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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Empirical analysis for differential cross section measurements of p→p→→ppπ0 G. Ramachandran and P. N. Deepak Published 9 April 2001 (5 pages) 051001 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutrinoless double β decay within the self-consistent renormalized quasiparticle random phase approximation and inclusion of induced nucleon currents A. Bobyk, W. A. Kamiński, and F. Šimkovic Published 2 April 2001 (5 pages) 051301 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Evidence for chiral symmetry breaking in 136Pm and 138Eu A. A. Hecht, C. W. Beausang, K. E. Zyromski, D. L. Balabanski, C. J. Barton, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, J. R. Cooper, D. J. Hartley, R. Krücken, D. Meyer, H. Newman, J. R. Novak, E. S. Paul, N. Pietralla, A. Wolf, N. V. Zamfir, Jing-Ye Zhang, and F. Dönau Published 12 April 2001 (4 pages) 051302 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Corrections to the one-photon approximation in the 0+→2+ transition of 12C P. Guèye, M. Bernheim, J. F. Danel, J. E. Ducret, L. Lakéhal-Ayat, J. M. Le Goff, A. Magnon, C. Marchand, J. Morgenstern, J. Marroncle, P. Vernin, A. Zghiche-Lakéhal-Ayat, V. Breton, S. Frullani, F. Garibaldi, F. Ghio, M. Jodice, Z. E. Meziani, E. Offermann, and M. Traini Published 18 April 2001 (3 pages) 051303 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coulomb and nuclear breakup effects in the single neutron removal reaction 197Au(17C,16Cγ)X V. Maddalena and R. Shyam Published 9 April 2001 (5 pages) 051601 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Polarization phenomena in the reaction p+α→p+π0+α Michail P. Rekalo and Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson Published 9 April 2001 (5 pages) 054001 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiative α-capture cross sections from realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions and variational Monte Carlo wave functions Kenneth M. Nollett Published 11 April 2001 (13 pages) 054002 [View PDF (792 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New forms of deuteron equations and wave function representations I. Fachruddin, Ch. Elster, and W. Glöckle Published 18 April 2001 (14 pages) 054003 [View PDF (1386 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Level density parameter in A∼108–204 nuclei at medium excitation energy Bency John, R. K. Choudhury, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena, and D. C. Biswas Published 29 March 2001 (6 pages) 054301 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identical transitions in the strongly deformed 99Sr and 100Sr G. Lhersonneau, B. Pfeiffer, H. Gabelmann, and K.-L. Kratz The ISOLDE Collaboration Published 2 April 2001 (13 pages) 054302 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SU(3) density matrix theory Ts. Dankova and G. Rosensteel Published 4 April 2001 (18 pages) 054303 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Proton versus neutron excitations in the high-spin spectrum of 102Cd K. P. Lieb, D. Kast, A. Jungclaus, I. P. Johnstone, G. de Angelis, C. Fahlander, M. de Poli, P. G. Bizzeti, A. Dewald, R. Peusquens, H. Tiesler, M. Górska, and H. Grawe Published 9 April 2001 (6 pages) 054304 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital and spin magnetic quadrupole response in heavy nuclei J. Kvasil, N. Lo Iudice, V. O. Nesterenko, A. Macková, and P. Alexa Published 10 April 2001 (11 pages) 054305 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Octupole correlations in the transitional actinides and the spdf interacting boson model N. V. Zamfir and Dimitri Kusnezov Published 10 April 2001 (9 pages) 054306 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-spin structures and alignment properties in 126Ce A. N. Wilson, R. Wadsworth, J. F. Smith, S. J. Freeman, M. J. Leddy, C. J. Chiara, D. B. Fossan, D. R. LaFosse, K. Starosta, M. Devlin, D. G. Sarantites, J. N. Wilson, M. P. Carpenter, C. N. Davids, R. V. Janssens, D. Seweryniak, and R. Wyss Published 17 April 2001 (11 pages) 054307 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective spectra of α-like giant trinuclear molecules Ş. Mişicu, P. O. Hess, and W. Greiner Published 17 April 2001 (7 pages) 054308 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many-body perturbation calculation of spherical nuclei with a separable monopole interaction P. Stevenson, M. R. Strayer, and J. Rikovska Stone Published 18 April 2001 (11 pages) 054309 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radius of 8B halo from the asymptotic normalization coefficient F. Carstoiu, L. Trache, C. A. Gagliardi, R. E. Tribble, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov Published 19 April 2001 (6 pages) 054310 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of