Volume 113, Issue 1

January 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence of critical-point symmetry from a microscopic perspective: Evidence for ${}^{134}{Ba}$ as the “softest” nucleus without definite shape

K. Kaneko, Y. Sun, T. Mizusaki, and N. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014327 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

The authors present new results for nuclear shape evolution and phase transitions from a comprehensive microscopic calculation based on the projected Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov plus generator coordinate method. They identify, in particular, the microscopic origins of the symmetries originally suggested by algebraic or geometric models. The calculations show that by taking $^{134}$ Ba as the reference and varying the $Q \cdot Q$ strengths involving the quasi-SU(3) partners ( $1 g_{9 / 2}$ , $2 d_{5 / 2}$ ) and ( $1 h_{11 / 2}$ , $2 f_{7 / 2}$ ), one can reproduce the relevant IBM symmetries and the shape-critical behavior symmetries. The work also identifies a line, in a visual representation of the transitions between the symmetries, with $Q_{s} (2_{1}^{+})$ equal to zero dividing states indicative of prolate and oblate nuclear shapes.

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Structure of high-lying excited states in ${}^{47}{Ca}$ with $ℓ \geq 3$ populated in fast-beam $γ$ -ray-tagged one-neutron pickup reactions

T. Parry, A. Gade, B. A. Brown, D. Weisshaar, S. A. Gillespie, D. Bazin, T. Beck, P. C. Bender, J. Belarge, C. M. Campbell, B. A. Elman, K. W. Kemper, B. Longfellow, E. M. Lunderberg, and A. O. Macchiavelli

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014328 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

This work is a new and impressive example for the potential of $γ$ -ray-tagged neutron-adding transfer reactions at high beam velocities. By tuning the desired angular momentum transfer, this reaction allows selecting specific neutron configurations and complements spectroscopic information from the more common neutron-removal and low-energy ( $d$ , $p$ ) transfer reactions. The experiment selectively populated excited states in $^{47}$ Ca—a neighbor of the doubly magic $^{48}$ Ca nucleus—based on $ℓ \geq 3$ neutron configurations following one-neutron pickup by $^{46}$ Ca from a $^{12}$ C target, and recorded their decay with the GRETINA detector array. The experimental results demonstrate that the $ℓ = 3$ spectroscopic strength is rather fragmented, in contrast to shell-model calculations, which predict it to be strongly concentrated in only a few states. The work not only suggests opportunities for a modern ( $d$ , $p$ ) measurement to complement the present selective high- $ℓ$ data but more generally introduces $γ$ -ray-tagged neutron-adding transfer reactions as a complementary tool for exploring neutron single-particle excitations.

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Microscopic theory of angular momentum distributions across the full range of fission fragments

Petar Marević, Nicolas Schunck, and Marc Verriere

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014612 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

During fission, a heavy nucleus splits into two hot fragments that cool by emitting particles. To simulate this cooling process, the angular momentum distribution of the fragments is required. Historically, this has been described using simplified phenomenological models. In this work, advanced quantum-mechanical methods are used to predict, for the first time, the angular momentum distributions of all fragments observed experimentally. The calculations confirm a pronounced sawtooth pattern in the average angular momentum as a function of fragment mass, consistent with recent measurements. Moreover, substantial variations are predicted for isobaric nuclei, indicating that simplified models are not sufficiently accurate. The generated data are an important input for fission modeling based on robust quantum-mechanical methods, an effort relevant for fundamental science and technology.

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LETTER

Guide to nuclear polarization in muonic atoms

Mikhail Gorchtein

Phys. Rev. C 113, L011301 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Many precision tests of the Standard Model require controlled understanding of nuclear structure. An example is precise knowledge of nuclear charge radii, which can be obtained from the x-ray spectra of muonic atoms. Such spectra themselves have important corrections, such as the induced nuclear polarization. This Letter presents a simple yet reliable collection of formulas to compute the nuclear polarization for light to medium-mass nuclides. These formulas encode information across bound-state QED, nuclear reactions, and hadronic interactions, and aim at providing better constraints in interpreting key experiments.

