Volume 66, Issue 5

November 2002

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Evidence for a ${1 g}_{9 / 2}$ rotational band in $^{51} Mn$

J. Ekman, D. Rudolph, C. Fahlander, I. Ragnarsson, C. Andreoiu, M. A. Bentley, M. P. Carpenter, R. J. Charity, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, E. Ideguchi, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. N. Mineva, W. Reviol, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, V. Tomov, and S. J. Williams

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051301(R) (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nuclear level densities within the relativistic mean-field theory

B. Nerlo-Pomorska, K. Pomorski, J. Bartel, and K. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051302(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Fully renormalized quasiparticle random-phase approximation fulfills Ikeda sum rule exactly

Vadim Rodin and Amand Faessler

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051303(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Mirror displacement energies and neutron skins

J. Duflo and A. P. Zuker

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051304(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

New $0^{+}$ states in $^{158} Gd$

S. R. Lesher, A. Aprahamian, L. Trache, A. Oros-Peusquens, S. Deyliz, A. Gollwitzer, R. Hertenberger, B. D. Valnion, and G. Graw

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051305(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quadrupole and octupole softness in the $N = Z$ nucleus $^{64} Ge$

Kazunari Kaneko, Munetake Hasegawa, and Takahiro Mizusaki

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051306(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Population of the 168-keV ${(g}_{7 / 2})$ excited state in $^{103} Sn$ in the $α$ decay of $^{107} Te$

D. Seweryniak, W. B. Walters, A. Woehr, M. Lipoglavsek, J. Shergur, C. N. Davids, A. Heinz, and J. J. Ressler

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051307(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Critical temperature of nuclear matter and fragment distributions in multifragmentation of finite nuclei

R. Ogul and A. S. Botvina

Phys. Rev. C 66, 051601(R) (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Indications for the nonexistence of three-neutron resonances near the physical region

A. Hemmdan, W. Glöckle, and H. Kamada

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054001 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Toy model for pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions. II. The role of three-particle singularities

A. Motzke, Ch. Elster, and C. Hanhart

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054002 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Theoretical study of $^{3} He (μ^{-}, ν_{μ})^{3} H$ capture

L. E. Marcucci, R. Schiavilla, S. Rosati, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054003 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Two-body electrodisintegration of the three-nucleon bound state with $Δ$ -isobar excitation

L. P. Yuan, K. Chmielewski, M. Oelsner, P. U. Sauer, and J. Adam, Jr.

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054004 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Complete next-to-leading-order calculation for pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions at threshold

C. Hanhart and N. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054005 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Elastic scattering of charged pions from $^{3} H$ and $^{3} He$

W. J. Briscoe, B. L. Berman, R. W. C. Carter, K. S. Dhuga, S. K. Matthews, N-J. Nicholas, S. J. Greene, B. M. K. Nefkens, J. W. Price, L. D. Isenhower, M. E. Sadler, I. Šlaus, and I. Supek

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054006 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Charge-symmetry violation in pion scattering from three-body nuclei

A. E. Kudryavtsev, V. E. Tarasov, B. L. Berman, W. J. Briscoe, K. S. Dhuga, and I. I. Strakovsky

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054007 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Nuclear Structure

Shell-model calculations for $_{Λ}^{16} O$ and $_{Λ}^{17} O$ using microscopic effective interactions with $Σ$ degrees of freedom

Shinichiro Fujii, Ryoji Okamoto, and Kenji Suzuki

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054301 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

Shape evolution in heavy sulfur isotopes and erosion of the $N = 28$ shell closure

D. Sohler et al.

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054302 (2002) - Published 8 November, 2002

${1 g}_{9 / 2},$ ${1 f}_{5 / 2},$ and ${1 f}_{7 / 2}$ neutron inner hole responses in $^{115} Sn$ and $^{119} Sn$ via the $(\vec{d}, t)$ reaction at $E_{d} = 200 MeV$

H. Langevin-Joliot, J. Van de Wiele, J. Guillot, E. Gerlic, L. H. Rosier, A. Willis, C. Djalali, M. Morlet, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, N. Blasi, S. Micheletti, and S. Y. van der Werf

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054303 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Self-energy effects on isospin singlet pairing in nuclear matter

M. Baldo, U. Lombardo, H.-J. Schulze, and Zuo Wei

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054304 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Evolution of collectivity with spin in $^{81} Y$

