Volume 113, Issue 3

March 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Toward scalable quantum computations of atomic nuclei

Chenyi Gu, Matthias Heinz, Oriel Kiss, and Thomas Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034321 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Quantum computers offer new ways to solve the nuclear many-body problem, but realistic applications remain out of reach. Computations on a position-space lattice are promising as they exploit the short-range nature of nuclear forces. Using a local effective field theory Hamiltonian with two- and three-nucleon forces, this paper analyzes the resources required to compute ground states using adaptive variational algorithms. Demonstrations for the deuteron and helium-3 illustrate how such approaches may scale toward future quantum computations of nuclei.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Peripheral heavy-ion collisions below the Fermi energy: The case of ${}^{86}{Kr} + {}^{64}{Ni}$ and ${}^{86}{Kr} + {}^{124}{Sn}$ at 15 MeV/nucleon

O. Fasoula, G. A. Souliotis, S. Koulouris, A. Pakou, M. Veselsky, S. J. Yennello, and A. Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034621 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

The efficient production of neutron-rich nuclei has been a challenge and is a central theme at current and future rare-isotope facilities. Nuclides with high neutron excess can be reached by transferring multiple neutrons from the target to the projectile and/or by stripping protons from the projectile in multinucleon transfer reactions. Beam energies range from the Coulomb barrier to Fermi energies, about 15–35 MeV/nucleon. The authors analyze two reactions, $^{86}$ Kr+ $^{86}$ Ni and $^{86}$ Kr+ $^{124}$ Sn, each previously measured at 15 MeV/nucleon at the MARS recoil separator at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute. Systematic comparisons with calculations from two well-known models followed by a deexcitation description provide significant insight into the reaction mechanisms and indicate that multiple charge-exchange channels, along a diagonal `southeast’ path in the nuclear chart, offer an efficient route to neutron-rich nuclides.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

First measurement of $Σ^{+} n \to Λ p$ and $Σ^{+} n \to Σ^{0} p$ cross sections via $Σ^{+}$ -nucleus scattering at an electron-positron collider

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, L032201 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Experimental data on hyperon-nucleon interactions are scarce even though measurements of hyperon-nucleon scattering have been performed since the 1960s. This work takes advantage of $10^{10}$ $J / ψ$ particles produced at an $e^{+} e^{-}$ collider to extract unique hyperon-nucleon cross sections. Following the decay $J / ψ \to Σ^{+} {\bar{Σ}}^{-}$ , the experiment tracked the nearly monoenergetic hyperons through the collider beam pipe and their interactions with bound neutrons in the pipe. Cross sections for two final states are extracted with $> 3 σ$ sensitivity. These results should aid theory progress on hyperon-nucleon interactions and may be useful in constraining hyperons in the equation of state of neutron star cores.

LETTERS

LETTER

Structure evolution of ground and excited states in the exotic nucleus ${}^{22}{Al}$

Z. C. Xu (许志成), H. Y. Shang (商浩宇), S. M. Wang (王思敏), and Y. G. Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 113, L031301 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

LETTER

Chirality in $(\vec{p}, 2 p)$ reactions induced by proton helicity

Tomoatsu Edagawa, Kazuki Yoshida, Shoichiro Kawase, Kazuyuki Ogata, and Masaki Sasano

Phys. Rev. C 113, L031601 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

LETTER

Background-free signal of a jet-induced diffusion wake in quark-gluon plasma

Zhong Yang and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. C 113, L031901 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

First measurement of $Σ^{+} n \to Λ p$ and $Σ^{+} n \to Σ^{0} p$ cross sections via $Σ^{+}$ -nucleus scattering at an electron-positron collider

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, L032201 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

LETTER

${}^{14}N (p, γ) {}^{15}O S$ factor and the puzzling solar composition problem

G. X. Dong, X. B. Wang, N. Michel, and M. Płoszajczak

Phys. Rev. C 113, L032801 (2026) - Published 25 March, 2026

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Dilated coordinate method for solving nuclear lattice effective field theory

