Volume 108, Issue 3

September 2023

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: To Review Is to Be

Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. C 108, 030001 (2023) - Published 25 September, 2023

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analysis of a Skyrme energy density functional with deep learning

N. Hizawa, K. Hagino, and K. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034311 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

Adapting a technique recently developed in atomic electron systems to nuclear physics, the authors employ a deep-learning method to analyze a Skyrme energy density functional (Skyrme-EDF) with the goal to construct an orbital-free functional that depends only on the particle density distribution. In a first step they compute the energy and particle densities of a nucleus using the Skyrme Kohn-Sham + Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer method. With those sets of data and a deep-learning approach they then train an orbital-free functional. When applied to the $^{24}$ Mg nucleus, the newly constructed functional successfully reproduces the binding energy of the original Skyrme-EDF, with an accuracy of about 40 keV. The significant computational advantage compared to traditional EDF approaches promises useful alternatives for future applications such as for calculating more complex nuclear shapes in heavy and superheavy nuclei.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hexadecapole axial collectivity in the rare earth region: A beyond-mean-field study

C. V. Nithish Kumar and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034312 (2023) - Published 22 September, 2023

Understanding the interplay between the intrinsic shape of nuclei and the dynamics of their low-lying collective states is one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary nuclear structure physics. Within the framework of the generator coordinate method with a Gogny interaction, this paper highlights the important role of hexadecapole deformation in several isotopes of the rare earth region. These features could also have an impact on the evaluation of neutrinoless double- $β$ decay nuclear matrix elements and on heavy ion collision dynamics. The study highlights that the physics touched by considering the hexadecapole degree of freedom is not trivial, and its study is worth further consideration.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gallium neutrino absorption cross section and its uncertainty

S. R. Elliott, V. N. Gavrin, W. C. Haxton, T. V. Ibragimova, and E. J. Rule

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035502 (2023) - Published 25 September, 2023

The $^{71}$ Ga radiochemical experiments provided the first constraint on the flux of low-energy electron neutrinos coming from the Sun. Crucial neutrino calibration experiments, however, using intense $β$ -decay sources, yielded rates below that predicted by theory. A recent effort to check the “gallium anomaly” using a more intense source exacerbated the discrepancy. This paper carefully reexamines the nuclear physics of neutrino absorption on $^{71}$ Ga, slightly reducing but not eliminating the puzzling anomaly.

LETTERS

LETTER

Precise approach to determining the ${}^{3}{He}$ neutron incoherent scattering length $b_{i}$

H. Lu, O. Holderer, A. Ioffe, S. Pasini, P. Pistel, Z. Salhi, B. M. Goodson, W. M. Snow, and E. Babcock

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031001 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

LETTER

Entanglement maximization in low-energy neutron-proton scattering

Gerald A. Miller

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031002 (2023) - Published 28 September, 2023

LETTER

Complex valence-space effective operators for observables: The Gamow-Teller transition

Z. C. Xu, S. Zhang, J. G. Li, S. L. Jin, Q. Yuan, Z. H. Cheng, N. Michel, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031301 (2023) - Published 6 September, 2023

LETTER

${}^{93 m}{Mo}$ isomer depletion via nuclear excitation by electron capture in resonant transfer into highly excited open-shell atomic states

J. Rzadkiewicz, K. Słabkowska, M. Polasik, Ł. Syrocki, J. J. Carroll, and C. J. Chiara

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031302 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

LETTER

Neutron-proton effective mass splitting in neutron-rich matter

Sibo Wang, Hui Tong, Qiang Zhao, Chencan Wang, Peter Ring, and Jie Meng

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031303 (2023) - Published 18 September, 2023

LETTER

Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of magnetic moments of light nuclei with chiral effective field theory interactions

J. D. Martin, S. J. Novario, D. Lonardoni, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, and I. Tews

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031304 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

LETTER

Persistent vibrational structure in $^{110 - 116} Cd$

N. Gavrielov, J. E. García-Ramos, P. Van Isacker, and A. Leviatan

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031305 (2023) - Published 28 September, 2023

LETTER

Projection algorithm for state preparation on quantum computers

I. Stetcu, A. Baroni, and J. Carlson

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031306 (2023) - Published 29 September, 2023

LETTER

Kinetic approach of light-nuclei production in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

Rui Wang, Yu-Gang Ma, Lie-Wen Chen, Che Ming Ko, Kai-Jia Sun, and Zhen Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 108, L031601 (2023) - Published 22 September, 2023

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Variational Monte Carlo calculations of $n + {}^{3}H$ scattering

Abraham R. Flores and Kenneth M. Nollett

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034001 (2023) - Published 7 September, 2023

Pairing properties of semilocal coordinate- and momentum-space regularized chiral interactions

