Volume 113, Issue 5

May 2026

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$β$ -decay spectrum of tritiated graphene: Combining nuclear quantum mechanics with density functional theory

Andrea Casale, Angelo Esposito, Guido Menichetti, and Valentina Tozzini

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054607 (2026) - Published 13 May, 2026

New density-functional-theory calculations describe the radioactive decay of tritium bound to graphene, offering a way to model experiments that could open cleaner windows onto neutrino mass.

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Mechanism to synthesize superheavy element 120: A dinuclear system model approach with microscopic inputs

Wei Zhang (张炜), Shi-Jie Zhang (张士杰), and Peng-Hui Chen (陈鹏辉)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054604 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

To overcome the challenge of synthesizing nuclei of superheavy elements (SHEs) beyond $Z = 118$ , the authors developed a new calculation method using the dinuclear system model. The novel approach consistently and microscopically derives all necessary structure inputs—including nuclear masses, fission barriers, and level density parameters—from finite-temperature covariant density functional theory. After validating the method against data for nobelium and flerovium isotopes, the approach provides meaningful predictions for the production of $Z = 120$ isotopes, which should be useful for planning future SHE synthesis experiments.

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LETTER

Stochastic many-body perturbation theory for high-order calculations

X. Zhen, R. Z. Hu, J. C. Pei, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 113, L051302 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

The authors introduce a perturbation theory quantum Monte Carlo (PTQMC) method to compute high-order many-body perturbative corrections. The approach avoids exponential scaling inherent to conventional constructions of high-rank excitation operators. Benchmark calculations for the Richardson pairing model reproduce exact many-body perturbation-theory calculations up to 16th order even in strongly divergent regimes. The results are relevant for future applications of PTQMC to realistic nuclear matter and finite nuclei, as well as for the systematic assessment of perturbative uncertainties in $a b$ - $i n i t i o$ nuclear theory.

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Contrasting decays of 3-quasiparticle isomers in ${}^{173}W$ : A discerning test of $K$ conservation and $K$ mixing

S. K. Tandel, Harsh Kumar, Saket Suman, P. Chowdhury, F. G. Kondev, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, D. J. Hartley, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, and D. Seweryniak

Phys. Rev. C 113, L051301 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

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LETTER

Stochastic many-body perturbation theory for high-order calculations

X. Zhen, R. Z. Hu, J. C. Pei, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 113, L051302 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

LETTER

Chiral interactions and superfluidity in the calcium isotopic chain

A. Scalesi, A. Ekström, C. Forssén, and G. Hagen

Phys. Rev. C 113, L051303 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

LETTER

Multiple shape coexistence near ${}^{118}{Sn}$ : First $0_{3}^{+}$ lifetime measurement

F. Wu (吴桐安), C. R. Ding, C. Andreoiu, V. Karayonchev, Y. Li, C. Michelagnoli, C. M. Petrache, J.-M. Régis, J. M. Yao, M. Beuschlein, G. Colombi, J. M. Daugas, L. Domenichetti, A. Esmaylzadeh, P. E. Garrett, J. Jolie, M. Ley, S. Pannu, P. Spagnoletti, and E. Taddei

Phys. Rev. C 113, L051304 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

LETTER

Measurement of fifth- and sixth-order fluctuations of (net-)proton number in $Au + Au$ collisions from phase II of the beam energy scan program at RHIC

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, L051901 (2026) - Published 15 May, 2026

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Feasibility of quantum state teleportation in proton systems

H. Witała

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054001 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Two-pion exchange contributions to the relativistic chiral nuclear force at $N^{3} LO$

Jun-Xu Lu and Li-Sheng Geng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054002 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Ab initio description of $\bar{p} + {}^{3}H$ and $\bar{p} + {}^{3}{He}$ systems in optical models

Pierre-Yves Duerinck and Rimantas Lazauskas

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054003 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Nuclear Structure

Properties of isoscalar giant multipole resonances in medium-mass singly-closed-shell nuclei: A semimicroscopic description

M. L. Gorelik and M. H. Urin

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054301 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Effect of pairing on entanglement in nuclear chirality: Neutron pairing in the particle-hole configuration