Guangzhao He, Zhenyu Zhang, Teng Wang, Qian Wang, and Bing-Nan Lu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034001 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Nucleon-nucleon scattering up to next-to-leading order in manifestly Lorentz-invariant chiral effective field theory: Low phases and the deuteron

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034002 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Nuclear Structure

Cluster-breaking and reconfiguration effects in the ${}_{Λ}^{12}B$ hypernucleus

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034301 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Comparison of Pauli projection and supersymetric transformation methods for three-body nuclear structure and reactions

A. Deltuva

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034302 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Evidence of the ${}^{9}B (1 / 2^{+})$ state in the ${}^{12}C (p, α) {}^{9}B$ reaction

A. D. Brooks, J. Bishop, S. Pirrie, Tz. Kokalova, C. Wheldon, N. Curtis, B. Phoenix, and D. Stajkowksi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034303 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Shell-driven similarities in structure and decay characteristics across $N =$ 50, 82, 126, and 184 isotones

W. M. Seif and A. Adel

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034304 (2026) - Published 4 March, 2026

Static fission properties of even-even actinides within the Warsaw macroscopic-microscopic model using Fourier-over-spheroid parametrization

A. Augustyn, T. Cap, R. Capote, M. Kowal, and K. Pomorski

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034305 (2026) - Published 4 March, 2026

Disentangling proton-halo signatures in ${}^{22}{Al}$ via mirror-symmetry breaking: An ab initio study

L. Y. Shen, M. R. Xie, Q. Yuan, and J. G. Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034306 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Examination of the role of exotic shapes in determining the characteristics of the fission barrier in hypernuclei within a relativistic mean-field model

Ying-Jie Song (宋英杰), Ping-Mo Liu (刘萍模), Xian Deng (邓宪), and Yu-Ting Rong (荣宇婷)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034307 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Octupole correlations in ${}^{220, 222, 224, 226}{Rn}$

Yi-Ming Jiang (姜义铭), Xiao Lu (陆晓), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034308 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Proton emission systematics along the proton drip line

D. S. Delion and S. A. Pencu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034309 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Effects of shape coexistence and configuration mixing on low-lying states in tellurium isotopes

Kosuke Nomura

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034310 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026

Symmetry restoration in the axially deformed proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation for nuclear $β$ decay: The effect of angular-momentum projection

R. N. Chen, Y. N. Zhang, J. M. Yao, and J. Engel

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034311 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Relaxation of a single-particle excitation in a Fermi system within the diffusion approximation of kinetic theory

Sergiy V. Lukyanov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034312 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Structural evolution of octupole-deformed radium isotopes within a coupled-channels method

Tao Wan, Yibin Qian, Chong Qi, Ramon A. Wyss, and Roberto J. Liotta

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034313 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Constraining the region in which the ratio $B_{4 / 2} \leq 1$ in Te isotopes through lifetime measurements in ${}^{115}{Te}$

S. Pascu et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034314 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Resolving the spurious-state problem in the Dirac equation by using the staggered-grid method

Lingfeng Li, Hong Shen, Jinniu Hu, and Ying Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034315 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Particle number projected energies at finite temperature

Jiawei Chen, Yu Qiang, and Junchen Pei

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034316 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Radial excitations and their potential impact on Fermi $β$ -decay rates

L. Xayavong, Y. Lim, N. A. Smirnova, and Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034317 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Precision mass measurement of ${}^{61}{Zn}$ and updated $F t$ value for conserved vector current tests

P. F. Giesel, D. Atanasov, K. Blaum, P. Fischer, J. Karthein, I. Kulikov, Yu. A. Litvinov, D. Lunney, M. Mougeot, L. Nies, L. Schweikhard, V. A. Virtanen, and F. Wienholtz

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034318 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Proton-halo phenomenon of ${}^{22}{Al}$ and ${}_{Λ}^{23}{Al}$ based on the deformed Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method

