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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Migration from the normal to the highly deformed minimum in 131Nd D. J. Hartley, W. Reviol, L. L. Riedinger, F. G. Kondev, A. Galindo-Uribarri, D. G. Sarantites, H. Q. Jin, D. R. LaFosse, S. M. Mullins, B. H. Smith, and J. N. Wilson Published 30 August 1999 (5 pages) 041301 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Rotational properties of deformed superheavy nuclei I. Muntian, Z. Patyk, and A. Sobiczewski Published 3 September 1999 (3 pages) 041302 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Vanishing spin alignment: Experimental indication of a triaxial 28Si+28Si nuclear molecule R. Nouicer, C. Beck, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, N. Aissaoui, T. Bellot, G. de France, D. Disdier, G. Duchêne, A. Elanique, A. Hachem, F. Hoellinger, D. Mahboub, V. Rauch, S. J. Sanders, A. Dummer, F. W. Prosser, A. Szanto de Toledo, Sl. Cavallaro, E. Uegaki, and Y. Abe Published 3 September 1999 (5 pages) 041303 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Three fission modes of 220Ra I. V. Pokrovsky, L. Calabretta, M. G. Itkis, N. A. Kondratiev, E. M. Kozulin, C. Maiolino, E. V. Prokhorova, A. Ya. Rusanov, and S. P. Tretyakova Published 8 September 1999 (4 pages) 041304 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-K band of unnatural parity in 49Cr F. Brandolini, N. H. Medina, S. M. Lenzi, D. R. Napoli, A. Poves, R. V. Ribas, J. Sanchez-Solano, C. A. Ur, D. Bucurescu, M. De Poli, R. Menegazzo, D. Bazzacco, G. de Angelis, A. Gadea, and C. Rossi-Alvarez Published 17 September 1999 (5 pages) 041305 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear transparency and the onset of strong absorption regime in the 12C+24Mg system R. Lichtenthäler, A. Lépine-Szily, and M. S. Hussein Published 30 August 1999 (3 pages) 041601 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Odd-even Z isospin anomaly in heavy-ion reactions L. B. Yang, E. Norbeck, W. A. Friedman, O. Bjarki, F. D. Ingram, R. A. Lacey, D. J. Magestro, M. L. Miller, A. Nadasen, R. Pak, N. T. Stone, A. M. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, and S. J. Yennello Published 1 September 1999 (4 pages) 041602 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quarkonium formation time in a model-independent approach D. Kharzeev and R. L. Thews Published 17 September 1999 (4 pages) 041901 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Field theory of nucleon to higher-spin baryon transitions Vladimir Pascalutsa and Rob Timmermans Published 8 September 1999 (5 pages) 042201 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Search for evidence of two-photon exchange in new experimental high momentum transfer data on electron deuteron elastic scattering Michail P. Rekalo, Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson, and Dave Prout Published 9 September 1999 (5 pages) 042202 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Poincaré invariant exchange model of pion-nucleon scattering Yasser Elmessiri and Michael G. Fuda Published 26 August 1999 (16 pages) 044001 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bound-state problem of the NNΔ, NNN, and NN systems H. Garcilazo, A. Valcarce, and F. Fernández Published 30 August 1999 (7 pages) 044002 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauging of equations method. I. Electromagnetic currents of three distinguishable particles A. N. Kvinikhidze and B. Blankleider Published 3 September 1999 (20 pages) 044003 [View PDF (225 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauging of equations method. II. Electromagnetic currents of three identical particles A. N. Kvinikhidze and B. Blankleider Published 3 September 1999 (15 pages) 044004 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Origin of unit alignment in superdeformed bands in A≈190 nuclei P. Fallon, P-H. Heenen, W. Satuła, R. M. Clark, F. S. Stephens, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and K. Vetter Published 26 August 1999 (12 pages) 044301 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monopole collective motion in helium and oxygen nuclei J.