• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
• ARTICLES
  • Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems
  • Nuclear Structure
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
  • Hadronic Physics and QCD
  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
• BRIEF REPORTS
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Proton emitters 140Ho and 141Ho: Probing the structure of unbound Nilsson orbitals K. Rykaczewski, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, T. Davinson, T. N. Ginter, C. J. Gross, R. Grzywacz, M. Karny, B. D. MacDonald, J. F. Mas, J. W. McConnell, A. Piechaczek, R. C. Slinger, K. S. Toth, W. B. Walters, P. J. Woods, E. F. Zganjar, B. Barmore, L. Gr. Ixaru, A. T. Kruppa, W. Nazarewicz, M. Rizea, and T. Vertse Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 011301 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

α-decay rates of 180,182,184Pb and the Z=82 shell closure K. S. Toth, C. R. Bingham, J. C. Batchelder, L. T. Brown, L. F. Conticchio, C. N. Davids, R. J. Irvine, D. Seweryniak, D. M. Moltz, W. B. Walters, J. Wauters, and E. F. Zganjar Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 011302 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Differential quadrupole moment measurements of the 1/2+[660] (i13/2) neutron intruder band in 133Nd and 135Nd F. G. Kondev, M. A. Riley, D. J. Hartley, T. B. Brown, R. W. Laird, M. Lively, J. Pfohl, R. K. Sheline, E. S. Paul, D. T. Joss, P. J. Nolan, S. L. Shepherd, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, D. G. Sarantites, M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, F. Lerma, R. Wadsworth, I. M. Hibbert, N. J. O’Brien, J. Simpson, and D. E Archer Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 011303 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Low spin structure of the N=Z odd-odd nucleus 2346V23 C. Frießner, N. Pietralla, A. Schmidt, I. Schneider, Y. Utsuno, T. Otsuka, and P. von Brentano Published 17 June 1999 (5 pages) 011304 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gamow-Teller β+ decays of deformed N≈Z Sr isotopes close to the proton drip line I. Hamamoto Published 17 June 1999 (3 pages) 011305 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excitation function of nucleon and pion elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Bao-An Li, C. M. Ko, Andrew T. Sustich, and Bin Zhang Published 16 June 1999 (3 pages) 011901 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Neutron polarizabilities from Compton scattering on the deuteron? Jonathan J. Karakowski and Gerald A. Miller Published 16 June 1999 (19 pages) 014001 [View PDF (397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Monte Carlo studies of relativistic effects in light nuclei J. L. Forest, V. R. Pandharipande, and A. Arriaga Published 16 June 1999 (16 pages) 014002 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-pion exchange: A gap in the nucleon-nucleon potential J. C. Pupin and M. R. Robilotta Published 17 June 1999 (9 pages) 014003 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Period of the γ-ray staggering in the 150Gd superdeformed region D. Samsoen, P. Quentin, and I. N. Mikhaïlov Published 16 June 1999 (4 pages) 014301 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	β decay rates of r-process waiting-point nuclei in a self-consistent approach J. Engel, M. Bender, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, and R. Surman Published 16 June 1999 (12 pages) 014302 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spherical and deformed isomers in 188Pb G. D. Dracoulis, A. P Byrne, A. M Baxter, P. M. Davidson, T. Kibédi, T. R. McGoram, R. A. Bark, and S. M. Mullins Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 014303 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant resonances in 24Mg D. H. Youngblood, Y.-W. Lui, and H. L. Clark Published 16 June 1999 (10 pages) 014304 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parametrization of the octupole degrees of freedom C. Wexler and G. G. Dussel Published 16 June 1999 (10 pages) 014305 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Probing the shape of hot 194Hg at high spins with the giant dipole resonance decay in selected cascades F. Camera, A. Bracco, S. Leoni, B. Million, M. Mattiuzzi, M. Pignanelli, A. Maj, M. Kmiecik, R. Bark, J. Bearden, J. J. Gaardhøje, W. E. Ormand, T. Lönnroth, and R. Österbacka Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 014306 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge symmetry breaking effects in neutron-proton scattering using the quark