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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Stochastic variational search for ΛΛ 4H H. Nemura, Y. Akaishi, and Khin Swe Myint Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages) 051001 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Isomer bands, E0 transitions, and mixing due to shape coexistence in  82188Pb106 G. D. Dracoulis, G. J. Lane, A. P. Byrne, A. M. Baxter, T. Kibédi, A. O. Macchiavelli, P. Fallon, and R. M. Clark Published 22 May 2003 (5 pages) 051301 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Di-triton molecular structure in 6He H. Akimune, T. Yamagata, S. Nakayama, Y. Arimoto, M. Fujiwara, K. Fushimi, K. Hara, M. Ohta, A. Shiokawa, M. Tanaka, H. Utsunomiya, K. Y. Hara, H. P. Yoshida, and M. Yosoi Published 28 May 2003 (4 pages) 051302 [View PDF (1145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Factorization of shell-model ground states T. Papenbrock and D. J. Dean Published 28 May 2003 (5 pages) 051303 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Monte Carlo spectroscopy with Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov wave functions G. Puddu Published 29 May 2003 (5 pages) 051304 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High precision branching ratio measurement for the superallowed β decay of 74Rb: A prerequisite for exacting tests of the standard model A. Piechaczek, E. F. Zganjar, G. C. Ball, P. Bricault, J. M. D’Auria, J. C. Hardy, D. F. Hodgson, V. Iacob, P. Klages, W. D. Kulp, J. R. Leslie, M. Lipoglavsek, J. A. Macdonald, H.-B. Mak, D. M. Moltz, G. Savard, J. von Schwarzenberg, C. E. Svensson, I. S. Towner, and J. L. Wood Published 30 May 2003 (5 pages) 051305 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Analysis of previous microscopic calculations for the second 0+ state in 12C in terms of 3-α particle Bose-condensed state Y. Funaki, A. Tohsaki, H. Horiuchi, P. Schuck, and G. Röpke Published 30 May 2003 (5 pages) 051306 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Measuring neutron separation energies far from stability W. A. Friedman and M. B. Tsang Published 14 May 2003 (5 pages) 051601 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Mass parametrizations and predictions of isotopic observables S. R. Souza, P. Danielewicz, S. Das Gupta, R. Donangelo, W. A. Friedman, W. G. Lynch, W. P. Tan, and M. B. Tsang Published 19 May 2003 (5 pages) 051602 [View PDF (372 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Constraints on background contributions from K+Λ electroproduction S. Janssen, J. Ryckebusch, and T. Van Cauteren Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages) 052201 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

The pp→ppπ+π- reaction studied in the low-energy tail of the Roper resonance J. Pätzold et al. Published 28 May 2003 (5 pages) 052202 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

2H(18F,pα)15N reaction applied to nova γ-ray emission N. de Séréville et al. Published 22 May 2003 (4 pages) 052801 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

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Search for three-nucleon force effects in two-body photodisintegration of 3He (3H) and in the time reversed proton-deuteron radiative capture process R. Skibiński, J. Golak, H. Kamada, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, and A. Nogga Published 1 May 2003 (8 pages) 054001 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-nucleon photodisintegration of 3He R. Skibiński, J. Golak, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, H. Kamada, and A. Nogga Published 13 May 2003 (12 pages) 054002 [View PDF (463 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved effective interaction for the hyperspherical formalism Nir Barnea, Winfried Leidemann, and Giuseppina Orlandini Published 22 May 2003 (11 pages) 054003 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon-deuteron scattering with Δ-isobar excitation: Perturbation theory A. Deltuva, K. Chmielewski, and P. U. Sauer Published 23 May 2003 (9 pages) 054004 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase shift effective range expansion from supersymmetric quantum mechanics Boris F. Samsonov and Fl. Stancu Published 29 May 2003 (6 pages) 054005 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Microscopic calculations in asymmetric nuclear matter D. Alonso and F. Sammarruca Published 6 May 2003 (16 pages) 054301 