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  • Hadronic Physics and QCD
  • Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Three-body correlations in Borromean halo nuclei F. M. Marqués et al. Published 5 November 2001 (5 pages) 061301 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interpretation of the excitation and decay of 180Tam through a Kπ=5+ band P. M. Walker, G. D. Dracoulis, and J. J. Carroll Published 12 November 2001 (5 pages) 061302 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mean-field analysis of interacting boson models with random interactions R. Bijker and A. Frank Published 12 November 2001 (5 pages) 061303 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Proton elastic scattering from 7Be at low energies G. V. Rogachev, J. J. Kolata, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, M. Hencheck, K. Helland, J. D. Hinnefeld, B. Hughey, P. L. Jolivette, L. M. Kiessel, H.-Y. Lee, M. Y. Lee, T. W. O’Donnell, G. F. Peaslee, D. Peterson, D. A. Roberts, P. Santi, and S. A. Shaheen Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages) 061601 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Are coupled channel effects important for the asymptotic normalization coefficient method? F. M. Nunes and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov Published 14 November 2001 (5 pages) 062801 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron radii of 208Pb and neutron stars C. J. Horowitz and J. Piekarewicz Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 062802 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Analyzing powers of inelastic dp scattering in the energy region of Δ and Roper resonances excitation L. V. Malinina et al. Published 21 November 2001 (12 pages) 064001 [View PDF (296 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron-proton bremsstrahlung calculation: Noncoplanarity effects Yi Li, M. K. Liou, and W. M. Schreiber Published 21 November 2001 (8 pages) 064002 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Nuclear-spin mixing oscillations in 229Th89+ K. Pachucki, S. Wycech, J. Żylicz, and M. Pfützner Published 5 November 2001 (8 pages) 064301 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of the α-decay fine structure in spherical nuclei D. S. Delion and J. Suhonen Published 5 November 2001 (10 pages) 064302 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SU(3) normal mode theory G. Rosensteel and Ts. Dankova Published 5 November 2001 (6 pages) 064303 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First identification of 20+ isomeric states in the odd-odd 190,192Au nuclei E. Gueorguieva, Ch. Vieu, C. Schück, A. Minkova, B. Kharraja, M. Kaci, F. Hannachi, J. S. Dionisio, A. Korichi, A. Lopez-Martens, Z. Méliani, and Ts. Venkova Published 6 November 2001 (10 pages) 064304 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy of the 9.17 MeV excited state of 14N P. H. Barker and A. Scott Published 12 November 2001 (7 pages) 064305 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	β decay in odd-A and even-even proton-rich Kr isotopes P. Sarriguren, E. Moya de Guerra, and A. Escuderos Published 13 November 2001 (14 pages) 064306 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energies and widths of T=3 / 2 states in A=11 nuclei R. Sherr and H. T. Fortune Published 16 November 2001 (4 pages) 064307 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant resonances in 16O Y.-W. Lui, H. L. Clark, and D. H. Youngblood Published 16 November 2001 (6 pages) 064308 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Average charge states of heavy atoms in dilute hydrogen Yu. Ts. Oganessian, V. K. Utyonkov, Yu. V. Lobanov, F. Sh. Abdullin, A. N. Polyakov, I. V. Shirokovsky, Yu. S. Tsyganov, A. N. Mezentsev, S. Iliev, V. G. Subbotin, A. M. Sukhov, G. V. Buklanov, K. Subotic, Yu. A. Lazarev, K. J. Moody, J. F. Wild, N. J. Stoyer, M. A. Stoyer, R. W. Lougheed, and C. A. Laue Published 16 November 2001 (6 pages) 064309 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coexistence of prolate and oblate bands with similar proton configurations in 121,123,125I Hariprakash Sharma and P. Banerjee Published 19 November 2001 (5 pages) 064310 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Stability of oblate shapes in the vicinity of N=Z=34 68Se: Bands in 69Se and 67As D. G. Jenkins, D. P. Balamuth, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Lister, S. M. Fischer, R. M. Clark, A. O. Macchiavelli, P. Fallon, C. E. Svensson, N. S. Kelsall, and R. Wadsworth Published 19 November 2001 (8 pages) 064311 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical analysis of the second-forbidden electron capture transition 123Te(1/2g.s.