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  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Proton emission from the closed neutron shell nucleus 155Ta J. Uusitalo, C. N. Davids, P. J. Woods, D. Seweryniak, A. A. Sonzogni, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, T. Davinson, J. deBoer, D. J. Henderson, H. J. Maier, J. J. Ressler, R. Slinger, and W. B. Walters pp. R2975-R2978 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Proton and α radioactivity below the Z=82 shell closure G. L. Poli, C. N. Davids, P. J. Woods, D. Seweryniak, J. C. Batchelder, L. T. Brown, C. R. Bingham, M. P. Carpenter, L. F. Conticchio, T. Davinson, J. DeBoer, S. Hamada, D. J. Henderson, R. J. Irvine, R. V. Janssens, H. J. Maier, L. Müller, F. Soramel, K. S. Toth, W. B. Walters, and J. Wauters pp. R2979-R2983 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Identification of a proton-emitting isomer in 151Lu C. R. Bingham, J. C. Batchelder, K. Rykaczewski, K. S. Toth, C.-H. Yu, T. N. Ginter, C. J. Gross, R. Grzywacz, M. Karny, S. H. Kim, B. D. MacDonald, J. Mas, J. W. McConnell, P. B. Semmes, J. Szerypo, W. Weintraub, and E. F. Zganjar pp. R2984-R2988 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-spin states in 205Rn: A new shears band structure? J. R. Novak et al. pp. R2989-R2992 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Isotopic effect in φ photoproduction at a few GeV A. I. Titov, T.-S. H. Lee, and H. Toki pp. R2993-R2997 [View PDF (315 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rotational invariance in nuclear light-front mean field theory P. G. Blunden, M. Burkardt, and G. A. Miller pp. R2998-R3001 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for the fourth P11 resonance predicted by the constituent quark model Simon Capstick, T.-S. H. Lee, W. Roberts, and A. Švarc pp. R3002-R3004 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Application of the density matrix renormalization group to the two level pairing model J. Dukelsky and G. G. Dussel pp. R3005-R3008 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Soft-core baryon-baryon potentials for the complete baryon octet V. G. Stoks and Th. A. Rijken pp. 3009-3020 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized orthogonality-condition model for the NN interaction Vladimir I. Kukulin, V. N. Pomerantsev, and Amand Faessler pp. 3021-3034 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modern NN force predictions for the total nd cross section up to 300 MeV H. Witała, H. Kamada, A. Nogga, W. Glöckle, Ch. Elster, and D. Hüber pp. 3035-3046 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Testing low energy theorems in nucleon-nucleon scattering Thomas D. Cohen and James M. Hansen pp. 3047-3051 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Duration and nonlocality of a nucleon-nucleon collision Klaus Morawetz, Pavel Lipavský, Václav Špička, and Nai-Hang Kwong pp. 3052-3059 [View PDF (636 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	β-decay half-lives of new neutron-rich isotopes 167,168Tb and levels in 167,168Dy M. Asai, S. Ichikawa, K. Tsukada, M. Sakama, M. Shibata, Y. Kojima, A. Osa, I. Nishinaka, Y. Nagame, K. Kawade, and T. Tachibana pp. 3060-3065 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Yrast spectroscopy of N=82,83 isotopes 136Xe and 137Xe from 248Cm fission P. J. Daly, P. Bhattacharyya, C. T. Zhang, Z. W. Grabowski, R. Broda, B. Fornal, I. Ahmad, T. Lauritsen, L. R. Morss, W. Urban, W. R. Phillips, J. L. Durell, M. J. Leddy, A. G. Smith, B. J. Varley, N. Schulz, E. Lubkiewicz, M. Bentaleb, and J. Blomqvist pp. 3066-3070 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Five-valence-proton N=82 isotone 137Cs R. Broda, B. Fornal, P. J. Daly, C. T. Zhang, P. Bhattacharyya, Z. W. Grabowski, J. F. Cocks, P. A. Butler, P. T. Greenlees, G. D. Jones, P. M. Jones, R. Julin, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and J. Blomqvist pp. 3071-3075 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Relative quadrupole deformations for decoupled structures in the odd-odd 130Pr and 132Pr nuclei F. G. Kondev, M. A. Riley, D. J. Hartley, T. B. Brown, R. W. Laird, M. Lively, J. Pfohl, R. K. Sheline, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, D. G. Sarantites, M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, F. Lerma, R. Wadsworth, I. M. Hibbert, N. J. O’Brien, E. S. Paul, D. T. Joss, P. J. Nolan, S. L. Shepherd, D. E. Archer, and J. Simpson pp. 3076-3085 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New plutonium isotope: 231Pu C. A. Laue, K. E. Gregorich, R. Sudowe, M. B. Hendricks, J. L. Adams, M. R. Lane, D. M. Lee, C. A. McGrath, D. A. Shaughnessy, D. A. Strellis, E. R. Sylwester, P. A. Wilk, and D. C. Hoffman pp. 3086-3092 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin structure of one- and two-phonon giant dipole resonance excitations A. F. de Toledo Piza, M. S. Hussein, B. V. Carlson, C. A. Bertulani, L. F. Canto, and S. Cruz-Barrios pp. 3093-3098 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isovector vibrations in nuclear matter at finite temperature M. Di Toro, V. M. Kolomietz, and A. B. Larionov pp. 3099-3108 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of pairing correlations on the excitation energy, angular momentum, and parity dependence of nuclear level densities B. K. Agrawal, S. K. Samaddar, A. Ansari, and J. N. De pp. 3109-3115 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pigmy and giant dipole states in oxygen isotopes H. Sagawa and Toshio Suzuki pp. 3116-3119 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic study of the properties of identical bands in the A=150 mass region C. Rigollet, P. Bonche, H. Flocard, and P.