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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
• COMMENTS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Evidence for Shears Bands in 108Cd N. S. Kelsall, R. Wadsworth, S. J. Asztalos, B. Busse, C. J. Chiara, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, D. B. Fossan, D. G. Jenkins, S. Juutinen, R. Krücken, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, C. M. Parry, G. J. Schmid, J. M. Sears, J. F. Smith, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, and S. G. Frauendorf Published 16 December 1999 (5 pages) 011301 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Saturation of the width of the strength function A. J. Sargeant, M. S. Hussein, M. P. Pato, and M. Ueda Published 16 December 1999 (3 pages) 011302 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Complex band structure in neutron-deficient 178Hg F. G. Kondev, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. Janssens, I. Wiedenhöver, M. Alcorta, P. Bhattacharyya, L. T. Brown, C. N. Davids, S. M. Fischer, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, R. Nouicer, W. Reviol, L. L. Riedinger, D. Seweryniak, S. Siem, A. A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, and P. J. Woods Published 16 December 1999 (4 pages) 011303 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Direct proton decay and microscopic structure of the spin-dipole resonance in 208Bi H. Akimune, I. Daito, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, M. N. Harakeh, J. Jänecke, and M. Yosoi Published 17 December 1999 (4 pages) 011304 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Stable triaxiality at the highest spins in 138Nd and 139Nd C. M. Petrache, G. Lo Bianco, D. Ward, A. Galindo-Uribarri, P. Spolaore, D. Bazzacco, T. Kröll, S. Lunardi, R. Menegazzo, C. Rossi Alvarez, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, G. J. Lane, W. Gast, R. M. Lieder, G. Falconi, A. V. Afanasjev, and I. Ragnarsson Published 17 December 1999 (5 pages) 011305 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Excitation functions for the production of superheavy nuclei in cold fusion reactions Robert Smolańczuk Published 24 November 1999 (4 pages) 011601 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for a missing nucleon resonance in kaon photoproduction T. Mart and C. Bennhold Published 24 November 1999 (4 pages) 012201 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reduced σ-meson mass and in-medium S-wave π-π correlations Z. Aouissat, G. Chanfray, P. Schuck, and J. Wambach Published 24 November 1999 (2 pages) 012202 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Inclusive K+ and exclusive K+Y photoproduction on the deuteron: Λ- and Σ-threshold phenomena H. Yamamura, K. Miyagawa, T. Mart, C. Bennhold, H. Haberzettl, and W. Glöckle Published 1 December 1999 (9 pages) 014001 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear effects in g1A(x,Q2) at small x in deep inelastic scattering on 7Li and 3He V. Guzey and M. Strikman Published 16 December 1999 (15 pages) 014002 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral 3π-exchange NN potentials: Results for representation-invariant classes of diagrams N. Kaiser Published 16 December 1999 (5 pages) 014003 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Effect of neutron excess on Δ excitations in exotic nuclei Mahmoud A. Hasan, James P. Vary, and T.-S. H. Lee Published 23 November 1999 (7 pages) 014301 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local harmonic approaches with approximate cranking operators Takashi Nakatsukasa, Niels R. Walet, and Giu Do Dang Published 1 December 1999 (15 pages) 014302 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Level structure in 143Nd X. H. Zhou, H. Tsuchida, Y. Gono, A. Odahara, E. Ideguchi, T. Morikawa, M. Shibata, H. Watanabe, M. Miyake, T. Tsutsumi, S. Motomura, T. Kishida, S. Mitarai, and M. Ishihara Published 15 December 1999 (11 pages) 014303 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlations derived from modern nucleon-nucleon potentials H. Müther and A. Polls Published 16 December 1999 (5 pages) 014304 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification of high spin states in neutron-rich 113,115,117Pd nuclei X. Q. Zhang et al. Published 17 December 1999 (5 pages) 014305 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Overlap functions in correlation methods and quasifree nucleon knockout from 16O M. K. Gaidarov, K. A. Pavlova, A. N. Antonov, M. V. Stoitsov, S. S. Dimitrova, M. V. Ivanov, and C. Giusti Published 17 December 1999 (12 pages) 014306 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear surface properties and spin-orbit potential in a modified derivative coupling model Guo Hua, T. v. Chossy, and W. Stocker Published 17 December 1999 (8 pages) 014307 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Proton emission from 150Lu T. N. Ginter, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, C. J. Gross, R. Grzywacz, J. H. Hamilton, Z. Janas, M. Karny, S. H. Kim, J. F. Mas, J. W. McConnell, A. Piechaczek, A. V. Ramayya, K. Rykaczewski, P. B. Semmes, J. Szerypo, K. S. Toth, R. Wadsworth, C.-H. Yu, and E. F. Zganjar Published 20 December 1999 (5 pages) 014308 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Testing microscopic medium effects on nucleons and mesons using polarization observables in high-spin, unnatural-parity (p→,p′) reactions at 200 MeV F. Sammarruca, E. J. Stephenson, K. Jiang, J. Liu, C. Olmer, A. K. Opper, and S. W. Wissink Published 20 December 1999 (12 pages) 014309 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cluster model interpretation of normal and superdeformed bands in 60Zn B. Buck, A. C. Merchant, and S. M. Perez Published 20 December 1999 (4 pages) 014310 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized seniority from random Hamiltonians C. W. Johnson, G. F. Bertsch, D. J. Dean, and I. Talmi Published 20 December 1999 (6 pages) 014311 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rotational features of vibrator nucleus 118Te S. Juutinen, A. Savelius, P. T. Greenlees, K. Helariutta, P. Jones, R. Julin, P. Jämsen, H. Kankaanpää, M. Muikku, M. Piiparinen, S. Törmänen, and M. Matsuzaki Published 20 December 1999 (17 pages) 014312 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Model-independent determination of the 12C(p,p′)12C* (15.11 MeV, 1+, T=1) transition amplitude at 200 MeV S. P. Wells and S. W. Wissink Published 23 November 1999 (12 pages) 014601 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Isotopic 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, F. S. Stephens, G. J. Wozniak, L. A Bernstein, D. P. McNabb, P. F. Hua, D. G. Sarantites, J. X. Saladin, C.