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  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Accurate charge-dependent nucleon-nucleon potential at fourth order of chiral perturbation theory D. R. Entem and R. Machleidt Published 31 October 2003 (5 pages) 041001 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Shape isomerism and spectroscopy of 177Hg A. Melerangi, D. Appelbe, R. D. Page, H. J. Boardman, P. T. Greenlees, P. Jones, D. T. Joss, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, M. H. Muikku, P. Nieminen, J. Pakarinen, P. Rahkila, and J. Simpson Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 041301 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

U(5)-O(6) transition in the interacting boson model and the E(5) critical point symmetry J. M. Arias, C. E. Alonso, A. Vitturi, J. E. García-Ramos, J. Dukelsky, and A. Frank Published 24 October 2003 (4 pages) 041302 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Probing mean field of neutron rich nuclei by cold fission D. S. Delion, A. Săndulescu, and W. Greiner Published 24 October 2003 (5 pages) 041303 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Contribution of the nucleon-hyperon reaction channels to K− production in proton-nucleus collisions H. W. Barz and L. Naumann Published 31 October 2003 (5 pages) 041901 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Charm coalescence at relativistic energies A. P. Kostyuk, M. I. Gorenstein, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner Published 31 October 2003 (5 pages) 041902 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

K+-nucleon scattering and exotic S=+1 baryons R. A. Arndt, I. I. Strakovsky, and R. L. Workman Published 31 October 2003 (2 pages) 042201 [View PDF (33 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	In-medium meson properties and field transformations S. Kondratyuk, K. Kubodera, and F. Myhrer Published 6 October 2003 (6 pages) 044001 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-energy scattering and photoproduction of η mesons on three-body nuclei A. Fix and H. Arenhövel Published 6 October 2003 (13 pages) 044002 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sensitivity of pp bremsstrahlung on low-energy NN interaction M. D. Cozma, O. Scholten, R. G. E. Timmermans, and J. A. Tjon Published 31 October 2003 (14 pages) 044003 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Recently observed charge radius anomaly in neon isotopes A. Bhagwat and Y. K. Gambhir Published 8 October 2003 (5 pages) 044301 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uncertainty in the 0νββ decay nuclear matrix elements V. A. Rodin, Amand Faessler, F. Šimkovic, and Petr Vogel Published 8 October 2003 (5 pages) 044302 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pairing effect on the giant dipole resonance width at low temperature Nguyen Dinh Dang and Akito Arima Published 9 October 2003 (7 pages) 044303 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low energy levels in 72Ni M. Sawicka et al. Published 10 October 2003 (6 pages) 044304 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kπ=4− isomers and their rotational bands in 168,170Er C. Y. Wu, D. Cline, M. W. Simon, R. Teng, K. Vetter, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, and I. Wiedenhöver Published 10 October 2003 (6 pages) 044305 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy levels of 247Cm populated in the α decay of 98251Cf I. Ahmad, R. R. Chasman, J. P. Greene, F. G. Kondev, E. F. Moore, E. Browne, C. E. Porter, and L. K. Felker Published 13 October 2003 (8 pages) 044306 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correspondence between the q-deformed harmonic oscillator and finite range potentials A. Ballesteros, O. Civitarese, and M. Reboiro Published 13 October 2003 (5 pages) 044307 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	State dependent δ-pairing force with Nilsson models: Nuclear shapes, radii, and masses Kamila Sieja and Andrzej Baran Published 15 October 2003 (12 pages) 044308 [View PDF (370 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Lifetime of the 21+ state and densities for the 0g.s.+→21+ transition in 18Ne L. A. Riley, P. D. Cottle, M. Brown-Hayes, W. T. Cluff, J. D. Fox, N. Keeley, F. W. Letson, R. A. Kaye, K. W. Kemper, M. T. McEllistrem, S. L. Tabor, J. M. Thompson, and D. Walker Published 15 October 2003 (4 pages) 044309 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Number of states with a given angular momentum for identical fermions and bosons Y. M. Zhao and A. Arima Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 044310 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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β-decay properties of 55,56Ti P. F. Mantica, B. A. Brown, A. D. Davies, T. Glasmacher, D. E. Groh, M. Horoi, S. N. Liddick, D. J. Morrissey, A. C. Morton, W. F. Mueller, H. Schatz, A. Stolz, and S. L. Tabor Published 16 October 2003 (8 pages) 044311 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular distributions of γ rays with intermediate-energy beams Heather Olliver, Thomas Glasmacher, and Andrew E. Stuchbery Published 16 October 2003 (14 pages) 044312 [View PDF (831 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Binary-reaction spectroscopy of 99,100Mo: Intruder alignment systematics in N=57 and N=58 isotones P. H. Regan, A. D. Yamamoto, F. R. Xu, C. Y. Wu, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. Cline, J. F. Smith, S. J. Freeman, J. J. Valiente-Dobón, K. Andgren, R. S. Chakrawarthy, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, W. Gelletly, A. Gorgen, A. Hayes, H. Hua, S. D. Langdown, I-Y. Lee, C. J. Pearson, Zs. Podolyák, R. Teng, and