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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Lifetimes of superdeformed rotational states in 36Ar C. E. Svensson, A. O. Macchiavelli, A. Juodagalvis, A. Poves, I. Ragnarsson, S. Åberg, D. E. Appelbe, R. A. Austin, G. C. Ball, M. P. Carpenter, E. Caurier, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, R. V. Janssens, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, F. Nowacki, D. G. Sarantites, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, and D. Ward Published 1 May 2001 (5 pages) 061301 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of oblate deformation on E3 strengths in light lead and polonium isotopes G. D. Dracoulis, T. Kibédi, A. P. Byrne, A. M. Baxter, S. M. Mullins, and R. A. Bark Published 1 May 2001 (5 pages) 061302 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

New approach to large-scale nuclear structure calculations J. Dukelsky and S. Pittel Published 2 May 2001 (4 pages) 061303 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Observation of chiral doublet bands in odd-odd N=73 isotones T. Koike, K. Starosta, C. J. Chiara, D. B. Fossan, and D. R. LaFosse Published 3 May 2001 (4 pages) 061304 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Signature inversion in axially deformed 160,162Tm J. Kvasil, R. G. Nazmitdinov, A. Tsvetkov, and P. Alexa Published 18 May 2001 (5 pages) 061305 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Microscopic description of α+40Ca quasimolecular resonances D. S. Delion and J. Suhonen Published 21 May 2001 (5 pages) 061306 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Statistical evolution of isotope composition of nuclear fragments A. S. Botvina and I. N. Mishustin Published 1 May 2001 (5 pages) 061601 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Squeezing mode in nuclear collisions Klaus Morawetz and Pavel Lipavský Published 16 May 2001 (5 pages) 061602 [View PDF (461 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elastic scattering and transfer in the 6He+209Bi system below the Coulomb barrier E. F. Aguilera, J. J. Kolata, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, J. D. Hinnefeld, Á. Horváth, L. O. Lamm, Hye-Young Lee, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, P. Mohr, T. W. O’Donnell, D. A. Roberts, and G. Rogachev Published 21 May 2001 (4 pages) 061603 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Systematics of transfer/breakup yields for weakly bound light nuclei J. J. Kolata Published 21 May 2001 (2 pages) 061604 [View PDF (32 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Probing chiral dynamics by charged-pion correlations Jørgen Randrup Published 21 May 2001 (5 pages) 061901 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Measurement of the vector analyzing power in elastic electron-proton scattering as a probe of the double virtual Compton amplitude S. P. Wells et al. Published 1 May 2001 (5 pages) 064001 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Complete set of polarization observables in p→p→→ppπ0 close to threshold H. O. Meyer, A. Wellinghausen, J. T. Balewski, J. Doskow, R. E. Pollock, B. v. Przewoski, T. Rinckel, P. Thörngren-Engblom, L. D. Knutson, W. Haeberli, B. Lorentz, F. Rathmann, B. Schwartz, T. Wise, W. W. Daehnick, Swapan K. Saha, and P. V. Pancella Published 2 May 2001 (24 pages) 064002 [View PDF (341 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization of the ladder light-front Bethe-Salpeter equation in the Yukawa model J. H. Sales, T. Frederico, B. V. Carlson, and P. U. Sauer Published 11 May 2001 (20 pages) 064003 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase shifts and mixing parameters for low-energy proton-deuteron scattering A. Kievsky, J. L. Friar, G. L. Payne, S. Rosati, and M. Viviani Published 21 May 2001 (3 pages) 064004 [View PDF (24 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Local realizations of contact interactions in two- and three-body problems A. T. Kruppa, K. Varga, and J. Révai Published 26 April 2001 (8 pages) 064301 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anatomy of nuclear shape transition in the relativistic mean field theory Tapas Sil, B. K. Agrawal, J. N. De, and S. K. Samaddar Published 26 April 2001 (7 pages) 064302 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of microscopic nucleus-nucleus interaction for molecular resonance formation in 12C+12C and 3α+3α systems M. Ito, Y. Sakuragi, and Y. Hirabayashi Published 2 May 2001 (16 pages) 064303 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrinoless double-β-decay matrix elements within the second quasirandom phase approximation method S. Stoica and H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus Published 2 May 2001 (6 pages) 064304 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective response of nuclei: Comparison between experiments and extended mean-field calculations Denis Lacroix, Sakir Ayik, and Philippe Chomaz Published 2 May 2001 (16 pages) 064305 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of g factors and lifetimes of low lying states in 58–64Ni and their shell model implications O. Kenn, K.