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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Precise estimation of shell model energy by second-order extrapolation method Takahiro Mizusaki and Masatoshi Imada Published 7 April 2003 (5 pages) 041301 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Reexamination of the N=90 transitional nuclei 150Nd and 152Sm R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, F. S. Stephens, and D. Ward Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages) 041302 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Transition quadrupole moments in the superdeformed band of 40Ca C. J. Chiara, E. Ideguchi, M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, F. Lerma, W. Reviol, S. K. Ryu, D. G. Sarantites, C. Baktash, A. Galindo-Uribarri, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, P. Reiter, D. Seweryniak, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, A. O. Macchiavelli, and D. Rudolph Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages) 041303 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Di-proton decay of 45Fe B. A. Brown and F. C. Barker Published 28 April 2003 (3 pages) 041304 [View PDF (32 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Search for x-ray induced decay of the 31-yr isomer of 178Hf at low x-ray energies I. Ahmad, J. C. Banar, J. A. Becker, T. A. Bredeweg, J. R. Cooper, D. S. Gemmell, A. Mashayekhi, D. P. McNabb, E. F. Moore, P. Palmer, R. S. Rundberg, J. P. Schiffer, S. D. Shastri, T. F. Wang, and J. B. Wilhelmy Published 30 April 2003 (4 pages) 041305 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

α decay and proton-neutron correlations Kazunari Kaneko and Munetake Hasegawa Published 30 April 2003 (5 pages) 041306 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fission fragment angular distributions: A probe to study heavy-ion fusion dynamics R. G. Thomas, R. K. Choudhury, A. K. Mohanty, A. Saxena, and S. S. Kapoor Published 7 April 2003 (5 pages) 041601 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

A unique spinodal region in asymmetric nuclear matter Jérôme Margueron and Philippe Chomaz Published 18 April 2003 (5 pages) 041602 [View PDF (333 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

T=5/2 states in 9Li: Isobaric analog states of 9He G. V. Rogachev, V. Z. Goldberg, J. J. Kolata, G. Chubarian, D. Aleksandrov, A. Fomichev, M. S. Golovkov, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, A. Rodin, B. Skorodumov, R. S. Slepnev, G. Ter-Akopian, W. H. Trzaska, and R. Wolski Published 25 April 2003 (5 pages) 041603 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dipole polarizability of 6He and its effect on elastic scattering K. Rusek, N. Keeley, K. W. Kemper, and R. Raabe Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 041604 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Empirical emission functions for Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal suppression of photon emission from quark-gluon plasmas S. V. Sastry Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 041901 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Effect of gluon-exchange pair currents on the ratio μpGEp/GMp Murat M. Kaskulov and Peter Grabmayr Published 30 April 2003 (5 pages) 042201 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear spin-isospin correlations, parity violation, and the fπ problem Gerald A. Miller Published 29 April 2003 (5 pages) 042501 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Determination of the chiral coupling constants c3 and c4 in new pp and np partial-wave analyses M. C. Rentmeester, R. G. Timmermans, and J. J. de Swart Published 4 April 2003 (5 pages) 044001 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Baryonic contributions to the dilepton spectrum of nucleon-nucleon collisions M. Zétényi and Gy. Wolf Published 23 April 2003 (7 pages) 044002 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Positive pion absorption on 3He using modern trinucleon wave functions S. Schneider, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart, and J. A. Niskanen Published 23 April 2003 (8 pages) 044003 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The reaction Δ+N→N+N+φ in ion-ion collisions Michail P. Rekalo and Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson Published 28 April 2003 (10 pages) 044004 [View PDF (452 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Precision neutron interferometric measurements and updated evaluations of the n-p and n-d coherent neutron scattering lengths K. Schoen, D. L. Jacobson, M. Arif, P. R. Huffman, T. C. Black, W. M. Snow, S. K. Lamoreaux, H. Kaiser, and S. A. Werner Published 29 April 2003 (21 pages) 044005 [View PDF (534 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Simple correlated wave functions for the ground and some excited states of sd shell nuclei J. Praena, E. Buendía, F. J. Gálvez, and A. Sarsa Published 2 April 2003 (10 pages) 044301 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gamow-Teller transitions and magnetic properties of nuclei and shell evolution Toshio Suzuki, Rintaro Fujimoto, and Takaharu Otsuka Published 18 April 2003 (15 pages) 044302 [View PDF (370 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supersymmetry model in 73As revisited: Electromagnetic transition rates and U(6/12) A. Algora, J. Jolie, Zs. Dombradi, D. Sohler, Zs. Podolyák, and T. Fényes Published 24 April 2003 (8 pages) 044303 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy level statistics of the U(5) and