Volume 113, Issue 2

February 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charged particle scattering in renormalizable pionless effective field theory at next-to-leading order: The $p d, d d$ , and $p {}^{3}{He}$ cases

Matúš Rojik, Martin Schäfer, Mirko Bagnarol, and Nir Barnea

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024001 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

This work presents an extensive theoretical and numerical study of charged few-nucleon systems ( $p d$ , $d d$ , and $p$ - $^{3}$ He bound states and scattering) in the framework of pionless effective field theory (EFT) up to next-to-leading order (NLO). The authors treat the Coulomb interaction nonperturbatively, while NLO interactions, including three-body forces and a four-body force, are treated in perturbation theory. Special attention is given to renormalization issues. Only a mild cutoff dependence is seen, consistent with the expectations of power counting in pionless EFT. The results hold significant promise for $a b$ - $i n i t i o$ studies of charged-particle scattering at very low energies, with applications to reactions of astrophysical interest.

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Di-nucleons do not form bound states at heavy pion mass

John Bulava, M. A. Clark, Arjun S. Gambhir, Andrew D. Hanlon, Ben Hörz, Bálint Joó, Christopher Körber, Ken McElvain, Aaron S. Meyer, Henry Monge-Camacho, Colin Morningstar, Joseph Moscoso, Amy Nicholson, Fernando Romero-López, Ermal Rrapaj, Andrea Shindler, Sarah Skinner, Pavlos M. Vranas, and André Walker-Loud (Baryon Scattering Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024002 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Predicting the low-energy, two-nucleon ( $N N$ ) forces directly from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the underlying theory of strong interactions, remains a challenge for theory. The authors present a high-statistics, technically sophisticated lattice QCD calculation of $p$ - $n$ and $n$ - $n$ scattering amplitudes at equal (heavy) pion and kaon masses of 714 MeV and find that deuteron and di-neutron bound states do not exist. The results help diagnose a long-standing disagreement in the literature regarding the methods used to determine the $N N$ spectra and amplitudes with such calculations. The work represents a significant step toward deriving nuclear physics from first principles.

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Electromagnetic moments of ground and excited states calculated in heavy odd- $N$ open-shell nuclei

J. Dobaczewski, A. E. Stuchbery, G. Danneaux, A. Nagpal, P. L. Sassarini, and H. Wibowo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024306 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Nuclear moments are fundamental nuclear characteristics such as whether an individual nuclear state is deformed, or whether the nucleus carries its angular momentum as a collective whole or as individual nucleons with contributions from both their orbital motion and their intrinsic spin. However, calculations of nuclear moments have long been carried out mostly for certain classes of nuclei rather than seamlessly across an entire region. The authors report comprehensive calculations of spectroscopic magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments in odd- $N$ , even- $Z$ nuclei with their code HFODD. The calculations cover gadolinium to osmium nuclei, ranging from near-spherical to well-deformed nuclei, within nuclear density functional theory with the Skyrme functional UNEDEF1. Comparison with experimental data for 82 states without parameter adjustment demonstrates that the study captures the main features of magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments. The holistic approach to an entire region of the nuclear chart provides valuable insight into the evolution of the underlying nuclear structure and will help guide future fine-tuning of the functionals.

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Impact of shape coexistence on the symmetric to asymmetric fission mode transition in Th isotopes

Shengyuan Chen, Zeyu Li, Minghui Zhou, and Zhipan Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024601 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

The thorium isotopes exhibit a transition from symmetric to asymmetric fission. To study this transition, the authors carry out a systematic investigation of fission modes across the thorium isotopic chain, based on state-of-the-art microscopic models. They show that it is strongly correlated with rapid changes in the configuration of the nucleus at scission as the thorium isotopes become more neutron-rich. Furthermore, they find that the change in configuration is driven by a deformed shell closure for krypton and strontium isotopes which dominate the light asymmetric fragment yields. This work can point the way toward finding other isotopic chains where such fission-mode transitions occur.

