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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Measurement of longitudinal and transverse cross sections in the 3He(e,e′π+)3H reaction at W=1.6 GeV D. Gaskell et al. Published 21 December 2001 (5 pages) 011001 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Λ-Σ conversion in Λ4He and Λ4H based on a four-body calculation E. Hiyama, M. Kamimura, T. Motoba, T. Yamada, and Y. Yamamoto Published 3 December 2001 (5 pages) 011301 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Sub-barrier fusion of the magic nuclei 40,48Ca+48Ca M. Trotta, A. M. Stefanini, L. Corradi, A. Gadea, F. Scarlassara, S. Beghini, and G. Montagnoli Published 3 December 2001 (5 pages) 011601 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Coupling to breakup channels using a transformed harmonic oscillator basis A. M. Moro, J. M. Arias, J. Gómez-Camacho, I. Martel, F. Pérez-Bernal, R. Crespo, and F. Nunes Published 12 December 2001 (5 pages) 011602 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Is early thermalization achieved only near midrapidity in Au + Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV? Tetsufumi Hirano Published 3 December 2001 (5 pages) 011901 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Noncoplanarity in proton-proton bremsstrahlung R. G. Timmermans, B. F. Gibson, Yi Li, and M. K. Liou Published 3 December 2001 (15 pages) 014001 [View PDF (284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonating-group study of baryon-baryon interactions for the complete baryon octet: NN interaction Y. Fujiwara, T. Fujita, M. Kohno, C. Nakamoto, and Y. Suzuki Published 6 December 2001 (24 pages) 014002 [View PDF (317 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological study of hadron interaction models H. R. Pang, J. L. Ping, Fan Wang, and T. Goldman Published 6 December 2001 (14 pages) 014003 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the n-p elastic scattering angular distribution at En=10 MeV N. Boukharouba, F. B. Bateman, C. E. Brient, A. D. Carlson, S. M. Grimes, R. C. Haight, T. N. Massey, and O. A. Wasson Published 18 December 2001 (10 pages) 014004 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Search for E(5) symmetry in nuclei: The Ru isotopes A. Frank, C. E. Alonso, and J. M. Arias Published 30 November 2001 (6 pages) 014301 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Configuration-dependent band structures in odd-odd 180Ir Y. H. Zhang, T. Hayakawa, M. Oshima, J. Katakura, Y. Hatsukawa, M. Matsuda, H. Kusakari, M. Sugawara, T. Komatsubara, and K. Furuno Published 3 December 2001 (15 pages) 014302 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopy of transfermium nuclei: 102252No R.-D. Herzberg et al. Published 3 December 2001 (7 pages) 014303 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic theory of pairing in infinite nuclear matter M. Serra, A. Rummel, and P. Ring Published 6 December 2001 (9 pages) 014304 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic scattering of 28.0 MeV protons on 56Fe A. Kumar, D. K. Avasthi, A. Tripathi, S. K. Datta, and I. M. Govil Published 10 December 2001 (5 pages) 014305 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nucleon density in the nuclear periphery determined with antiprotonic x rays: Calcium isotopes F. J. Hartmann, R. Schmidt, B. Ketzer, T. von Egidy, S. Wycech, R. Smolańczuk, T. Czosnyka, J. Jastrzȩbski, M. Kisieliński, P. Lubiński, P. Napiorkowski, L. Pieńkowski, A. Trzcińska, B. Kłos, K. Gulda, W. Kurcewicz, and E. Widmann Published 13 December 2001 (7 pages) 014306 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of rotational bands in the neutron-rich 107Ru nucleus S. J. Zhu et al. Published 18 December 2001 (6 pages) 014307 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Signature inversion in the yrast band of 164Ta D. G. Roux, E. Gueorguieva, B. R. Babu, D. G. Aschman, M. Benatar, R. Fearick, M. S. Fetea, J. J. Lawrie, G. K. Mabala, S. M. Mullins, S. H. Murray, S. Naguleswaran, R. T. Newman, C. Rigollet, J. F. Sharpey-Schafer, F. D. Smit, W. J. Whittaker, and R. A. Wyss Published 20 December 2001 (10 pages) 014308 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-K two-quasiparticle states in 180Ta T. Wendel, J. Gröger, C. Günther, A. I. Levon, P. E. Garrett, L. Genilloud, J. Jolie, J. Kern, S. Mannanal, N. Warr, F. Käppeler, G. Graw, R. Hertenberger, M. Loewe, and M. Würkner Published 20 December 2001 (22 pages) 014309 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing correlations. I. Description of odd nuclei in mean-field theories T. Duguet, P. Bonche, P.