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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

Quadrupole shape invariants in the interacting boson model V. Werner, N. Pietralla, P. von Brentano, R. F. Casten, and R. V. Jolos Published 12 January 2000 (5 pages) 021301 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Shell-model studies of the proton drip line nucleus 106Sb T. Engeland, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and E. Osnes Published 13 January 2000 (4 pages) 021302 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

First evidence for smooth band termination in valence space in the mass 130 region: Spectroscopy of 127La C. M. Parry, R. Wadsworth, A. N. Wilson, A. J. Boston, P. J. Nolan, E. S. Paul, J. A. Sampson, A. T. Semple, C. Foin, J. Genevey, A. Gizon, J. Gizon, I. Ragnarsson, and B. G. Dong Published 19 January 2000 (5 pages) 021303 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

151Lu: Spherical or deformed? L. S. Ferreira and E. Maglione Published 20 January 2000 (3 pages) 021304 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Complex band interactions in 170Er C. Y. Wu, D. Cline, M. W. Simon, R. Teng, K. Vetter, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. Janssens, and I. Wiedenhover Published 21 January 2000 (5 pages) 021305 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

New photodisintegration threshold observable in 3He E. A. Wulf, R. S. Canon, S. J. Gaff, J. H. Kelley, R. M. Prior, E. C. Schreiber, M. Spraker, D. R. Tilley, H. R. Weller, M. Viviani, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, and R. Schiavilla Published 27 December 1999 (4 pages) 021601 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Disappearance of transverse flow in Au+Au collisions D. J. Magestro, W. Bauer, O. Bjarki, J. D. Crispin, M. L. Miller, M. B. Tonjes, A. M. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, R. Pak, and E. Norbeck Published 14 January 2000 (4 pages) 021602 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Tensor correlations in nuclei and exclusive electron scattering J. Ryckebusch, S. Janssen, W. Van Nespen, and D. Debruyne Published 18 January 2000 (5 pages) 021603 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Imaging proton sources and space-momentum correlations Sergei Y. Panitkin and David A. Brown Published 27 December 1999 (4 pages) 021901 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Saturating Cronin effect in ultrarelativistic proton-nucleus collisions Gábor Papp, Péter Lévai, and George Fai Published 27 December 1999 (5 pages) 021902 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Uranium on uranium collisions at relativistic energies Bao-An Li Published 12 January 2000 (4 pages) 021903 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Baryon phase-space density in heavy-ion collisions Fuqiang Wang and N. Xu Published 14 January 2000 (4 pages) 021904 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	η′ meson production in proton-proton collisions K. Nakayama, H. F. Arellano, J. W. Durso, and J. Speth Published 22 December 1999 (11 pages) 024001 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the P11(1440 MeV) resonance from α-p and π-N scattering H. P. Morsch and P. Zupranski Published 29 December 1999 (10 pages) 024002 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-nucleon one-loop corrections to pion double charge exchange within heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory A. Misra and D. S. Koltun Published 12 January 2000 (20 pages) 024003 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	η-d and K--d zero-energy scattering: A Faddeev approach A. Deloff Published 19 January 2000 (6 pages) 024004 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary conditions for three-body scattering in configuration space G. L. Payne, W. Glöckle, and J. L. Friar Published 20 January 2000 (9 pages) 024005 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Recoil-distance lifetime measurements in 96,97,98Ru: Search for possible onset of collectivity at N>~52 B. Kharraja, U. Garg, S. S. Ghugre, H. Jin, R. V. Janssens, I. Ahmad, H. Amro, M. P. Carpenter, S. Fischer, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, D. Nisius, W. Reviol, W. F. Mueller, L. L. Riedinger, R. Kaczarowski, E. Ruchowska, W. C. Ma, and I. M. Govil Published 22 December 1999 (7 pages) 024301 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Level structure of 94,95,96Tc at high spins and shell-model calculations S. S. Ghugre, B. Kharraja, U. Garg, R. V. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, B. Crowell, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, D. Nisius, W. Reviol, W. F. Mueller, L. L. Riedinger, and R. Kaczarowski Published 22 December 1999 (9 pages) 024302 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic study on He isotopes with the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics plus generator coordinate method N. Itagaki and S. Aoyama Published 29 December 1999 (5 pages) 024303 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of α-like resonances D. S. Delion and J. Suhonen Published 4 January 2000 (12 pages) 024304 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	F spin as a partial symmetry A. Leviatan and J. N. Ginocchio Published 12 January 2000 (4 pages) 024305 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin singlet (pn) pairing and quartetting contribution to the binding energy of nuclei G. Röpke, A. Schnell, P. Schuck, and U. Lombardo Published 14 January 2000 (11 pages) 024306 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Random-phase approximation approach to rotational symmetry restoration in a three-level Lipkin model K. Hagino and G. F. Bertsch Published 14 January 2000 (5 pages) 024307 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference term between the spin and orbital contributions to M1 transitions M. S. Fayache, L. Zamick, Y. Y. Sharon, and Y. Durga Devi Published 14 January 2000 (4 pages) 024308 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Systematic study of electric quadrupole excitations in the stable even mass Sn nuclei J. Bryssinck, L. Govor, V. Yu. Ponomarev, F. Bauwens, O. Beck, D. Belic, P. von Brentano, D. De Frenne, T. Eckert, C. Fransen, K. Govaert, R.-D. Herzberg, E. Jacobs, U. Kneissl, H. Maser, A. Nord, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, and V. Werner Published 18 January 2000 (6 pages) 024309 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First identification of excited states in the Tz=1/2 nucleus 81Zr N. Mărginean, D. Bucurescu, C. A. Ur, D. Bazzacco, S. Lunardi, S. M. Lenzi, C. Rossi Alvarez, G. de Angelis, A. Gadea, D. R. Napoli, M. De Poli, and P. Spolaore Published 19 January 2000 (4 pages) 024310 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying continuum structures in 8B and 8Li in a microscopic model Attila Csótó Published 19 January 2000 (5 pages) 024311 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microsecond isomers in 125,127,129Sn J. A. Pinston, C. Foin, J. Genevey, R. Béraud, E. Chabanat, H. Faust, S. Oberstedt, and B. Weiss Published 19 January 2000 (6 pages) 024312 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of 19Ne (7.07 MeV) and its mirror in 19F H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr Published 19 January 2000 (2 pages) 024313 [View PDF (31 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Choosing cluster and core in cluster models of nuclei B. Buck, A. C. Merchant, M. J. Horner, and S. M. Perez Published 19 January 2000 (5 pages) 024314 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the vacuum states in the presence of isovector and isoscalar pairing correlations D. R. Bes, O. Civitarese, E. E. Maqueda, and N. N. Scoccola Published 20 January 2000 (14 pages) 024315 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic mean field calculations of single particle potentials A. Baran Published 20 January 2000 (10 pages) 024316 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective vibrational bands built on two-quasiparticle excitations in Te isotopes M. Grinberg, Ch. Protochristov, W. Andrejtscheff, G. Lo Bianco, and G. Falconi Published 21 January 2000 (7 pages) 024317 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pauli blocking in three-body models of halo nuclei I. J. Thompson, B. V. Danilin, V. D. Efros, J. S. Vaagen, J. M. Bang, and M. V. Zhukov Published 21 January 2000 (11 pages) 024318 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alternative evaluations of halos in nuclei S. Karataglidis, P. J. Dortmans, K. Amos, and C. Bennhold Published 21 January 2000 (6 pages) 024319 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Study of 9Be(p,pn) and 9Be(p,2p) reactions at 70 MeV V. B. Shostak, G. P. Palkin, N. I. Woloshin, V. P. Likhachev, M. N. Martins, and J. D. Arruda-Neto Published 22 December 1999 (6 pages) 024601 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reaction mechanism and characteristics of T20 in d+3He backward elastic scattering at intermediate energies M. Tanifuji, S. Ishikawa, Y. Iseri, T. Uesaka, N. Sakamoto, Y. Satou, K. Itoh, H. Sakai, A. Tamii, T. Ohnishi, K. Sekiguchi, K. Yako, S. Sakoda, H. Okamura, K. Suda, and T. Wakasa Published 29 December 1999 (8 pages) 024602 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence for nonequilibrium proton emission in a low-energy heavy-ion reaction P. A. DeYoung, M. J. Goupell, B. V. Atallah, J. A. Haglund, P. L. Jolivette, M. K. MacDermaid, G. F. Peaslee, J. J. Kolata, E. D. Berners, D. Peterson, J. von Schwarzenberg, and J. D. Hinnefeld Published 30 December 1999 (4 pages) 024603 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of 2H(γ→,p)n with linearly polarized photons in the Δ resonance region G. Blanpied, M. Blecher, A. Caracappa, C. Djalali, M.