Yi-Xiu Liu (刘益秀), Huai-Tong Xue (薛怀通), Q. B. Chen (陈启博), Xian-Rong Zhou (周先荣), and H.-J. Schulze

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034319 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Systematic study of shape-deformation and orientation dependence in cluster radioactivity using the Skyrme energy density formalism

Nishu Jain and Raj Kumar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034320 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Toward scalable quantum computations of atomic nuclei

Chenyi Gu, Matthias Heinz, Oriel Kiss, and Thomas Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034321 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Measurement of the ${}^{73}{As} (n, γ)$ cross section at thermal neutron energies

K. N. Kmak, J. D. Despotopulos, R. O. Hughes, C. K. Holiski, W. M. Kerlin, B. N. Sammis, N. D. Scielzo, K. Thomas, and T. Wooddy

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034322 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

Search for the population of the ${}^{12}{Be}$ isomeric $0_{2}^{+}$ state in the decay of ${}^{13}{Be}$

X. Wang, P. Guèye, T. Baumann, B. Monteagudo Godoy, T. Redpath, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, N. Frank, W. Hopkins, A. N. Kuchera, M. Thoennessen, G. Votta, and H. Webb

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034323 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026

Many-channel microscopic cluster model of ${}^{8}{Be}$ : $S$ factors

V. I. Zhaba, Yu. A. Lashko, and V. S. Vasilevsky

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034324 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

Quadrupole-hexadecapole correlations in nuclear charge radii near $N = 90$

Na Tang, Yan Ya, Rong An, Li-Gang Cao, and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034325 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026

Nuclear Reactions

Highly efficient nuclear population transfer through physics-informed neural networks

Jing Liu and Fu-Quan Dou

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034601 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026

Excitation energy of fission fragments within nuclear time-dependent density functional theory

Antonio Bjelčić, Nicolas Schunck, and Marc Verriere

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034602 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026

Reaction processes of muon-catalyzed fusion in the muonic molecule $d d μ$ studied with the tractable $T$ -matrix model

Qian Wu, Zhu-Fang Cui, and Masayasu Kamimura

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034603 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026

Experimental reevaluation of ${}^{235}U$ fission yields at the Egypt Second Research Reactor (ETRR-2)

Nader M. A. Mohamed, Fatma S. Abdou, Abdullah M. Othman, Mohamed A. Elsaied, Mohamed Shabib, Asmaa G. Abo Elnour, D. H. Daher, and Mohamed Soliman

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034604 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026

Multilayer perceptron for fission yield predictions: A physics-guided approach

Amir Jalili, Feng Pan, Ai Xi Chen, and Jerry P. Draayer

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034605 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Fission and quasifission studies in the ${}^{30}{Si} + {}^{197}{Au}$ reaction

B. Ashna, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, A. C. Visakh, A. Jhingan, A. K. Nasirov, E. D. Khusanov, Jhilam Sadhukhan, N. Saneesh, K. S. Golda, Mohit Kumar, S. K. Duggi, Shiva Prasad Nayak, S. Ramakrishna Reddy, K. Prameela, S. Appannababu, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, A. M. Vinodkumar, P. Sugathan, and E. Prasad

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034606 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026

Continuum quasiparticle random-phase approximation for ( $n, γ$ ) reactions on neutron-rich nuclei: Collectivity and resonances in low-energy cross sections

Teruyuki Saito and Masayuki Matsuo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034607 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Role of the overlap function in describing angular distributions of single-nucleon transfer reactions

M. R. Xie, J. G. Li, N. Keeley, N. Michel, and W. Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034608 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026

Analysis of elastic $α - {}^{12}C$ scattering with global optimization in the cluster effective field theory

Myeong-Hwan Mun, Jubin Park, Chang Ho Hyun, and Shung-Ichi Ando

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034609 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026

Excitation energy, angular momentum, and deformation of the ${}^{118}{Pd} / {}^{134}{Te}$ neutronless fragmentation in ${}^{252}{Cf}$ (sf)

