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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
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Evidence for a 1g9/2 rotational band in 51Mn J. Ekman, D. Rudolph, C. Fahlander, I. Ragnarsson, C. Andreoiu, M. A. Bentley, M. P. Carpenter, R. J. Charity, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, E. Ideguchi, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. N. Mineva, W. Reviol, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, V. Tomov, and S. J. Williams Published 12 November 2002 (5 pages) 051301 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear level densities within the relativistic mean-field theory B. Nerlo-Pomorska, K. Pomorski, J. Bartel, and K. Dietrich Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 051302 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fully renormalized quasiparticle random-phase approximation fulfills Ikeda sum rule exactly Vadim Rodin and Amand Faessler Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 051303 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mirror displacement energies and neutron skins J. Duflo and A. P. Zuker Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 051304 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

New 0+ states in 158Gd S. R. Lesher, A. Aprahamian, L. Trache, A. Oros-Peusquens, S. Deyliz, A. Gollwitzer, R. Hertenberger, B. D. Valnion, and G. Graw Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 051305 [View PDF (329 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quadrupole and octupole softness in the N=Z nucleus 64Ge Kazunari Kaneko, Munetake Hasegawa, and Takahiro Mizusaki Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 051306 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Population of the 168-keV (g7/2) excited state in 103Sn in the α decay of 107Te D. Seweryniak, W. B. Walters, A. Woehr, M. Lipoglavsek, J. Shergur, C. N. Davids, A. Heinz, and J. J. Ressler Published 27 November 2002 (3 pages) 051307 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Critical temperature of nuclear matter and fragment distributions in multifragmentation of finite nuclei R. Ogul and A. S. Botvina Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 051601 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Indications for the nonexistence of three-neutron resonances near the physical region A. Hemmdan, W. Glöckle, and H. Kamada Published 12 November 2002 (9 pages) 054001 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Toy model for pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions. II. The role of three-particle singularities A. Motzke, Ch. Elster, and C. Hanhart Published 12 November 2002 (8 pages) 054002 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical study of 3He(μ-,νμ)3H capture L. E. Marcucci, R. Schiavilla, S. Rosati, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani Published 27 November 2002 (10 pages) 054003 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-body electrodisintegration of the three-nucleon bound state with Δ-isobar excitation L. P. Yuan, K. Chmielewski, M. Oelsner, P. U. Sauer, and J. Adam Published 27 November 2002 (14 pages) 054004 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete next-to-leading-order calculation for pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions at threshold C. Hanhart and N. Kaiser Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 054005 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Elastic scattering of charged pions from 3H and 3He W. J. Briscoe, B. L. Berman, R. W. Carter, K. S. Dhuga, S. K. Matthews, N-J. Nicholas, S. J. Greene, B. M. Nefkens, J. W. Price, L. D. Isenhower, M. E. Sadler, I. Šlaus, and I. Supek Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 054006 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge-symmetry violation in pion scattering from three-body nuclei A. E. Kudryavtsev, V. E. Tarasov, B. L. Berman, W. J. Briscoe, K. S. Dhuga, and I. I. Strakovsky Published 27 November 2002 (18 pages) 054007 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Shell-model calculations for Λ16O and Λ17O using microscopic effective interactions with Σ degrees of freedom Shinichiro Fujii, Ryoji Okamoto, and Kenji Suzuki Published 6 November 2002 (10 pages) 054301 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape evolution in heavy sulfur isotopes and erosion of the N=28 shell closure D. Sohler et al. Published 8 November 2002 (7 pages) 054302 [View PDF (405 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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1g9/2, 1f5/2, and 1f7/2 neutron inner hole responses in 115Sn and 119Sn via the (d→,t) reaction at Ed=200 MeV H. Langevin-Joliot, J. Van de Wiele, J. Guillot, E. Gerlic, L. H. Rosier, A. Willis, C. Djalali, M. Morlet, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, N. Blasi, S. Micheletti, and S. Y. van der Werf Published 11 November 2002 (14 pages) 054303 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-energy effects on isospin singlet pairing in nuclear matter M. Baldo, U. Lombardo, H.