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  • Nuclear Structure
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
  • Hadronic Physics and QCD
  • Nuclear Astrophysics
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Complex energy method in four-body Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations E. Uzu, H. Kamada, and Y. Koike Published 4 December 2003 (3 pages) 061001 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nature of excited 0+ states in 158Gd described by the projected shell model Yang Sun, Ani Aprahamian, Jing-ye Zhang, and Ching-Tsai Lee Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 061301 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear structure of the stable even-A calcium isotopes based on new experiments and shell model calculations K.-H. Speidel, S. Schielke, O. Kenn, J. Leske, D. Hohn, H. Hodde, J. Gerber, P. Maier-Komor, O. Zell, Y. Y. Sharon, and L. Zamick Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 061302 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

α-decay chains of 173288115 and 172287115 in the relativistic mean field theory L. S. Geng, H. Toki, and J. Meng Published 31 December 2003 (5 pages) 061303 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

η-π mixing close to the η-helium threshold A. M. Green and S. Wycech Published 22 December 2003 (5 pages) 061601 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Resistible effects of Coulomb interaction on nucleus-vapor phase coexistence L. G. Moretto, J. B. Elliott, and L. Phair Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages) 061602 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Strange pentaquark hadrons in statistical hadronization Jean Letessier, Giorgio Torrieri, Steve Steinke, and Johann Rafelski Published 22 December 2003 (4 pages) 061901 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quarkonium polarization in heavy ion collisions as a possible signature of the quark-gluon plasma B. L. Ioffe and D. E. Kharzeev Published 31 December 2003 (3 pages) 061902 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

•	Low energy K̅ N interactions and Faddeev calculation of the K−d scattering length in isospin and particle bases A. Bahaoui, C. Fayard, T. Mizutani, and B. Saghai Published 17 December 2003 (24 pages) 064001 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction of mesons from the nucleon Michael G. Fuda and Hamoud Alharbi Published 22 December 2003 (22 pages) 064002 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zone determinant expansions for nuclear lattice simulations Dean J. Lee and Ilse C. F. Ipsen Published 30 December 2003 (8 pages) 064003 [View PDF (495 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental study of the 12C(Kstopped−,π0)Λ12B reaction M. W. Ahmed et al. Published 31 December 2003 (13 pages) 064004 [View PDF (446 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Structure

•	Isoscalar giant monopole resonance and its overtone in microscopic and macroscopic models S. Shlomo, V. M. Kolomietz, and B. K. Agrawal Published 1 December 2003 (8 pages) 064301 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations in coordinate space: Neutron-rich sulfur, zirconium, cerium, and samarium isotopes V. E. Oberacker, A. S. Umar, E. Terán, and A. Blazkiewicz Published 1 December 2003 (7 pages) 064302 [View PDF (495 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Potential energy surfaces and spectra of superheavy elements P. O. Hess and Şerban Mişicu Published 9 December 2003 (9 pages) 064303 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Test of X(5) for the γ degree of freedom R. Bijker, R. F. Casten, N. V. Zamfir, and E. A. McCutchan Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 064304 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Half-life of 228Pu and α decay of 228Np K. Nishio, H. Ikezoe, S. Mitsuoka, K. Satou, and C. J. Lin Published 11 December 2003 (6 pages) 064305 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal properties and radiative strengths in 160,161,162Dy M. Guttormsen, A. Bagheri, R. Chankova, J. Rekstad, S. Siem, A. Schiller, and A. Voinov Published 17 December 2003 (10 pages) 064306 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear symmetry energy and the neutron skin in neutron-rich nuclei A. E. L. Dieperink, Y. Dewulf, D. Van Neck, M. Waroquier, and V. Rodin Published 17 December 2003 (9 pages) 064307 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bifurcations of the self-consistent cranked harmonic oscillator Eugene R. Marshalek Published 29 December 2003 (12 pages) 064308 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Shape evolution in the superdeformed A≈80–90 mass region K. Lagergren, B. Cederwall, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, T. Issa, R. V. F. Janssens, A. Johnson, A. O. Macchiavelli, L. Milechina, D. G. Sarantites, and R. Wyss Published 31 December 2003 (5 pages) 064309 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Two-neutrino double β decay within fully renormalized quasiparticle random-phase approximation: Effect of the restoration of the Ikeda sum rule L. Pacearescu, V. Rodin, F. Šimkovic, and Amand Faessler Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages) 064310 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gamow-Teller states in relativistic nuclear models Haruki Kurasawa, Toshio Suzuki, and Nguyen Van Giai Published 31 December 2003 (9 pages) 064311 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Reactions

