Volume 69, Issue 2

S. Ahmed, M. Freer, J. C. Angélique, N. I. Ashwood, V. Bouchat, W. N. Catford, N. M. Clarke, N. Curtis, F. Hanappe, J. C. Lecouey, F. M. Marqués, T. Materna, A. Ninane, G. Normand, N. A. Orr, S. Pain, N. Soić, C. Timis, A. Unshakova, and V. A. Ziman

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024303 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Transition strengths between particle hole excitations in ${}^{95}{Ru}$

E. Galindo, M. Hausmann, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, O. Yordanov, I. P. Johnstone, R. Schwengner, A. Dewald, A. Fitzler, O. Möller, G. de Angelis, A. Gadea, T. Martinez, D. R. Napoli, and C. A. Ur

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024304 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

High-spin structure in ${}^{185}{Os}$

T. Shizuma, S. Mitarai, G. Sletten, R. A. Bark, N. L. Gjørup, H. J. Jensen, M. Piiparinen, J. Wrzesinski, and Y. R. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024305 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Triplet-even channel attraction for shell gaps

A. Umeya and K. Muto

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024306 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

First identification of yrast decay and shell model description of the $N = Z + 1$ nucleus ${}^{93}{Pd}$

C. Rusu, N. Mărginean, D. Bucurescu, C. Rossi Alvarez, C. A. Ur, D. Bazzacco, S. Lunardi, G. de Angelis, M. Axiotis, E. Farnea, A. Gadea, M. Ionescu-Bujor, A. Iordăchescu, W. Krolas, Th. Kröll, S. M. Lenzi, T. Martinez, R. Menegazzo, D. R. Napoli, P. Pavan, M. De Poli, B. Quintana, and J. Wrzesinski

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024307 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Low spin states in ${}^{162}{Yb}$ and the X(5) critical point symmetry

E. A. McCutchan, N. V. Zamfir, M. A. Caprio, R. F. Casten, H. Amro, C. W. Beausang, D. S. Brenner, A. A. Hecht, C. Hutter, S. D. Langdown, D. A. Meyer, P. H. Regan, J. J. Ressler, and A. D. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024308 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Dilute multi- $α$ cluster states in nuclei

Taiichi Yamada and Peter Schuck

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024309 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

$T = 3 ∕ 2$ levels in $A = 11$ nuclei

F. C. Barker

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024310 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Gamow-Teller transitions and deformation in the proton-neutron random phase approximation

Ionel Stetcu and Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024311 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Solution of large scale nuclear structure problems by wave function factorization

T. Papenbrock, A. Juodagalvis, and D. J. Dean

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024312 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Staggering behavior of $0^{+}$ state energies in the $Sp (4)$ pairing model

K. D. Sviratcheva, A. I. Georgieva, and J. P. Draayer

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024313 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Shape fluctuations in a Fermi system with nonlinear dissipativity

V. M. Kolomietz, S. V. Lukyanov, and S. Shlomo

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024314 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Level structures of ${}^{110, 111, 112, 113}{Rh}$ from measurements on ${}^{252}{Cf}$

Y. X. Luo, S. C. Wu, J. Gilat, J. O. Rasmussen, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, J. K. Hwang, C. J. Beyer, S. J. Zhu, J. Kormicki, X. Q. Zhang, E. F. Jones, P. M. Gore, I-Yang Lee, P. Zielinski, C. M. Folden, III, T. N. Ginter, P. Fallon, G. M. Ter-Akopian, A. V. Daniel, M. A. Stoyer, J. D. Cole, R. Donangelo, S. J. Asztalos, and A. Gelberg

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024315 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

${}^{136}{Ba}$ studied via deep-inelastic collisions: Identification of the ${(ν h_{11 ∕ 2})}_{10 +}^{- 2}$ isomer

J. J. Valiente-Dobón et al.

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024316 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole rotational structures and chirality in ${}^{105}{Rh}$

J. A. Alcántara-Núñez, J. R. B. Oliveira, E. W. Cybulska, N. H. Medina, M. N. Rao, R. V. Ribas, M. A. Rizzutto, W. A. Seale, F. Falla-Sotelo, K. T. Wiedemann, V. I. Dimitrov, and S. Frauendorf