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Backscattering study of electrons from 0.1 to 3.4 MeV

M. Kanafani, X. Fléchard, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, R. Garreau, T. E. Haugen, L. Hayen, S. Leblond, E. Liénard, X. Mougeot, G. Quéméner, A. Rani, J.-C. Thomas, and S. Vanlangendonck

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025501 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Benchmarking simulation codes for electron transport and scattering in matter is a crucial step for estimating uncertainties in precision measurements in $β$ decay and other applications. This work reports the measurement and the quantitative analysis of backscattering probabilities of electrons in the energy range 0.1 to 3.4 MeV where experimental data are scarce. Using a setup for precise identification of backscattered events impinging on a YAP:Ce scintillator, the authors achieved meaningful agreement between simulations and experimental data covering a large range of energies and large incident angles. The results should help mitigate the usually large relative uncertainties considered for electron backscattering probabilities. Reaching an improved understanding of the systematic uncertainties at the percent level, compared to the previous 10% level, promises to be of high value to the community engaged in precision $β$ spectroscopy.

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Bayesian framework for the $S_{E 1}$ (300 keV) and $S_{E 2}$ (300 keV) factors for ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ from subthreshold and ground-state asymptotic normalization coefficients

A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025803 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

The $^{12}$ C( $α$ , $γ$ ) $^{16}$ O reaction sets the carbon-to-oxygen ratio after core helium burning and strongly influences late stellar evolution. Because direct measurements near $E \approx 300$ keV are not available, this work combines existing experimental constraints in a Bayesian analysis to determine a well-defined range for the astrophysical factors $S_{E 1}$ (300 keV) and $S_{E 2}$ (300 keV). The resulting $S$ (300 keV) range has important implications for the final outcomes of massive stars, including the formation of heavy black-hole remnants relevant to gravitational-wave observations.

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LETTER

Correlation of multiple physical quantities in multinucleon transfer reactions: Insight into production of isotopes near the $N = 152$ shell closure

Zimeng Shen, Zehong Liao, and Long Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 113, L021601 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Synthesizing neutron-rich superheavy elements such as those near the $N = 152$ shell closure is experimentally challenging and requires reliable guidance from nuclear theory. This work reports on the multinucleon transfer (MNT) reaction $^{238}$ U+ $^{238}$ U to synthesize neutron-rich $^{244}$ U. The authors use a semi-classical approach based on solving a master equation, the DNS-sysu model, to obtain the fragment distribution probability. Using a multidimensional analysis of the correlations among the scattering angle, the kinetic energy, and the angular momentum, the authors focus on how these physical parameters influence the optimal detection angle for $^{244}$ U production. They find that the optimal production kinematic window corresponds to peripheral collisions with high angular momentum and kinetic energy, at a scattering angle near those for grazing collisions. The results can help guide experiments toward optimizing the detection geometry for MNT experiments to synthesize and detect $^{244}$ U and similar neutron-rich actinides, which are important to better understand the evolution of nuclear stability near the predicted “island of stability” of superheavy elements.

LETTERS

LETTER

Shape inheritance and staggering in $α$ decay: A machine learning approach to the nuclear structure properties of superheavy nuclei

Ruixiong Li, Jingyu Xiao, Hongfei Zhang, and Nana Ma

Phys. Rev. C 113, L021301 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

LETTER

Mass of ${}^{101}{Sn}$ and Bayesian extrapolations to the proton drip line

C. M. Ireland et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, L021302 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Correlation of multiple physical quantities in multinucleon transfer reactions: Insight into production of isotopes near the $N = 152$ shell closure

Zimeng Shen, Zehong Liao, and Long Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 113, L021601 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

LETTER

$J / ψ$ production in proton-proton collisions at Spin Physics Detector energies of the JINR Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility

Shubham Sharma and Alexey Aparin

Phys. Rev. C 113, L022201 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charged particle scattering in renormalizable pionless effective field theory at next-to-leading order: The $p d, d d$ , and $p {}^{3}{He}$ cases

