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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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Relativistic mean field description for the shears band mechanism in 84Rb Hideki Madokoro, Jie Meng, Masayuki Matsuzaki, and Shuhei Yamaji Published 2 November 2000 (5 pages) 061301 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Monte Carlo mixing simulation of the decay out of superdeformed bands in 194Hg R. Krücken Published 6 November 2000 (5 pages) 061302 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Folding potential for the system 209Bi-6He P. Mohr Published 26 October 2000 (3 pages) 061601 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Strangeness enhancement from strong color fields at relativistic heavy ion energies M. Bleicher, W. Greiner, H. Stöcker, and N. Xu Published 17 November 2000 (4 pages) 061901 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Event-by-event fluctuations of the charged particle ratio from nonequilibrium transport theory M. Bleicher, S. Jeon, and V. Koch Published 20 November 2000 (3 pages) 061902 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Antiflow of kaons in relativistic heavy ion collisions Subrata Pal, C. M. Ko, Ziwei Lin, and Bin Zhang Published 20 November 2000 (5 pages) 061903 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Connection between distribution and fragmentation functions Vincenzo Barone, Alessandro Drago, and Bo-Qiang Ma Published 20 November 2000 (4 pages) 062201 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Angular dependence of the pp elastic scattering spin correlation parameter A00nn between 0.8 and 2.8 GeV: Results for 1.80–2.24 GeV C. E. Allgower et al. Published 10 November 2000 (11 pages) 064001 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion production in dp→dNπ reactions with deuteron projectiles J. Greiff et al. Published 13 November 2000 (12 pages) 064002 [View PDF (362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetric transformations in coupled-channel systems H. Leeb, S. A. Sofianos, J.-M. Sparenberg, and D. Baye Published 17 November 2000 (5 pages) 064003 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Poincaré covariant current operator and elastic electron-deuteron scattering in the front-form Hamiltonian dynamics F. M. Lev, E. Pace, and G. Salmè Published 20 November 2000 (20 pages) 064004 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	High-spin state spectroscopy of 143Dy J. R. Oliveira et al. Published 25 October 2000 (9 pages) 064301 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Energy levels in98251Cf populated in the α decay of100255Fm I. Ahmad, M. P. Carpenter, R. R. Chasman, J. P. Greene, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, P. Reiter, D. Seweryniak, A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, I. Wiedenhöver, and P. Bhattacharyya Published 25 October 2000 (5 pages) 064302 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of survival probability of superheavy nuclei G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, S. P. Ivanova, and W. Scheid Published 2 November 2000 (6 pages) 064303 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nuclear structure of 196Au: More evidence for its supersymmetric description J. Gröger, J. Jolie, R. Krücken, C. W. Beausang, M. Caprio, R. F. Casten, J. Cederkall, J. R. Cooper, F. Corminboeuf, L. Genilloud, G. Graw, C. Günther, M. de Huu, A. I. Levon, A. Metz, J. R. Novak, N. Warr, and T. Wendel Published 2 November 2000 (26 pages) 064304 [View PDF (555 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflection-asymmetric structures in 225Ra from γ-ray spectroscopy study of 229Th α decay J. Gasparro, G. Ardisson, V. Barci, and R. K. Sheline Published 9 November 2000 (17 pages) 064305 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Levels in 221Fr fed by the α decay of 225Ac G. Ardisson, J. Gasparro, V. Barci, and R. K. Sheline Published 9 November 2000 (11 pages) 064306 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Decay properties of 257No, 261Rf, and 262Rf Yu. A. Lazarev, Yu. V. Lobanov, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, V. K. Utyonkov, F. Sh. Abdullin, A. N. Polyakov, J. Rigol, I. V. Shirokovsky, Yu. S. Tsyganov, S. Iliev, V. G. Subbotin, A. M. Sukhov, G. V. Buklanov, A. N. Mezentsev, K. Subotic, K. J. Moody, N. J. Stoyer, J. F. Wild, and R. W. Lougheed Published 13 November 2000 (7 pages) 064307 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hypernuclei in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock formalism with a microscopic hyperon-nucleon force J. Cugnon, A. Lejeune, and H.