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical description of deformed proton emitters:  Nonadiabatic quasiparticle method G. Fiorin, E. Maglione, and L. S. Ferreira Published 7 May 2003 (4 pages) 054302 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cluster effects in the structure of the ground state and superdeformed bands of 60Zn G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, R. V. Jolos, Yu. V. Palchikov, and W. Scheid Published 13 May 2003 (6 pages) 054303 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Identification of ν9/2[404] band in 97Sr J. K. Hwang, A. V. Ramayya, J. H. Hamilton, D. Fong, C. J. Beyer, P. M. Gore, Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, S. C. Wu, I. Y. Lee, C. M. Folden, P. Fallon, P. Zielinski, K. E. Gregorich, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. A. Stoyer, S. J. Asztalos, T. N. Ginter, S. J. Zhu, J. D. Cole, G. M. Ter Akopian, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, and R. Donangelo Published 14 May 2003 (5 pages) 054304 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of the Coulomb and the vector-isovector ρ potentials in the isospin asymmetry of nuclear pseudospin R. Lisboa, M. Malheiro, and P. Alberto Published 14 May 2003 (8 pages) 054305 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Electromagnetic B(E2) transition strengths along the yrast negative-parity band of 113I P. Petkov, A. Dewald, A. Fitzler, T. Klug, G. de Angelis, E. Farnea, A. Gadea, R. Isocrate, N. Marginean, D. R. Napoli, D. Curien, N. Kintz, S. Lenzi, S. Lunardi, R. Menegazzo, V. Pucknell, and C. Ring Published 14 May 2003 (7 pages) 054306 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical evaluation of average nuclear one- and two-body matrix elements X. Viñas, P. Schuck, M. Farine, and M. Centelles Published 15 May 2003 (9 pages) 054307 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density dependence of two-body interactions for beyond–mean-field calculations T. Duguet and P. Bonche Published 21 May 2003 (17 pages) 054308 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin- and parity-dependent nuclear level densities and the exponential convergence method Mihai Horoi, Joshua Kaiser, and Vladimir Zelevinsky Published 21 May 2003 (7 pages) 054309 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large-scale shell model calculations for the N=126 isotones Po–Pu E. Caurier, M. Rejmund, and H. Grawe Published 21 May 2003 (10 pages) 054310 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gamow shell model description of weakly bound nuclei and unbound nuclear states N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, M. Płoszajczak, and J. Okołowicz Published 22 May 2003 (17 pages) 054311 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-spin microsecond isomers in 129In and 129Sb J. Genevey, J. A. Pinston, H. R. Faust, R. Orlandi, A. Scherillo, G. S. Simpson, I. S. Tsekhanovich, A. Covello, A. Gargano, and W. Urban Published 22 May 2003 (6 pages) 054312 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective operator treatment of the anharmonic oscillator K. J. Abraham and J. P. Vary Published 22 May 2003 (5 pages) 054313 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	β decay of 49,50Ar L. Weissman, U. Bergmann, J. Cederkall, L. M. Fraile, S. Franchoo, H. Fynbo, H. Gausemel, H. Jeppesen, U. Köster, K.-L. Kratz, T. Nilsson, B. Pfeiffer, and K. Van del Vel Published 27 May 2003 (6 pages) 054314 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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B(E2) values and the search for the critical point symmetry X(5) in 104Mo and 106Mo C. Hutter, R. Krücken, A. Aprahamian, C. J. Barton, C. W. Beausang, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, W.-T. Chou, R. M. Clark, D. Cline, J. R. Cooper, M. Cromaz, A. A. Hecht, A. O. Macchiavelli, N. Pietralla, M. Shawcross, M. A. Stoyer, C. Y. Wu, and N. V. Zamfir Published 28 May 2003 (5 pages) 054315 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear collective tunneling between Hartree states T. Kohmura, M. Maruyama, and Y. Hashimoto Published 28 May 2003 (13 pages) 054316 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic α decay in Am, Es, and Fm isotopes D. S. Delion, A. Insolia, and R. J. Liotta Published 28 May 2003 (6 pages) 054317 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational bands of 169,171,173Lu in deformed Hartree-Fock and angular momentum