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  • Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons
  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
• BRIEF REPORTS
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

High-K isomers in neutron-rich hafnium nuclei at and beyond the stability line R. D’Alarcao, P. Chowdhury, E. H. Seabury, P. M. Walker, C. Wheldon, I. Ahmad, M. P. Carpenter, G. Hackman, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, C. J. Lister, D. Nisius, P. Reiter, D. Seweryniak, and I. Wiedenhoever pp. R1227-R1231 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Limits on R-parity nonconservation from neutrinoless double β decay in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with gauge mediated breaking A. Wodecki and Wiesław A. Kamiński pp. R1232-R1236 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Enhancement of πA→ππA threshold cross sections by in-medium ππ final state interactions R. Rapp, J. W. Durso, Z. Aouissat, G. Chanfray, O. Krehl, P. Schuck, J. Speth, and J. Wambach pp. R1237-R1241 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear enhancement of the multiphonon Coulomb excitation in relativistic heavy ion collisions M. S. Hussein, A. F. de Toledo Piza, and O. K. Vorov pp. R1242-R1246 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Analyzing power in nucleon-deuteron scattering and three-nucleon forces S. Ishikawa pp. R1247-R1251 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Continuum excitations in 6He T. Aumann et al. pp. 1252-1262 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified relativistic description of πNN and γπNN A. N. Kvinikhidze and B. Blankleider pp. 1263-1271 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Breakup reactions of 11Li within a three-body model E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen pp. 1272-1289 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic scattering of pions from the three-nucleon system S. L. Collier and W. R. Gibbs pp. 1290-1297 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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High-spin states in doubly odd 176Re and signature inversion in πh9/2⊗νi13/2 structures M. A. Cardona, A. J. Kreiner, D. Hojman, G. Levinton, M. E. Debray, M. Davidson, J. Davidson, R. Pirchio, H. Somacal, D. R. Napoli, D. Bazzacco, N. Blasi, R. Burch, D. De Acuña, S. M. Lenzi, G. Lo Bianco, J. Rico, and C. Rossi Alvarez pp. 1298-1315 [View PDF (413 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Octupole correlations in neutron-rich 145,147La nuclei: Coriolis-limit-coupling bands with aligned h11/2 proton S. J. Zhu et al. pp. 1316-1323 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Yrast states of the proton drip line nucleus 106Sb D. Sohler et al. pp. 1324-1327 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Further evidence on shape coexistence in 72As D. Sohler, Zs. Podolyák, Zs. Dombrádi, J. Gulyás, A. Algora, S. Brant, V. Krstić, and V. Paar pp. 1328-1333 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Highly deformed and triaxial structures in 134Ce N. J. O’Brien, A. Galindo-Uribarri, V. P. Janzen, D. T. Joss, P. J. Nolan, C. M. Parry, E. S. Paul, D. C. Radford, R. Wadsworth, and D. Ward pp. 1334-1338 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape competition and shape coexistence in 75Br G. Z. Solomon, G. D. Johns, R. A. Kaye, and S. L. Tabor pp. 1339-1350 [View PDF (334 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Residual interactions and tilted rotation in odd-odd 164Tm W. Reviol, L. L. Riedinger, X. Z. Wang, J.-Y. Zhang, H. J. Jensen, G. B. Hagemann, R. A. Bark, P. O. Tjøm, S. Leoni, T. Lönnroth, H. Schnack-Petersen, T. Shizuma, J. Wrzesinski, and P. B. Semmes pp. 1351-1378 [View PDF (575 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carbon isotopes near drip lines in the relativistic mean-field theory M. M. Sharma, S. Mythili, and A. R. Farhan pp. 1379-1390 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unbound states by analytic continuation in the coupling constant N. Tanaka, Y. Suzuki, K. Varga, and R. G. Lovas pp. 1391-1399 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational alignment near N=Z and proton-neutron correlations S. Frauendorf and J. A. Sheikh pp. 1400-1404 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective field theory for Λ-Σ0 mixing in nuclear matter H. Müller pp. 1405-1421 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational approach to collective excitations M. Sambataro and N. Dinh Dang pp. 1422-1431 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of 6He with an extended three-cluster model K. Arai, Y. Suzuki, and R. G. Lovas pp. 1432-1439 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground state correlations and mean field in 16O Jochen H. Heisenberg and Bogdan Mihaila pp. 1440-1448 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extension