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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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• ERRATA

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Emission of intermediate mass fragments using γ-spectroscopic techniques J. Gómez del Campo et al. pp. R457-R461 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Examining the cooling of hot nuclei H. Xi et al. (Miniball/Multics Collaboration) pp. R462-R465 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Particle production at high baryon density in central Au+Au reactions at 11.6A GeV/c L. Ahle et al. (E-802 Collaboration) pp. R466-R470 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of a deformed band in 98Rh S. Chattopadhyay, A. Mukherjee, U. Datta Pramanik, A. Goswami, S. Bhattacharya, B. Dasmahapatra, S. Sen, H. C. Jain, and P. K. Joshi pp. R471-R474 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Three-particle breakup of the isobaric analog state in 17F J. C. Chow, A. C. Morton, R. E. Azuma, N. Bateman, R. N. Boyd, L. Buchmann, J. M. D’Auria, T. Davinson, M. Dombsky, W. Galster, E. Gete, U. Giesen, C. Iliadis, K. P. Jackson, J. D. King, G. Roy, T. Shoppa, and A. Shotter pp. R475-R478 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hartree-Bose mean-field approximation for the interacting boson model (IBM-3) J. E. García-Ramos, J. M. Arias, J. Dukelsky, E. Moya de Guerra, and P. Van Isacker pp. R479-R483 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Measurement and calculation of the polarization transfer parameter Kyy′ in neutron-deuteron scattering at 15.0, 17.0, 19.0, and 25.8 MeV P. Hempen, P. Clotten, K. Hofenbitzer, T. Köble, W. Metschulat, M. Schwindt, W. von Witsch, L. Wätzold, J. Weltz, W. Glöckle, D. Hüber, and H. Witała pp. 484-495 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon scattering observables from solitary boson exchange potential L. Jäde and H. V. von Geramb pp. 496-506 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton-proton bremsstrahlung calculation: Studies of the off-shell proton electromagnetic vertex and of pseudoscalar vs pseudovector πN couplings Yi Li, M. K. Liou, and W. M. Schreiber pp. 507-524 [View PDF (428 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin structure functions for three-nucleon systems: Neutrons and protons M. M. Yazdanpanah and M. Modarres pp. 525-534 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Moscow-type NN potentials and three-nucleon bound states V. I. Kukulin, V. N. Pomerantsev, Amand Faessler, A. J. Buchmann, and E. M. Tursunov pp. 535-554 [View PDF (352 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Do phase-shift analyses and nucleon-nucleon potential models yield the wrong 3Pj phase shifts at low energies? W. Tornow, H. Witała, and A. Kievsky pp. 555-561 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell-model calculations for the three-nucleon system P. Navrátil and B. R. Barrett pp. 562-568 [View PDF (580 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Lifetimes of the lowest 2Kπ=0++ levels in 168Er and 164Dy H. Lehmann, J. Jolie, F. Corminboeuf, H. G. Börner, C. Doll, M. Jentschel, R. F. Casten, and N. V. Zamfir pp. 569-576 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-phonon character of the lowest electric dipole excitation in 142Nd and in other nuclei near shell closures M. Wilhelm, S. Kasemann, G. Pascovici, E. Radermacher, P. von Brentano, and A. Zilges pp. 577-582 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of the differences in the nuclear charge radii among uranium isotopes S. R. Elliott, P. Beiersdorfer, M. H. Chen, V. Decaux, and D. A. Knapp pp. 583-589 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	99Tc produced by the (3He,pnγ) reaction Ben Crowe, Hurol Aslan, Tim Dague, D. G. Savage, Sadek Zeghib, F. A. Rickey, and P. C. Simms pp. 590-601 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation and decay of the Gamow-Teller giant resonance in 90Nb M. Moosburger, E. Aschenauer, H. Dennert, W. Eyrich, A. Lehmann, N. Scholz, H. Wirth, H. J. Gils, H. Rebel, and S. Zagromski pp. 602-611 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear levels and structure from the decays of 213Bi and 209Tl G. Ardisson, V. Barci, and O. El Samad pp. 612-620 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic moments of pre-yrast high spin and first-excited levels in neutron-deficient 162,163,164Hf isotopes L. Weissman, M. Hass, and C. Broude pp. 621-627 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton decay of states in 11N A. Azhari, T. Baumann, J. A. Brown, M. Hellström, J. H. Kelley, R. A. Kryger, D. J. Millener, H. Madani, E. Ramakrishnan, D. E. Russ, T. Suomijarvi, M. Thoennessen, and S. Yokoyama pp. 628-631 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Recoil distance lifetime measurements in 122,124Xe I. M. Govil, A. Kumar, H. Iyer, H. Li, U. Garg, S. S. Ghugre, T. Johnson, R. Kaczarowski, B. Kharraja, S. Naguleswaran, and J. C. Walpe pp. 632-636 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of