-J. Schulze, and Zuo Wei Published 12 November 2002 (5 pages) 054304 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evolution of collectivity with spin in 81Y R. A. Kaye, C. T. Rastovski, S. L. Tabor, J. Döring, F. Cristancho, M. Devlin, G. D. Johns, I. Y. Lee, F. Lerma, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. G. Sarantites, and G. Z. Solomon Published 13 November 2002 (13 pages) 054305 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotationally invariant Hamiltonians for nuclear spectra based on quantum algebras Dennis Bonatsos, B. A. Kotsos, P. P. Raychev, and P. A. Terziev Published 27 November 2002 (21 pages) 054306 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hypernuclear Auger effect within density dependent relativistic hadron field theory Christoph Keil and Horst Lenske Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 054307 [View PDF (323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved variational calculations of nucleon matter J. Morales, V. R. Pandharipande, and D. G. Ravenhall Published 27 November 2002 (13 pages) 054308 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Persistence of K isomerism in the N=104 isotones: Observation of a high-seniority isomer in 75179Re C. Thwaites, C. Wheldon, A. M. Bruce, P. M. Walker, G. D. Dracoulis, A. P. Byrne, T. Kibédi, F. G. Kondev, C. J. Pearson, and C. S. Purry Published 27 November 2002 (22 pages) 054309 [View PDF (556 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-spin structure of 156Dy through γ-ray spectroscopy M. A. Caprio, N. V. Zamfir, R. F. Casten, C. J. Barton, C. W. Beausang, J. R. Cooper, A. A. Hecht, R. Krücken, H. Newman, J. R. Novak, N. Pietralla, A. Wolf, and K. E. Zyromski Published 27 November 2002 (19 pages) 054310 [View PDF (501 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Yrast spectroscopy in the neutron-deficient nucleus 169Os D. T. Joss et al. Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 054311 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite size effect on the strength function in a random matrix analysis Jianzhong Gu, Lei Gao, and Bambi Hu Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 054312 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous behavior of 2+ excitations around 132Sn J. Terasaki, J. Engel, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Stoitsov Published 27 November 2002 (8 pages) 054313 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Spin polarization of 27Na and 31Al in intermediate energy projectile fragmentation of 36S D. Borremans, J. M. Daugas, S. Teughels, D. L. Balabanski, N. Coulier, F. de Oliveira Santos, G. Georgiev, M. Hass, M. Lewitowicz, I. Matea, Yu. E. Penionzhkevich, W.-D. Schmidt-Ott, Yu. E. Sobolev, M. Stanoiu, K. Vyvey, and G. Neyens Published 1 November 2002 (7 pages) 054601 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Model-independent spin-parity determination by the (d,2He) reaction and possible evidence for a 0- state in 12B H. Okamura, T. Uesaka, K. Suda, H. Kumasaka, R. Suzuki, A. Tamii, N. Sakamoto, and H. Sakai Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages) 054602 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion single-charge-exchange reactions above the Δ resonance Naoko Nose-Togawa and Kenji Kume Published 12 November 2002 (5 pages) 054603 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance lifetime in Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory: Observable consequences A. B. Larionov, M. Effenberger, S. Leupold, and U. Mosel Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages) 054604 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron activation measurements on natural tellurium R. Reifarth and F. Käppeler Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 054605 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Semiexclusive pionic double charge exchange on 4He J. L. Clark, M. E. Sevior, H. Clement, J. Gräter, R. Meier, G. J. Wagner, P.