of the pairing plus quadrupole force model to N≈Z nuclei M. Hasegawa and K. Kaneko pp. 1449-1455 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Excitation function measurements for the 12C(20Ne,12C[02+])20Ne reaction S. J. Hoad, N. M. Clarke, M. Freer, B. R. Fulton, P. Fry, W. D. Rae, and A. H. Wuosmaa pp. 1456-1463 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Kaon production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 92 MeV per nucleon R. Legrain, J. F. Lecolley, F. R. Lecolley, N. Alamanos, L. Bianchi, Y. Cassagnou, H. Dabrowski, B. Erazmus, J. Julien, D. Lebrun, Ch. Le Brun, A. Mougeot, P. Hameau, G. Perrin, P. de Saintignon, J. L. Sida, and J. P. Wieleczko pp. 1464-1471 [View PDF (282 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heavy residue production in the interaction of 29 MeV/nucleon 208Pb with 197Au W. Loveland, M. Andersson, K. E. Zyromski, N. Ham, B. Altschul, J. Vlcakova, D. Menge, J. O. Liljenzin, R. Yanez, and K. Aleklett pp. 1472-1479 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Pion-proton integral cross sections at Tπ=40 to 284 MeV B. J. Kriss, S. Høibråten, M. D. Holcomb, M. D. Kohler, J. J. Kraushaar, S. Parry, R. A. Ristinen, A. Saunders, W. R. Smythe, C. L. Morris, M. Rawool-Sullivan, R. M. Whitton, J. T. Brack, E. F. Gibson, and J. L. Langenbrunner pp. 1480-1487 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Zero-degree differential cross sections and DNN values for the 17,18O(p→,n→)17,18F reactions at Ep=118 MeV I. J. van Heerden, M. Palarczyk, X. Wang, J. Rapaport, D. L. Prout, C. D. Goodman, B. A. Luther, E. Sugarbaker, T. N. Taddeucci, D. Dehnhard, C. C. Foster, K. Hicks, L. Wang, X. Yang, J. M. O’Donnell, H. Ohnuma, B. K. Park, G. R. Burleson, and S. Blanchard pp. 1488-1496 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Mass yield features of (γ,π+) and (γ,π-xn) reactions for x=0–9 on complex nuclei in the Δ region Koh Sakamoto, Samir Ranjan Sarkar, Yasuji Oura, Hiromitsu Haba, Hiroshi Matsumura, Yutaka Miyamoto, Seiichi Shibata, Michiaki Furukawa, and Ichiro Fujiwara pp. 1497-1505 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasifission reactions as a probe of nuclear viscosity J. Velkovska, C. R. Morton, R. L. McGrath, P. Chung, and I. Diószegi pp. 1506-1517 [View PDF (632 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear structure effects on the absorption in the scattering of heavy ions at low energy J. C. Pacheco, M. D. Kadi-Hanifi, B. Bilwes, and F. Remiro pp. 1518-1525 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sensitivity of tensor analyzing power in the process d+p→d+X to the longitudinal isoscalar form factor of the Roper resonance electroexcitation E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, M. P. Rekalo, R. Bijker, A. Leviatan, and F. Iachello pp. 1526-1533 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Imaginary potential for exotic nuclei G. Pollarolo, L. S. Ferreira, R. J. Liotta, and E. Maglione pp. 1534-1539 [View PDF (405 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculating fission rates at high spin: Incorporation of rotational degrees of freedom in thermodynamically fluctuating axially symmetric systems J. P. Lestone pp. 1540-1544 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deuteron stripping and pick-up on halo nuclei N. K. Timofeyuk and R. C. Johnson pp. 1545-1554 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Importance of Coulomb dissociation of the deuteron on nucleon production reactions D. Ridikas, W. Mittig, and J. A. Tostevin pp. 1555-1559 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noneikonal calculations for few-body projectiles J. M. Brooke, J. S. Al-Khalili, and J. A. Tostevin pp. 1560-1566 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of secondary decay on isotope-ratio temperature measurements H. Xi, W. G. Lynch, M. B. Tsang, W. A. Friedman, and D. Durand pp. 1567-1573 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Hadronization with a confining equation of state T. S. Biró, P. Lévai, and J. Zimányi pp. 1574-1584 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coalescence and flow in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions Rüdiger Scheibl and Ulrich Heinz pp. 1585-1602 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Remnants of initial anisotropic high energy density domains in nucleus-nucleus collisions F. Wang and H. Sorge pp. 1603-1608 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bremsstrahlung of a quark propagating through a nucleus Boris Z. Kopeliovich, Andreas Schäfer, and Alexander V. Tarasov pp. 1609-1619 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hadronization of a quark-gluon plasma in the chromodielectric model C. T. Traxler, U. Mosel, and T. S. Biró pp. 1620-1636 [View PDF (4141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal analysis of hadron multiplicities