Matúš Rojik, Martin Schäfer, Mirko Bagnarol, and Nir Barnea

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024001 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Di-nucleons do not form bound states at heavy pion mass

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024002 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Novel variational-type method in quantum few-body theory

S. A. Rakityansky

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024003 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Scattering phase shifts from overlap relations in the $J$ -matrix method

Calvin W. Johnson, Bui Minh Loc, Austin Keller, and Kenneth M. Nollett

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024004 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

$A = 2$ , 3, 4 nuclear contact coefficients in the generalized contact formalism

E. Proietti, L. E. Marcucci, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024005 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Nuclear Structure

Analysis of correlations between dipole transitions $1_{1}^{-} \to 0_{1}^{+}$ and $3_{1}^{-} \to 2_{1}^{+}$ based on the collective model

R. V. Jolos and E. A. Kolganova

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024301 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Islands of shape coexistence for $Z = 38 - 84$ in a nonrelativistic mean-field approach using Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory

Malik A. Hasan and Dennis Bonatsos

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024302 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Bayesian approach for many-body uncertainties in nuclear structure: Many-body perturbation theory for finite nuclei

I. Svensson, A. Tichai, K. Hebeler, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024303 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Simultaneous improvements of nuclear mass and charge radius predictions using multitask Gaussian process approaches

Weihu Ye and Niu Wan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024304 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Ab initio study of spectroscopic factors in ${}^{48}K$ and neighboring $N = 28$ isotones

P. Y. Wang, M. R. Xie, Q. Yuan, W. J. Huang, and J. G. Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024305 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electromagnetic moments of ground and excited states calculated in heavy odd- $N$ open-shell nuclei

J. Dobaczewski, A. E. Stuchbery, G. Danneaux, A. Nagpal, P. L. Sassarini, and H. Wibowo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024306 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Lifetime measurements in ${}^{165}W$ and the spin evolution of $E 2$ transition strength

T. Milanović et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024307 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Robust extrapolation in nuclear mass predictions using domain-informed activation functions

C. H. Kim, K. Y. Chae, and M. S. Smith

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024308 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Microscopic study of the asymptotic behavior of the reduced width amplitude in ${}^{7}{Li}$ and ${}^{7}{Be}$

H. J. Zhu, M. J. Lyu, Q. Zhao, Z. Cheng, J. Q. Tian, M. Kimura, T. Myo, H. Horiuchi, H. Toki, M. Isaka, H. Takemoto, Akinobu Doté, and N. Wan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024309 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Decay study of the most neutron-deficient Zn isotopes with the Warsaw optical-readout TPC detector

A. Kubiela et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024310 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Insights into properties of nuclei in $α$ -decay chains of ${}^{295 - 304}120$ using a self-consistent mean-field approach

A. Nasr, W. M. Seif, A. R. Abdulghany, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024311 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Computing nuclear response functions with time-dependent coupled-cluster theory

Francesca Bonaiti, Cody Balos, Kyle Godbey, Gaute Hagen, Thomas Papenbrock, and Carol S. Woodward

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024312 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Evolution of chirality from transverse wobbling in ${}^{135}\Pr$

N. Sensharma, U. Garg, Q. B. Chen, S. Frauendorf, S. Zhu, J. Arroyo, A. D. Ayangeakaa, D. P. Burdette, M. P. Carpenter, P. Copp, J. L. Cozzi, S. S. Ghugre, D. J. Hartley, K. B. Howard, R. V. F. Janssens, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, J. Li, R. Palit, A. Saracino, D. Seweryniak, S. Weyhmiller, and J. Wu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024313 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Linear correlations related to neutron skin thickness

Y. Lei (雷杨), J. Qi (漆洁), X. Lian (连新), Z. Z. Qin (覃珍珍), and C. L. Bai (白春林)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024314 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Delicate interplay between single-particle and collective degrees of freedom for generating the excited states of ${}^{67}{Ga}$

