• RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
• ARTICLES
  • Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems
  • Nuclear Structure
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
  • Hadronic Physics and QCD
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
• BRIEF REPORTS
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

First evidence of excited states in the near-drip-line nucleus 126Pr and signature inversion in A≈130 nuclei D. J. Hartley, A. Galindo-Uribarri, C. Baktash, M. P. Carpenter, M. Danchev, M. Devlin, C. J. Gross, R. V. Janssens, M. Lipoglavsek, E. Padilla, S. D. Paul, D. C. Radford, W. Reviol, L. L. Riedinger, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, C.-H. Yu, and O. Zeidan Published 12 March 2001 (5 pages) 041301 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Prompt photons from relativistic heavy ion collisions J. Jalilian-Marian, K. Orginos, and I. Sarcevic Published 28 February 2001 (4 pages) 041901 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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np scattering measurements at 96 MeV J. Rahm, J. Blomgren, H. Condé, S. Dangtip, K. Elmgren, N. Olsson, T. Rönnqvist, R. Zorro, O. Jonsson, L. Nilsson, P.-U. Renberg, A. Ringbom, G. Tibell, S. Y. van der Werf, T. E. Ericson, and B. Loiseau Published 1 March 2001 (12 pages) 044001 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Toy model for pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions C. Hanhart, G. A. Miller, F. Myhrer, T. Sato, and U. van Kolck Published 2 March 2001 (7 pages) 044002 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects on p-11Li elastic scattering of core recoil and virtual 2-n halo breakup R. Crespo and I. J. Thompson Published 6 March 2001 (8 pages) 044003 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral scalar form factor and central nucleon-nucleon potential M. R. Robilotta Published 7 March 2001 (9 pages) 044004 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Momentum space integral equations for three charged particles. II. Diagonal kernels A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, E. O. Alt, and G. V. Avakov Published 13 March 2001 (15 pages) 044005 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photonuclear reactions of three-nucleon systems W. Schadow, O. Nohadani, and W. Sandhas Published 14 March 2001 (9 pages) 044006 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parity-violating electron-deuteron scattering L. Diaconescu, R. Schiavilla, and U. van Kolck Published 14 March 2001 (11 pages) 044007 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon interaction in the Skyrme model Isabela P. Cavalcante and Manoel R. Robilotta Published 15 March 2001 (10 pages) 044008 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Forbidden states and the three-body bound state collapse G. Pantis, I. E. Lagaris, and S. A. Sofianos Published 15 March 2001 (7 pages) 044009 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral 3π-exchange NN potentials: Results for dominant next-to-leading-order contributions N. Kaiser Published 16 March 2001 (8 pages) 044010 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differential cross sections measurement for the pp→dπ+ reaction at 850 MeV/c M. Betigeri et al. Published 19 March 2001 (5 pages) 044011 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four-baryon point ΛN→NN interaction for the nonmesonic weak decay of the hypernuclei Λ4H,Λ4He,Λ5He, and Λ12C Jung-Hwan Jun Published 21 March 2001 (15 pages) 044012 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton-deuteron elastic scattering at low energies C. R. Brune, W. H. Geist, H. J. Karwowski, E. J. Ludwig, K. D. Veal, M. H. Wood, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, and M. Viviani Published 21 March 2001 (8 pages) 044013 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymptotic properties of Hulthén model form factors on the light front B. C. Tiburzi and G. A. Miller Published 23 March 2001 (12 pages) 044014 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Entropy of thermally excited particles in nuclei M. Guttormsen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, E. Melby, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, and S. Siem Published 28 February 2001 (16 pages) 044301 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pygmy and giant dipole resonances in neutron-rich nuclei within the quasiparticle representation of the phonon damping model Nguyen Dinh