Volume 77, Issue 5

E. R. Tardiff, J. A. Behr, T. E. Chupp, K. Gulyuz, R. S. Lefferts, W. Lorenzon, S. R. Nuss-Warren, M. R. Pearson, N. Pietralla, G. Rainovski, J. F. Sell, and G. D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. C 77, 052501(R) (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Bridging $p$ -wave π production and weak processes in few-nucleon systems with chiral perturbation theory

Satoshi X. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054001 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

MILESTONE

Measurement of the neutron-neutron scattering length using the $π^{-} d$ capture reaction

Q. Chen, C. R. Howell, T. S. Carman, W. R. Gibbs, B. F. Gibson, A. Hussein, M. R. Kiser, G. Mertens, C. F. Moore, C. Morris, A. Obst, E. Pasyuk, C. D. Roper, F. Salinas, H. R. Setze, I. Slaus, S. Sterbenz, W. Tornow, R. L. Walter, C. R. Whiteley, and M. Whitton

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054002 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

$π B_{8} B_{8}$ and $σ B_{8} B_{8}$ couplings from a chiral quark potential model

M. T. Fernández-Caramés, P. González, and A. Valcarce

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054003 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Nuclear Structure

New efficient method for performing Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations for weakly bound nuclei

M. Stoitsov, N. Michel, and K. Matsuyanagi

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054301 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Two-quasiparticle states in ${}^{250}{Bk}$ studied by decay scheme and transfer reaction spectroscopy

I. Ahmad, F. G. Kondev, Z. M. Koenig, Wm. C. McHarris, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054302 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Excited states in the neutron-deficient nuclei ${}^{197, 199, 201}{Rn}$

K. Andgren et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054303 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Enhanced mixing of intrinsic states in deformed Hf nuclei

E. A. McCutchan et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054304 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Nuclear structure of ${}^{18}N$ and the neighboring $N = 11$ isotones

M. Wiedeking, P. Fallon, A. O. Macchiavelli, L. A. Bernstein, J. Gibelin, L. Phair, J. T. Harke, D. L. Bleuel, R. M. Clark, M-A. Deleplanque, S. Gros, R. Hatarik, H. B. Jeppesen, I-Y. Lee, B. F. Lyles, M. A. McMahan, L. G. Moretto, J. Pavan, E. Rodriguez-Vieitez, and A. Volya

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054305 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

In-beam γ-ray spectroscopy and inclusive two-proton knockout cross section measurements at $N \approx 40$

P. Adrich, A. M. Amthor, D. Bazin, M. D. Bowen, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, A. Gade, D. Galaviz, T. Glasmacher, S. McDaniel, D. Miller, A. Obertelli, Y. Shimbara, K. P. Siwek, J. A. Tostevin, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054306 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Relation between $E (5)$ models and the interacting boson model

José Enrique García-Ramos and José M. Arias

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054307 (2008) - Published 9 May, 2008

Pairing correlations and effective mass

Satoshi Yoshida and Hiroyuki Sagawa

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054308 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Effective pairing interactions with isospin density dependence

J. Margueron, H. Sagawa, and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054309 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Temperature-dependent particle-number projected moment of inertia

N. H. Allal, M. Fellah, N. Benhamouda, and M. R. Oudih

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054310 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Neutron decay width of one-particle resonant levels in deformed nuclei

Ikuko Hamamoto

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054311 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Lowest eigenvalues of random Hamiltonians

J. J. Shen, Y. M. Zhao, A. Arima, and N. Yoshinaga

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054312 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Three-body structure of low-lying ${}^{12}{Be}$ states

C. Romero-Redondo, E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054313 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Quark mean field approach with derivative coupling for nuclear matter

M. Kawabata, S. Akiyama, Y. Futami, T. Nakasone, and T. Yukino

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054314 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

γ-ray spectroscopy of $_{Λ}^{16}$ O and $_{Λ}^{15}$ N hypernuclei via the ${}^{16}O$ ( $K^{-}, π^{-} γ$ ) reaction

M. Ukai et al. (E930('01) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054315 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Mean-field study of single-particle spectra evolution in $Z = 14$ and $N = 28$ chains

Dimitar Tarpanov, Haozhao Liang, Nguyen Van Giai, and Chavdar Stoyanov

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054316 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Strong dineutron correlation in ${}^{8}{He}$ and ${}^{18}C$

K. Hagino, N. Takahashi, and H. Sagawa

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054317 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

α particle preformation in heavy nuclei and penetration probability

H. F. Zhang and G. Royer

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054318 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Two-step γ cascades following thermal neutron capture in ${}^{95}{Mo}$

M. Krtička, F. Bečvář, I. Tomandl, G. Rusev, U. Agvaanluvsan, and G. E. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054319 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Classes of $β − γ$ mixing and $E 0$ transitions in deformed nuclei

E. A. McCutchan and R. F. Casten

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054320 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Determination of nuclear symmetry energy in the Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis approach

Tran Huu Phat, Nguyen Tuan Anh, and Nguyen Van Long

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054321 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Nuclear Reactions

Transmission through multi-humped fission barriers with absorption: A recursive approach

M. Sin and R. Capote

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054601 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Neutron transfer coupling effects on near-barrier elastic scattering and total fusion of ${}^{6}{He}$

N. Keeley and N. Alamanos

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054602 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Pickup coupling effects in deuteron scattering: The case of $d$ + ${}^{40}{Ca}$

N. Keeley and R. S. Mackintosh

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054603 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Effect of strangeness for neutrino (antineutrino) scattering in the quasi-elastic region

K. S. Kim, Myung-Ki Cheoun, and Byung Geel Yu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054604 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

New calculation method for initial exciton numbers on nucleon induced pre-equilibrium reactions

