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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Central and tensor components of three-nucleon forces in low-energy proton-deuteron scattering S. Ishikawa, M. Tanifuji, and Y. Iseri Published 13 June 2003 (5 pages) 061001 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Yrast isomers in 95Ag, 95Pd, and 94Pd N. Mărginean et al. Published 10 June 2003 (5 pages) 061301 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Screening effects on 1S0 pairing in neutron matter Caiwan Shen, U. Lombardo, P. Schuck, W. Zuo, and N. Sandulescu Published 13 June 2003 (5 pages) 061302 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

First search for 16Be T. Baumann, N. Frank, B. A. Luther, D. J. Morrissey, J. P. Seitz, B. M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, J. Stetson, A. Stolz, M. Thoennessen, and I. Wiedenhöver Published 23 June 2003 (3 pages) 061303 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Sub-barrier fusion enhancement due to neutron transfer V. I. Zagrebaev Published 25 June 2003 (5 pages) 061601 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Phenomenology of jet quenching in heavy ion collisions Berndt Müller Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages) 061901 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Asymptotic normalization coefficients for 8B→7Be+p from a study of 8Li→7Li+n L. Trache, A. Azhari, F. Carstoiu, H. L. Clark, C. A. Gagliardi, Y.-W. Lui, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, X. Tang, N. Timofeyuk, and R. E. Tribble Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages) 062801 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Neutron capture reaction rates for silicon and their impact on the origin of presolar mainstream SiC grains K. H. Guber, P. E. Koehler, H. Derrien, T. E. Valentine, L. C. Leal, R. O. Sayer, and T. Rauscher Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages) 062802 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Folding model study of α-p scattering: Systematics of elastic scattering, effective interaction, and inelastic excitation of N* resonances H. P. Morsch, W. Spang, and P. Decowski Published 4 June 2003 (17 pages) 064001 [View PDF (534 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of the magnetic moment interaction between nucleons on observables in the 3N continuum H. Witała, J. Golak, R. Skibiński, C. R. Howell, and W. Tornow Published 20 June 2003 (8 pages) 064002 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vector mesons in a relativistic point-form approach A. Krassnigg, W. Schweiger, and W. H. Klink Published 20 June 2003 (13 pages) 064003 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Threshold electrodisintegration of 3He R. S. Hicks et al. Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages) 064004 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocality in the nucleon-nucleon interaction and three-nucleon bound states P. Doleschall, I. Borbély, Z. Papp, and W. Plessas Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages) 064005 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Renormalization group approach to two-body scattering in the presence of long-range forces Thomas Barford and Michael C. Birse Published 24 June 2003 (10 pages) 064006 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

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Spectroscopic factors measured in inclusive proton-knockout reactions on 8B and 9C at intermediate energies J. Enders, T. Baumann, B. A. Brown, N. H. Frank, P. G. Hansen, P. R. Heckman, B. M. Sherrill, A. Stolz, M. Thoennessen, J. A. Tostevin, E. J. Tryggestad, S. Typel, and M. S. Wallace Published 3 June 2003 (8 pages) 064301 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ground state properties of odd-Z superheavy nuclei Zhongzhou Ren, Ding-Han Chen, Fei Tai, H. Y. Zhang, and W. Q. Shen Published 5 June 2003 (12 pages) 064302 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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β decay of neutron-rich 118Ag and 120Ag isotopes Y. Wang, S. Rinta-Antila, P. Dendooven, J. Huikari, A. Jokinen, V. S. Kolhinen, G. Lhersonneau, A. Nieminen, S. Nummela, H. Penttilä, K. Peräjärvi, J. Szerypo, J. C. Wang, and J. Äystö Published 12 June 2003 (12 pages) 064303 [View PDF (474 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-spin states in odd-odd 106,108,110,112Rh N. Fotiades, J. A. Cizewski, R. Krücken, D. P. McNabb, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, W. Younes, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, and A. O. Macchiavelli Published 12 June 2003 (6 pages) 064304 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reliability of α strengths for weak states H. T. Fortune and A. G. Lacaze Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages) 064305 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wobbling motion: A γ-rigid or γ-soft mode? R. F. Casten, E. A. McCutchan, N. V. Zamfir, C. W. Beausang, and Jing-ye Zhang Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages) 064306 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification of collective bands in neutron-rich 113Ru Z. Zhang et al. Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages) 064307 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric quadrupole moment of 17B and anomalous E2 effective charges for neutron-rich nuclei H. Ogawa et al. Published 20 June 2003 (9 pages) 064308 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-lying E1 strength in 20O E. Tryggestad, T. Baumann, P. Heckman, M. Thoennessen, T. Aumann, D. Bazin, Y. Blumenfeld, J. R. Beene, T. A. Lewis, D. C. Radford, D. Shapira, R. L. Varner, M. Chartier, M. L. Halbert, and J. F. Liang Published 23 June 2003 (14 pages) 064309 [View PDF (677 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projectile Coulomb excitation of 78Se T. Hayakawa, Y. Toh, M. Oshima, A. Osa, M. Koizumi, Y. Hatsukawa, Y. Utsuno, J. Katakura, M. Matsuda, T. Morikawa, M. Sugawara, H. Kusakari, and T. Czosnyka Published 23 June 2003 (6 pages) 064310 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	γ vibrational band and quasiparticle excitations in 80Sr T. A. Sienko, C. J. Lister, and R. A. Kaye Published 25 June 2003 (8 pages) 064311 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analogous Gamow-Teller and M1 transitions in 26Mg, 26Al, and 26Si Y. Fujita, Y. Shimbara, A. F. Lisetskiy, T. Adachi, G. P. Berg, P. von Brentano, H. Fujimura, H. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, J. Kamiya, T. Kawabata, H. Nakada, K. Nakanishi, Y. Shimizu, M. Uchida, and M. Yosoi Published 25 June 2003 (12 pages) 064312 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photon scattering experiments off 176Hf and the systematics of low-lying dipole modes in the stable even-even Hf isotopes 176,178,180Hf M. Scheck, D. Belic, P. von Brentano, J. J. Carroll, C. Fransen, A. Gade, H. von Garrel, U. Kneissl, C. Kohstall, A. Linnemann, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, F. Stedile, R. Toman, and V. Werner Published 25 June 2003 (7 pages) 064313 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Axially symmetric Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations for nuclei near the drip lines E. Terán, V. E. Oberacker, and A. S. Umar Published 25 June 2003 (13 pages) 064314 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-beam γ spectroscopy of 34Si with deuteron inelastic scattering using reverse kinematics N. Iwasa et al. Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages) 064315 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic mass determinations for 183W and 199Hg and the mercury problem D. K. Barillari, J. V. Vaz, R. C. Barber, and K. S. Sharma Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages) 064316 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two neutrino double β decay of 100Mo to the 2+ excited state of 100Ru K. Chaturvedi, B. M. Dixit, P. K. Rath, and P. K. Raina Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages) 064317 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unravelling the band crossings in 68Se and 72Kr: The quest for T=0 pairing S. M. Fischer, C. J. Lister, and D. P. Balamuth Published 27 June 2003 (13 pages) 064318 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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Structure of the unbound 11N nucleus by the (3He,6He) reaction V. Guimarães, S. Kubono, F. C. Barker, M. Hosaka, S. C. Jeong, I. Katayama, T. Miyachi, T. Nomura, M. H. Tanaka, Y. Fuchi, H. Kawashima, S. Kato, C. C. Yun, K. Ito, H. Orihara, T. Terakawa, T. Kishida, Y. Pu, S. Hamada, M. Hirai, and H. Miyatake Published 3 June 2003 (8 pages) 064601 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of excited systems with a wide range in N/Z D. J. Rowland, R. Laforest, E. Ramakrishnan, M. Veselsky, E. M. Winchester, A. Ruangma, E. Martin, and S. J. Yennello Published 3 June 2003 (7 pages) 064602 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical effects in multifragmentation at intermediate energies J. Colin et al. (INDRA Collaboration) Published 4 June 2003 (14 pages) 064603 [View PDF (776 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic predictions of exclusive 208Pb(p→,2p)207Tl analyzing powers at an incident energy of 202 MeV G. C. Hillhouse, J. Mano, A. A. Cowley, and R. Neveling Published 10 June 2003 (7 pages) 064604 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometrical aspects of reaction cross sections for 3He, 4He, and 12C projectiles A. Ingemarsson and M. Lantz Published 10 June 2003 (6 pages) 064605 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Investigation on anomalous diffusion for nuclear fusion reactions Jing-Dong Bao and Yi-Zhong Zhuo Published 16 June 2003 (5 pages) 064606 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model of multifragmentation, equation of state, and phase transition C. B. Das, S. Das Gupta, and A. Z. Mekjian Published 23 June 2003 (6 pages) 064607 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parity dependence of nuclear level densities U. Agvaanluvsan, G. E. Mitchell, J. F. Shriner, and M. Pato Published 25 June 2003 (7 pages) 064608 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Confirmation of production of element 110 by the 208Pb(64Ni,n) reaction T. N. Ginter, K. E. Gregorich, W. Loveland, D. M. Lee, U. W. Kirbach, R. Sudowe, C. M. Folden, J. B. Patin, N. Seward, P. A. Wilk, P. M. Zielinski, K. Aleklett, R. Eichler, H. Nitsche, and D. C. Hoffman Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages) 064609 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interpretation of the neutron double-differential cross sections in the interactions of p+Al, Fe, and Zr at 1.2 GeV using the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics model Khaled Abdel-Waged Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages) 064610 [View PDF (438 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of neutron emission spectra for 30–50 MeV α-particle induced reactions in thick targets D. Dhar, S. N. Roy, Maitreyee Nandy, and P. K. Sarkar Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages) 064611 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Cross section and induced polarization in 3He elastic scattering at 443 MeV J. Kamiya, K. Hatanaka, T. Adachi, K. Fujita, K. Hara, T. Kawabata, T. Noro, H. Sakaguchi, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, S. Terashima, M. Uchida, T. Wakasa, Y. Yasuda, H. P. Yoshida, and M. Yosoi Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages) 064612 [View PDF (463 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characteristics of the fragments produced in central collisions of 129Xe+natSn from 32A to 50 A MeV S. Hudan et al. (INDRA Collaboration) Published 30 June 2003 (14 pages) 064613 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Emission of thermal photons and the equilibration time in heavy-ion collisions Thorsten Renk Published 12 June 2003 (8 pages) 064901 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling distributions of quarks, mesons, and proton for all pT, energy, and centrality Rudolph C. Hwa and C. B. Yang Published 20 June 2003 (10 pages) 064902 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Percolation approach to quark-gluon plasma in high-energy pp collisions J. Dias de Deus and A. Rodrigues Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages) 064903 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Triple-Pomeron matrix model for dispersive corrections to nucleon-nucleus total cross section David R. Harrington Published 25 June 2003 (8 pages) 064904 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleon participants or quark participants? S. Eremin and S. Voloshin Published 27 June 2003 (3 pages) 064905 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Dynamical model of weak pion production reactions T. Sato, D. Uno, and T.-S. H. Lee Published 12 June 2003 (13 pages) 065201 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of baryonic resonances in the dilepton emission in nucleon-nucleon collisions R. Shyam and U. Mosel Published 20 June 2003 (12 pages) 065202 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of temperature-dependent hadronic current correlation functions calculated in lattice simulations of QCD and with a chiral Lagrangian model Bing He, Hu Li, C. M. Shakin, and Qing Sun Published 24 June 2003 (9 pages) 065203 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for narrow nucleon resonances below pion threshold in the H(e,e′π+)X and 2H(e,e′p)X reactions M. Kohl et al. Published 25 June 2003 (6 pages) 065204 [View PDF (605 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin effects and baryon resonance dynamics in φ-meson photoproduction at few GeV A. I. Titov and T.