Volume 77, Issue 4

M. G. Pellegriti, F. Hammache, P. Roussel, L. Audouin, D. Beaumel, P. Descouvemont, S. Fortier, L. Gaudefroy, J. Kiener, A. Lefebvre-Schuhl, M. Stanoiu, V. Tatischeff, and M. Vilmay

Phys. Rev. C 77, 042801(R) (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

First in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy study of ${}^{24}{Al}$ and its implications for the astrophysical ${}^{23}{Mg}$ ( $p, γ$ ) ${}^{24}{Al}$ reaction rate in ONe novae

G. Lotay, P. J. Woods, D. Seweryniak, M. P. Carpenter, N. Hoteling, R. V. F. Janssens, D. G. Jenkins, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, A. Robinson, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 042802(R) (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Meson exchange currents in neutron-proton bremsstrahlung

Yi Li, M. K. Liou, W. M. Schreiber, B. F. Gibson, and R. G. E. Timmermans

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044001 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

${}^{4}{He}$ experiments can serve as a database for determining the three-nucleon force

H. M. Hofmann and G. M. Hale

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044002 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Phase variation of hadronic amplitudes

J.-P. Dedonder, W. R. Gibbs, and Mutazz Nuseirat

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044003 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Differential cross section and analyzing power of the $\vec{p} p \to pp π^{0}$ reaction at a beam energy of 390 MeV

Y. Maeda, M. Segawa, T. Ishida, A. Kacharava, M. Nomachi, Y. Shimbara, Y. Sugaya, K. Tamura, T. Yagita, K. Yasuda, H. P. Yoshida, and C. Wilkin

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044004 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Near-threshold deuteron photodisintegration: An indirect determination of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule and forward spin polarizability ( $γ_{0}$ ) for the deuteron at low energies

M. W. Ahmed, M. A. Blackston, B. A. Perdue, W. Tornow, H. R. Weller, B. Norum, B. Sawatzky, R. M. Prior, and M. C. Spraker

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044005 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Renormalization of chiral two-pion exchange $NN$ interactions: Momentum space versus coordinate space

D. R. Entem, E. Ruiz Arriola, M. Pavón Valderrama, and R. Machleidt

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044006 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Transverse electron scattering response function of ${}^{3}{He}$

Sara Della Monaca, Victor D. Efros, Avas Khugaev, Winfried Leidemann, Giuseppina Orlandini, Edward L. Tomusiak, and Luping P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044007 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Nuclear Structure

Enhancement of neutron quadrupole motion beyond $N = 8$

A. Umeya, G. Kaneko, T. Haneda, and K. Muto

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044301 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Analytical solutions of the Bohr Hamiltonian with the Morse potential

I. Boztosun, D. Bonatsos, and I. Inci

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044302 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

In-beam γ-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich nitrogen isotopes ${}^{19 - 22}N$

D. Sohler et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044303 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

${}^{13}N$ $+ p$ elastic resonance scattering via a thick-target method

Y. B. Wang, B. X. Wang, X. Qin, X. X. Bai, B. Guo, C. Jiang, Y. J. Li, Z. H. Li, G. Lian, J. Su, S. Zeng, and W. P. Liu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044304 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Nonlinear classical model for the decay widths of isoscalar giant monopole resonances

P. K. Papachristou, E. Mavrommatis, V. Constantoudis, F. K. Diakonos, and J. Wambach

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044305 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Reduction of spectroscopic strength: Weakly-bound and strongly-bound single-particle states studied using one-nucleon knockout reactions

A. Gade, P. Adrich, D. Bazin, M. D. Bowen, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, T. Glasmacher, P. G. Hansen, K. Hosier, S. McDaniel, D. McGlinchery, A. Obertelli, K. Siwek, L. A. Riley, J. A. Tostevin, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044306 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

γ-vibrational states in superheavy nuclei

Yang Sun, Gui-Lu Long, Falih Al-Khudair, and Javid A. Sheikh

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044307 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Fission barriers in the neutron-proton isospin plane for heavy neutron-rich nuclei

F. Minato and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044308 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Two-quasiparticle isomer, $E 1$ hindrances and residual interactions in ${}^{172}{Tm}$

R. O. Hughes, G. J. Lane, G. D. Dracoulis, T. Kibédi, P. Nieminen, and H. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044309 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Fine structure of proton-neutron mixed symmetry states in some $N = 80$ isotones