C. Wheldon Published 20 October 2003 (5 pages) 044313 [View PDF (767 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge density influence on cold fusion barriers R. A. Gherghescu and W. Greiner Published 20 October 2003 (10 pages) 044314 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent description of dysprosium isotopes in the doubly midshell region A. K. Rath, P. D. Stevenson, P. H. Regan, F. R. Xu, and P. M. Walker Published 24 October 2003 (8 pages) 044315 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	α radioactivity of superheavy nuclei Y. K. Gambhir, A. Bhagwat, M. Gupta, and Arun K. Jain Published 27 October 2003 (6 pages) 044316 [View PDF (540 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of single and double analog states in the f7∕2 shell: The Ti isotopes A. A. Raduta, L. Zamick, E. Moya de Guerra, Amand Faessler, and P. Sarriguren Published 29 October 2003 (7 pages) 044317 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single proton knock-out reactions from 24,25,26F M. Thoennessen, T. Baumann, B. A. Brown, J. Enders, N. Frank, P. G. Hansen, P. Heckman, B. A. Luther, J. Seitz, A. Stolz, and E. Tryggestad Published 29 October 2003 (5 pages) 044318 [View PDF (353 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic mean field calculation for odd mass nuclei in A∼60–70 region Parna Mitra and G. Gangopadhyay Published 30 October 2003 (5 pages) 044319 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General pairing interactions and pair truncation approximations for fermions in a single-j shell Y. M. Zhao, A. Arima, J. N. Ginocchio, and N. Yoshinaga Published 30 October 2003 (5 pages) 044320 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beyond-mean-field-model analysis of low-spin normal-deformed and superdeformed collective states of 32S, 36Ar, 38Ar, and 40Ca M. Bender, H. Flocard, and P. -H. Heenen Published 30 October 2003 (13 pages) 044321 [View PDF (942 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear level statistics: Extending shell model theory to higher temperatures Y. Alhassid, G. F. Bertsch, and L. Fang Published 31 October 2003 (11 pages) 044322 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Rotational structures near 40ℏ in 123La H. I. Park, D. J. Hartley, L. L. Riedinger, W. Reviol, O. Zeidan, Jing-Ye Zhang, A. Galindo-Uribarri, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, D. Seweryniak, D. G. Sarantites, M. Devlin, B. G. Dong, and I. Ragnarsson Published 31 October 2003 (13 pages) 044323 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of chiral doublets in A∼130 nuclei and the possible chiral doublets in A∼100 nuclei J. Peng, J. Meng, and S. Q. Zhang Published 31 October 2003 (7 pages) 044324 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

•	In-medium modifications of the S11(1535) resonance and η photoproduction J. Lehr, M. Post, and U. Mosel Published 1 October 2003 (6 pages) 044601 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the dynamics of the charmonium interactions in the coherent photoproduction off nuclei at moderate energies L. Frankfurt, L. Gerland, M. Strikman, and M. Zhalov Published 3 October 2003 (8 pages) 044602 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	η electroproduction on nuclei in the nucleon resonance region J. Lehr and U. Mosel Published 7 October 2003 (6 pages) 044603 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Full quantal theory of one-neutron halo breakup reactions R. Chatterjee Published 9 October 2003 (9 pages) 044604 [View PDF (316 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near barrier fusion excitation function of 6Li+208Pb Y. W. Wu, Z. H. Liu, C. J. Lin, H. Q. Zhang, M. Ruan, F. Yang, Z. C. Li, M. Trotta, and K. Hagino Published 10 October 2003 (5 pages) 044605 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exploratory studies towards fusion with the 16+ isomer of 178Hf D. J. Hinde, N. Rowley, M. Dasgupta, R. D. Butt, C. R. Morton, and A. Mukherjee Published 17 October 2003 (6 pages) 044606 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How does breakup influence the total fusion of 6,7Li at the Coulomb barrier? A. Diaz-Torres, I. J. Thompson, and C. Beck Published 20 October 2003 (8 pages) 044607 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal neutron cross section and resonance integral of the 159Tb(n,γ)160Tb reaction M. U. Rajput, M. Ahmad, and W. Ahmad Published 21 October 2003 (5 pages) 044608 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intermediate energy Coulomb excitation as a probe of nuclear structure at radioactive beam facilities C. A. Bertulani, A. E. Stuchbery, T. J. Mertzimekis, and A. D. Davies Published 29 October 2003 (10 pages) 044609 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Dispersive optical-model and coupled-channels descriptions of neutron scattering from 27Al and 59Co up to 80  MeV M. M. Nagadi, C. R. Howell, W. Tornow, G. J. Weisel, M. A. Al-Ohali, R. T. Braun, H. R. Setze, Zemin Chen, R. L. Walter, J. P. Delaroche, and P. Romain Published 31 October 2003 (8 pages) 044610 [View PDF (389 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Quark coalescence and elliptic flow of charm hadrons Zi-wei Lin and Dénes Molnár Published 3 October 2003 (5 pages) 044901 [View PDF (75 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hadron production in heavy ion collisions: Fragmentation and recombination from a dense parton phase R. J. Fries, B. Müller, C. Nonaka, and S. A. Bass Published 24 October 2003 (23 pages) 044902 [View PDF (870 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemical equilibration volume: Measuring the degree of thermalization A. Majumder