deformation on the twist and other dipole modes Shadow J. Robinson and Larry Zamick Published 19 April 2001 (5 pages) 054311 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interacting boson model for exotic nuclei at low isospin O. Juillet, P. Van Isacker, and D. D. Warner Published 20 April 2001 (5 pages) 054312 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of 6He Coulomb breakup in the complex scaling method Takayuki Myo, Kiyoshi Katō, Shigeyoshi Aoyama, and Kiyomi Ikeda Published 20 April 2001 (10 pages) 054313 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of superdeformed identical bands of odd-A nuclei in the A∼190 mass region Yu-xin Liu, Di Sun, Jia-jun Wang, and En-guang Zhao Published 20 April 2001 (5 pages) 054314 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conversion electron measurements of isomeric transitions in 130,132Te and 134Xe J. Genevey, J. A. Pinston, C. Foin, M. Rejmund, R. F. Casten, H. Faust, and S. Oberstedt Published 20 April 2001 (6 pages) 054315 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Coherent ρ0 production in the (p,p′) reaction Swapan Das and B. K. Jain Published 29 March 2001 (5 pages) 054601 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Collectivity against nucleon transfer in sub-barrier fusion of 12C+194,198Pt A. Shrivastava, S. Kailas, A. Chatterjee, A. Navin, A. M. Samant, P. Singh, S. Santra, K. Mahata, B. S. Tomar, and G. Pollarolo Published 2 April 2001 (9 pages) 054602 [View PDF (404 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Momentum dependent interactions and the asymmetry of the reaction: Multifragmentation as an example Jaivir Singh, Suneel Kumar, and Rajeev K. Puri Published 4 April 2001 (8 pages) 054603 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Liquid-gas phase transition in nuclei in the relativistic Thomas-Fermi theory Tapas Sil, B. K. Agrawal, J. N. De, and S. K. Samaddar Published 9 April 2001 (9 pages) 054604 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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β-level mixing resonance: A method to study the spin alignment and spin polarization of projectile fragments N. Coulier, G. Neyens, D. L. Balabanski, D. Borremans, R. Coussement, J. M. Daugas, G. Georgiev, S. Teughels, and K. Vyvey Published 10 April 2001 (7 pages) 054605 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of the cross section asymmetry of the reaction γp→π°p in the resonance energy region Eγ=0.5–1.1 GeV F. V. Adamian, A. Yu. Buniatian, G. S. Frangulian, P. I. Galumian, V. H. Grabski, A. V. Hairapetian, H. H. Hakopian, V. K. Hoktanian, J. V. Manukian, A. M. Sirunian, A. H. Vartapetian, H. H. Vartapetian, V. G. Volchinsky, R. A. Arndt, I. I. Strakovsky, and R. L. Workman Published 11 April 2001 (8 pages) 054606 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of the 12C+12C reaction using a new type of coupling potential I. Boztosun and W. D. Rae Published 16 April 2001 (8 pages) 054607 [View PDF (713 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Core excitation in Coulomb breakup reactions R. Shyam and P. Danielewicz Published 18 April 2001 (9 pages) 054608 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Normalization of the (6He,4He) cross sections in the distorted-wave Born approximation N. K. Timofeyuk Published 18 April 2001 (11 pages) 054609 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional Langevin calculations of fission fragment mass-energy distribution from excited compound nuclei A. V. Karpov, P. N. Nadtochy, D. V. Vanin, and G. D. Adeev Published 18 April 2001 (15 pages) 054610 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sub-barrier fusion of 37Cl+70,72,73,74,76Ge E. Martínez-Quiroz, E. F. Aguilera, J. J. Kolata, and M. Zahar Published 19 April 2001 (9 pages) 054611 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Isospin effect on the process of multifragmentation and dissipation at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions Jian-Ye Liu, Yan-Fang Yang, Wei Zuo, Shun-Jin Wang, Qiang Zhao, Wen-Jun Guo, and Bo Chen Published 20 April 2001 (8 pages) 054612 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	(Anti)proton and pion source sizes and phase space densities in heavy ion collisions Michael Murray and Barbara Holzer Published 5 April 2001 (5 pages) 054901 [View PDF (455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jet quenching and azimuthal anisotropy of large pT spectra in noncentral high-energy heavy-ion collisions Xin-Nian Wang Published 12 April 2001 (9 pages) 054902 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for strange quark matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions T. A. Armstrong et al. Published 18 April 2001 (18 pages) 054903 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum corrections for pion