U. S. Ghosh, S. Rai, A. K. Mondal, K. Mandal, S. Biswas, S. Chakraborty, G. Mukherjee, A. Sharma, Indu Bala, R. P. Singh, S. Muralithar, A. Chakraborty, and B. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024315 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Microscopic study of ${}^{10}C : 2 α + 2 p$ clustering structure and diproton correlations

Liu-Di Song, De-Ye Tao, Wei-Hu Ma, Bo Zhou, De-Qing Fang, and Yu-Gang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024316 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Measurement of the ${}^{75}{As} (n, 2 n)$ cross section at 14.1 MeV at the National Ignition Facility

K. N. Kmak, J. D. Despotopulos, J. Jeet, and T. L. Huynh

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024317 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Shell model description of the $N = 82$ isotonic chain with a new effective interaction

Y. X. Yu, Q. Y. Chen, Chong Qi, and G. J. Fu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024318 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Investigation of new and evolving structures in ${}^{125}{Te}$ using $γ$ spectroscopy

Atreyee Dey, A. K. Singh, Anwesha Basu, Somnath Nag, G. Mukherjee, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Nandi, S. Bhattacharya, R. Banik, R. Raut, S. S. Ghugre, S. Das, S. Samanta, S. Chatterjee, A. Goswami, S. Ali, H. Pai, and S. Rajbanshi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024319 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Proton skin thickness extracted by well-constrained symmetry energy through two-proton radioactivity

Mingzhao Lu and Niu Wan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024320 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Robust $β$ -spectra shape parameter extraction

B. C. Rasco, T. J. Gray, and T. Ruland

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024321 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Comparing invariant-mass spectroscopy of ${}^{8}B$ with ab initio predictions

R. J. Charity, G. H. Sargsyan, K. D. Launey, T.B. Webb, K.W. Brown, and L. G. Sobotka

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024322 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Probing the $j$ dependence of angular distributions and $N = 20$ shell rigidity via the ${}^{36}S (p, d) {}^{35}S$ reaction

S. Jongile et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024323 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Mirror symmetry and cluster structures of resonant states in ${}^{9}{Be}$ and ${}^{9}B$

Myagmarjav Odsuren, Yuma Kikuchi, Takayuki Myo, and Kiyoshi Katō

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024324 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

High-excitation $7 α$ deexciting states in ${}^{28}{Si}^{*}$

J. B. Natowitz, X. G. Cao, A. Bonasera, and T. Depastas

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024325 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Exploring bubble structure and shell evolution at magic nuclei via the relativistic point-coupling model with similarity renormalization group

Xin-Xing Shi, Quan Liu, and Shou-Wan Chen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024326 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Error analysis of the finite-range liquid-drop model

C. Azam, D. Blondeau-Patissier, P. Tamagno, M. Frosini, and A. Pastore

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024327 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Microscopic study of the low-energy enhancement in the $γ$ -decay strength of ${}^{50}V$

J. K. Dahl, A. C. Larsen, N. Shimizu, and Y. Utsuno

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024328 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Deep learning for nuclear masses in deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum

Soonchul Choi, Kyungil Kim, Zhenyu He, Yongbeom Choi, Youngman Kim, and Toshitaka Kajino

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024329 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

$α$ -decay properties of nuclei near the doubly magic nucleus ${}^{100}{Sn}$

Jing Li (李婧), Shan He (何珊), Yueqing Li (李月晴), Weiwei Wang (王维维), Yanzhao Wang (王艳召), and Jianzhong Gu (顾建中)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024330 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Reexamination of the pairing-plus-multipole model

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024331 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Comparison of variational quantum eigensolvers in light nuclei

Miquel Carrasco-Codina, Emanuele Costa, Antonio Márquez Romero, Javier Menéndez, and Arnau Rios

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024332 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Ab initio calculations of monopole sum rules: From finite nuclei to infinite nuclear matter