projection model Zashmir Naik and C. R. Praharaj Published 29 May 2003 (20 pages) 054318 [View PDF (375 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Four-quasiparticle alignments in 66Ge E. A. Stefanova, I. Stefanescu, G. de Angelis, D. Curien, J. Eberth, E. Farnea, A. Gadea, G. Gersch, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, T. Martinez, R. Schwengner, T. Steinhardt, O. Thelen, D. Weisshaar, and R. Wyss Published 30 May 2003 (13 pages) 054319 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement and microscopic analysis of the 11B(p→,p→) reaction at Ep=150 MeV. I. Inelastic scattering V. M. Hannen, K. Amos, A. M. van den Berg, R. K. Bieber, P. K. Deb, F. Ellinghaus, D. Frekers, M. Hagemann, M. N. Harakeh, J. Heyse, M. A. de Huu, B. A. Krüsemann, S. Rakers, R. Schmidt, S. Y. van der Werf, and H. J. Wörtche Published 30 May 2003 (15 pages) 054320 [View PDF (539 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement and microscopic analysis of the 11B(p→,p→) reaction at Ep=150 MeV. II. Depolarization in elastic scattering from odd-A nuclei V. M. Hannen, K. Amos, A. M. van den Berg, R. K. Bieber, P. K. Deb, F. Ellinghaus, D. Frekers, M. Hagemann, M. N. Harakeh, J. Heyse, M. A. de Huu, B. A. Krüsemann, S. Rakers, R. Schmidt, S. Y. van der Werf, and H. J. Wörtche Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages) 054321 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian and continuum shell model Alexander Volya and Vladimir Zelevinsky Published 30 May 2003 (11 pages) 054322 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformed shell model for collective T=0 and T=1 bands in 46V and 50Mn R. Sahu and V. K. Kota Published 30 May 2003 (7 pages) 054323 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	Inclusive electron scattering in a relativistic Green’s function approach Andrea Meucci, Franco Capuzzi, Carlotta Giusti, and Franco Davide Pacati Published 2 May 2003 (12 pages) 054601 [View PDF (375 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-barrier fusion of weakly bound 6Li and 7Li nuclei with 59Co C. Beck et al. Published 2 May 2003 (5 pages) 054602 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fusion cross sections at deep sub-barrier energies K. Hagino, N. Rowley, and M. Dasgupta Published 9 May 2003 (4 pages) 054603 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasielastic electron scattering at high energy from 12C, 56Fe, and 197Au K. S. Kim and L. E. Wright Published 13 May 2003 (5 pages) 054604 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutron densities from a global analysis of medium-energy proton-nucleus elastic scattering B. C. Clark, L. J. Kerr, and S. Hama Published 15 May 2003 (13 pages) 054605 [View PDF (553 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Incoherent ρ0 electroproduction off nuclei T. Falter, K. Gallmeister, and U. Mosel Published 19 May 2003 (8 pages) 054606 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Glauber model and the heavy ion reaction cross section Prashant Shukla Published 23 May 2003 (7 pages) 054607 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Spectral redshift versus broadening from photon and dilepton spectra Jan-e Alam, Pradip Roy, Sourav Sarkar, and Bikash Sinha Published 7 May 2003 (8 pages) 054901 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon interferometry and size of the hot zone in relativistic heavy ion collisions Jan-e Alam, Bedangadas Mohanty, Pradip Roy, Sourav Sarkar, and Bikash Sinha Published 22 May 2003 (6 pages) 054902 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of gluons in the classical field model for heavy ion collisions T. Lappi Published 22 May 2003 (8 pages) 054903 [View PDF (378 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dilepton-tagged jets in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: A case study Dinesh K. Srivastava, Charles Gale, and T. C. Awes Published 22 May 2003 (8 pages) 054904 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Open charm and charmonium production at relativistic energies E. L. Bratkovskaya, W. Cassing, and H. Stöcker Published 28 May 2003 (14 pages) 054905 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Systematic Regge theory analysis of ω photoproduction A. Sibirtsev, K. Tsushima, and S. Krewald Published 2 May 2003 (7 pages) 055201 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective theory of the Δ(1232) resonance in Compton scattering off the nucleon Vladimir