P. Yin, X. L. Shang, J. N. Hu, J. Y. Fu, E. Epelbaum, and W. Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034002 (2023) - Published 8 September, 2023

Landau sum rules with noncentral quasiparticle interactions

D. Davesne, J. W. Holt, J. Navarro, and A. Pastore

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034003 (2023) - Published 28 September, 2023

Nuclear Structure

Ground-state mass of the odd-odd $N = Z$ nuclide ${}^{70}{Br}$

W. J. Huang, X. Zhou, Y. H. Zhang, M. Wang, Yu. A. Litvinov, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034301 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Spin cutoff factor and level density for ${}^{59}{Ni}$ from an analysis of compound nuclear reactions

A. V. Voinov, N. Alanazi, S. Akhtar, S. Dhakal, C. R. Brune, S. M. Grimes, T. N. Massey, Z. Meisel, C. E. Parker, and A. L. Richard

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034302 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

$α$ decay of the neutron-deficient isotope ${}^{190}{At}$

A. N. Andreyev et al.

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034303 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

First half-life measurement of a low-lying isomer in ${}^{37}{Si}$

T. H. Ogunbeku, B. P. Crider, S. N. Liddick, B. A. Brown, A. Chester, K. L. Childers, P. Chowdhury, E. Lamere, R. Lewis, B. Longfellow, R. S. Lubna, S. Lyons, S. K. Neupane, D. Perez-Loureiro, C. J. Prokop, A. L. Richard, U. Silwal, D. P. Siwakoti, D. C. Smith, M. K. Smith, and Y. Xiao

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034304 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

$β$ -decay half-lives as an indicator of shape-phase transition in neutron-rich Zr isotopes with particle-vibration coupling effects

Kenichi Yoshida, Yifei Niu, and Futoshi Minato

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034305 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

Role of pairing correlations in the fission process

X. B. Wang, Yongjing Chen, G. X. Dong, Yang Su, Zeyu Li, X. Z. Wu, and Z. X. Li

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034306 (2023) - Published 6 September, 2023

Dependence of the fission half-lives of heavy nuclei on the highest proton magic number within a macro-microscopic approach

G. Royer, T. Boureau, and N. Potiron

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034307 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

State-of-the-art nucleon-pair approximation to the nuclear shell model

C. Ma, X. Yin, and Y. M. Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034308 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

Projected shell model description of nuclear level density: Collective, pair-breaking, and multiquasiparticle regimes in even-even nuclei

Jiaqi Wang, Saumi Dutta, Long-Jun Wang, and Yang Sun

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034309 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Lifetime measurements in ${}^{99}{Nb}$ and ${}^{99}{Zr}$ : Investigation of shape coexistence

A. Pfeil, K. Nomura, N. Gavrielov, J.-M. Régis, U. Köster, Y. H. Kim, A. Esmaylzadeh, A. Harter, J. Jolie, L. Knafla, M. Ley, and V. Karayonchev

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034310 (2023) - Published 19 September, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analysis of a Skyrme energy density functional with deep learning

N. Hizawa, K. Hagino, and K. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034311 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hexadecapole axial collectivity in the rare earth region: A beyond-mean-field study

C. V. Nithish Kumar and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034312 (2023) - Published 22 September, 2023

Quasiparticle resonance in decay spectrum of unbound nuclei near neutron drip-line

Yoshihiko Kobayashi and Masayuki Matsuo

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034313 (2023) - Published 27 September, 2023

Dispersion effects in elastic electron scattering from ${}^{208}{Pb}$

D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen and X. Roca-Maza

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034314 (2023) - Published 27 September, 2023

Calibration of nuclear charge density distribution by back-propagation neural networks

Zu-Xing Yang (杨祖星), Xiao-Hua Fan (范小华), Tomoya Naito (内藤智也), Zhong-Ming Niu (牛中明), Zhi-Pan Li (李志攀), and Haozhao Liang (梁豪兆)

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034315 (2023) - Published 29 September, 2023

At the borderline of shape coexistence: Mo and Ru

E. Maya-Barbecho, S. Baid, J. M. Arias, and J. E. García-Ramos

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034316 (2023) - Published 29 September, 2023

Nuclear Reactions

Structure studies of ${}^{13}{Be}$ from the ${}^{12}{Be} (d, p)$ reaction in inverse kinematics on a solid deuteron target

J. Kovoor et al.

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034601 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Isotopic cross sections in fragmentation reactions of ${}^{12, 14}C,$ ${}^{14, 16}N,$ and ${}^{16}O$ projectiles on a carbon target