Dang, Vuong Kim Au, Toshio Suzuki, and Akito Arima Published 1 March 2001 (10 pages) 044302 [View PDF (395 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of exotic nuclei and superheavy elements in a relativistic shell model M. Rashdan Published 2 March 2001 (12 pages) 044303 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Proton and α radioactivity of 185Bi G. L. Poli, C. N. Davids, P. J. Woods, D. Seweryniak, M. P. Carpenter, J. A. Cizewski, T. Davinson, A. Heinz, R. V. Janssens, C. J. Lister, J. J. Ressler, A. A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, and W. B. Walters Published 2 March 2001 (3 pages) 044304 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	“Beat” patterns for the odd-even staggering in octupole bands from a quadrupole-octupole Hamiltonian Nikolay Minkov, S. B. Drenska, P. P. Raychev, R. P. Roussev, and Dennis Bonatsos Published 5 March 2001 (12 pages) 044305 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spherical-deformed shape coexistence for the pf shell in the nuclear shell model Takahiro Mizusaki, Takaharu Otsuka, Michio Honma, and B. Alex Brown Published 5 March 2001 (6 pages) 044306 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi superallowed β+ decays and T=1 ground states of heavy odd-odd N=Z nuclei J. Garcés Narro et al. Published 6 March 2001 (9 pages) 044307 [View PDF (532 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic study of the 168Er multiphonon band structure J. B. Gupta, J. H. Hamilton, and A. V. Ramayya Published 6 March 2001 (8 pages) 044308 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal and electromagnetic properties of 166Er and 167Er E. Melby, M. Guttormsen, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, S. Siem, and A. Voinov Published 6 March 2001 (10 pages) 044309 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing with polarization effects in low-density neutron matter H.-J. Schulze, A. Polls, and A. Ramos Published 12 March 2001 (7 pages) 044310 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing correlations in high-K bands D. Almehed, S. Frauendorf, and F. Dönau Published 14 March 2001 (12 pages) 044311 [View PDF (377 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of the cold α and 10Be ternary fission yields of 252Cf in spheroidal coordinates D. S. Delion, A. Florescu, and A. Săndulescu Published 14 March 2001 (10 pages) 044312 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ-ray strength function and pygmy resonance in rare earth nuclei A. Voinov, M. Guttormsen, E. Melby, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, and S. Siem Published 14 March 2001 (7 pages) 044313 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperfine anomalies of 95Tc-96Tc and 106Agm-110Agm using brute-force nuclear magnetic resonance on oriented nuclei S. Ohya, H. Sato, T. Izumikawa, J. Goto, S. Muto, and K. Nishimura Published 16 March 2001 (4 pages) 044314 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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α decay studies of the nuclides 195Rn and 196Rn H. Kettunen, J. Uusitalo, M. Leino, P. Jones, K. Eskola, P. T. Greenlees, K. Helariutta, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kankaanpää, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Muikku, P. Nieminen, and P. Rahkila Published 16 March 2001 (6 pages) 044315 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spectroscopy of 34,35Si by β decay: sd-fp shell gap and single-particle states S. Nummela, P. Baumann, E. Caurier, P. Dessagne, A. Jokinen, A. Knipper, G. Le Scornet, C. Miehé, F. Nowacki, M. Oinonen, Z. Radivojevic, M. Ramdhane, G. Walter, and J. Äystö Published 19 March 2001 (11 pages) 044316 [View PDF (411 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of identical superdeformed bands with ΔI=4 bifurcation Yu-xin Liu and Dong-feng Gao Published 19 March 2001 (5 pages) 044317 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of deformation in the nonmesonic decay of light hypernuclei K. Hagino and A. Parreño Published 19 March 2001 (6 pages) 044318 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-body density matrix, natural orbits, and quasihole states in 16O and 40Ca A. Fabrocini and G. Co’ Published 21 March 2001 (14 pages) 044319 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified Zimányi-Moszkowski model for finite nuclei Guo Hua, Y. X. Liu, and S. Yang Published 21 March 2001 (7 pages) 044320 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing properties in relativistic