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New precision measurement of the pionic deuterium s-wave strong interaction parameters P. Hauser, K. Kirch, L. M. Simons, G. Borchert, D. Gotta, Th. Siems, P. El-Khoury, P. Indelicato, M. Augsburger, D. Chatellard, J.-P. Egger, and D. F. Anagnostopoulos pp. R1869-R1872 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Is quasifission responsible for anomalous fission fragment anisotropies? A. A. Sonzogni, R. Vandenbosch, A. L. Caraley, and J. P. Lestone pp. R1873-R1875 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Lifetimes near the bandhead of a shears band in 198Pb R. Krücken, R. M. Clark, A. Dewald, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, K. Hauschild, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. Peusquens, G. J. Schmid, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, and P. von Brentano pp. R1876-R1879 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Noncoplanarity effects in proton-proton bremsstrahlung Yi Li, M. K. Liou, R. Timmermans, and B. F. Gibson pp. R1880-R1883 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

nn̄ transitions in nuclei V. I. Nazaruk pp. R1884-R1888 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Deformation and one-particle orbits in 3671Kr35 and 3571Br36 P. Urkedal and I. Hamamoto pp. R1889-R1892 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Analysis of staggering patterns in identical superdeformed bands: Constraints on a C4 Hamiltonian D. S. Haslip, S. Flibotte, C. E. Svensson, and J. C. Waddington pp. R1893-R1896 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Proton-proton analyzing power and spin correlation measurements between 250 and 450 MeV at 7°<~θc.m.<~90° with an internal target in a storage ring B. v. Przewoski, F. Rathmann, W. A. Dezarn, J. Doskow, M. Dzemidzic, W. Haeberli, J. G. Hardie, B. Lorentz, H. O. Meyer, P. V. Pancella, R. E. Pollock, T. Rinckel, F. Sperisen, and T. Wise pp. 1897-1912 [View PDF (351 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dimensional versus cut-off renormalization and the nucleon-nucleon interaction Angsula Ghosh, Sadhan K. Adhikari, and B. Talukdar pp. 1913-1920 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	3P2-3F2 pairing in neutron matter with modern nucleon-nucleon potentials M. Baldo, Ø. Elgarøy, L. Engvik, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and H.-J. Schulze pp. 1921-1928 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	pp↔π+d process at low energy: Interplay between s- and p-wave mechanisms L. Canton, A. Davini, and P. J. Dortmans pp. 1929-1936 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Partial conservation of axial current constraints on pion production or absorption within nonrelativistic nuclear dynamics V. Dmitrašinović and T. Sato pp. 1937-1947 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of NN amplitudes up to 2.5 GeV: An optical model and geometric interpretation H. V. von Geramb, K. A. Amos, H. Labes, and M. Sander pp. 1948-1965 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Neutron h11/2 band structures of 109,111Pd observed in heavy-ion induced fission T. Kutsarova, A. Minkova, M.-G. Porquet, I. Deloncle, E. Gueorguieva, F. Azaiez, S. Bouneau, C. Bourgeois, J. Duprat, B. J. Gall, C. Gautherin, F. Hoellinger, R. Lucas, N. Schulz, H. Sergolle, Ts. Venkova, and A. Wilson pp. 1966-1969 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson-exchange enhancement in first-forbidden β transitions: The case of 50K and 38Ca P. Baumann, M. Bounajma, F. Didierjean, A. Huck, A. Knipper, M. Ramdhane, G. Walter, G. Marguier, C. Richard-Serre, and B. A. Brown pp. 1970-1979 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying levels in Cu and Zn isotopes K. P. Singh, D. C. Tayal, and H. S. Hans pp. 1980-1985 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear orientation of 160Hog+mGd: Sign change of E2/M1 mixing ratios in ΔK=2 transitions of 160Dy T. I. Kracíková, M. Finger, M. Krmar, K. Kumar, A. Janata, N. A. Lebedev, V. N. Pavlov, and E. Šimečková pp. 1986-1996 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-spin excitations in Ru nuclei near N=60 N. Fotiades, J. A. Cizewski, D. P. McNabb, K. Y. Ding, 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. 