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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Confirmation of triple shape coexistence in 179Hg: Focal plane spectroscopy of the α decay of 183Pb D. G. Jenkins et al. Published 18 July 2002 (5 pages) 011301 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Breakup of the doubly magic 100Sn core M. Lipoglavšek, C. Baktash, J. Blomqvist, 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 26 July 2002 (5 pages) 011302 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Exotic clusters in the excited states of 12Be, 14Be, and 15B Y. Kanada-En’yo Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages) 011303 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Deviations from axial symmetry in 181Os Zs. Podolyák, S. Al-Garni, R.F. Casten, J.R Cooper, D.M. Cullen, A. Dewald, R. Krücken, H. Newman, J.N. Orce, C.J. Pearson, C. Ur, R. Venturelli, S. Vincent, C. Wheldon, P.M. Walker, F.R. Xu, A. Yamamoto, and N.V. Zamfir Published 31 July 2002 (5 pages) 011304 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of host medium on the L/K ratio in 7Be electron capture A. Ray, P. Das, S. K. Saha, S. K. Das, and A. Mookerjee Published 17 July 2002 (4 pages) 012501 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Microscopic study of slablike and rodlike nuclei: Quantum molecular dynamics approach Gentaro Watanabe, Katsuhiko Sato, Kenji Yasuoka, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki Published 30 July 2002 (5 pages) 012801 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Three-body calculation of the structure of Λ9Be E. Cravo, A. C. Fonseca, and Y. Koike Published 17 July 2002 (7 pages) 014001 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral 2π exchange at fourth order and peripheral NN scattering D. R. Entem and R. Machleidt Published 17 July 2002 (15 pages) 014002 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pionic weak decay of the lightest double-Λ hypernucleus ΛΛ4H Izumi Kumagai-Fuse and Shigeto Okabe Published 22 July 2002 (7 pages) 014003 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass dependence of M3Y-type interactions and the effects of tensor correlations J. O. Fiase, K. R. Devan, and A. Hosaka Published 22 July 2002 (10 pages) 014004 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the pion-nucleon coupling constant and scattering lengths T. E. Ericson, B. Loiseau, and A. W. Thomas Published 24 July 2002 (19 pages) 014005 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocality of the NN interaction in an effective field theory Renat Kh. Gainutdinov and Aigul A. Mutygullina Published 29 July 2002 (13 pages) 014006 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Anomaly of N=8 shell closure in neutron-rich Be and B isotopes studied via delayed neutron emitting 14Be β decay N. Aoi, K. Yoneda, E. Ideguchi, T. Kishida, T. Nakamura, M. Notani, H. Sakurai, T. Teranishi, Y. Watanabe, H. Wu, A. Yoshida, H. Miyatake, Y. Yamamoto, H. Ogawa, S. S. Yamamoto, and M. Ishihara Published 26 June 2002 (11 pages) 014301 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Candidate for the 6+ state in the yrast sequence of 36S X. Liang, R. Chapman, F. Haas, K.-M. Spohr, P. Bednarczyk, S. M. Campbell, P. J. Dagnall, M. Davison, G. de Angelis, G. Duchêne, Th. Kröll, S. Lunardi, S. Naguleswaran, and M. B. Smith Published 3 July 2002 (4 pages) 014302 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instabilities of infinite matter with effective Skyrme-type interactions J. Margueron, J. Navarro, and Nguyen Van Giai Published 3 July 2002 (8 pages) 014303 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for the complete quadrupole-octupole coupled multiplet in 108Cd A. Gade and P. von Brentano Published 3 July 2002 (6 pages) 014304 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Level structure of 141Ba and 139Xe and the level systematics of N=85 even-odd isotones Y. X. Luo et al. Published 16 July 2002 (9 pages) 014305 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	β decay of odd-A nuclei in the interacting boson-fermion model N. Yoshida, L. Zuffi, and S. Brant Published 17 July 2002 (7 pages) 014306 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of the low-lying Kπ=0+ excitations in 162Er M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, N. V. Zamfir, G. C. Ball, K. P. Jackson, P.-A. Amaudruz, and J.