Z. C. Wan and Q. B. Chen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054302 (2026) - Published 6 May, 2026

Examination of the $α$ -cluster breaking in the four $0^{+}$ bands of ${}^{12}C$ with the variation of multiple bases of the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics

Takayuki Myo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054303 (2026) - Published 14 May, 2026

Charge radii of Sn isotopes in the relativistic mean field approximation

S. Marcos, N. Sandulescu, and R. Niembro

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054304 (2026) - Published 14 May, 2026

Nuclear shapes of Nb isotopes

Esperanza Maya-Barbecho and José-Enrique García-Ramos

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054305 (2026) - Published 14 May, 2026

Triaxiality in Mo and Ru nuclei

D. Bonatsos, G. Thiamová, M. Bender, I. Tkáčová, P. Alexa, D. Petrellis, and P. Veselý

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054306 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Microscopic investigation of magnetic and antimagnetic rotational motion in atomic nuclei

W. Tawseef, Nazira Nazir, S. Jehangir, J. A. Sheikh, C. Majumder, S. Chakraborty, G. B. Vakil, G. H. Bhat, and N. A. Rather

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054307 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Isotopic dependence of the fission threshold in nuclei with $Z = 114$ and $Z = 120$

E. V. Mardyban, A. Rahmatinejad, T. M. Shneidman, G. G. Adamian, S.-G. Zhou, and N. V. Antonenko

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054308 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Elucidating the role of the surface energy in density functional theory

Md Jafrul Islam, Athul Kunjipurayil, J. Piekarewicz, and A. Volya

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054309 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Finite-range pairing in nuclear density functional theory

Sudhanva Lalit, Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Kyle Godbey, and Witold Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054310 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Response of asymmetric nuclear matter studied with a finite number of particles

Minglong Li, Francesco Marino, Gianluca Colò, and Haozhao Liang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054311 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Interacting boson model studies of collectivity in even-even and odd-even Te isotopes

E. A. Cederlöf, W. Teng, Nazeef, T. Wan, C. Qi, and Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054312 (2026) - Published 20 May, 2026

Relativistic second random-phase approximation: Formalism and applications to giant resonances

D. Vale, G. Saxena, and N. Paar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054313 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Microscopic investigation of $γ$ vibrational band structures in odd-mass nuclei

Uzma Jahangir, S. P. Rouoof, S. Jehangir, G. H. Bhat, J. A. Sheikh, and N. A. Rather

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054314 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026

Microscopic three-dimensional approach for deformed $α$ emitters using physics-informed neural networks

An Cheng and Chang Xu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054315 (2026) - Published 29 May, 2026

Nuclear Reactions

Coherent absorption dynamics: The dual role of off-diagonal couplings in weakly bound nuclei

Hao Liu, Jin Lei, and Zhongzhou Ren

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054601 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Enhanced yield rate of ${}^{229 m}{Th}$ via cascade decay in storage rings and electron beam ion traps

Yumiao Wang, Yi Yang, Yixin Li, Ding Yue, Kai Zhao, Youjing Wang, Changbo Fu, and Yugang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054602 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Self-consistent description of genuine ternary fission in superheavy nuclei

Y. Jaganathen and J. Skalski

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054603 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanism to synthesize superheavy element 120: A dinuclear system model approach with microscopic inputs

Wei Zhang (张炜), Shi-Jie Zhang (张士杰), and Peng-Hui Chen (陈鹏辉)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054604 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Impact of $α$ -cluster structures on nuclear transport properties

Y. F. Liu (刘怡帆), Y. X. Yang (杨雨欣), X. G. Deng (邓先概), and Y. G. Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054605 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Systematic study of the $α$ -particle preformation factor in the theory of $α$ -decay based on the tabular prior-data fitted network, TabPFN

Panpan Qi, Xuanpeng Xiao, Gongming Yu, Haitao Yang, and Qiang Hu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054606 (2026) - Published 15 May, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$β$ -decay spectrum of tritiated graphene: Combining nuclear quantum mechanics with density functional theory

Andrea Casale, Angelo Esposito, Guido Menichetti, and Valentina Tozzini

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054607 (2026) - Published 13 May, 2026

New density-functional-theory calculations describe the radioactive decay of tritium bound to graphene, offering a way to model experiments that could open cleaner windows onto neutrino mass.

