Volume 106, Issue 3

September 2022

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

LETTER

First experiment at the Super Heavy Element Factory: High cross section of ${}^{288}{Mc}$ in the ${}^{243}{Am} + {}^{48}{Ca}$ reaction and identification of the new isotope ${}^{264}{Lr}$

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031301 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

Initial findings of the Super Heavy Element Factory—an atom smasher in Russia—reveal details about some of the heaviest known elements.

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Covariant density functional theory with localized exchange terms

Qiang Zhao (赵强), Zhengxue Ren (任政学), Pengwei Zhao (赵鹏巍), and Jie Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034315 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

The authors derive a new density-dependent point-coupling covariant density functional (PCF-PK1) with exchange terms that are local and can be included in a standard relativistic mean-field calculation. This saves a considerable amount of computing time over relativistic Hartree-Fock calculations with nonlocal potentials. The PCF-PK1 is obtained by fitting nuclear matter and finite nuclei, including the results of $a b$ - $i n i t i o$ calculations; it eliminates spurious shell closures at $Z = 58$ and 92; and it accurately reproduces Gamow-Teller resonances in closed-shell nuclei. This new covariant density functional PCF-PK1 with exchange correlation is expected to provide a unified and consistent description for both nuclear ground states and excited states, in particular for unstable nuclei far from stability.

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Exploring the effects of $Δ$ baryons in magnetars

K. D. Marquez, M. R. Pelicer, S. Ghosh, J. Peterson, D. Chatterjee, V. Dexheimer, and D. P. Menezes

Phys. Rev. C 106, 035801 (2022) - Published 2 September, 2022

Strong magnetic fields can modify the microscopic composition of matter affecting also the properties and evolution of massive objects such as compact stars. This paper explores the combined effect of heavy baryons—hyperons and $Δ$ ’s—on the structure of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, so-called magnetars. The authors show that $Δ$ ’s are favored over hyperons and that contrary to expectations they do not make the nuclear matter equation of state softer.

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LETTER

In-medium $Λ$ isospin impurity from charge symmetry breaking in the $_{Λ}^{4} H −_{Λ}^{4} He$ mirror hypernuclei

M. Schäfer, N. Barnea, and A. Gal

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031001 (2022) - Published 20 September, 2022

Charge-symmetry breaking, or CSB, is a fundamental concept in nuclear physics. Adding a $Λ$ hyperon, a sibling of the nucleon with a strange quark, to light nuclei promises new insights as its isospin impurity must impact CSB in mirror hypernuclei, where the only good data available are for $A = 4$ . The authors use an ansatz that relates the charge-symmetry-breaking $Λ N$ interaction to the $Λ N \leftrightarrow Σ N$ strong-interaction coupling via the small isospin-one admixture the $Λ$ obtains from the $Σ^{0}$ , as both are members of an SU(3) baryon octet and have an $u$ - $d$ - $s$ quark structure. Once the large CSB observed in mirror hypernuclei $_{Λ}^{4}$ H and $_{Λ}^{4}$ He is reproduced, the deduced isospin-one admixture of the $Λ$ when inside these hypernuclei matches that in free space, provided SU(3) symmetry is partially conserved for these baryons. This approach can be tested in heavier hypernuclei when precise data for CSB become available.

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LETTER

In-medium $Λ$ isospin impurity from charge symmetry breaking in the $_{Λ}^{4} H −_{Λ}^{4} He$ mirror hypernuclei

M. Schäfer, N. Barnea, and A. Gal

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031001 (2022) - Published 20 September, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

LETTER

First experiment at the Super Heavy Element Factory: High cross section of ${}^{288}{Mc}$ in the ${}^{243}{Am} + {}^{48}{Ca}$ reaction and identification of the new isotope ${}^{264}{Lr}$

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031301 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

Initial findings of the Super Heavy Element Factory—an atom smasher in Russia—reveal details about some of the heaviest known elements.

