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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
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Core polarization in the light of new experimental g factors of fp shell, N=28, isotones K.-H. Speidel, R. Ernst, O. Kenn, J. Gerber, P. Maier-Komor, N. Benczer-Koller, G. Kumbartzki, L. Zamick, M. S. Fayache, and Y. Y. Sharon Published 28 July 2000 (4 pages) 031301 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Time-odd mean fields in the rotating frame: Microscopic nature of nuclear magnetism A. V. Afanasjev and P. Ring Published 7 August 2000 (5 pages) 031302 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Normal and anomalous K-hindered decays from four-quasiparticle isomers in 176Lu T. R. McGoram, G. D. Dracoulis, T. Kibédi, A. P. Byrne, R. A. Bark, A. M. Baxter, and S. M. Mullins Published 14 August 2000 (5 pages) 031303 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Highly deformed rotational structures in 136Pm J. Pfohl, R. W. Laird, M. A. Riley, F. G. Kondev, D. E. Archer, T. B. Brown, R. M. Clark, M. Devlin, P. Fallon, D. J. Hartley, I. M. Hibbert, D. T. Joss, D. R. LaFosse, P. J. Nolan, N. J. O’Brien, E. S. Paul, D. G. Sarantites, R. K. Sheline, S. L. Shepherd, J. Simpson, R. Wadsworth, Y. Sun, A. V. Afanasjev, and I. Ragnarsson Published 23 August 2000 (5 pages) 031304 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of projectile ground state spin on fission fragment anisotropies in 10B, 11B+232Th reactions B. K. Nayak, R. G. Thomas, R. K. Choudhury, A. Saxena, P. K. Sahu, S. S. Kapoor, Raghav Varma, and D. Umakanth Published 15 August 2000 (5 pages) 031601 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Low energy onset of nuclear shadowing in photoabsorption T. Falter, S. Leupold, and U. Mosel Published 17 August 2000 (4 pages) 031602 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron-proton asymmetry of the midvelocity material in an intermediate-energy heavy-ion collision L. G. Sobotka, R. J. Charity, D. K. Agnihotri, W. Gawlikowicz, T. X. Liu, W. Lynch, U. Schröder, J. Tõke, and H. S. Xu Published 21 August 2000 (5 pages) 031603 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermal expansion effects in the 8 GeV/c π-+197Au reaction T. Lefort, L. Beaulieu, A. Botvina, D. Durand, K. Kwiatkowski, W.-c. Hsi, L. Pienkowski, H. Breuer, R. G. Korteling, R. Laforest, E. Martin, E. Ramakrishnan, D. Rowland, A. Ruangma, V. E. Viola, E. Winchester, and S. J. Yennello Published 21 August 2000 (5 pages) 031604 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Choice of colliding beams to study deformation effects in relativistic heavy ion collisions S. Das Gupta and C. Gale Published 23 August 2000 (2 pages) 031901 [View PDF (33 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Double-pion production induced by deuteron-proton collisions in the incident deuteron momentum range 2.1–3.8 GeV/c Toru Tsuboyama, Fuminori Sai, Nobu Katayama, Takashi Kishida, and Sukeyasu Steven Yamamoto Published 1 August 2000 (9 pages) 034001 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral quark model of the NN system within a Lippmann-Schwinger resonating group method D. R. Entem, F. Fernández, and A. Valcarce Published 7 August 2000 (18 pages) 034002 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field transformations and simple models illustrating the impossibility of measuring off-shell effects H. W. Fearing and S. Scherer Published 11 August 2000 (11 pages) 034003 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Realistic ghost state:  Pauli forbidden state from rigorous solution of the α particle H. Kamada, S. Oryu, and A. Nogga Published 16 August 2000 (5 pages) 034004 [View PDF (482 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon elastic scattering to 3 GeV Richard A. Arndt, Igor I. Strakovsky, and Ron L. Workman Published 21 August 2000 (16 pages) 034005 [View PDF (308 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Important role of the spin-orbit interaction in forming the 1/2+ orbital structure in Be isotopes N. Itagaki, S. Okabe, and K. Ikeda Published 26 July 2000 (8 pages) 034301 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic nuclear structure effects in (e,e′p→) J. M. Udías and Javier R. Vignote Published 3 August 2000 (13 pages) 034302 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for very long-lived isomers in the hafnium-tungsten region Zs. Podolyák, P. M. Walker, D. M. Cullen, G. D. Dracoulis, P. Fallon, B. Fairchild, K. Hauschild, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. P. McNabb, A. Savelius, D. Ward, and C. Wheldon Published 3 August 2000 (10 pages) 034303 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-nucleon spectral function in infinite nuclear matter Omar Benhar and Adelchi Fabrocini Published 11 August 2000 (8 pages) 034304 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	s-wave halo effect and the Coulomb barrier top effect on the mirror state of a halo Shigeyoshi Aoyama Published 14 August 2000 (7 pages) 034305 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	B(E2;0g.s.