LETTERS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Guide to nuclear polarization in muonic atoms

Mikhail Gorchtein

Phys. Rev. C 113, L011301 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

LETTER

Tracing the evolution of nuclear excitation at the future Electron-Ion Collider

Niseem Magdy

Phys. Rev. C 113, L011901 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

LETTER

Locating the QCD critical point through contours of constant entropy density

Hitansh Shah, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha, Claudia Ratti, and Volodymyr Vovchenko

Phys. Rev. C 113, L012201 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

LETTER

$A_{β} {[E]}_{β}$ in ${}^{37}K$ decay: New physics with opposite $β$ helicity

Melissa Anholm, J. A. Behr, D. G. Melconian, G. Gwinner, A. Gorelov, J. C. McNeil, B. Fenker, and S. Behling

Phys. Rev. C 113, L012501 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Reexamining the perturbative renormalizability of coupled triplets

Manuel Pavon Valderrama

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014001 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Three-nucleon contact forces in the Jacobi partial-wave basis

Lin Zuo, Hao Yang, and Bingwei Long

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014002 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

New minimal set of spherical bipolar harmonics

S. N. Ershov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014003 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Conformal prediction for uncertainties in nucleon-nucleon scattering

Habib Yousefi Dezdarani, Ryan Curry, and Alexandros Gezerlis

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014004 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Entanglement and accidental symmetries in the nucleon-nucleon system

Alma L. Cavallin, Oliver Thim, and Christian Forssén

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014005 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Nuclear Structure

Quadrupole transitions of ${}^{10}C$ and their isospin symmetry with ${}^{10}{Be}$

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014301 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

In-medium similarity renormalization group for a pairing-plus-particle-hole model

L. H. Chen, Y. G. Yao, and B. C. He

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014302 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

$N = 50$ core excitation in ${}_{42}^{95}{Mo}_{53}$ at high angular momentum

W. Q. Yang (杨伟庆) et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014303 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Aspects of single particle excitations and collectivity in ${}^{69}{Ga}$

Anil Sharma, S. Nandi, S. Samanta, S. Kundu, A. Das, S. S. Ghugre, R. Raut, S. S. Tiwary, I. Bala, R. P. Singh, and S. Muralithar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014304 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Nuclear mass predictions using a neural network with additive Gaussian process regression-optimized activation functions

Hui-Xin Liu (刘辉鑫), Sergei Manzhos, and Xin-Hui Wu (吴鑫辉)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014305 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Systematic studies of $M 1$ photon strength functions with Skyrme- $HFB + QRPA$ and the derived total dipole $(E 1 + M 1)$ resonance properties

Y. Xu, S. Goriely, M. Krtička, and E. Khan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014306 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

$α$ -decay half-lives of superheavy nuclei with support-vector regression

Haitao Yang, Xiaopan Li, Xiefei Song, Dianxu Ma, Gongming Yu, and Xiaojun Bao

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014307 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Shape evolution in neutron-rich odd-even ${}^{105 - 109}{Nb}$ isotopes

M. Abushawish, E. H. Wang, J. Dudouet, A. Navin, E. Clément, G. Duchêne, J. H. Hamilton, A. Lemasson, C. Michelagnoli, O. Stezowski, S. Bhattacharyya, F. DidierJean, B. Jacquot, Y. H. Kim, Y. X. Luo, A. V. Ramayya, J. O. Rasmussen, and S. J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014308 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Coexistence of shapes and octupole correlation in ${}^{82}{Kr}$

Habibur Rahaman, S. Rajbanshi, Abhijit Bisoi, G. Manna, R. Biswas, Saikat Sen, R. Palit, Sajad Ali, F. S. Babra, R. Banik, S. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya, P. Dey, Md. S. R. Laskar, G. Mukherjee, S. Nandi, H. Pai, Rajkumar Santra, and T. Trivedi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014309 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Hypernuclear structure with a new leading-order covariant chiral hyperon-nucleon force