Empirical systematics for spontaneous fission and $α$ -decay half-lives

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054608 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Nucleus-nucleus potentials in the scattering of tightly and weakly bound systems

J. Rangel, B. Pinheiro, V. A. B. Zagatto, J. Lubian, F. M. Nunes, and L. F. Canto

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054609 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Theory of nuclear excitation by inelastic muon scattering

Jie Zhou and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054610 (2026) - Published 21 May, 2026

Isotopic fission yields of ${}^{240}{Pu}$ as a function of the excitation energy

D. Ramos, M. Caamaño, F. Farget, C. Rodríguez-Tajes, A. Lemasson, M. Rejmund, C. Schmitt, E. Clement, L. Audouin, J. Benlliure, E. Casarejos, D. Cortina, D. Doré, B. Fernández-Domínguez, G. de France, A. Heinz, B. Jacquot, C. Paradela, and T. Roger

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054611 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Investigation of dynamical effects in symmetric and asymmetric fusion channels using fusion cross sections as a probe

Maninder Kaur, B. R. Behera, Gulzar Singh, Varinderjit Singh, Meenu Thakur, Kushal Kapoor, Priya Sharma, S. Nath, N. Madhavan, S. Muralithar, G. Mohanto, Ish Mukul, Tathagata Banerjee, A. Jhingan, T. Varughese, M.B. Chatterjee, Davinder Siwal, A. Saxena, B. K. Nayak, and P. D. Stevenson

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054612 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Collective effects in O-O and Ne-Ne collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.36$ TeV from a hybrid approach

Lucas Constantin, Niklas Götz, Carl B. Rosenkvist, and Hannah Elfner

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054901 (2026) - Published 1 May, 2026

Bayesian inference of heavy-quark dissipation and jet transport parameters from $D$ -meson observables in heavy-ion collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Xu-Fei Xue, Zi-Xuan Xu, Wei Dai, Jiaxing Zhao, and Ben-Wei Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054902 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Deciphering the dynamics of nuclear collisions with the structure of the elongated ${}^{20}{Ne}$ nucleus

Deependra Sharma, Arpit Singh, and Sadhana Dash

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054903 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Rapidity dependence of mean transverse momentum fluctuation and decorrelation in a baryon-dense medium

Tribhuban Parida

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054904 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Signatures of QCD conductivities in heavy-ion collisions

Akihiko Monnai, Grégoire Pihan, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054905 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Global spin alignment of (anti-) ${}^{4}{Li}$ in noncentral heavy-ion collisions

Yun-Peng Zheng, Dai-Neng Liu, Lie-Wen Chen, Jin-Hui Chen, Che Ming Ko, Yu-Gang Ma, Kai-Jia Sun, Jun Xu, and Bo Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054906 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Identified charged hadron production in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 54.4 GeV$ with the STAR detector

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

Phys. Rev. C 113, 054907 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Investigation of the $\bar{K} − {}^{6}{Li}$ interaction and the search for the $Λ$ (1405) resonance

Ahmad Naderi Beni and Sajjad Marri

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055201 (2026) - Published 1 May, 2026

$K^{*} (892)$ resonance suppression in $Ar + Sc$ collisions at energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

Amine Chabane, Tom Reichert, Jan Steinheimer, and Marcus Bleicher

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055202 (2026) - Published 1 May, 2026

Cross section of the process $e^{+} + e^{-} \to Ξ^{0} + {\bar{Ξ}}^{0}$ in the vicinity of charmonium $ψ (3770)$ and in the charmonium (-like) state including the $D$ -meson loop and three-gluon contributions

Azad I. Ahmadov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055203 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Probing nuclear structure with the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation in full impact-parameter dependence

J. Cepila, M. Matas, and M. Vaculciak

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055204 (2026) - Published 7 May, 2026

Theoretical study of the $Ξ α$ correlation function

Yuki Kamiya, Asanosuke Jinno, Tetsuo Hyodo, and Akira Ohnishi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055205 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Signs of nonmonotonic finite-volume corrections to $g_{A}$

