Volume 112, Issue 4

October 2025

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Excited state of the $α$ particle: A benchmark study

P.-Y. Duerinck, A. Deltuva, J. Dohet-Eraly, M. Gattobigio, A. Kievsky, R. Lazauskas, D. Likandrovas, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044001 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

The $^{4}$ He nucleus, for historical reasons often called the $α$ particle, has a large binding energy but it lacks stable excited states. Experimental data suggest a $0^{+}$ resonance about 0.4 MeV above the $p$ - $^{3}$ H threshold with a width comparable to that energy. The authors carry out a benchmark calculation which locates a shallow bound excited state in $^{4}$ He near that threshold when they switch off the Coulomb interaction. As they gradually re-introduce it, the excited state crosses the threshold and eventually becomes a resonant state. Comparisons of resonant energy and width show significant discrepancies with $R$ -matrix analyses from experimental data. However, using universal concepts, the authors conclude that the existence of this state is not a consequence of a particular interaction between the constituent protons and neutrons but is due to a discrete scale invariance that constrains the spectrum of the $N$ -body system, thus demonstrating a connection to the universal behavior of systems with four nucleons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust ab initio predictions for dimensionless ratios of $E 2$ and radius observables. I. Electric quadrupole moments and deformation

Mark A. Caprio, Pieter Maris, and Patrick J. Fasano

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044318 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

$A b$ $i n i t i o$ no-core shell model calculations do well in reproducing experimental energies. Observables with radial dependences, however, such as radii and electric quadrupole moments and transitions, are particularly affected by large-distance tails of the nuclear wave function. Such observables are generally in poorer agreement with experiment and are much more sensitive to the choice of model space. The work in these two papers shows that dimensionless ratios of such observables are significantly less sensitive to the model space and agree better with data. Thus, if one can measure at least one observable, one can make a reliable prediction for the others. Moreover, these dimensionless ratios provide $a b$ $i n i t i o$ insight into the nuclear quadrupole deformation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust ab initio predictions for dimensionless ratios of $E 2$ and radius observables. II. Estimation of $E 2$ transition strengths by calibration to the charge radius

Mark A. Caprio, Patrick J. Fasano, and Pieter Maris

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044319 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

LETTERS

LETTER

Picosecond lifetime measurements of resonances using a thick-target invariant-mass technique

R. J. Charity, N. Dronchi, A. K. Anthony, D. Bazin, S. Biswas, K. W. Brown, P. J. Farris, A. Gade, S. A. Gillespie, A. M. Hill, J. Li, B. Longfellow, S. N. Paneru, W. Reviol, D. Rhodes, E. Rubino, L. G. Sobotka, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 112, L041301 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

LETTER

Electromagnetic radii of light nuclei from variational Monte Carlo calculations

G. B. King, G. Chambers-Wall, A. Gnech, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. C 112, L041302 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

LETTER

Probing surface vibrations of spherical nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Kouichi Hagino and Masakiyo Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. C 112, L041901 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

LETTER

Gauge invariance and color charge fluctuations

Thomas D. Cohen

Phys. Rev. C 112, L042201 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Excited state of the $α$ particle: A benchmark study

P.-Y. Duerinck, A. Deltuva, J. Dohet-Eraly, M. Gattobigio, A. Kievsky, R. Lazauskas, D. Likandrovas, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044001 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Searching for entanglement in final polarization states of neutron-proton scattering

H. Witała, J. Golak, and R. Skibiński

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044002 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Probing $ϕ N$ interaction through bound states of the $ϕ N − α$ system

Faisal Etminan

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044003 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

Quantum complexity fluctuations from nuclear and hypernuclear forces

Caroline E. P. Robin and Martin J. Savage

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044004 (2025) - Published 17 October, 2025

$Λ$ -deuteron momentum correlation functions incorporating deuteron breakup contributions in Faddeev formulation

M. Kohno and H. Kamada

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044005 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

3- $α$ and 4- $α$ systems within a short-range effective field theory–inspired approach

E. Filandri, M. Viviani, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky, and L. E. Marcucci

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044006 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Kadanoff-Baym approach to bound states in open quantum systems

Tim Neidig, Marcus Bleicher, Hendrik van Hees, and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044007 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Nuclear Structure

Proton halo structures and ${}^{22}{Al}$

Panagiota Papakonstantinou, Myeonghwan Mun, Cong Pan, and Kaiyuan Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044301 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Experimental study of mirror nuclei ${}^{10}{Be} − {}^{10}C, {}^{11}B − {}^{11}C$ , and ${}^{9}{Be} − {}^{9}B$ populated via ${}^{10}B + {}^{10}B$ nuclear reactions