-S. Wu, M. R. Strayer, and M. Baranger Published 26 August 1999 (9 pages) 044302 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized correlations of quasiband energies in nuclei D. Bucurescu, N. V. Zamfir, R. F. Casten, and W. T. Chou Published 30 August 1999 (20 pages) 044303 [View PDF (378 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isoscalar Hamiltonians for light atomic nuclei G. P. Kamuntavičius, P. Navrátil, B. R. Barrett, G. Sapragonaite, and R. K. Kalinauskas Published 30 August 1999 (11 pages) 044304 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle-hole folded-diagram calculation of the hypernucleus Λ16O using meson-exchange interactions Yiharn Tzeng, S. Y. Tsay Tzeng, T. T. Kuo, and T.-S. H. Lee Published 30 August 1999 (13 pages) 044305 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model of a self-consistent theory of large amplitude collective motion at finite excitation energy G. Do Dang, Abraham Klein, and P.-G. Reinhard Published 31 August 1999 (11 pages) 044306 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin yields of neutron-rich nuclei from deep inelastic reactions S. J. Asztalos, I. Y. Lee, K. Vetter, B. Cederwall, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, K. Jing, L. Phair, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. O. Rasmussen, F. S. Stephens, G. J. Wozniak, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, D. P. McNabb, P. F. Hua, D. G. Sarantites, J. X. Saladin, C.-H. Yu, J. A. Cizewski, and R. Donangelo Published 8 September 1999 (8 pages) 044307 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Coulomb distortion measurements by comparing electron and positron quasielastic scattering off 12C and 208Pb P. Guèye, M. Bernheim, J. F. Danel, J. E. Ducret, L. Lakéhal-Ayat, J. M. Le Goff, A. Magnon, C. Marchand, J. Morgenstern, J. Marroncle, P. Vernin, A. Zghiche-Lakéhal-Ayat, V. Breton, S. Frullani, F. Garibaldi, F. Ghio, M. Iodice, D. B. Isabelle, Z.-E. Meziani, E. Offermann, and M. Traini Published 8 September 1999 (9 pages) 044308 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nonidentical twin bands in doubly odd 170Lu G. Levinton, A. J. Kreiner, M. A. Cardona, M. E. Debray, D. Hojman, J. Davidson, G. Martí, A. Burlón, M. Davidson, D. R. Napoli, M. De Poli, D. Bazzacco, N. Blasi, S. M. Lenzi, G. Lo Bianco, C. Rossi Alvarez, and V. R. Vanin Published 9 September 1999 (19 pages) 044309 [View PDF (429 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Attempt of applying the interacting-boson-fermion model to the superdeformed bands of 191,193Hg H. C. Chiang and S. T. Hsieh Published 9 September 1999 (6 pages) 044310 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-spin states in odd-odd 170Ta Y. H. Zhang, S. Q. Zhang, Q. Z. Zhao, S. F. Zhu, H. S. Xu, X. H. Zhou, Y. X. Guo, X. G. Lei, J. Lu, W. X. Huang, Q. B. Gou, H. J. Jin, Z. Liu, Y. X. Luo, X. F. Sun, Y. T. Zhu, X. G. Wu, S. X. Wen, and C. X. Yang Published 9 September 1999 (14 pages) 044311 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended three-cluster model with two-cluster long-range correlations: Application to the 8Li, 8B nuclei L. V. Grigorenko, B. V. Danilin, V. D. Efros, N. B. Shul’gina, and M. V. Zhukov Published 9 September 1999 (15 pages) 044312 [View PDF (339 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Incremental alignments in the A∼150 superdeformed region Bachir Kharraja and Umesh Garg Published 13 September 1999 (6 pages) 044313 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Theoretical aspects of inclusive scattering of 4.05 GeV electrons from nuclei A. S. Rinat and M. F. Taragin Published 25 August 1999 (5 pages) 044601 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fission hindrance in hot 216Th: Evaporation residue measurements B. B. Back, D. J. Blumenthal, C. N. Davids, D. J. Henderson, R. Hermann, D. J. Hofman, C. L. Jiang, H. T. Penttilä, and A. H. Wuosmaa Published 25 August 1999 (7 pages) 044602 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Are the largest products of fragmentation residues? William A. Friedman Published 25 August 1999 (4 pages) 044603 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	K-shell internal ionization and excitation in β decay of 35S