+→21+) in 18Ne and isospin purity in A=18 nuclei L. A. Riley, P. D. Cottle, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, K. W. Kemper, B. V. Pritychenko, and H. Scheit Published 14 August 2000 (6 pages) 034306 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse electron scattering form factors at low momentum transfer: Sensitivity to in-medium modifications of vector mesons? P. von Neumann-Cosel, F. Neumeyer, B. Reitz, A. Richter, and J. Wambach Published 15 August 2000 (6 pages) 034307 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crossing the dripline to 11N using elastic resonance scattering K. Markenroth et al. Published 16 August 2000 (12 pages) 034308 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-spin states in the 94Nb nucleus N. Mărginean, D. Bucurescu, Ghe. Căta-Danil, I. Căta-Danil, M. Ivaşcu, and C. A. Ur Published 16 August 2000 (5 pages) 034309 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	U(1/2) supersymmetry without dynamical symmetry R. V. Jolos and P. von Brentano Published 17 August 2000 (7 pages) 034310 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of strange hadronic matter in bulk and in finite systems Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich and Avraham Gal Published 18 August 2000 (8 pages) 034311 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and decay of a three-quasiparticle isomer in 153Eu J. F. Smith, S. J. Dorning, B. J. Varley, W. R. Phillips, Ch-. Vieu, J. S. Dionisio, C. Schuck, and M. Pautrat Published 21 August 2000 (9 pages) 034312 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lifetimes of negative parity states in 168Er L. Genilloud, J. Jolie, H. G. Börner, H. Lehmann, F. Bečvář, M. Krtička, N. V. Zamfir, and R. F. Casten Published 21 August 2000 (8 pages) 034313 [View PDF (403 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	BCS theory of q-deformed nucleon pairs: qBCS S. Shelly Sharma and N. K. Sharma Published 21 August 2000 (4 pages) 034314 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Smooth band termination in odd mass La nuclei: 127,129,131La R. Wadsworth et al. Published 21 August 2000 (7 pages) 034315 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-spin excitations in 158,159,160Hf from recoil-decay tagging K. Y. Ding, J. A. Cizewski, D. Seweryniak, H. Amro, M. P. Carpenter, C. N. Davids, N. Fotiades, R. V. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, D. Nisius, P. Reiter, J. Uusitalo, I. Wiedenhöver, and A. O. Macchiavelli Published 21 August 2000 (14 pages) 034316 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Preservation of orientation of fusion-evaporation reaction residues recoiling into vacuum in a level mixing spectroscopy experiment K. Vyvey, G. Neyens, N. Coulier, R. Coussement, G. Georgiev, S. Ternier, S. Teughels, A. Lépine-Szily, and D. L. Balabanski Published 22 August 2000 (10 pages) 034317 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-body density matrix and momentum distribution in s-p and s-d shell nuclei Ch. C. Moustakidis and S. E. Massen Published 22 August 2000 (7 pages) 034318 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of light S=-2 nuclei and hyperon mixing Taiichi Yamada and Choki Nakamoto Published 23 August 2000 (17 pages) 034319 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Reaction mechanisms and multifragmentation processes in 64Zn+58Ni at 35A–79A MeV R. Wada et al. (The GANIL E-160 Collaboration) Published 26 July 2000 (19 pages) 034601 [View PDF (420 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	R ratios and moments of nuclear structure functions A. S. Rinat and M. F. Taragin Published 27 July 2000 (5 pages) 034602 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reaction mechanism populating 12C+16O breakup states in 28Si N. Curtis, M. Shawcross, W. N. Catford, B. R. Fulton, N. M. Clarke, S. J. Hall, J. T. Murgatroyd, S. P. Chappell, R. L. Cowin, G. Dillon, and D. L. Watson Published 1 August 2000 (10 pages) 034603 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precompound Monte-Carlo model for cluster induced reactions M. Blann and M. B. Chadwick Published 2 August 2000 (5 pages) 034604 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Preserving the gauge invariance of meson production currents in the presence of explicit final-state interactions Helmut Haberzettl Published 8 August 2000 (5 pages) 034605 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite formation time effects in quasielastic (e,e′) scattering on nuclear targets Mikhail A. Braun, Claudio Ciofi degli Atti, and Daniele Treleani Published 11 August 2000 (12 pages) 034606 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Light particle probes of expansion and temperature evolution: Coalescence model analyses of heavy ion collisions at 47A MeV K. Hagel, R. Wada, J. Cibor, M. Lunardon, N. Marie, R. Alfaro, W. Shen, B. Xiao, Y. Zhao, Z. Majka, J. Li, P. Staszel, B.