+)→123Sb(7/2g.s.+) O. Civitarese and J. Suhonen Published 19 November 2001 (5 pages) 064312 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-particle transfer and nuclear supersymmetry J. Barea, R. Bijker, A. Frank, and G. Loyola Published 20 November 2001 (5 pages) 064313 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition from BCS pairing to Bose-Einstein condensation in low-density asymmetric nuclear matter U. Lombardo, P. Nozières, P. Schuck, H.-J. Schulze, and A. Sedrakian Published 20 November 2001 (9 pages) 064314 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin dependent Pauli blocking and nucleon mean free path in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter Lie-Wen Chen, Feng-Shou Zhang, Zhao-Hui Lu, and Hong-Ru Ma Published 20 November 2001 (5 pages) 064315 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spreading widths for superdeformed states in 194Hg and 194Pb R. Krücken, A. Dewald, P. von Brentano, and H. A. Weidenmüller Published 20 November 2001 (6 pages) 064316 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic properties of the rotationally aligned band in 162Dy C. Y. Wu, D. Cline, M. W. Simon, G. A. Davis, R. Teng, A. O. Macchiavelli, and K. Vetter Published 20 November 2001 (9 pages) 064317 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy structure of 40S through 40P β decay J. A. Winger, P. F. Mantica, R. M. Ronningen, and M. A. Caprio Published 20 November 2001 (11 pages) 064318 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved treatment of ground-state correlations: Modified random phase approximation N. Dinh Dang and V. Zelevinsky Published 20 November 2001 (10 pages) 064319 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of the identical superdeformed bands and ΔI=4 bifurcation in the A∼130 region Yu-xin Liu, Jia-jun Wang, and Qi-zhi Han Published 21 November 2001 (6 pages) 064320 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing and continuum effects in nuclei close to the drip line M. Grasso, N. Sandulescu, Nguyen Van Giai, and R. J. Liotta Published 21 November 2001 (9 pages) 064321 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Microscopic optical potentials for nucleon-nucleus scattering S. Karataglidis and M. B. Chadwick Published 1 November 2001 (7 pages) 064601 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High resolution measurement of the 16O(γ,pn)14N0,1,2,… reaction K. R. Garrow, F. Adimi, N. R. Kolb, J. Lu, R. E. Pywell, D. M. Skopik, J. M. Vogt, J. W. Jury, A. Kuzin, M. N. Thompson, and J. Ryckebusch Published 5 November 2001 (12 pages) 064602 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Thermal excitation-energy deposition in 5–15 GeV/c hadron-induced reactions with 197Au. I. Reconstruction of thermal source properties T. Lefort, L. Beaulieu, K. Kwiatkowski, W.-c. Hsi, V. E. Viola, R. Laforest, E. Martin, E. Ramakrishnan, D. Rowland, A. Ruangma, E. Winchester, S. J. Yennello, L. Pienkowski, R. G. Korteling, and H. Breuer Published 6 November 2001 (12 pages) 064603 [View PDF (531 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal excitation-energy deposition in 5–15 GeV/c hadron-induced reactions with 197Au. II. Relation between excitation energy and reaction variables L. Beaulieu et al. Published 6 November 2001 (11 pages) 064604 [View PDF (591 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anharmonicities of giant dipole excitations D. T. de Paula, T. Aumann, L. F. Canto, B. V. Carlson, H. Emling, and M. S. Hussein Published 16 November 2001 (4 pages) 064605 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analyzing power reduction in quasifree pion-nucleon knockout reactions Mohammad G. Khayat et al. Published 19 November 2001 (12 pages) 064606 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical study of the 2H(e,e′π+) reaction K. Hafidi and T.