D. Jelavić Malenica, M. Milin, A. Di Pietro, P. Figuera, A. Musumarra, M. G. Pellegriti, V. Scuderi, N. Soić, S. Szilner, D. Torresi, and M. Uroić

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044302 (2025) - Published 3 October, 2025

Large-scale calculation of the E1 photon strength function using a deformed covariant energy density functional approach

L. González-Miret Zaragoza, J.-P. Ebran, S. Goriely, S. Hilaire, E. Khan, and S. Péru

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044303 (2025) - Published 6 October, 2025

Further steps toward the next generation of covariant energy density functionals

B. Osei, A. V. Afanasjev, A. Taninah, A. Dalbah, U. C. Perera, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044304 (2025) - Published 7 October, 2025

Structural evolution and $K$ mixing in ${}^{52}{Cr}$ : A shell model description

Arkadip Bera, Abhijit Bisoi, Rozina Rahaman, Y. Sapkota, Arkabrata Gupta, Sangeeta Das, Ananya Das, Dibyadyuti Pramanik, S. Rajbanshi, A. Pal, S. Basak, Sansaptak Basu, S. S. Nayak, D. Kumar, S. Bhattacharya, T. Bhattacharjee, S. Chakraborty, G. Mukherjee, S. Bhattacharyya, A. Sharma, S. Kundu, Pankaj K. Giri, R. Raut, and S. S. Ghugre

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044305 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

$β$ -delayed spectroscopy of ${}^{80}{Ge}_{48}$ and competition between Gamow-Teller and first-forbidden transitions in ${}^{80 g + m}{Ga}_{49} β$ decay

R. Li et al.

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044306 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

Mapped $s p d f$ interacting boson model for quadrupole-octupole collective states in nuclei

K. Nomura

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044307 (2025) - Published 10 October, 2025

Triaxial relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum for exotic nuclei

K. Y. Zhang, S. Q. Zhang, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044308 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Testing variational perturbation theory for effective actions using the Gaudin-Yang model

Pranav Sharma and R. J. Furnstahl

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044309 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Level structure of light neutron-rich La isotopes beyond the $N = 82$ shell closure

A. Navin et al.

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044310 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Large quadrupole moment in ${}^{20}{Ne}$ : Localization and tensor-force effects

Huai-Tong Xue (薛怀通), Suo Qiu (裘索), C.-F. Chen (陈超锋), Q. B. Chen (陈启博), Xian-Rong Zhou (周先荣), and Zhongzhou Ren (任中洲)

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044311 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Symmetry energy and neutron matter equation of state at $ρ_{0} / 3$ from the electric dipole polarizability in ${}^{48}{Ca}$ , ${}^{68}{Ni}$ , and ${}^{208}{Pb}$

Mengying Qiu, Lie-Wen Chen, Zheng Zheng Li, Yi Fei Niu, and Zhen Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044312 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich chlorine isotopes at the $N = 28$ shell closure

H. Erington, G. Bollen, G. Dykstra, A. Hamaker, C. M. Ireland, C. R. Nicoloff, D. Puentes, R. Ringle, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, A. A. Valverde, and I. T. Yandow

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044313 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Correlations of $Q_{β}$ values with symmetry energy and effective mass studied within Skyrme energy-density functionals

Futoshi Minato, Yifei Niu, and Kenichi Yoshida

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044314 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Systematic theoretical study on possible antimagnetic rotation in ${}^{103, 105, 107, 109}{Pd}$

Zheng Qiao, Yi-Chun Hao, Hao Wang, Ke-Yan Ma, and Guo-Mo Zeng

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044315 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Probing isoscalar giant resonances with multipolarity $L \leq 3$ in even- $A$ neodymium isotopes

M. Abdullah et al.

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044316 (2025) - Published 21 October, 2025

Electron-capture decay of ${}^{98}{Tc}$

Dominik Elchine, Martin Müller, Markus Schiffer, and Erik Strub

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044317 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust ab initio predictions for dimensionless ratios of $E 2$ and radius observables. I. Electric quadrupole moments and deformation

Mark A. Caprio, Pieter Maris, and Patrick J. Fasano

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044318 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust ab initio predictions for dimensionless ratios of $E 2$ and radius observables. II. Estimation of $E 2$ transition strengths by calibration to the charge radius

Mark A. Caprio, Patrick J. Fasano, and Pieter Maris

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044319 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

${}^{3}{He} + α$ resonances in ${}^{7}{Be}$

R. J. Charity and L. G. Sobotka

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044320 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

Forbidden nonunique $β^{-}$ transitions and $g_{A}$ -sensitive $β$ spectral shapes

