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  • Nuclear Structure
  • Nuclear Reactions
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  • Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons
  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
• BRIEF REPORTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Experimental study of the deformed nucleus 153Sm via (d→,t) and average resonance capture as a test case for the multiorbit interacting boson fermion model A. Gollwitzer, R. Hertenberger, A. Metz, P. Schiemenz, B. D. Valnion, G. Graw, N. Blasi, S. Lucchini, S. Micheletti, M. Pignanelli, R. de Leo, R. L. Gill, C. Hategan, and R. F. Casten pp. R2781-R2785 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Time scale for emission of soft ejectiles in the disassembly of hot nuclei G. Wang, K. Kwiatkowski, D. S. Bracken, E. Renshaw Foxford, W.-c. Hsi, R. G. Korteling, R. Legrain, K. B. Morley, E. C. Pollacco, V. E. Viola, and C. Volant pp. R2786-R2789 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anomalous p-shell isoscalar magnetic moments: Remeasurement of 9C and the influence of isospin nonconservation M. Huhta, P. F. Mantica, D. W. Anthony, B. A. Brown, B. S. Davids, R. W. Ibbotson, D. J. Morrissey, C. F. Powell, and M. Steiner pp. R2790-R2793 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Positron-electron angular correlations in internal pair conversion A. H. Wuosmaa, C. M. Conner, I. Ahmad, B. B. Back, R. R. Betts, R. W. Dunford, S. M. Fischer, R. Ganz, J. P. Greene, N. I. Kaloskamis, L. Lamm, C. J. Lister, V. Nanal, D. E. Roa, and J. P. Schiffer pp. R2794-R2798 [View PDF (344 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Probing reaction dynamics with the 196Pt(n,xnγ) reactions for x<~15 L. A. Bernstein, J. A. Becker, W. Younes, D. E. Archer, K. Hauschild, G. D. Johns, R. O. Nelson, W. S. Wilburn, and D. M. Drake pp. R2799-R2803 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of a new isomeric state in 217Pa T. Ikuta, H. Ikezoe, S. Mitsuoka, I. Nishinaka, K. Tsukada, Y. Nagame, J. Lu, and T. Kuzumaki pp. R2804-R2807 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Shell effects on nuclear incompressibility A. Kolomiets, V. M. Kolomietz, and S. Shlomo pp. R2808-R2812 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

New collective mode due to collisional coupling K. Morawetz, R. Walke, and U. Fuhrmann pp. R2813-R2817 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear interference effects in 8B sub-Coulomb breakup F. M. Nunes and I. J. Thompson pp. R2818-R2820 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Chemical potential dependence of π and ρ properties P. Maris, C. D. Roberts, and S. Schmidt pp. R2821-R2825 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Toward a global systematic analysis of sub-barrier fusion enhancement S. Gil and D. E. DiGregorio pp. R2826-R2829 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Nuclear sigma term in the Skyrme model: Pion-nucleus interaction A. Gammal and T. Frederico pp. 2830-2838 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	σ fields and chiral scalars in nuclear three-body potentials C. M. Maekawa and M. R. Robilotta pp. 2839-2846 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unambiguous amplitude analysis of the NN→ΔN transition from asymmetry measurements J. P. Auger and C. Lazard pp. 2847-2857 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ξ-d→nΛΛ and the ΛΛ final state interaction S. B. Carr, I. R. Afnan, and B. F. Gibson pp. 2858-2869 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization phenomena for low energy d+3He collisions M. P. Rekalo and E. Tomasi-Gustafsson pp. 2870-2879 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Lifetimes and structure of excited states of 115Sb Yu. N. Lobach and D. Bucurescu pp. 2880-2886 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Folding model analysis of the excitation of low-lying states and the high energy octupole resonance in 116Sn by 240 MeV α scattering H. L. Clark, Y.-W. Lui, and D. H. Youngblood pp. 2887-2891 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	States of seniority 3 and 5 in the N=48 nucleus 87Y R. Schwengner, J. Reif, H. Schnare, G. Winter, T. Servene, L. Käubler, H. Prade, M. Wilhelm, A. Fitzler, S. Kasemann, E. Radermacher, and P. von Brentano pp. 2892-2902 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear structure of 94,95Mo at high spins B. Kharraja, S. S. Ghugre, U. Garg, R. V. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, B. Crowell, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, D. Nisius, W. Reviol, W. F. Mueller, L. L. Riedinger, and R. Kaczarowski pp. 2903-2911 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band structures and alignment properties in 74Se J. Döring, G. D. Johns, M. A. Riley, S. L. Tabor, Y. Sun, and J. A. Sheikh pp. 2912-2923 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational bands in 170Yb and 171Yb and the projected shell model D. E. Archer, M. A. Riley, T. B. Brown, D. J. Hartley, J. Döring, G. D. Johns, J. Pfohl, S. L. Tabor, J. Simpson, Y. Sun, and J. L. Egido pp. 2924-2943 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational structures in 155Eu and 157Tb D. J. Hartley, M. A. Riley, D. E. Archer, T. B. Brown, J. Döring, R. A. Kaye, F. G. Kondev, T. Petters, J. Pfohl, R. K. Sheline, S. L. Tabor, and J. Simpson pp. 2944-2961 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Composition of the nuclear periphery from antiproton absorption P. Lubiński, J. Jastrzȩbski, A. Trzcińska, W. Kurcewicz, F. J. Hartmann, W. Schmid, T. von Egidy, R. Smolańczuk, and S. Wycech pp. 2962-2973 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Level structure of 99Nb G. Lhersonneau, J. Suhonen, P. Dendooven, A. Honkanen, M. Huhta, P. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, M. Oinonen, H. Penttilä, J. R. Persson, K. Peräjärvi, A. Savelius, J. C. Wang, J. Äystö, S. Brant, V. Paar, and D. Vretenar pp. 2974-2990 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collectivity in even 54 116Xe and 54 118Xe isotopes J. M. Sears, D. B. Fossan, G. R. Gluckman, J. F. Smith, I. Thorslund, E. S. Paul, I. M. Hibbert, and R. Wadsworth pp. 2991-3014 [View PDF (427 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle number fluctuations in the quasiparticle random-phase approximation and renormalized quasiparticle random-phase approximation A. Mariano and J. G. Hirsch pp. 3015-3019 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear equation of state W. D. Myers and W. J. Świa̧tecki pp. 3020-3025 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal description of the 02+ state in collective even-A nuclei Yu. V. Palchikov, P. von Brentano, and R. V. Jolos pp. 3026-3031 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relation between damping of the hot giant dipole resonance and the complex admittance of an irreversible process Nguyen Dinh Dang and Fumihiko Sakata pp. 3032-3048 [View PDF (374 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Widths of isobaric analog resonances: A microscopic approach G. Colò, H. Sagawa, N. Van Giai, P. F. Bortignon, and T. Suzuki pp. 3049-3054 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exactly solvable fermion-boson mapping representations Osvaldo Civitarese and Marta Reboiro pp. 3055-3061 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparative study on the validity of the renormalized random-phase approximation Osvaldo Civitarese and Marta Reboiro pp. 3062-3070 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton drip-line nuclei in relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory D. Vretenar, G. A. Lalazissis, and P. Ring pp. 3071-3078 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical reinvestigation of high-spin spectroscopy of 164Er Yang Sun and Kenji Hara pp. 3079-3084 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rates of transitions between the hyperfine-splitting components of the ground-state and the 3.5 eV isomer in 229Th89+ F. F. Karpeshin, S. Wycech, I. M. Band, M. B. Trzhaskovskaya, M. Pfützner, and J. Żylicz pp. 3085-3088 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell corrections for finite depth potentials: Particle continuum effects T. Vertse, A. T. Kruppa, R. J. Liotta, W. Nazarewicz, N. Sandulescu, and T. R. Werner pp. 3089-3098 [View PDF (728 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetric nuclear matter in the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach F. de Jong and H. Lenske pp. 3099-3107 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of techniques for computing shell-model effective operators Michael Thoresen, Petr Navrátil, and Bruce R. Barrett pp. 3108-3118 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-basis shell-model calculations for p-shell nuclei P. Navrátil and B. R. Barrett pp. 3119-3128 [View PDF (504 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Heavy residue formation in 20 MeV/nucleon 197Au-12C and 197Au-27Al collisions G. A. Souliotis, K. Hanold, W. Loveland, I. Lhenry, D. J. Morrissey, A. C. Veeck, and G. J. Wozniak pp. 3129-3143 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Differential