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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Shell model description of normal parity bands in odd-mass heavy deformed nuclei C. Vargas, J. G. Hirsch, T. Beuschel, and J. P. Draayer Published 1 February 2000 (4 pages) 031301 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

α-decay chains of 175289114 and 175293118 in the relativistic mean-field model Michael Bender Published 1 February 2000 (4 pages) 031302 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Pronounced shape change induced by quasiparticle alignment A. Algora et al. Published 11 February 2000 (5 pages) 031303 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quasicontinuous decay spectra of superdeformed bands in 192,194Pb and energy gaps in level density at moderate angular momenta D. P. McNabb, J. A. Cizewski, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, K. Hauschild, K. Y. Ding, N. Fotiades, W. Younes, D. E. Archer, R. W. Bauer, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, R. M. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, F. S. Stephens, A. Lopez-Martens, and W. H. Kelly Published 17 February 2000 (5 pages) 031304 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Two-frequency shell model for hypernuclei and meson-exchange hyperon-nucleon potentials Yiharn Tzeng, S. Y. Tsay Tzeng, T. T. Kuo, T.-S.H. Lee, and V. G. Stoks Published 18 February 2000 (4 pages) 031305 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Comparison of strangeness production between A+A and p+p reactions from 2 to 160 A GeV J. C. Dunlop and C. A. Ogilvie Published 1 February 2000 (5 pages) 031901 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Charmonium dissociation in hadronic matter Kevin L. Haglin Published 1 February 2000 (4 pages) 031902 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

φ, Ω, and ρ production from deconfined matter in relativistic heavy ion collisions Péter Csizmadia and Péter Lévai Published 1 February 2000 (5 pages) 031903 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Λ-hypernuclear binding energy test of the refit Nijmegen soft core YN potential Dean Halderson Published 11 February 2000 (6 pages) 034001 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic electron deuteron scattering with consistent meson exchange and relativistic contributions of leading order Hartmuth Arenhövel, Frank Ritz, and Thomas Wilbois Published 11 February 2000 (10 pages) 034002 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projected Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations for the N-body problem Nir Barnea and Michele Viviani Published 16 February 2000 (9 pages) 034003 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge symmetry breaking in neutron matter Aya Ishihara, Akira Suzuki, Masahiro Kimura, and Katsuhiko Suzuki Published 16 February 2000 (9 pages) 034004 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observables for the pd3Hπ+ and pd3Heπ0 reactions in a pp→dπ+ model W. R. Falk Published 16 February 2000 (6 pages) 034005 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analyzing powers for 2H(d→,d)2H at deuteron energies of 3.0, 4.75, and 6.0 MeV B. J. Crowe, C. R. Brune, W. H. Geist, H. J. Karwowski, E. J. Ludwig, K. D. Veal, A. C. Fonseca, G. M. Hale, and K. A. Fletcher Published 17 February 2000 (6 pages) 034006 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of nonlocal one-pion-exchange potential in the deuteron J. L. Forest Published 18 February 2000 (9 pages) 034007 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Observation of cluster decay of 242Cm A. A. Ogloblin, R. Bonetti, V. A. Denisov, A. Guglielmetti, M. G. Itkis, C. Mazzocchi, V. L. Mikheev, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, G. A. Pik-Pichak, G. Poli, S. M. Pirozhkov, V. M. Semochkin, V. A. Shigin, I. K. Shvetsov, and S. P. Tretyakova Published 9 February 2000 (6 pages) 034301 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Continued fraction representation of the Coulomb Green’s operator and unified description of bound, resonant and scattering states B. Kónya, G. Lévai, and Z. Papp Published 11 February 2000 (7 pages) 034302 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model Monte Carlo investigation of rare earth nuclei J. A. White, S. E. Koonin, and D. J. Dean Published 14 February 2000 (15 pages) 034303 [View PDF (721 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Mean square charge radii of the neutron-deficient rare-earth isotopes