-A. Li, M. Murray, T. Keutgen, A. Bonasera, and J. B. Natowitz Published 14 August 2000 (19 pages) 034607 [View PDF (617 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scatterings of complex nuclei in the Glauber model B. Abu-Ibrahim and Y. Suzuki Published 21 August 2000 (12 pages) 034608 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Unusual bound states of quark matter within the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model I. N. Mishustin, L. M. Satarov, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 14 August 2000 (13 pages) 034901 [View PDF (488 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is the analysis of flow at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron reliable? Nicolas Borghini, Phuong Mai Dinh, and Jean-Yves Ollitrault Published 14 August 2000 (11 pages) 034902 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model for J/ψ absorption in hadronic matter Ziwei Lin and C. M. Ko Published 21 August 2000 (11 pages) 034903 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	In-medium meson propagators in relativistic nonlinear models J. C. Caillon and J. Labarsouque Published 2 August 2000 (6 pages) 035201 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical line for H superfluidity in strange quark matter? Robert D. Pisarski Published 8 August 2000 (11 pages) 035202 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase transition in warm nuclear matter Guo Hua, Liu Bo, and M. Di Toro Published 14 August 2000 (8 pages) 035203 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear shadowing and coherence length for longitudinal and transverse photons Boris Kopeliovich, Jörg Raufeisen, and Alexander Tarasov Published 21 August 2000 (13 pages) 035204 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Weak interaction rates of neutron-rich nuclei and the r-process nucleosynthesis I. N. Borzov and S. Goriely Published 2 August 2000 (14 pages) 035501 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Realistic nuclear matrix elements for the lepton-flavor violating μ-→e- conversion in 27Al and 48Ti T. Siiskonen, J. Suhonen, and T. S. Kosmas Published 8 August 2000 (7 pages) 035502 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Hyperon-hyperon interactions and properties of neutron star matter I. Vidaña, A. Polls, A. Ramos, L. Engvik, and M. Hjorth-Jensen Published 27 July 2000 (8 pages) 035801 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	μ and τ neutrino thermalization and production in supernovae: Processes and time scales Todd A. Thompson, Adam Burrows, and Jorge E. Horvath Published 11 August 2000 (18 pages) 035802 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kaon condensation in proto-neutron star matter José A. Pons, Sanjay Reddy, Paul J. Ellis, Madappa Prakash, and James M. Lattimer Published 16 August 2000 (20 pages) 035803 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Conversion coefficients and band assignments in 180Ta G. D. Dracoulis, T. Kibédi, A. P. Byrne, R. A. Bark, and A. M. Baxter Published 22 August 2000 (4 pages) 037301 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First order optical potentials and 25 to 40 MeV proton elastic scattering P. K. Deb, K. Amos, and S. Karataglidis Published 26 July 2000 (4 pages) 037601 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absorption matrix for fusion in coupled reaction channel calculations S. V. Sastry Published 8 August 2000 (4 pages) 037602 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron-neutron intensity interferometry in E/A=45 MeV 58Ni+27Al, natNi, and 197Au reactions R. Ghetti et al. (CHIC Collaboration) Published 14 August 2000 (4 pages) 037603 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization group analysis of ρ-meson properties at finite density Youngman Kim and Hyun Kyu Lee Published 27 July 2000 (4 pages) 037901 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Maximum fluctuations of charged particle densities in narrow pseudorapidity space at ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions Dipak Ghosh, Argha Deb, Jayita Ghosh, Rini Chattopadhyay, Madhumita Lahiri, Abdul Kayum Jafri, Sunil Das, and Md. Azizar Rahman Published 2 August 2000 (3 pages) 037902 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Causality in an excluded volume model Nirvikar Prasad, K. K. Singh, and C. P. Singh Published 23 August 2000 (3 pages) 037903 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of P13(1720) in KΣ photoproduction T. Mart Published 26 July 2000 (4 pages) 038201 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Nucleon form factors and a nonpointlike diquark” B. Blankleider and A. N. Kvinikhidze Published 8 August 2000 (2 pages) 039801 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Supercooling in viscous hydrodynamics for QCD phase transition [Phys. Rev. C 59, 914 (1999)] P. Shukla, S. K. Gupta, and A. K. Mohanty Published 1 August 2000 (1 pages) 039901 [View PDF (17 kB) ]