Volume 57, Issue 2

J. C. Chow, A. C. Morton, R. E. Azuma, N. Bateman, R. N. Boyd, L. Buchmann, J. M. D’Auria, T. Davinson, M. Dombsky, W. Galster, E. Gete, U. Giesen, C. Iliadis, K. P. Jackson, J. D. King, G. Roy, T. Shoppa, and A. Shotter

Phys. Rev. C 57, R475(R) (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Hartree-Bose mean-field approximation for the interacting boson model (IBM-3)

J. E. García-Ramos, J. M. Arias, J. Dukelsky, E. Moya de Guerra, and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. C 57, R479(R) (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Measurement and calculation of the polarization transfer parameter $K_{y}^{y^{'}}$ in neutron-deuteron scattering at 15.0, 17.0, 19.0, and 25.8 MeV

P. Hempen, P. Clotten, K. Hofenbitzer, T. Köble, W. Metschulat, M. Schwindt, W. von Witsch, L. Wätzold, J. Weltz, W. Glöckle, D. Hüber, and H. Witała

Phys. Rev. C 57, 484 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Nucleon-nucleon scattering observables from solitary boson exchange potential

L. Jäde and H. V. von Geramb

Phys. Rev. C 57, 496 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Proton-proton bremsstrahlung calculation: Studies of the off-shell proton electromagnetic vertex and of pseudoscalar vs pseudovector $π N$ couplings

Yi Li, M. K. Liou, and W. M. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. C 57, 507 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Spin structure functions for three-nucleon systems: Neutrons and protons

M. M. Yazdanpanah and M. Modarres

Phys. Rev. C 57, 525 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Moscow-type $NN$ potentials and three-nucleon bound states

V. I. Kukulin, V. N. Pomerantsev, Amand Faessler, A. J. Buchmann, and E. M. Tursunov

Phys. Rev. C 57, 535 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Do phase-shift analyses and nucleon-nucleon potential models yield the wrong $^{3} P_{j}$ phase shifts at low energies?

W. Tornow, H. Witała, and A. Kievsky

Phys. Rev. C 57, 555 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Shell-model calculations for the three-nucleon system

P. Navrátil and B. R. Barrett

Phys. Rev. C 57, 562 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Nuclear Structure

Lifetimes of the lowest $2_{K^{π} {= 0}^{+}}^{+}$ levels in $^{168}$ Er and $^{164}$ Dy

H. Lehmann, J. Jolie, F. Corminboeuf, H. G. Börner, C. Doll, M. Jentschel, R. F. Casten, and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. C 57, 569 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Two-phonon character of the lowest electric dipole excitation in $^{142}$ Nd and in other nuclei near shell closures

M. Wilhelm, S. Kasemann, G. Pascovici, E. Radermacher, P. von Brentano, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. C 57, 577 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Measurements of the differences in the nuclear charge radii among uranium isotopes

S. R. Elliott, P. Beiersdorfer, M. H. Chen, V. Decaux, and D. A. Knapp

Phys. Rev. C 57, 583 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

$^{99} Tc$ produced by the $(^{3} He, p n γ)$ reaction

Ben Crowe, Hurol Aslan, Tim Dague, D. G. Savage, Sadek Zeghib, F. A. Rickey, and P. C. Simms

Phys. Rev. C 57, 590 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Excitation and decay of the Gamow-Teller giant resonance in $^{90}$ Nb

M. Moosburger, E. Aschenauer, H. Dennert, W. Eyrich, A. Lehmann, N. Scholz, H. Wirth, H. J. Gils, H. Rebel, and S. Zagromski

Phys. Rev. C 57, 602 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Nuclear levels and structure from the decays of $^{213}$ Bi and $^{209}$ Tl

G. Ardisson, V. Barci, and O. El Samad

Phys. Rev. C 57, 612 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Magnetic moments of pre-yrast high spin and first-excited levels in neutron-deficient $^{162, 163, 164} Hf$ isotopes

L. Weissman, M. Hass, and C. Broude

Phys. Rev. C 57, 621 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Proton decay of states in $^{11} N$

A. Azhari, T. Baumann, J. A. Brown, M. Hellström, J. H. Kelley, R. A. Kryger, D. J. Millener, H. Madani, E. Ramakrishnan, D. E. Russ, T. Suomijarvi, M. Thoennessen, and S. Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. C 57, 628 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Recoil distance lifetime measurements in $^{122, 124} Xe$