-S. H. Lee Published 19 November 2001 (5 pages) 064607 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Experimental barrier distributions for the fusion of 12C, 16O, 28Si, and 35Cl with 92Zr and coupled-channels analyses J. O. Newton, C. R. Morton, M. Dasgupta, J. R. Leigh, J. C. Mein, D. J. Hinde, H. Timmers, and K. Hagino Published 20 November 2001 (12 pages) 064608 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic excitations and momentum distributions in kinematically complete breakup reactions of two-neutron halo nuclei S. N. Ershov, B. V. Danilin, and J. S. Vaagen Published 20 November 2001 (23 pages) 064609 [View PDF (388 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ellipsoidal shape fluctuations of the compound nucleus R. J. Charity Published 20 November 2001 (9 pages) 064610 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Precision pion-proton elastic differential cross sections at energies spanning the Δ resonance M. M. Pavan, J. T. Brack, F. Duncan, A. Feltham, G. Jones, J. Lange, K. J. Raywood, M. E. Sevior, R. Adams, D. F. Ottewell, G. R. Smith, B. Wells, R. L. Helmer, E. L. Mathie, R. Tacik, R. A. Ristinen, I. I. Strakovsky, and H-M. Staudenmaier Published 20 November 2001 (28 pages) 064611 [View PDF (502 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing equilibration with respect to isospin degree of freedom in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions Qingfeng Li and Zhuxia Li Published 21 November 2001 (5 pages) 064612 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Exclusive light particle measurements for the system 19F+12C at 96 MeV D. Bandyopadhyay, C. Bhattacharya, K. Krishan, S. Bhattacharya, S. K. Basu, A. Chatterjee, S. Kailas, A. Shrivastava, and K. Mahata Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages) 064613 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Refractive elastic scattering of carbon and oxygen nuclei: The mean field analysis and Airy structures S. Szilner, M. P. Nicoli, Z. Basrak, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, A. Morsad, M. E. Brandan, and G. R. Satchler Published 21 November 2001 (11 pages) 064614 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic corrections in (γ,N) knockout reactions A. Meucci, C. Giusti, and F. D. Pacati Published 21 November 2001 (8 pages) 064615 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extracting the spectral function of 4He from a relativistic plane-wave treatment L. J. Abu-Raddad and J. Piekarewicz Published 21 November 2001 (9 pages) 064616 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Scaling of hadronic transverse momenta in a hydrodynamic treatment of relativistic heavy ion collisions Dinesh Kumar Srivastava Published 1 November 2001 (5 pages) 064901 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards the equation of state of a classical SU(2) lattice gauge theory Á. Fülöp and T. S. Biró Published 1 November 2001 (5 pages) 064902 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parametric resonance at the critical temperature in high energy heavy ion collisions Masamichi Ishihara Published 14 November 2001 (5 pages) 064903 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum collisions of finite-size ultrarelativistic nuclei A. Makhlin Published 14 November 2001 (18 pages) 064904 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Initial conditions and charged multiplicities in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions Alberto Accardi Published 16 November 2001 (5 pages) 064905 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoupling chemical and thermal freeze outs in hydrodynamics N. Arbex, F. Grassi, Y. Hama, and O. Socolowski Published 20 November 2001 (5 pages) 064906 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite temperature amplitudes and reaction rates in thermofield dynamics A. Rakhimov and F. C. Khanna Published 20 November 2001 (15 pages) 064907 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiproton production in p+A collisions at 12.3 and 17.5 GeV/c I. Chemakin et al. Published 20 November 2001 (6 pages) 064908 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	KK̅ elastic scattering and bound states in the quark potential model Jian-Xing Chen, Ying-Hui Cao, and Jun-Chen Su Published 8 November 2001 (12 pages) 065201 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic dipole moment of the Δ+(1232) from the γp→γπ0p reaction D. Drechsel and M. Vanderhaeghen Published 14 November 2001 (11 pages) 065202 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic structure of the nucleon in the perturbative chiral quark model V. E. Lyubovitskij, Th. Gutsche, and