Volume 74, Issue 4

M. Sarsour, T. Peterson, M. Planinic, S. E. Vigdor, C. Allgower, B. Bergenwall, J. Blomgren, T. Hossbach, W. W. Jacobs, C. Johansson, J. Klug, A. V. Klyachko, P. Nadel-Turonski, L. Nilsson, N. Olsson, S. Pomp, J. Rapaport, T. Rinckel, E. J. Stephenson, U. Tippawan, S. W. Wissink, and Y. Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044003 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

$K^{0}$ photoproduction on the deuteron and the extraction of the elementary amplitude

A. Salam, K. Miyagawa, T. Mart, C. Bennhold, and W. Glöckle

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044004 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

Nuclear Structure

Self-consistent description of multipole strength: Systematic calculations

J. Terasaki and J. Engel

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044301 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Neutron capture cross sections of ${}^{148}{Gd}$ and the decay of ${}^{149}{Gd}$

M. G. Rios, R. J. Casperson, K. S. Krane, and E. B. Norman

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044302 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Detailed spectroscopy of ${}^{249}{Fm}$

A. Lopez-Martens et al.

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044303 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Comparison of local, semi-microscopic, and microscopic three-cluster models

M. Theeten, D. Baye, and P. Descouvemont

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044304 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Multiple octupole-type band structures in ${}^{220}{Th}$ : Reflection-asymmetric tidal waves?

W. Reviol, C. J. Chiara, M. Montero, D. G. Sarantites, O. L. Pechenaya, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu, and S. G. Frauendorf

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044305 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

γ-soft analog of the confined β-soft rotor model

Dennis Bonatsos, D. Lenis, N. Pietralla, and P. A. Terziev

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044306 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Intrinsic quadrupole tensor in the geometric interpretation of the interacting boson approximation (IBA-1)

Eugene R. Marshalek

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044307 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Giant resonances in ${}^{46, 48}{Ti}$

Y. Tokimoto, Y.-W. Lui, H. L. Clark, B. John, X. Chen, and D. H. Youngblood

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044308 (2006) - Published 24 October, 2006

Extensive investigation of $0^{+}$ states in rare earth region nuclei

D. A. Meyer, V. Wood, R. F. Casten, C. R. Fitzpatrick, G. Graw, D. Bucurescu, J. Jolie, P. von Brentano, R. Hertenberger, H.-F. Wirth, N. Braun, T. Faestermann, S. Heinze, J. L. Jerke, R. Krücken, M. Mahgoub, O. Möller, D. Mücher, and C. Scholl

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044309 (2006) - Published 24 October, 2006

Many-particles–plus–rotor description of magnetic bands at high spin

B. G. Carlsson and I. Ragnarsson

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044310 (2006) - Published 25 October, 2006

α-cluster structure and exotic states in a self-consistent model for light nuclei

J. A. Maruhn, Masaaki Kimura, S. Schramm, P.-G. Reinhard, H. Horiuchi, and A. Tohsaki

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044311 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

Simultaneous description of four positive parity bands and four negative parity bands

A. A. Raduta, Al. H. Raduta, and C. M. Raduta

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044312 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation of ${}^{62}{Cu}$ at low temperatures in iron

V. V. Golovko, I. S. Kraev, T. Phalet, N. Severijns, D. Vénos, D. Zákoucký, P. Herzog, C. Tramm, U. Köster, D. Srnka, M. Honusek, B. Delauré, M. Beck, V. Yu. Kozlov, and A. Lindroth

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044313 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Double β decay of ${}^{100}{Mo}$ to excited final states

M. J. Hornish, L. De Braeckeleer, A. S. Barabash, and V. I. Umatov

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044314 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Isovector splitting of nucleon effective masses, ab initio benchmarks and extended stability criteria for Skyrme energy functionals

T. Lesinski, K. Bennaceur, T. Duguet, and J. Meyer

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044315 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Nuclear Reactions

Dynamic nuclear Stark shift in superintense laser fields

Thomas J. Bürvenich, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044601 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

MILESTONE

Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the ${}^{249}{Cf}$ and ${}^{245}{Cm} + {}^{48}{Ca}$ fusion reactions

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044602 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Proton emission induced by polarized photons

M. Anguiano, G. Co', and A. M. Lallena

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044603 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Applications of Skyrme energy-density functional to fusion reactions for synthesis of superheavy nuclei

Ning Wang, Xizhen Wu, Zhuxia Li, Min Liu, and Werner Scheid

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044604 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Evidence of large nuclear deformation of ${}^{32}S$ $^{*}$ formed in the ${}^{20}{Ne} + {}^{12}C$ reaction