-H. Heenen, and J. Meyer Published 21 December 2001 (10 pages) 014310 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing correlations. II. Microscopic analysis of odd-even mass staggering in nuclei T. Duguet, P. Bonche, P.-H. Heenen, and J. Meyer Published 21 December 2001 (14 pages) 014311 [View PDF (1010 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Fusion calculations for the 6,7Li+16O systems N. Keeley, K.W. Kemper, and K. Rusek Published 30 November 2001 (5 pages) 014601 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Precise nuclear matter densities from heavy-ion collisions M. A. Alvarez, E. S. Rossi, C. P. Silva, L. R. Gasques, L. C. Chamon, D. Pereira, M. N. Rao, B. V. Carlson, C. De Conti, R. M. Anjos, P. R. Gomes, J. Lubian, S. Kailas, A. Chatterjee, and P. Singh Published 30 November 2001 (4 pages) 014602 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phenomenological analysis of K+-meson production in proton-nucleus collisions M. Büscher, B. L. Ioffe, V. Koptev, M. Nekipelov, A. Sibirtsev, K. Sistemich, J. Speth, and H. Ströher Published 30 November 2001 (9 pages) 014603 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reaction mechanisms of fast neutrons on 51V below 21 MeV P. Reimer, V. Avrigeanu, A. J. Plompen, and S. M. Qaim Published 3 December 2001 (12 pages) 014604 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Investigation of transverse momentum distributions for fragments produced in reactions of 197Au and 208Pb projectiles with different targets in the energy range from 1.0 to 158 GeV/nucleon G. Hüntrup, T. Streibel, and W. Heinrich Published 3 December 2001 (12 pages) 014605 [View PDF (325 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Two-fragment correlation functions for quasiprojectile source and midrapidity component at intermediate energies Zhi-Yong He, L. Gingras, Y. Larochelle, D. Ouerdane, L. Beaulieu, P. Gagné, Xing Qian, R. Roy, C. St-Pierre, G. C. Ball, and D. Horn Published 3 December 2001 (9 pages) 014606 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Synthesis of superheavy nuclei: How accurately can we describe it and calculate the cross sections? V. I. Zagrebaev, Y. Aritomo, M. G. Itkis, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, and M. Ohta Published 12 December 2001 (14 pages) 014607 [View PDF (958 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic description of Coulomb and nuclear excitation of multiphonon states in 40Ca+40Ca collisions M. V. Andrés, F. Catara, E. G. Lanza, Ph. Chomaz, M. Fallot, and J. A. Scarpaci Published 14 December 2001 (7 pages) 014608 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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12,13C(p,π-)13,14Og.s. reactions in the Δ1232 resonance region K. Hatanaka, J. Kamiya, D. Hirooka, Y. Maeda, Y. Maeda, T. Noro, E. Obayashi, H. Okamura, H. Sakai, A. Tamii, K. Tamura, T. Wakasa, K. Yako, and H. P. Yoshida Published 20 December 2001 (5 pages) 014609 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematics of proton-induced pion production at subthreshold energies H. W. Wilschut, M.