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Toroidal dipole resonances in the relativistic random phase approximation D. Vretenar, N. Paar, P. Ring, and T. Nikšić Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages) 021301 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

100Sn core excitations in 102In M. Lipoglavšek, C. Baktash, M. P. Carpenter, D. J. Dean, T. Engeland, C. Fahlander, M. Hjorth-Jensen, R. V. Janssens, A. Likar, J. Nyberg, E. Osnes, S. D. Paul, A. Piechaczek, D. C. Radford, D. Rudolph, D. Seweryniak, D. G. Sarantites, M. Vencelj, and C.-H. Yu Published 16 January 2002 (5 pages) 021302 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Oblate stability of A≈110 nuclei near the r-process path F. R. Xu, P. M. Walker, and R. Wyss Published 18 January 2002 (5 pages) 021303 [View PDF (608 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

239Pu(n,2n)238Pu cross section deduced using a combination of experiment and theory L. A. Bernstein, J. A. Becker, P. E. Garrett, W. Younes, D. P. McNabb, D. E. Archer, C. A. McGrath, H. Chen, W. E. Ormand, M. A. Stoyer, R. O. Nelson, M. B. Chadwick, G. D. Johns, W. S. Wilburn, M. Devlin, D. M. Drake, and P. G. Young Published 9 January 2002 (5 pages) 021601 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Covariant model for proton-proton bremsstrahlung: Comparison with high-precision data M. D. Cozma, G. H. Martinus, O. Scholten, R. G. Timmermans, and J. A. Tjon Published 8 January 2002 (4 pages) 024001 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Longitudinal and transverse quasielastic response functions of light nuclei J. Carlson, J. Jourdan, R. Schiavilla, and I. Sick Published 25 January 2002 (22 pages) 024002 [View PDF (566 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spin correlations in p→p→→pnπ+ pion production near threshold W. W. Daehnick, Swapan K. Saha, R. W. Flammang, H. O. Meyer, J. T. Balewski, R. E. Pollock, B. von Przewoski, T. Rinckel, P. Thörngren-Engblom, A. Wellinghausen, B. Lorentz, F. Rathmann, B. Schwartz, T. Wise, and P. V. Pancella Published 25 January 2002 (18 pages) 024003 [View PDF (600 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Nuclei, superheavy nuclei, and hypermatter in a chiral SU(3) model Ch. Beckmann, P. Papazoglou, D. Zschiesche, S. Schramm, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 7 January 2002 (8 pages) 024301 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Attenuation of the intensity within a superdeformed band A. J. Sargeant, M. S. Hussein, M. P. Pato, N. Takigawa, and M. Ueda Published 8 January 2002 (4 pages) 024302 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rotational structures in 129Nd and signature splitting systematics of the νh11/2 bands in A∼130 nuclei O. Zeidan, D. J. Hartley, L. L. Riedinger, M. Danchev, W. Reviol, W. D. Weintraub, Jing-ye Zhang, A. Galindo-Uribarri, C. J. Gross, S. D. Paul, C. Baktash, M. Lipoglavsek, D. C. Radford, C. H. Yu, D. G. Sarantites, M. Devlin, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. Janssens, D. Seweryniak, and E. Padilla Published 9 January 2002 (15 pages) 024303 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quadrupole collectivity in N≈28 nuclei with the angular momentum projected generator coordinate method R. Rodríguez-Guzmán, J. L. Egido, and L. M. Robledo Published 9 January 2002 (14 pages) 024304 [View PDF (418 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Half-life and internal conversion electron measurements in low-lying levels of 125,127Ba M. Shibata,1, H. Iimura, M. Asai, A. Osa, K. Kawade, S. Ichikawa, M. Oshima, T. Sekine, and N. Shinohara Published 9 January 2002 (8 pages) 024305 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nucleon momentum distribution in deuteron and other nuclei within the light-front dynamics method A. N. Antonov, M. K. Gaidarov, M. V. Ivanov, D. N. Kadrev, G. Z. Krumova, P. E. Hodgson, and H. V. von Geramb Published 9 January 2002 (8 pages) 024306 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First observation of excited states in 139I W. Urban, T. Rza̧ca-Urban, A. Korgul, J. L. Durell, M. J. Leddy, M. A. Jones, W. R. Phillips, A. G. Smith, B. J. Varley, I. Ahmad, L. R. Morss, and N. Schulz Published 9 January 2002 (4 