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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Photon angular distribution of proton-proton bremsstrahlung at 190 MeV H. Huisman, J. C. Bacelar, M. J. van Goethem, M. N. Harakeh, M. Hoefman, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, H. Löhner, M. Mahjour-Shafiei, J. G. Messchendorp, R. W. Ostendorf, S. Schadmand, M. Volkerts, H. W. Wilschut, and R. S. Simon Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 031001 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Lifetime measurements of excited Kπ=0+ bands in 178Hf A. Aprahamian, R. C. de Haan, H. G. Börner, H. Lehmann, C. Doll, M. Jentschel, A. M. Bruce, and R. Piepenbring Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 031301 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superfluid states with moving condensate in nuclear matter A. A. Isayev Published 12 February 2002 (5 pages) 031302 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

First observation of the drip line nucleus 140Dy: Identification of a 7 μs K isomer populating the ground state band W. Królas et al. Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages) 031303 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Finite well solution for the E(5) Hamiltonian M. A. Caprio Published 22 February 2002 (4 pages) 031304 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Separation and characterization of phases in bond percolation and implications for studies of nuclear multifragmentation A. J. Cole Published 5 February 2002 (5 pages) 031601 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Centrality dependence of charged particle multiplicity at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration) Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages) 031901 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Flow effects on the freeze-out phase-space density in heavy-ion collisions Boris Tomášik and Ulrich Heinz Published 8 February 2002 (5 pages) 031902 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Contributions of vector meson photoproduction to the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule Qiang Zhao, J. S. Al-Khalili, and C. Bennhold Published 5 February 2002 (5 pages) 032201 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Backward spin polarizability γπ of the proton M. Camen, K. Kossert, F. Wissmann, J. Ahrens, H.-J. Arends, R. Beck, G. Caselotti, P. Grabmayr, P. D. Harty, O. Jahn, P. Jennewein, R. Kondratiev, M. I. Levchuk, V. Lisin, A. I. L’vov, J. C. McGeorge, A. Natter, V. Olmos de León, M. Schumacher, B. Seitz, F. Smend, A. Thomas, W. Weihofen, and F. Zapadtka Published 15 February 2002 (3 pages) 032202 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Astrophysically important 26Si states studied with the 28Si(p,t)26Si reaction D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, A. E. Champagne, A. K. Dummer, T. Davinson, U. Greife, D. Hill, C. Iliadis, B. A. Johnson, R. L. Kozub, C. S. Lee, M. S. Smith, and P. J. Woods Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 032801 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Quark-model based study of the triton binding energy B. Juliá-Díaz, J. Haidenbauer, A. Valcarce, and F. Fernández Published 6 February 2002 (5 pages) 034001 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-energy p-d scattering: High-precision data, comparisons with theory, and phase-shift analyses M. H. Wood, C. R. Brune, B. M. Fisher, H. J. Karwowski, D. S. Leonard, E. J. Ludwig, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, and M. Viviani Published 8 February 2002 (8 pages) 034002 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Complete set of precise deuteron analyzing powers at intermediate energies: Comparison with modern nuclear force predictions K. Sekiguchi, H. Sakai, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, M. Hatano, H. Kamada, H. Kato, Y. Maeda, J. Nishikawa, A. Nogga, T. Ohnishi, H. Okamura, N. Sakamoto, S. Sakoda, Y. Satou, K. Suda, A. Tamii, T. Uesaka, T. Wakasa, and K. Yako Published 12 February 2002 (16 pages) 034003 [View PDF (655 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Testing the quark cluster model in nucleon-nucleon scattering M. Lacombe, B. Loiseau, R. Vinh Mau, P. Demetriou, J. P. de Melo, and C. Semay Published 15 February 2002 (8 pages) 034004 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic scattering of polarized protons from 3He at 800 MeV M. Geso, A. Azizi, K. Amos, P. K. Deb, G. Igo, K. Jones, J. B. Mclelland, G. Westen, R. Whitney, and C. Whitten Published 15 February 2002 (6 pages) 034005 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocal calculation for nonstrange dibaryons and tribaryons R. D. Mota, A. Valcarce, F. Fernández, D. R. Entem, and H. Garcilazo Published 15 February 2002 (9 pages) 034006 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited States