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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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Conversion electron-γ coincidences and intrinsic reflection asymmetry in 219Ra L. A. Riley, P. D. Cottle, M. Fauerbach, V. S. Griffin, B. N. Guy, K. W. Kemper, G. S. Rajbaidya, and O. J. Tekyi-Mensah Published 6 July 2000 (5 pages) 021301 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

First observation of excited states in 182Pb D. G. Jenkins, M. Muikku, P. T. Greenlees, K. Hauschild, K. Helariutta, P. M. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kankaanpää, N. S. Kelsall, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, C. J. Moore, P. Nieminen, C. D. O’Leary, R. D. Page, P. Rakhila, W. Reviol, M. J. Taylor, J. Uusitalo, and R. Wadsworth Published 21 July 2000 (4 pages) 021302 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Single-particle and collective motion for proton-rich nuclei in the upper pf shell Yang Sun, Jing-ye Zhang, Mike Guidry, Jie Meng, and Soojae Im Published 21 July 2000 (4 pages) 021601 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Chiral 3π-exchange NN potentials: Results for diagrams proportional to gA4 and gA6 N. Kaiser Published 28 June 2000 (7 pages) 024001 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level densities for nuclei with 20<~A<~41 Po-lin Huang, S. M. Grimes, and T. N. Massey Published 19 July 2000 (12 pages) 024002 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	ΔI=1 staggering in octupole bands of light actinides: “Beat” patterns Dennis Bonatsos, C. Daskaloyannis, S. B. Drenska, N. Karoussos, N. Minkov, P. P. Raychev, and R. P. Roussev Published 23 June 2000 (12 pages) 024301 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dipole transitions to bound states in 56Fe and 58Ni F. Bauwens, J. Bryssinck, D. De Frenne, K. Govaert, L. Govor, M. Hagemann, J. Heyse, E. Jacobs, W. Mondelaers, and V. Yu. Ponomarev Published 23 June 2000 (20 pages) 024302 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended renormalized random phase approximation N. Dinh Dang and A. Arima Published 26 June 2000 (7 pages) 024303 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Alternating parity bands in 87218Fr M. E. Debray, M. A. Cardona, D. Hojman, A. J. Kreiner, M. Davidson, J. Davidson, H. Somacal, G. Levinton, D. R. Napoli, S. Lenzi, G. de Angelis, M. De Poli, A. Gadea, D. Bazzacco, C. Rossi-Alvarez, and N. Medina Published 10 July 2000 (5 pages) 024304 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Shell structure of Ti and Cr nuclei from measurements of g factors and lifetimes R. Ernst, K.-H. Speidel, O. Kenn, A. Gohla, U. Nachum, J. Gerber, P. Maier-Komor, N. Benczer-Koller, G. Kumbartzki, G. Jakob, L. Zamick, and F. Nowacki Published 10 July 2000 (8 pages) 024305 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy in hot 161,162Dy and 171,172Yb nuclei M. Guttormsen, A. Bjerve, M. Hjorth-Jensen, E. Melby, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, S. Siem, and A. Belić Published 10 July 2000 (10 pages) 024306 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collisional damping and collisional coupling in the nuclear collective response Philippe Chomaz, Denis Lacroix, Sakir Ayik, and Maria Colonna Published 18 July 2000 (4 pages) 024307 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards a Hartree-Fock mass formula F. Tondeur, S. Goriely, J. M. Pearson, and M. Onsi Published 19 July 2000 (9 pages) 024308 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic derivation of interacting boson-fermion model Hamiltonian and its application to singly magic nuclei N. Yoshinaga, Y. D. Devi, and A. Arima Published 19 July 2000 (7 pages) 024309 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact form of the random phase approximation equation at finite temperature including the entropy effect Kosai Tanabe and Nguyen Dinh Dang Published 19 July 2000 (11 pages) 024310 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First direct proof of internal conversion between bound states T. Carreyre, M. R. Harston, M. Aiche, F. Bourgine, J. F. Chemin, G. Claverie, J. P. Goudour, J. N. Scheurer, F. Attallah, G. Bogaert, J. Kiener, A. Lefebvre, J. Durell, J. P. Grandin, W. E. Meyerhof, and W. Phillips Published 19 July 2000 (8 pages) 024311 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quonic expansion and its random-phase approximation counterpart S. S. Avancini, F. F. de Souza Cruz, J. R. Marinelli, and D. P. Menezes Published 19 July 2000 (7 