-C. Thomas Published 17 July 2002 (6 pages) 014307 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tilted dipole bands in 123Xe G. Rainovski, D. L. Balabanski, G. Roussev, G. Lo Bianco, G. Falconi, N. Blasi, D. Bazzacco, G. de Angelis, D. R. Napoli, F. Dönau, and V. I. Dimitrov Published 18 July 2002 (6 pages) 014308 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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First observation of excited states in the very neutron deficient nucleus 76165Os and the yrast structure of 76166Os D. E. Appelbe, J. Simpson, M. Muikku, H. J. Boardman, A. Melarangi, R. D. Page, P. T. Greenlees, P. M. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, A. Keenan, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, P. Nieminen, J. Pakarinen, P. Rahkila, J. Uusitalo, and D. T. Joss Published 18 July 2002 (6 pages) 014309 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent calculations of fission barriers in the Fm region M. Warda, J. L. Egido, L. M. Robledo, and K. Pomorski Published 24 July 2002 (11 pages) 014310 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Signature inversion in doubly odd 124La H. J. Chantler, E. S. Paul, A. J. Boston, M. P. Carpenter, R. Charity, C. J. Chiara, P. T. Choy, C. N. Davids, M. Devlin, A. M. Fletcher, D. B. Fossan, D. G. Jenkins, N. S. Kelsall, T. Koike, D. R. LaFosse, P. J. Nolan, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, J. F. Smith, K. Starosta, R. Wadsworth, and A. N. Wilson Published 24 July 2002 (16 pages) 014311 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Backbending region study in 160,162Dy using incomplete fusion reactions A. Jungclaus, B. Binder, A. Dietrich, T. Härtlein, H. Bauer, Ch. Gund, D. Pansegrau, D. Schwalm, J. L. Egido, Y. Sun, D. Bazzacco, G. de Angelis, E. Farnea, A. Gadea, S. Lunardi, D. R. Napoli, C. Rossi-Alvarez, C. Ur, and G. B. Hagemann Published 26 July 2002 (18 pages) 014312 [View PDF (791 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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In-beam and α-decay spectroscopy of 191Po and evidence for triple shape coexistence at low energy in the daughter nucleus 187Pb A. N. Andreyev, M. Huyse, K. Van de Vel, P. Van Duppen, O. Dorvaux, P. Greenlees, K. Helariutta, P. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, M. Muikku, P. Nieminen, P. Rahkila, J. Uusitalo, R. Wyss, K. Hauschild, and Y. Le Coz Published 26 July 2002 (16 pages) 014313 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Hydrogen isotope double differential production cross sections induced by 62.7 MeV neutrons on a lead target M. Kerveno, F. Haddad, Ph. Eudes, T. Kirchner, C. Lebrun, I. Slypen, J. P. Meulders, C. Le Brun, F. R. Lecolley, J. F. Lecolley, M. Louvel, F. Lefèbvres, S. Hilaire, and A. J. Koning Published 3 July 2002 (8 pages) 014601 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Preequilibrium emission in α induced reactions on bromine and thallium N. P. Sathik, M. Afzal Ansari, B. P. Singh, M. Ismail, and M. H. Rashid Published 3 July 2002 (4 pages) 014602 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compatibility of localized wave packets and unrestricted single particle dynamics for cluster formation in nuclear collisions Akira Ono, S. Hudan, A. Chbihi, and J. D. Frankland Published 3 July 2002 (15 pages) 014603 [View PDF (395 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Δ excitation and coherent pion production in charge exchange reactions Swapan Das Published 9 July 2002 (8 pages) 014604 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reaction mechanism for 12C(e,e′n)11C in the continuum above the giant resonance K. Takahisa, T. Saito, S. Suzuki, C. Takakuwa, M. Oikawa, T. Nakagawa, T. Tohei, and K. Abe Published 16 July 2002 (4 pages) 014605 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization transfer measurements for the 13C(p→,n→)13N reaction at 197 MeV and empirical isovector spin-longitudinal response for the (1/2)g.s.-→(1/2)1+ transition X. Wang, J. Rapaport, M. Palarczyk, C. Hautala, X. Yang, D. L. Prout, B. Anderson, A. R. Baldwin, J. Olmsted, J. W. Watson, W.