pages) 024307 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Survival probability of superheavy nuclei A. S. Zubov, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, S. P. Ivanova, and W. Scheid Published 9 January 2002 (10 pages) 024308 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global properties of spherical nuclei obtained from Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations with the Gogny force M. Kleban, B. Nerlo-Pomorska, J. F. Berger, J. Dechargé, M. Girod, and S. Hilaire Published 9 January 2002 (12 pages) 024309 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic approaches to structure functions of nuclei S. A. Gurvitz and A. S. Rinat Published 14 January 2002 (12 pages) 024310 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic dipole transitions in 32S from electron scattering at 180° F. Hofmann, P. von Neumann-Cosel, F. Neumeyer, C. Rangacharyulu, B. Reitz, A. Richter, G. Schrieder, D. I. Sober, L. W. Fagg, and B. A. Brown Published 15 January 2002 (12 pages) 024311 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of collective magnetic states within a spherical single particle basis A. A. Raduta, A. Escuderos, and E. Moya de Guerra Published 15 January 2002 (17 pages) 024312 [View PDF (745 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-energy electromagnetic excitation strengths in 121Sb and 123Sb J. Bryssinck, L. Govor, F. Bauwens, D. Belic, P. von Brentano, D. De Frenne, C. Fransen, A. Gade, E. Jacobs, U. Kneissl, C. Kohstall, A. Linnemann, A. Nord, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, M. Scheck, F. Stedile, and V. Werner Published 15 January 2002 (9 pages) 024313 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixed-mode shell-model theory for nuclear structure studies V. G. Gueorguiev, W. E. Ormand, C. W. Johnson, and J. P. Draayer Published 15 January 2002 (7 pages) 024314 [View PDF (764 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic moments of 68Cug,m and 70Cug,m1,m2 nuclei measured by in-source laser spectroscopy L. Weissman, U. Köster, R. Catherall, S. Franchoo, U. Georg, O. Jonsson, V. N. Fedoseyev, V. I. Mishin, M. D. Seliverstov, J. Van Roosbroeck, S. Gheysen, M. Huyse, K. Kruglov, G. Neyens, and P. Van Duppen (IS365 Collaboration and ISOLDE Collaboration) Published 16 January 2002 (10 pages) 024315 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence for proton excitations in 130,132,134,136Xe isotopes from measurements of g factors of 21+ and 41+ states G. Jakob, N. Benczer-Koller, G. Kumbartzki, J. Holden, T. J. Mertzimekis, K.-H. Speidel, R. Ernst, A. E. Stuchbery, A. Pakou, P. Maier-Komor, A. Macchiavelli, M. McMahan, L. Phair, and I. Y. Lee Published 22 January 2002 (9 pages) 024316 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Lifetimes of quasideuteron configurations in the odd-odd N=Z nucleus 2550Mn25 N. Pietralla, R. Krücken, C. J. Barton, C. W. Beausang, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, J. R. Cooper, A. A. Hecht, J. R. Novak, N. V. Zamfir, A. Lisetskiy, and A. Schmidt Published 25 January 2002 (11 pages) 024317 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A K=3 two-quasiparticle isomer in 98Sr G. Lhersonneau, B. Pfeiffer, R. Capote, J. M. Quesada, H. Gabelmann, and K.-L. Kratz Published 25 January 2002 (15 pages) 024318 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended M1 sum rule for excited symmetric and mixed-symmetry states in nuclei N. A. Smirnova, N. Pietralla, A. Leviatan, J. N. Ginocchio, and C. Fransen Published 25 January 2002 (10 pages) 024319 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Determination of the quadrupole moment of the 11- isomer in 194Pb via a double perturbation analysis of a level mixing spectroscopy measurement K. Vyvey, D. Borremans, N. Coulier, R. Coussement, G. Georgiev, S. Teughels, G. Neyens, H. Hübel, and D. L. Balabanski Published 25 January 2002 (7 pages) 024320 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beyond the relativistic Hartree mean-field approximation: Energy dependent effective mass D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, and P. Ring Published 25 January 2002 (6 pages) 024321 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weak interaction rates involving 12C, 