Volume 77, Issue 3

A. Korgul, K. P. Rykaczewski, C. J. Gross, R. K. Grzywacz, S. N. Liddick, C. Mazzocchi, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, I. G. Darby, C. Goodin, J. H. Hamilton, J. K. Hwang, S. V. Ilyushkin, W. Królas, and J. A. Winger

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034301 (2008) - Published 7 March, 2008

Finite- to zero-range relativistic mean-field interactions

T. Nikšić, D. Vretenar, G. A. Lalazissis, and P. Ring

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034302 (2008) - Published 12 March, 2008

Negative-parity states and β decays in odd Ho and Dy nuclei with $A = 151, 153$

Falih H. Al-Khudair, Gui Lu Long, and Yang Sun

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034303 (2008) - Published 13 March, 2008

$p$ -shell Λ hypernuclei with the Nijmegen ESC04 baryon-baryon potential

Dean Halderson

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034304 (2008) - Published 13 March, 2008

Complementary studies of $T = 2$ ${}^{30}{Al}$ and the systematics of intruder states

T. A. Hinners, Vandana Tripathi, S. L. Tabor, A. Volya, P. C. Bender, C. R. Hoffman, Sangjin Lee, M. Perry, P. F. Mantica, A. D. Davies, S. N. Liddick, W. F. Mueller, A. Stolz, and B. E. Tomlin

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034305 (2008) - Published 13 March, 2008

Internal conversion coefficients in ${}^{134}{Cs}$ , ${}^{137}{Ba}$ , and ${}^{139}{La}$ : A precise test of theory

N. Nica, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, C. Balonek, and M. B. Trzhaskovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034306 (2008) - Published 14 March, 2008

Nuclear ground-state spins and magnetic moments of ${}^{27}{Mg}$ , ${}^{29}{Mg}$ , and ${}^{31}{Mg}$

M. Kowalska, D. T. Yordanov, K. Blaum, P. Himpe, P. Lievens, S. Mallion, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, and N. Vermeulen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034307 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Neutron core excitations in the $N = 126$ nuclide ${}^{210}{Po}$

G. D. Dracoulis, G. J. Lane, A. P. Byrne, P. M. Davidson, T. Kibédi, P. Nieminen, K. H. Maier, H. Watanabe, and A. N. Wilson

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034308 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Measurement of the ${}^{237}{Np}$ ( $n, γ$ ) cross section from 20 meV to 500 keV with a high efficiency, highly segmented $4 π$ BaF $_{2}$ detector

E.-I. Esch, R. Reifarth, E. M. Bond, T. A. Bredeweg, A. Couture, S. E. Glover, U. Greife, R. C. Haight, A. M. Hatarik, R. Hatarik, M. Jandel, T. Kawano, A. Mertz, J. M. O'Donnell, R. S. Rundberg, J. M. Schwantes, J. L. Ullmann, D. J. Vieira, J. B. Wilhelmy, and J. M. Wouters

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034309 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Excited intruder states in ${}^{32}{Mg}$

Vandana Tripathi, S. L. Tabor, P. Bender, C. R. Hoffman, Sangjin Lee, K. Pepper, M. Perry, P. F. Mantica, J. M. Cook, J. Pereira, J. S. Pinter, J. B. Stoker, D. Weisshaar, Y. Utsuno, and T. Otsuka

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034310 (2008) - Published 24 March, 2008

High-spin, multiparticle isomers in ${}^{121, 123}{Sb}$

G. A. Jones, S. J. Williams, P. M. Walker, Zs. Podolyák, S. Zhu, M. P. Carpenter, J. J. Carroll, R. S. Chakrawarthy, P. Chowdhury, I. J. Cullen, G. D. Dracoulis, A. B. Garnsworthy, G. Hackman, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, G. J. Lane, Z. Liu, D. Seweryniak, and N. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034311 (2008) - Published 25 March, 2008

Core nucleus polarization in Λ hypernuclei

Q. N. Usmani, A. R. Bodmer, and Z. Sauli

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034312 (2008) - Published 28 March, 2008

Triaxial projected shell model study of γ-vibrational bands in even-even Er isotopes

J. A. Sheikh, G. H. Bhat, Y. Sun, G. B. Vakil, and R. Palit

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034313 (2008) - Published 28 March, 2008

Description of $π g_{9 / 2} \otimes ν h_{11 / 2}$ doublet bands in ${}^{106}{Rh}$

