Volume 77, Issue 6

June 2008

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Search for intrinsic collective excitations in ${}^{152}{Sm}$

W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, P. E. Garrett, C. Y. Wu, D. Cline, J. M. Allmond, D. Bandyopadhyay, D. Dashdorj, S. N. Choudry, A. B. Hayes, H. Hua, M. G. Mynk, M. T. McEllistrem, C. J. McKay, J. N. Orce, R. Teng, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061301(R) (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin dependence of critical point behavior for first and second order phase transitions in nuclei

E. Williams, R. J. Casperson, and V. Werner

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061302(R) (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Proton-proton correlations observed in two-proton decay of ${}^{19}{Mg}$ and ${}^{16}{Ne}$

I. Mukha et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061303(R) (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Giant dipole resonance as a quantitative constraint on the symmetry energy

Luca Trippa, Gianluca Colò, and Enrico Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061304(R) (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nonaxial-octupole effect in superheavy nuclei

Y.-S. Chen, Yang Sun, and Zao-Chun Gao

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061305(R) (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Identified charged antiparticle to particle ratios near midrapidity in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 62.4$ and 200 GeV

B. Alver et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061901(R) (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin alignment measurements of the $K^{* 0} (892)$ and $ϕ (1020)$ vector mesons in heavy ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV

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

Phys. Rev. C 77, 061902(R) (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Pion-less effective field theory on low-energy deuteron electrodisintegration

Stefan Christlmeier and Harald W. Grießhammer

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064001 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interaction from different approaches

B. Desplanques, C. H. Hyun, S. Ando, and C.-P. Liu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064002 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Unitary correlation operator method and similarity renormalization group: Connections and differences

R. Roth, S. Reinhardt, and H. Hergert

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064003 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Subleading contributions to the chiral three-nucleon force: Long-range terms

V. Bernard, E. Epelbaum, H. Krebs, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064004 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Three-nucleon bound state in a spin-isospin dependent three dimensional approach

S. Bayegan, M. R. Hadizadeh, and M. Harzchi

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064005 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Nuclear Structure

Determination of the $2_{1}^{+} \to 0_{1}^{+}$ transition strengths in ${}^{58}{Ni}$ and ${}^{60}{Ni}$

J. N. Orce, B. Crider, S. Mukhopadhyay, E. Peters, E. Elhami, M. Scheck, B. Singh, M. T. McEllistrem, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064301 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Relativistic eikonal approaches to parity violating electron-nucleus scattering

Tiekuang Dong (董铁矿), Zhongzhou Ren (任中洲), and Zaijun Wang (王再军)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064302 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Studies on the double-β decay nucleus ${}^{64}{Zn}$ using the ( $d$ , ${}^{2}{He}$ ) reaction

E.-W. Grewe, C. Bäumer, H. Dohmann, D. Frekers, M. N. Harakeh, S. Hollstein, H. Johansson, K. Langanke, G. Martínez-Pinedo, F. Nowacki, I. Petermann, L. Popescu, S. Rakers, D. Savran, K. Sieja, H. Simon, J. H. Thies, A. M. van den Berg, H. J. Wörtche, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064303 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Structure of upper- $g_{9 / 2}$ -shell nuclei and shape effect in the ${}^{94}{Ag}$ isomeric states

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

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064304 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Momentum distributions of α particles from decaying low-lying ${}^{12}C$ resonances

R. Álvarez-Rodríguez, A. S. Jensen, E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, and H. O. U. Fynbo

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064305 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Continued fraction approximation for the nuclear matter response function

J. Margueron, J. Navarro, Nguyen Van Giai, and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064306 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Dependence of single-particle energies on coupling constants of the nuclear energy density functional

M. Kortelainen, J. Dobaczewski, K. Mizuyama, and J. Toivanen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064307 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Effective shell model Hamiltonians from density functional theory: Quadrupolar and pairing correlations

R. Rodríguez-Guzmán, Y. Alhassid, and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064308 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Structure of excited states in ${}^{21}{Mg}$ studied in one-neutron knockout

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

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064309 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Improved version of a binding energy formula for heavy and superheavy nuclei with $Z ⩾ 90$ and $N ⩾ 140$

Tiekuang Dong (董铁矿) and Zhongzhou Ren (任中洲)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064310 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Correlations between magnetic moments and $β$ decays of mirror nuclei

S. M. Perez, W. A. Richter, B. A. Brown, and M. Horoi

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064311 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

Density-induced suppression of the α-particle condensate in nuclear matter and the structure of α-cluster states in nuclei

Y. Funaki, H. Horiuchi, G. Röpke, P. Schuck, A. Tohsaki, and T. Yamada

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064312 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

New sub- $μ$ s isomers in $^{125, 127, 129} Sn$ and isomer systematics of $^{124 − 130} Sn$

R. L. Lozeva et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064313 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