Xuan Zeng, Ru-You Zheng, Zhi-Wei Liu, Li-Sheng Geng, and Xian-Rong Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014310 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Nuclear and neutron matter in the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory with a next-to-leading-order covariant chiral nuclear force

Wei-Jiang Zou, Yi-Long Yang, Jun-Xu Lu, Peng-Wei Zhao, Li-Sheng Geng, and Jie Meng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014311 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Shape phase transitions and octupole deformation in the $s p d f$ interacting boson model

Omar Vallejos, Pedro A. Contreras-Corral, and José Barea

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014312 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Two-body cluster entangled structure in the $H_{1} \otimes H_{2}$ Hilbert space

Fei-Long Xu, Xi-Guang Cao, and Yu-Gang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014313 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Spin symmetry in antinucleon resonances within nuclei

Zhen-Yu Zheng, Quan Liu, and Jian-You Guo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014314 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Magnetic dipole moments adjacent to doubly magic nuclei in self-consistent mean-field theory with realistic spin-isospin and tensor forces

H. Nakada and H. Iwata

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014315 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Complex-scaled no-core shell model calculations of bound and unbound nuclear states in light nuclei

A. T. Kruppa, N. Michel, Xin-le Shang, and Wei Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014316 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Two-body currents at finite momentum transfer and applications to $M 1$ transitions

C. Brase, T. Miyagi, J. Menéndez, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014317 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Lifetime of the $4_{1}^{+}$ state of ${}^{132}{Te}$

H. Mayr, T. Stetz, V. Werner, N. Pietralla, M. Beckers, A. Blazhev, A. Esmaylzadeh, J. Fischer, R.-B. Gerst, K. A. Gladnishki, K. E. Ide, J. Jolie, V. Karayonchev, E. Kleis, H. Kleis, P. Koch, D. Kocheva, C. M. Nickel, T. Otsuka, A. Pfeil, G. Rainovski, F. von Spee, M. Stoyanova, Y. Tsunoda, and R. Zidarova

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014318 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Correlation of $0 ν β β$ decay nuclear matrix elements with nucleon-nucleon phase shifts

A. Belley, J. Pitcher, T. Miyagi, S. R. Stroberg, and J. D. Holt

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014319 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Improved microscopic nuclear level densities within the triaxial Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov plus combinatorial method

S. Goriely, W. Ryssens, S. Hilaire, and A. J. Koning

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014320 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Lifetimes of two- and four-neutron-hole states in ${}^{204}{Pb}$ and ${}^{206}{Pb}$

Saket Suman, S. K. Tandel, Jay Kaushik, M. Hemalatha, V. Bothe, Cenxi Yuan, Noritaka Shimizu, P. Chowdhury, R. V. F. Janssens, F. G. Kondev, M. P. Carpenter, T. Lauritsen, and D. Seweryniak

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014321 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Particle-hole valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group Hamiltonians and application to nuclei “southeast” of ${}^{132}{Sn}$

X. Y. Xu, Q. Yuan, S. Q. Fan, J. G. Li, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014322 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

${1 / 2}^{-}$ resonances of ${}^{13}C$ studied by the analytic continuation in the coupling constant

Seungheon Shin, Masaaki Kimura, Bo Zhou, and Qing Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014323 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Light nuclei embedded in a nuclear medium: Clustering and Mott transitions

Qi Meng and Chang Xu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014324 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Search for $β$ -delayed fission of ${}^{178}{Au}^{g, m}$ and an updated systematics in the region of neutron-deficient nuclei

B. Andel et al. (IDS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014325 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Interplay of quadrupole and octupole degrees of freedom in the Gd isotopes