S. Y. Wang (王守宇), S. Q. Zhang (张双全), B. Qi (亓斌), J. Peng (彭婧), J. M. Yao (尧江明), and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034314 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Nuclear matter radii of neutron-deficient Kr isotopes

T. Yamaguchi et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034315 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Consistent nucleon-nucleon potentials and three-body forces

Z. H. Li (李增花), U. Lombardo, H.-J. Schulze, and W. Zuo (左维)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034316 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Relativistic random-phase approximation in axial symmetry

Daniel Pena Arteaga and P. Ring

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034317 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Monopole and quadrupole interactions in binding energies of $sd$ -shell nuclei

A. Umeya, S. Nagai, G. Kaneko, and K. Muto

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034318 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Nuclear Reactions

Double folding cluster potential for ${}^{12}C + {}^{12}C$ elastic scattering

M. A. Hassanain, Awad A. Ibraheem, and M. El-Azab Farid

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034601 (2008) - Published 7 March, 2008

Color transparency and short-range correlations in exclusive pion photo- and electroproduction from nuclei

W. Cosyn, M. C. Martínez, and J. Ryckebusch

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034602 (2008) - Published 7 March, 2008

Synthesis of rutherfordium isotopes in the ${}^{238}U$ ( ${}^{26}{Mg}$ , $xn)^{264 − x} Rf$ reaction and study of their decay properties

J. M. Gates, M. A. Garcia, K. E. Gregorich, Ch. E. Düllmann, I. Dragojević, J. Dvorak, R. Eichler, C. M. Folden, III, W. Loveland, S. L. Nelson, G. K. Pang, L. Stavsetra, R. Sudowe, A. Türler, and H. Nitsche

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034603 (2008) - Published 7 March, 2008

Coupled-channels analyses for large-angle quasi-elastic scattering in massive systems

Muhammad Zamrun F., K. Hagino, S. Mitsuoka, and H. Ikezoe

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034604 (2008) - Published 12 March, 2008

Fragmentation cross sections of medium-energy ${}^{35}{Cl}$ , ${}^{40}{Ar}$ , and ${}^{48}{Ti}$ beams on elemental targets

C. Zeitlin, S. Guetersloh, L. Heilbronn, J. Miller, A. Fukumura, Y. Iwata, T. Murakami, L. Sihver, and D. Mancusi

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034605 (2008) - Published 14 March, 2008

Spin effects in quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus reactions

Andrea Meucci, Carlotta Giusti, and Franco Davide Pacati

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034606 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Reaction cross sections of carbon isotopes incident on a proton

B. Abu-Ibrahim, W. Horiuchi, A. Kohama, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034607 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Role of bulk energy in nuclear multifragmentation

N. Buyukcizmeci, A. S. Botvina, I. N. Mishustin, and R. Ogul

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034608 (2008) - Published 25 March, 2008

Local approximations for polarization potentials

W. H. Z. Cárdenas, M. S. Hussein, L. F. Canto, and J. Lubian

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034609 (2008) - Published 26 March, 2008

Entrance channel dependence of quasifission in reactions forming ${}^{220}{Th}$

R. G. Thomas, D. J. Hinde, D. Duniec, F. Zenke, M. Dasgupta, M. L. Brown, M. Evers, L. R. Gasques, M. D. Rodriguez, and A. Diaz-Torres

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034610 (2008) - Published 26 March, 2008

Problems with the interpretation of the ${}^{10}{He}$ ground state

L. V. Grigorenko and M. V. Zhukov

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034611 (2008) - Published 27 March, 2008

Superscaling and charge-changing neutrino scattering from nuclei in the Δ region beyond the relativistic Fermi gas model

M. V. Ivanov, M. B. Barbaro, J. A. Caballero, A. N. Antonov, E. Moya de Guerra, and M. K. Gaidarov

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034612 (2008) - Published 28 March, 2008

Level densities of ${}^{44}{Sc}$ and ${}^{47}{Ti}$ from different experimental techniques

A. V. Voinov, S. M. Grimes, A. C. Larsen, C. R. Brune, M. Guttormsen, T. Massey, A. Schiller, S. Siem, and N. U. H. Syed

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034613 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

(3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic expansion with a critical point from realistic initial conditions

J. Steinheimer, M. Bleicher, H. Petersen, S. Schramm, H. Stöcker, and D. Zschiesche

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034901 (2008) - Published 12 March, 2008