LETTER

Applications of reduced-basis methods to the nuclear single-particle spectrum

Amy L. Anderson, Graham L. O'Donnell, and J. Piekarewicz

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031302 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

LETTER

Theoretical attempt to predict the cross sections in the case of new superheavy elements

Sahila Chopra, Neetu Goel, Manoj K. Sharma, Peter Otto Hess, and Hemdeep

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031601 (2022) - Published 20 September, 2022

LETTER

Ratios of collective flow observables in high-energy isobar collisions are insensitive to final-state interactions

Chunjian Zhang, Somadutta Bhatta, and Jiangyong Jia

Phys. Rev. C 106, L031901 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Nucleon-nucleon scattering up to next-to-next-to-leading order in manifestly Lorentz-invariant chiral effective field theory: Peripheral phases

Xiu-Lei Ren, E. Epelbaum, and J. Gegelia

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034001 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Correlations among neutron-proton and neutron-deuteron elastic scattering observables

Yu. Volkotrub, R. Skibiński, J. Golak, and H. Witała

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034002 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Effect of nuclear charge on laser-induced fusion enhancement in advanced fusion fuels

John Jasper Bekx, Martin Louis Lindsey, and Karl-Georg Schlesinger

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034003 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Nuclear Structure

Microscopic analysis of the ground state properties of the even-even Dy isotopes in the reflection-asymmetric relativistic mean-field theory

Yu-Ting Qiu, Xiao-Wei Wang, and Jian-You Guo

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034301 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Electromagnetic transitions between low-lying nonrotational states of odd-neutron nuclei in $α$ -decay chains starting from ${}^{265, 267, 269}{Hs}$

L. A. Malov, A. N. Bezbach, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, and R. V. Jolos

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034302 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Finite-temperature calculation of the isovector giant dipole resonance in ${}^{120}{Sn}$ using self-consistent inputs

Sujan Kumar Roy, Chandrani Sen, Supriya Mukhopadhyay, and Jhilam Sadhukhan

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034303 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Evidence for spherical-oblate shape coexistence in ${}^{87}{Tc}$

X. Liu et al.

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034304 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Two-dimensional extrapolation procedure for an ab initio study of nuclear size parameters and the properties of the halo nucleus ${}^{6}{He}$

D. M. Rodkin and Yu. M. Tchuvil'sky

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034305 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Lifetimes and transition probabilities for low-lying yrast levels in ${}^{130, 132}{Te}$

D. Kumar, T. Bhattacharjee, S. S. Alam, S. Basak, L. Gerhard, L. Knafla, A. Esmaylzadeh, M. Ley, F. Dunkel, K. Schomaker, J. -M. Régis, J. Jolie, Y. H. Kim, U. Köster, G. S. Simpson, and L. M. Fraile

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034306 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Configurations of the low-lying states in ${}^{146}{Eu}$

Q. B. Zeng et al.

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034307 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Finite particle-number description of symmetric nuclear matter with spin excitations of high-momentum pairs induced by the tensor force

Niu Wan, Takayuki Myo, Hiroki Takemoto, Hiroshi Toki, Chang Xu, Hisashi Horiuchi, Masahiro Isaka, Mengjiao Lyu, and Qing Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034308 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Neutrinoless double- $β$ decay from an effective field theory for heavy nuclei

C. Brase, J. Menéndez, E. A. Coello Pérez, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034309 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Spectral function for ${}^{4}{He}$ using the Chebyshev expansion in coupled-cluster theory

J. E. Sobczyk, S. Bacca, G. Hagen, and T. Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034310 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Structure of ${}^{126, 128}{Xe}$ studied in Coulomb excitation measurements

S. Kisyov, C. Y. Wu, J. Henderson, A. Gade, K. Kaneko, Y. Sun, N. Shimizu, T. Mizusaki, D. Rhodes, S. Biswas, A. Chester, M. Devlin, P. Farris, A. M. Hill, J. Li, E. Rubino, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034311 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Density matrix renormalization group description of the island of inversion isotopes ${}^{28 – 33}F$

K. Fossez and J. Rotureau

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034312 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Spatial correlation of a particle-hole pair with a repulsive isovector interaction

K. Hagino and H. Sagawa

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034313 (2022) - Published 20 September, 2022

Evolution of the $γ$ -ray strength function in neodymium isotopes

M. Guttormsen et al.

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034314 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Covariant density functional theory with localized exchange terms

Qiang Zhao (赵强), Zhengxue Ren (任政学), Pengwei Zhao (赵鹏巍), and Jie Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034315 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Attempts to produce new americium isotopes near $N = 126$