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024317 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Neutron skin thickness and equation of state in asymmetric nuclear matter

Satoshi Yoshida and Hiroyuki Sagawa

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024318 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Pseudospin symmetry and the relativistic harmonic oscillator

R. Lisboa, M. Malheiro, A. S. de Castro, P. Alberto, and M. Fiolhais

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024319 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Evidence for a high-spin $β$ -decaying isomer in ${}^{177}{Lu}$

Sareh D. Al-Garni, P. H. Regan, P. M. Walker, E. Roeckl, R. Kirchner, F. R. Xu, L. Batist, A. Blazhev, R. Borcea, D. M. Cullen, J. Döring, H. M. El-Masri, J. Garces Narro, H. Grawe, M. La Commara, C. Mazzocchi, I. Mukha, C. J. Pearson, C. Plettner, K. Schmidt, W.-D. Schmidt-Ott, Y. Shimbara, C. Wheldon, R. Wood, and S. C. Wooding

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024320 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Nuclear Reactions

Measurements and calculations of ${}^{238}U (n, x n γ)$ partial $γ$ -ray cross sections

N. Fotiades, G. D. Johns, R. O. Nelson, M. B. Chadwick, M. Devlin, M. S. Wilburn, P. G. Young, J. A. Becker, D. E. Archer, L. A. Bernstein, P. E. Garrett, C. A. McGrath, D. P. McNabb, and W. Younes

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024601 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Investigation of the $α$ -cluster structure of ${}^{22}{Ne}$ and ${}^{22}{Mg}$

V. Z. Goldberg et al.

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024602 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Influence of the nucleon spectral function in photon and electron induced reactions on nuclei

J. Lehr and U. Mosel

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024603 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Polarizations for proton knockout reactions from $s_{1 ∕ 2}$ orbits at $1 GeV$

V. A. Andreev et al.

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024604 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

$ϕ$ meson production in near-threshold proton-nucleus collisions

H. W. Barz and M. Zétényi

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024605 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Spinodal expansions in the study of the decay of deeply quenched metastable states

J. B. Silva, A. Delfino, J. S. Sá Martins, S. Moss de Oliveira, and C. E. Cordeiro

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024606 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Dissipation of angular momentum in light heavy-ion collision

C. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, T. Bhattacharjee, A. Dey, S. Kundu, S. R. Banerjee, P. Das, S. K. Basu, and K. Krishan

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024607 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Resonant and direct components in the ${}^{3}{He} (d, p) {}^{4}{He}$ reaction at low energies

B. Braizinha, C. R. Brune, A. M. Eiró, B. M. Fisher, H. J. Karwowski, D. S. Leonard, E. J. Ludwig, F. D. Santos, and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024608 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Three-body continuum spatial correlations in Borromean halo nuclei

B. V. Danilin, T. Rogde, J. S. Vaagen, I. J. Thompson, and M. V. Zhukov ([RNBT (Russian-Nordic-British Theory) Collaboration])

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024609 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Double folding nucleus-nucleus potential applied to heavy-ion fusion reactions

I. I. Gontchar, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, and J. O. Newton

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024610 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Empirical nucleus-nucleus potential deduced from fusion excitation functions

K. Siwek-Wilczyńska and J. Wilczyński

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024611 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Proton removal from ${}^{8}B$ , ${}^{9}C$ , and ${}^{12}C$ on Si at $20 - 70 MeV ∕ nucleon$

R. E. Warner, F. D. Becchetti, J. A. Brown, A. Galonsky, J. H. Kelley, A. Nadasen, R. M. Ronningen, J. A. Tostevin, J. S. Winfield, and P. Zecher

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024612 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Charge, mass, and angular distributions in ${}^{20}{Ne}$ induced fission of ${}^{208}{Pb}$

R. Tripathi, K. Sudarshan, A. Goswami, P. K. Pujari, B. S. Tomar, and S. B. Manohar

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024613 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

$α$ decay of nuclei in extreme cases

Chang Xu and Zhongzhou Ren

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024614 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Proton vs neutron halo breakup

Angela Bonaccorso, David M. Brink, and Carlos A. Bertulani

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024615 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Measurement of ${}^{4}{He} (\vec{p}, n)$ at 100 and $200 MeV$ : Analysis with recoil-corrected continuum shell model