-M Zhang, I. Van Heerden, E. J. Stephenson, R. Howes, S. Parks, E. Sugarbaker, B. A. Brown, and F. Sammarruca Published 17 July 2002 (10 pages) 014606 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Time scales for binary processes from light heavy-ion reactions A. A. Suaide, N. Added, N. Aissaoui, E. E. Alonso, W. H. Cárdenas, R. J. Fujii, M. M. de Moura, M. G. Munhoz, F. A. Souza, E. M. Szanto, A. Szanto de Toledo, N. Carlin, and M. Papa Published 17 July 2002 (12 pages) 014607 [View PDF (1731 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Near-scission emission of intermediate mass fragments in 12C+232Th at E/A=16 and 22 MeV T. A. Bredeweg, R. Yanez, B. P. Davin, K. Kwiatkowski, R. T. de Souza, R. Lemmon, R. Popescu, R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, D. Hofman, and N. Carjan Published 17 July 2002 (16 pages) 014608 [View PDF (322 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Total charge-changing and partial cross-section measurements in the reactions of ∼110–250 MeV/nucleon 12C in carbon, paraffin, and water A. N. Golovchenko, J. Skvarč, N. Yasuda, M. Giacomelli, S. P. Tretyakova, R. Ilić, R. Bimbot, M. Toulemonde, and T. Murakami Published 17 July 2002 (8 pages) 014609 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Toward a global description of the nucleus-nucleus interaction L. C. Chamon, B. V. Carlson, L. R. Gasques, D. Pereira, C. De Conti, M. A. Alvarez, M. S. Hussein, M. A. Cândido Ribeiro, E. S. Rossi, and C. P. Silva Published 17 July 2002 (13 pages) 014610 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total reaction cross sections for low energy deuterons in the semiclassical approach R. A. Rego and B. V. Carlson Published 17 July 2002 (5 pages) 014611 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear photoabsorption at photon energies between 300 and 850 MeV Michihiro Hirata, Nobuhiko Katagiri, Kazuyuki Ochi, and Takashi Takaki Published 17 July 2002 (10 pages) 014612 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Consistency of spectroscopic factors from (e,e′p) reactions at different momentum transfers Marco Radici, W.H. Dickhoff, and E. Roth Stoddard Published 24 July 2002 (13 pages) 014613 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadiabatic corrections to elastic scattering of halo nuclei N. C. Summers, J. S. Al-Khalili, and R. C. Johnson Published 24 July 2002 (13 pages) 014614 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Effects of momentum conservation on the analysis of anisotropic flow N. Borghini, P. M. Dinh, J.-Y. Ollitrault, A. M. Poskanzer, and S. A. Voloshin Published 26 June 2002 (10 pages) 014901 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phases of QCD, thermal quasiparticles, and dilepton radiation from a fireball Thorsten Renk, Roland Schneider, and Wolfram Weise Published 3 July 2002 (19 pages) 014902 [View PDF (522 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dileptons and photons from coarse-grained microscopic dynamics and hydrodynamics compared to experimental data P. Huovinen, M. Belkacem, P. J. Ellis, and J. I. Kapusta Published 16 July 2002 (9 pages) 014903 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuation of gaps in hadronization at the phase transition Rudolph C. Hwa and Qing-hui Zhang Published 17 July 2002 (7 pages) 014904 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of directed flow from elliptic flow N. Borghini, P. M. Dinh, and J.-Y. Ollitrault Published 17 July 2002 (10 pages) 014905 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Violation of energy-per-hadron scaling in resonance matter L. Bravina, Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, E. E. Zabrodin, and Zhong-Dao Lu Published 17 July 2002 (5 pages) 014906 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elliptic flow from a transversally thermalized fireball U. Heinz and S. M. Wong Published 18 July 2002 (15 pages) 014907 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dependence of energy loss of hard jets on the initial thermodynamic state of deconfined matter K. Gallmeister, B. Kämpfer, and O. P. Pavlenko Published 24 July 2002 (6 pages) 014908 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charged particle fluctuations and microscopic models of nuclear collisions Q. H. Zhang, V. Topor Pop, S. Jeon, and C. Gale Published 30 July 2002 (8 pages) 014909 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Nonperturbative aspects of axial vector vertex in the global color symmetry model Hong-shi Zong, Xiang-song Chen, Fan Wang, Chao-hsi Chang, and En-guang Zhao Published 26 June 2002 (6 pages) 015201 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on possible phase transitions above the nuclear saturation density I. N. Mishustin, L. M. Satarov, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 16 July 2002 (11 pages) 015202 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Considerations on rescattering effects for threshold photo- and electroproduction of π0 on the deuteron Michail P. Rekalo and Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson Published 16 July 2002 (8 pages) 015203 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Lagrangian approach to the ω photoproduction near threshold Alexander I. Titov and T.