O(6) symmetries in the interacting boson model Jing Shu, Ying Ran, Tao Ji, and Yu-xin Liu Published 25 April 2003 (14 pages) 044304 [View PDF (1103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pair-truncated shell-model approach to backbending and low-lying states in 132Ba K. Higashiyama, N. Yoshinaga, and K. Tanabe Published 28 April 2003 (7 pages) 044305 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections for the excitation of isovector charge-exchange resonances in 208Tl G. Colò, S. M. Lenzi, E. E. Maqueda, and A. Vitturi Published 28 April 2003 (5 pages) 044306 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Liquid-gas coexistence and critical behavior in boxed neutral, isosymmetric pseudo-Fermi matter Jan Tõke, Jun Lu, and W. Udo Schröder Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 044307 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nucleon density in the nuclear periphery determined with antiprotonic x rays: Cadmium and tin isotopes R. Schmidt, A. Trzcińska, T. Czosnyka, T. von Egidy, K. Gulda, F. J. Hartmann, J. Jastrzȩbski, B. Ketzer, M. Kisieliński, B. Kłos, W. Kurcewicz, P. Lubiński, P. Napiorkowski, L. Pieńkowski, R. Smolańczuk, E. Widmann, and S. Wycech Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages) 044308 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body systems with Lagrange-mesh techniques in hyperspherical coordinates P. Descouvemont, C. Daniel, and D. Baye Published 28 April 2003 (14 pages) 044309 [View PDF (1062 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Superdeformed bands in 80-83Sr, 82-84Y, 83,84Zr: Transition quadrupole moments, moments of inertia, and configuration assignments F. Lerma, W. Reviol, C. J. Chiara, M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, D. G. Sarantites, C. Baktash, H.-Q. Jin, R. M. Clark, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, W. Satuła, D. Soltysik, S. L. Tabor, and R. Wyss Published 28 April 2003 (18 pages) 044310 [View PDF (988 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Goldstone-Brueckner perturbation theory extended in terms of mixed nonorthogonal Slater determinants T. Duguet Published 29 April 2003 (13 pages) 044311 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New signatures for octupole deformation in some actinide nuclei A. A. Raduta and D. Ionescu Published 29 April 2003 (8 pages) 044312 [View PDF (1083 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Gamow-Teller strength distributions in 76Ge and 76Se from deformed quasiparticle random-phase approximation P. Sarriguren, E. Moya de Guerra, L. Pacearescu, Amand Faessler, F. Šimkovic, and A. A. Raduta Published 29 April 2003 (10 pages) 044313 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How magic is the magic 68Ni nucleus? K. Langanke, J. Terasaki, F. Nowacki, D. J. Dean, and W. Nazarewicz Published 29 April 2003 (4 pages) 044314 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tests of the random phase approximation for transition strengths Ionel Stetcu and Calvin W. Johnson Published 29 April 2003 (10 pages) 044315 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear liquid-drop model and surface-curvature effects K. Pomorski and J. Dudek Published 29 April 2003 (13 pages) 044316 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic mean-field study of neutron-rich nuclei B. G. Todd and J. Piekarewicz Published 29 April 2003 (8 pages) 044317 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of tensor couplings in a relativistic Hartree approach for finite nuclei Guangjun Mao Published 29 April 2003 (12 pages) 044318 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic search of πh11/2⊗νh11/2 chiral doublet bands and role of triaxiality in odd-odd Z=55 isotopes: 128,130,132,134Cs T. Koike, K. Starosta, C. J. Chiara, D. B. Fossan, and D. R. LaFosse Published 30 April 2003 (22 pages) 044319 [View PDF (422 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Meson exchange currents in electromagnetic one-nucleon emission Carlotta Giusti and Franco Davide Pacati Published 2 April 2003 (10 pages) 044601 [View PDF (357 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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2n-transfer contribution in the 4He(6He,6He)4He cross section at Ec.m.=11.6 MeV R. Raabe, A. Andreyev, M. Huyse, A. Piechaczek, P. Van Duppen, L. Weissman, A. Wöhr, C. Angulo, S. Cherubini, A. Musumarra, D. Baye, P. Descouvemont, T. Davinson, A. Di Pietro, A. M. Laird, A. Ostrowski, A. Shotter, L. I. Galanina, and N. S. Zelenskaya Published 2 April 2003 (6 pages) 044602 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Breakup of 17F on 208Pb near the Coulomb barrier J. F. Liang, J. R. Beene, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gomez del Campo, C. J. Gross, P. A. Hausladen, P. E. Mueller, D. Shapira, D. W. Stracener, R. L. Varner, J. D. Bierman, H. Esbensen, and Y. Larochelle Published 7 April 2003 (7 pages) 044603 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Multistep processes in the 12C(6Li,d) stripping reaction N. Keeley, T. L. Drummer, E. E. Bartosz, C. R. Brune, P. D. Cathers, M. Fauerbach, H. J. Karwowski, K. W. Kemper, B. Kozłowska, E. J. Ludwig, F. Maréchal, A. J. Mendez, E. G. Myers, D. Robson, K. Rusek, and K. D. Veal Published 18 April 2003 (12 pages) 044604 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb excitation of 11Be reexamined T. Tarutina, L. C. Chamon, and M. S. Hussein Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages) 044605 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Importance of isovector effects in reproducing neutron total cross section differences in the W isotopes F. S. Dietrich, J. D. Anderson, R. W. Bauer, S. M. Grimes, R. W. Finlay, W. P. Abfalterer, F. B. Bateman, R. C. Haight, G. L. Morgan, E. Bauge, J.