model Anita Awasthi and V. S. Bhasin Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 014307 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rotational structures in 125La and alignments in A≈130 nuclei D. J. Hartley, L. L. Riedinger, H. Q. Jin, W. Reviol, B. H. Smith, A. Galindo-Uribarri, D. G. Sarantites, D. R. LaFosse, J. N. Wilson, and S. M. Mullins Published 16 June 1999 (11 pages) 014308 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Lifetime study of particle-hole excitations in the semimagic nucleus 94Ru A. Jungclaus, D. Kast, K. P. Lieb, C. Teich, M. Weiszflog, T. Härtlein, C. Ender, F. Köck, D. Schwalm, I. P. Johnstone, J. Reif, R. Schwengner, R. Peusquens, A. Dewald, J. Eberth, H. G. Thomas, M. Górska, and H. Grawe Published 16 June 1999 (12 pages) 014309 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic Hartree+Bogoliubov description of the deformed N=28 region G. A. Lalazissis, D. Vretenar, P. Ring, M. Stoitsov, and L. M. Robledo Published 16 June 1999 (8 pages) 014310 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton-neutron pairing in Z=N nuclei with A=76–96 Alan L. Goodman Published 16 June 1999 (17 pages) 014311 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic dipole band in 124Xe I. Schneider, R. S. Chakrawarthy, I. Wiedenhöver, A. Schmidt, H. Meise, P. Petkov, A. Dewald, P. von Brentano, O. Stuch, K. Jessen, D. Weisshaar, C. Schumacher, O. Vogel, G. Sletten, B. Herskind, M. Bergström, and J. Wrzesinski Published 16 June 1999 (7 pages) 014312 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excited states in 104Cd described with the interacting boson model plus broken pairs G. de Angelis, C. Fahlander, D. Vretenar, S. Brant, A. Gadea, A. Algora, Y. Li, Q. Pan, E. Farnea, D. Bazzacco, G. Bonsignori, F. Brandolini, M. De Poli, D. De Acuna, S. Lunardi, G. Maron, D. R. Napoli, P. Pavan, C. M. Petrache, C. Rossi Alvarez, P. Spolaore, and G. Vedovato Published 17 June 1999 (8 pages) 014313 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band crossings in the positive-parity high-spin states of 83Rb and 85Y J. Döring, G. D. Johns, R. A. Kaye, M. A. Riley, and S. L. Tabor Published 17 June 1999 (9 pages) 014314 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decays of 110Rh and 112Rh to the near neutron midshell isotopes 110Pd and 112Pd G. Lhersonneau, J. C. Wang, S. Hankonen, P. Dendooven, P. Jones, R. Julin, and J. Äystö Published 18 June 1999 (20 pages) 014315 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape coexistence and the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction P.-G. Reinhard, D. J. Dean, W. Nazarewicz, J. Dobaczewski, J. A. Maruhn, and M. R. Strayer Published 21 June 1999 (20 pages) 014316 [View PDF (637 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Nuclear sizes and temperatures from two-body correlations William A. Friedman Published 16 June 1999 (4 pages) 014601 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of meson exchange and isobar currents in (e,e′p) reactions from 16O J. E. Amaro, A. M. Lallena, and J. A. Caballero Published 16 June 1999 (6 pages) 014602 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Source size and time dependence of multifragmentation induced by GeV 3He beams G. Wang, K. Kwiatkowski, D. S. Bracken, E. Renshaw Foxford, W.-c. Hsi, K. B. Morley, V. E. Viola, N. R. Yoder, C. Volant, R. Legrain, E. C. Pollacco, R. G. Korteling, W. A. Friedman, A. Botvina, J. Brzychczyk, and H. Breuer Published 16 June 1999 (12 pages) 014603 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of multiple giant dipole resonance excitation B. V. Carlson, M. S. Hussein, A. F. de Toledo Piza, and L. F. Canto Published 16 June 1999 (8 pages) 014604 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasielastic knock-out of clusters by electrons and nuclear restructuring effects Alexander Sakharuk, Vladimir Zelevinsky, and V. G. Neudatchin Published 16 June 1999 (14 pages) 014605 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thomas-Fermi fission barriers W. D. Myers and W. J. Świa̧tecki Published 17 June 1999 (4 pages) 014606 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Calculations of three-pion correlations in S+Pb and Pb+Pb collisions from a final-state rescattering model T. J. Humanic Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 014901 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple scattering effects in proton-nucleus collisions and the behavior of the total and partial inelasticities M. Batista and R. J. Covolan Published 16 June 1999 (9 pages) 014902 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exclusive