from relativistic quantum molecular dynamics J. Sollfrank, U. Heinz, H. Sorge, and N. Xu pp. 1637-1645 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New type of pion interferometry formula Q. H. Zhang pp. 1646-1650 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	J/ψ suppression in heavy ion collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron D. E. Kahana and S. H. Kahana pp. 1651-1662 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of impact parameter on thermal description of relativistic heavy ion collisions at (1–2)A GeV Jean Cleymans, Helmut Oeschler, and Krzysztof Redlich pp. 1663-1673 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic quantum transport theory of hadronic matter: The coupled nucleon, Δ, and pion system Guangjun Mao, L. Neise, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner pp. 1674-1699 [View PDF (483 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Role of a covariant confinement model in the calculation of the two-photon decay of the η and η′ L. S. Celenza, Bo Huang, and C. M. Shakin pp. 1700-1707 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Momentum-space analysis of relativistic two-body equations with confining interactions: Stability considerations M. Ortalano, C. E. Bell, S. J. Wallace, and R. B. Thayyullathil pp. 1708-1721 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite quark mass effects in the improved ladder Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes K. Naito, K. Yoshida, Y. Nemoto, M. Oka, and M. Takizawa pp. 1722-1734 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roper excitation in p→+α→p→+α+X reactions S. Hirenzaki, A. D. Bacher, and S. E. Vigdor pp. 1735-1742 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic form factors of light vector mesons F. T. Hawes and M. A. Pichowsky pp. 1743-1750 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean field exponents and small quark masses A. Höll, P. Maris, and C. D. Roberts pp. 1751-1755 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Important configurations for NN processes in a Goldstone boson exchange model D. Bartz and Fl. Stancu pp. 1756-1761 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational Tamm-Dancoff treatment of quantum chromodynamics. II. A semianalytic treatment of the hadrons in the valence quark approximation J. R. Spence and J. P. Vary pp. 1762-1771 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

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Parity nonconservation in neutron resonances in 133Cs E. I. Sharapov, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, P. P. Delheij, T. Haseyama, J. N. Knudson, L. Y. Lowie, A. Masaike, Y. Masuda, Y. Matsuda, G. E. Mitchell, S. I. Penttilä, H. Postma, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, S. L. Stephenson, Y.-F. Yen, and V. W. Yuan pp. 1772-1779 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino-induced deuteron disintegration experiment S. P. Riley, Z. D. Greenwood, W. R. Kropp, L. R. Price, F. Reines, H. W. Sobel, Y. Declais, A. Etenko, and M. Skorokhvatov pp. 1780-1789 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Absolute measurement of the 5/2+ resonance of 36Ar(p,γ)37K at Ep=918 keV P. Mohr, H. Oberhummer, Gy. Gyürky, E. Somorjai, Á. Z. Kiss, and I. Borbély-Kiss pp. 1790-1793 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean-square nuclear charge radius of radioactive 144Ce by laser spectroscopy Y. Ishida, H. Iimura, S. Ichikawa, and T. Horiguchi pp. 1794-1797 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudorapidity distribution of shower particles in heavy ion induced interactions in nuclear emulsion at high energy F. H. Liu and Yu. A. Panebratsev pp. 1798-1801 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective flow in central Au-Au collisions at 150, 250, and 400 A MeV Judit Németh and Gábor Papp pp. 1802-1805 [View PDF (488 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body Faddeev calculation for 11Li with separable potentials K. Ueta, H. Miyake, and G. W. Bund pp. 1806-1809 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of the E2/M1 ratio at the T-matrix pole Ron L. Workman and Richard A. Arndt pp. 1810-1812 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Energy dependence of the NN t matrix in the optical potential for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering” S. Karataglidis, P. J. Dortmans, and K. Amos pp. 1813-1815 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to “Comment on ‘Energy dependence of the NN t matrix in the optical potential for elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering”’ Ch. Elster and S. P. Weppner pp. 1816-1817 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Lifetime measurements in 114,116Xe isotopes [Phys. Rev. C 58, 164 (1998)] J. DeGraaf, M. Cromaz, T. E. Drake, V. P. Janzen, D. C. Radford, and D. Ward pp. 1818 [View PDF (34 kB) ]