-H. Speidel, R. Ernst, J. Gerber, P. Maier-Komor, and F. Nowacki Published 2 May 2001 (7 pages) 064306 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal trend of the information entropy of a fermion in a mean field C. P. Panos, S. E. Massen, and C. G. Koutroulos Published 3 May 2001 (7 pages) 064307 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlated model for Λ hypernuclei F. Arias de Saavedra, G. Co’, and A. Fabrocini Published 3 May 2001 (12 pages) 064308 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First observation of excited states in the neutron deficient N=86 isotones 159Ta and 160W A. Keenan, R. D. Page, J. Simpson, N. Amzal, J. F. Cocks, D. M. Cullen, P. T. Greenlees, S. L. King, K. Helariutta, P. Jones, D. T. Joss, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kankaanpää, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, M. Muikku, A. Savelius, M. B. Smith, and M. J. Taylor Published 8 May 2001 (6 pages) 064309 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	N/Z dependence of core polarization charges and quadrupole moments of B isotopes H. Sagawa and K. Asahi Published 9 May 2001 (9 pages) 064310 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jacobi shape transition in fp shell nuclei G. Shanmugam, V. Ramasubramanian, and S. N. Chintalapudi Published 10 May 2001 (6 pages) 064311 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct proton-decay properties of the isobaric analog and isovector monopole giant resonances M. L. Gorelik and M. H. Urin Published 18 May 2001 (7 pages) 064312 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular correlations and internal conversion coefficients of γ-ray transitions in 104Pd M. E. Bellizzi, A. Giannatiempo, A. Nannini, A. Perego, and P. Sona Published 18 May 2001 (13 pages) 064313 [View PDF (448 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Selective bosonization of the many-fermion problem in a model framework E. R. Marshalek and Y. Miyanishi Published 22 May 2001 (23 pages) 064314 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Structure of high-spin states in 89Sr and 90Sr E. A. Stefanova, R. Schwengner, G. Rainovski, K. D. Schilling, A. Wagner, F. Dönau, E. Galindo, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, O. Thelen, J. Eberth, D. R. Napoli, C. A. Ur, G. de Angelis, M. Axiotis, A. Gadea, N. Marginean, T. Martinez, Th. Kröll, and T. Kutsarova Published 22 May 2001 (10 pages) 064315 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Degeneracies when T=0 two body matrix elements are set equal to zero and Regge’s 6j symmetry relations Shadow J. Robinson and Larry Zamick Published 22 May 2001 (10 pages) 064316 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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First complete set of spin 3/2 nuclear scattering analyzing powers P. D. Cathers, E. E. Bartosz, M. W. Cooper, N. Curtis, N. Keeley, K. W. Kemper, F. Maréchal, E. G. Myers, B. G. Schmidt, K. Rusek, and V. Hnizdo Published 26 April 2001 (13 pages) 064601 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematics of midrapidity transverse energy distributions in limited apertures from p+Be to Au+Au collisions at relativistic energies T. Abbott et al. Published 1 May 2001 (25 pages) 064602 [View PDF (1470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fission widths of hot nuclei from Langevin dynamics Gargi Chaudhuri and Santanu Pal Published 2 May 2001 (7 pages) 064603 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	S factor of the 3H(3H,2n)4He and 3He(3He,2p)4He reactions using a three-cluster exit channel V. Vasilevsky, A. V. Nesterov, F. Arickx, and J. Broeckhove Published 3 May 2001 (8 pages) 064604 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schematic model for narrow Δ(1232) resonances bound in a nucleus Thomas Walcher Published 4 May 2001 (7 pages) 064605 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Threshold anomaly in the 19F+208Pb system C. J. Lin, J. C. Xu, H. Q. Zhang, Z. H. Liu, F. Yang, and L. X. Lu Published 11 May 2001 (7 pages) 064606 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic study of fission fragment angular distributions A. N. Behkami, Z. Kargar, P. Nazarzadeh, and M. N. Nasrabadi Published 18 May 2001 (5 pages) 064607 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compton scattering from the proton at fourth order in the chiral expansion Judith A. McGovern Published 18 May 2001 (8 pages) 064608 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Interplay between angular momentum transfer and nuclear structure in the production of isomers at intermediate energies J. M. Daugas, R. Grzywacz, M. Lewitowicz, M. J. Lopez-Jimenez, F. de Oliveira-Santos, J. C. Angélique, L. Axelsson, C. Borcea, C. Longour, and G. Neyens Published 21 May 2001 (8 pages) 064609 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Fragment excitation energies at freeze-out in 84Kr+93Nb collisions at 45 MeV/nucleon P. Staszel, Z. Majka, L. G. Sobotka, D. G. Sarantites, R. J. Charity, J. Cibor, K. Hagel, N. Marie, J. B. Natowitz, R. Wada, D. W. Stracener, G. Auger, Y. Schutz, J. P. Wieleczko, R. Dayras, E. Plagnol, J. Barreto, and E. Norbeck Published 23 May 2001 (13 pages) 064610 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Boundary and expansion effects on two-pion correlation functions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Alejandro Ayala and Angel Sánchez Published 26 April 2001 (6 pages) 064901 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Equation of state of resonance-rich matter in the central cell in heavy-ion collisions at sqrt[s]=200A GeV L. V. Bravina, E. E. Zabrodin, S. A. Bass, M. Bleicher, M. Brandstetter, Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, W. Greiner, S. Soff, and H. Stöcker Published 1 May 