dynamical Pauli effect and dynamical symmetry breaking on quantum chaos Ming-Tsung Lee, Wei-Min Zhang, and Cheng-Li Wu pp. 637-647 [View PDF (380 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On-resonance deformation effect measurements: A probe of order within chaos in the nucleus E. D. Davis and C. R. Gould pp. 648-654 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum molecular dynamics approach to the nuclear matter below the saturation density Toshiki Maruyama, Koji Niita, Kazuhiro Oyamatsu, Tomoyuki Maruyama, Satoshi Chiba, and Akira Iwamoto pp. 655-665 [View PDF (578 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	N-phonon giant resonances in the nonlinear hydrodynamic approach and the nucleon-nucleon interaction V. Yu. Denisov pp. 666-674 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interacting boson model plus broken-pair description of high-spin dipole bands D. Vretenar, S. Brant, G. Bonsignori, L. Corradini, and C. M. Petrache pp. 675-680 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear structure of 97Y in the interacting boson fermion plus broken pair model and the nature of the 3.523 MeV high-spin isomer G. Lhersonneau, S. Brant, V. Paar, and D. Vretenar pp. 681-687 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boson mappings and four-particle correlations in algebraic neutron-proton pairing models J. Dobeš and S. Pittel pp. 688-703 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperonic nuclear matter in Brueckner theory H.-J. Schulze, M. Baldo, U. Lombardo, J. Cugnon, and A. Lejeune pp. 704-713 [View PDF (508 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lowest order constrained variational calculation for asymmetrical nuclear matter with the new Argonne potential G. H. Bordbar and M. Modarres pp. 714-721 [View PDF (317 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Transfer and surface vibration couplings in the fusion of 40Ca+46,48,50Ti at near-barrier energies A. A. Sonzogni, J. D. Bierman, M. P. Kelly, J. P. Lestone, J. F. Liang, and R. Vandenbosch pp. 722-730 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fusion and binary-decay mechanisms in the 35Cl+24Mg system at E/A≈8 MeV Sl. Cavallaro, E. De Filippo, G. Lanzanò, A. Pagano, M. L. Sperduto, R. Dayras, R. Legrain, E. Pollacco, C. Beck, B. Djerroud, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, A. Hachem, B. Heusch, D. Mahboub, A. Morsad, R. Nouicer, and S. J. Sanders pp. 731-742 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete and incomplete fusion reactions in 12C+89Y: Excitation functions and recoil range measurements B. Bindu Kumar, S. Mukherjee, S. Chakrabarty, B. S. Tomar, A. Goswami, and S. B. Manohar pp. 743-748 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sequential reaction processes in the 12C+12C system at an energy of 28.7 MeV/nucleon A. Magiera, J. Hebenstreit, L. Jarczyk, B. Kamys, A. Strzałkowski, B. Styczeń, W. Oelert, P. von Rossen, and H. Seyfarth pp. 749-763 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multifragmentation of the remnant produced in the reaction of 1A GeV gold with carbon J. A. Hauger et al. (EOS Collaboration) pp. 764-783 [View PDF (647 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy pion-nucleon scattering W. R. Gibbs, Li Ai, and W. B. Kaufmann pp. 784-797 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant resonances as collective states with dissipative coupling E. Stefanescu, R. J. Liotta, and A. Sandulescu pp. 798-805 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic nucleon-nucleon cross section in nuclear matter at finite temperature A. Schnell, G. Röpke, U. Lombardo, and H.-J. Schulze pp. 806-810 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of clustering effects in 12C fragmentation among p+12C, α+12C, and 14N+12C reactions: Excitation of α-cluster degrees of freedom in nuclear collisions Hiroki Takemoto, Hisashi Horiuchi, and Akira Ono pp. 811-821 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Randomly broken nuclei and disordered systems K. C. Chase, P. Bhattacharyya, and A. Z. Mekjian pp. 822-830 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Caloric curve and conditional moments: Effects of secondary fragment decay P. F. Mastinu, M. Belkacem, F. Gramegna, and P. M. Milazzo pp. 831-836 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Proton and antiproton distributions at midrapidity in proton-nucleus and sulphur-nucleus collisions I. G. Bearden et al. (The NA44 Collaboration) pp. 837-846 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse and forward energy distributions in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions by an absorption model K. C. Chung, C. S. Wang, A. J. Santiago, and G. Pech pp. 847-856 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dimensional effects in a relativistic mean-field approach A. Delfino, Lizardo H. Nunes, and J. S. Sá Martins pp. 857-865 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraining a simple hadronization model of relativistic heavy-ion collisions using hadronic