cross sections for pion charge exchange on the proton at 27.5 MeV E. Frlež, D. Počanić, K. A. Assamagan, J. P. Chen, K. J. Keeter, R. M. Marshall, R. C. Minehart, L. C. Smith, G. E. Dodge, S. S. Hanna, B. H. King, and J. N. Knudson pp. 3144-3152 [View PDF (451 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Particle decays from 12B and 12N mirror nuclei T. Inomata, H. Akimune, I. Daito, H. Ejiri, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, M. N. Harakeh, K. Ishibashi, H. Kohri, N. Matsuoka, S. Nakayama, A. Tamii, M. Tanaka, H. Toyokawa, M. Yoshimura, and M. Yosoi pp. 3153-3166 [View PDF (527 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant isoscalar monopole resonance strength in 40Ca from (e,e′α) angular correlations M. Kohl, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Richter, G. Schrieder, and S. Strauch pp. 3167-3177 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of the decay of highly excited nuclei H.-Y. Wu, G.-X. Dai, G.-M. Jin, Z.-Y. Li, L.-M. Duan, Z.-Y. He, W.-X. Wen, B.-G. Zhang, Y.-J. Qi, Q.-Z. Luo, and Z.-K. Li pp. 3178-3184 [View PDF (633 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rescattering in knockout reactions as manifested in 40Ca(p,p′p″) at an incident energy of 392 MeV A. A. Cowley, G. J. Arendse, R. F. Visser, G. F. Steyn, S. V. Förtsch, J. J. Lawrie, J. V. Pilcher, T. Noro, T. Baba, K. Hatanaka, M. Kawabata, N. Matsuoka, Y. Mizuno, M. Nomachi, K. Takahisa, K. Tamura, Y. Yuasa, H. Sakaguchi, T. Itoh, H. Takeda, and Y. Watanabe pp. 3185-3190 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin-isovector giant resonances induced by (n,p) reactions on heavy nuclei S. A. Long, B. M. Spicer, K. J. Raywood, R. Abegg, W. P. Alford, A. Celler, D. Frekers, P. E. Green, O. Häusser, R. L. Helmer, R. S. Henderson, K. H. Hicks, K. P. Jackson, R. G. Jeppesen, N. S. King, C. A. Miller, M. A. Moinester, V. C. Officer, G. G. Shute, A. Trudel, M. C. Vetterli, A. I. Yavin, and S. Yen pp. 3191-3202 [View PDF (422 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the 2H(γ,π0) reaction near threshold J. C. Bergstrom, R. Igarashi, J. M. Vogt, N. Kolb, R. E. Pywell, D. M. Skopik, and E. Korkmaz pp. 3203-3219 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical calculations of the damping width of giant resonances C. A. Ceneviva, N. Teruya, H. Dias, and M. S. Hussein pp. 3220-3224 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb dissociation of light nuclei J. A. Tostevin, S. Rugmai, and R. C. Johnson pp. 3225-3236 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Glauber model for transfer reactions F. Carstoiu, C. Lazard, and R. J. Lombard pp. 3237-3245 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiplicity scaling in nuclear fragmentation Subrata Pal, S. K. Samaddar, J. N. De, and B. Djerroud pp. 3246-3250 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Testing the core-halo model on Bose-Einstein correlation functions S. Nickerson, T. Csörgő, and D. Kiang pp. 3251-3262 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport theory with self-consistent confinement related to the lattice data P. Bożek, Y. B. He, and J. Hüfner pp. 3263-3270 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonthermal direct photons in Pb+Pb at 160A GeV from microscopic transport theory A. Dumitru, M. Bleicher, S. A. Bass, C. Spieles, L. Neise, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner pp. 3271-3275 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal dilepton signal versus dileptons from open charm and bottom decays in heavy-ion collisions K. Gallmeister, B. Kämpfer, and O. P. Pavlenko pp. 3276-3283 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radial flow of kaon mesons in heavy ion reactions Z. S. Wang, Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, V. S. Uma Maheswari, and T. Waindzoch pp. 3284-3291 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear shadowing effects on prompt photons at ultrarelativistic energies N. Hammon, A. Dumitru, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner pp. 3292-3298 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic transport theory for systems containing bound states P. Rehberg pp. 3299-3313 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Central Coulomb effects on pion interferometry D. Hardtke and T. J. Humanic pp. 3314-3318 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal model analysis of particle ratios in Ni+Ni experiments using exact strangeness conservation J. Cleymans, D. Elliott, A. Keränen, and E. Suhonen pp. 3319-3323 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiparticle Bose-Einstein correlations Urs Achim Wiedemann pp. 3324-3339 [View PDF (305 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	d′ dibaryon in a colored cluster model A. J. Buchmann,1, Georg Wagner,2, and Amand Faessler1 pp. 3340-3355 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion-nucleon scattering in a new approach to chiral perturbation theory Paul J. Ellis and Hua-Bin Tang pp. 3356-3375 [View PDF (464 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent approach to the Wigner-Seitz treatment of soliton matter Urban Weber and Judith A. McGovern pp. 3376-3383 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interquark potential model for multiquark systems A. M. Green and P. Pennanen pp. 3384-3391 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deuteron spin structure functions at small Bjorken x J. Edelmann, G. Piller, and W. Weise pp. 3392-3405 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Q-Q interactions in constituent quark models L. Ya. Glozman, Z. Papp, W. Plessas, K. Varga, and R. F. Wagenbrunn pp. 3406-3413 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	New experimental limits on νe→ντ oscillations in 2-ν and 3-ν mixing schemes B. Armbruster et al. pp. 3414-3424 [View PDF (834 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Consistency of parity-violating pion-nucleon couplings extracted from measurements in 18F and 133Cs W. S. Wilburn and J. D. Bowman pp. 3425-3429 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parity violating elastic electron scattering and Coulomb distortions C. J. Horowitz pp. 3430-3436 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	9Be(p→,d)8Be and 9Be(p→,α)6Li reactions at low energies C. R. Brune, W. H. Geist, H. J. Karwowski, E. J. Ludwig, and K. D. Veal pp. 3437-3446 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equation of state of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter including relativistic random-phase approximation-type correlations Norbert Fröhlich, Hans Baier, and Wolfgang Bentz pp. 3447-3451 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron capture resonances in 142Nd and 144Nd K. Wisshak, F. Voss, and F. Käppeler pp. 3452-3458 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Low-lying dipole strength in 207Pb A. Nord, S. W. Yates, O. Beck, D. Belic, P. von Brentano, T. Eckert, C. Fransen, R.-D. Herzberg, U. Kneissl, H. Maser, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, and V. Werner pp. 3459-3461 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fusion barrier and spin distributions in 12C+232Th reaction via quasielastic scattering R. Varma, Shrabani Sinha, B. K. Nayak, R. G. Thomas, A. Saxena, D. C. Biswas, L. M. Pant, D. M. Nadkarni, R. K. Choudhury, and P. Bhattacharya pp. 3462-3465 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production and spectroscopy of the neutron-rich nucleus 166Dy C. Y. Wu, M. W. Simon, D. Cline, G. A. Davis, A. O. Macchiavelli, and K. Vetter pp. 3466-3469 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Skyrme model πNN form factor and the sea quark distribution of the nucleon R. J. Fries and A. Schäfer pp. 3470-3472 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model of short-range correlations in the charge response J. E. Amaro, A. M. Lallena, G. Co’, and A. Fabrocini pp. 3473-3475 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transitions between complex configurations in the excitation of the double giant resonance V. Yu. Ponomarev and C. A. Bertulani pp. 3476-3479 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energetically forbidden internal conversion processes ignited by intense radiation fields Tamás Bükki and Péter Kálmán pp. 3480-3483 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter in the relativistic approach at finite temperatures H. Huber, F. Weber, and M. K. Weigel pp. 3484-3487 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear symmetry energy C.-H. Lee, T. T. Kuo, G. Q. Li, and G. E. Brown pp. 3488-3491 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Amplitudes and resonances from an energy-dependent analysis of p̅ +p→π+π B. R. Martin and G. C. Oades pp. 3492-3494 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections from nonrelativistic reaction matrices in nuclear matter M. Kohno, M. Higashi, Y. Watanabe, and M. Kawai pp. 3495-3498 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Propagation of charm quarks in equilibrating quark-gluon plasma [Phys. Rev. C 57, 889 (1998)] Munshi Golam Mustafa, Dipali Pal, and Dinesh Kumar Srivastava pp. 3499 [View PDF (36 kB) ]