Daisuke Ohsawa, Rintaro Katano, and Yasuhito Isozumi Published 27 August 1999 (9 pages) 044604 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of two-neutron transfer reactions with the Borromean nucleus 6He Yu. Ts. Oganessian, V. I. Zagrebaev, and J. S. Vaagen Published 30 August 1999 (18 pages) 044605 [View PDF (1238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Temperature measurements in Xe+Cu at 30 MeV/nucleon: Size effects in the caloric curve P. M. Milazzo, G. Vannini, D. Fontana, G. V. Margagliotti, P. F. Mastinu, R. Rui, F. Tonetto, N. Colonna, A. Botvina, M. Bruno, M. D’Agostino, M. L. Fiandri, F. Gramegna, and A. Moroni Published 30 August 1999 (8 pages) 044606 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distribution of preequilibrium neutron emissions from heavy-ion reactions Maitreyee Nandy, Sudip Ghosh, and P. K. Sarkar Published 30 August 1999 (10 pages) 044607 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled-channels analysis of the 16O+208Pb fusion barrier distribution C. R. Morton, A. C. Berriman, M. Dasgupta, D. J. Hinde, J. O. Newton, K. Hagino, and I. J. Thompson Published 30 August 1999 (11 pages) 044608 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of spinor distortion and density-dependent form factors upon quasifree 16O(e→,e′p→) James J. Kelly Published 1 September 1999 (8 pages) 044609 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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The (γ,pd) reaction in 12C S. J. McAllister, J. C. McGeorge, I. J. MacGregor, J. R. Annand, S. J. Hall, P. D. Harty, J. D. Kellie, G. J. Miller, R. O. Owens, D. P. Watts, T. T-H. Yau, D. Branford, J. A. MacKenzie, M. Liang, P. Grabmayr, T. Hehl, T. Lamparter, M. Sauer, R. Schneider, J. Ahrens, and R. Beck Published 8 September 1999 (6 pages) 044610 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Convergence of the solution of the continuum discretized coupled channels method R. A. Piyadasa, M. Kawai, M. Kamimura, and M. Yahiro Published 8 September 1999 (9 pages) 044611 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low density instability in a nuclear Fermi-liquid drop V. M. Kolomietz and S. Shlomo Published 8 September 1999 (6 pages) 044612 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cluster description of cold (neutronless) α ternary fission of 252Cf A. Săndulescu, F. Carstoiu, I. Bulboacă, and W. Greiner Published 8 September 1999 (13 pages) 044613 [View PDF (456 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	e+e- pair production from γA reactions M. Effenberger, E. L. Bratkovskaya, and U. Mosel Published 9 September 1999 (14 pages) 044614 [View PDF (671 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear currents based on the integral form of the continuity equation P. J. Barneo, J. E. Amaro, and A. M. Lallena Published 14 September 1999 (7 pages) 044615 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for scission neutrons in the spontaneous fission of 252Cf J. K. Hwang, A. V. Ramayya, J. H. Hamilton, W. Greiner, J. D. Cole, G. M. Ter-Akopian, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, and A. V. Daniel GANDS95 Collaboration Published 15 September 1999 (5 pages) 044616 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of α-nucleus potential on the 27Al(α,t)28Si reaction S. K. Das, A. S. Tariq, A. F. Rahman, P. K. Roy, M. N. Huda, A. S. Mondal, A. K. Basak, H. M. Sen Gupta, and F. B. Malik Published 16 September 1999 (14 pages) 044617 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Particle emission following Coulomb excitation in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions I. A. Pshenichnov, I. N. Mishustin, J. P. Bondorf, A. S. Botvina, and A. S. Iljinov Published 8 September 1999 (11 pages) 044901 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic J/Ψ suppression in nuclear collisions Henning Heiselberg and Raffaele Mattiello Published 8 September 1999 (5 pages) 044902 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of in-medium meson masses on nuclear matter properties Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Sanjay K. Ghosh, and S. C. Phatak Published 8 September 1999 (5 pages) 044903 