F. Bonaiti, A. Porro, S. Bacca, A. Schwenk, and A. Tichai

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024333 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Nuclear Reactions

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Impact of shape coexistence on the symmetric to asymmetric fission mode transition in Th isotopes

Shengyuan Chen, Zeyu Li, Minghui Zhou, and Zhipan Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024601 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Probing the neutron-skin thickness via double-charge exchange reactions in pion-nucleus collisions

Ban Zhang and Zhao-Qing Feng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024602 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Measurements of short-lived fission product yields from photofission of ${}^{238}U$ using 13.0 MeV monoenergetic photons

I. Tsorxe, S. W. Finch, C. R. Howell, Krishichayan, A. P. D. Ramirez, J. A. Silano, A. P. Tonchev, and W. Tornow

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024603 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Investigation of the quasifission process in the synthesis of superheavy nuclei

Qing Qing Yao, Shu Qing Guo, Tian Liang Zhao, and Xiao Jun Bao

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024604 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Probing nuclear symmetry energy via isoscaling analysis of spallation fragments with a Bayesian neural network

Dan Peng and Chun Wang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024605 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Caloric curve and mechanism for emission of light charged particles in $Xe + Sn$ collisions at 50 MeV/u

J. Tan (谭钧豪), G. Tian (田国玉), W. Lin (林炜平), R. Wada, X. Liu (刘星泉), H. Zheng (郑华), Y. Chen (陈焰), and A. Chbihi (INDRA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024606 (2026) - Published 6 February, 2026

Investigation of fusion hindrance in asymmetric systems ${}^{16}O + {}^{116}{Cd}$ and ${}^{16}O + {}^{142}{Ce}$

Rohan Biswas, J. Gehlot, Gonika, Chandra Kumar, A. Parihari, N. Madhavan, A. Vinayak, Amritraj Mahato, Shoaib Noor, Phurba Sherpa, and S. Nath

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024607 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Fusion of ${}^{9}{Be}$ with ${}^{116}{Sn}$ at near-barrier energies

Nancy Garg, Rupinderjeet Kaur, Priyanka, Soni Devi, Katyayni Tiwari, Swati Thakur, Upasana Gupta, V. Nanal, V. V. Parkar, S. K. Pandit, A. Shrivastava, Mahesh S. Pose, S. Mallikarjunachary, S. Pal, V. A. B. Zagatto, J. Lubian, L. F. Canto, and Pushpendra P. Singh

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024608 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Breakup effects in the ${}^{6}{He} +^{27} Al$ reaction dynamics

H. F. G. Arruda, K. C. C. Pires, O. C. B. Santos, R. Lichtenthäler Filho, A. Lépine-Szily, A. S. Serra, U. Umbelino, B. P. Monteiro, D. Apolonio, F. R. Loureiro, G. S. Gonçalves, S. D. Olorunfunmi, M. Rodríguez-Gallardo, A. M. Moro, M. Assunção, and P. N. de Faria

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024609 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Fusion hindrance in the ${}^{11}B + {}^{169}{Tm}$ system at deep sub-barrier energies

Saikat Bhattacharjee, Munmun Twisha, Ashish Gupta, M. Shareef, Akashrup Banerjee, Sanjoy Pal, Biswajit Das, Prabhat Mishra, V. V. Parkar, S. K. Pandit, K. Ramachandran, Vineet Kumar, K. Mahata, A. Shrivastava, and A. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024610 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Investigation of the ${}^{244}{Pu} ({}^{48}{Ca}, x n) {}^{292 - x}{Fl}$ reaction with the LBNL SHREC detector: Investigation of decay chains of isotopes of flerovium ( $Z = 114$ )

J. M. Gates, R. Orford, D. Rudolph, A. T. Chemey, R. M. Clark, H. L. Crawford, P. Fallon, C. M. Folden, III, F. H. Garcia, P. Golubev, J. A. Gooding, K. E. Gregorich, R. A. Henderson, Y. Hrabar, A. S. Kirkland, M. McCarthy, J. A. Mildon, J. L. Pore, C. Porzio, E. Rice, L. G. Sarmiento, M. A. Stoyer, K. Thomas, and P. T. Wooddy