1997-2001 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rotational bands in 133Nd D. Bazzacco, F. Brandolini, G. Falconi, S. Lunardi, N. H. Medina, P. Pavan, C. Rossi Alvarez, G. de Angelis, D. De Acuna, M. De Poli, D. R. Napoli, J. Rico, D. Bucurescu, M. Ionescu-Bujor, and C. A. Ur pp. 2002-2021 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar and vector decomposition of the nucleon self-energy in the relativistic Brueckner approach C. Fuchs, T. Waindzoch, Amand Faessler, and D. S. Kosov pp. 2022-2032 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model study of the neutron rich isotopes from oxygen to silicon E. Caurier, F. Nowacki, A. Poves, and J. Retamosa pp. 2033-2040 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Backbending and breaking of axial symmetry in the yrast bands of 114–130Xe isotopes S. P. Sarswat, Arun Bharti, and S. K. Khosa pp. 2041-2048 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic study of exotic clustering in even-even actinide nuclei B. Buck, A. C. Merchant, and S. M. Perez pp. 2049-2060 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic transitions of the K=1 band in the SU(3) limit of the neutron-proton interacting boson model J. H. Lee pp. 2061-2067 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monopole strength and decay out of superdeformed bands in the A=190 mass region from theories beyond the mean field H. Dancer, P. Bonche, H. Flocard, P.-H. Heenen, J. Meyer, and M. Meyer pp. 2068-2072 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of α decay from superdeformed nuclei D. S. Delion and R. J. Liotta pp. 2073-2080 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identical bands and incremental alignments in normal deformed nuclei Caiwan Shen and Y. S. Chen pp. 2081-2085 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solution of relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov equations in configurational representation: Spherical neutron halo nuclei M. Stoitsov, P. Ring, D. Vretenar, and G. A. Lalazissis pp. 2086-2091 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New discrete basis for nuclear structure studies M. V. Stoitsov, W. Nazarewicz, and S. Pittel pp. 2092-2098 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell-model plus Hartree-Fock calculations for the neutron-rich Ca isotopes B. A. Brown and W. A. Richter pp. 2099-2107 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral statistics of calcium isotopes from realistic shell-model calculations J. M. Gómez, V. R. Manfredi, L. Salasnich, and E. Caurier pp. 2108-2114 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon momentum and density distributions in 4He considering internal rotation G. S. Anagnostatos, A. N. Antonov, P. Ginis, J. Giapitzakis, M. K. Gaidarov, and A. Vassiliou pp. 2115-2119 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of the tensor force in nuclear matter saturation Manoj K. Banerjee and John A. Tjon pp. 2120-2125 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Potential energy surfaces of superheavy nuclei M. Bender, K. Rutz, P.-G. Reinhard, J. A. Maruhn, and W. Greiner pp. 2126-2132 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coefficients of fractional parentage in the k-i basis shell model Hsuan-Yeh Chang, S. K. Patra, and Cheng-Li Wu pp. 2133-2143 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coexistence of cluster configurations in the 32S nucleus J. Cseh, G. Lévai, A. Ventura, and L. Zuffi pp. 2144-2153 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite temperature nuclear response in the extended random phase approximation Denis Lacroix, Philippe Chomaz, and Sakir Ayik pp. 2154-2160 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Time scales from two-neutron intensity interferometry for the reaction 40Ar+165Ho at E/A=25 MeV S. J. Gaff, A. Galonsky, C. K. Gelbke, T. Glasmacher, M. Huang, J. J. Kruse, G. J. Kunde, R. Lemmon, W. G. Lynch, M. B. Tsang, J. Wang, P. D. Zecher, F. Deák, Á. Horváth, Á. Kiss, Z. Seres, K. Ieki, and Y. Iwata pp. 2161-2166 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-resolution measurement of the 12C(γ,p)11B reaction to excited states for Eγ=50–70 MeV A. Kuzin, R. P. Rassool, M. N. Thompson, J.