C. M. Riedel, D. Dehnhard, M. Palarczyk, M. A. Espy, M. A. Franey, J. L. Langenbrunner, L. C. Bland, D. S. Carman, B. Brinkmöller, R. Madey, Y. Wang, and J. W. Watson

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024616 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Angular momentum population in the projectile fragmentation of ${}^{238}U$ at $750 MeV ∕ nucleon$

K. A. Gladnishki et al.

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024617 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Sensitivity of exclusive proton knockout spin observables to different Lorentz invariant representations of the NN interaction

B. I. S. van der Ventel and G. C. Hillhouse

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024618 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

High-resolution study of the ${}^{116}{Sn} (p, t)$ reaction and shell model structure of ${}^{114}{Sn}$

P. Guazzoni, L. Zetta, A. Covello, A. Gargano, G. Graw, R. Hertenberger, H.-F. Wirth, and M. Jaskola

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024619 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Characterization of jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions

S. C. Phatak and P. K. Sahu

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024901 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Energy and centrality dependence of deuteron and proton production in $Pb + Pb$ collisions at relativistic energies

T. Anticic et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024902 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Effects of Dirac sea polarization on hadronic properties: A chiral SU(3) approach

A. Mishra, K. Balazs, D. Zschiesche, S. Schramm, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024903 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Single identified hadron spectra from $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 130 GeV$ $Au + Au$ collisions

K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024904 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Chemical equilibrium study in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies

F. Becattini, M. Gaździcki, A. Keränen, J. Manninen, and R. Stock

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024905 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Diffusion and local deconfinement in relativistic systems

Georg Wolschin

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024906 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

$Q$ -boson interferometry and generalized Wigner function

Q. H. Zhang and Sandra S. Padula

Phys. Rev. C 69, 024907 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Hadronic Physics and QCD

$ρ$ meson photoproduction at low energies

Yongseok Oh and T.-S. H. Lee

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025201 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Pentaquark $ϴ^{+}$ production from the reaction $γ p \to π^{+} K^{-} ϴ^{+}$

W. Liu, C. M. Ko, and V. Kubarovsky

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025202 (2004) - Published 17 February, 2004

Experimental study of $p p η$ dynamics in the $p p \to p p η$ reaction

P. Moskal et al.

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025203 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Coulomb gauge model of mesons

Norbert Ligterink and Eric S. Swanson

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025204 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Model dependence of the properties of $S_{11}$ baryon resonances

Alvin Kiswandhi, Simon Capstick, and Steven Dytman

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025205 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

$Δ (1232)$ in $π N \to π π N$ reaction

Hiroyuki Kammano and Masaki Arima

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025206 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Hybrid stars in the quark-meson coupling model with superconducting quark matter

P. K. Panda, D. P. Menezes, and C. Providência

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025207 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Minimal supersymmetric standard model with gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking and neutrinoless double $β$ decay

Marek Góźdź, Wiesław A. Kaminski, and Andrzej Wodecki

Phys. Rev. C 69, 025501 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Magnetization screening from gluonic currents and scaling-law violation in the ratio of magnetic form factors for neutron and proton

Murat M. Kaskulov and Peter Grabmayr

Phys. Rev. C 69, 028201 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Is simultaneous $y$ and $ξ$ scaling in the quasielastic region accidental?

Donal Day and Ingo Sick

Phys. Rev. C 69, 028501 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Systematics of fission barriers in superheavy elements [Phys. Rev. C 69, 014307 (2004)]

T. Burvenich, M. Bender, J. A. Maruhn, and P.-G. Reinhard

Phys. Rev. C 69, 029901 (2004) - Published 6 February, 2004

Publisher’s Note: Experiments on the synthesis of element 115 in the reaction ${}^{243}{Am} ({}^{48}{Ca}, x n) {}^{291 - x}115$ [Phys. Rev. C 69, 021601(R) (2004)]

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. C 69, 029902 (2004) - Published 18 February, 2004

Erratum: Quark model analysis of the charge symmetry breaking in nuclear force [Phys. Rev. C 68, 024006 (2003)]

Takashi Nasu, Makoto Oka, and Sachiko Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. C 69, 029903 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Volume 69, Issue 2

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Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear Reactions

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Nuclear Astrophysics

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