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Centrality dependence of kaon yields in Si+A and Au+Au collisions at relativistic energies L. Ahle et al. (E-802 Collaboration) Published 9 September 1999 (11 pages) 044904 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic study of freeze-out in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at 160A GeV/c energy L. V. Bravina, I. N. Mishustin, J. P. Bondorf, Amand Faessler, and E. E. Zabrodin Published 14 September 1999 (9 pages) 044905 [View PDF (359 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Nucleon resonance effects in pp→ppπ0 near threshold M. T. Pen~a, D. O. Riska, and A. Stadler Published 8 September 1999 (8 pages) 045201 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BB intermeson potentials in the quark model T. Barnes, N. Black, D. J. Dean, and E. S. Swanson Published 13 September 1999 (12 pages) 045202 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ΔΔ dibaryon structure in chiral SU(3) quark model X. Q. Yuan, Z. Y. Zhang, Y. W. Yu, and P. N. Shen Published 13 September 1999 (5 pages) 045203 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	KK̅ continuum and isoscalar nucleon form factors H.-W. Hammer and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf Published 17 September 1999 (8 pages) 045204 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral content of isoscalar nucleon form factors H.-W. Hammer and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf Published 17 September 1999 (15 pages) 045205 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Strange chiral nucleon form factors Thomas R. Hemmert, Bastian Kubis, and Ulf-G. Meißner Published 30 August 1999 (7 pages) 045501 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron resonance spectroscopy of 103Rh from 30 eV to 2 keV D. A. Smith, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, C. A. Grossmann, T. Haseyama, A. Masaike, Y. Matsuda, G. E. Mitchell, S. I. Penttila, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, E. I. Sharapov, S. L. Stephenson, and V. Yuan Published 16 September 1999 (11 pages) 045502 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Parity violation in neutron resonances of 103Rh D. A. Smith, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, C. A. Grossmann, T. Haseyama, A. Masaike, Y. Matsuda, G. E. Mitchell, S. I. Penttila, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, E. I. Sharapov, S. L. Stephenson, and V. W. Yuan Published 16 September 1999 (7 pages) 045503 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Neutrino propagation and spin zero sound in hot neutron matter with Skyrme interactions J. Navarro, E. S. Hernández, and D. Vautherin Published 8 September 1999 (9 pages) 045801 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Two-pion exchange and strong form factors in covariant field theories G. Ramalho, A. Arriaga, and M. T. Peña Published 9 September 1999 (4 pages) 047001 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	51- excitations in the 40<~Z<~50 region L. B. Horodynski-Matsushigue, G. M. Ukita, T. Borello-Lewin, and J. L. Duarte Published 9 September 1999 (4 pages) 047301 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic insight into the vibrational nature of 114,116Cd isotopes Arti Pandoh, Rani Devi, and S. K. Khosa Published 13 September 1999 (4 pages) 047302 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Gamow-Teller transitions in the (7Li, 7Be) reaction at 65A MeV S. Nakayama, H. Akimune, I. Daito, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, K. Fushimi, T. Inomata, K. Ishibashi, H. Kohri, N. Koori, K. Takahisa, A. Tamii, M. Tanaka, H. Toyokawa, and T. Yamagata Published 17 September 1999 (4 pages) 047303 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of singly and multiply strange particle production in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at 158A GeV/c Sa Ben-Hao, Wang Xiao-Rong, Tai An, Zhou Dai-Cui, and Cai Xu Published 14 September 1999 (4 pages) 047901 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Dissociation of14B,15,17,19C in a direct fragmentation model [Phys. Rev. C 59, 3275 (1999)] Ramendra Nath Majumdar Published 3 September 1999 (1 pages) 049901 [View PDF (11 kB) ]