-P. Delaroche, and P. Romain Published 28 April 2003 (11 pages) 044606 [View PDF (456 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exclusive breakup of 6Li by 208Pb at Coulomb barrier energies C. Signorini et al. Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages) 044607 [View PDF (1207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inclusive spectra of (p,xp) and (p,xd) reactions on 90,92Zr and 92Mo nuclei at Ep=30.3 MeV A. Duisebayev, K. M. Ismailov, and I. Boztosun Published 29 April 2003 (8 pages) 044608 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Explanation of difference in one-neutron knockout cross sections between odd-odd and even-even projectiles with equal neutron and proton numbers Bernard G. Harvey Published 29 April 2003 (2 pages) 044609 [View PDF (20 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	“Little big bang” scenario of multifragmentation X. Campi, H. Krivine, E. Plagnol, and N. Sator Published 29 April 2003 (8 pages) 044610 [View PDF (344 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Temperature and n-p asymmetry dependencies of the level-density parameter in Ni+Mo fusion reactions R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, J. F. Dempsey, M. Devlin, S. Komarov, D. G. Sarantites, A. L. Caraley, R. T. deSouza, W. Loveland, D. Peterson, B. B. Back, C. N. Davids, and D. Seweryniak Published 29 April 2003 (21 pages) 044611 [View PDF (1162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Centrality dependence of charged-neutral particle fluctuations in 158A GeV 208Pb+208Pb collisions M. M. Aggarwal et al. (WA98 Collaboration) Published 2 April 2003 (14 pages) 044901 [View PDF (988 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopy of resonance decays in high-energy heavy-ion experiments Peter F. Kolb and Madappa Prakash Published 23 April 2003 (11 pages) 044902 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse flow and hadrochemistry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=200 GeV Peter F. Kolb and Ralf Rapp Published 24 April 2003 (5 pages) 044903 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin fluctuations from a thermally equilibrated hadron gas Sen Cheng and Scott Pratt Published 25 April 2003 (13 pages) 044904 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quenching of high p⊥ hadron spectra by hadronic interactions in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies K. Gallmeister, C. Greiner, and Z. Xu Published 28 April 2003 (8 pages) 044905 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Next-to-leading-order constituent quark structure and hadronic structure functions Firooz Arash and Ali N. Khorramian Published 28 April 2003 (11 pages) 045201 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalar-isoscalar excitation in dense quark matter Prashanth Jaikumar and Ismail Zahed Published 28 April 2003 (9 pages) 045202 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	φ meson mass and decay width in nuclear matter D. Cabrera and M. J. Vicente Vacas Published 29 April 2003 (8 pages) 045203 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Radiative capture and electromagnetic dissociation involving loosely bound nuclei: The 8B example C. Forssén, N. B. Shul’gina, and M. V. Zhukov Published 28 April 2003 (10 pages) 045801 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	K--nucleus scattering at low and intermediate energies C. García-Recio, A. J. Melgarejo, and J. Nieves Published 1 April 2003 (4 pages) 047601 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Breakup and core coupling in 14N(7Be,8B)13C A. M. Moro, R. Crespo, F. M. Nunes, and I. J. Thompson Published 18 April 2003 (3 pages) 047602 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Particle multiplicity distributions in silicon-emulsion collisions at 4.5A GeV/c Fu-Hu Liu, Nabil N. Abd Allah, Dong-Hai Zhang, and Mai-Ying Duan Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 047603 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear shadowing and high-pT hadron spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions S. R. Klein and R. Vogt Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages) 047901 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of double-polarization data in fits to single-pion photoproduction Richard A. Arndt, Igor I. Strakovsky, and Ron L. Workman Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages) 048201 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge invariant evaluation of nuclear polarization with the collective model Yataro Horikawa and Akihiro Haga Published 28 April 2003 (4 pages) 048501 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optically opaque color-flavor locked phase inside compact stars Igor A. Shovkovy and Paul J. Ellis Published 28 April 2003 (3 pages) 048801 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: One neutron transfer reaction spectroscopy of 195Pt as a detailed test of the U(6/12) supersymmetry [Phys. Rev. C 61, 064313 (2000)] A. Metz, Y. Eisermann, A. Gollwitzer, R. Hertenberger, B. D. Valnion, G. Graw, and J. Jolie Published 8 April 2003 (3 pages) 049901 [View PDF (25 kB) ]

•	Erratum: 6Be and 8C level widths [Phys. Rev. C 66, 047603 (2002)] F. C. Barker Published 25 April 2003 (1 pages) 049902 [View PDF (18 kB) ]