-O. Adler, K. Fissum, K. Hansen, L. Isaksson, M. Lundin, B. Nilsson, H. Ruijter, B. Schröder, J. R. Annand, G. I. Crawford, J. C. McGeorge, J. Gregel, and J. Ryckebusch pp. 2167-2173 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ-ray production by inelastic proton scattering on 16O and 12C J. Kiener, M. Berheide, N. L. Achouri, A. Boughrara, A. Coc, A. Lefebvre, F. de Oliveira Santos, and Ch. Vieu pp. 2174-2179 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Mechanism of the forward-angle (d,pn) reaction at intermediate energies H. Okamura, S. Ishida, N. Sakamoto, H. Otsu, T. Uesaka, T. Wakasa, H. Sakai, T. Niizeki, H. Toyokawa, Y. Tajima, H. Ohnuma, M. Yosoi, K. Hatanaka, and T. Ichihara pp. 2180-2191 [View PDF (380 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Valence and inner hole responses via the 208Pb(d→,t)207Pb reaction at Ed=200 MeV and form factor dependence H. Langevin-Joliot, J. Van de Wiele, F. Jourdan, J. Guillot, E. Gerlic, L. H. Rosier, A. Willis, C. Djalali, M. Morlet, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, N. Blasi, S. Micheletti, and S. Y. van der Werf pp. 2192-2204 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement and theoretical analysis of neutron elastic scattering and inelastic reactions leading to a three-body final state for 6Li at 10 to 20 MeV S. Chiba, K. Togasaki, M. Ibaraki, M. Baba, S. Matsuyama, N. Hirakawa, K. Shibata, O. Iwamoto, A. J. Koning, G. M. Hale, and M. B. Chadwick pp. 2205-2216 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron transition densities for low lying states in 58Ni obtained by using 200 MeV inelastic proton scattering J. Lisantti, A. D. Bacher, G. P. Berg, S. M. Bowyer, S. Chang, J. Liu, C. Olmer, E. J. Stephenson, S. P. Wells, S. W. Wissink, and K. H. Hicks pp. 2217-2228 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical calculation of fusion barrier distributions A. Y. Abul-Magd and M. H. Simbel pp. 2229-2237 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized entropy and temperature in nuclear multifragmentation A. Atalmi, M. Baldo, G. F. Burgio, and A. Rapisarda pp. 2238-2248 [View PDF (373 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic model analyses of the elastic scattering of 65 MeV protons from targets of diverse mass P. J. Dortmans, K. Amos, S. Karataglidis, and J. Raynal pp. 2249-2260 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-deuteron scattering in a current-conserving description of relativistic bound states: Formalism and impulse approximation calculations D. R. Phillips, S. J. Wallace, and N. K. Devine pp. 2261-2282 [View PDF (389 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of isospin dependence of nuclear collective flow in an isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model Chen Liewen, Zhang Fengshou, and Jin Genming pp. 2283-2291 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy dependence of pion double charge exchange Mutazz Nuseirat, M. A. Lodhi, M. O. El-Ghossain, W. R. Gibbs, and W. B. Kaufmann pp. 2292-2302 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Low freeze-out temperature and high collective velocities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions J. Rayford Nix pp. 2303-2310 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipion correlations as a signal for quark-gluon plasma formation in high energy heavy ion collisions W. N. Zhang, L. Huo, X. J. Chen, W. Wang, and Y. M. Liu pp. 2311-2315 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotopic spin effect in two-pion and three-pion Bose-Einstein correlations M. Biyajima, A. Ohsawa, N. Suzuki, and I. V. Andreev pp. 2316-2320 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of jet quenching on high pT hadron spectra in high-energy nuclear collisions Xin-Nian Wang pp. 2321-2330 [View PDF (586 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Forming disoriented chiral condensates through fluctuations Dirk H. Rischke pp. 2331-2357 [View PDF (567 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Open charm, photon, and dilepton production in an increasingly strongly interacting parton plasma S. M. Wong pp. 2358-2365 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