Bo Mei, Yutian Guan, Ningxin Zeng, Ziying Mai, Jiajun Tu, Tianjun Yu, Shitao Wang, Xueheng Zhang, Peng Ma, Xiaodong Xu, Xiaolin Tu, Yazhou Sun, Zhiyu Sun, Shuwen Tang, Yuhong Yu, Fang Fang, Duo Yan, Shuya Jin, Yixuan Zhao, Shaobo Ma, and Yongjie Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034602 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Description of the inclusive ( $d, d^{'} x$ ) reaction with the semiclassical distorted-wave model

Hibiki Nakada, Kazuki Yoshida, and Kazuyuki Ogata

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034603 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Abrasion-fission reactions at intermediate energies

M. Bowry, O. B. Tarasov, J. S. Berryman, V. Bader, D. Bazin, T. Chupp, H. L. Crawford, A. Gade, E. Lunderberg, A. Ratkiewicz, F. Recchia, B. M. Sherrill, D. Smalley, A. Stolz, S. R. Stroberg, D. Weisshaar, S. Williams, K. Wimmer, and J. Yurkon

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034604 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Diffuse scattering model of ultracold neutrons on wavy surfaces

S. Imajo, H. Akatsuka, K. Hatanaka, T. Higuchi, G. Ichikawa, S. Kawasaki, M. Kitaguchi, R. Mammei, R. Matsumiya, K. Mishima, R. Picker, W. Schreyer, and H. M. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034605 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

Significance of the compound nucleus surface energy coefficients in the synthesis of superheavy nuclei with $Z = 112 - 120$

R. Zargini and S. A. Seyyedi

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034606 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

Impact of quadrupole deformation on intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

Xiao-Hua Fan, Zu-Xing Yang, Peng-Hui Chen, Shunji Nishimura, and Zhi-Pan Li

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034607 (2023) - Published 6 September, 2023

Production and discovery of neutron-rich isotopes by fragmentation of ${}^{198}{Pt}$

K. Haak et al.

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034608 (2023) - Published 7 September, 2023

Impact of multichance fission on fragment-neutron correlations in ${}^{227}{Pa}$

N. Saneesh, Divya Arora, A. Chatterjee, Neeraj Kumar, Anamika Parihari, Chandra Kumar, I. Ahmed, S. Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Akhil Jhingan, K. S. Golda, A. M. Vinodkumar, and P. Sugathan

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034609 (2023) - Published 8 September, 2023

Neutron capture cross section and capture $γ$ -ray spectrum of ${}^{88}{Sr}$ in the stellar nucleosynthesis energy region

Tatsuya Katabuchi, Masayuki Igashira, So Kamada, Michihide Tajika, Nobuyuki Iwamoto, and Toshihiko Kawano

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034610 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Investigating ${}^{6, 7}{Li}$ -induced reactions on ${}^{235, 238}U$ through a collective clusterization approach

Rupinder Kaur, BirBikram Singh, Maninder Kaur, Manoj K. Sharma, and Pushpendra P. Singh

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034611 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Advancing the Ichimura-Austern-Vincent model with continuum-discretized coupled-channels wave functions for realistic descriptions of two-body projectile breakup

Jin Lei and Antonio M. Moro

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034612 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Bayesian reconstruction of impact parameter distributions from two observables for intermediate energy heavy ion collisions

Xiang Chen, Li Li, Ying Cui, Junping Yang, Zhuxia Li, and Yingxun Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034613 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

First characterization of the scattering length distribution of the vector meson interaction with the deuteron

Xiao-Yun Wang, Chen Dong, and Quanjin Wang

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034614 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

Exploring quasifission dynamics in reactions leading to the formation of ${}^{225}{Pa}$

K. Atreya, A. Sen, T. K. Ghosh, A. K. Nasirov, D. Paul, Md. Moin Shaikh, K. Banerjee, C. Bhattacharya, Samir Kundu, S. Manna, G. Mukherjee, S. Nandi, R. Pandey, T. K. Rana, Pratap Roy, S. Mukhopadhyay, and Raj Kumar Santra

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034615 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

Generation, dynamics, and correlations of the fission fragments' angular momenta

Guillaume Scamps and George Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034616 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

Interplay of effects of neutron skins in coordinate space and proton skins in momentum space on emission of hard photons in heavy-ion collisions near the Fermi energy

Wen-Mei Guo, Bao-An Li, and Gao-Chan Yong

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034617 (2023) - Published 25 September, 2023

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Dynamical critical fluctuations near the QCD critical point with hydrodynamic cooling rate

Shian Tang, Shanjin Wu, and Huichao Song

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034901 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Flow distribution analysis as a probe of nuclear deformation

Hadi Mehrabpour and S. M. A. Tabatabaee

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034902 (2023) - Published 1 September, 2023

Nonthermal distributions of charmed hadrons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Chaoyu Pan, Shuhan Zheng, Meimei Yang, Zhiwei Liu, and Baoyi Chen