L. Ma (马龙), H. B. Yang (杨华彬), Z. Y. Zhang (张志远), J. C. Pei (裴俊琛), M. H. Huang (黄明辉), M. M. Zhang (张明明), C. Y. Qiao (乔春源), X. J. Bao (包小军), Y. L. Tian (田玉林), C. L. Yang (杨春莉), Y. S. Wang (王永生), Z. Zhao (赵圳), X. Y. Huang (黄鑫源), S. Y. Xu (徐苏扬), W. X. Huang (黄文学), Z. Liu (刘忠), X. H. Zhou (周小红), and Z. G. Gan (甘再国)

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034316 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Bulk and decay properties of neutron-deficient odd-mass Hg isotopes near $A = 185$

O. Moreno, P. Sarriguren, A. Algora, L. M. Fraile, and S. E. A. Orrigo

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034317 (2022) - Published 22 September, 2022

$β$ decay of ${}^{141}{Ba}$

Javier Rufino, Jr., E. A. McCutchan, S. Zhu, A. A. Sonzogni, M. Alcorta, P. F. Bertone, M. P. Carpenter, J. Clark, C. R. Hoffman, R. V. F. Janssens, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, R. Pardo, A. Rogers, G. Savard, D. Seweryniak, and R. Vondrasek

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034318 (2022) - Published 22 September, 2022

Critical point influenced by Bose-Einstein condensation

V. A. Kuznietsov, O. Savchuk, O. S. Stashko, and M. I. Gorenstein

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034319 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Ab initio estimation of $E 2$ strengths in ${}^{8}{Li}$ and its neighbors by normalization to the measured quadrupole moment

Mark A. Caprio and Patrick J. Fasano

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034320 (2022) - Published 26 September, 2022

Neutron $3 s_{1 / 2}$ occupation change across the stable tin isotopes investigated using isotopic analysis of proton scattering at 295 MeV

Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034321 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Nuclear level densities and $γ$ -ray strength functions in ${}^{120, 124}{Sn}$ isotopes: Impact of Porter-Thomas fluctuations

M. Markova, A. C. Larsen, P. von Neumann-Cosel, S. Bassauer, A. Görgen, M. Guttormsen, F. L. Bello Garrote, H. C. Berg, M. M. Bjørøen, T. K. Eriksen, D. Gjestvang, J. Isaak, M. Mbabane, W. Paulsen, L. G. Pedersen, N. I. J. Pettersen, A. Richter, E. Sahin, P. Scholz, S. Siem, G. M. Tveten, V. M. Valsdottir, and M. Wiedeking

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034322 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Chiral-like doublet band structure and octupole correlations in ${}^{104}{Ag}$

Kaushik Katre et al.

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034323 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Supersolidity of $α$ cluster structure in ${}^{40}{Ca}$

S. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034324 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Quantum computing of the ${}^{6}{Li}$ nucleus via ordered unitary coupled clusters

Oriel Kiss, Michele Grossi, Pavel Lougovski, Federico Sanchez, Sofia Vallecorsa, and Thomas Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034325 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

In-gas-cell laser resonance ionization spectroscopy of ${}^{200, 201}{Pt}$

Y. Hirayama, M. Mukai, Y. X. Watanabe, P. Schury, H. Nakada, J. Y. Moon, T. Hashimoto, S. Iimura, S. C. Jeong, M. Rosenbusch, M. Oyaizu, T. Niwase, M. Tajima, A. Taniguchi, M. Wada, and H. Miyatake

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034326 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

Nuclear Reactions

Production of unknown neutron-rich isotopes with $Z = 99 - 102$ in multinucleon transfer reactions near the Coulomb barrier

Na Tang, Xin-Rui Zhang, Jing-Jing Li, Pei-Wei Wen, and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034601 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Semimicroscopic model of two-proton emission

S. A. Ghinescu and D. S. Delion

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034602 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Isospin effect on first-chance fission probability

W. Ye and N. Wang

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034603 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Simulating fusion reactions from Coulomb explosions within a transport approach

Zhe Zhu, Jun Xu, and Guo-Qiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034604 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Calculation of two-proton radioactivity and application to ${}^{9}{Be},$ ${}^{6, 7}{Li},$ ${}^{3, 6}{He},$ and ${}^{2, 3}H$ emissions

G. Royer

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034605 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Constraints from isoscaling on the source size in energetic heavy ion collisions