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The three-dimensional Ising model and its Fisher analysis: A paradigm of liquid-vapor coexistence in nuclear multifragmentation C. M. Mader, A. Chappars, J. B. Elliott, L. G. Moretto, L. Phair, and G. J. Wozniak Published 1 December 2003 (6 pages) 064601 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic study of L≤3 giant resonances in Sm isotopes via multipole decomposition analysis M. Itoh et al. Published 4 December 2003 (10 pages) 064602 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasielastic (e,e′p) reaction on 12C,56Fe, and 197Au D. Dutta et al. Published 9 December 2003 (17 pages) 064603 [View PDF (832 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear isospin diffusivity L. Shi and P. Danielewicz Published 12 December 2003 (17 pages) 064604 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elastic neutron scattering at 96  MeV from 12C and 208Pb J. Klug et al. Published 12 December 2003 (17 pages) 064605 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified scheme for describing time delay and time advance in the interpolation of rotational bands of resonances Enrico De Micheli and Giovanni Alberto Viano Published 16 December 2003 (14 pages) 064606 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New treatment of breakup continuum in the method of continuum discretized coupled channels T. Matsumoto, T. Kamizato, K. Ogata, Y. Iseri, E. Hiyama, M. Kamimura, and M. Yahiro Published 16 December 2003 (10 pages) 064607 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wick’s limit and a new method for estimating neutron reaction cross sections F. S. Dietrich, J. D. Anderson, R. W. Bauer, and S. M. Grimes Published 17 December 2003 (9 pages) 064608 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New coupled-channel approach to nuclear and Coulomb breakup reactions K. Ogata, M. Yahiro, Y. Iseri, T. Matsumoto, and M. Kamimura Published 17 December 2003 (7 pages) 064609 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body mechanism of η production K. P. Khemchandani, N. G. Kelkar, and B. K. Jain Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages) 064610 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probability of L-shell nuclear excitation by electronic transitions in 178Hfm2 Eugene V. Tkalya Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 064611 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Microscopic structure of the Gamow-Teller resonance in 58Cu K. Hara, T. Adachi, H. Akimune, I. Daito, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, K. Fushimi, K. Y. Hara, M. N. Harakeh, K. Ichihara, T. Ishikawa, J. Jänecke, J. Kamiya, T. Kawabata, K. Kawase, K. Nakanishi, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, M. Uchida, H. P. Yoshida, M. Yosoi, and R. G. T. Zegers Published 23 December 2003 (9 pages) 064612 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

•	Statistical hadronization as a snapshot of a dynamical fireball evolution Thorsten Renk Published 1 December 2003 (7 pages) 064901 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudorapidity dependence of parton energy loss in relativistic heavy ion collisions Tetsufumi Hirano and Yasushi Nara Published 4 December 2003 (5 pages) 064902 [View PDF (457 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Velocity of sound in relativistic heavy-ion collisions Bedangadas Mohanty and Jan-e Alam Published 11 December 2003 (8 pages) 064903 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extracting event dynamics from event-by-event analysis Fu Jinghua and Liu Lianshou Published 29 December 2003 (6 pages) 064904 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal production of the ρ meson in the π+π− channel Scott Pratt and Wolfgang Bauer Published 29 December 2003 (8 pages) 064905 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hadronic Physics and QCD