-A. Amaudruz, L. Felawka, G. J. Hofman, D. Ottewell, G. R. Smith, A. Ambardar, M. Kermani, G. Tagliente, P. Camerini, E. Fragiacomo, N. Grion, R. Rui, E. L. Mathie, R. Tacik, D. M. Yeomans, E. F. Gibson, J. T. Brack, and M. Schepkin Published 27 November 2002 (6 pages) 054606 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Comparison between α and proton sequential emission in 16O(132 MeV)+58Ni deep inelastic collisions R. Barná, D. De Pasquale, A. Italiano, A. Trifiró, M. Trimarchi, V. Rauch, C. Beck, T. Bellot, C. Bhattacharya, D. Disdier, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, R. Nouicer, P. Papka, M. Rousseau, O. Stezowski, and A. Strazzeri Published 27 November 2002 (12 pages) 054607 [View PDF (938 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Proton emission in Au+Au collisions at 6, 8, and 10.8 GeV/nucleon B. B. Back et al. (E917 Collaboration) Published 11 November 2002 (10 pages) 054901 [View PDF (568 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy dependence of pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions S. V. Afanasiev et al. (The NA49 Collaboration) Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 054902 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Baryon stopping and strange baryon and antibaryon production at ultrarelativistic energies H. Weber, E. L. Bratkovskaya, and H. Stöcker Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 054903 [View PDF (551 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Comparison of space-time evolutions of hot, dense matter in sqrt[sNN]=17 and 130 GeV relativistic heavy ion collisions based on a hydrodynamical model Kenji Morita, Shin Muroya, Chiho Nonaka, and Tetsufumi Hirano Published 27 November 2002 (10 pages) 054904 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective flow and two-pion correlations from a relativistic hydrodynamic model with early chemical freeze-out Tetsufumi Hirano and Keiichi Tsuda Published 27 November 2002 (14 pages) 054905 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	System, centrality, and transverse mass dependence of two-pion correlation radii in heavy ion collisions at 11.6A and 14.6A GeV/c L. Ahle et al. (E-802 Collaboration) Published 27 November 2002 (15 pages) 054906 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Thermal ρ and σ mesons from chiral symmetry and unitarity A. Dobado, A. Gómez Nicola, F. J. Llanes-Estrada, and J. R. Peláez Published 1 November 2002 (5 pages) 055201 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified meson-baryon potential Fabian Brau, Claude Semay, and Bernard Silvestre-Brac Published 6 November 2002 (7 pages) 055202 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral dynamics of the p wave in K-p and coupled states D. Jido, E. Oset, and A. Ramos Published 6 November 2002 (8 pages) 055203 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strange nucleon form factors in the perturbative chiral quark model V. E. Lyubovitskij, P. Wang, Th. Gutsche, and Amand Faessler Published 6 November 2002 (8 pages) 055204 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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In-medium production of 2π0, η, and π0 by π- at 750 MeV/c A. Starostin, H. M. Staudenmaier, V. Bekrenev, W. J. Briscoe, A. Koulbardis, N. Kozlenko, S. Kruglov, I. Lopatin, A. Marušić, S. McDonald, B. M. Nefkens, N. Phaisangittisakul, S. Prakhov, J. W. Price, A. Shafi, I. Slaus, and I. Supek Published 8 November 2002 (8 pages) 055205 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	From soft to hard regime in elastic pion-pion scattering above resonances A. Szczurek, N. N. Nikolaev, and J. Speth Published 8 November 2002 (9 pages) 055206 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent quantum effects in the quark meson coupling model P. K. Panda and F. L. Braghin Published 8 November 2002 (7 pages) 055207 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	η, η′ photoproduction and electroproduction off nucleons B. Borasoy, E. Marco, and S. Wetzel Published 18 November 2002 (15 pages) 055208 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hypernuclear weak decay puzzle C. Barbero, D. Horvat, F. Krmpotić, T. T. Kuo, Z. Narančić, and D. Tadić Published 27 November 2002 (16 pages) 055209 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron charge radius deduced from Bragg reflection technique J.