and V. Koch Published 27 October 2003 (13 pages) 044903 [View PDF (430 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	xF distribution of J∕ψ’s produced in heavy ion collisions F. O. Durães, F. S. Navarra, and M. Nielsen Published 27 October 2003 (14 pages) 044904 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Net charge fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130  GeV J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration Published 31 October 2003 (9 pages) 044905 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transparent nuclei and deuteron-gold collisions at relativistic energies B. Z. Kopeliovich Published 31 October 2003 (25 pages) 044906 [View PDF (253 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrodynamics near a chiral critical point K. Paech, H. Stöcker, and A. Dumitru Published 31 October 2003 (13 pages) 044907 [View PDF (542 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Analysis of the reaction pp→ppη near threshold K. Nakayama, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart, and J. Speth Published 1 October 2003 (7 pages) 045201 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reggeized model for η and η′ photoproduction Wen-Tai Chiang, Shin Nan Yang, L. Tiator, M. Vanderhaeghen, and D. Drechsel Published 8 October 2003 (10 pages) 045202 [View PDF (297 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross sections for pentaquark baryon production from protons in reactions induced by hadrons and photons W. Liu and C. M. Ko Published 8 October 2003 (7 pages) 045203 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light baryon resonances: Restrictions and perspectives Ya. I. Azimov, R. A. Arndt, I. I. Strakovsky, and R. L. Workman Published 10 October 2003 (10 pages) 045204 [View PDF (509 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlocality and medium effects in the exclusive photoproduction of η mesons on nuclei M. Hedayati-Poor, S. Bayegan, and H. S. Sherif Published 15 October 2003 (8 pages) 045205 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparing phenomenological recipes with a microscopic model for the electric amplitude in strangeness photoproduction A. Yu. Korchin and O. Scholten Published 15 October 2003 (10 pages) 045206 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion-nucleon scattering in a meson-exchange model A. M. Gasparyan, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart, and J. Speth Published 21 October 2003 (16 pages) 045207 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Valence quark distribution in A=3 nuclei C. J. Benesh, T. Goldman, and G. J. Stephenson Published 24 October 2003 (8 pages) 045208 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-medium meson effects on the equation of state of hot and dense nuclear matter Ji-sheng Chen, Peng-fei Zhuang, and Jia-rong Li Published 29 October 2003 (5 pages) 045209 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

•	Deuteron anapole moment with heavy mesons C.-P. Liu, C. H. Hyun, and B. Desplanques Published 17 October 2003 (12 pages) 045501 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Electron screening in the liquid-gas mixed phases of nuclear matter Gentaro Watanabe and Kei Iida Published 16 October 2003 (11 pages) 045801 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic dissociation of 8B and the astrophysical S factor for 7Be(p,γ)8B B. Davids and S. Typel Published 20 October 2003 (7 pages) 045802 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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The 10B(p⃗,γ)11C reaction at astrophysically relevant energies A. P. Tonchev, S. O. Nelson, K. Sabourov, B. T. Crowley, K. Joshi, H. R. Weller, J. H. Kelley, R. M. Prior, M. Spraker, and N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki Published 29 October 2003 (12 pages) 045803 [View PDF (318 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Particle stability of highly and superdeformed states of Ni, Cu, and Zn isotopes near β stability in relativistic mean-field theory W. Z. Jiang, T. T. Wang, and Z. Y. Zhu Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 047301 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Investigation of low spin states in 48Cr with the MINIBALL γ-ray spectrometer K. Jessen, A. Dewald, J. Eberth, G. Gersch, J. Jolie, N. Pietralla, T. Steinhardt, N. Warr, D. Weißhaar, V. Werner, P. von Brentano, and S. M. Lenzi Published 31 October 2003 (4 pages) 047302 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonresonant capture cross sections of 11B(n,γ) and 12C(n,γ) at stellar energies C. J. Lin, H. Q. Zhang, Z. H. Liu, W. Y. Wu, F. Yang, and M. Ruan Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 047601 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Meson-nucleon vertex form factors at finite temperature using a soft pion form factor U. T. Yakhshiev, A. W. Thomas, and F. C. Khanna Published 15 October 2003 (4 pages) 048201 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear model effects in charged-current neutrino-nucleus quasielastic scattering C. Maieron, M. C. Martínez, J. A. Caballero, and J. M. Udías Published 8 October 2003 (4 pages) 048501 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of virtual break-up of projectile in astrophysical fusion reactions K. Hagino, M. S. Hussein, and A. B. Balantekin Published 8 October 2003 (4 pages) 048801 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First excited state of the s-process branching nucleus 95Zr K. Sonnabend, P. Mohr, A. Zilges, R. Hertenberger, H.-F. Wirth, G. Graw, and T. Faestermann Published 10 October 2003 (3 pages) 048802 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]