of 11Li in a three body model S. Kumar and V. S. Bhasin Published 20 February 2002 (4 pages) 034007 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic effects and quasipotential equations G. Ramalho, A. Arriaga, and M. T. Peña Published 21 February 2002 (11 pages) 034008 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasifree bremsstrahlung in the dp→dpγ reaction above the pion production threshold J. Greiff et al. Published 27 February 2002 (9 pages) 034009 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron-proton and neutron-neutron quasifree scattering in the n-d breakup reaction at 26 MeV A. Siepe, J. Deng, V. Huhn, L. Wätzold, Ch. Weber, W. von Witsch, H. Witała, and W. Glöckle Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034010 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-nucleon interaction and large Nc QCD Manoj K. Banerjee, Thomas D. Cohen, and Boris A. Gelman Published 4 March 2002 (15 pages) 034011 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of d* dibaryon in proton-deuteron collisions A. B. Santra, B. K. Jain, and V. S. Bhasin Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034012 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Dipole and electric quadrupole excitations in 40,48Ca T. Hartmann, J. Enders, P. Mohr, K. Vogt, S. Volz, and A. Zilges Published 5 February 2002 (13 pages) 034301 [View PDF (686 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isoscalar giant resonances in 28Si and the mass dependence of nuclear compressibility D. H. Youngblood, Y.-W. Lui, and H. L. Clark Published 5 February 2002 (7 pages) 034302 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Internal conversion between bound states and the Pauli exclusion principle F. F. Karpeshin, M. B. Trzhaskovskaya, M. R. Harston, and J. F. Chemin Published 6 February 2002 (9 pages) 034303 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpretation of the 2+ anomaly in vibrational nuclei M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, and J. Jolie Published 13 February 2002 (5 pages) 034304 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spherical and deformed high-spin states in 38Ar D. Rudolph, A. Poves, C. Baktash, R. A. Austin, J. Eberth, D. Haslip, D. R. LaFosse, M. Lipoglavšek, S. D. Paul, D. G. Sarantites, C. E. Svensson, H. G. Thomas, J. C. Waddington, W. Weintraub, and J. N. Wilson Published 13 February 2002 (8 pages) 034305 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dissociation of 6He J. Wang, A. Galonsky, J. J. Kruse, E. Tryggestad, R. H. White-Stevens, P. D. Zecher, Y. Iwata, K. Ieki, Á. Horváth, F. Deák, Á. Kiss, Z. Seres, J. J. Kolata, J. von Schwarzenberg, R. E. Warner, and H. Schelin Published 13 February 2002 (8 pages) 034306 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudospin symmetry as a relativistic dynamical symmetry in the nucleus P. Alberto, M. Fiolhais, M. Malheiro, A. Delfino, and M. Chiapparini Published 14 February 2002 (9 pages) 034307 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurements of g factors and lifetimes of low-lying states in 62–70Zn and their shell model implication O. Kenn, K.-H. Speidel, R. Ernst, S. Schielke, S. Wagner, J. Gerber, P. Maier-Komor, and F. Nowacki Published 14 February 2002 (8 pages) 034308 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Highly deformed band structure in 57Co W. Reviol, D. G. Sarantites, R. J. Charity, V. Tomov, J. Dobaczewski, D. Rudolph, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. P. Carpenter, and D. Seweryniak Published 14 February 2002 (10 pages) 034309 [View PDF (347 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	β-delayed deuteron emission from 6He D. Anthony, L. Buchmann, P. Bergbusch, J. M. D’Auria, M. Dombsky, U. Giesen, K. P. Jackson, J. D. King, J. Powell, and F. C. Barker Published 19 February 2002 (7 pages) 034310 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation effect on the double Gamow-Teller matrix element of 100Mo for the 0+→0+ transition B. M. Dixit, P. K. Rath, and P. K. Raina Published 21 February 2002 (10 pages) 034311 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Competition between terminating and collective structures above spin 40ħ in 154Dy W. C. Ma, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, I. Ragnarsson, M. A. Riley, M. P. Carpenter, J. R. Terry, J. P. Zhang, I. Ahmad, P. Bhattacharyya, P. J. Daly, S. M. Fischer, J. H. Hamilton, T. Lauritsen, D. T. Nisius, A. V. Ramayya, R. K. Vadapalli, P. G. Varmette, J. W. Watson, C. T. Zhang, and S. J. Zhu Published 21 February 2002 (8 pages) 034312 [View PDF (424 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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β-decay studies of 135–137Sn using selective resonance laser ionization techniques J. Shergur, B. A. Brown, V. Fedoseyev, U. Köster, K.