-J. Schulze Published 13 November 2000 (11 pages) 064308 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anharmonic double-phonon excitations in the interacting boson model J. E. García-Ramos, J. M. Arias, and P. Van Isacker Published 14 November 2000 (13 pages) 064309 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	6He+6He molecular resonances as highly excited states of 12Be M. Ito and Y. Sakuragi Published 15 November 2000 (5 pages) 064310 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dissociation of 8He Y. Iwata, K. Ieki, A. Galonsky, J. J. Kruse, J. Wang, R. H. White-Stevens, E. Tryggestad, P. D. Zecher, F. Deák, Á. Horváth, Á. Kiss, Z. Seres, J. J. Kolata, J. von Schwarzenberg, R. E. Warner, and H. Schelin Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages) 064311 [View PDF (329 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level widths and level densities of nuclei in the 32<~A<~60 mass region inferred from fluctuation analysis of total neutron cross sections W. P. Abfalterer, R. W. Finlay, and S. M. Grimes Published 17 November 2000 (21 pages) 064312 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model description of normal parity bands in even-even heavy deformed nuclei G. Popa, J. G. Hirsch, and J. P. Draayer Published 20 November 2000 (6 pages) 064313 [View PDF (376 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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γ-ray spectroscopy of 2656Fe30 D. E. Appelbe, G. Martínez-Pinedo, R. A. Austin, J. A. Cameron, J. Chenkin, T. E. Drake, B. Djerroud, S. Flibotte, D. N. Parker, C. E. Svensson, J. C. Waddington, and D. Ward Published 20 November 2000 (5 pages) 064314 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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β decay of 98Ag: Evidence for the Gamow-Teller resonance near 100Sn Z. Hu, L. Batist, J. Agramunt, A. Algora, B. A. Brown, D. Cano-Ott, R. Collatz, A. Gadea, M. Gierlik, M. Górska, H. Grawe, M. Hellström, Z. Janas, M. Karny, R. Kirchner, F. Moroz, A. Płochocki, M. Rejmund, E. Roeckl, B. Rubio, M. Shibata, J. Szerypo, J. L. Tain, and V. Wittmann Published 20 November 2000 (9 pages) 064315 [View PDF (305 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Mixing of the f0 and a0 scalar mesons in threshold photoproduction B. Kerbikov and Frank Tabakin Published 25 October 2000 (9 pages) 064601 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous radial expansion in central heavy-ion reactions K. Morawetz, M. Płoszajczak, and V. D. Toneev Published 25 October 2000 (10 pages) 064602 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical signatures of critical behavior in small systems J. B. Elliott et al. (EOS Collaboration) Published 30 October 2000 (33 pages) 064603 [View PDF (548 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inclusive reaction 40Ca(p,p′x) at an incident energy of 392 MeV A. A. Cowley, G. F. Steyn, Y. Watanabe, T. Noro, K. Tamura, M. Kawabata, K. Hatanaka, H. Sakaguchi, H. Takeda, and M. Itoh Published 2 November 2000 (5 pages) 064604 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Multistep direct mechanism in the (p→,3He) inclusive reaction on59Co and93Nb at an incident energy of 100 MeV A. A. Cowley, G. F. Steyn, S. S. Dimitrova, P. E. Hodgson, G. J. Arendse, S. V. Förtsch, G. C. Hillhouse, J. J. Lawrie, R. Neveling, W. A. Richter, J. A. Stander, and S. M. Wyngaardt Published 2 November 2000 (6 pages) 064605 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical effects in the decay of a compound nucleus I. M. Govil, R. Singh, A. Kumar, Ajay Kumar, G. Singh, S. K. Kataria, and S. K. Datta Published 7 November 2000 (7 pages) 064606 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear isotope thermometry S. R. Souza, W. P. Tan, R. Donangelo, C. K. Gelbke, W. G. Lynch, and M. B. Tsang Published 10 November 2000 (10 pages) 064607 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlated scattering corrections to eikonal few-body models J. M. Brooke and J. A. Tostevin Published 10 November 2000 (6 pages) 064608 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rare isotope production near the neutron drip line W. A. Friedman, M. B. Tsang, D. Bazin, and W. G. Lynch Published 13 November 2000 (5 pages) 064609 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inverse scattering method for transfer reactions M. Eberspächer, K. Amos, and B. Apagyi Published 13 November 2000 (8 pages) 064610 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Squeeze-out of nuclear matter in peripheral heavy-ion collisions and momentum-dependent effective interactions A. B. Larionov, W. Cassing, C. Greiner, and U. Mosel Published 14 November 2000 (10 pages) 064611 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global analysis of proton nucleus reaction cross sections A. de Vismes, P. Roussel-Chomaz, and F. Carstoiu Published 15 November 2000 (12 pages) 064612 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Effect of nucleon exchange on projectile multifragmentation in the reactions of 28Si+112Sn and 124Sn at 30 and 50 MeV/nucleon M. Veselsky, R. W. Ibbotson, R. Laforest, E. Ramakrishnan, D. J. Rowland, A. Ruangma, E. M. Winchester, E. Martin, and S. J. Yennello Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages) 064613 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local and nonlocal equivalent potentials for p-12C scattering A. Lovell and K. Amos Published 15 November 2000 (10 pages) 064614 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Systematics of the low-energy pionic double charge exchange in nuclei J. Draeger, R. Bilger, H. Clement, M. Cröni, H. Denz, J. Gräter, R. Meier, J. Pätzold, D. Schapler, G. J. Wagner, O. Wilhelm, K. Föhl, and