pages) 024312 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical aspects of nuclear coupling to continuum S. Drożdż, J. Okołowicz, M. Płoszajczak, and I. Rotter Published 19 July 2000 (4 pages) 024313 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Derivative coupling model description of nuclear matter in the Dirac-Hartree-Fock approximation P. Bernardos, R. J. Lombard, M. López-Quelle, S. Marcos, and R. Niembro Published 19 July 2000 (9 pages) 024314 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hybrid version of the tilted axis cranking model and its application to 128Ba V. I. Dimitrov, F. Dönau, and S. Frauendorf Published 20 July 2000 (6 pages) 024315 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Transition strengths in odd-odd 86Nb M. Wiedeking, R. A. Kaye, G. Z. Solomon, S. L. Tabor, J. Döring, G. D. Johns, F. Cristancho, M. Devlin, F. Lerma, D. G. Sarantites, I. Y. Lee, and A. O. Macchiavelli Published 20 July 2000 (13 pages) 024316 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High spin states in singly closed 143Pm Sarmishtha Bhattacharya, Somen Chanda, Dipa Bandyopadhyay, Swapan Kumar Basu, G. Mukherjee, S. Muralithar, R. P. Singh, R. K. Bhowmik, and S. S. Ghugre Published 20 July 2000 (11 pages) 024317 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization associated with the coupling to isoscalar dipole compression mode I. Hamamoto and B. A. Brown Published 24 July 2000 (5 pages) 024318 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-exchange spin monopole modes I. Hamamoto and H. Sagawa Published 25 July 2000 (6 pages) 024319 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Asymptotic normalization coefficients for 14N↔13C+p from 13C(3He,d)14N P. Bém, V. Burjan, V. Kroha, J. Novák, Š. Piskoř, E. Šimečková, J. Vincour, C. A. Gagliardi, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and R. E. Tribble Published 25 July 2000 (5 pages) 024320 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Discrete line γ-ray spectroscopy in the (50–60)ħ spin domain of 161,162Er J. Simpson, A. P. Bagshaw, A. Pipidis, M. A. Riley, M. A. Bentley, D. M. Cullen, P. J. Dagnall, G. B. Hagemann, S. L. King, R. W. Laird, J. C. Lisle, S. Shepherd, A. G. Smith, S. Törmänen, A. V. Afanasjev, and I. Ragnarsson Published 25 July 2000 (8 pages) 024321 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relationship between the fermion dynamical symmetric model Hamiltonian and nuclear collective motion Y. M. Zhao, N. Yoshinaga, S. Yamaji, and A. Arima Published 25 July 2000 (6 pages) 024322 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete spectroscopy of 30P C. A. Grossmann, M. A. LaBonte, G. E. Mitchell, J. D. Shriner, J. F. Shriner, G. A. Vavrina, and P. M. Wallace Published 25 July 2000 (12 pages) 024323 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Light-mass yields and fine structure of mass distributions in 232Th photofission S. A. Karamian, J. Adam, A. G. Belov, J. J. Carroll, Yu. V. Norseev, V. I. Stegailov, and P. Chaloun Published 27 June 2000 (8 pages) 024601 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Violation of pseudospin symmetry in nucleon-nucleus scattering: Exact relations H. Leeb and S. Wilmsen Published 10 July 2000 (4 pages) 024602 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of π±-nucleus elastic scattering using a local potential S. A. Khallaf and A. A. Ebrahim Published 13 July 2000 (8 pages) 024603 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Medium modification of the pion-pion interaction at finite density D. Davesne, Y. J. Zhang, and G. Chanfray Published 18 July 2000 (10 pages) 024604 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic model analyses of elastic proton-12C scattering with energies 40 to 800 MeV P. K. Deb and K. Amos Published 19 July 2000 (9 pages) 024605 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotope dependence of deeply bound pionic states in Sn and Pb Y. Umemoto, S. Hirenzaki, K. Kume, and H. Toki Published 19 July 2000 (8 pages) 024606 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Memory of the entrance-channel K distribution observed in fission at high angular momentum C. R. Morton, A. C. Berriman, R. D. Butt, M. Dasgupta, A. Godley, D. J. Hinde, and J. O. Newton Published 19 July 2000 (11 pages) 024607 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Total reaction and neutron-removal cross sections of (30–60)A MeV He and Li isotopes on Pb R. E. Warner, M. H. McKinnon, N. C. Shaner, F. D. Becchetti, A. Nadasen, D. A. Roberts, J. A. Brown, A. Galonsky, J. J. Kolata, R. M. Ronningen, M. Steiner, and