-L. Kratz, D. Seweryniak, W. B. Walters, A. Wöhr, D. Fedorov, M. Hannawald, M. Hjorth-Jensen, V. Mishin, B. Pfeiffer, J. J. Ressler, H. O. Fynbo, P. Hoff, H. Mach, T. Nilsson, K. Wilhelmsen-Rolander, H. Simon, A. Bickley, and the ISOLDE Collaboration Published 22 February 2002 (9 pages) 034313 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Transition rates and nuclear structure changes in mirror nuclei 47Cr and 47V D. Tonev, P. Petkov, A. Dewald, T. Klug, P. von Brentano, W. Andrejtscheff, S. M. Lenzi, D. R. Napoli, N. Marginean, F. Brandolini, C. A. Ur, M. Axiotis, P. G. Bizzeti, and A. Bizzeti-Sona Published 27 February 2002 (5 pages) 034314 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First observation of excited states in the Tz=1/2 nucleus 85Mo N. Mărginean, C. Rossi Alvarez, D. Bucurescu, Yang Sun, C. A. Ur, A. Gadea, S. Lunardi, D. Bazzacco, G. de Angelis, M. Axiotis, M. De Poli, E. Farnea, M. Ionescu–Bujor, A. Iordăchescu, S. M. Lenzi, Th. Kröll, T. Martinez, R. Menegazzo, D. R. Napoli, G. Nardelli, P. Pavan, B. Quintana, and P. Spolaore Published 1 March 2002 (8 pages) 034315 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Δ(1232) isobar excitations and the ground state of nuclei T. Frick, S. Kaiser, H. Müther, A. Polls, D. R. Entem, and R. Machleidt Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034316 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near threshold three-body final states in 7Li+7Li reactions at Elab=34 MeV J. A. Liendo, N. Curtis, D. D. Caussyn, N. R. Fletcher, and T. Kurtukian-Nieto Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034317 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Single-neutron knockout from 34,35Si and 37S J. Enders, A. Bauer, D. Bazin, A. Bonaccorso, B. A. Brown, T. Glasmacher, P. G. Hansen, V. Maddalena, K. L. Miller, A. Navin, B. M. Sherrill, and J. A. Tostevin Published 4 March 2002 (10 pages) 034318 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Particle-hole excited states in 133Te J. K. Hwang, A. V. Ramayya, J. H. Hamilton, C. J. Beyer, J. O. Rasmussen, Y. X. Luo, S. C. Wu, T. N. Ginter, C. M. Folden, P. Fallon, P. M. Zielinski, K. E. Gregorich, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. Stoyer, S. J. Asztalos, A. Covello, and A. Gargano Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 034319 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High precision quadrupole moment measurements of states up to I=20ħ in the yrast band of 158Er S. L. Shepherd, J. Simpson, A. Dewald, P. Petkov, P. J. Nolan, M. A. Riley, A. J. Boston, T. B. Brown, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, D. J. Hartley, S. Kasemann, R. Krücken, P. von Brentano, R. W. Laird, E. S. Paul, and R. Peusquens Published 4 March 2002 (8 pages) 034320 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear self-energy and realistic interactions T. Frick, Kh. Gad, H. Müther, and P. Czerski Published 4 March 2002 (13 pages) 034321 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High spin isomers in 129Sn and 130Sb J. Genevey, J. A. Pinston, C. Foin, M. Rejmund, H. Faust, and B. Weiss Published 4 March 2002 (6 pages) 034322 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Structure of high-spin states in 91Sr and 92Sr E. A. Stefanova, M. Danchev, R. Schwengner, D. L. Balabanski, M. P. Carpenter, M. Djongolov, S. M. Fischer, D. J. Hartley, R. V. Janssens, W. F. Mueller, D. Nisius, W. Reviol, L. L. Riedinger, and O. Zeidan Published 4 March 2002 (10 pages) 034323 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Enhanced population of superdeformation in the mass A=150 region Th. Byrski, F. A. Beck, P. Bednarczyk, N. Kintz, K. Zuber, J. P. Vivien, S. Courtin, D. Curien, G. Duchêne, C. Finck, B. Gall, A. Nourreddine, A. Odahara, O. Stezowski, and C. Theisen Published 4 March 2002 (3 pages) 034324 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strength of the double-phonon state within an exactly solvable model Nguyen Dinh Dang Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034325 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean energy, strength, and width of triple giant dipole resonances E. J. de Passos, M. S. Hussein, L. F. Canto, and B. V. Carlson Published 4 March 2002 (5 pages) 034326 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In medium T matrix for superfluid nuclear matter P. Bożek Published 4 March 2002 (12 pages) 034327 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boson-conserving one-nucleon transfer operator in the interacting boson model J. Barea, C. E. Alonso, and J. M. Arias Published 4 March 2002 (5 pages) 034328 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation constrained calculation for light nuclei in generalized hybrid derivative coupling model Parna Mitra, G. Gangopadhyay, and B. Malakar Published 4 March 2002 (8 pages) 034329 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	“Super-radiant” states and narrow resonances in the Δ-nucleus system Naftali