2001 (8 pages) 064902 [View PDF (615 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-range charge fluctuations and search for a quark-gluon plasma signal E. V. Shuryak and M. A. Stephanov Published 3 May 2001 (7 pages) 064903 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous multiplicity fluctuations from phase transitions in heavy-ion collisions H. Heiselberg and A. D. Jackson Published 21 May 2001 (5 pages) 064904 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Hadronic interactions of the J/ψ Kevin L. Haglin and Charles Gale Published 3 May 2001 (11 pages) 065201 [View PDF (515 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the nucleon g1 structure function using the meson cloud model in the light-cone frame F. Zamani and D. Saranchak Published 9 May 2001 (9 pages) 065202 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low energy pion-hyperon interaction C. C. Barros and Y. Hama Published 18 May 2001 (10 pages) 065203 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QCD sum rules for ρ mesons in nuclear matter Samir Mallik and Andreas Nyffeler Published 22 May 2001 (9 pages) 065204 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exclusive electroproduction of φ mesons at 4.2 GeV K. Lukashin et al. (The CLAS Collaboration) Published 22 May 2001 (11 pages) 065205 [View PDF (622 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

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Limits on the Majorana neutrino mass and right-handed weak currents by neutrinoless double β decay of 100Mo H. Ejiri, K. Fushimi, K. Hayashi, T. Kishimoto, N. Kudomi, K. Kume, H. Kuramoto, K. Matsuoka, H. Ohsumi, K. Takahisa, and S. Yoshida Published 26 April 2001 (7 pages) 065501 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QEC value and internal bremsstrahlung spectra of 179Ta M. M. Hindi, B. O. Faircloth, R. L. Kozub, K. R. Czerwinski, R.-M. Larimer, E. B. Norman, B. Sur, and I. Žlimen Published 22 May 2001 (10 pages) 065502 [View PDF (341 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Neutron stars in a class of nonlinear relativistic models A. R. Taurines, C. A. Vasconcellos, M. Malheiro, and M. Chiapparini Published 1 May 2001 (13 pages) 065801 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Destruction of 18F via 18F(p,α)15O burning through the Ec.m.=665 keV resonance D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, W. Bradfield-Smith, C. R. Brune, A. E. Champagne, T. Davinson, B. A. Johnson, R. L. Kozub, C. S. Lee, R. Lewis, P. D. Parker, A. C. Shotter, M. S. Smith, D. W. Visser, and P. J. Woods Published 1 May 2001 (6 pages) 065802 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Are the level densities for r- and rp-process nuclei different from nearby nuclei in the valley of stability? S. I. Al-Quraishi, S. M. Grimes, T. N. Massey, and D. A. Resler Published 8 May 2001 (6 pages) 065803 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First order kaon condensation in neutron stars: Finite size effects in the mixed phase Travis Norsen and Sanjay Reddy Published 11 May 2001 (10 pages) 065804 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Production of A=6,7 nuclides in the α+α reaction and cosmic ray nucleosynthesis David J. Mercer, Sam M. Austin, J. A. Brown, S. A. Danczyk, S. E. Hirzebruch, J. H. Kelley, T. Suomijärvi, D. A. Roberts, and T. P. Walker Published 15 May 2001 (7 pages) 065805 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic dissociation of 8B and the rate of the 7Be(p,γ)8B reaction in the Sun B. Davids, Sam M. Austin, D. Bazin, H. Esbensen, B. M. Sherrill, I. J. Thompson, and J. A. Tostevin Published 16 May 2001 (14 pages) 065806 [View PDF (388 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of 22Mg and its implications for explosive nucleosynthesis A. A. Chen, R. Lewis, K. B. Swartz, D. W. Visser, and P. D. Parker Published 22 May 2001 (11 pages) 065807 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Isoscalar E0, E1, and E2 strength in 40Ca D. H. Youngblood, Y.-W. Lui, and H. L. Clark Published 3 May 2001 (4 pages) 067301 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematics of nuclear deformation in large regions Y. M. Zhao, A. Arima, and R. F. Casten Published 4 May 2001 (3 pages) 067302 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence for a strongly deformed band in 80Y using isomer decay tagging J. J. Ressler, W. B. Walters, R. Grzywacz, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, C. J. Gross, Z. Janas, M. Lipoglavsek, J. McConnell, S. D. Paul, A. Piechaczek, K. Rykaczewski, D. Radford, and J. Shergur Published 16 May 2001 (4 pages) 067303 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical approximation for the sphere-sphere Coulomb potential R. Anni Published 22 May 2001 (4 pages) 067601 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Signature splitting and quasiparticle alignment in the yrast band of 165Ta [Phys. Rev. C 63, 024303 (2001)] D. G. Roux, M. S. Fetea, E. Gueorguieva, B. R. Babu, R. T. Newman, J. J. Lawrie, R. Fearick, D. G. Aschman, R. Beetge, M. Benatar, G. K. Mabala, S. M. Mullins, S. H. Murray, S. Naguleswaran, C. Rigollet, J. F. Sharpey-Schafer, F. D. Smit, and W. J. Whittaker Published 16 May 2001 (1 pages) 069901 [View PDF (11 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Bremsstrahlung from an equilibrating quark-gluon plasma [Phys. Rev. C 62, 014902 (2000)] Munshi G. Mustafa and Markus H. Thoma Published 16 May 2001 (2 pages) 069902 [View PDF (60 kB) ]