E. Tel, A. Aydin, A. Kaplan, and B. Şarer

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054605 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Simultaneous optical model analysis of elastic scattering, fusion, and breakup for the ${}^{9}{Be} + {}^{144}{Sm}$ system at near-barrier energies

A. Gómez Camacho, P. R. S. Gomes, J. Lubian, and I. Padrón

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054606 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Cross section measurements of the ${}^{10}B$ $(d, n_{0})$ ${}^{11}C$ reaction below 160 keV

S. Stave, M. W. Ahmed, A. J. Antolak, M. A. Blackston, A. S. Crowell, B. L. Doyle, S. S. Henshaw, C. R. Howell, P. Kingsberry, B. A. Perdue, P. Rossi, R. M. Prior, M. C. Spraker, and H. R. Weller

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054607 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Coupled-channels calculations of ${}^{16}O + {}^{16}O$ fusion

H. Esbensen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054608 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Exit doorway model for nuclear elastic breakup of weakly bound projectiles

M. S. Hussein and R. Lichtenthäler

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054609 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Measurement of the ${}^{241}{Am}$ ( $n, 2 n$ ) reaction cross section from 7.6 MeV to 14.5 MeV

A. P. Tonchev et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054610 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Complete set of polarization transfer coefficients for the $^{3} He (p, n)$ reaction at 346 MeV and 0 degrees

T. Wakasa, E. Ihara, M. Dozono, K. Hatanaka, T. Imamura, M. Kato, S. Kuroita, H. Matsubara, T. Noro, H. Okamura, K. Sagara, Y. Sakemi, K. Sekiguchi, K. Suda, T. Sueta, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, H. Tanabe, and Y. Yamada

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054611 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Nuclear, chemical and mechanical instability and the liquid-gas phase transition in nuclei

S. J. Lee and A. Z. Mekjian

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054612 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Decay of ${}^{246}{Bk}$ $^{*}$ formed in similar entrance channel reactions of ${}^{11}B + {}^{235}U$ and ${}^{14}N + {}^{232}{Th}$ at low energies using the dynamical cluster-decay model

BirBikram Singh, Manoj K. Sharma, and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054613 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Neutron inelastic scattering processes as a background for double-β decay experiments

D.-M. Mei, S. R. Elliott, A. Hime, V. Gehman, and K. Kazkaz

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054614 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Thermal neutron capture cross sections of the palladium isotopes

M. Krtička, R. B. Firestone, D. P. McNabb, B. Sleaford, U. Agvaanluvsan, T. Belgya, and Z. S. Revay

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054615 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV Au+Au collisions

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

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054901 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Probing nuclear matter with jet conversions

W. Liu and R. J. Fries

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054902 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Higher twist jet broadening and classical propagation

A. Majumder and B. Müller

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054903 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Covariant transport theory approach to elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collision

Clément Gombeaud and Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Phys. Rev. C 77, 054904 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Tensor meson production in proton-proton collisions from the color glass condensate

François Fillion-Gourdeau and Sangyong Jeon

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055201 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

$K^{-} pp$ bound states from Skyrmions

Tetsuo Nishikawa and Yoshihiko Kondo

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055202 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Faddeev calculation of the pentaquark $Θ^{+}$ in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model-based diquark picture

H. Mineo, J. A. Tjon, K. Tsushima, and Shin Nan Yang

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055203 (2008) - Published 7 May, 2008

Consistent thermodynamic treatment for a quark-mass density-dependent model

Shaoyu Yin and Ru-Keng Su

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055204 (2008) - Published 12 May, 2008

Radiative corrections to the deeply virtual Compton scattering electron tensor

V. V. Bytev, E. A. Kuraev, and E. Tomasi-Gustafsson

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055205 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Hadron loops: General theorems and application to charmonium

T. Barnes and E. S. Swanson

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055206 (2008) - Published 14 May, 2008

Large-angle production of charged pions with 3–12.9 GeV/ $c$ incident protons on nuclear targets

M. G. Catanesi et al. (HARP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055207 (2008) - Published 15 May, 2008

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Untangling supernova-neutrino oscillations with β-beam data

N. Jachowicz, G. C. McLaughlin, and C. Volpe

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055501 (2008) - Published 8 May, 2008

Exact relativistic tritium β-decay endpoint spectrum in a hadron model

Fedor Šimkovic, Rastislav Dvornický, and Amand Faessler

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055502 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Nuclear Astrophysics

${}^{24}{Mg}$ ( $α, γ$ ) ${}^{28}{Si}$ resonance parameters at low α-particle energies

E. Strandberg, M. Beard, M. Couder, A. Couture, S. Falahat, J. Görres, P. J. LeBlanc, H. Y. Lee, S. O'Brien, A. Palumbo, E. Stech, W. P. Tan, C. Ugalde, M. Wiescher, H. Costantini, K. Scheller, M. Pignatari, R. Azuma, and L. Buchmann

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055801 (2008) - Published 5 May, 2008

Neutrino energy loss rates and positron capture rates on ${}^{55}{Co}$ for presupernova and supernova physics

Jameel-Un Nabi and Muhammad Sajjad

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055802 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Lifetime measurement of the 6792 keV state in ${}^{15}O$ , important for the astrophysical $S$ factor extrapolation in ${}^{14}N$ ( $p, γ$ ) ${}^{15}O$

D. Schürmann, R. Kunz, I. Lingner, C. Rolfs, F. Schümann, F. Strieder, and H.-P. Trautvetter

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055803 (2008) - Published 13 May, 2008

Appearance of light clusters in post-bounce evolution of core-collapse supernovae

Kohsuke Sumiyoshi and Gerd Röpke

Phys. Rev. C 77, 055804 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008