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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

S-wave π0 production in pp collision from chiral perturbation theory calculations with loop contributions E. Gedalin, A. Moalem, and L. Razdolskaya Published 23 August 1999 (5 pages) 031001 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

The 0g.s.+→21+ transition in 38Ca and isospin symmetry in A=38 nuclei P. D. Cottle, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, R. W. Ibbotson, K. W. Kemper, B. Pritychenko, H. Scheit, and M. Steiner Published 4 August 1999 (4 pages) 031301 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

vh11/2 bands in 113Pd and 115Pd R. Krücken, S. J. Asztalos, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, G. J. Schmid, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, and Jing-Ye Zhang Published 4 August 1999 (4 pages) 031302 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron-proton ratio of collective excitations Ikuko Hamamoto Published 9 August 1999 (3 pages) 031303 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Decay properties of the new isotopes 172Hg and 173Hg D. Seweryniak, J. Uusitalo, M. P. Carpenter, D. Nisius, C. N. Davids, C. R. Bingham, L. T. Brown, L. Conticchio, D. J. Henderson, R. V. Janssens, W. B. Walters, J. Wauters, and P. J. Woods Published 10 August 1999 (4 pages) 031304 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Comparison of superdeformed bands in 61Zn and 60Zn: Possible evidence for T=0 pairing C.-H. Yu, C. Baktash, J. Dobaczewski, J. A. Cameron, C. Chitu, M. Devlin, J. Eberth, A. Galindo-Uribarri, D. S. Haslip, D. R. LaFosse, T. J. Lampman, I.-Y. Lee, F. Lerma, A. O. Macchiavelli, S. D. Paul, D. C. Radford, D. Rudolph, D. G. Sarantites, C. E. Svensson, J. C. Waddington, and J. N. Wilson Published 18 August 1999 (5 pages) 031305 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Resilient reducibility in nuclear multifragmentation L. G. Moretto, L. Phair, and G. J. Wozniak Published 10 August 1999 (5 pages) 031601 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Bremsstrahlung radiation by a tunneling particle: A time-dependent description C. A. Bertulani, D. T. de Paula, and V. G. Zelevinsky Published 23 August 1999 (4 pages) 031602 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Signature of geometrical effects in heavy-ion reactions below 100 MeV/nucleon F. Haddad, Ph. Eudes, Z. Basrak, and F. Sébille Published 23 August 1999 (4 pages) 031603 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Deuterons and space-momentum correlations in high energy nuclear collisions B. Monreal, S. A. Bass, M. Bleicher, S. Esumi, W. Greiner, Q. Li, H. Liu, W. J. Llope, R. Mattiello, S. Panitkin, I. Sakrejda, R. Snellings, H. Sorge, C. Spieles, H. Stöcker, J. Thomas, S. Voloshin, F. Wang, and N. Xu Published 11 August 1999 (4 pages) 031901 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Phenomenological spin-orbit three-body force A. Kievsky Published 26 July 1999 (8 pages) 034001 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equivalence of nonstatic two-pion-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials J. L. Friar Published 27 July 1999 (7 pages) 034002 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic structure of the deuteron: Electrodisintegration and y scaling C. Ciofi degli Atti, D. Faralli, A. Yu. Umnikov, and L. P. Kaptari Published 29 July 1999 (17 pages) 034003 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body properties in nuclear matter at thermal equilibrium M. Beyer, W. Schadow, C. Kuhrts, and G. Röpke Published 29 July 1999 (6 pages) 034004 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic quasipotential equations with u-channel exchange interactions V. Pascalutsa and J. A. Tjon Published 5 August 1999 (10 pages) 034005 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-independence breaking in the two-pion-exchange nucleon-nucleon force J. L. Friar and U. van Kolck Published 10 August 1999 (4 pages) 034006 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing halo nucleus structure through intermediate energy elastic scattering R. Crespo and R. C. Johnson Published 16 August 1999 (5 pages) 034007 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Lifetimes measurements for 134Nd and neighboring nuclei with the coincidence-plunger technique