14N, and 16O N. Auerbach and B. A. Brown Published 25 January 2002 (9 pages) 024322 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dependence of the decay widths for proton emission on the single particle potential L. S. Ferreira, E. Maglione, and D. E. Fernandes Published 25 January 2002 (9 pages) 024323 [View PDF (717 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Decay of excited 116Ba* formed in the 58Ni+58Ni reaction via the emission of intermediate mass fragments Raj K. Gupta, M. Balasubramaniam, Chiara Mazzocchi, M. La Commara, and Werner Scheid Published 9 January 2002 (5 pages) 024601 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass dependence in the production of light fragments in heavy-ion collisions Jaivir Singh and Rajeev K. Puri Published 11 January 2002 (10 pages) 024602 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global potential analysis of the 16O+28Si reaction using a new type of coupling potential I. Boztosun and W. D. Rae Published 15 January 2002 (8 pages) 024603 [View PDF (1037 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the angular correlations for the 16O(e,e′n)15O reaction in the giant resonance region K. Kino, T. Saito, Y. Suga, M. Oikawa, T. Nakagawa, T. Tohei, K. Abe, and H. Ueno Published 15 January 2002 (8 pages) 024604 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multipole expansion for relativistic Coulomb excitation H. Esbensen and C. A. Bertulani Published 15 January 2002 (7 pages) 024605 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of continuum couplings in fusion of halo 11Be on 208Pb around the Coulomb barrier A. Diaz-Torres and I. J. Thompson Published 15 January 2002 (6 pages) 024606 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron resonance spectroscopy of 104Pd, 105Pd, and 110Pd D. A. Smith, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, C. A. Grossmann, T. Haseyama, A. Masaike, Y. Matsuda, G. E. Mitchell, S. I. Penttila, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, E. I. Sharapov, S. L. Stephenson, A. M. Sukhovoj, and V. W. Yuan Published 16 January 2002 (16 pages) 024607 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical approach to the wave function of a decaying quantum system W. van Dijk and Y. Nogami Published 16 January 2002 (14 pages) 024608 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Angular correlation, spin alignment, and resonance behavior in 12C+12C inelastic scattering A. H. Wuosmaa, D. J. Hofman, B. B. Back, D. J. Blumenthal, S. Fischer, D. J. Henderson, R. V. Janssens, C. J. Lister, V. Nanal, D. Nisius, M. D. Rhein, and P. R. Wilt Published 16 January 2002 (11 pages) 024609 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Existence of a proton halo in 23Al and its significance X. Z. Cai, H. Y. Zhang, W. Q. Shen, Z. Z. Ren, J. Feng, D. Q. Fang, Z. Y. Zhu, W. Z. Jiang, Y. G. Ma, C. Zhong, W. L. Zhan, Z. Y. Guo, G. Q. Xiao, J. S. Wang, Y. T. Zhu, J. C. Wang, J. X. Li, M. Wang, J. F. Wang, Z. J. Ning, Q. J. Wang, and Z. Q. Chen Published 16 January 2002 (5 pages) 024610 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Do 1.37 GeV α particles find nuclei attractive or repulsive? Dao T. Khoa, G. R. Satchler, and Nguyen Duy Thuy Published 25 January 2002 (10 pages) 024611 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electron-capture delayed fission properties of 244Es D. A. Shaughnessy, K. E. Gregorich, J. L. Adams, M. R. Lane, C. A. Laue, D. M. Lee, C. A. McGrath, V. Ninov, J. B. Patin, D. A. Strellis, E. R. Sylwester, P. A. Wilk, and D. C. Hoffman Published 25 January 2002 (7 pages) 024612 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Effect of finite-range interactions in classical transport theory Sen Cheng, Scott Pratt, Peter Csizmadia, Yasushi Nara, Dénes Molnár, Miklos Gyulassy, Stephen E. Vance, and Bin Zhang Published 9 January 2002 (12 pages) 024901 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Λ0 polarization as a probe for production of deconfined matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions Alejandro Ayala, Eleazar Cuautle, Gerardo Herrera, and Luis Manuel Montaño Published 9 January 2002 (8 pages) 024902 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of η′ from thermal gluon fusion Sangyong Jeon