Volume 114, Issue 5 (partial)

October 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Delivery of refractory radioactive ion beams via in-trap decay at ISOLDE

J. R. Reilly, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, L. Nies, A. Ajayakumar, M. Benhatchi, J. Berbalk, C. Bernerd, K. Chrysalidis, C. M. Fajardo Zambrano, P. F. Giesel, R. Heinke, D. Lange, G. Peng, S. Rothe, A. Schmidt, C. Schweiger, and J. Wessolek

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054311 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

The delivery of radioactive ion beams of refractory elements using the ISOL method remains challenging, limiting access to isotopes for nuclear-structure studies. We demonstrate a method to overcome this limitation using in-trap $β^{-}$ decay in the ISCOOL radiofrequency quadrupole trap at CERN-ISOLDE. Radioactive parent ions are confined in helium buffer gas, where their decay products can be slowed, captured and extracted as an ion beam. Using $^{97, 98}$ Rb and $^{98}$ Sr, we produce $^{97, 98}$ Sr and $^{98}$ Y, monitoring their populations as a function of trapping time with the ISOLTRAP multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Fits to Bateman decay equations reproduce the known half-lives, validating the method and demonstrating daughter-beam efficiencies of approximately 1% relative to the initial parent intensity. We report the first delivery of a singly charged atomic $^{98}$ Y beam at ISOLDE. This approach requires no modification to the existing target or ion source and opens new opportunities to study refractory isotopes that are otherwise difficult to extract.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Suppression of heavy-ion fusion by slow quasifission

L. T. Bezzina, E. C. Simpson, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, J. Buete, K. Banerjee, A. C. Berriman, K. J. Cook, D. Y. Jeung, P. McGlynn, C. Simenel, and B. M. A. Swinton-Bland

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054602 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Heavy-element synthesis hinges on the formation of a compound nucleus — a fully equilibrated amalgam of the projectile and target nuclei — but quasifission, a fast reseparation process, can prevent this outcome. Using the SOLITAIRE separator to directly count evaporation residues from reactions forming $^{220}$ Th, this work shows that fusion can be suppressed by more than 50% even when the classic fingerprint of quasifission — a correlation between fragment mass and emission angle — is completely absent. Instead, a subtle broadening of the fission mass distribution is observed that points to slow quasifssion as an explanation for the suppression - a feature whose significance becomes clear only alongside the evaporation residue measurements.

LETTERS

LETTER

Quenching of the axial-vector coupling constant $g_{A}$ in $β$ decay : Joint effects from chiral two-body currents and many-body correlations

Bin-Lei Wang, Wan-Li Lv, Li-Gang Cao, Yi-Fei Niu, Gianluca Colò, Hiroyuki Sagawa, and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 114, L051301 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

ARTICLES

Nuclear Structure

Decay spectroscopy of ${}^{152}{Tb}$ : A diagnostic component of the terbium theragnostic toolbox

E. B. O'Sullivan, S. M. Collins, J.-M. Daugas, L. Domenichetti, J. Heery, J. Henderson, U. Köster, C. Michelagnoli, T. Parry, S. Pascu, P. H. Regan, and R. Shearman

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054301 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Multitask Gaussian process predictions of low-lying excitation observables and shell evolution near $N, Z = 20$ and 28

S. Li, X. Liu, H. Zheng, C. Lv, W. Lin, J. Han, Q. Zhao, G. Qu, and P. Ren

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054302 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov manifold

Zhaozhan Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054303 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Time evolution of the $α$ -decay process in intense laser fields

Huaxuan Pan, Jianghua Jia, Yongping Du, Yibin Qian, and Chang Xu

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054304 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Inherited collectivity from shape-coexisting cores in the $i_{13 / 2}$ rotational band of ${}^{189}{Hg}$

I. Zanon et al.

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054305 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Bayesian inference of moments of inertia for wobbling motion in ${}^{135}\Pr$

Yeruoxi Chen, Q. B. Chen, and R. V. Jolos

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054306 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Single-particle structure of the semimagic nucleus ${}^{90}{Zr}$ from a nonlocal dispersive optical model

R. A. Ramon, M. C. Atkinson, and W. H. Dickhoff

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054307 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Systematical examination of the $B_{4 / 2}$ anomaly as a signature of enhanced triaxiality at the border of shape-coexistence regions

S. Pascu and Dennis Bonatsos

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054308 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Ab initio calculations of ${}^{229}{Th}$ band-to-band internal conversion rate in ${}^{229}{ThO}_{2}$