T. Klemme, A. Fitzler, A. Dewald, S. Schell, S. Kasemann, R. Kühn, O. Stuch, H. Tiesler, K. O. Zell, P. von Brentano, D. Bazzacco, F. Brandolini, S. Lunardi, C. M. Petrache, C. Rossi Alvarez, G. De Angelis, P. Petkov, and R. Wyss Published 27 July 1999 (10 pages) 034301 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boson mapping at finite temperature: An application to the thermo field dynamics O. Civitarese and M. Reboiro Published 4 August 1999 (8 pages) 034302 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonaxial octupole deformations and shell phenomena W. D. Heiss, R. A. Lynch, and R. G. Nazmitdinov Published 5 August 1999 (8 pages) 034303 [View PDF (544 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell structure of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent mean-field models M. Bender, K. Rutz, P.-G. Reinhard, J. A. Maruhn, and W. Greiner Published 11 August 1999 (20 pages) 034304 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground-γ band coupling in heavy deformed nuclei and SU(3) contraction limit N. Minkov, S. B. Drenska, P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev, and Dennis Bonatsos Published 12 August 1999 (14 pages) 034305 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of the hot giant dipole resonance as a manifestation of the order-and-chaos coexistence Nguyen Dinh Dang, Kosai Tanabe, and Akito Arima Published 18 August 1999 (7 pages) 034306 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling analysis of the fluctuating strength function Hirokazu Aiba and Masayuki Matsuo Published 19 August 1999 (16 pages) 034307 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continuum effects for the mean-field and pairing properties of weakly bound nuclei K. Bennaceur, J. Dobaczewski, and M. Płoszajczak Published 23 August 1999 (16 pages) 034308 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron decay of the pygmy and giant resonances in the 13C(e,e′n)12C reaction S. Suzuki, T. Saito, K. Takahisa, C. Takakuwa, T. Nakagawa, T. Tohei, and K. Abe Published 23 August 1999 (8 pages) 034309 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematics of nuclear central densities C. S. Wang, K. C. Chung, and A. J. Santiago Published 23 August 1999 (6 pages) 034310 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation driving property of the h9/2 configuration in 171Ta P. Joshi, G. Mukherjee, A. Kumar, R. P. Singh, S. Muralithar, S. C. Pancholi, C. R. Praharaj, U. Garg, R. K. Bhowmik, and I. M. Govil Published 23 August 1999 (5 pages) 034311 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell-model and Hartree-Fock calculations for even-mass O, Ne, and Mg nuclei T. Siiskonen, P. O. Lipas, and J. Rikovska Published 24 August 1999 (9 pages) 034312 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Neutrino-mass determination from tritium β decay: Corrections to and prospects of experimental verification of the final-state spectrum Svante Jonsell, Alejandro Saenz, and Piotr Froelich Published 26 July 1999 (12 pages) 034601 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Deviation from tidal symmetry for scattering of polarized 23Na from the deformed nucleus 27Al N. J. Davis, H. D. Choi, R. P. Ward, P. J. Woods, D. G. Ireland, K. Livingston, R. D. Page, P. J. Sellin, A. C. Shotter, J. A. Griffith, S. J. Hall, P. R. Dee, I. Martel-Bravo, J. M. Nelson, and K. Rusek Published 27 July 1999 (7 pages) 034602 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Realistic study of the nuclear transparency and the distorted momentum distributions in the semi-inclusive process 4He(e,e′p)X H. Morita, C. Ciofi degli Atti, and D. Treleani Published 29 July 1999 (8 pages) 034603 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson and isobar degrees of freedom in A(e→,e′p→) reactions at 0.2<~Q2<~0.8 (GeV/c)2 Jan Ryckebusch, Dimitri Debruyne, Wim Van Nespen, and Stijn Janssen Published 2 August 1999 (19 pages) 034604 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher nucleon resonances in exclusive (γ,πN) reactions on nuclei Frank X. Lee, Cornelius Bennhold, Sabit S. Kamalov, and Louis E. Wright Published 5 August 1999 (11 pages) 034605 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signals of critical behavior in fragmenting finite systems C. O. Dorso, V. C. Latora, and A. Bonasera Published 6 August 1999 (9 pages) 034606 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analyzing power formula and application to low energy nuclear reactions M. Tanifuji and H. Kameyama Published 6 August 1999 (12 pages) 034607 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the screening potential in 3H β decay C. K. Hargrove, D. J. Paterson, and I. S. Batkin Published 9 August 1999 (12 pages) 034608 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Exclusive studies of angular distributions in GeV hadron-induced reactions with 197Au W.