vector meson production in relativistic heavy ion collisions Spencer R. Klein and Joakim Nystrand Published 16 June 1999 (8 pages) 014903 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density and expansion effects on pion spectra in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Alejandro Ayala, Julio Barreiro, and Luis M. Montaño Published 16 June 1999 (5 pages) 014904 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemical equilibration and thermal dilepton production from the quark gluon plasma at finite baryon density D. Dutta, K. Kumar, A. K. Mohanty, and R. K. Choudhury Published 16 June 1999 (10 pages) 014905 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-body Bose-Einstein correlations in simulated relativistic heavy ion collision events R. L. Ray and G. W. Hoffmann Published 18 June 1999 (10 pages) 014906 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Λc+→p+K-+π+ decay Ya. A. Berdnikov, A. N. Ivanov, V. F. Kosmach, and N. I. Troitskaya Published 16 June 1999 (11 pages) 015201 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction of scalar mesons on protons and nuclei E. Marco, E. Oset, and H. Toki Published 18 June 1999 (10 pages) 015202 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Low-energy parity-violation and new physics M. J. Ramsey-Musolf Published 16 June 1999 (18 pages) 015501 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Total cross section of the 3H(p,n)3He reaction from threshold to 4.5 MeV C. R. Brune, K. I. Hahn, R. W. Kavanagh, and P. R. Wrean Published 16 June 1999 (8 pages) 015801 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron star properties in the quark-meson coupling model S. Pal, M. Hanauske, I. Zakout, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 16 June 1999 (15 pages) 015802 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher-order multipolarities in the 16O(p,γ)17F and 7Be(p,γ)8B reactions P. Descouvemont and D. Baye Published 17 June 1999 (5 pages) 015803 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Spin observables in the pn→pΛ reaction H. Nabetani, T. Ogaito, T. Sato, and T. Kishimoto Published 16 June 1999 (4 pages) 017001 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant octupole resonance simulation Rainer Walke and Klaus Morawetz Published 16 June 1999 (3 pages) 017301 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for spontaneous collinear tripartition of 252Cf nuclei A. V. Kravtsov and G. E. Solyakin Published 16 June 1999 (3 pages) 017601 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Energy dependence of the isomeric cross section ratio in the 58Ni(n,p)58Com,g reactions V. Avrigeanu, S. Sudár, Cs. M. Buczkó, J. Csikai, A. A. Filatenkov, S. V. Chuvaev, R. Dóczi, V. Semkova, and V. A. Zelenetsky Published 16 June 1999 (4 pages) 017602 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron capture of 26Mg at kT=52 keV and the resonance at En=68.7 keV P. Mohr, H. Beer, H. Oberhummer, W. Rochow, P. V. Sedyshev, S. Volz, and A. Zilges Published 16 June 1999 (4 pages) 017603 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reexamining lepton pairs at ultrarelativistic energies J. Murray, W. Bauer, and K. Haglin Published 16 June 1999 (3 pages) 017901 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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ππ pairs in nuclei and the σ meson F. Bonutti, P. Camerini, E. Fragiacomo, N. Grion, R. Rui, J. T. Brack, L. Felawka, E. F. Gibson, G. Hofman, M. Kermani, E. L. Mathie, S. McFarland, R. Meier, K. Raywood, D. Ottewell, M. E. Sevior, G. R. Smith, and R. Tacik (The CHAOS Collaboration) Published 16 June 1999 (4 pages) 018201 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ρ-mass modification in 3He: Signal of restoration of chiral symmetry or test for nuclear matter models? Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Sanjay K. Ghosh, and Sibaji Raha Published 16 June 1999 (3 pages) 018202 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Lifetime of the 2750 keV level in 37K” E. Roeckl and W. Trinder Published 16 June 1999 (1 pages) 019801 [View PDF (27 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Hidden pseudospin symmetry in the Dirac equation [Phys. Rev. C 58, 3065 (1998)] K. Sugawara-Tanabe and A. Arima Published 16 June 1999 (1 pages) 019901 [View PDF (33 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Isotopic spin effect in two-pion and three-pion Bose-Einstein correlations [Phys. Rev. C 58, 2316 (1998)] M. Biyajima, A. Ohsawa, N. Suzuki, and I. V. Andreev Published 16 June 1999 (1 pages) 019902 [View PDF (27 kB) ]