Archana Saxena and Praveen C. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044321 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

High-spin structure of ${}^{96}{Nb}$ : Extended level scheme from experiment and insights from shell model calculations

J. Shi (施婧) et al.

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044322 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Investigation of excited rotational bands in $N = 151$ isotones: Role of pairing correlations, $ν j_{15 / 2}$ alignment, and hexacontetrapole deformation

Anshul Dadwal and Xiao-Tao He

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044323 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

$3 α$ correlations of ground and excited $0^{+}$ states of ${}^{12}C$ within the microscopic cluster model

De-Ye Tao (陶德晔), Bo Zhou (周波), and Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044324 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Nuclear Reactions

Learning nuclear cross sections across the chart of nuclides with graph neural networks

Hongjun Choi, Sinjini Mitra, Jason Brodksy, Ruben Glatt, Erika Holmbeck, Shusen Liu, Nicolas Schunck, Andre Sieverding, and Kyle Wendt

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044601 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Microscopic pairing in fission dynamics

A. Zdeb, A. Baran, S. A. Giuliani, L. M. Robledo, and M. Warda

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044602 (2025) - Published 6 October, 2025

Double-differential-cross-section measurements of neutron scattering on ${}^{56}{Fe}$

G. Gkatis, M. Diakaki, G. Noguere, A. Oprea, C. Paradela, E. Pirovano, and A. J. M. Plompen

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044603 (2025) - Published 6 October, 2025

Investigation of the neutron-proton effective mass splitting via heavy ion collisions: Constraints and implications

Junping Yang, Meiqi Sun, Ying Cui, Yangyang Liu, Zhuxia Li, Kai Zhao, and Yingxun Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044604 (2025) - Published 7 October, 2025

Correlation studies for the ${}^{7}{He}$ excited states

M. S. Khirk, L. V. Grigorenko, E. Yu. Nikolskii, and P. G. Sharov

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044605 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Bayesian inference of nuclear-matter density from proton scattering

J. C. Zamora

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044606 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Neutron emission during fission and its impact on fission-fragment mass distribution studied by a Langevin model

S. Takagi, S. Harada, Y. Aritomo, K. Hirose, and K. Nishio

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044607 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Empirical systematics of long-range $α$ -particle emission probabilities in fission of heavy and superheavy nuclei

N. S. Moiseev, N. V. Antonenko, and G. G. Adamian

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044608 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Global optimization of nuclear level density parameters using Bayesian analysis

R. Shil, G. Banerjee, K. Banerjee, J. Sadhukhan, Pratap Roy, and A. Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044609 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Dependence of angular momentum of fission fragments on total kinetic energy in spontaneous fission of ${}^{252}{Cf}$

A. Rahmatinejad, T. M. Shneidman, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044610 (2025) - Published 22 October, 2025

Number of virtual photons in Coulomb excitation

Ki-Seok Choi, K. S. Kim, Myung-Ki Cheoun, and W. Y. So

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044611 (2025) - Published 23 October, 2025

Extended momentum-dependent interaction for transport models and neutron stars

Si-Pei Wang and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044612 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

$α$ -induced neutron emission from ${}^{27}{Al}$ : A cross-section study

Rajat Roy et al.

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044613 (2025) - Published 28 October, 2025

Constraining neutron-proton effective mass splitting from nuclear giant dipole resonance data within a transport approach

Yi-Dan Song (宋一丹), Min-Si Luo (罗闽斯), Rui Wang (王睿), Zhen Zhang (张振), and Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044614 (2025) - Published 31 October, 2025

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Effect of initial geometry fluctuations on the heavy flavor flow using a multiphase transport model

J. Y. Zhang, Y. J. Song, L. Ma, W. H. Ma, and H. Z. Huang

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044901 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

Hadronization mechanisms and strange-particle production in inelastic proton-proton collisions at energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Khaled Abdel-Waged and Nuha Felemban

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044902 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

Chiral Cherenkov radiation in the presence of a time-dependent chiral chemical potential

Kirill Tuchin

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044903 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Measurement of $ω$ meson production in $p p$ and $p$ -Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02$ TeV

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044904 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Constraints on the equation of state of nuclear matter from systematically comparing $SMASH$ calculations to HADES data

Justin Mohs, Simon Spies, and Hannah Elfner

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044905 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Left-right splitting of elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions: TRENTo-3D initialization and CLVisc hydrodynamic simulations

Ze-Fang Jiang, Xiang Fan, Duan She, Shasha Ye, and Ben-Wei Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 112, 044906 (2025) - Published 30 October, 2025