-M. Sparenberg and H. Leeb Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages) 055210 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vector meson production and nucleon resonance analysis in a coupled-channel approach for energies mN<sqrt[s]<2 GeV. I. Pion-induced results and hadronic parameters G. Penner and U. Mosel Published 27 November 2002 (43 pages) 055211 [View PDF (633 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vector meson production and nucleon resonance analysis in a coupled-channel approach for energies mN<sqrt[s]<2 GeV. II. Photon-induced results G. Penner and U. Mosel Published 27 November 2002 (32 pages) 055212 [View PDF (1095 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of pion photoproduction data R. A. Arndt, W. J. Briscoe, I. I. Strakovsky, and R. L. Workman Published 27 November 2002 (17 pages) 055213 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-range repulsion and isospin dependence in the kaon-nucleon (KN) system D. Hadjimichef, J. Haidenbauer, and G. Krein Published 27 November 2002 (11 pages) 055214 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Cross sections for neutral-current neutrino scattering on 208Pb N. Jachowicz, K. Heyde, and J. Ryckebusch Published 1 November 2002 (6 pages) 055501 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Axial-vector current in nuclear many-body physics Sergei M. Ananyan, Brian D. Serot, and John Dirk Walecka Published 27 November 2002 (18 pages) 055502 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Radiation correction to astrophysical fusion reactions and the electron screening problem K. Hagino and A. B. Balantekin Published 6 November 2002 (5 pages) 055801 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Breakout from the hot CNO cycle via the 18Ne(α,p)21Na reaction. II. Extended energy range Ec.m.∼1.7–2.9 MeV D. Groombridge, A. C. Shotter, W. Bradfield-Smith, S. Cherubini, T. Davinson, A. Di Pietro, J. Görres, J. S. Graulich, A. M. Laird, P. Leleux, A. Musumarra, A. Ninane, A. N. Ostrowski, J. Rahighi, H. Schatz, M. Wiescher, and P. J. Woods Published 27 November 2002 (10 pages) 055802 [View PDF (423 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraining URCA cooling of neutron stars from the neutron radius of 208Pb C. J. Horowitz and J. Piekarewicz Published 27 November 2002 (8 pages) 055803 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	14N(3He,d)15O as a probe of direct capture in the 14N(p,γ)15O reaction P. F. Bertone, A. E. Champagne, M. Boswell, C. Iliadis, S. E. Hale, V. Y. Hansper, and D. C. Powell Published 27 November 2002 (7 pages) 055804 [View PDF (509 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraints on the 22Ne(α,n)25Mg s-process neutron source from analysis of natMg+n total and 25Mg(n,γ) cross sections P. E. Koehler Published 27 November 2002 (9 pages) 055805 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Three-body approach to the K-d scattering length in particle basis A. Bahaoui, C. Fayard, T. Mizutani, and B. Saghai Published 6 November 2002 (4 pages) 057001 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy photodisintegration of 9Be with the molecular orbit model N. Itagaki and K. Hagino Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages) 057301 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell model calculations of 108Sb in the sdgh shell E. Dikmen, A. Novoselsky, and M. Vallieres Published 12 November 2002 (3 pages) 057302 [View PDF (33 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpreting recent measurements of 0+ states in 158Gd N. V. Zamfir, Jing-ye Zhang, and R. F. Casten Published 27 November 2002 (3 pages) 057303 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Kyy′(0°) for 3He(d,p)4He near the Jπ=3 / 2+ resonance K. A. Fletcher, C. R. Brune, B. M. Fisher, R. P. Fitzgerald, H. J. Karwowski, D. S. Leonard, E. J. Ludwig, R. C. Runkle, M. H. Wood, W. H. Geist, K. D. Veal, and G. M. Hale Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages) 057601 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mass formula for baryon resonances Eberhard Klempt Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages) 058201 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher’s Note: Shell model calculations of 108Sb in the sdgh shell [Phys. Rev. C 66, 057302 (2002)] E. Dikmen, A. Novoselsky, and M. Vallieres Published 27 November 2002 (1 pages) 059901 [View PDF (9 kB) ]