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024611 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Bayesian analyses of proton multiple flow components in intermediate heavy ion collisions with momentum-dependent interactions

Shuochong Han and Ang Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024612 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Fission decay of ${}^{132}{Ce}$ with an improved stationary approach

P. A. Setaro, N. Carjan, A. Di Nitto, G. La Rana, E. Vardaci, and T. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024613 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Direct boundary matching : A bound-state technique for nuclear scattering with Lagrange-Legendre functions

Jin Lei

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024614 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Quark-meson coupling model in heavy-ion collision simulations

Dae Ik Kim, Chang-Hwan Lee, Kyungil Kim, Youngman Kim, Sangyong Jeon, and Kazuo Tsushima

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024615 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Langevin approach to proton-induced fission reactions of ${}^{238}U$ and ${}^{232}{Th}$

Chang-hoon Song, Chang-Hwan Lee, Yoshihiro Aritomo, Shinya Takagi, Kohta Nakajima, Ik Jae Shin, and Youngman Kim

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024616 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Neutron skins probed in proton knockout from neutron-rich nuclei

C. A. Bertulani and R. V. Lobato

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024617 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Impact of octupole correlation on the inverse quasifission in ${}^{160}{Gd} + {}^{186}W$ collisions

Zhenji Wu (吴振基), Xiang-Xiang Sun (孙向向), and Lu Guo (郭璐)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024618 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Low-energy fusion hindrance in medium-heavy and medium-light systems

O. N. Ghodsi and T. Ghasemi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024619 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Search for a heavy neutral lepton with the MAGNETO- $ν$ experiment using ${}^{241}{Pu} β^{-}$ decays

C. Lee, X. Zhang, A. Kavner, T. Parsons-Davis, D. Lee, N. Hines, S. T. P. Boyd, M. Loidl, X. Mougeot, M. Rodrigues, M. K. Lee, J. W. Song, R. Wood, I. Jovanovic, and G. B. Kim

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024620 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Exploring the partonic collectivity in small systems at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Yuanyuan Wang, Yili Wang, Wenbin Zhao, and Huichao Song

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024901 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Strangeness production in $p Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02$ TeV in the PACIAE model

Wei Lei, Qiang Wang, An-Ke Lei, Zhi-Lei She, Jia-Xin Gao, Dai-Mei Zhou, Yu-Liang Yan, Hua Zheng, Wen-Chao Zhang, and Ben-Hao Sa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024902 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Impact of spin polarization on the QCD equation of state

De-Xian Wei

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024903 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Charm quark evolution in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions

Mayank Singh, Manu Kurian, Björn Schenke, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024904 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Effects of the centrality determination method for the equation of state and nucleonic observables from $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.4$ GeV

Xiaoqing Yue, Pengcheng Li, Yongjia Wang, Qingfeng Li, and Fuhu Liu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024905 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Novel approach to a fast calculation of high-order $Q$ cumulants

L. Nađđerđ, J. Milošević, D. Devetak, F. Wang, and X. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024906 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Transport-based initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions at finite densities

H. Roch et al. (JETSCAPE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024907 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Measurement of the longitudinal flow-plane decorrelation using multiplane cumulants in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ Au + Au, Ru + Ru, and Zr + Zr collisions

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024908 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Impact of new results from ultraperipheral collisions on modeling the proton and neutron emission in photon-induced nuclear processes

P. Jucha, K. Mazurek, A. Szczurek, and K. Pysz

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024909 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Bayesian analysis of properties of nuclear matter with the FOPI experimental data

Guojun Wei, Manzi Nan, Pengcheng Li, Yongjia Wang, Qingfeng Li, Gaochan Yong, and Fuhu Liu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024910 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Particle spectra in the integrated hydrokinetic model at RHIC Beam-Energy-Scan energies