•	Neutron energy spectra from the nonmesonic weak decay of Λ12C and Λ89Y hypernuclei J. H. Kim et al. Published 16 December 2003 (5 pages) 065201 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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In-medium ρ0 spectral function study via the 2H,3He,12C(γ,π+π−) reaction G. M. Huber, G. J. Lolos, Z. Papandreou, A. Shinozaki, E. J. Brash, M. Iurescu, G. Garino, K. Maruyama, K. Maeda, T. Suda, A. Toyofuku, B. K. Jennings, A. Sasaki, and H. Yamashita TAGX Collaboration Published 17 December 2003 (27 pages) 065202 [View PDF (2761 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Λ(1405) production in the π−p→K0πΣ reaction T. Hyodo, A. Hosaka, E. Oset, A. Ramos, and M. J. Vicente Vacas Published 18 December 2003 (9 pages) 065203 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance contributions to η photoproduction on protons found using dispersion relations and an isobar model I. G. Aznauryan Published 30 December 2003 (9 pages) 065204 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Astrophysics

•	Nuclear reactions important in α-rich freeze-outs George C. Jordan, Sanjib S. Gupta, and Bradley S. Meyer Published 3 December 2003 (7 pages) 065801 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Goldstone bosons in the 3P2 superfluid phase of neutron matter and neutrino emission Paulo F. Bedaque, Gautam Rupak, and Martin J. Savage Published 12 December 2003 (7 pages) 065802 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Precise measurement of the 7Be(p,γ)8B S factor A. R. Junghans, E. C. Mohrmann, K. A. Snover, T. D. Steiger, E. G. Adelberger, J. M. Casandjian, H. E. Swanson, L. Buchmann, S. H. Park, A. Zyuzin, and A. M. Laird Published 17 December 2003 (21 pages) 065803 [View PDF (1284 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Analyzing power measurement for the 14N(p⃗,γ)15O reaction at astrophysically relevant energies S. O. Nelson, M. W. Ahmed, B. A. Perdue, K. Sabourov, A. L. Sabourov, A. P. Tonchev, R. M. Prior, M. Spraker, and H. R. Weller Published 18 December 2003 (6 pages) 065804 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Off-shell pairing correlations from meson-exchange theory of nuclear forces Armen Sedrakian Published 31 December 2003 (13 pages) 065805 [View PDF (531 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

•	Half-life of 176Lu Y. Nir-El and G. Haquin Published 11 December 2003 (2 pages) 067301 [View PDF (22 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inadequacy of scaling arguments for neutrino cross sections A. C. Hayes Published 16 December 2003 (3 pages) 067302 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High spin states in 158Dy T. Hayakawa, Y. Toh, M. Oshima, M. Matsuda, Y. Hatsukawa, T. Shizuma, J. Katakura, H. Iimura, S. Mitarai, Y. H. Zhang, M. Sugawara, and H. Kusakari Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 067303 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fusion cross sections for 7Li+16O at energies above barrier M. Ray, A. Mukherjee, M. Saha Sarkar, A. Goswami, S. Roy, S. Saha, R. Bhattacharya, B. R. Behera, S. K. Datta, and B. Dasmahapatra Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages) 067601 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Thermal neutron capture cross sections of tellurium isotopes I. Tomandl, J. Honzátko, T. von Egidy, H.-F. Wirth, T. Belgya, M. Lakatos, L. Szentmiklósi, Zs. Révay, G. L. Molnár, R. B. Firestone, and V. Bondarenko Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages) 067602 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of rotating finite range model and Thomas-Fermi fission barriers in the A∼190 mass region K. Mahata, S. Kailas, and U. K. Pal Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 067603 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exclusive ϕ production in proton-proton collisions in the resonance model Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, M. I. Krivoruchenko, and B. V. Martemyanov Published 16 December 2003 (2 pages) 068201 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Attenuation of the intensity within a superdeformed band” Sven Åberg Published 9 December 2003 (2 pages) 069801 [View PDF (17 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Publisher’s Note: Measurement of B(M1) for the πp3∕2νp1∕2−1 doublet in 68Cu [Phys. Rev. C 68, 054306 (2003)] L. Hou, T. Ishii, M. Asai, J. Hori, K. Ogawa, and H. Nakada Published 24 December 2003 (1 pages) 069901 [View PDF (13 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]