-H. Heenen pp. 3120-3127 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Damping of the double giant dipole resonance Nguyen Dinh Dang, Kosai Tanabe, and Akito Arima pp. 3128-3138 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant monopole resonance and nuclear incompressibility within the Fermi-liquid drop model A. Kolomiets, V. M. Kolomietz, and S. Shlomo pp. 3139-3145 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tests and applications of self-consistent cranking in the interacting boson model Serdar Kuyucak and Michiaki Sugita pp. 3146-3152 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phonon mechanisms of mixing collective and quasiparticle excitations A. D. Efimov and V. M. Mikhajlov pp. 3153-3165 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparative study of superdeformed and highly deformed bands in the A∼60 mass region A. V. Afanasjev, I. Ragnarsson, and P. Ring pp. 3166-3171 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Bimodal fission of 270Sg (Z=106) in the sub-barrier fusion of 22Ne and 248Cm M. G. Itkis, N. A. Kondratiev, E. M. Kozulin, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, I. V. Pokrovsky, E. V. Prokhorova, and A. Ya. Rusanov pp. 3172-3176 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization transfer and spin response functions in quasielastic (p→,n→) reactions at 346 MeV T. Wakasa, H. Sakai, K. Hatanaka, H. Okamura, H. Otsu, S. Fujita, T. Nonaka, T. Uesaka, Y. Satou, T. Ohnishi, G. Yokoyama, S. Ishida, N. Sakamoto, M. B. Greenfield, M. Ichimura, and K. Kawahigashi pp. 3177-3195 [View PDF (424 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-isospin flip giant resonances and shell dependence in 7Li and 9Be by π+ photoproduction K. Shoda, S. Tôyama, K. Takeshita, T. Kobayashi, and H. Tsubota pp. 3196-3207 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inclusive measurements of the pp→pnπ+ reaction at 420 and 500 MeV R. G. Pleydon, W. R. Falk, M. Benjamintz, S. Yen, P. L. Walden, R. Abegg, D. Hutcheon, C. A. Miller, M. Hartig, K. Hicks, G. V. O’Rielly, and R. Shyam pp. 3208-3223 [View PDF (326 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass distribution in 11B induced fission of 232Th G. K. Gubbi, A. Goswami, B. S. Tomar, A. Ramaswami, A. V. Reddy, P. P. Burte, S. B. Manohar, and B. John pp. 3224-3231 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonperturbative time-dependent approach to breakup of halo nuclei V. S. Melezhik and D. Baye pp. 3232-3239 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear induced breakup of halo nuclei H. Esbensen and G. F. Bertsch pp. 3240-3245 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections for neutral-current neutrino-nucleus interactions: Applications for 12C and 16O N. Jachowicz, S. Rombouts, K. Heyde, and J. Ryckebusch pp. 3246-3255 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Channel coupling in A(e→,e′N→)B reactions James J. Kelly pp. 3256-3274 [View PDF (443 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociation of 14B, 15,17,19C in a direct fragmentation model Ramendra Nath Majumdar pp. 3275-3280 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion scattering from polarized 3He Q. Zhao and W. R. Gibbs pp. 3281-3291 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb instability of hot nuclei in a chiral symmetry model L. L. Zhang, H. Q. Song, P. Wang, and R. K. Su pp. 3292-3296 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpretation of two-nucleon photoemission data D. G. Ireland, I. J. MacGregor, and J. Ryckebusch pp. 3297-3303 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Hadronic phase space density and chiral symmetry restoration in relativistic heavy ion collisions Scott Pratt and Kevin Haglin pp. 3304-3308 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Freeze-out in hydrodynamical models Cs. Anderlik, L. P. Csernai, F. Grassi, W. Greiner, Y. Hama, T. Kodama, Zs. I. Lázár, V. K. Magas, and H. Stöcker pp. 3309-3316 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Imaging the space-time evolution of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions with bremsstrahlung J. I. Kapusta and S. M. Wong pp. 3317-3323 [View PDF (742 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size of fireballs created in high energy heavy ion collisions as inferred from Coulomb distortions of pion spectra Alejandro Ayala, Sangyong Jeon, and Joseph Kapusta pp. 3324-3328 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disoriented chiral condensate dynamics with the SU(3) linear sigma model Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich and Jørgen Randrup pp. 3329-3342 [View PDF (595 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metastable quark-antiquark droplets within the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model I. N. Mishustin, L. M. Satarov, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner pp. 3343-3356 [View PDF (769 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