Hadronic Physics and QCD

New phenomenological extraction of the nucleon charge size scale: The baryonic core and quark-antiquark meson cloud radii

I. A. Qattan

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045201 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

Magnetic properties of the hadron resonance gas with physical magnetic moments

Rupam Samanta and Wojciech Broniowski

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045202 (2025) - Published 14 October, 2025

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions

F. Abdi and B. Rezaei

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045203 (2025) - Published 16 October, 2025

Impossibility of obtaining time-independent, three-dimensional, spherically symmetric densities of confined systems of relativistically moving constituents

Gerald A. Miller

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045204 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Role of the short-range dynamics in a simultaneous interpretation of $P_{c s}$ pentaquarks as $Ξ_{c}^{(', )} {\bar{D}}^{()}$ molecules

Ziye Wang, Nijiati Yalikun, and Yakefu Reyimuaji

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045205 (2025) - Published 29 October, 2025

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

One- and two-body current contributions to lepton-nucleus scattering

Alessandro Lovato, Noemi Rocco, and Noah Steinberg

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045501 (2025) - Published 7 October, 2025

Optimized binning for response function reconstruction via Chebyshev expansions

Immo C. Reis, Joanna E. Sobczyk, and Sonia Bacca

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045502 (2025) - Published 7 October, 2025

Spectroscopy of ${}^{113 m}{Cd}$

P. Belli, R. Bernabei, F. Cappella, V. Caracciolo, R. Cerulli, F. A. Danevich, F. Ferella, A. Incicchitti, D. V. Kasperovych, V. R. Klavdiienko, V. V. Kobychev, M. Laubenstein, A. Leoncini, S. Nisi, D. V. Poda, O. G. Polischuk, M. Ramalho, J. Suhonen, and V. I. Tretyak

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045503 (2025) - Published 8 October, 2025

${}^{28}{Al}$ half-life measurement and the negative mirror asymmetry between the ${}^{28}{Al} (β^{-}) {}^{28 m}{Si}$ and ${}^{28}P (β^{+}) {}^{28 m}{Si}$ decays

B. Liu, M. Brodeur, D. W. Bardayan, F. D. Becchetti, C. Boomershine, D. P. Burdette, L. Caves, O. Olivas-Gomez, S. L. Henderson, J. J. Kolata, J. Long, A. D. Nelson, P. D. O'Malley, A. Pardo, and R. Zite

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045504 (2025) - Published 10 October, 2025

$Δ$ -isobar resonance effects studied by $τ σ$ summed strengths and nuclear matrix elements for $β$ and $β β$ decays

Hiroyasu Ejiri

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045505 (2025) - Published 20 October, 2025

Antenna arrays for neutrino mass measurements with cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy

A. Ashtari Esfahani et al. (Project 8 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045506 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025

Nuclear Astrophysics

Bayesian analysis of the ${}^{86}{Sr} (α, α)$ reaction to constrain the ${}^{86}{Sr} (α, n)$ cross section at astrophysical energies

C. Marshall, T. Lansing, D. Gribble, R. Longland, A. Psaltis, and K. Setoodehnia

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045801 (2025) - Published 1 October, 2025

Indirect measurement of the astrophysical reaction rates of ${}^{15}N (p, γ) {}^{16}O$

C. Chen (陈晨), Y. J. Li (李云居), Z. H. Li (李志宏), Y. Zhang (张扬), J. W. Tian (田竣文), J. Y. H. Li (李家英豪), Y. Q. Zhang (张玉强), C. Dong (董超), F. Q. Cao (曹富强), J. C. Liu (刘建成), Q. W. Fan (樊启文), E. T. Li (李二涛), S. Q. Yan (颜胜权), Y. B. Wang (王友宝), S. Zeng (曾晟), G. Lian (连钢), W. Nan (南巍), N. Song (宋娜), and D. Nan (南丁)

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045802 (2025) - Published 6 October, 2025

New Skyrme parametrizations to describe finite nuclei and neutron star matter with realistic effective masses. II. Adjusting the spin-dependent terms

Mingya Duan and Michael Urban

Phys. Rev. C 112, 045808 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Band crossing and shape evolution in ${}^{73}{Ge}$ [Phys. Rev. C 92, 054302 (2015)]

J. J. Sun (孙君杰) et al.

Phys. Rev. C 112, 049901 (2025) - Published 24 October, 2025

Errata

Retraction: Radiative decay of the subthreshold $1_{1}^{-}$ and $2_{1}^{+}$ states of ${}^{16}O$ in cluster effective field theory [Phys. Rev. C 109, 015801 (2024)]

Shung-Ichi Ando

Phys. Rev. C 112, 049902 (2025) - Published 27 October, 2025