in the region of the nuclear shell N=82 measured by the laser ion source spectroscopy technique A. E. Barzakh, I. Ya. Chubukov, D. V. Fedorov, V. N. Panteleev, M. D. Seliverstov, and Yu. M. Volkov Published 14 February 2000 (4 pages) 034304 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intrinsic state for an extended version of the interacting boson model J. E. García-Ramos, J. M. Arias, J. Dukelsky, and P. Van Isacker Published 16 February 2000 (4 pages) 034305 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron scattering from the 155,156,157,158,160Gd isotopes: Measurements and analyses with a deformed, semimicroscopic optical model E. Bauge, J. P. Delaroche, M. Girod, G. Haouat, J. Lachkar, Y. Patin, J. Sigaud, and J. Chardine Published 16 February 2000 (14 pages) 034306 [View PDF (391 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decay properties of states populated with the 207Pb(n,n′γ) reaction and weak coupling in 207Pb M. Kadi, P. E. Garrett, Minfang Yeh, S. W. Yates, T. Belgya, A. M. Oros-Peusquens, and K. Heyde Published 17 February 2000 (13 pages) 034307 [View PDF (383 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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γ-ray spectroscopy in 111Te K. Starosta, C. J. Chiara, D. B. Fossan, T. Koike, D. R. LaFosse, G. J. Lane, J. M. Sears, J. F. Smith, A. J. Boston, P. J. Nolan, E. S. Paul, A. T. Semple, M. Devlin, D. G. Sarantites, I. Y. Lee, and A. O. Macchiavelli Published 17 February 2000 (13 pages) 034308 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	α decay of 217Th populating excited states in 213Ra K. Nishio, H. Ikezoe, S. Mitsuoka, and J. Lu Published 17 February 2000 (4 pages) 034309 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Band terminations in the valence space of 86Zr J. Döring, Y. A. Akovali, C. Baktash, F. E. Durham, C. J. Gross, P. F. Hua, G. D. Johns, M. Korolija, D. R. LaFosse, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, W. Rathbun, D. G. Sarantites, D. W. Stracener, G. Z. Solomon, S. L. Tabor, A. Vander Molen, A. V. Afanasjev, and I. Ragnarsson Published 17 February 2000 (6 pages) 034310 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadrupole deformations of neutron-drip-line nuclei studied within the Skyrme Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach M. V. Stoitsov, J. Dobaczewski, P. Ring, and S. Pittel Published 17 February 2000 (14 pages) 034311 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of excitation of nuclear isoscalar giant resonances by inelastic scattering of 240 MeV α particles A. Kolomiets, O. Pochivalov, and S. Shlomo Published 17 February 2000 (8 pages) 034312 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell corrections of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent calculations A. T. Kruppa, M. Bender, W. Nazarewicz, P.-G. Reinhard, T. Vertse, and S. Ćwiok Published 17 February 2000 (13 pages) 034313 [View PDF (1202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformed rotational cascades in 152Dy: Further evidence for shape coexistence at high spin M. B. Smith et al. Published 17 February 2000 (8 pages) 034314 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic mean-field model for dynamical collective state transitions of a nuclear system T. Kohmura, Y. Hashimoto, H. Ohta, and M. Maruyama Published 18 February 2000 (16 pages) 034315 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher order polarizabilities of the proton Barry R. Holstein, D. Drechsel, B. Pasquini, and M. Vanderhaeghen Published 18 February 2000 (9 pages) 034316 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective properties of nucleons in the abnormal-parity states K. H. Bhatt, S. Kahane, and S. Raman Published 22 February 2000 (41 pages) 034317 [View PDF (827 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Shears mechanism in 109Cd C. J. Chiara, S. J. Asztalos, B. Busse, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, D. B. Fossan, D. G. Jenkins, S. Juutinen, N. S. Kelsall, R. Krücken, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, G. Schmid, J. M. Sears, J. F. Smith, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, R. Wadsworth, and S. Frauendorf Published 23 February 2000 (11 pages) 034318 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Pion-induced transport of π mesons in nuclei S. G. Mashnik, R. J. Peterson, A. J. Sierk, and M. R. Braunstein Published 8 February 2000 (13 pages) 034601 [View PDF (388 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective and chaotic motion in self-bound many-body systems Thomas Papenbrock Published 8 February 2000 (4 pages) 034602 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculations for populations of selected isotopes in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions A. Majumder and S. Das Gupta Published 10 February 2000 (11 pages) 034603 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photofission of actinide nuclei in the quasideuteron and lower part of the Δ energy region J. C. Sanabria, B. L. Berman, C. Cetina, P. L. Cole, G. Feldman, N. R. Kolb, R. E. Pywell, J. M. Vogt, V. G. Nedorezov, A. S. Sudov, and G. Ya. Kezerashvili Published 11 February 2000 (14 pages) 034604 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Final state interaction effects in breakup reactions of halo nuclei A. Bonaccorso and F. Carstoiu Published 11 February 2000 (8 pages) 034605 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of superheavy elements in cold fusion reactions V. Yu. Denisov and S. Hofmann Published 14 February 2000 (15 pages) 034606 [View PDF (532 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified empirical parametrization of fragmentation cross sections K. Sümmerer and B. Blank Published 14 February 2000 (10 pages) 034607 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Breakup couplings in 6He+4He elastic scattering K. Rusek and K. W. Kemper Published 16 February 2000 (6 pages) 034608 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Detailed study and mean field interpretation of 16O+12C elastic scattering at seven medium energies M. P. Nicoli, F. Haas, R. M. Freeman, S. Szilner, Z. Basrak, A. Morsad, G. R. Satchler, and M. E. Brandan Published 16 February 2000 (8 pages) 034609 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear fragmentation characteristics from isotopic spin dependent lattice-gas model S. K. Samaddar and S. Das Gupta Published 16 February 2000 (6 pages) 034610 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microcanonical studies concerning the recent experimental evaluations of the nuclear caloric curve Al. H. Raduta and Ad. R. Raduta Published 17 February 2000 (5 pages) 034611 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of quasielastic and transfer excitation functions in 16O, 19F+232Th reactions Shrabani Sinha, R. Varma, R. K. Choudhury, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena, R. G. Thomas, and B. V. Dinesh Published 17 February 2000 (10 pages) 034612 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NN→NNπ+ reaction near threshold in a chiral power counting approach Carlos A. da Rocha, Gerald A. Miller, and Ubirajara van Kolck Published 23 February 2000 (12 pages) 034613 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Multiboson effects in multiparticle production R. Lednicky, V. Lyuboshitz, K. Mikhailov, Yu. Sinyukov, A. Stavinsky, and B. Erazmus Published 8 February 2000 (19 pages) 034901 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative phenomena in a chemically nonequilibrated quark gluon plasma D. Dutta, A. K. Mohanty, K. Kumar, and R. K. Choudhury Published 9 February 2000 (10 pages) 034902 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Investigation of charge yields, charge correlations, and multifragmentation of 197Au and 208Pb projectiles at beam energies between 1.0 and 158 GeV/nucleon G. Hüntrup, T. Streibel, and W. Heinrich Published 16 February 2000 (11 pages) 034903 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical analysis of a two-pion correlation function based on a hydrodynamical model Kenji Morita, Shin Muroya, Hiroki Nakamura, and Chiho Nonaka Published 18 February 2000 (12 pages) 034904 [View PDF (504 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High energy collisions of strongly deformed nuclei: An old idea with a new twist E. V. Shuryak Published 22 February 2000 (6 pages) 034905 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Covariant confinement model for the calculation of the properties of scalar mesons L. S. Celenza, Shun-fu Gao, Bo Huang, Huangsheng Wang, and C. M. Shakin Published 7 February 2000 (17 pages) 035201 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization group flow equation at finite density J. Meyer, G. Papp, H.