-H. Yu, and J. A. Cizewski Published 1 December 1999 (6 pages) 014602 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear pion photoproduction in the Δ resonance region D. Branford et al. Published 16 December 1999 (9 pages) 014603 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasifree kaon photoproduction from nuclei in a relativistic approach L. J. Abu-Raddad and J. Piekarewicz Published 17 December 1999 (7 pages) 014604 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of β6 deformation and low-lying vibrational bands on heavy-ion fusion reactions at sub-barrier energies Tamanna Rumin, Kouichi Hagino, and Noboru Takigawa Published 20 December 1999 (11 pages) 014605 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Onset of midvelocity emissions in symmetric heavy ion reactions E. Plagnol et al. (The INDRA Collaboration) Published 20 December 1999 (13 pages) 014606 [View PDF (340 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation tail in (e,e′p) reactions and corrections to experimental data J. A. Templon, C. E. Vellidis, R. E. Florizone, and A. J. Sarty Published 20 December 1999 (14 pages) 014607 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fragmentation and damping of the collective response in extended random-phase approximation Sakir Ayik, Denis Lacroix, and Philippe Chomaz Published 20 December 1999 (5 pages) 014608 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle removal reactions with deformed projectiles Alexander Sakharuk and Vladimir Zelevinsky Published 20 December 1999 (12 pages) 014609 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Nonequilibrium initial conditions from perturbative QCD for relativistic and ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions N. Hammon, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 24 November 1999 (11 pages) 014901 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbative calculation of the scaled factorial moments in the second-order quark-hadron phase transition within the Ginzburg-Landau description C. B. Yang and X. Cai Published 16 December 1999 (12 pages) 014902 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Mass formulas and thermodynamic treatment in the mass-density-dependent model of strange quark matter G. X. Peng, H. C. Chiang, J. J. Yang, L. Li, and B. Liu Published 7 December 1999 (6 pages) 015201 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark correlations and deuteron electromagnetic form factors D. Robson Published 17 December 1999 (7 pages) 015202 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-medium meson propagators in a relativistic model with quadratic couplings J. C. Caillon and J. Labarsouque Published 20 December 1999 (7 pages) 015203 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fixed-t subtracted dispersion relations for Compton scattering off the nucleon D. Drechsel, M. Gorchtein, B. Pasquini, and M. Vanderhaeghen Published 20 December 1999 (17 pages) 015204 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Baryon masses in chiral perturbation theory with infrared regularization P. J. Ellis and K. Torikoshi Published 20 December 1999 (5 pages) 015205 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Constraints on vector meson photoproduction spin observables W. M. Kloet and Frank Tabakin Published 17 December 1999 (7 pages) 015501 [View PDF (411 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Lifetimes of 26Al and 34Cl in an astrophysical plasma Alain Coc, Marie-Geneviève Porquet, and Frédéric Nowacki Published 16 December 1999 (7 pages) 015801 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Slope of the astrophysical S factor for the 7Li(p,γ)8Be reaction M. Spraker, R. M. Prior, M. A. Godwin, B. J. Rice, E. A. Wulf, J. H. Kelley, D. R. Tilley, and H. R. Weller Published 17 December 1999 (6 pages) 015802 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino-nucleon reaction rates in the supernova core in the relativistic random phase approximation Shoichi Yamada and Hiroshi Toki Published 17 December 1999 (16 pages) 015803 [View PDF (666 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Yrast spectroscopy of 54Cr M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, F. Lerma, D. Rudolph, D. G. Sarantites, and P. G. Thirolf Published 16 December 1999 (4 pages) 017301 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Determination of pion-baryon coupling constants from QCD sum rules” Hungchong Kim Published 3 December 1999 (2 pages) 019801 [View PDF (30 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘Comment on “Determination of pion-baryon coupling constants from QCD sum rules” ’ Boris Krippa and Michael C. Birse Published 3 December 1999 (2 pages) 019802 [View PDF (27 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Effective Q-Q interactions in constituent quark models” A. Valcarce, P. González, F. Fernández, and V. Vento Published 20 December 1999 (2 pages) 019803 [View PDF (23 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘Comment on “Effective Q-Q interactions in constituent quark models” ’ L. Ya. Glozman, Z. Papp, W. Plessas, K. Varga, and R. F. Wagenbrunn Published 20 December 1999 (2 pages) 019804 [View PDF (23 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]