-S. H. Lee Published 27 June 2003 (17 pages) 065205 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Concerning the quark condensate K. Langfeld, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch, C. D. Roberts, and S. M. Schmidt Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages) 065206 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Skyrmion model and the dynamical breakdown of chiral symmetry F. L. Braghin and I. P. Cavalcante Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages) 065207 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Double β decay of 50Cr I. Bikit, N. Zikić-Todorović, J. Slivka, M. Vesković, M. Krmar, Lj. Čonkić, J. Puzović, and I. V. Aničin Published 3 June 2003 (4 pages) 065801 [View PDF (51 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy direct capture in the 8Li(n,γ)9Li and 8B(p,γ)9C reactions Peter Mohr Published 3 June 2003 (6 pages) 065802 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Validity test of the “Trojan horse” method applied to the 6Li(p,α)3He reaction A. Tumino, C. Spitaleri, A. Di Pietro, P. Figuera, M. Lattuada, A. Musumarra, M. G. Pellegriti, R. G. Pizzone, S. Romano, C. Rolfs, S. Tudisco, and S. Typel Published 20 June 2003 (7 pages) 065803 [View PDF (6323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Asymptotic normalization coefficients for 14N+p15O and the astrophysical S factor for 14N(p,γ)15O A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, P. Bém, B. A. Brown, V. Burjan, C. A. Gagliardi, V. Kroha, J. Novák, F. M. Nunes, Š. Piskoř, F. Pirlepesov, E. Šimečková, R. E. Tribble, and J. Vincour Published 20 June 2003 (7 pages) 065804 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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New measurement of the proton capture rate on 7Be and the S17(0) factor L. T. Baby, C. Bordeanu, G. Goldring, M. Hass, L. Weissman, V. N. Fedoseyev, U. Köster, Y. Nir-El, G. Haquin, H. W. Gäggeler, and R. Weinreich ISOLDE Collaboration Published 23 June 2003 (14 pages) 065805 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-orbit induced backflow in neutron matter with auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method L. Brualla, S. Fantoni, A. Sarsa, K. E. Schmidt, and S. A. Vitiello Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages) 065806 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neutrino emission in neutron stars E. N. van Dalen, A. E. Dieperink, and J. A. Tjon Published 27 June 2003 (16 pages) 065807 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Astrophysical rate of 15O(α,γ)19Ne via the (p,t) reaction in inverse kinematics B. Davids, A. M. van den Berg, P. Dendooven, F. Fleurot, M. Hunyadi, M. A. de Huu, R. H. Siemssen, H. W. Wilschut, H. J. Wörtche, M. Hernanz, J. José, K. E. Rehm, A. H. Wuosmaa, and R. E. Segel Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages) 065808 [View PDF (825 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Branching ratio Γα/Γγ of the 4.033 MeV 3/2+ state in 19Ne K. E. Rehm, A. H. Wuosmaa, C. L. Jiang, J. Caggiano, J. P. Greene, A. Heinz, D. Henderson, R. V. Janssens, E. F. Moore, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, T. Pennington, J. P. Schiffer, R. H. Siemssen, M. Paul, L. Jisonna, and R. E. Segel Published 30 June 2003 (9 pages) 065809 [View PDF (446 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	ηd Effective-range formula Humberto Garcilazo Published 24 June 2003 (2 pages) 067001 [View PDF (23 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical expressions for the dispersive contributions to the nucleon-nucleus optical potential J. M. Quesada, R. Capote, A. Molina, M. Lozano, and J. Raynal Published 16 June 2003 (3 pages) 067601 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Predicting proton-nucleus total reaction cross sections up to 300 MeV using a simple functional form P. K. Deb and K. Amos Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages) 067602 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Systematical study of the optical potential for systems like A+58Ni from sub-barrier data analyses L. R. Gasques, L. C. Chamon, D. Pereira, M. A. Alvarez, E. S. Rossi, C. P. Silva, G. P. Nobre, and B. V. Carlson Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages) 067603 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Leakage effect on J/ψ pt distributions in different centrality bins for Pb-Pb collisions at E/A=160 GeV Pengfei Zhuang and Xianglei Zhu Published 3 June 2003 (4 pages) 067901 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the π-p→3π0n total cross section from threshold to 0.75 GeV/c A. Starostin et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration) Published 4 June 2003 (4 pages) 068201 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dispersion relation of the ρ meson in hot and dense nuclear matter Ji-sheng Chen, Jia-rong Li, and Peng-fei Zhuang Published 16 June 2003 (4 pages) 068202 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]