-A. Duval, G. Giordano, K. Hicks, S. Hoblit, M. Khandaker, O. C. Kistner, G. Matone, L. Miceli, W. K. Mize, C. Molinari, B. M. Preedom, A. M. Sandorfi, C. Schaerf, R. M. Sealock, D. Rebreyend, C. E. Thorn, S. T. Thornton, K. Viziri, C. S. Whisnant, and X. Zhao (The LEGS Collaboration) Published 30 December 1999 (25 pages) 024604 [View PDF (411 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase-equivalent energy-dependent potentials J.-M. Sparenberg, D. Baye, and H. Leeb Published 4 January 2000 (7 pages) 024605 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three- and four-nucleon mechanisms in pion absorption G. J. Lolos, Z. Papandreou, and G. M. Huber Published 6 January 2000 (4 pages) 024606 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fission barriers, coupled-channel, and shell effects at the Coulomb barrier in the A∼190 mass region B. Djerroud, B. Schaly, S. Flibotte, G. C. Ball, S. Courtin, M. Cromaz, D. S. Haslip, T. Lampman, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. M. Nieminen, C. E. Svensson, J. C. Waddington, D. Ward, and J. N. Wilson Published 13 January 2000 (7 pages) 024607 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion spectra for (p,π-) reactions in the 88Sr region Shiho Yamamoto and Kenji Kume Published 18 January 2000 (6 pages) 024608 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Multinucleon transfer reactions in the 40Ca+124Sn system studied via γ-particle coincidences L. Corradi, G. de Angelis, A. Gadea, G. Maron, D. R. Napoli, A. M. Stefanini, S. Beghini, D. Bazzacco, G. Montagnoli, P. Pavan, F. Scarlassara, C. A. Ur, J. H. He, C. Fahlander, G. Pollarolo, and F. Cerutti Published 19 January 2000 (9 pages) 024609 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sub-barrier fusion and selective resonant tunneling Xing Zhong Li, Jian Tian, Ming Yuan Mei, and Chong Xin Li Published 19 January 2000 (6 pages) 024610 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Flow and multifragmentation of 24Mg+27Al at intermediate energies E. P. Prendergast, A. van den Brink, A. P. de Haas, R. Kamermans, P. G. Kuijer, C. T. de Laat, R. W. Ostendorf, E. Oti, A. Péghaire, and R. J. Snellings Published 19 January 2000 (9 pages) 024611 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Optical model potentials involving loosely bound p-shell nuclei around 10 MeV/nucleon L. Trache, A. Azhari, H. L. Clark, C. A. Gagliardi, Y.-W. Lui, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, R. E. Tribble, and F. Carstoiu Published 20 January 2000 (15 pages) 024612 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear viscosity of hot rotating 224Th I. Diószegi, N. P. Shaw, I. Mazumdar, A. Hatzikoutelis, and P. Paul Published 21 January 2000 (17 pages) 024613 [View PDF (296 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Relativistic nuclear collisions at 10A GeV energies from p+Be to Au+Au with the hadronic cascade model Y. Nara, N. Otuka, A. Ohnishi, K. Niita, and S. Chiba Published 22 December 1999 (19 pages) 024901 [View PDF (506 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonperturbative dilepton production from a quark-gluon plasma Munshi G. Mustafa, Andreas Schäfer, and Markus H. Thoma Published 29 December 1999 (9 pages) 024902 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of friction on the chiral symmetry restoration in high energy heavy-ion collisions Masamichi Ishihara and Fujio Takagi Published 30 December 1999 (10 pages) 024903 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hadronic scattering of charmed mesons Ziwei Lin, C. M. Ko, and Bin Zhang Published 4 January 2000 (7 pages) 024904 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relationship between particle freeze-out distributions and Hanbury Brown–Twiss radius parameters D. Hardtke and S. A. Voloshin Published 12 January 2000 (4 pages) 024905 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical simulation of disoriented chiral condensate formation in Bjorken rods Troels C. Petersen and Jørgen Randrup Published 14 January 2000 (16 pages) 024906 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson-nucleon vertex form factors at finite temperature A. Rakhimov, U. Yakhshiev, and F. C. Khanna Published 18 January 2000 (8 pages) 024907 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleus-nucleus collisions in the dynamical string model B. Iványi, Z. Schram, K. Sailer, and G. Soff Published 19 January 2000 (8 pages) 024908 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiflow of nucleons at the softest point of the equation of state J. Brachmann, S. Soff, A. Dumitru, H. Stöcker, J. A. Maruhn, W. Greiner, L. V. Bravina, and D. H. Rischke Published 20 January 2000 (8 pages) 024909 [View PDF (984 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fragmentation of relativistic gold by various target nuclei C. J. Waddington, J. R. Cummings, B. S. Nilsen, and T. L. Garrard Published 20 January 2000 (13 pages) 024910 [View PDF (282 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