R. Budaca and S. Pascu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014326 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence of critical-point symmetry from a microscopic perspective: Evidence for ${}^{134}{Ba}$ as the “softest” nucleus without definite shape

K. Kaneko, Y. Sun, T. Mizusaki, and N. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014327 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structure of high-lying excited states in ${}^{47}{Ca}$ with $ℓ \geq 3$ populated in fast-beam $γ$ -ray-tagged one-neutron pickup reactions

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014328 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Revised $B (E 2; 2_{1}^{+} \to 0_{1}^{+})$ value in the semi-magic nucleus ${}^{210}{Pb}$

C. M. Nickel et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014329 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Persistence of collectivity in the low-lying states of ${}^{30, 31}{Na}$ inside the $N = 20$ island of inversion

R. Salinas, H. Iwasaki, A. Revel, B. A. Brown, J. Ash, D. Bazin, J. Chen, R. Elder, P. Farris, A. Gade, M. Grinder, N. Kobayashi, J. Li, B. Longfellow, T. Mijatović, J. Pereira, A. Sanchez, M. Spieker, Y. Utsuno, D. Weisshaar, and J. Wu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014330 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Low-background measurement of the half-life of ${}^{71}{Ge}$ decay

J. H. Cai, W. P. Lin, B. Gao, Z. An, F. Bai, Y. H. Fan, Y. X. Fan, J. F. Han, T. Y. Jiao, G. Liu, X. Q. Liu, C. J. Shao, K. B. Shu, J. H. Tan, X. D. Tang, Y. Tang, P. Wang, C. Wen, and D. H. Xie

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014331 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Nuclear Reactions

Extracting the hexadecapole deformation of ${}^{176}{Yb}$ and ${}^{178}{Hf}$ from quasielastic scattering

Amar Das, K. Kalita, Harun Al Rashid, Lakhyajit Sarma, Nabendu Kumar Deb, Taniya M. Sonowal, Anita Tamang, Gyandeep Narzary, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, N. Madhavan, Gonika, Chandra Kumar, Rajesh K. Sahoo, Bhargab Boruah, Rasna Baruah, A. Parihari, M. Swain, and M. Bhuyan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014601 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Experimental study of the photon strength function of ${}^{58}{Fe}$ via the ( $d, p$ ) reaction in inverse kinematics using a forward method

M. Q. Sorensen, A. D. Abbott, A. B. McIntosh, A. Couture, K. Hagel, S. Ota, J. Gauthier, A. Alvarez, G. Potel, L. Bills, T. Hankins, A. Hannaman, B. M. Harvey, L. A. McIntosh, A. L. Richard, S. Schultz, Z. Tobin, K. Zelga, and S. J. Yennello

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014602 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Emission time chronology of ${}^{3}{He}$ relative to hydrogen isotopes in ${}^{64}{Zn} + {}^{197}{Au}$ collisions at 35 MeV/u

X. Duan, J. Liu, X. Liu, W. Lin, H. Zheng, A. Bonasera, Z. Chen, J. Han, M. Huang, K. Hagel, C. W. Ma, G. Qu, P. Ren, G. Tian, J. Wang, R. Wada, and J. B. Natowitz

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014603 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Exploring neutron-star matter properties via reactions on deformed nuclei

Yuan-Qing Guo, Ya-Peng Zhang, and Zhao-Qing Feng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014604 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Uncertainty band evaluation of optical potentials and differential cross sections: Application to ${}^{8}{Li} + {}^{58}{Ni}$ elastic scattering

O. C. B. Santos and J. Gómez-Camacho

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014605 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Comparison of various structural inputs in the calculation of one-nucleon removal from ${}^{7}{Li}$ and ${}^{7}{Be}$

Y. Z. Sun (孙亚洲), J. G. Li (李健国), S. T. Wang (王世陶), M. R. Xie (谢萌冉), and S. Y. Jin (金树亚)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014606 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Systematic investigation of the formation of superheavy nuclei in the reactions of ${}^{48}{Ca}, {}^{50}{Ti}, {}^{51}V$ , and ${}^{54}{Cr}$ on actinide nuclei