N. Lo Iudice, Ch. Stoyanov, and D. Tarpanov

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044310 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Construction of spectral functions for medium-mass nuclei

Artur M. Ankowski and Jan T. Sobczyk

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044311 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Low-frequency $K^{π} = 0^{+}$ modes in deformed neutron-rich nuclei: Pairing- and β-vibrational modes of neutrons

Kenichi Yoshida and Masayuki Yamagami

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044312 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Role of deformation on giant resonances within the quasiparticle random-phase approximation and the Gogny force

S. Péru and H. Goutte

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044313 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Rotation-aligned coupling in ${}^{61}{Fe}$

N. Hoteling, W. B. Walters, R. V. F. Janssens, R. Broda, M. P. Carpenter, B. Fornal, A. A. Hecht, M. Hjorth-Jensen, W. Królas, T. Lauritsen, T. Pawłat, D. Seweryniak, J. R. Stone, X. Wang, A. Wöhr, J. Wrzesiński, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044314 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Survey of ${}^{17}O$ excited states selectively populated by five-particle transfer reactions

A. M. Crisp, B. T. Roeder, O. A. Momotyuk, N. Keeley, K. W. Kemper, F. Maréchal, K. Rusek, W. Weintraub, and M. Wiedeking

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044315 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Nuclear Reactions

200 and 300 MeV/nucleon nuclear reactions responsible for single-event effects in microelectronics

H. Jäderström, Yu. Murin, Yu. Babain, M. Chubarov, V. Pljuschev, M. Zubkov, P. Nomokonov, N. Olsson, J. Blomgren, U. Tippawan, L. Westerberg, P. Golubev, B. Jakobsson, L. Gerén, P.-E. Tegnér, I. Zartova, A. Budzanowski, B. Czech, I. Skwirczynska, V. Kondratiev, H. H. K. Tang, J. Aichelin, Y. Watanabe, and K. K. Gudima

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044601 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Electric-dipole-forbidden nuclear transitions driven by super-intense laser fields

Adriana Pálffy, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044602 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Search for long lived heaviest nuclei beyond the valley of stability

P. Roy Chowdhury, C. Samanta, and D. N. Basu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044603 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Wolfenstein parameters for $s_{1 / 2}$ proton knockout ( $p, 2 p$ ) reactions

T. Noro, M. Kawabata, G. C. Hillhouse, S. Akimune, H. Akiyoshi, I. Daito, K. Hatanaka, M. Itoh, Y. Maeda, N. Matsuoka, S. Morinobu, M. Nakamura, A. Okihana, H. Sagara, H. Sakaguchi, K. Takahisa, H. Takeda, A. Tamii, K. Tamura, H. Toyokawa, H. Yamazaki, H. P. Yoshida, and M. Yosoi

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044604 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Role of the axial vector $a_{1}$ -meson exchange in hypernuclear nonmesonic weak decays

K. Itonaga, T. Motoba, T. Ueda, and Th. A. Rijken

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044605 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Analyzing power in elastic scattering of electrons off a spin-0 target

M. Gorchtein and C. J. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044606 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Neck influence on fission paths

R. A. Gherghescu, D. N. Poenaru, and N. Carjan

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044607 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Measurement of the thermal neutron capture cross section and the resonance integral of radioactive ${}^{182}{Hf}$

C. Vockenhuber, M. Bichler, A. Wallner, W. Kutschera, I. Dillmann, and F. Käppeler

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044608 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Dynamical quark recombination in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions and the proton-to-pion ratio

Alejandro Ayala, Mauricio Martínez, Guy Paić, and G. Toledo Sánchez

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044901 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Global quark polarization in noncentral $A + A$ collisions

Jian-Hua Gao, Shou-Wan Chen, Wei-tian Deng, Zuo-Tang Liang, Qun Wang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044902 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Nonextensive hydrodynamics for relativistic heavy-ion collisions

T. Osada and G. Wilk

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044903 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Collisional parton energy loss in a finite size QCD medium reexamined: Off-mass-shell effects

Alejandro Ayala, J. Magnin, Luis Manuel Montaño, and Eduardo Rojas

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044904 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Expectations for dihadron correlation measurements extrapolated to $5.5 A$ TeV