Pascalutsa and Daniel R. Phillips Published 7 May 2003 (15 pages) 055202 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Momentum-space Faddeev calculations for confining potentials Humberto Garcilazo Published 8 May 2003 (10 pages) 055203 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of inclusive spin structure functions of the deuteron J. Yun et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Published 19 May 2003 (13 pages) 055204 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Separation of the longitudinal and transverse cross sections in the 1H(e,e′K+)Λ and 1H(e,e′K+)Σ0 reactions R. M. Mohring et al. Published 19 May 2003 (16 pages) 055205 [View PDF (1397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Parameter-free effective field theory calculation for the solar proton-fusion and hep processes T.-S. Park, L. E. Marcucci, R. Schiavilla, M. Viviani, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, K. Kubodera, D.-P. Min, and M. Rho Published 22 May 2003 (21 pages) 055206 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-lying S-wave and P-wave dibaryons in a nodal structure analysis Yu-xin Liu, Jing-sheng Li, and Cheng-guang Bao Published 29 May 2003 (11 pages) 055207 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Associative photoproduction of Roper resonance and ω meson H. Babacan and T. Babacan Published 29 May 2003 (8 pages) 055208 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schematic model for QCD. I. Low energy meson states S. Lerma H., S. Jesgarz, P. O. Hess, O. Civitarese, and M. Reboiro Published 30 May 2003 (12 pages) 055209 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schematic model for QCD. II. Finite temperature regime S. Jesgarz, S. Lerma H., P. O. Hess, O. Civitarese, and M. Reboiro Published 30 May 2003 (9 pages) 055210 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Is e+e- pair emission important in the determination of the 3He+4He S factor? K. A. Snover and A. E. Hurd Published 15 May 2003 (3 pages) 055801 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New calculations of gross β-decay properties for astrophysical applications: Speeding-up the classical r process Peter Möller, Bernd Pfeiffer, and Karl-Ludwig Kratz Published 19 May 2003 (17 pages) 055802 [View PDF (358 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Parametrization of soft photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions Dipali Pal and Debsankar Mukhopadhyay Published 14 May 2003 (2 pages) 057001 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-spin studies of the πh11/2νh11/2 structure in 134Pr S. P. Roberts, T. Ahn, K. Starosta, T. Koike, C. J. Chiara, and C. Vaman Published 23 May 2003 (4 pages) 057301 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regularized Legendre series of improved nearside-farside decomposition for charged particle scattering R. Anni Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages) 057601 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrodynamics with spontaneous symmetry breaking: Application to relativistic heavy ion collisions Y. Lallouet, D. Davesne, and C. Pujol Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages) 057901 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the RLT response function for π0 electroproduction at Q2=0.070 (GeV/c)2 in the N→Δ transition N. F. Sparveris et al. Published 14 May 2003 (4 pages) 058201 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Deformation effect on the double Gamow-Teller matrix element of 100Mo for the 0+→0+ transition [Phys. Rev. C 65, 034311 (2002)] B. M. Dixit, P. K. Rath, and P. K. Raina Published 1 May 2003 (2 pages) 059901 [View PDF (23 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Centrality dependence of baryon and meson momentum distributions in proton-nucleus collisions [Phys. Rev. C 65, 034905 (2002)] Rudolph C. Hwa and C. B. Yang Published 1 May 2003 (1 pages) 059902 [View PDF (12 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Preequilibrium emission in α-induced reactions on bromine and thallium [Phys. Rev. C 66, 014602 (2002)] N. P. Sathik, M. Afzal Ansari, B. P. Singh, M. Ismail, and M. H. Rashid Published 14 May 2003 (1 pages) 059903 [View PDF (13 kB) ]

•	Publisher’s Note: The 3He(d→,p)4He reaction at low energies [Phys. Rev. C 60, 054003 (1999)] W. H. Geist, C. R. Brune, H. J. Karwowski, E. J. Ludwig, K. D. Veal, and G. M. Hale Published 30 May 2003 (1 pages) 059904 [View PDF (11 kB) ]