I. M. Govil, A. Kumar, H. Iyer, H. Li, U. Garg, S. S. Ghugre, T. Johnson, R. Kaczarowski, B. Kharraja, S. Naguleswaran, and J. C. Walpe

Phys. Rev. C 57, 632 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Influence of dynamical Pauli effect and dynamical symmetry breaking on quantum chaos

Ming-Tsung Lee, Wei-Min Zhang, and Cheng-Li Wu

Phys. Rev. C 57, 637 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

On-resonance deformation effect measurements: A probe of order within chaos in the nucleus

E. D. Davis and C. R. Gould

Phys. Rev. C 57, 648 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Quantum molecular dynamics approach to the nuclear matter below the saturation density

Toshiki Maruyama, Koji Niita, Kazuhiro Oyamatsu, Tomoyuki Maruyama, Satoshi Chiba, and Akira Iwamoto

Phys. Rev. C 57, 655 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

$N$ -phonon giant resonances in the nonlinear hydrodynamic approach and the nucleon-nucleon interaction

V. Yu. Denisov

Phys. Rev. C 57, 666 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Interacting boson model plus broken-pair description of high-spin dipole bands

D. Vretenar, S. Brant, G. Bonsignori, L. Corradini, and C. M. Petrache

Phys. Rev. C 57, 675 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Nuclear structure of $^{97} Y$ in the interacting boson fermion plus broken pair model and the nature of the 3.523 MeV high-spin isomer

G. Lhersonneau, S. Brant, V. Paar, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 57, 681 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Boson mappings and four-particle correlations in algebraic neutron-proton pairing models

J. Dobeš and S. Pittel

Phys. Rev. C 57, 688 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Hyperonic nuclear matter in Brueckner theory

H.-J. Schulze, M. Baldo, U. Lombardo, J. Cugnon, and A. Lejeune

Phys. Rev. C 57, 704 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Lowest order constrained variational calculation for asymmetrical nuclear matter with the new Argonne potential

G. H. Bordbar and M. Modarres

Phys. Rev. C 57, 714 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Nuclear Reactions

Transfer and surface vibration couplings in the fusion of $^{40} Ca +^{46, 48, 50} Ti$ at near-barrier energies

A. A. Sonzogni, J. D. Bierman, M. P. Kelly, J. P. Lestone, J. F. Liang, and R. Vandenbosch

Phys. Rev. C 57, 722 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Fusion and binary-decay mechanisms in the $^{35}$ Cl+ $^{24}$ Mg system at $E / A \approx 8$ MeV

Sl. Cavallaro, E. De Filippo, G. Lanzanò, A. Pagano, M. L. Sperduto, R. Dayras, R. Legrain, E. Pollacco, C. Beck, B. Djerroud, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, A. Hachem, B. Heusch, D. Mahboub, A. Morsad, R. Nouicer, and S. J. Sanders

Phys. Rev. C 57, 731 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Complete and incomplete fusion reactions in $^{12} {C +}^{89} Y :$ Excitation functions and recoil range measurements

B. Bindu Kumar, S. Mukherjee, S. Chakrabarty, B. S. Tomar, A. Goswami, and S. B. Manohar

Phys. Rev. C 57, 743 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Sequential reaction processes in the $^{12} C +^{12} C$ system at an energy of 28.7 MeV/nucleon

A. Magiera, J. Hebenstreit, L. Jarczyk, B. Kamys, A. Strzałkowski, B. Styczeń, W. Oelert, P. von Rossen, and H. Seyfarth

Phys. Rev. C 57, 749 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Multifragmentation of the remnant produced in the reaction of $1 A$ GeV gold with carbon

J. A. Hauger et al. (EOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 57, 764 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Low-energy pion-nucleon scattering

W. R. Gibbs, Li Ai, and W. B. Kaufmann

Phys. Rev. C 57, 784 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Giant resonances as collective states with dissipative coupling

E. Stefanescu, R. J. Liotta, and A. Sandulescu

Phys. Rev. C 57, 798 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Elastic nucleon-nucleon cross section in nuclear matter at finite temperature

A. Schnell, G. Röpke, U. Lombardo, and H.-J. Schulze

Phys. Rev. C 57, 806 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Comparison of clustering effects in $^{12} C$ fragmentation among ${p +}^{12} C,$ $α +^{12} C,$ and $^{14} {N +}^{12} C$ reactions: Excitation of α-cluster degrees of freedom in nuclear collisions

Hiroki Takemoto, Hisashi Horiuchi, and Akira Ono

Phys. Rev. C 57, 811 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Randomly broken nuclei and disordered systems