Aparajita Dey, S. Bhattacharya, C. Bhattacharya, K. Banerjee, T. K. Rana, S. Kundu, S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Gupta, and R. Saha

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044605 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Fusion and direct reactions around the barrier for the systems ${}^{7, 9}{Be}, {}^{7}{Li} + {}^{238}U$

R. Raabe, C. Angulo, J. L. Charvet, C. Jouanne, L. Nalpas, P. Figuera, D. Pierroutsakou, M. Romoli, and J. L. Sida

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044606 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Fusion enhancement in the ${}^{38}S + {}^{208}{Pb}$ reaction

W. Loveland, D. Peterson, A. M. Vinodkumar, P. H. Sprunger, D. Shapira, J. F. Liang, G. A. Souliotis, D. J. Morrissey, and P. Lofy

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044607 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Production cross sections of isotopes formed by fragmentation of $~ 1 A$ GeV ${}^{80}{Kr}$ beam

T. Yamaguchi et al.

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044608 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Modification of surface energy in nuclear multifragmentation

A. S. Botvina, N. Buyukcizmeci, M. Erdogan, J. Łukasik, I. N. Mishustin, R. Ogul, and W. Trautmann

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044609 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Pion-induced double-charge exchange reactions in the Δ resonance region

O. Buss, L. Alvarez-Ruso, A. B. Larionov, and U. Mosel

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044610 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

New isotope ${}^{264}{Sg}$ and decay properties of ${}^{262 - 264}{Sg}$

K. E. Gregorich, J. M. Gates, Ch. E. Düllmann, R. Sudowe, S. L. Nelson, M. A. Garcia, I. Dragojević, C. M. Folden III, S. H. Neumann, D. C. Hoffman, and H. Nitsche

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044611 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Isotopic production cross sections of spallation-evaporation residues from reactions of ${}^{238}U$ ( $1 A$ GeV) with deuterium

E. Casarejos, J. Benlliure, J. Pereira, P. Armbruster, M. Bernas, A. Boudard, S. Czajkowski, T. Enqvist, R. Legrain, S. Leray, B. Mustapha, M. Pravikoff, F. Rejmund, K.-H. Schmidt, C. Stéphan, J. Taieb, L. Tassan-Got, C. Volant, and W. Wlazlo

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044612 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Nuclear symmetry potential in the relativistic impulse approximation

Zeng-Hua Li, Lie-Wen Chen, Che Ming Ko, Bao-An Li, and Hong-Ru Ma

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044613 (2006) - Published 26 October, 2006

High-resolution transmission measurements for ${}^{54}{Cr}$ + $n$

R. F. Carlton, C. Baker, and J. A. Harvey

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044614 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Deuteron global optical model potential for energies up to 200 MeV

Yinlu Han, Yuyang Shi, and Qingbiao Shen

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044615 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Excitation modes of ${}^{6}{He}$ from proton collisions

R. Crespo, I. J. Thompson, and A. M. Moro

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044616 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Azimuthal flow of decay photons in relativistic nuclear collisions

Biswanath Layek, Rupa Chatterjee, and Dinesh K. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044901 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Parton ladder splitting and the rapidity dependence of transverse momentum spectra in deuteron-gold collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Klaus Werner, Fu-Ming Liu, and Tanguy Pierog

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044902 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Multiplicity fluctuations in hadron-resonance gas

V. V. Begun, M. I. Gorenstein, M. Hauer, V. P. Konchakovski, and O. S. Zozulya

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044903 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Dissipative hydrodynamics in $2 + 1$ dimensions

A. K. Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044904 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Eccentricity in heavy-ion collisions from color glass condensate initial conditions

Azfar Adil, Hans-Joachim Drescher, Adrian Dumitru, Arata Hayashigaki, and Yasushi Nara

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044905 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Effect of an equilibrium phase transition on multiphase transport in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Yu Meiling, Du Jiaxin, and Liu Lianshou

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044906 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

$J / ψ$ production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV and the nuclear absorption

A. K. Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044907 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Classical strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. I. Model and molecular dynamics simulations

Boris A. Gelman, Edward V. Shuryak, and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044908 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Classical strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. II. Screening and equation of state

Boris A. Gelman, Edward V. Shuryak, and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. C 74, 044909 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Vector-meson–baryon coupling constants in QCD sum rules

G. Erkol, R. G. E. Timmermans, and Th. A. Rijken

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045201 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Gauge-invariant approach to meson photoproduction including the final-state interaction

H. Haberzettl, K. Nakayama, and S. Krewald

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045202 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