-J. van Goethem, H. Löhner, and R. W. Ostendorf Published 20 December 2001 (5 pages) 014610 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Deformation effects in 56Ni nuclei produced in 28Si+28Si at 112 MeV C. Bhattacharya, M. Rousseau, C. Beck, V. Rauch, R. M. Freeman, D. Mahboub, R. Nouicer, P. Papka, O. Stezowski, A. Hachem, E. Martin, A. K. Dummer, S. J. Sanders, and A. Szanto De Toledo Published 20 December 2001 (7 pages) 014611 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction cross sections for light neutron-rich nuclei B. A. Brown, S. Typel, and W. A. Richter Published 20 December 2001 (5 pages) 014612 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Compton scattering on light nuclei in the Δ-resonance region L. Van Daele, A. Yu. Korchin, D. Van Neck, O. Scholten, and M. Waroquier Published 20 December 2001 (17 pages) 014613 [View PDF (1099 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Isotopic dependence and channel coupling effects in the fusion of 16O+112,116Sn and 32S+112,116,120Sn at energies around the barrier Vandana Tripathi, Lagy T. Baby, J. J. Das, P. Sugathan, N. Madhavan, A. K. Sinha, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, S. K. Hui, R. Singh, and K. Hagino Published 21 December 2001 (9 pages) 014614 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

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Hanbury Brown–Twiss correlation functions from event generators: A reliable approach to determine the size of the emitting source in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions? F. Gastineau and J. Aichelin Published 29 November 2001 (15 pages) 014901 [View PDF (777 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-photon final states in peripheral heavy ion collisions A. A. Natale, C. G. Roldão, and J. P. Carneiro Published 30 November 2001 (10 pages) 014902 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heavy quarkonium dissociation cross sections in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Cheuk-Yin Wong, E. S. Swanson, and T. Barnes Published 3 December 2001 (20 pages) 014903 [View PDF (394 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Leading baryon production in p+A collisions at relativistic energies K. N. Barish et al. Published 3 December 2001 (11 pages) 014904 [View PDF (339 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disoriented chiral condensate in the presence of dissipation and noise A. K. Chaudhuri Published 3 December 2001 (9 pages) 014905 [View PDF (1045 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of particle unstable light nuclei in 11.5A GeV/c Au+Pt heavy-ion collisions T. A. Armstrong et al. (The E864 Collaboration) Published 10 December 2001 (9 pages) 014906 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle multiplicity distributions: Connections with a Feynman-Wilson gas and a Ginzburg-Landau theory A. Z. Mekjian Published 20 December 2001 (5 pages) 014907 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observing spontaneous strong parity violation in heavy-ion collisions L. E. Finch, A. Chikanian, R. S. Longacre, J. Sandweiss, and J. H. Thomas Published 20 December 2001 (9 pages) 014908 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Kaon photoproduction: Background contributions, form factors, and missing resonances Stijn Janssen, Jan Ryckebusch, Dimitri Debruyne, and Tim Van Cauteren Published 30 November 2001 (9 pages) 015201 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction of nucleon resonances and nucleon spin structure function in the resonance region Di Qing and Iván Schmidt Published 30 November 2001 (8 pages) 015202 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross section for charmonium absorption by nucleons W. Liu, C. M. Ko, and Z. W. Lin Published 3 December 2001 (8 pages) 015203 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Final-state interactions in hypernuclear decay A. Parreño and A. Ramos Published 6 December 2001 (11 pages) 015204 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Novel weak decays in doubly strange systems A. Parreño, A. Ramos, and C. Bennhold Published 6 December 2001 (11 pages) 015205 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion generalized dipole polarizabilities by virtual Compton scattering πe→πeγ C. Unkmeir, A. Ocherashvili, T. Fuchs, M. A. Moinester, and S. Scherer Published 6 December 2001 (16 pages) 015206 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Backward emitted high-energy neutrons in hard reactions of p and π+ on carbon A. Malki, J. Alster, G. Asryan, Y. Averichev, D. Barton, V. Baturin, N. Bukhtoyarova, A. Carroll, S. Heppelmann, T. Kawabata, A. Leksanov, Y. Makdisi, E. Minina, I. Navon, H. Nicholson, A. Ogawa, Yu. Panebratsev, E. Piasetzky, A. Schetkovsky, S. Shimanskiy, A. Tang, J. W. Watson, H. Yoshida, and