Zi-Han Wang, Peng-Hui Chen, Ya-Ling Zhang, Ming-Hui Huang, and Zhao-Qing Feng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014607 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

First-order perturbative Fourier transform method for the Coulomb breakup of light and medium-mass one-neutron halo nuclei

H. Kushwaha and R. Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014608 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Combined effects of nuclear deformation and nonlocality in ( $α, n$ ) reactions relevant to the $γ$ process

N. Nhu Le and T. T. Quynh Huong

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014609 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Precise measurement of ${}^{216}{Po}$ half-life with exact parent-daughter pairing in PandaX-4T

Chenxiang Li et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014610 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Theoretical study of nucleosynthesis of light nuclei in intermediate-energy central heavy-ion collisions

R. Ogul, A. S. Botvina, N. Buyukcizmeci, and M. Bleicher

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014611 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic theory of angular momentum distributions across the full range of fission fragments

Petar Marević, Nicolas Schunck, and Marc Verriere

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014612 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Description of nucleon transfer reactions at intermediate energies within the impulse approach

Sang-In Shim, Yoshiki Chazono, Kazuki Yoshida, Tomohiro Uesaka, and Kazuyuki Ogata

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014613 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Cross section and decay properties of nuclei produced in the ${}^{242}{Pu}$ ( ${}^{50}{Ti}, 3 n$ ) ${}^{289}{Lv}$ reaction

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014614 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Characterizing radial flow fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at top RHIC and LHC energies

Lipei Du

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014901 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Measurement of medium-induced acoplanarity in central Au-Au and $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV using direct- $photon + jet$ and $π^{0}$ $+$ jet correlations

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014902 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Blast-wave-Tsallis-power model for $p_{T}$ spectra and elliptic flow $v_{2}$ of hadrons in collisions of identical nuclei at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Smbat Grigoryan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014903 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Fast prediction of the hydrodynamic QGP evolution in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions using Fourier neural operators

D. Stewart and J. Putschke

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014904 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Heavy hadron production in $Au + Au$ collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

Sunidhi Saxena, Rajiv Gupta, Gauri Devi, and Ajay Kumar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014905 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Quark flavor equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma

Andrew Gordeev, Steffen A. Bass, Berndt Müller, and Jean-François Paquet

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014906 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Accessing proton number fluctuations in limited regions of phase space

Piotr Bożek

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014907 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Role of $Σ^{*} (1385)$ in $Λ$ hyperon polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Haesom Sung, Che Ming Ko, and Su Houng Lee

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014908 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Probing the nuclear equation of state with clusters and hypernuclei

Yingjie Zhou, Susanne Gläßel, Yue-Hang Leung, Viktar Kireyeu, Jiaxing Zhao, Hui Liu, Christoph Blume, Iouri Vassiliev, Vadim Voronyuk, Michael Winn, Norbert Herrmann, Yaping Wang, Nu Xu, Jörg Aichelin, and Elena Bratkovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014909 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Disentangling initial-state and evolution effects in heavy-ion collisions using EPOS and PHSD

Mahbobeh Jafarpour, Vadym Voronyuk, Klaus Werner, Elena Bratkovskaya, and Damien Vintache

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014910 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Flow in small systems in the EPOS4 approach for high-energy scattering

K. Werner

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014911 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Search for the chiral magnetic effect through beam energy dependence of charge separation using event shape selection

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014912 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Pion-kaon femtoscopy as a probe of the space-time emission anisotropies due to interactions at the hadronic stage of matter evolution in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

P. Chakraborty, G. Kornakov, A. Kisiel, Yu. M. Sinyukov, V. M. Shapoval, and S. Dash

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014913 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Glauber predictions for oxygen and neon collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Constantin Loizides