-J. Pirner, and T. Kunihiro Published 9 February 2000 (12 pages) 035202 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	xF dependence of ψ and Drell-Yan production R. Vogt Published 14 February 2000 (25 pages) 035203 [View PDF (370 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Determination of the E2/M1 ratio in the γN→Δ(1232) transition from a simultaneous measurement of p(γ→,p)π0 and p(γ→,π+)n R. Beck, H. P. Krahn, J. Ahrens, J. R. Annand, H. J. Arends, G. Audit, A. Braghieri, N. d’Hose, D. Drechsel, O. Hanstein, J. C. McGeorge, R. O. Owens, P. Pedroni, T. Pinelli, G. Tamas, L. Tiator, and Th. Walcher Published 16 February 2000 (14 pages) 035204 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on spin observables in p̅ p→Λ̅ Λ Mokhtar Elchikh and Jean-Marc Richard Published 17 February 2000 (4 pages) 035205 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dilepton spectra from decays of light unflavored mesons Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, and M. I. Krivoruchenko Published 18 February 2000 (23 pages) 035206 [View PDF (346 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Results of a search for the two neutrino double β decay of 136Xe with proportional counters Ju. M. Gavriljuk, V. V. Kuzminov, N. Ya. Osetrova, and S. S. Ratkevich Published 14 February 2000 (6 pages) 035501 [View PDF (449 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear octupole correlations and the enhancement of atomic time-reversal violation J. Engel, J. L. Friar, and A. C. Hayes Published 17 February 2000 (13 pages) 035502 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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β-decay half-life of 70Kr: A bridge nuclide for the rp process beyond A=70 M. Oinonen, J. Äystö, A. Jokinen, P. Baumann, F. Didierjean, A. Huck, A. Knipper, M. Ramdhane, G. Walter, M. Huyse, P. Van Duppen, G. Marguier, Yu. Novikov, A. Popov, D. M. Seliverstov, and H. Schatz (ISOLDE Collaboration) Published 14 February 2000 (5 pages) 035801 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance state in a relativistic approach with the momentum-dependent self-energies Tomoyuki Maruyama and Satoshi Chiba Published 14 February 2000 (4 pages) 037301 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin excitations in the 40Ca(p→,p′) reaction revisited F. T. Baker, L. Bimbot, G. Edwards, C. Glashausser, A. Green, K. W. Jones, D. Mihailidis, D. Read, A. Sethi, B. H. Storm, and R. deSwiniarski Published 14 February 2000 (4 pages) 037302 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence for superdeformation in 149,150Dy: Onset of the collapse of the Z=66 deformed shell closure? D. E. Appelbe, C. W. Beausang, C. J. Barton, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, J. Cederkäll, J. R. Cooper, R. Krücken, J. R. Novak, N. V. Zamfir, and Z. Wang Published 16 February 2000 (4 pages) 037303 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite size effects and the order of a phase transition in fragmenting nuclear systems J. M. Carmona, N. Michel, J. Richert, and P. Wagner Published 17 February 2000 (4 pages) 037304 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear approximation for the excitation energies of single and double analog states in the f7/2 shell Y. Durga Devi, Shadow Robinson, and Larry Zamick Published 17 February 2000 (3 pages) 037305 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roles of proton-neutron interactions in α-like four-nucleon correlations M. Hasegawa and K. Kaneko Published 22 February 2000 (4 pages) 037306 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of spectroscopic factors in the potential-model description of the 7Be(p,γ)8B reaction Attila Csótó Published 11 February 2000 (4 pages) 037601 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of breakup processes in fusion enhancement of drip-line nuclei at energies below the Coulomb barrier K. Hagino, A. Vitturi, C. H. Dasso, and S. M. Lenzi Published 18 February 2000 (4 pages) 037602 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Barrier distribution for the 32S+110Pd system derived from the quasielastic scattering excitation function O. A. Capurro, J. E. Testoni, D. Abriola, D. E. DiGregorio, G. V. Martí, A. J. Pacheco, and M. R. Spinella Published 23 February 2000 (3 pages) 037603 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: One loop corrections to quantum hadrodynamics with vector mesons [Phys. Rev. C 58, 1853 (1998)] Gary Prézeau Published 7 February 2000 (1 pages) 039901 [View PDF (22 kB) ]

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Erratum: Decay properties of the new isotopes172Hg and173Hg [Phys. Rev. C 60, 031304 (1999)] 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 14 February 2000 (1 pages) 039902 [View PDF (12 kB) ]