-2693 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total reaction cross sections for 20 to 100 MeV deuterons from a microscopic model R. E. Warner pp. 2694-2699 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Atomic effects in heavy-ion elastic scattering J. M. Casandjian, R. Lichtenthäler, W. Mittig, A. Lépine-Szily, A. C. Villari, G. Auger, R. Beunard, L. Bianchi, M. E. Brandan, J. L. Ciffre, A. Cunsolo, A. Foti, A. Menchaca-Rocha, N. A. Orr, E. Plagnol, R. H. Siemssen, and J. P. Wieleczko pp. 2700-2706 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Thermal charm production by massive gluons and quarks Péter Lévai and Ramona Vogt pp. 2707-2717 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parton cascade description of relativistic heavy ion collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron at 158A GeV? Klaus Geiger and Dinesh Kumar Srivastava pp. 2718-2725 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charm quark production in noncentral heavy ion collisions V. Emel’yanov, A. Khodinov, S. R. Klein, and R. Vogt pp. 2726-2735 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generating functional approach to Bose-Einstein correlations N. Suzuki, M. Biyajima, and I. V. Andreev pp. 2736-2746 [View PDF (427 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact baryon, strangeness, and charge conservation in hadronic gas models J. Cleymans, A. Keränen, M. Marais, and E. Suhonen pp. 2747-2751 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Possibility to study color transparency in the large momentum transfer exclusive 2H(p,2p)n reaction L. L. Frankfurt, E. Piasetzky, M. M. Sargsian, and M. I. Strikman pp. 2752-2766 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Branching ratio change in K- absorption at rest and the nature of the Λ(1405) Akira Ohnishi, Yasushi Nara, and Volker Koch pp. 2767-2773 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction evidence for and against hidden-strangeness states near 2 GeV Reinhard A. Schumacher pp. 2774-2778 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon interaction in a chiral constituent quark model Fl. Stancu, S. Pepin, and L. Ya. Glozman pp. 2779-2788 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light front treatment of nuclei: Formalism and simple applications Gerald A. Miller pp. 2789-2805 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Measurements of the reactions 12C(νμ,μ-)12Ng.s. and 12C(νμ,μ-)X C. Athanassopoulos et al. pp. 2806-2819 [View PDF (431 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time invariance violating nuclear electric octupole moments V. V. Flambaum, D. W. Murray, and S. R. Orton pp. 2820-2829 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detailed study of the incoherent μ-→e- conversion rate: Elimination of spurious contaminations from the 1- contribution J. Schwieger, Amand Faessler, and T. S. Kosmas pp. 2830-2838 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Does the Sun appear brighter at night in neutrinos? J. N. Bahcall and P. I. Krastev pp. 2839-2857 [View PDF (404 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite size effects and the mixed quark-hadron phase in neutron stars Michael B. Christiansen and Norman K. Glendenning pp. 2858-2864 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	The Z=52 and N=84 nucleus 136Te: Low spin states observed in the decay of 136Sb P. Hoff, J. P. Omtvedt, B. Fogelberg, H. Mach, and M. Hellström pp. 2865-2868 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective structure in 70As G. García Bermúdez, J. Döring, G. D. Johns, R. A. Kaye, M. A. Riley, S. L. Tabor, C. J. Gross, M. J. Brinkman, and H. Q. Jin pp. 2869-2872 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Canonical sampling of a lattice gas W. F. Müller pp. 2873-2874 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Skyrme energy functional and naturalness R. J. Furnstahl and James C. Hackworth pp. 2875-2878 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of scaling of void probability in nucleus-nucleus interactions at few GeV energy Dipak Ghosh, Biswanath Biswas, Argha Deb, and Jaya Roy pp. 2879-2881 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noncentral interactions in elastic scattering with arbitrary spins: The case of NΔ→NΔ G. Ramachandran, M. S. Vidya, and M. M. Prakash pp. 2882-2884 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low lying states in 11N and 15F S. Grévy, O. Sorlin, and N. Vinh Mau pp. 2885-2888 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Method for calculating elastic scattering between two composite many-body systems at high energies” A. S. Shalaby, M. M. El-Gogary, and M. Y. Hassan pp. 2889-2890 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Charge symmetry breaking effects in nucleon-nucleon scattering derived from the quark model [Phys. Rev. C 53, 50 (1996)] Anita Awasthi and V. S. Bhasin pp. 2891 [View PDF (56 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Nonmesonic weak decay of the hypertriton [Phys. Rev. C 55, 2196 (1997)] J. Golak, K. Miyagawa, H. Kamada, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, A. Parreño, A. Ramos, and C. Bennhold pp. 2892 [View PDF (31 kB) ]