-c. Hsi, K. Kwiatkowski, G. Wang, D. S. Bracken, E. Cornell, D. S. Ginger, V. E. Viola, R. G. Korteling, K. B. Morley, R. Huang, W. G. Lynch, M. B. Tsang, H. Xi, F. Gimeno-Nogues, E. Ramakrishnan, D. Rowland, S. J. Yennello, H. Breuer, S. Gushue, L. P. Remsberg, A. Botvina, and W. A. Friedman Published 11 August 1999 (10 pages) 034609 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strangeness modes in nuclei tested by antineutrinos E. E. Kolomeitsev and D. N. Voskresensky Published 12 August 1999 (13 pages) 034610 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Threshold anomaly in 12C+209Bi scattering S. Santra, P. Singh, S. Kailas, A. Chatterjee, A. Navin, A. Shrivastava, A. M. Samant, and K. Mahata Published 12 August 1999 (9 pages) 034611 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic scattering analysis of 16O+208Pb at 793 and 1503 MeV: Test of the closure approximation model J. C. Pacheco, M. D. Kadi-Hanifi, and B. Bilwes Published 23 August 1999 (8 pages) 034612 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular momenta of even-even fragments in the neutronless fission of 252Cf Ş. Mişicu, A. Săndulescu, G. M. Ter-Akopian, and W. Greiner Published 23 August 1999 (6 pages) 034613 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Strong absorption radii from reaction cross section measurements for neutron-rich nuclei N. Aissaoui, N. Added, N. Carlin, G. M. Crawley, S. Danczyk, J. Finck, M. M. de Moura, D. Hirata, D. J. Morrissey, S. J. Sanders, J. Stasko, M. Steiner, A. A. Suaide, E. M. Szanto, A. Szanto de Toledo, M. Thoennessen, and J. A. Winger Published 23 August 1999 (7 pages) 034614 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Proton scattering by short lived sulfur isotopes F. Maréchal, T. Suomijärvi, Y. Blumenfeld, A. Azhari, E. Bauge, D. Bazin, J. A. Brown, P. D. Cottle, J. P. Delaroche, M. Fauerbach, M. Girod, T. Glasmacher, S. E. Hirzebruch, J. K. Jewell, J. H. Kelley, K. W. Kemper, P. F. Mantica, D. J. Morrissey, L. A. Riley, J. A. Scarpaci, H. Scheit, and M. Steiner Published 23 August 1999 (12 pages) 034615 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Bremsstrahlung from electrons and positrons in peripheral relativistic heavy-ion collisions Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, and Gerhard Baur Published 10 August 1999 (5 pages) 034901 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon differential flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Bao-An Li, Bin Zhang, Andrew T. Sustich, and C. M. Ko Published 10 August 1999 (4 pages) 034902 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiplicity dependence of identical particle correlations in the quantum optical approach N. Suzuki and M. Biyajima Published 10 August 1999 (9 pages) 034903 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb effect: A possible probe for the evolution of hadronic matter T. Osada and Y. Hama Published 12 August 1999 (13 pages) 034904 [View PDF (254 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soft electromagnetic radiations from an equilibrating quark-gluon plasma Dipali Pal and Munshi Golam Mustafa Published 23 August 1999 (8 pages) 034905 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Corrections to nucleon spin structure asymmetries measured on nuclear polarized targets O. A. Rondon Published 27 July 1999 (6 pages) 035201 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infinite nuclear matter on the light front: Nucleon-nucleon correlations G. A. Miller and R. Machleidt Published 27 July 1999 (23 pages) 035202 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of the electroproduction amplitudes of the Roper resonance in a relativistic quark model Y. B. Dong, K. Shimizu, Amand Faessler, and A. J. Buchmann Published 27 July 1999 (8 pages) 035203 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for baryonia from a measurement of monochromatic π0 mesons in antiproton-deuterium annihilation at rest M. Chiba, T. Fujitani, J. Iwahori, M. Kawaguti, M. Kobayashi, S. Kurokawa, Y. Nagashima, T. Omori, S. Sugimoto, M. Takasaki, F. Takeutchi, Y. Yamaguchi, and H. Yoshida (Fukui-KEK-Kyoto Sangyo-Osaka-Tokyo Metropolitan Collaboration) Published 27 July 1999 (6 pages) 035204 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the φ photoproduction amplitude at a few GeV A. I. Titov, T.