A. Francheteau, L. Gaudefroy, O. Roig, G. Scamps, J.-F. Lemaître, S. Hilaire, V. Méot, and A. Ebran

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034610 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Photonuclear reactions on erbium isotopes

N. Yu. Fursova, R. A. Aliev, S. S. Belyshev, V. V. Khankin, and A. A. Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034611 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Anisotropic flows in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.4$ GeV with a Skyrme pseudopotential

Xin Li, Si-Pei Wang, Rui Wang, Zhen Zhang, Jie Pu, Chun-Wang Ma, and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034612 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Toward a microscopic description of ${}^{12}C + {}^{12}C$ fusion at stellar energies

Pierre Descouvemont

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034613 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026

Exploring the giant dipole resonance width in ${}^{208}{Pb}$ and its constraints on symmetry energy and in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross section in the Extended Quantum Molecular Dynamics Model via a stochastic binary collision approach

Chen-Zhong Shi (施晨钟), Xiang-Zhou Cai (蔡翔舟), and Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034614 (2026) - Published 19 March, 2026

Experimental insights into entrance channel parameters for the ${}^{19}F + {}^{93}{Nb}$ system: Signature of incomplete fusion

Anuj Kumar Jashwal, Avinash Agarwal, Harsh Vardhan, Munish Kumar, Kamal Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Mohd. Faizan Khan, I. A. Rizvi, and A. K. Chaubey

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034615 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026

Direct and sequential transfer mechanisms in the ${}^{9}{Be} ({}^{6}{Li}, {}^{4}{He}) {}^{11}B$ reaction: Probing cluster dynamics in light nuclei

K. Mendibayev, J. L. Ferreira, T. Issatayev, A. K. Azhibekov, S. M. Lukyanov, Yu. E. Penionzhkevich, B. A. Urazbekov, E. K. Almanbetova, D. S. Valiolda, T. K. Zholdybayev, B. Pinheiro, and J. Lubian

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034616 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Predicting the formation probability $P_{CN}$ of a compound nucleus with machine learning

Jiatai Li and Nobuaki Imai

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034617 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Probing the role of surface diffuseness in sequential $α$ decays of ${}^{219 - 224}{Np}$ isotopes

Gudveen Sawhney, Ashutosh Kaushik, and Manoj K. Sharma

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034618 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026

Microscopic description of cluster radioactivity fission valleys along isotopic and isotonic chains

M. Warda, A. Zdeb, and R. Rodríguez-Guzmán

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034619 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026

High-precision $α$ -induced cross sections and half-life measurements for terbium radioisotopes produced using natural europium

R. R. Trinder, Tz. Kokalova, C. Wheldon, D. J. Parker, S. Pirrie, D. M. Hampel, B. Phoenix, P. Santa Rita Alcibia, N. Curtis, R. A. M. Allen, and M. R. Griffiths

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034620 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Peripheral heavy-ion collisions below the Fermi energy: The case of ${}^{86}{Kr} + {}^{64}{Ni}$ and ${}^{86}{Kr} + {}^{124}{Sn}$ at 15 MeV/nucleon

O. Fasoula, G. A. Souliotis, S. Koulouris, A. Pakou, M. Veselsky, S. J. Yennello, and A. Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034621 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026

Low-energy ${}^{3}{He}$ ( ${α, γ)}^{7} Be$ reaction within the Skyrme potential framework

Nguyen Le Anh, Nguyen Gia Huy, Dao Nhut Anh, Do Huy Tho, and Hoang Thai An

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034622 (2026) - Published 30 March, 2026

Nonmonotonic-potential description of polarization effects, fusion, and nuclear rainbows in elastic scattering of ${}^{6}{Li} + {}^{12}C$ at 4.5–600 MeV

M. Sujan Islam, M. Shariful Islam, M. Rubel Alamin, M. Freer, A. C. Merchant, Michael C. Wiescher, Ian J. Thompson, M. Shamsuzzoha Basunia, K. W. Kemper, A. S. B. Tariq, M. A. Uddin, and A. K. Basak

Phys. Rev. C 113, 034623 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026