η- and $η^{'}$ -mesic nuclei and $U_{A} (1)$ anomaly at finite density

Hideko Nagahiro, Makoto Takizawa, and Satoru Hirenzaki

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045203 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Measurement of the helicity dependence for the $γ p \to n π^{+}$ channel in the second resonance region

J. Ahrens et al. (GDH- and A-2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045204 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Extended partial-wave analysis of $π N$ scattering data

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

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045205 (2006) - Published 23 October, 2006

Pentaquark state in pole-dominated QCD sum rules

Toru Kojo, Arata Hayashigaki, and Daisuke Jido

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045206 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Nuclear Astrophysics

Unstable modes in relativistic neutron-electron-proton (npe) matter at finite temperature

L. Brito, C. Providência, A. M. Santos, S. S. Avancini, D. P. Menezes, and Ph. Chomaz

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045801 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Coupling of nuclear and electron modes in relativistic stellar matter

C. Providência, L. Brito, A. M. S. Santos, D. P. Menezes, and S. S. Avancini

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045802 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Lifetime of $^{19} {Ne}^{*}$ (4.03 MeV)

R. Kanungo, T. K. Alexander, A. N. Andreyev, G. C. Ball, R. S. Chakrawarthy, M. Chicoine, R. Churchman, B. Davids, J. S. Forster, S. Gujrathi, G. Hackman, D. Howell, J. R. Leslie, A. C. Morton, S. Mythili, C. J. Pearson, J. J. Ressler, C. Ruiz, H. Savajols, M. A. Schumaker, I. Tanihata, P. Walden, and S. Yen

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045803 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Astrophysically important ${}^{26}{Si}$ states studied with the ${}^{28}{Si}$ ( $p, t$ ) ${}^{26}{Si}$ reaction. II. Spin of the 5.914-MeV ${}^{26}{Si}$ level and galactic ${}^{26}{Al}$ production

D. W. Bardayan, J. A. Howard, J. C. Blackmon, C. R. Brune, K. Y. Chae, W. R. Hix, M. S. Johnson, K. L. Jones, R. L. Kozub, J. F. Liang, E. J. Lingerfelt, R. J. Livesay, S. D. Pain, J. P. Scott, M. S. Smith, J. S. Thomas, and D. W. Visser

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045804 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

CNO and $pep$ neutrino spectroscopy in Borexino: Measurement of the deep-underground production of cosmogenic ${}^{11}C$ in an organic liquid scintillator

H. Back et al. (Borexino Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045805 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Low density instability in relativistic mean field models

A. Sulaksono and T. Mart

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045806 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Neutron star matter in the quark-meson coupling model in strong magnetic fields

P. Yue and H. Shen

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045807 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

High-density symmetry energy and direct Urca process

Andrew W. Steiner

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045808 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Diagrammatic calculation of thermodynamical quantities in nuclear matter

V. Somà and P. Bożek

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045809 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

β decay of proton-rich nucleus ${}^{23}{Al}$ and astrophysical consequences

V. E. Iacob, Y. Zhai, T. Al-Abdullah, C. Fu, J. C. Hardy, N. Nica, H. I. Park, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Phys. Rev. C 74, 045810 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Model independent determination of the spin of the ${}^{180}{Ta}$ naturally occurring isomer

M. L. Bissell, K. Baczynska, J. Billowes, P. Campbell, B. Cheal, T. Eronen, D. H. Forest, M. D. Gardner, I. D. Moore, B. Tordoff, G. Tungate, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. C 74, 047301 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

One-neutron knockout in the vicinity of the $N = 32$ sub-shell closure: ${}^{9}{Be}$ ( ${}^{57}{Cr}$ , ${}^{56}{Cr}$ +γ)X

A. Gade, R. V. F. Janssens, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, M. P. Carpenter, J. M. Cook, A. N. Deacon, D.-C. Dinca, S. J. Freeman, T. Glasmacher, M. Horoi, B. P. Kay, P. F. Mantica, W. F. Mueller, J. R. Terry, J. A. Tostevin, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 74, 047302 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Magicity and occurrence of a band with enhanced $B (E 2)$ in neutron-rich nuclei ${}^{68}{Ni}$ and ${}^{90}{Zr}$ [Phys. Rev. C 74, 024321 (2006)]

K. Kaneko, M. Hasegawa, T. Mizusaki, and Y. Sun

Phys. Rev. C 74, 049901 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Erratum: Sum rules for the spin dependent structure functions $g_{1}$ in the isovector reaction [Phys. Rev. C 73, 058201 (2006)]

Susumu Koretune

Phys. Rev. C 74, 049902 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006