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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
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Evidence of X(5) symmetry for nγ=0,1,2 bands in 104Mo P. G. Bizzeti and A. M. Bizzeti-Sona Published 26 September 2002 (4 pages) 031301 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Caloric curves and nuclear expansion J. B. Natowitz, K. Hagel, Y. Ma, M. Murray, L. Qin, S. Shlomo, R. Wada, and J. Wang Published 26 September 2002 (4 pages) 031601 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Light front cloudy bag model: Nucleon electromagnetic form factors Gerald A. Miller Published 3 September 2002 (5 pages) 032201 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Phase equivalent chains of Darboux transformations in scattering theory Boris F. Samsonov and Fl. Stancu Published 11 September 2002 (12 pages) 034001 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deuteron binding energies and form factors from light-front Hamiltonian field theory Jason R. Cooke and Gerald A. Miller Published 27 September 2002 (21 pages) 034002 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Polarization transfer observables in πd elastic scattering G. Suft, W. Kretschmer, E. Boschitz, R. Meier, B. Brinkmöller, B. van den Brandt, P. Hautle, J. A. Konter, S. Mango, L. Mathelitsch, H. Garcilazo, and W. Grüebler Published 27 September 2002 (18 pages) 034003 [View PDF (898 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Random phase approximation vs exact shell-model correlation energies Ionel Stetcu and Calvin W. Johnson Published 3 September 2002 (6 pages) 034301 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple approach to the angular momentum distribution in the ground states of many-body systems Y. M. Zhao, A. Arima, and N. Yoshinaga Published 3 September 2002 (4 pages) 034302 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of T=0 two body matrix elements on M1 and Gamow-Teller transitions: Isospin decomposition Shadow J. Robinson and Larry Zamick Published 3 September 2002 (13 pages) 034303 [View PDF (1434 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle random phase approximation with finite rank approximation for Skyrme interactions A. P. Severyukhin, Ch. Stoyanov, V. V. Voronov, and Nguyen Van Giai Published 3 September 2002 (7 pages) 034304 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlating the giant-monopole resonance to the nuclear-matter incompressibility J. Piekarewicz Published 3 September 2002 (5 pages) 034305 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic mean field for nuclear periphery Y. K. Gambhir and A. A. Bhagwat Published 3 September 2002 (8 pages) 034306 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multicluster configuration in highly excited states of 24Mg M. Ito, Y. Hirabayashi, and Y. Sakuragi Published 6 September 2002 (18 pages) 034307 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification of excited states in doubly odd 63140Eu77 by recoil-isomer tagging D. M. Cullen et al. Published 11 September 2002 (11 pages) 034308 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Circulation of a triaxial, charged ellipsoidal droplet J. L. Graber and G. Rosensteel Published 19 September 2002 (8 pages) 034309 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytic solution of the pairing problem: One pair in many levels M. Barbaro, R. Cenni, A. Molinari, and M. R. Quaglia Published 26 September 2002 (12 pages) 034310 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nonyrast states of 108Cd: Investigation with complementary γγ-spectroscopic methods A. Gade, A. Fitzler, C. Fransen, J. Jolie, S. Kasemann, H. Klein, A. Linnemann, V. Werner, and P. von Brentano Published 26 September 2002 (26 pages) 034311 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	SU(3) versus deformed Hartree-Fock state Calvin W. Johnson, Ionel Stetcu, and J. P. Draayer Published 26 September 2002 (5 pages) 034312 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-body overlap functions, equations of motion, and phenomenological potentials Jutta Escher and Byron K. Jennings Published 26 September 2002 (15 pages) 034313 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Single hole spectroscopic strength in 98Ru through the 99Ru(d,t) reaction M. R. Rodrigues, T. Borello-Lewin, L. B. Horodynski-Matsushigue, J. L. Duarte, C. L. Rodrigues, M. D. Barbosa, G. M. Ukita, and G. B. da Silva Published 27 September 2002 (7 pages) 034314 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic multigap superfluid states in nuclear matter A. A. Isayev and G. Röpke Published 27 September 2002 (7 pages) 034315 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Search for entrance channel effects in heavy ion induced fusion reactions through the compound system 79Rb* J. Kaur, I. M. Govil, G. Singh, Ajay Kumar, A. Kumar, B. R. Behera, and S. K. Datta Published 3 September 2002 (5 pages) 034601 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analyzing power and cross section distributions of the knockout reaction 208Pb(p→,2p)207Tl at an incident energy of 202 MeV R. Neveling, A. A. Cowley, G. F. Steyn, S. V. Förtsch, G. C. Hillhouse, J. Mano, and S. M. Wyngaardt Published 3 September 2002 (13 pages) 034602 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact and approximate postform distorted-wave Born approximation amplitudes for the Coulomb breakup of neutron halo nuclei M. Zadro Published 4 September 2002 (10 pages) 034603 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasimolecular states in 24Mg and d-α angular correlations in the 12C(14N,d)24Mg*(α)20Ne reaction T. L. Belyaeva and N. S. Zelenskaya Published 6 September 2002 (15 pages) 034604 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excitation function measurements for 12C+12C inelastic scattering channels C. A. Bremner, S. P. Chappell, W. D. Rae, I. Boztosun, M. Freer, M. P. Nicoli, S. M. Singer, B. R. Fulton, D. L. Watson, B. J. Greenhalgh, G. K. Dillon, and R. L. Cowin Published 6 September 2002 (7 pages) 034605 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The reaction np→ηd near threshold H. Garcilazo and M. T. Peña Published 6 September 2002 (10 pages) 034606 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dominance of collective over proton transfer couplings in the fusion of 32S and 34S with 89Y