observables T. J. Humanic pp. 866-876 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of multipion correlations on the source distribution in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions Q. H. Zhang pp. 877-881 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-mass dileptons at 200 GeV/nucleon J. Murray, W. Bauer, and K. Haglin pp. 882-888 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagation of charm quarks in equilibrating quark-gluon plasma Munshi Golam Mustafa, Dipali Pal, and Dinesh Kumar Srivastava pp. 889-898 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy loss effects on charm and bottom production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions Ziwei Lin, Ramona Vogt, and Xin-Nian Wang pp. 899-907 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transition of a finite quark-gluon plasma C. Spieles, H. Stöcker, and C. Greiner pp. 908-915 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the ρ spectral function in hot and dense nuclear matter by dileptons W. Cassing, E. L. Bratkovskaya, R. Rapp, and J. Wambach pp. 916-921 [View PDF (901 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of isospin dependent mean field in pion production in heavy ion reactions V. S. Uma Maheswari, C. Fuchs, Amand Faessler, Z. S. Wang, and D. S. Kosov pp. 922-926 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Vector mesons in the nuclear medium with a finite three-momentum Su Houng Lee pp. 927-930 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ππ scattering amplitudes in the subthreshold region Gerald E. Hite and William. B. Kaufmann pp. 931-940 [View PDF (1447 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure analysis of the virtual Compton scattering amplitude at low energies D. Drechsel, G. Knöchlein, A. Yu. Korchin, A. Metz, and S. Scherer pp. 941-952 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	String mechanism for the leading charm effect C. E. Aguiar, T. Kodama, R. A. Nazareth, and G. Pech pp. 953-958 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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Measurement of the 8Li(n,γ)9Li cross section at astrophysical energies by reverse kinematics P. D. Zecher, A. Galonsky, S. J. Gaff, J. J. Kruse, G. Kunde, E. Tryggestad, J. Wang, R. E. Warner, D. J. Morrissey, K. Ieki, Y. Iwata, F. Deák, Á. Horváth, Á. Kiss, Z. Seres, J. J. Kolata, J. von Schwarzenberg, and H. Schelin pp. 959-966 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Systematics of yrast levels in odd Ru isotopes: Do they point to coexistence at low excitation? T. Borello-Lewin, J. L. Duarte, L. B. Horodynski-Matsushigue, and M. D. Barbosa pp. 967-970 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fission fragment angular distributions at near-barrier energies in 11B, 12C, 14N+209Bi G. V. Prasad, A. M. Samant, A. Shrivastava, A. Navin, A. Chatterjee, P. Singh, S. Kailas, and V. S. Ramamurthy pp. 971-974 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thomas-Ehrman effect on s1/2 and p1/2 resonance states in 10C+p S. Aoyama, N. Itagaki, K. Katō, and K. Ikeda pp. 975-977 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Master equation approach to statistical multistep compound reactions Toshihiko Kawano, Masahiro Nakamura, and Yukinobu Watanabe pp. 978-981 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical model methods of predicting nuclide production from spallation reactions C. R. Ramsey, L. W. Townsend, R. K. Tripathi, and F. A. Cucinotta pp. 982-985 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing monopole double giant resonances by dilepton (E0) emission D. S. Delion, R. J. Liotta, N. Sandulescu, and T. Vertse pp. 986-989 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local electric dipole strength in heavy nuclei A. M. Oros, K. Heyde, C. De Coster, and B. Decroix pp. 990-993 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gamow-Teller decay of N=51 nuclei I. P. Johnstone pp. 994-995 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unresolved dipole strength in spectra of the 157Gd(γ,γ′) reaction J. Enders, N. Huxel, U. Kneissl, P. von Neumann-Cosel, H. H. Pitz, and A. Richter pp. 996-999 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	α-nucleus scattering in angular momentum space I. Jamir, E. F. Lyngdoh, and C. S. Shastry pp. 1000-1003 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: πN→ηN and ηN→ηN partial-wave T matrices in a coupled, three-channel model [Phys. Rev. C 51, 2310 (1995)] M. Batinić, I. Šlaus, A. Švarc, and B. M. Nefkens pp. 1004-1005 [View PDF (68 kB) ]

•	Verification of isomerism and direct measurement of half-lives in184Au [Phys. Rev. C 55, 2697 (1997)] K. Zaerpoor, Y. Xu, M. Gummin, K. S. Krane, J. L. Wood, N. J. Stone, and J. Rikovska pp. 1006 [View PDF (27 kB) ]

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Erratum: Dipole excitations in the transitional nucleus 144Nd studied in photon scattering experiments [Phys. Rev. C 56, 1256 (1997)] 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. 1007 [View PDF (26 kB) ]