Published 11 January 2002 (8 pages) 024903 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inclusive soft pion production from 12.3 and 17.5 GeV/c protons on Be, Cu, and Au I. Chemakin et al. Published 14 January 2002 (11 pages) 024904 [View PDF (504 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric relation between centrality and the impact parameter in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Wojciech Broniowski and Wojciech Florkowski Published 25 January 2002 (5 pages) 024905 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	θ vacua states in heavy ion collisions in the presence of dissipation and noise A. K. Chaudhuri Published 25 January 2002 (6 pages) 024906 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Percolation of strings and the relativistic energy data on multiplicity and transverse momentum distributions M. A. Braun, F. del Moral, and C. Pajares Published 25 January 2002 (4 pages) 024907 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Description of SU(3) octet and decuplet baryons M. Furuichi and K. Shimizu Published 15 January 2002 (9 pages) 025201 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic couplings of the chiral perturbation theory Lagrangian from the perturbative chiral quark model V. E. Lyubovitskij, Th. Gutsche, Amand Faessler, and R. Vinh Mau Published 15 January 2002 (10 pages) 025202 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Energy loss versus shadowing in the Drell-Yan reaction on nuclei M. B. Johnson, B. Z. Kopeliovich, I. K. Potashnikova, P. L. McGaughey, J. M. Moss, J. C. Peng, G. Garvey, M. Leitch, C. N. Brown, and D. M. Kaplan Published 23 January 2002 (21 pages) 025203 [View PDF (316 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral Lagrangians at finite density José A. Oller Published 25 January 2002 (7 pages) 025204 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Continuum random phase approximation approach to charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering N. Jachowicz, K. Heyde, J. Ryckebusch, and S. Rombouts Published 16 January 2002 (7 pages) 025501 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended superscaling of electron scattering from nuclei C. Maieron, T. W. Donnelly, and Ingo Sick Published 16 January 2002 (15 pages) 025502 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muon capture by 11B and the hyperfine effect V. Wiaux, R. Prieels, J. Deutsch, J. Govaerts, V. Brudanin, V. Egorov, C. Petitjean, and P. Truöl Published 23 January 2002 (8 pages) 025503 [View PDF (393 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	The luminosity constraint on solar neutrino fluxes John N. Bahcall Published 9 January 2002 (5 pages) 025801 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Nanosecond isomers in near-spherical 142,143Pm Sarmishtha Bhattacharyya, Somen Chanda, Swapan Kumar Basu, M. B. Chatterjee, G. Mukherjee, R. Palit, P. K. Joshi, and H. C. Jain Published 7 January 2002 (4 pages) 027301 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excited structure with a very extended shape in 108Cd A. Görgen, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. G. Ramos, F. S. Stephens, C. E. Svensson, K. Vetter, D. Ward, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. Janssens, and R. Wadsworth Published 7 January 2002 (3 pages) 027302 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Applying the exponential convergence method: Shell-model binding energies of 0f7/2 nuclei relative to 40Ca Mihai Horoi, B. Alex Brown, and Vladimir Zelevinsky Published 15 January 2002 (4 pages) 027303 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Singlet and triplet differential cross sections for pp→ppπ0 P. N. Deepak and G. Ramachandran Published 25 January 2002 (4 pages) 027601 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Centrality dependence of thermal parameters in heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies J. Cleymans, B. Kämpfer, and S. Wheaton Published 25 January 2002 (4 pages) 027901 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear effects on bremsstrahlung neutrino rates of astrophysical interest Sabin Stoica and J. E. Horvath Published 23 January 2002 (3 pages) 028801 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]