correlations involving resonance decays Sen Cheng and Scott Pratt Published 18 April 2001 (9 pages) 054904 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced J/ψ production in deconfined quark matter Robert L. Thews, Martin Schroedter, and Johann Rafelski Published 23 April 2001 (5 pages) 054905 [View PDF (324 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New method for measuring azimuthal distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions Nicolas Borghini, Phuong Mai Dinh, and Jean-Yves Ollitrault Published 23 April 2001 (26 pages) 054906 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signatures of thermal dilepton radiation at ultrarelativistic energies Ralf Rapp Published 23 April 2001 (13 pages) 054907 [View PDF (707 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Dynamical study of the Δ excitation in N(e,e′π) reactions T. Sato and T.-S. H. Lee Published 27 March 2001 (13 pages) 055201 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral symmetry and quantum hadrodynamics G. Chanfray, M. Ericson, and P. A. Guichon Published 4 April 2001 (10 pages) 055202 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark mean field model with density dependent couplings for finite nuclei Y. H. Tan, H. Shen, and P. Z. Ning Published 18 April 2001 (7 pages) 055203 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Renormalization of the weak hadronic current in the nuclear medium T. Siiskonen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and J. Suhonen Published 12 April 2001 (12 pages) 055501 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic trapping of ultracold neutrons C. R. Brome, J. S. Butterworth, S. N. Dzhosyuk, C. E. Mattoni, D. N. McKinsey, J. M. Doyle, P. R. Huffman, M. S. Dewey, F. E. Wietfeldt, R. Golub, K. Habicht, G. L. Greene, S. K. Lamoreaux, and K. J. Coakley Published 17 April 2001 (15 pages) 055502 [View PDF (656 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ββ2ν decay in 48Ca M. T. Capilla, B. Desplanques, and S. Noguera Published 23 April 2001 (10 pages) 055503 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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“Trojan horse” method applied to 2H(6Li,α)4He at astrophysical energies C. Spitaleri, S. Typel, R. G. Pizzone, M. Aliotta, S. Blagus, M. Bogovac, S. Cherubini, P. Figuera, M. Lattuada, M. Milin, D. Miljanić, A. Musumarra, M. G. Pellegriti, D. Rendić, C. Rolfs, S. Romano, N. Soić, A. Tumino, H. H. Wolter, and M. Zadro Published 17 April 2001 (7 pages) 055801 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of the (γ,n) reaction rates of the nuclides 190Pt, 192Pt, and 198Pt in the astrophysical γ process K. Vogt, P. Mohr, M. Babilon, J. Enders, T. Hartmann, C. Hutter, T. Rauscher, S. Volz, and A. Zilges Published 19 April 2001 (10 pages) 055802 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Asymptotic normalization coefficients and the 7Be(p,γ)8B astrophysical S factor A. Azhari, V. Burjan, F. Carstoiu, C. A. Gagliardi, V. Kroha, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, F. M. Nunes, X. Tang, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble Published 23 April 2001 (11 pages) 055803 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Variational separable expansion scheme for two-body Coulomb-scattering problems J. Darai, B. Gyarmati, B. Kónya, and Z. Papp Published 4 April 2001 (3 pages) 057001 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total 4He photoabsorption cross section reexamined: Correlated versus effective interaction hyperspherical harmonics Nir Barnea, Victor D. Efros, Winfried Leidemann, and Giuseppina Orlandini Published 10 April 2001 (4 pages) 057002 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of the nearly degenerate 61+ and 62+ states in 48Ti Shadow J. Robinson and Larry Zamick Published 18 April 2001 (3 pages) 057301 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ-ray spectroscopy of odd-odd 62Cu B. Mukherjee, S. Muralithar, R. P. Singh, R. Kumar, K. Rani, and R. K. Bhowmik Published 20 April 2001 (4 pages) 057302 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear fragmentation by tunneling Toshiki Maruyama, Aldo Bonasera, and Satoshi Chiba Published 11 April 2001 (4 pages) 057601 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Role of knockout contributions in giant resonance studies with (p,p′x) reactions J. Carter, A. A. Cowley, H. Diesener, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Förtsch, J. J. Lawrie, P. von Neumann-Cosel, J. V. Pilcher, A. Richter, K. Schweda, F. D. Smit, G. F. Steyn, and S. Strauch Published 16 April 2001 (4 pages) 057602 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of form factors in fits to photoproduction data R. M. Davidson and Ron Workman Published 12 April 2001 (4 pages) 058201 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]