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014914 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Electromagnetic probes as signatures for a first-order QCD phase transition

Mohamad Lukman Aidid Mohd Yusoff, Norhasliza Yusof, Hasan Abu Kassim, Jan Steinheimer, Marcus Bleicher, Apiwit Kittiratpattana, Ayut Limphirat, and Christoph Herold

Phys. Rev. C 113, 014915 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Bound states of $Ω$ baryons in light nuclei

I. Filikhin, R. Ya. Kezerashvili, and B. Vlahovic

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015201 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Examining hadronic resonance dynamics at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Insights from EPOS4

Vikash Sumberia, Dukhishyam Mallick, Sanjeev Singh Sambyal, and Nasir Mehdi Malik

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015202 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Entanglement entropy for $π^{+} p$ elastic scattering using a spin-density matrix

Seung-il Nam

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015203 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

$Ξ N N$ three-baryon force from SU(3) chiral effective field theory: A femtoscopic study

Gen Uratsu, Tokuro Fukui, and Kazuyuki Ogata

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015204 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Suppression of a dynamical momentum-space shell by chiral symmetry

Bikai Gao and Michał Marczenko

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015205 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Existence of nuclear modifications of the nucleon longitudinal-transverse structure-function ratio

S. Kumano

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015206 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Photoproduction and detection of $ρ^{'} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ decays in ultraperipheral collisions and at an electron-ion collider

Neha Devi, Janet Seger, Minjung Kim, and Spencer R. Klein

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015207 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Investigation of the doubly charmed analog of the $P_{c}$ states

Xuejie Liu, Yue Tan, Xiaoyun Chen, Dianyong Chen, Hongxia Huang, and Jialun Ping

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015208 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Nuclear Astrophysics

Extraction of neutron-capture cross sections on ${}^{92}{Zr}$ using the charge-exchange Oslo method

N. D. Pathirana, R. G. T. Zegers, B. Gao, A. Spyrou, A. C. Larsen, H. Berg, D. Bazin, H. L. Crawford, A. Gade, P. Gastis, T. Ginter, C. J. Guess, M. Guttormsen, S. Noji, B. Longfellow, J. Pereira, L. A. Riley, D. Weisshaar, and J. C. Zamora

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015801 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Magnetized charged boson gas and two-step condensation in neutron-star matter

Amanda Castillo Ayón, Gabriel Gil Perez, A. Pérez Martínez, H. Pérez Rojas, Gabriella Piccinelli Bocchi, Adriel Ernesto Rodríguez Concepción, and Angel Sanchez

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015802 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Enhanced sensitivity to trace ${}^{238}U$ impurity of sapphire via coincidence neutron activation analysis

D. Chernyak, I. J. Arnquist, T. Daniels, S. W. Finch, L. Hissong, M. Hughes, R. MacLellan, A. Piepke, A. Pocar, R. Roshong, R. Saldanha, and R. H. M. Tsang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015803 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Validity of a finite temperature expansion for dense nuclear matter

Debora Mroczek, Nanxi Yao, Katherine Zine, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Liam Brodie, Veronica Dexheimer, Alexander Haber, and Elias R. Most

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015804 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Measurement of near-threshold resonances in ${}^{9}B$ for Big Bang nucleosynthesis

G. W. McCann, I. Wiedenhöver, L. T. Baby, J. C. Blackmon, C. M. Deibel, E. C. Good, J. C. Esparza, K. Hanselman, K. T. Macon, N. Rijal, A. Ring, R. M. Shaffer, V. Sitaraman, B. Sudarsan, E. Temanson, and M. La Cognata

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015805 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Revised reaction rate for the astrophysical reaction ${}^{15}N (n, γ) {}^{16}N$ via the coupled-channels Gamow shell model

L. H. Ru, N. Chen, N. Michel, J. G. Li, and W. Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 015806 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Sensitivity of neutron drip lines and neutron star properties to the symmetry energy

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