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Observation of kaonic hydrogen atom x rays T. M. Ito, R. S. Hayano, S. N. Nakamura, T. P. Terada, M. Iwasaki, D. R. Gill, L. Lee, A. Olin, M. Salomon, S. Yen, K. Bartlett, G. A. Beer, G. Mason, G. Trayling, H. Outa, T. Taniguchi, Y. Yamashita, and R. Seki pp. 2366-2382 [View PDF (709 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson-baryon form factors in the chiral color dielectric model S. C. Phatak pp. 2383-2392 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vector meson photoproduction with an effective Lagrangian in the quark model Qiang Zhao, Zhenping Li, and C. Bennhold pp. 2393-2413 [View PDF (429 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body decay of the d* dibaryon Chun Wa Wong pp. 2414-2428 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction of φ mesons from the proton: Polarization observables and strangeness in the nucleon Alexander I. Titov, Yongseok Oh, Shin Nan Yang, and Tosiyuki Morii pp. 2429-2449 [View PDF (489 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mesons in nuclei in the light-front mean field approximation and deep-inelastic scattering M. Burkardt and G. A. Miller pp. 2450-2458 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Octet and decuplet baryons in a covariant and confining diquark-quark model M. Oettel, G. Hellstern, R. Alkofer, and H. Reinhardt pp. 2459-2477 [View PDF (879 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	N→Δ(1232) E2 transition and Siegert’s theorem A. J. Buchmann, E. Hernández, U. Meyer, and Amand Faessler pp. 2478-2488 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Results on νμ→νe oscillations from pion decay in flight neutrinos C. Athanassopoulos et al. (LSND Collaboration) pp. 2489-2511 [View PDF (598 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for the admixture of heavy neutrinos in the recoil spectra of 37Ar decay M. M. Hindi, Recep Avci, A. H. Hussein, R. L. Kozub, P. Miočinović, and Lin Zhu pp. 2512-2525 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino capture by r-process waiting-point nuclei Rebecca Surman and Jonathan Engel pp. 2526-2530 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Neutron capture cross section of 44Ti R. Ejnisman, I. D. Goldman, K. S. Krane, P. Mohr, Y. Nakazawa, E. B. Norman, T. Rauscher, and J. Reel pp. 2531-2537 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of hyperons on the dynamical deconfinement transition in cold neutron star matter Kei Iida and Katsuhiko Sato pp. 2538-2559 [View PDF (434 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Power densities for two-step γ-ray transitions from isomeric states Silviu Olariu and Agata Olariu pp. 2560-2562 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetime of the 2750 keV level in 37K J. D. Hinnefeld, J. Görres, J. Meißner, P. Tischhauser, and M. Wiescher pp. 2563-2565 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New results on the double β decay of iron I. Bikit, M. Krmar, J. Slivka, M. Vesković, Lj. Čonkić, and I. Aničin pp. 2566-2567 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decay of the 12O ground state A. Azhari, R. A. Kryger, and M. Thoennessen pp. 2568-2570 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Revised Q values for the superallowed positron decays of 10C and 14O P. H. Barker and P. A. Amundsen pp. 2571-2573 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the 1H(γ,π0) cross section near threshold. III. Angular coefficients J. C. Bergstrom pp. 2574-2576 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation functions of the 89Y(n,n′γ)89Ym and 89Y(n,αγ)86Rbm processes R. Dóczi, S. Sudár, J. Csikai, and S. M. Qaim pp. 2577-2580 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Abelian density functional theory G. V. Vlasov pp. 2581-2584 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton stopping in C+C, d+C, C+Ta, and d+Ta collisions at 4.2A GeV/c Lj. Simić and M. Kornicer pp. 2585-2587 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent structure of correlated 2+ nucleon pairs Da-hai Lu pp. 2588-2590 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Space correlations and the pairing interaction in nuclei M. A. Tischler, A. Tonina, and G. G. Dussel pp. 2591-2594 [View PDF (815 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strange mesonic transition form factor in the chiral constituent quark model Hiroshi Ito and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf pp. 2595-2598 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discrepancy in the cross section minimum of elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering S. Nemoto, K. Chmielewski, S. Oryu, and P. U. Sauer pp. 2599-2602 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlated ground state of 16O and E2 giant resonance built on it Mitsuru Tohyama pp. 2603-2606 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]