Udeshika C. Perera, H. B. Tran Tan, H. W. T. Morgan, Eric R. Hudson, Daniel A. Rehn, and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054309 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Coulomb excitation of ${}^{130}{Te}$ : Evidence for weak oblate deformation near $N = 82$

N. Sensharma et al.

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054310 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Delivery of refractory radioactive ion beams via in-trap decay at ISOLDE

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054311 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Lifetime measurements in ${}^{95}{Rh}$ and ${}^{95}{Ru}$ : Investigation of seniority conservation in the $N = 50$ isotones

M. Ley, J. Jolie, A. Esmaylzadeh, C. Fransen, A. Blazhev, D. Al Daas, A. Bohn, R. Burggraf, S. Dantanarayana, M. Droste, F. Dunkel, J. Fischer, A. Karaka, C.-D. Lakenbrink, A. Pfeil, F. von Spee, and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054312 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Microscopic mechanism underlying charge-radius trends in Fayans pairing

Tomoya Naito (内藤智也), Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza, Hiroyuki Sagawa (佐川弘幸), and Enrico Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054313 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Evolution of collectivity near $N = 40$ : Lifetime and electromagnetic transition strengths of the first excited $1 / 2^{-}$ state in ${}^{69}{Ga}$ from $γ − γ$ fast-timing measurements

M. Barman, D. Kumar, S. Basak, A. Pal, Ananya Das, and T. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054314 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Configuration-constrained multiquasiparticle states in $N = 150 - 152$ Fm–Sg isotones

Jie Yang, Qing-Zhen Chai, Hua-Lei Wang, and Kui-Peng Li

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054315 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Nuclear Reactions

Proton femtoscopy in heavy-ion collisions: From transport theory to source imaging

Pierre Nzabahimana, Pawel Danielewicz, and Giuseppe Verde

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054601 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Suppression of heavy-ion fusion by slow quasifission

L. T. Bezzina, E. C. Simpson, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, J. Buete, K. Banerjee, A. C. Berriman, K. J. Cook, D. Y. Jeung, P. McGlynn, C. Simenel, and B. M. A. Swinton-Bland

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054602 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Plasma-modified inelastic electron scattering for ${}^{93 m}{Mo}$ nuclear isomer depletion in warm dense matter

You-Tian Zou, Qing-Bo Luo, Yong Hou, and Tong-Pu Yu

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054603 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Analysis of quasielastic scattering and one-neutron transfer channel in the ${}^{14}N + {}^{176}{Yb}$ reaction

Gobind Ram, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Abhishek Yadav, Md. Moin Shaikh, Rayees Ahmad Yatoo, Aquib Siddique, Amanjot, Keshav Kapoor, Abhishek K. Mishra, Priyanka, Subham Kumar, A. Jhingan, M. Kumar, N. Saneesh, Indu Bala, K. S. Golda, Pushpendra P. Singh, and B. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054604 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Updating GEANIE ${}^{239}{Pu}$ prompt $γ$ -ray experimental data using a modern Hauser-Feshbach fission fragment decay model

T. Kawano, A. E. Lovell, P. Talou, and L. A. Bernstein

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054605 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Signals for fluctuating constituent numbers in small systems

Andreas Kirchner and Steffen A. Bass

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054902 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Charmonium production at energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

Taesoo Song, Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, and Elena Bratkovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054903 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Measurements of longitudinal flow decorrelations in $p p$ and $Xe + Xe$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054904 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Accessing exotic hadronic states via charmed-meson femtoscopy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Jiaxing Zhao, Taesoo Song, Elena Bratkovskaya, and Jörg Aichelin

Phys. Rev. C 114, 054905 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Nuclear Astrophysics

Neutrino absorption in two-flavor color-superconducting quark matter

M. G. Alford, L. Brodie, M. Buballa, H. Gholami, A. Haber, and M. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. C 114, 055801 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

$S$ factor of ${}^{13}C$ ( $α, n$ ) ${}^{16}O$ at low energies in cluster effective field theory

Shung-Ichi Ando

Phys. Rev. C 114, 055802 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Nuclear pasta in hot neutron-star matter and proto–neutron stars

Jian Zhou, Junbo Pang, Hong Shen, and Jinniu Hu

Phys. Rev. C 114, 055803 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: New high-spin level scheme of neutron-rich ${}^{112}{Rh}$ [Phys. Rev. C 87, 057302 (2013)]

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

Phys. Rev. C 114, 059901 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026