mean field models obtained from effective field theory M. Del Estal, M. Centelles, X. Viñas, and S. K. Patra Published 22 March 2001 (14 pages) 044321 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generator coordinate method combined with exact triaxial spin projection: Application to the single-j shell model K. Enami, K. Tanabe, and N. Yoshinaga Published 22 March 2001 (13 pages) 044322 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Removal of spurious center of mass effects in nuclear many-body systems D. R. Bes and O. Civitarese Published 22 March 2001 (10 pages) 044323 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonances in the Hartree-Fock BCS theory A. T. Kruppa, P. H. Heenen, and R. J. Liotta Published 23 March 2001 (8 pages) 044324 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	T=0 and T=1 pairing in rotational states of the N=Z nucleus 80Zr Alan L. Goodman Published 23 March 2001 (14 pages) 044325 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Effects of the final state interaction in the electrodisintegration of the deuteron at intermediate and high energies C. Ciofi degli Atti, L. P. Kaptari, and D. Treleani Published 6 March 2001 (10 pages) 044601 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Final state interaction in exclusive (e,e′NN) reactions D. Knödler and H. Müther Published 6 March 2001 (6 pages) 044602 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Applicability of the orientation average formula in heavy-ion fusion reactions of deformed nuclei Tamanna Rumin, Kouichi Hagino, and Noboru Takigawa Published 12 March 2001 (4 pages) 044603 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of transfer-to-continuum and eikonal models of projectile fragmentation reactions A. Bonaccorso and G. F. Bertsch Published 13 March 2001 (10 pages) 044604 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Liquid-gas phase transitions in a multicomponent nuclear system with Coulomb and surface effects S. J. Lee and A. Z. Mekjian Published 16 March 2001 (16 pages) 044605 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Approach for the three-body force effect in a high-energy approximation: Application to hadron-deuteron elastic scattering Mohamed A. Hassan, Tarek N. El-Din Salama, and Zeinab S. Hassan Published 19 March 2001 (14 pages) 044606 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of superheavy elements in cold fusion reactions Robert Smolańczuk Published 21 March 2001 (8 pages) 044607 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of neutron total cross sections up to 560 MeV W. P. Abfalterer, F. B. Bateman, F. S. Dietrich, R. W. Finlay, R. C. Haight, and G. L. Morgan Published 23 March 2001 (19 pages) 044608 [View PDF (502 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Distorted wave impulse approximation analysis for spin observables in nucleon quasielastic scattering and enhancement of the spin longitudinal response Ken Kawahigashi, Kimiaki Nishida, Atsushi Itabashi, and Munetake Ichimura Published 23 March 2001 (22 pages) 044609 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of nuclear deformation on fusion probability in the reactions of 82Se+natCe and 76Ge+150Nd near the Coulomb barrier K. Nishio, H. Ikezoe, S. Mitsuoka, K. Satou, and S. C. Jeong Published 23 March 2001 (6 pages) 044610 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy 6He+p reactions in a microscopic multicluster model K. Arai, P. Descouvemont, and D. Baye Published 23 March 2001 (9 pages) 044611 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Second cluster integral and excluded volume effects for the pion gas A. Kostyuk, M. Gorenstein, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 6 March 2001 (13 pages) 044901 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scenario for ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. II. Geometry of quantum states at the earliest stage A. Makhlin Published 7 March 2001 (16 pages) 044902 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scenario for ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. III. Gluons in the expanding geometry A. Makhlin Published 7 March 2001 (18 pages) 044903 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scenario for ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. IV. Effective quark mass at the early stage A. Makhlin and E. Surdutovich Published 7 March 2001 (20 pages) 044904 [View PDF (380 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strange particle production from a hadron