Amand Faessler Published 19 November 2001 (16 pages) 065203 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exploring skewed parton distributions with two-body models on the light front: Bimodality B. C. Tiburzi and G. A. Miller Published 20 November 2001 (8 pages) 065204 [View PDF (572 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of πN scattering lengths from pionic hydrogen and pionic deuterium data A. Deloff Published 21 November 2001 (17 pages) 065205 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Measurements of charged current reactions of νe on 12C L. B. Auerbach et al. Published 21 November 2001 (12 pages) 065501 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Spectroscopic amplitudes and microscopic substructure effects in nucleon capture reactions Jutta Escher, Byron K. Jennings, and Helmy S. Sherif Published 16 November 2001 (14 pages) 065801 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High-resolution neutron capture and transmission measurements for 116,120Sn, and their stellar neutron-capture cross sections at s-process temperatures P. E. Koehler, J. A. Harvey, R. R. Winters, K. H. Guber, and R. R. Spencer Published 19 November 2001 (15 pages) 065802 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton capture cross section of Sr isotopes and their importance for nucleosynthesis of proton-rich nuclides Gy. Gyürky, E. Somorjai, Zs. Fülöp, S. Harissopulos, P. Demetriou, and T. Rauscher Published 21 November 2001 (8 pages) 065803 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Ratio of S factors for (p,γ) reactions on 12C and 13C at astrophysically relevant energies C. D. Nesaraja, C. R. Brune, B. T. Crowley, J. H. Kelley, S. O. Nelson, R. M. Prior, K. Sabourov, D. R. Tilley, A. Tonchev, and H. R. Weller Published 21 November 2001 (7 pages) 065804 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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92Mo(α,α)92Mo scattering, the 92Mo-α optical potential, and the 96Ru(γ,α)92Mo reaction rate at astrophysically relevant energies Zs. Fülöp, Gy. Gyürky, Z. Máté, E. Somorjai, L. Zolnai, D. Galaviz, M. Babilon, P. Mohr, A. Zilges, T. Rauscher, H. Oberhummer, and G. Staudt Published 21 November 2001 (13 pages) 065805 [View PDF (346 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Lifetime of the 21.8-keV state in 98Tc J. F. Smith, J. S. Lilley, W. R. Phillips, I. Ahmad, K. E. Rehm, and A. Garcia Published 8 November 2001 (4 pages) 067301 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distribution of the Gamow-Teller strength in 90Nb and 208Bi A. Krasznahorkay, H. Akimune, M. Fujiwara, M. N. Harakeh, J. Jänecke, V. A. Rodin, M. H. Urin, and M. Yosoi Published 12 November 2001 (4 pages) 067302 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear charge radii in modern mass formulas: An update F. Buchinger, J. M. Pearson, and S. Goriely Published 13 November 2001 (3 pages) 067303 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collectivity of double giant resonances in extended RPA theories Mitsuru Tohyama Published 16 November 2001 (4 pages) 067304 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model calculations of 109Sb in the sdgh shell E. Dikmen, A. Novoselsky, and M. Vallieres Published 20 November 2001 (3 pages) 067305 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	π→ππ results in nuclei P. Camerini, E. Fragiacomo, N. Grion, R. Rui, J. T. Brack, E. F. Gibson, G. J. Hofman, E. L. Mathie, R. Meier, K. Raywood, M. E. Sevior, G. R. Smith, and R. Tacik Published 8 November 2001 (4 pages) 067601 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fourth P11 resonance predicted by the constituent quark model L. Theußl and R. F. Wagenbrunn Published 20 November 2001 (3 pages) 068201 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Improved information on the 2H(6Li,α)4He reaction extracted via the “Trojan horse” method A. Musumarra, R. G. Pizzone, S. Blagus, M. Bogovac, P. Figuera, M. Lattuada, M. Milin, Ð. Miljanić, M. G. Pellegriti, D. Rendić, C. Rolfs, N. Soić, C. Spitaleri, S. Typel, H. H. Wolter, and M. Zadro Published 16 November 2001 (2 pages) 068801 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Shell structure of Ti and Cr nuclei from measurements of g factors and lifetimes” Athena Pakou Published 1 November 2001 (2 pages) 069801 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]