Thorsten Renk and Kari J. Eskola

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044905 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Thermalization component model of multiplicity distributions of charged hadrons measured at BNL ( $E_{NN}^{lab} = 2 − 11.6$ GeV), at CERN ( $E_{NN}^{lab} = 20 − 200$ GeV), and at BNL ( $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 19.6 − 200$ GeV)

Shengqin Feng and Wei Xiong

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044906 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Dynamical freeze-out condition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

K. J. Eskola, H. Niemi, and P. V. Ruuskanen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044907 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to $p + p$ at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV

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

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044908 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Mass ordering of differential elliptic flow and its violation for ϕ mesons

Tetsufumi Hirano, Ulrich Heinz, Dmitri Kharzeev, Roy Lacey, and Yasushi Nara

Phys. Rev. C 77, 044909 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Effects of the Dirac sea on pion propagation in asymmetric nuclear matter

Subhrajyoti Biswas and Abhee K. Dutt-Mazumder

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045201 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

$Σ Σ$ interactions in finite-density QCD sum rules

P. Li, X. H. Zhong, L. Li, and P. Z. Ning

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045202 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Search for the $Θ^{+}$ via the $K^{+} p \to π^{+} X$ reaction with a 1.2 GeV/ $c$ $K^{+}$ beam

K. Miwa et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045203 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Nucleon and Δ resonances in $K Σ (1385)$ photoproduction from nucleons

Yongseok Oh, Che Ming Ko, and K. Nakayama

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045204 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Dynamical coupled-channels effects on pion photoproduction

B. Juliá-Díaz, T.-S. H. Lee, A. Matsuyama, T. Sato, and L. C. Smith

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045205 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Multi- $\bar{K}$ nuclei and kaon condensation

D. Gazda, E. Friedman, A. Gal, and J. Mareš

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045206 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Sea-quark effects in the pion charge form factor

Q. B. Li and D. O. Riska

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045207 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Precise half-life measurement of the superallowed $β^{+}$ emitter ${}^{10}C$

V. E. Iacob, J. C. Hardy, V. Golovko, J. Goodwin, N. Nica, H. I. Park, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045501 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Asymmetry of recoil protons in neutron β decay

V. Gudkov

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045502 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Anatomy of the $0 ν β β$ nuclear matrix elements

Fedor Šimkovic, Amand Faessler, Vadim Rodin, Petr Vogel, and Jonathan Engel

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045503 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Nuclear Astrophysics

Attributes of a rotating neutron star with a hyperon core

T. K. Jha, H. Mishra, and V. Sreekanth

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045801 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

New reaction rate for ${}^{16}O$ ( $p, γ$ ) ${}^{17}F$ and its influence on the oxygen isotopic ratios in massive AGB stars

C. Iliadis, C. Angulo, P. Descouvemont, M. Lugaro, and P. Mohr

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045802 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Abundances for $p$ -process nucleosynthesis

John R. De Laeter

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045803 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Quark-meson coupling model for antikaon condensation in neutron star matter with strong magnetic fields

P. Yue and H. Shen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045804 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Dynamical instabilities in density-dependent hadronic relativistic models

A. M. Santos, L. Brito, and C. Providência

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045805 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Testing primordial abundances with sterile neutrinos

O. Civitarese and M. E. Mosquera

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045806 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Fusion of neutron-rich oxygen isotopes in the crust of accreting neutron stars

C. J. Horowitz, H. Dussan, and D. K. Berry

Phys. Rev. C 77, 045807 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Core excitation in the elastic scattering and breakup of ${}^{11}{Be}$ on protons [Phys. Rev. C 76, 014611 (2007)]

N. C. Summers and F. M. Nunes

Phys. Rev. C 77, 049901 (2008) - Published 7 April, 2008

Erratum: Isospin dependence of incompressibility in relativistic and nonrelativistic mean field calculations [Phys. Rev. C 76, 034327 (2007)]

Hiroyuki Sagawa, Satoshi Yoshida, Guo-Mo Zeng, Jian-Zhong Gu, and Xi-Zhen Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 77, 049902 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Erratum: Pion production by protons on a thin beryllium target at 6.4, 12.3, and 17.5 GeV/ $c$ incident proton momenta [Phys. Rev. C 77, 015209 (2008)]

I. Chemakin et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 049903 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Publisher's Note: Negative-parity states and β decays in odd Ho and Dy nuclei with $A = 151, 153$ [Phys. Rev. C 77, 034303 (2008)]

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

Phys. Rev. C 77, 049904 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008