-S. H. Lee, H. Toki, and O. Streltsova Published 29 July 1999 (20 pages) 035205 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Covariant calculation of the properties of f2 mesons in a generalized Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model L. S. Celenza, Bo Huang, Huangsheng Wang, and C. M. Shakin Published 2 August 1999 (7 pages) 035206 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	πNN decay of a possible d′ dibaryon in the 3P0 quark pair creation model I. T. Obukhovsky, Amand Faessler, Georg Wagner, and A. J. Buchmann Published 6 August 1999 (15 pages) 035207 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled K-matrix description of the reactions πN→πN, πN→ηN, γN→πN, and γN→ηN A. M. Green and S. Wycech Published 9 August 1999 (8 pages) 035208 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New perspective on the scalar meson puzzle, from spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking beyond BCS Pedro J. de A. Bicudo Published 12 August 1999 (17 pages) 035209 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of resonance multipoles from polarization observables in η photoproduction L. Tiator, D. Drechsel, G. Knöchlein, and C. Bennhold Published 23 August 1999 (9 pages) 035210 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical properties of the charmonium spectrum and a new mechanism of J/ψ suppression Jian-zhong Gu, Hong-shi Zong, Yu-xin Liu, and En-guang Zhao Published 23 August 1999 (5 pages) 035211 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Astrophysical S factor for 9Be(p,γ)10B A. Sattarov, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, A. Azhari, C. A. Gagliardi, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble Published 27 July 1999 (7 pages) 035801 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	True parameters of the Σ4He hypernucleus V. M. Kolybasov Published 5 August 1999 (4 pages) 037001 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for heavy-ion emission in 249Cf decay G. Ardisson, V. Barci, J. F. Du, D. Trubert, R. Bonetti, A. Guglielmetti, and R. K. Gupta Published 26 July 1999 (3 pages) 037301 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is there a proton-neutron interacting boson model rule for M1 properties? B. R. Barrett, S. Kuyucak, P. Navrátil, and P. Van Isacker Published 29 July 1999 (4 pages) 037302 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	7Li(d,αα)n reaction and the 2+ isospin-mixed doublet in 8Be N. Godinović, S. Blagus, M. Bogovac, M. Lattuada, M. Milin, Đ. Miljanić, D. Rendić, N. Soić, C. Spitaleri, and M. Zadro Published 27 July 1999 (4 pages) 037601 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bremsstrahlung spectrum in α decay M. I. Dyakonov Published 28 July 1999 (4 pages) 037602 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange part of the real α-nucleus potential M. Ismail, M. M. Osman, and F. Salah Published 10 August 1999 (3 pages) 037603 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	dππ decay of the d* dibaryon Chun Wa Wong Published 10 August 1999 (4 pages) 038201 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite temperature neutron matter and rotating neutron stars in the quark meson coupling model P. K. Panda, R. Sahu, and C. Das Published 27 July 1999 (4 pages) 038801 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Validity of certain soft photon amplitudes” M. K. Liou, R. Timmermans, B. F. Gibson, and Yi Li Published 10 August 1999 (2 pages) 039801 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to “Comment on ‘Validity of certain soft photon amplitudes’ ” Mark Welsh and Harold W. Fearing Published 10 August 1999 (2 pages) 039802 [View PDF (24 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Covariant confinement model for the study of the properties of light mesons [Phys. Rev. C 60, 025202 (1999)] L. S. Celenza, Bo Huang, Huangsheng Wang, and C. M. Shakin Published 24 August 1999 (1 pages) 039901 [View PDF (18 kB) ]