K. Subotic Published 19 July 2000 (9 pages) 024608 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Relativistic predictions of quasielastic proton-nucleus spin observables based on a complete Lorentz invariant representation of the NN scattering matrix B. I. van der Ventel, G. C. Hillhouse, and P. R. De Kock Published 20 July 2000 (6 pages) 024609 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unusual statistics of interference effects in neutron scattering from compound nuclei J. C. Berengut, V. V. Flambaum, and G. F. Gribakin Published 21 July 2000 (8 pages) 024610 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic eikonal approximation in high-energy A(e,e′p) reactions D. Debruyne, J. Ryckebusch, W. Van Nespen, and S. Janssen Published 21 July 2000 (13 pages) 024611 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reaction and total cross sections for 400–500 MeV π- on nuclei C. J. Gelderloos, J. T. Brack, M. D. Holcomb, M. V. Keilman, D. J. Mercer, R. J. Peterson, R. A. Ristinen, and A. Saunders Published 21 July 2000 (9 pages) 024612 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling of the multiplicity distribution of evaporated fragments in oxygen-emulsion collisions at 3.7A GeV Fu-Hu Liu Published 25 July 2000 (3 pages) 024613 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New method for the discrimination of single-source events in heavy-ion collisions P. Désesquelles et al. (INDRA Collaboration) Published 25 July 2000 (8 pages) 024614 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Loss of memory of target nucleus deformation axis in heavy-ion fusion-fission D. J. Hinde, W. Pan, A. C. Berriman, R. D. Butt, M. Dasgupta, C. R. Morton, and J. O. Newton Published 25 July 2000 (8 pages) 024615 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-stage multifragmentation of 1A GeV Kr, La, and Au J. A. Hauger et al. (EOS Collaboration) Published 25 July 2000 (14 pages) 024616 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Proton and pion production in Au+Au collisions at 10.8A GeV/c J. Barrette et al. (E877 Collaboration) Published 10 July 2000 (8 pages) 024901 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Small size boundary effects on two-pion interferometry Q. H. Zhang and Sandra S. Padula Published 18 July 2000 (12 pages) 024902 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipion coherent effects in high energy heavy-ion collisions G. Z. Obrant and M. G. Ryskin Published 19 July 2000 (9 pages) 024903 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global observables and secondary interactions in central Au+Au reactions at sqrt[s]=200A GeV M. J. Bleicher, S. A. Bass, L. V. Bravina, W. Greiner, S. Soff, H. Stöcker, N. Xu, and E. E. Zabrodin Published 20 July 2000 (7 pages) 024904 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bc-meson production in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions Martin Schroedter, Robert L. Thews, and Johann Rafelski Published 20 July 2000 (8 pages) 024905 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Can doubly strange dibaryon resonances be discovered at RHIC? S. D. Paganis, G. W. Hoffmann, R. L. Ray, J.-L. Tang, T. Udagawa, and R. S. Longacre Published 21 July 2000 (12 pages) 024906 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

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Deeply bound π- states in 207Pb formed in the 208Pb(d,3He) reaction. I. Experimental method and results H. Gilg, A. Gillitzer, M. Knülle, M. Münch, W. Schott, P. Kienle, K. Itahashi, K. Oyama, R. S. Hayano, H. Geissel, N. Iwasa, G. Münzenberg, and T. Yamazaki Published 13 July 2000 (11 pages) 025201 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Deeply bound π- states in 207Pb formed in the 208Pb(d,3He) reaction. II. Deduced binding energies and widths and the pion-nucleus interaction K. Itahashi, K. Oyama, R. S. Hayano, H. Gilg, A. Gillitzer, M. Knülle, M. Münch, W. Schott, P. Kienle, H. Geissel, N. Iwasa, G. Münzenberg, S. Hirenzaki, H. Toki, and T. Yamazaki Published 13 July 2000 (12 pages) 025202 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dressing the nucleon in a dispersion approach S. Kondratyuk and O. Scholten Published 19 July 2000 (9 pages) 025203 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon-baryon coupling constants in the QCD sum rule approach Seungho Choe Published 20 July 2000 (5 pages) 025204 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wess-Zumino terms for the deformed Skyrme model C. Neves