Narendra Rathod, Yuri Sinyukov, Musfer Adzhymambetov, and Hanna Zbroszczyk

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024911 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Deep learning for jet modification in the presence of the quark gluon plasma background

Ran Li, Yi-Lun Du, and Shanshan Cao

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024912 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Classification of the flavor dependence of the chiral magnetic effect with a deep neural network using multiple correlators

Somdeep Dey, Abhisek Saha, and Soma Sanyal

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024913 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Predictions of baryon directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at high baryon density

Yuri B. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024914 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Viscous Gubser flow with conserved charges to benchmark fluid simulations

Kevin Ingles, Jordi Salinas San Martín, Willian Serenone, and Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024915 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Influence of heavy quark potential on quarkonium production in quark-gluon plasma

Taesoo Song and Jiaxing Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024916 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Method to constrain preferential emission and spectator dynamics in heavy-ion collisions

Vipul Bairathi and Somadutta Bhatta

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024917 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Extended applicability domain of viscous anisotropic hydrodynamics in (2+1)-D Bjorken flow with transverse expansion

Yiyang Peng, Victor E. Ambruş, Clemens Werthmann, Sören Schlichting, Ulrich Heinz, and Huichao Song

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024918 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Bayesian model selection and uncertainty propagation for beam energy scan heavy-ion collisions

Syed Afrid Jahan, Hendrik Roch, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 024919 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Baryons in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio models

Eric Blanquier

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025201 (2026) - Published 6 February, 2026

Diffractive vector meson photoproduction in oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon ultraperipheral collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

J. Cepila, J. G. Contreras, M. Matas, and A. Ridzikova

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025202 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Backscattering study of electrons from 0.1 to 3.4 MeV

M. Kanafani, X. Fléchard, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, R. Garreau, T. E. Haugen, L. Hayen, S. Leblond, E. Liénard, X. Mougeot, G. Quéméner, A. Rani, J.-C. Thomas, and S. Vanlangendonck

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025501 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Three-nucleon lepton-number-violating potentials in chiral effective field theory and their matrix elements in light nuclei

Graham Chambers-Wall, Justin Lieffers, Garrett B. King, Emanuele Mereghetti, Saori Pastore, Maria Piarulli, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025502 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Nuclear Astrophysics

Constraining isoscalar-vector and isovector-vector couplings from very heavy neutron stars and GW190814 observations

Deepak Kumar and Pradip Kumar Sahu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025801 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Measurement of ${}^{115}{Sn} (p, γ) {}^{116}{Sb}$ cross sections relevant to the astrophysical $p$ process

M. Twisha, A. Gupta, A. K. Verma, A. Kundu, A. Mukherjee, K. Mahata, V. V. Parkar, S. K. Pandit, S. C. Sharma, Vineet Kumar, A. Shrivastava, K. Ramachandran, Prabhat Mishra, Chandan Kumar, P. K. Nayak, S. Mukhopadhyay, L. S. Danu, H. Kumawat, S. Dhuri, Sanjoy Pal, Jyotisankar Das, Arati Chavan, and Sarla Rathi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025802 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bayesian framework for the $S_{E 1}$ (300 keV) and $S_{E 2}$ (300 keV) factors for ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ from subthreshold and ground-state asymptotic normalization coefficients

A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025803 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

New thermonuclear ${}^{61}{Ga} (p, γ) {}^{62}{Ge}$ rate and its implications for type I x-ray bursts: GS 1826-24 clocked burster

J. B. Liu, Z. R. Hou, H. F. Li, X. Xu, S. Q. Hou, and C. X. Yuan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 025809 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Mirror corrections in predictions of nucleon separation energies for nuclei near the proton drip line [Phys. Rev. C 110, 034318 (2024)]

Tao Li, Ning Wang, Hong Yao, Xinrui Zhang, and Min Liu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 029901 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026