Elastic parton scattering and nonstatistical event-by-event mean- $p_{t}$ fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130$ and 200 GeV

Qing-Jun Liu and Wei-Qin Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034902 (2008) - Published 13 March, 2008

Bulk-viscosity-driven clusterization of quark-gluon plasma and early freeze-out in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Giorgio Torrieri, Boris Tomášik, and Igor Mishustin

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034903 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Effects of nonuniform acceptance in anisotropic flow measurements

Ilya Selyuzhenkov and Sergei Voloshin

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034904 (2008) - Published 24 March, 2008

Simulating elliptic flow with viscous hydrodynamics

K. Dusling and D. Teaney

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034905 (2008) - Published 27 March, 2008

High transverse momentum hadron spectra at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 17.3$ GeV in $Pb + Pb$ and $p + p$ collisions

C. Alt et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034906 (2008) - Published 28 March, 2008

Thermalization of color gauge fields in high energy heavy ion collisions

Aiichi Iwazaki

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034907 (2008) - Published 28 March, 2008

“Wounded” quarks and diquarks in high energy collisions

A. Bialas and A. Bzdak

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034908 (2008) - Published 28 March, 2008

Multiplicity fluctuations in limited segments of momentum space in statistical models

Michael Hauer

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034909 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

$ρ^{0}$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034910 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Viscous evolution of the rapidity distribution of matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Piotr Bożek

Phys. Rev. C 77, 034911 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Skyrme forces versus relativistic models: Reexamining instabilities

M. Dutra, O. Lourenço, A. Delfino, J. S. Sá Martins, C. Providência, S. S. Avancini, and D. P. Menezes

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035201 (2008) - Published 14 March, 2008

Forward virtual Compton scattering and the Lamb shift in chiral perturbation theory

David Nevado and Antonio Pineda

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035202 (2008) - Published 14 March, 2008

Fixed-axis polarization states: covariance and comparisons

Franz Gross, G. Ramalho, and M. T. Peña

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035203 (2008) - Published 26 March, 2008

Effective $\bar{K} N$ interaction based on chiral SU(3) dynamics

Tetsuo Hyodo and Wolfram Weise

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035204 (2008) - Published 27 March, 2008

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Measurement of the parity-violating triton emission asymmetry in the reaction ${}^{6}{Li}$ $(n, α)$ ${}^{3}H$ with polarized cold neutrons

V. A. Vesna, Yu. M. Gledenov, V. V. Nesvizhevsky, A. K. Petoukhov, P. V. Sedyshev, T. Soldner, O. Zimmer, and E. V. Shulgina

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035501 (2008) - Published 3 March, 2008

Measurement of the $β − ν$ correlation of ${}^{21}{Na}$ using shakeoff electrons

P. A. Vetter, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, S. J. Freedman, and R. Maruyama

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035502 (2008) - Published 26 March, 2008

Nuclear Astrophysics

Thermonuclear rate for the ${}^{19}F$ ( $α, p$ ) ${}^{22}{Ne}$ reaction at stellar temperatures

C. Ugalde, R. E. Azuma, A. Couture, J. Görres, H. Y. Lee, E. Stech, E. Strandberg, W. Tan, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035801 (2008) - Published 10 March, 2008

Neutron capture cross section of ${}^{90}{Zr}$ : Bottleneck in the $s$ -process reaction flow

G. Tagliente et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035802 (2008) - Published 11 March, 2008

Lifetimes of states in ${}^{19}{Ne}$ above the ${}^{15}O$ $+ α$ breakup threshold

S. Mythili, B. Davids, T. K. Alexander, G. C. Ball, M. Chicoine, R. S. Chakrawarthy, R. Churchman, J. S. Forster, S. Gujrathi, G. Hackman, D. Howell, R. Kanungo, J. R. Leslie, E. Padilla, C. J. Pearson, C. Ruiz, G. Ruprecht, M. A. Schumaker, I. Tanihata, C. Vockenhuber, P. Walden, and S. Yen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 035803 (2008) - Published 11 March, 2008

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ERRATA

Erratum: Quadrupolar contact terms and hyperfine structure [Phys. Rev. C 74, 024001 (2006)]

G. Karl and V. A. Novikov

Phys. Rev. C 77, 039901 (2008) - Published 7 March, 2008

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