and C. Wotzasek Published 21 July 2000 (6 pages) 025205 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	K→ππ and a light scalar meson J. C. Bloch, M. A. Ivanov, T. Mizutani, C. D. Roberts, and S. M. Schmidt Published 21 July 2000 (9 pages) 025206 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	What is the structure of the Roper resonance? O. Krehl, C. Hanhart, S. Krewald, and J. Speth Published 24 July 2000 (21 pages) 025207 [View PDF (839 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton form factors in the hypercentral constituent quark model M. De Sanctis, M. M. Giannini, L. Repetto, and E. Santopinto Published 25 July 2000 (7 pages) 025208 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	QED radiative corrections to virtual Compton scattering M. Vanderhaeghen, J. M. Friedrich, D. Lhuillier, D. Marchand, L. Van Hoorebeke, and J. Van de Wiele Published 25 July 2000 (39 pages) 025501 [View PDF (774 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Thermodynamics, strange quark matter, and strange stars G. X. Peng, H. C. Chiang, B. S. Zou, P. Z. Ning, and S. J. Luo Published 30 June 2000 (7 pages) 025801 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixed quark-nucleon phase in neutron stars and nuclear symmetry energy M. Kutschera and J. Niemiec Published 30 June 2000 (9 pages) 025802 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The 11B(p→,γ)12C reaction below 100 keV J. H. Kelley, R. S. Canon, S. J. Gaff, R. M. Prior, B. J. Rice, E. C. Schreiber, M. Spraker, D. R. Tilley, E. A. Wulf, and H. R. Weller Published 6 July 2000 (6 pages) 025803 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface tension between a kaon condensate and the normal nuclear matter phase Michael B. Christiansen, Norman K. Glendenning, and Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich Published 11 July 2000 (6 pages) 025804 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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Medium-spin structure of single valence-proton nucleus 133Sb W. Urban, W. Kurcewicz, A. Korgul, P. J. Daly, P. Bhattacharyya, C. T. Zhang, J. L. Durell, M. J. Leddy, M. A. Jones, W. R. Phillips, A. G. Smith, B. J. Varley, M. Bentaleb, E. Lubkiewicz, N. Schulz, I. Ahmad, L. R. Morss, and J. Blomqvist Published 20 July 2000 (4 pages) 027301 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The πh11/2⊗νh11/2 yrast band in odd-odd 140Tb M. A. Rizzutto et al. Published 20 July 2000 (4 pages) 027302 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Two-neutron alignment and shape changes in 69As A. M. Bruce, J. Simpson, D. D. Warner, C. Baktash, C. J. Barton, M. A. Bentley, M. J. Brinkman, R. A. Cunningham, E. Dragulescu, L. Frankland, T. N. Ginter, C. J. Gross, R. C. Lemmon, B. MacDonald, C. D. O’Leary, S. M. Vincent, R. Wyss, C. H. Yu, and N. V. Zamfir Published 21 July 2000 (4 pages) 027303 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Transition in isospin behavior between light and heavy fragments emitted from excited nuclear systems E. Martin, R. Laforest, E. Ramakrishnan, D. J. Rowland, A. Ruangma, E. M. Winchester, and S. J. Yennello Published 30 June 2000 (4 pages) 027601 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low energy behavior of the 7Be(p,γ)8B reaction B. K. Jennings Published 18 July 2000 (4 pages) 027602 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inequality for approximate halo nuclear cross sections R. C. Johnson and C. J. Goebel Published 19 July 2000 (3 pages) 027603 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-loop contribution to high mass dilepton production by a quark-gluon plasma J. I. Kapusta and S. M. Wong Published 19 July 2000 (2 pages) 027901 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion charge radius from charged pion electroproduction Véronique Bernard, Norbert Kaiser, and Ulf-G. Meißner Published 10 July 2000 (3 pages) 028201 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible dibaryons with strangeness s=-5 Q. B. Li and P. N. Shen Published 11 July 2000 (3 pages) 028202 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Multiscale fluctuations in the nuclear response [Phys. Rev. C 60, 064307 (1999)] Denis Lacroix and Philippe Chomas Published 11 July 2000 (1 pages) 029901 [View PDF (11 kB) ]

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Erratum: Level structure of 94,95,96Tc at high spins and shell-model calculations [Phys. Rev. C 61, 024302 (2000)] 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 13 July 2000 (1 pages) 029902 [View PDF (11 kB) ]