Auerbach and Vladimir Zelevinsky Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 034601 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of short-range correlations in (e,e′p) reactions and nuclear overlap functions M. Mazziotta, J. E. Amaro, and F. Arias de Saavedra Published 8 February 2002 (23 pages) 034602 [View PDF (321 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of the number of partitions with constraints on the fragment size P. Désesquelles Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 034603 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fragment size correlations in finite systems: Application to nuclear multifragmentation P. Désesquelles Published 11 February 2002 (14 pages) 034604 [View PDF (848 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation function studies of α induced reactions for niobium and preequilibrium effects Avinash Agarwal, I. A. Rizvi, and A. K. Chaubey Published 12 February 2002 (9 pages) 034605 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior in a microcanonical multifragmentation model Al. H. Raduta, Ad. R. Raduta, Ph. Chomaz, and F. Gulminelli Published 13 February 2002 (5 pages) 034606 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Λ13C hypernucleus studied with the 13C(K-,π-γ) reaction H. Kohri et al. Published 15 February 2002 (9 pages) 034607 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parametrizing yields of nuclear multifragmentation C. B. Das, S. Das Gupta, and A. Majumder Published 15 February 2002 (9 pages) 034608 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fusion of 46Ti+46Ti near the Coulomb barrier A. M. Stefanini, M. Trotta, L. Corradi, A. M. Vinodkumar, F. Scarlassara, G. Montagnoli, and S. Beghini Published 15 February 2002 (5 pages) 034609 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Importance of geometrical corrections to fusion barrier calculations for deformed nuclei I. I. Gontchar, M. Dasgupta, D. J. Hinde, R. D. Butt, and A. Mukherjee Published 19 February 2002 (8 pages) 034610 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization transfer in quasifree (p→,n→) reactions on 2H and 3,4He targets at 197 MeV D. L. Prout, J. Rapaport, M. Palarczyk, D. A. Cooper, G. Savopulos, C. Hautala, B. Anderson, A. Baldwin, C. C. Foster, W. Gloeckle, C. D. Goodman, R. Howes, M. S. Islam, B. A. Luther, R. Madey, D. M. Manley, J. Sowinski, E. Sugarbaker, T. N. Taddeucci, I. Van Heerden, J. Watson, H. Witała, X. Yang, and W.-M. Zhang Published 19 February 2002 (12 pages) 034611 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization transfer in quasifree (p→,n→) reactions on C, Ca, and Pb targets at 197 MeV C. Hautala, J. Rapaport, M. Palarczyk, D. L. Prout, D. A. Cooper, G. Savopulos, B. Anderson, A. Baldwin, C. C. Foster, C. D. Goodman, K. Hicks, R. Howes, M. S. Islam, B. A. Luther, D. M. Manley, R. Madey, E. Sugarbaker, T. N. Taddeucci, I. Van Heerden, J. Watson, X. Yang, and W. -M. Zhang Published 19 February 2002 (10 pages) 034612 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible influence of neutron shell closure (Nc=126) on fission anisotropies for 19F+194,198Pt systems K. Mahata, S. Kailas, A. Shrivastava, A. Chatterjee, P. Singh, S. Santra, and B. S. Tomar Published 27 February 2002 (5 pages) 034613 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The 17O(n,α)14C reaction from subthermal up to approximately 350 keV neutron energy J. Wagemans, C. Wagemans, G. Goeminne, O. Serot, M. Loiselet, and M. Gaelens Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034614 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Cross sections and polarization observables for the 40Ca(p,n) reaction at 345 MeV and multistep contributions in the continuum T. Wakasa, K. Hatanaka, H. Sakai, M. B. Greenfield, J. Kamiya, K. Ogata, H. Okamura, K. Sekiguchi, K. Suda, A. Tamii, and K. Yako Published 4 March 2002 (8 pages) 034615 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dispersive spherical optical model of neutron scattering from 27Al up to 250 MeV A. Molina, R. Capote, J. M. Quesada, and M. Lozano Published 4 March 2002 (13 pages) 034616 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonmesonic decays and lifetimes of hypernuclei K. Itonaga, T. Ueda, and T. Motoba Published 4 March 2002 (21 pages) 034617 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Caloric curves and critical behavior in nuclei J. B. Natowitz, R. Wada, K. Hagel, T. Keutgen, M. Murray, A. Makeev, L. Qin, P. Smith, and C. Hamilton Published 4 March 2002 (9 pages) 034618 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Evolution of strangeness in an equilibrating and expanding quark-gluon plasma Dipali Pal, Abhijit Sen, Munshi Golam Mustafa, and Dinesh Kumar Srivastava Published 11 February 2002 (9 pages) 034901 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissociation of a heavy quarkonium at high temperatures Cheuk-Yin Wong