-S. H. Lee Published 17 July 2002 (12 pages) 015204 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Di-Ω (ΩΩ)Jπ=0+ production cross section calculation Y.W. Yu, P. Wang, Z. Y. Zhang, C. R. Ching, T. H. Ho, and L. Y. Chu Published 17 July 2002 (9 pages) 015205 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	ρ-ω mixing in the nonlinear Walecka model D. P. Menezes and C. Providência Published 18 July 2002 (7 pages) 015206 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aspects of a0-f0 mixing in the reaction p→n→da0 A. E. Kudryavtsev, V. E. Tarasov, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart, and J. Speth Published 24 July 2002 (9 pages) 015207 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Investigation of Δ-medium effects using the 4He(γ,π+n)3H and 4He(γ,π+p)nnn reactions D. Branford, J. F. Arneil, J. A. MacKenzie, K. Föhl, J. Ahrens, J. R. Annand, R. Beck, S. Franczuk, P. Grabmayr, S. J. Hall, P. D. Harty, T. Hehl, J. D. Kellie, M. Liang, I. J. MacGregor, J. C. McGeorge, A. Natter, S. Oberkirsch, R. O. Owens, C. J. Powrie, D. P. Watts, and S. Wunderlich Published 26 July 2002 (10 pages) 015208 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aspects of meson properties in dense nuclear matter Octavian Teodorescu, Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder, and Charles Gale Published 26 July 2002 (12 pages) 015209 [View PDF (827 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

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Measurements of charged current reactions of νμ on 12C L. B. Auerbach, R. L. Burman, D. O. Caldwell, E. D. Church, J. B. Donahue, A. Fazely, G. T. Garvey, R. M. Gunasingha, R. Imlay, W. C. Louis, R. Majkic, A. Malik, W. Metcalf, G. B. Mills, V. Sandberg, D. Smith, I. Stancu, M. Sung, R. Tayloe, G. J. VanDalen, W. Vernon, N. Wadia, D. H. White, and S. Yellin (LSND Collaboration) Published 17 July 2002 (12 pages) 015501 [View PDF (370 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical description of double β decay of 160Gd Jorge G. Hirsch, Octavio Castaños, Peter O. Hess, and Osvaldo Civitarese Published 19 July 2002 (11 pages) 015502 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

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45V(p,γ) thermonuclear reaction rate relevant to 44Ti production in core-collapse supernovae: General estimates and shell model analysis M. Horoi, R. Jora, V. Zelevinsky, A. St. Murphy, R. N. Boyd, and T. Rauscher Published 3 July 2002 (7 pages) 015801 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal conductivity of dense quark matter and cooling of stars Igor A. Shovkovy and Paul J. Ellis Published 17 July 2002 (9 pages) 015802 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	α- and neutron-induced reactions on ruthenium isotopes W. Rapp, M. Heil, D. Hentschel, F. Käppeler, R. Reifarth, H. J. Brede, H. Klein, and T. Rauscher Published 18 July 2002 (11 pages) 015803 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation energies in 22Mg from the 25Mg(3He,6He)22Mg reaction J. A. Caggiano, W. Bradfield-Smith, J. P. Greene, R. Lewis, P. D. Parker, K. E. Rehm, and D. W. Visser Published 19 July 2002 (5 pages) 015804 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Structure of 16Ne ground state H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr Published 24 July 2002 (2 pages) 017301 [View PDF (23 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Accuracy of multipole expansion of density distribution in calculating the potential for deformed spherical interacting pair M. Ismail, A. Y. Ellithi, and F. Salah Published 3 July 2002 (4 pages) 017601 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hadrochemistry and evolution of (anti)baryon densities in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions Ralf Rapp Published 22 July 2002 (4 pages) 017901 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]