Zack Hall, Dimitra A. Pefkou, Aaron S. Meyer, Thomas R. Richardson, Raúl A. Briceño, M. A. Clark, Martin Hoferichter, Emanuele Mereghetti, Henry Monge-Camacho, Colin Morningstar, Amy Nicholson, Pavlos Vranas, and André Walker-Loud

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055206 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Glauber quark and gluon contributions to quark energy loss at next-to-leading order and next-to-leading twist

Amit Kumar and Gojko Vujanovic

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055207 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Quantum stress and torsion distributions in the deuteron

Wim Cosyn, Adam Freese, and Alan Sosa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055208 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Time-like electromagnetic form factors of $Λ, Σ$ , and $Ξ^{+}$ in a light-front quark model

Chong-Chung Lih and Chao-Qiang Geng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055501 (2026) - Published 12 May, 2026

Nuclear Astrophysics

Magnetic fields and the favorability of chiral density waves in neutron stars

M. Moazami, B. Khanbabaei, and B. Pourhassan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055801 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Total absorption spectroscopy of two isomers in ${}^{70}{Cu}$ influencing nucleosynthesis signatures

E. K. Ronning et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055802 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Fully general relativistic description of rapidly rotating axially symmetric neutron stars for constraining nuclear matter equations of state

Hyukjin Kwon and Kazuyuki Sekizawa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055803 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Neutron star crust and outer core equation of state from chiral effective field theory with quantified uncertainties

H. Göttling, L. Hoff, K. Hebeler, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055804 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Bayesian inferences on covariant density functionals from multimessenger astrophysical data: Influences of parametrizations of density-dependent couplings

Guo-Jun Wei, Jia-Jie Li, Armen Sedrakian, Yong-Jia Wang, Qing-Feng Li, and Fu-Hu Liu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055805 (2026) - Published 12 May, 2026

Examining the accessibility of the compressibility of nuclear matter from nuclear experiments

J. Margueron and E. Khan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055806 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Neutron dark decay in neutron stars: The role of the symmetry energy

M. Divaris and Ch. C. Moustakidis

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055807 (2026) - Published 18 May, 2026

Thermal and magnetic effects on bulk viscosity in binary neutron star mergers

Pranjal Tambe, Debarati Chatterjee, Mark Alford, and Alexander Haber

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055808 (2026) - Published 19 May, 2026

Universal relation between dipole polarizability of finite nuclei and neutron-star compactness

P. S. Koliogiannis, T. Ghosh, E. Yüksel, and N. Paar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 055809 (2026) - Published 26 May, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: High-spin structure and multiphonon $γ$ vibrations in very neutron-rich ${}^{114}{Ru}$ [Phys. Rev. C 83, 054317 (2011)]

E. H. Wang, E. Y. Yeoh (杨韵颐), S. J. Zhu (朱胜江), J. H. Hamilton, K. Li, A. V. Ramayya, Y. X. Liu (刘艳鑫), J. K. Hwang, S. H. Liu, J. G. Wang (王建国), Y. Sun (孙扬), J. A. Sheikh, G. H. Bhat, Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, I. Y. Lee, H. B. Ding (丁怀博), L. Gu (顾龙), Q. Xu (徐强), Z. G. Xiao (肖志刚), and W. C. Ma

Phys. Rev. C 113, 059901 (2026) - Published 4 May, 2026

Erratum: Spectroscopy of ${}^{155}{Yb}$ : Structure evolution in the $N = 85$ isotones [Phys. Rev. C 94, 024337 (2016)]

X. Q. Li (李湘庆) et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 059902 (2026) - Published 11 May, 2026

Erratum: High-spin level structure of ${}^{115}{Rh}$ : Evolution of triaxiality in odd-even Rh isotopes [Phys. Rev. C 84, 014304 (2011)]

E. H. Wang, S. H. Liu, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, A. Gelberg, L. Gu, E. Y. Yeoh, S. J. Zhu, N. T. Brewer, J. K. Hwang, Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, W. C. Ma, A. V. Daniel, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, and G. M. Ter-Akopian

Phys. Rev. C 113, 059903 (2026) - Published 28 May, 2026