K. C. Chase, P. Bhattacharyya, and A. Z. Mekjian

Phys. Rev. C 57, 822 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Caloric curve and conditional moments: Effects of secondary fragment decay

P. F. Mastinu, M. Belkacem, F. Gramegna, and P. M. Milazzo

Phys. Rev. C 57, 831 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Relativistic/Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

Proton and antiproton distributions at midrapidity in proton-nucleus and sulphur-nucleus collisions

I. G. Bearden et al. (The NA44 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 57, 837 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Transverse and forward energy distributions in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions by an absorption model

K. C. Chung, C. S. Wang, A. J. Santiago, and G. Pech

Phys. Rev. C 57, 847 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Dimensional effects in a relativistic mean-field approach

A. Delfino, Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes, and J. S. Sá Martins

Phys. Rev. C 57, 857 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Constraining a simple hadronization model of relativistic heavy-ion collisions using hadronic observables

T. J. Humanic

Phys. Rev. C 57, 866 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Effects of multipion correlations on the source distribution in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Q. H. Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 57, 877 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Low-mass dileptons at 200 GeV/nucleon

J. Murray, W. Bauer, and K. Haglin

Phys. Rev. C 57, 882 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Propagation of charm quarks in equilibrating quark-gluon plasma

Munshi Golam Mustafa, Dipali Pal, and Dinesh Kumar Srivastava

Phys. Rev. C 57, 889 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Energy loss effects on charm and bottom production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Ziwei Lin, Ramona Vogt, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. C 57, 899 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Phase transition of a finite quark-gluon plasma

C. Spieles, H. Stöcker, and C. Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 57, 908 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Probing the $ρ$ spectral function in hot and dense nuclear matter by dileptons

W. Cassing, E. L. Bratkovskaya, R. Rapp, and J. Wambach

Phys. Rev. C 57, 916 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Role of isospin dependent mean field in pion production in heavy ion reactions

V. S. Uma Maheswari, C. Fuchs, Amand Faessler, Z. S. Wang, and D. S. Kosov

Phys. Rev. C 57, 922 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Subnucleon Aspects of Nuclei/Physics of Hadrons

Vector mesons in the nuclear medium with a finite three-momentum

Su Houng Lee

Phys. Rev. C 57, 927 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

$π π$ scattering amplitudes in the subthreshold region

Gerald E. Hite and William. B. Kaufmann

Phys. Rev. C 57, 931 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Structure analysis of the virtual Compton scattering amplitude at low energies

D. Drechsel, G. Knöchlein, A. Yu. Korchin, A. Metz, and S. Scherer

Phys. Rev. C 57, 941 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

String mechanism for the leading charm effect

C. E. Aguiar, T. Kodama, R. A. M. S. Nazareth, and G. Pech

Phys. Rev. C 57, 953 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Nuclear Astrophysics

Measurement of the $^{8}$ Li( $n, γ)$ $^{9}$ Li cross section at astrophysical energies by reverse kinematics

P. D. Zecher, A. Galonsky, S. J. Gaff, J. J. Kruse, G. Kunde, E. Tryggestad, J. Wang, R. E. Warner, D. J. Morrissey, K. Ieki, Y. Iwata, F. Deák, Á. Horváth, Á. Kiss, Z. Seres, J. J. Kolata, J. von Schwarzenberg, and H. Schelin

Phys. Rev. C 57, 959 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: $π \vec{N} η N$ and $η \vec{N} η N$ partial-wave $T$ matrices in a coupled, three-channel model [Phys. Rev. C 51, 2310 (1995)]

M. Batinić, I. Šlaus, A. Švarc, and B. M. K. Nefkens

Phys. Rev. C 57, 1004 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Verification of isomerism and direct measurement of half-lives ${in}^{184}$ Au [Phys. Rev. C 55, 2697 (1997)]

K. Zaerpoor, Y. Xu, M. Gummin, K. S. Krane, J. L. Wood, N. J. Stone, and J. Rikovska

Phys. Rev. C 57, 1006 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998

Erratum: Dipole excitations in the transitional nucleus $^{144}$ Nd studied in photon scattering experiments [Phys. Rev. C 56, 1256 (1997)]

T. Eckert, O. Beck, J. Besserer, P. von Brentano, R. Fischer, R.-D. Herzberg, U. Kneissl, J. Margraf, H. Maser, A. Nord, N. Pietralla, H. H. Pitz, S. W. Yates, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. C 57, 1007 (1998) - Published 1 February, 1998