S. R. Souza, R. Donangelo, W. G. Lynch, and M. B. Tsang

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034606 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Spin assignment and statistical properties of neutron resonances from ${}^{161, 163}{Dy} (n, γ)$ and ${}^{167}{Er} (n, γ)$ measured at the DANCE facility

I. Knapová, S. Valenta, B. Baramsai, T. A. Bredeweg, A. Couture, C. Fry, M. Jandel, J. Kroll, M. Krtička, G. E. Mitchell, J. M. O'Donnell, C. J. Prokop, G. Rusev, and J. L. Ullmann

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034607 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

$α$ decay of Po and Rn isotopes using different choices of impinging frequency

Nitin Sharma and Manoj K. Sharma

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034608 (2022) - Published 22 September, 2022

Determination of ${}^{57}{Co} (n, x p$ ) cross sections using the surrogate reaction ratio method

Ramandeep Gandhi, S. Santra, A. Pal, B. K. Nayak, P. C. Rout, D. Chattopadhyay, A. Kundu, A. Baishya, T. Santhosh, S. K. Pandit, G. Mohanto, and A. Diaz-Torres

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034609 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

$R$ -matrix analysis of elastic scattering, phase shifts, and radiative capture reaction cross sections in the $α + α$ system

Suprita Chakraborty, Rajkumar Santra, Subinit Roy, and V. M. Datar

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034610 (2022) - Published 26 September, 2022

Fission channels for fragment isotopes from ${}^{298}{Fl}$ with magic nucleon numbers

R. A. Gherghescu and D. N. Poenaru

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034611 (2022) - Published 26 September, 2022

Refractive scattering of loosely bound nuclei in arbitrarily polarized laser fields

Şerban Mişicu

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034612 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Predictions for the synthesis of the $Z = 120$ superheavy element

Jia-Xing Li (李佳星) and Hong-Fei Zhang (张鸿飞)

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034613 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Spectroscopic strength reduction of intermediate-energy single-proton removal from oxygen isotopes

Y. Z. Sun, S. T. Wang, Y. P. Xu, D. Y. Pang, J. G. Li, C. X. Yuan, L. F. Wan, Y. Qiao, Y. Q. Wang, and X. Y. Chen

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034614 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Analysis of formation and decay of ${}^{122, 128}{Ba}^{*}$ formed via ${}^{58, 64}{Ni} + {}^{64}{Ni}$ reactions near the Coulomb barrier

Jagdeep Kaur, Amandeep Kaur, Manjeet Singh Gautam, and Manoj K. Sharma

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034615 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Fission barriers of superheavy nuclei for emitted fragment isotopes near proton magic numbers

R. A. Gherghescu and D. N. Poenaru

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034616 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Minijet quenching in a concurrent $jet + hydro$ evolution and the nonequilibrium quark-gluon plasma

Daniel Pablos, Mayank Singh, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034901 (2022) - Published 1 September, 2022

Evidence for a QCD accelerator in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

L. C. Bland, E. J. Brash, H. J. Crawford, A. Drees, J. Engelage, C. Folz, E. Judd, X. Li, N. G. Minaev, R. N. Munroe, L. Nogach, A. Ogawa, C. Perkins, M. Planinic, A. Quintero, G. Schnell, G. Simatovic, P. Shanmuganathan, B. Surrow, and A. N. Vasiliev

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034902 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

Pair invariant mass to isolate background in the search for the chiral magnetic effect in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 200 GeV$

M. S. Abdallah et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034908 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Search for the chiral magnetic effect in collisions between two isobars with deformed and neutron-rich nuclear structures

Xin-Li Zhao and Guo-Liang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 106, 034909 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Differential cross sections and photon beam asymmetries of $η$ photoproduction on the proton at $E_{γ} = 1.3 – 2.4$ GeV

T. Hashimoto et al. (LEPS2/BGOegg Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 106, 035201 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Exclusive $J / ψ$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider calculated at next-to-leading order perturbative QCD

K. J. Eskola, C. A. Flett, V. Guzey, T. Löytäinen, and H. Paukkunen

Phys. Rev. C 106, 035202 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Interpretation of recent form factor data in terms of an advanced representation of baryons in space and time

Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson and Simone Pacetti

Phys. Rev. C 106, 035203 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Nuclear Astrophysics

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