R. A. Kaye, C. T. Rastovski, S. L. Tabor, J. Döring, F. Cristancho, M. Devlin, G. D. Johns, I. Y. Lee, F. Lerma, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. G. Sarantites, and G. Z. Solomon

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054305 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Rotationally invariant Hamiltonians for nuclear spectra based on quantum algebras

Dennis Bonatsos, B. A. Kotsos, P. P. Raychev, and P. A. Terziev

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054306 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Hypernuclear Auger effect within density dependent relativistic hadron field theory

Christoph Keil and Horst Lenske

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054307 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Improved variational calculations of nucleon matter

J. Morales, Jr., V. R. Pandharipande, and D. G. Ravenhall

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054308 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Persistence of $K$ isomerism in the $N = 104$ isotones: Observation of a high-seniority isomer in $_{75}^{179} Re$

C. Thwaites, C. Wheldon, A. M. Bruce, P. M. Walker, G. D. Dracoulis, A. P. Byrne, T. Kibédi, F. G. Kondev, C. J. Pearson, and C. S. Purry

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054309 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Low-spin structure of $^{156} Dy$ through γ-ray spectroscopy

M. A. Caprio, N. V. Zamfir, R. F. Casten, C. J. Barton, C. W. Beausang, J. R. Cooper, A. A. Hecht, R. Krücken, H. Newman, J. R. Novak, N. Pietralla, A. Wolf, and K. E. Zyromski

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054310 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Yrast spectroscopy in the neutron-deficient nucleus $^{169} Os$

D. T. Joss et al.

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054311 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Finite size effect on the strength function in a random matrix analysis

Jianzhong Gu, Lei Gao, and Bambi Hu

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054312 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Anomalous behavior of $2^{+}$ excitations around $^{132} Sn$

J. Terasaki, J. Engel, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Stoitsov

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054313 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Nuclear Reactions

Spin polarization of $^{27} Na$ and $^{31} Al$ in intermediate energy projectile fragmentation of $^{36} S$

D. Borremans, J. M. Daugas, S. Teughels, D. L. Balabanski, N. Coulier, F. de Oliveira Santos, G. Georgiev, M. Hass, M. Lewitowicz, I. Matea, Yu. E. Penionzhkevich, W.-D. Schmidt-Ott, Yu. E. Sobolev, M. Stanoiu, K. Vyvey, and G. Neyens

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054601 (2002) - Published 1 November, 2002

Model-independent spin-parity determination by the ${(d,}^{2} He)$ reaction and possible evidence for a $0^{-}$ state in $^{12} B$

H. Okamura, T. Uesaka, K. Suda, H. Kumasaka, R. Suzuki, A. Tamii, N. Sakamoto, and H. Sakai

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054602 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Pion single-charge-exchange reactions above the $Δ$ resonance

Naoko Nose-Togawa and Kenji Kume

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054603 (2002) - Published 12 November, 2002

Resonance lifetime in Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory: Observable consequences

A. B. Larionov, M. Effenberger, S. Leupold, and U. Mosel

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054604 (2002) - Published 20 November, 2002

Neutron activation measurements on natural tellurium

R. Reifarth and F. Käppeler

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054605 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Semiexclusive pionic double charge exchange on $^{4} He$

J. L. Clark, M. E. Sevior, H. Clement, J. Gräter, R. Meier, G. J. Wagner, P.-A. Amaudruz, L. Felawka, G. J. Hofman, D. Ottewell, G. R. Smith, A. Ambardar, M. Kermani, G. Tagliente, P. Camerini, E. Fragiacomo, N. Grion, R. Rui, E. L. Mathie, R. Tacik, D. M. Yeomans, E. F. Gibson, J. T. Brack, and M. Schepkin

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054606 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Comparison between $α$ and proton sequential emission in $^{16} O (132 MeV {) +}^{58} Ni$ deep inelastic collisions

R. Barná, D. De Pasquale, A. Italiano, A. Trifiró, M. Trimarchi, V. Rauch, C. Beck, T. Bellot, C. Bhattacharya, D. Disdier, R. M. Freeman, F. Haas, R. Nouicer, P. Papka, M. Rousseau, O. Stezowski, and A. Strazzeri

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054607 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Proton emission in Au+Au collisions at 6, 8, and 10.8 GeV/nucleon

B. B. Back et al. (E917 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054901 (2002) - Published 11 November, 2002

Energy dependence of pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions

S. V. Afanasiev et al. (The NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054902 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Baryon stopping and strange baryon and antibaryon production at ultrarelativistic energies