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Determination of the π±p→π±π+n cross section near threshold J. B. Lange, A. Ambardar, F. Duncan, A. Feltham, G. Hofman, R. R. Johnson, G. Jones, M. Pavan, K. J. Raywood, D. Vetterli, J. T. Brack, D. Ottewell, G. R. Smith, and M. E. Sevior Published 13 January 2000 (19 pages) 025201 [View PDF (550 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlator mixing and mass reduction as signals of chiral symmetry restoration J. Delorme, M. Ericson, P. A. Guichon, and A. W. Thomas Published 14 January 2000 (4 pages) 025202 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A quark model calculation of γγ→ππ including final-state interactions H. G. Blundell, S. Godfrey, G. Hay, and E. S. Swanson Published 19 January 2000 (7 pages) 025203 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electroproduction of strangeness above the resonance region M. Guidal, J.-M. Laget, and M. Vanderhaeghen Published 19 January 2000 (5 pages) 025204 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion-nucleon scattering and the nucleon Σ term in an extended linear Σ model V. Dmitrašinović and F. Myhrer Published 19 January 2000 (11 pages) 025205 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light front nuclear physics: Toy models, static sources, and tilted light front coordinates P. G. Blunden, M. Burkardt, and G. A. Miller Published 21 January 2000 (10 pages) 025206 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

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Parity violation in 232Th neutron resonances above 250 eV E. I. Sharapov, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, P. P. Delheij, C. M. Frankle, M. Iinuma, J. N. Knudson, L. Y. Lowie, J. E. Lynch, A. Masaike, Y. Matsuda, G. E. Mitchell, S. I. Penttilä, H. Postma, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, S. L. Stephenson, Y.-F. Yen, and V. W. Yuan Published 18 January 2000 (7 pages) 025501 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Zero-energy determination of the astrophysical S factor and effective-range expansions D. Baye and E. Brainis Published 20 January 2000 (10 pages) 025801 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strange nuclear matter within Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory I. Vidaña, A. Polls, A. Ramos, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and V. G. Stoks Published 20 January 2000 (12 pages) 025802 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Calculation of E2-transition probabilities based on angular momentum–projected cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory K. Enami, K. Tanabe, and N. Yoshinaga Published 30 December 1999 (4 pages) 027301 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical analysis of the hot giant dipole resonance with the phonon damping model N. Dinh Dang, K. Eisenman, J. Seitz, and M. Thoennessen Published 6 January 2000 (3 pages) 027302 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for double-Λ hypernuclei formation via (Ξ-,12C)atom→ΛΛ12B+n P. Khaustov et al. (The AGS E885 Collaboration) Published 12 January 2000 (4 pages) 027601 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of low mass electron pairs due to the photon-photon mechanism in central collisions Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, and Gerhard Baur Published 19 January 2000 (4 pages) 027901 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinematics and dynamics of independent pion emission Lajos Diósi Published 24 January 2000 (4 pages) 027902 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limits on nn̄ oscillations from nuclear stability Avraham Gal Published 19 January 2000 (4 pages) 028201 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atmospheric neutrino absorption cross sections in 40Ar M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh Published 19 January 2000 (4 pages) 028501 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the 40Ca(3He,t)40Sc reaction V. Y. Hansper, A. E. Champagne, S. E. Hale, C. Iliadis, and D. C. Powell Published 19 January 2000 (4 pages) 028801 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Clusters in the photodisintegration of9Be [Phys. Rev. C 59, 239 (1999)] K. Shoda and T. Tanaka Published 18 January 2000 (1 pages) 029901 [View PDF (13 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Multiparticle Bose-Einstein correlations [Phys. Rev. C 57, 3324 (1998)] Urs Achim Wiedemann Published 19 January 2000 (1 pages) 029902 [View PDF (12 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Resonance model study of kaon production in baryon-baryon reactions for heavy-ion collisions [Phys. Rev. C 59, 369 (1999)] K. Tsushima, A. Sibirtsev, A. W. Thomas, and G. Q. Li Published 19 January 2000 (1 pages) 029903 [View PDF (14 kB) ]