•	Scaling of chiral Lagrangians and Landau Fermi liquid theory for dense hadronic matter Bengt Friman, Mannque Rho, and Chaejun Song pp. 3357-3370 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalence of the impulse approximation and the Gersch-Rodriguez-Smith series for structure functions A. S. Rinat and B. K. Jennings pp. 3371-3376 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vector, axial, tensor, and pseudoscalar vacuum susceptibilities Leonard S. Kisslinger pp. 3377-3380 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon effective mass and energy from a novel chiral SU(3)-symmetric Lagrangian Guangjun Mao, P. Papazoglou, S. Hofmann, S. Schramm, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner pp. 3381-3385 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	νd→μ-Δ++n reaction and axial vector N-Δ coupling L. Alvarez-Ruso, S. K. Singh, and M. J. Vicente Vacas pp. 3386-3392 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Cosmic-ray half-life of 56Ni K. Zaerpoor, Y. D. Chan, M. R. Dragowsky, M. C. Isaac, K. S. Krane, R.-M. Larimer, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. Macleod, and E. B. Norman pp. 3393-3396 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross section of the 14N(n,p)14C reaction from 10 to 100 keV measured by a gas scintillation drift chamber T. Kii, T. Shima, H. Sato, T. Baba, and Y. Nagai pp. 3397-3401 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Breakout from the hot CNO cycle via the 18Ne(α,p)21Na reaction W. Bradfield-Smith, T. Davinson, A. DiPietro, A. M. Laird, A. N. Ostrowski, A. C. Shotter, P. J. Woods, S. Cherubini, W. Galster, J. S. Graulich, P. Leleux, L. Michel, A. Ninane, J. Vervier, J. Görres, M. Wiescher, J. Rahighi, and J. Hinnefeld pp. 3402-3409 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron capture of 46Ca at thermonuclear energies P. Mohr, P. V. Sedyshev, H. Beer, W. Stadler, H. Oberhummer, Yu. P. Popov, and W. Rochow pp. 3410-3417 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Connection between asymptotic normalization coefficients, subthreshold bound states, and resonances A. M. Mukhamedzhanov and R. E. Tribble pp. 3418-3424 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Spin parity of the 7.478 MeV state of 10B and the S factor of the 9Be(p→,γ0)10B reaction S. J. Gaff, R. S. Canon, J. H. Kelley, S. O. Nelson, K. Sabourov, E. C. Schreiber, D. R. Tilley, H. R. Weller, and E. A. Wulf pp. 3425-3428 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anomalous E1 and E2 strengths in 40Ca and 48Ca at low excitation energy: A comparative study S. Ottini-Hustache, N. Alamanos, F. Auger, B. Castel, Y. Blumenfeld, V. Chiste, N. Frascaria, A. Gillibert, C. Jouanne, V. Lapoux, F. Marie, W. Mittig, J. C. Roynette, and J. A. Scarpaci pp. 3429-3432 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of 262Db (Z=105) in the reaction 248Cm(19F, 5n) R. Dressler, B. Eichler, D. T. Jost, D. Piguet, A. Türler, Ch. Düllmann, R. Eichler, H. W. Gäggeler, M. Gärtner, M. Schädel, S. Taut, and A. B. Yakushev pp. 3433-3436 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Final conditions in high energy heavy ion collisions Yu. M. Sinyukov, S. V. Akkelin, and N. Xu pp. 3437-3440 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pole versus Breit-Wigner resonance description of the orbitally excited baryons Ron Workman pp. 3441-3443 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of Coulomb interaction of projectile- and target-like sources on statistical multifragmentation A. S. Botvina, M. Bruno, M. D’Agostino, and D. H. Gross pp. 3444-3447 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic mean field model for isotopic shifts of odd-A Bi isotopes J. P. Maharana and Y. K. Gambhir pp. 3448-3451 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge and critical density of strange quark matter G. X. Peng, H. C. Chiang, P. Z. Ning, and B. S. Zou pp. 3452-3454 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ωNN couplings derived from QCD sum rules Shi-Lin Zhu pp. 3455-3456 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multicluster accompanied fission D. N. Poenaru, W. Greiner, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, E. Hourany, and R. A. Gherghescu pp. 3457-3460 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-spin states in doubly odd 158Ho Jingbin Lu, Yunzuo Liu, Xiaoguang Wu, Yingjun Ma, Guangyi Zhao, Huibin Sun, Junde Huo, Shuxian Wen, Guangsheng Li, and Chunxiang Yang pp. 3461-3464 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudospin and the Kaplan-Nelson model for kaon condensation Koichi Takahashi pp. 3465-3468 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some universal properties of multifractal chaos at nuclear giant resonance A. Bershadskii pp. 3469-3472 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Importance of the Doppler effect for the determination of the deuteron binding energy Yongkyu Ko, Myung Ki Cheoun, and Il-Tong Cheon pp. 3473-3476 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic number projection method in the pairing-force problem Roberto Capote and Augusto Gonzalez pp. 3477-3480 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic calculations of induced polarization in 12C(e,e′p→) reactions J. I. Johansson and H. S. Sherif pp. 3481-3483 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]