H. Weber, E. L. Bratkovskaya, and H. Stöcker

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054903 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Comparison of space-time evolutions of hot, dense matter in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 17$ and 130 GeV relativistic heavy ion collisions based on a hydrodynamical model

Kenji Morita, Shin Muroya, Chiho Nonaka, and Tetsufumi Hirano

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054904 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Collective flow and two-pion correlations from a relativistic hydrodynamic model with early chemical freeze-out

Tetsufumi Hirano and Keiichi Tsuda

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054905 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

System, centrality, and transverse mass dependence of two-pion correlation radii in heavy ion collisions at $11.6 A$ and $14.6 A GeV / c$

L. Ahle et al. (E-802 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 66, 054906 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Thermal $ρ$ and $σ$ mesons from chiral symmetry and unitarity

A. Dobado, A. Gómez Nicola, F. J. Llanes-Estrada, and J. R. Peláez

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055201 (2002) - Published 1 November, 2002

Unified meson-baryon potential

Fabian Brau, Claude Semay, and Bernard Silvestre-Brac

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055202 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

Chiral dynamics of the p wave in $K^{-} p$ and coupled states

D. Jido, E. Oset, and A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055203 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

Strange nucleon form factors in the perturbative chiral quark model

V. E. Lyubovitskij, P. Wang, Th. Gutsche, and Amand Faessler

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055204 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

In-medium production of $2 π^{0},$ $η,$ and $π^{0}$ by $π^{-}$ at $750 MeV / c$

A. Starostin, H. M. Staudenmaier, V. Bekrenev, W. J. Briscoe, A. Koulbardis, N. Kozlenko, S. Kruglov, I. Lopatin, A. Marušić, S. McDonald, B. M. K. Nefkens, N. Phaisangittisakul, S. Prakhov, J. W. Price, A. Shafi, I. Slaus, and I. Supek

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055205 (2002) - Published 8 November, 2002

From soft to hard regime in elastic pion-pion scattering above resonances

A. Szczurek, N. N. Nikolaev, and J. Speth

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055206 (2002) - Published 8 November, 2002

Self-consistent quantum effects in the quark meson coupling model

P. K. Panda and F. L. Braghin

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055207 (2002) - Published 8 November, 2002

$η,$ $η^{'}$ photoproduction and electroproduction off nucleons

B. Borasoy, E. Marco, and S. Wetzel

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055208 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Hypernuclear weak decay puzzle

C. Barbero, D. Horvat, F. Krmpotić, T. T. S. Kuo, Z. Narančić, and D. Tadić

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055209 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Neutron charge radius deduced from Bragg reflection technique

J.-M. Sparenberg and H. Leeb

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055210 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Vector meson production and nucleon resonance analysis in a coupled-channel approach for energies $m_{N} < \sqrt{s} < 2 GeV .$ I. Pion-induced results and hadronic parameters

G. Penner and U. Mosel

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055211 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Vector meson production and nucleon resonance analysis in a coupled-channel approach for energies $m_{N} < \sqrt{s} < 2 GeV .$ II. Photon-induced results

G. Penner and U. Mosel

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055212 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Analysis of pion photoproduction data

R. A. Arndt, W. J. Briscoe, I. I. Strakovsky, and R. L. Workman

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055213 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Short-range repulsion and isospin dependence in the kaon-nucleon $(KN)$ system

D. Hadjimichef, J. Haidenbauer, and G. Krein

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055214 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Cross sections for neutral-current neutrino scattering on $^{208} Pb$

N. Jachowicz, K. Heyde, and J. Ryckebusch

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055501 (2002) - Published 1 November, 2002

Axial-vector current in nuclear many-body physics

Sergei M. Ananyan, Brian D. Serot, and John Dirk Walecka

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055502 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Nuclear Astrophysics

Radiation correction to astrophysical fusion reactions and the electron screening problem

K. Hagino and A. B. Balantekin

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055801 (2002) - Published 6 November, 2002

Breakout from the hot CNO cycle via the $^{18} Ne (α {, p)}^{21} Na$ reaction. II. Extended energy range $E_{c . m .} \sim 1.7 - 2.9 MeV$

D. Groombridge, A. C. Shotter, W. Bradfield-Smith, S. Cherubini, T. Davinson, A. Di Pietro, J. Görres, J. S. Graulich, A. M. Laird, P. Leleux, A. Musumarra, A. Ninane, A. N. Ostrowski, J. Rahighi, H. Schatz, M. Wiescher, and P. J. Woods

Phys. Rev. C 66, 055802 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002