D. Zhalov Published 12 December 2001 (10 pages) 015207 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperon-nucleon scattering and hyperon masses in the nuclear medium C. L. Korpa, A. E. Dieperink, and R. G. Timmermans Published 18 December 2001 (6 pages) 015208 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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In-medium nucleon mass renormalization detected in β decays of spin aligned 12B and 12N K. Minamisono, K. Matsuta, T. Minamisono, T. Yamaguchi, T. Sumikama, T. Nagatomo, M. Ogura, T. Iwakoshi, M. Fukuda, M. Mihara, and K. Koshigiri Published 20 December 2001 (15 pages) 015209 [View PDF (665 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gluonic contributions in a four-fermion interaction model W. Z. Jiang, X. J. Qiu, Z. Y. Zhu, and Z. J. He Published 20 December 2001 (9 pages) 015210 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Return of the EMC effect Gerald A. Miller and Jason R. Smith Published 21 December 2001 (13 pages) 015211 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

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New limit of the G-parity irregular weak nucleon current detected in β decays of spin aligned 12B and 12N K. Minamisono, K. Matsuta, T. Minamisono, T. Yamaguchi, T. Sumikama, T. Nagatomo, M. Ogura, T. Iwakoshi, M. Fukuda, M. Mihara, K. Koshigiri, and M. Morita Published 3 December 2001 (17 pages) 015501 [View PDF (559 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarized photons in radiative muon capture Shung-ichi Ando, Harold W. Fearing, and Dong-Pil Min Published 14 December 2001 (8 pages) 015502 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Investigation of the 22Ne(p,γ)23Na reaction via (3He,d) spectroscopy S. E. Hale, A. E. Champagne, C. Iliadis, V. Y. Hansper, D. C. Powell, and J. C. Blackmon Published 3 December 2001 (11 pages) 015801 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How many σ’s is the solar neutrino effect? John N. Bahcall Published 12 December 2001 (7 pages) 015802 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Do hadronic charge exchange reactions measure electroweak L=1 strength? V. F. Dmitriev, V. Zelevinsky, and Sam M. Austin Published 20 December 2001 (6 pages) 015803 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Chiral 2π-exchange NN potentials: Relativistic 1/M2 corrections N. Kaiser Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 017001 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear magnetic moment of the 143Ce ground state A. Taniguchi, Y. Kawase, Y. Ohkubo, J. Goto, T. Ohtsubo, and S. Ohya Published 30 November 2001 (4 pages) 017301 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excitations of two- and three-valence-proton nuclei 134Te and 135I S. K. Saha, C. Constantinescu, P. J. Daly, P. Bhattacharyya, C. T. Zhang, Z. W. Grabowski, B. Fornal, R. Broda, I. Ahmad, D. Seweryniak, I. Wiedenhöver, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, and P. Reiter Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 017302 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High density symmetric nuclear matter in the Bethe-Brueckner-Goldstone approach M. Baldo, A. Fiasconaro, H. Q. Song, G. Giansiracusa, and U. Lombardo Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 017303 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equilibration and freeze-out in an exploding system J. P. Bondorf, H. Feldmeier, I. N. Mishustin, and G. Neergaard Published 3 December 2001 (4 pages) 017601 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Systematics of transfer/breakup yields for weakly bound light nuclei” B. R. Fulton, R. J. Woolliscroft, N. M. Clarke, and M. Freer Published 20 December 2001 (2 pages) 019801 [View PDF (22 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reply to “Comment on ‘Systematics of transfer/breakup yields for weakly-bound light nuclei’ ” J. J. Kolata Published 20 December 2001 (1 pages) 019802 [View PDF (18 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]