A. Mukherjee, M. Dasgupta, D. J. Hinde, K. Hagino, J. R. Leigh, J. C. Mein, C. R. Morton, J. O. Newton, and H. Timmers Published 11 September 2002 (8 pages) 034607 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupling effects in the elastic scattering of 6He on 12C V. Lapoux et al. Published 12 September 2002 (17 pages) 034608 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precursor of an isospin separation instability in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate, rare-isotope accelerator energies Bao-An Li Published 12 September 2002 (5 pages) 034609 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson exchange currents in a relativistic model for electromagnetic one nucleon emission Andrea Meucci, Carlotta Giusti, and Franco Davide Pacati Published 12 September 2002 (8 pages) 034610 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo integration in Glauber model analysis of reactions of halo nuclei K. Varga, Steven C. Pieper, Y. Suzuki, and R. B. Wiringa Published 19 September 2002 (8 pages) 034611 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Highly deformed 40Ca configurations in 28Si+12C M. Rousseau, C. Beck, C. Bhattacharya, V. Rauch, O. Dorvaux, K. Eddahbi, C. Enaux, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, D. Mahboub, R. Nouicer, P. Papka, O. Stezowski, S. Szilner, A. Hachem, E. Martin, S. J. Sanders, A. K. Dummer, and A. Szanto de Toledo Published 24 September 2002 (15 pages) 034612 [View PDF (678 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First measurement of π-e→π-eγ pion virtual compton scattering A. Ocherashvili et al. Published 26 September 2002 (9 pages) 034613 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization measurements in neutral pion photoproduction K. Wijesooriya et al. Published 26 September 2002 (14 pages) 034614 [View PDF (1278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation of triple giant resonances in heavy-ion reactions M. S. Hussein, B. V. Carlson, L. F. Canto, and A. F. de Toledo Piza Published 26 September 2002 (5 pages) 034615 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Proton and deuteron rapidity distributions and nuclear stopping in 96Ru(96Zr)+96Ru(96Zr) collisions at 400A MeV B. Hong et al. (FOPI Collaboration) Published 3 September 2002 (9 pages) 034901 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Off-shell pions in Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck transport theory A. B. Larionov and U. Mosel Published 19 September 2002 (9 pages) 034902 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The K/π ratio from condensed Polyakov loops O. Scavenius, A. Dumitru, and J. T. Lenaghan Published 26 September 2002 (7 pages) 034903 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elliptic flow from two- and four-particle correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130 GeV C. Adler et al. Published 26 September 2002 (17 pages) 034904 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain wall bubbles in high energy heavy ion collisions E. V. Shuryak and A. R. Zhitnitsky Published 26 September 2002 (6 pages) 034905 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Comparison among Hamiltonian light-front formalisms at q+=0 and q+≠0: Spacelike elastic form factors of pseudoscalar and vector mesons Silvano Simula Published 26 September 2002 (13 pages) 035201 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Σ photoproduction in the resonance region S. Janssen, J. Ryckebusch, D. Debruyne, and T. Van Cauteren Published 26 September 2002 (12 pages) 035202 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Calculated corrections to superallowed Fermi β decay: New evaluation of the nuclear-structure-dependent terms I. S. Towner and J. C. Hardy Published 26 September 2002 (13 pages) 035501 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Determination of the S18 astrophysical factor for 8B(p,γ)9C from the breakup of 9C at intermediate energies L. Trache, F. Carstoiu, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and R. E. Tribble Published 11 September 2002 (10 pages) 035801 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	If sterile neutrinos exist, how can one determine the total solar neutrino fluxes? John N. Bahcall, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, and C. Peña-Garay Published 19 September 2002 (20 pages) 035802 [View PDF (465 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

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Observation of yrast states in neutron-rich 41Cl 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 September 2002 (4 pages) 037301 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation with Monte Carlo calculations G. Puddu Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages) 037302 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range effects on nuclear pairing W. Zuo, U. Lombardo, H.-J. Schulze, and C. W. Shen Published 17 September 2002 (3 pages) 037303 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Two-phonon γ-vibrational strength in osmium nuclei” D. G. Burke Published 3 September 2002 (2 pages) 039801 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Two-phonon γ-vibrational strength in osmium nuclei’ ” C. Y. Wu, D. Cline, A. B. Hayes, M. W. Simon, R. Krücken, J. R. Cooper, C. J. Barton, C. W. Beausang, C. Bialik, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, A. A. Hecht, H. Newman, J. Novak, N. Pietralla, K. Zyromski, and N. V. Zamfir Published 3 September 2002 (2 pages) 039802 [View PDF (26 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Total charge-changing and partial cross-section measurements in the reactions of ∼110–250 MeV/nucleon 12C in carbon, paraffin, and water [Phys. Rev. C 66, 014609 (2002)] A. N. Golovchenko, J. Skvarč, N. Yasuda, M. Giacomelli, S. P. Tretyakova, R. Ilić, R. Bimbot, M. Toulemonde, and T. Murakami Published 4 September 2002 (1 pages) 039901 [View PDF (13 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Compton scattering from the proton at fourth order NLO in the chiral expansion [Phys. Rev. C 63, 064608 (2001)] Judith A. McGovern Published 17 September 2002 (3 pages) 039902 [View PDF (58 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Neutron and proton spectra from the decay of Λ hypernuclei [Phys. Rev. C 55, 735 (1997)] A. Ramos, M. J. Vicente-Vacas, and E. Oset Published 26 September 2002 (3 pages) 039903 [View PDF (55 kB) ]