Published 14 February 2002 (11 pages) 034902 [View PDF (327 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-pT pion and kaon production in relativistic nuclear collisions Yi Zhang, George Fai, Gábor Papp, Gergely G. Barnaföldi, and Péter Lévai Published 14 February 2002 (15 pages) 034903 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Partonic effects on the elliptic flow at relativistic heavy ion collisions Zi-wei Lin and C. M. Ko Published 14 February 2002 (6 pages) 034904 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Centrality dependence of baryon and meson momentum distributions in proton-nucleus collisions Rudolph C. Hwa and C. B. Yang Published 21 February 2002 (15 pages) 034905 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin fluctuations in QCD and relativistic heavy-ion collisions Madappa Prakash, Ralf Rapp, Jochen Wambach, and Ismail Zahed Published 4 March 2002 (11 pages) 034906 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light nuclei production in heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies S. Albergo et al. Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 034907 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonperturbative effects in a rapidly expanding quark gluon plasma A. K. Mohanty, P. Shukla, and Marcelo Gleiser Published 4 March 2002 (6 pages) 034908 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Baryon resonances in carbon-carbon collisions at 4.2 GeV/c per nucleon D. Krpić, G. Škoro, I. Pićurić, S. Backović, and S. Drndarević Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 034909 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Color transparency versus quantum coherence in electroproduction of vector mesons off nuclei B. Z. Kopeliovich, J. Nemchik, A. Schäfer, and A. V. Tarasov Published 8 February 2002 (23 pages) 035201 [View PDF (356 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quark mass density- and temperature-dependent model for bulk strange quark matter Yun Zhang and Ru-Keng Su Published 8 February 2002 (6 pages) 035202 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Final state interaction contribution to the response of confined relativistic particles Mark W. Paris and Vijay R. Pandharipande Published 14 February 2002 (5 pages) 035203 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral unitary approach to S-wave meson baryon scattering in the strangeness S=0 sector T. Inoue, E. Oset, and M. J. Vicente Vacas Published 14 February 2002 (16 pages) 035204 [View PDF (655 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic form factors of nucleons in a light-cone diquark model Bo-Qiang Ma, Di Qing, and Iván Schmidt Published 4 March 2002 (7 pages) 035205 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric and magnetic polarizability of Goldstone pions to subleading O(Nc-1) in the bosonized Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model C. A. Wilmot and R. H. Lemmer Published 4 March 2002 (13 pages) 035206 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Neutral weak currents in pion electroproduction on the nucleon Michail P. Rekalo, Jacques Arvieux, and Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson Published 14 February 2002 (13 pages) 035501 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parity-violating interaction effects: The longitudinal asymmetry in pp elastic scattering J. Carlson, R. Schiavilla, V. R. Brown, and B. F. Gibson Published 4 March 2002 (12 pages) 035502 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Parity violation in neutron resonances of palladium 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, and V. W. Yuan Published 4 March 2002 (9 pages) 035503 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photo-induced depopulation of the 180Tam isomer via low-lying intermediate states: Structure and astrophysical implications D. Belic, C. Arlandini, J. Besserer, J. de Boer, J. J. Carroll, J. Enders, T. Hartmann, F. Käppeler, H. Kaiser, U. Kneissl, E. Kolbe, K. Langanke, M. Loewe, H. J. Maier, H. Maser, P. Mohr, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Nord, H. H. Pitz, A. Richter, M. Schumann, F.-K. Thielemann, S. Volz, and A. Zilges Published 14 February 2002 (13 pages) 035801 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete relativistic equation of state for neutron stars H. Shen Published 14 February 2002 (7 pages) 035802 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Widths of astrophysically important resonances in 18Ne B. Harss et al. Published 22 February 2002 (9 pages) 035803 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin polarized neutron matter and magnetic susceptibility within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation I. Vidaña, A. Polls, and A. Ramos Published 22 February 2002 (5 pages) 035804 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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