M. Schepkin Published 20 November 2000 (10 pages) 064615 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Quark-gluon plasma fireball Salah Hamieh, Jean Letessier, and Johann Rafelski Published 26 October 2000 (10 pages) 064901 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analyses of transverse momentum spectra in central C+C and C+Ta interactions at 4.2A GeV/c beam momentum within a collective flow model and a boundary model S. Backović, I. Pićurić, D. Salihagić, D. Krpić, and A. P. Cheplakov Published 2 November 2000 (5 pages) 064902 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Poincaré-covariant parton cascade model for ultrarelativistic heavy-ion reactions V. Börchers, J. Meyer, S. Gieseke, G. Martens, and C. C. Noack Published 9 November 2000 (14 pages) 064903 [View PDF (440 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strangeness production from πN collisions in nuclear matter K. Tsushima, A. Sibirtsev, and A. W. Thomas Published 10 November 2000 (11 pages) 064904 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum field treatment of disoriented-chiral-condensate dynamics Jørgen Randrup Published 10 November 2000 (4 pages) 064905 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Local equilibrium in heavy-ion collisions: Microscopic analysis of a central cell versus infinite matter L. V. Bravina, E. E. Zabrodin, S. A. Bass, M. Bleicher, M. Brandstetter, S. Soff, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 17 November 2000 (10 pages) 064906 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	SU(6) breaking effects in the nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors Fabio Cardarelli and Silvano Simula Published 2 November 2000 (14 pages) 065201 [View PDF (547 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition from hadronic to partonic interactions for a composite spin-1/2 model of a nucleon J. A. Tjon and S. J. Wallace Published 9 November 2000 (17 pages) 065202 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Effects of nuclear structure on parity nonconservation in atomic cesium in relativistic mean field theory P. K. Panda and B. P. Das Published 27 October 2000 (6 pages) 065501 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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Measurement of the 8Li(α,n)11B reaction and astrophysical implications Y. Mizoi, T. Fukuda, Y. Matsuyama, T. Miyachi, H. Miyatake, N. Aoi, N. Fukuda, M. Notani, Y. X. Watanabe, K. Yoneda, M. Ishihara, H. Sakurai, Y. Watanabe, and A. Yoshida Published 2 November 2000 (9 pages) 065801 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring supernova neutrino temperatures using lead perchlorate S. R. Elliott Published 10 November 2000 (7 pages) 065802 [View PDF (490 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Behavior of the 7Be(p,γ)8B astrophysical S factor near zero energy D. Baye Published 13 November 2000 (4 pages) 065803 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	E1-E2 interference in the Coulomb dissociation of 8B P. Banerjee and R. Shyam Published 20 November 2000 (7 pages) 065804 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	First observation of excited states in the neutron deficient nuclei 164Os and 166Os S. L. King et al. Published 6 November 2000 (4 pages) 067301 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ-ray decays in 232Th and the Kπ=4+ two-phonon γ vibration A. Martin, P. E. Garrett, M. Kadi, N. Warr, M. T. McEllistrem, and S. W. Yates Published 8 November 2000 (3 pages) 067302 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadrupole pairing and downturn of moment of inertia for the superdeformed band 194Hg(1) X. B. Xin, S. X. Liu, Y. A. Lei, and J. Y. Zeng Published 8 November 2000 (4 pages) 067303 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range correlations in low-lying nuclear excited states S. R. Mokhtar, G. Co’, and A. M. Lallena Published 13 November 2000 (4 pages) 067304 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Matter and charge distributions of 6He and 5,6,7,9Li within the dynamic-correlation model M. Tomaselli, M. Hjorth-Jensen, S. Fritzsche, P. Egelhof, S. R. Neumaier, M. Mutterer, T. Kühl, A. Dax, and H. Wang Published 20 November 2000 (4 pages) 067305 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	E1 transitions between spin-dipole and Gamow-Teller giant resonances V. A. Rodin and M. H. Urin Published 26 October 2000 (3 pages) 067601 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic coupled channel analyses of 800 MeV proton inelastic scattering from 26Mg S. Shim, B. C. Clark, and L. Kurth Kerr Published 15 November 2000 (4 pages) 067602 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of excitation functions and isomeric cross section ratio of the 58Ni(n,p)58Com,g reactions in the 1–20 MeV energy range K. Gul Published 21 November 2000 (4 pages) 067603 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the distribution of scalar glueball strength L. S. Celenza, Bo Huang, Huangsheng Wang, and C. M. Shakin Published 13 November 2000 (4 pages) 068201 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]