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034903 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

Perturbative QCD concerning light and heavy flavor in the EPOS4 framework

K. Werner and B. Guiot

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034904 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Deep learning for flow observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

H. Hirvonen, K. J. Eskola, and H. Niemi

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034905 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Measurement of electrons from beauty-hadron decays in $p p$ and Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02$ TeV

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration )

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034906 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation using a maximum entropy distribution

Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Ulrich Heinz, and Thomas Schäfer

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034907 (2023) - Published 18 September, 2023

Sensitivity of $Au + Au$ collisions to the symmetric nuclear matter equation of state at 2–5 nuclear saturation densities

Dmytro Oliinychenko, Agnieszka Sorensen, Volker Koch, and Larry McLerran

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034908 (2023) - Published 18 September, 2023

Toward unbiased flow measurements in $p p$ collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

S. Ji, M. Virta, T. Kallio, S. H. Lim, and D. J. Kim

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034909 (2023) - Published 18 September, 2023

Non-Gaussian fluctuation dynamics in relativistic fluids

Xin An, Gökçe Başar, Mikhail Stephanov, and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034910 (2023) - Published 19 September, 2023

Bayesian inference of the path-length dependence of jet energy loss

Jordan Wu, Weiyao Ke, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034911 (2023) - Published 26 September, 2023

Probing the role of beam remnant diquark fragmentation in particle production in central ${}^{7}{Be} + {}^{9}{Be}$ collisions at energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron using the improved hijing code

Khaled Abdel-Waged and Nuha Felemban

Phys. Rev. C 108, 034912 (2023) - Published 29 September, 2023

Hadronic Physics and QCD

First Measurement of the EMC effect in ${}^{10}B$ and ${}^{11}B$

A. Karki et al. (Hall C Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035201 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

Measurement of flavor asymmetry of the light-quark sea in the proton with Drell-Yan dimuon production in $p + p$ and $p + d$ collisions at 120 GeV

J. Dove et al. (FNAL E906/SeaQuest Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035202 (2023) - Published 6 September, 2023

Effect of symmetry breaking of polarized light sea quarks on the nucleon and nuclear structure functions, and sum rules

Fatemeh Arbabifar, Shahin Atashbar Tehrani, and Hamzeh Khanpour

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035203 (2023) - Published 7 September, 2023

Hadron-hadron potentials coupled to quark degrees of freedom for exotic hadrons

Ibuki Terashima and Tetsuo Hyodo

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035204 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

Properties of the $T_{c c} {(3875)}^{+}$ and $T_{\bar{c} \bar{c}} {(3875)}^{-}$ and their heavy-quark spin partners in nuclear matter

V. Montesinos, M. Albaladejo, J. Nieves, and L. Tolos

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035205 (2023) - Published 21 September, 2023

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

$γ Z$ -exchange contributions in low-energy parity-violating $e p$ scattering

Qian-Qian Guo and Hai-Qing Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035501 (2023) - Published 22 September, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gallium neutrino absorption cross section and its uncertainty

S. R. Elliott, V. N. Gavrin, W. C. Haxton, T. V. Ibragimova, and E. J. Rule

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035502 (2023) - Published 25 September, 2023

Nuclear Astrophysics

Fast neutron star cooling in light of the PREX-2 experiment

Trisha Sarkar, Vivek Baruah Thapa, and Monika Sinha

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035801 (2023) - Published 5 September, 2023

Measurement of the ${}^{141}\Pr (n, γ)$ cross section up to stellar $s$ -process temperatures at the China Spallation Neutron Source Back-n facility

Xiankai Li et al. (CSNS Back-n Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035802 (2023) - Published 6 September, 2023

Modified Urca neutrino emissivity at finite temperature

Lami Suleiman, Micaela Oertel, and Marco Mancini

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035803 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

${}^{28}{Si} (p, t) {}^{26}{Si}$ data reconsidered for the astrophysical ${}^{25}{Al} (p, γ) {}^{26}{Si}$ rate

D. W. Bardayan

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035804 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

Absolute cross section of the ${}^{12}C (p, γ) {}^{13}N$ reaction

K-U. Kettner, H. W. Becker, C. R. Brune, R. J. deBoer, J. Görres, D. Odell, D. Rogalla, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035805 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

$α$ -cluster microscopic study of ${}^{12}C$ $+$ ${}^{12}C$ fusion toward the zero energy limit

T. Depastas, S. T. Sun, H. Zheng, and A. Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035806 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Confirmation of a new resonance in ${}^{26}{Si}$ and contribution of classical novae to the galactic abundance of ${}^{26}{Al}$

L. Canete et al.

Phys. Rev. C 108, 035807 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023