gas in the chiral mean field formalism Nirvikar Prasad and C. P. Singh Published 7 March 2001 (6 pages) 044905 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charmonium absorption by nucleons A. Sibirtsev, K. Tsushima, and A. W. Thomas Published 19 March 2001 (13 pages) 044906 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic N-body problem in a separable two-body basis Cheuk-Yin Wong and Horace W. Crater Published 23 March 2001 (18 pages) 044907 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Towards an understanding of isospin violation in pion-nucleon scattering Nadia Fettes and Ulf-G. Meißner Published 15 March 2001 (10 pages) 045201 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anti-kaon induced reactions on the nucleon M. Th. Keil, G. Penner, and U. Mosel Published 15 March 2001 (9 pages) 045202 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological susceptibility at zero temperature and finite temperature in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model K. Fukushima, K. Ohnishi, and K. Ohta Published 19 March 2001 (9 pages) 045203 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gluonic correlations in matter Su Houng Lee and Ismail Zahed Published 22 March 2001 (4 pages) 045204 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Atomic effects in astrophysical nuclear reactions Theodore E. Liolios Published 23 February 2001 (8 pages) 045801 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Pygmy dipole resonances in the relativistic random phase approximation D. Vretenar, N. Paar, P. Ring, and G. A. Lalazissis Published 28 February 2001 (4 pages) 047301 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the half-life of 37Ar by mass spectrometry Paul R. Renne and Eric B. Norman Published 28 February 2001 (3 pages) 047302 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	12O ground-state decay by 2He emission F. C. Barker Published 2 March 2001 (2 pages) 047303 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal anharmonicity and vibrational anomaly in nuclei P. Cejnar, J. Jolie, and J. Kern Published 6 March 2001 (4 pages) 047304 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Configuration dependence of moments of inertia in the odd-A nucleus from BCS theory Shan-Gui Zhou, Chunkai Zheng, and Jimin Hu Published 12 March 2001 (4 pages) 047305 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	g factors and the interplay of collective and single-particle degrees of freedom in superdeformed mass-190 nuclei Yang Sun, Jing-ye Zhang, and Mike Guidry Published 19 March 2001 (4 pages) 047306 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Half-lives of Au, Hg, and Pb isotopes from photoactivation K. Lindenberg, F. Neumann, D. Galaviz, T. Hartmann, P. Mohr, K. Vogt, S. Volz, and A. Zilges Published 19 March 2001 (4 pages) 047307 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Shape coexistence on the boundary of the “island of inversion”: Exotic beam spectroscopy of 34Al B. V. Pritychenko, T. Glasmacher, B. A. Brown, P. D. Cottle, R. W. Ibbotson, K. W. Kemper, and H. Scheit Published 19 March 2001 (2 pages) 047308 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level densities in hot 112Sn, 131La, and 134Ce nuclei from giant dipole resonance γ decay I. Diószegi, I. Mazumdar, N. P. Shaw, and P. Paul Published 1 March 2001 (4 pages) 047601 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Higher order effects in lepton-pair production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions” U. Eichmann Published 5 March 2001 (1 pages) 049801 [View PDF (16 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to ‘Comment on “Higher order effects in lepton-pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions” ’ M. C. Güçlü Published 5 March 2001 (1 pages) 049802 [View PDF (24 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Erratum: High-resolution neutron capture and transmission measurements, and the stellar neutron-capture cross section of 88Sr [Phys. Rev. C 62, 055803 (2000)] P. E. Koehler, R. R. Winters, K. H. Guber, T. Rauscher, J. A. Harvey, S. Raman, R. R. Spencer, J. C. Blackmon, D. C. Larson, D. W. Bardayan, and T. A. Lewis Published 2 March 2001 (4 pages) 049901 [View PDF (27 kB) ]

•	Erratum: ΔI=1 staggering in octupole bands of light actinides: “Beat” patterns [Phys. Rev. C 62, 024301 (2000)] Dennis Bonatsos, C. Daskaloyannis, S. B. Drenska, N. Karoussos, N. Minkov, P. P. Raychev, and R. P. Roussev Published 19 March 2001 (1 pages) 049902 [View PDF (18 kB) ]