First observation of $α$ -cluster states in the $^{14} O +^{4} He$ interaction

Changbo Fu, V. Z. Goldberg, G. V. Rogachev, G. Tabacaru, G. G. Chubarian, B. Skorodumov, M. McCleskey, Y. Zhai, T. Al-Abdullah, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064314 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Pairing within the self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase approximation at finite temperature

N. Dinh Dang and N. Quang Hung

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064315 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Prompt proton decay and deformed bands in ${}^{56}{Ni}$

E. K. Johansson, D. Rudolph, L.-L. Andersson, D. A. Torres, I. Ragnarsson, C. Andreoiu, C. Baktash, M. P. Carpenter, R. J. Charity, C. J. Chiara, J. Ekman, C. Fahlander, C. Hoel, O. L. Pechenaya, W. Reviol, R. du Rietz, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, L. G. Sobotka, C. H. Yu, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064316 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Bohr Hamiltonian for collective low-lying vibrational states of well deformed nuclei

R. V. Jolos and P. von Brentano

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064317 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Selection rules for electromagnetic transitions in triaxially deformed odd- $A$ nuclei

Kosai Tanabe and Kazuko Sugawara-Tanabe

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064318 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Pairing effects for rotational excitations unique to neutron-rich nuclei

M. Yamagami and Y. R. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064319 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

${}^{248}{Cm}$ ( ${}^{22}{Ne}$ , $xn$ ) ${}^{270 − x}{Sg}$ reaction and the decay properties of ${}^{265}{Sg}$ reexamined

Ch. E. Düllmann and A. Türler

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064320 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Low-energy tail of the giant dipole resonance in ${}^{98}{Mo}$ and ${}^{100}{Mo}$ deduced from photon-scattering experiments

G. Rusev, R. Schwengner, F. Dönau, M. Erhard, E. Grosse, A. R. Junghans, K. Kosev, K. D. Schilling, A. Wagner, F. Bečvář, and M. Krtička

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064321 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Shape transitions in neutron-rich Yb, Hf, W, Os, and Pt isotopes within a Skyrme Hartree-Fock + BCS approach

P. Sarriguren, R. Rodríguez-Guzmán, and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064322 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

High-spin states in ${}^{156}{Yb}$ and structure evolutions at large angular momenta in even- $A$ Yb isotopes

Z. Y. Li et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064323 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Configuration mixing in the neutron-deficient ${}^{186 - 196}{Pb}$ isotopes

V. Hellemans, S. De Baerdemacker, and K. Heyde

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064324 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Nuclear Reactions

Near threshold $(γ, π^{0})$ reactions for ${}^{4}{He}$ and ${}^{12}C$

M. G. Barnett, R. Igarashi, R. E. Pywell, and J. C. Bergstrom

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064601 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Transfer and neutron capture reactions to ${}^{194}{Ir}$ as a test of U $_{ν} (6 / 12) \otimes$ U $_{π} (6 / 4)$ supersymmetry

M. Balodis, H.-F. Wirth, G. Graw, R. Hertenberger, J. Bērziņš, N. Krāmere, J. Jolie, S. Christen, O. Möller, D. Tonev, J. Barea, R. Bijker, A. Frank, and T. von Egidy

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064602 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Properties of the composite systems formed in the reactions of ${}^{238}U + {}^{238}U$ and ${}^{232}{Th} + {}^{250}{Cf}$

Junlong Tian, Xizhen Wu, Kai Zhao, Yingxun Zhang, and Zhuxia Li

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064603 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Final-state interactions in the superscaling analysis of neutral-current quasielastic neutrino scattering

M. C. Martínez, J. A. Caballero, T. W. Donnelly, and J. M. Udías

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064604 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

$^{64} Ni +^{64} Ni$ fusion reaction calculated with the density-constrained time-dependent Hartree-Fock formalism

A. S. Umar and V. E. Oberacker

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064605 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Density dependence of isospin observables in spinodal decomposition

M. Colonna and F. Matera

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064606 (2008) - Published 12 June, 2008

Effects of nuclear orientation on the mass distribution of fission fragments in the reaction of ${}^{36}S + {}^{238}U$

K. Nishio, H. Ikezoe, S. Mitsuoka, I. Nishinaka, Y. Nagame, Y. Watanabe, T. Ohtsuki, K. Hirose, and S. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064607 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Microscopic double folding potential description of the $^{6} He +^{12} C$ reaction

I. Boztosun, M. Karakoc, and Y. Kucuk

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064608 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Four-body continuum-discretized coupled-channels calculations using a transformed harmonic oscillator basis

M. Rodríguez-Gallardo, J. M. Arias, J. Gómez-Camacho, R. C. Johnson, A. M. Moro, I. J. Thompson, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064609 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Nuclear fission with mean-field instantons

Janusz Skalski

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064610 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Causal viscous hydrodynamics in 2 + 1 dimensions for relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Huichao Song and Ulrich Heinz

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064901 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Superhorizon fluctuations and acoustic oscillations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Ananta P. Mishra, Ranjita K. Mohapatra, P. S. Saumia, and Ajit M. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064902 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Bose-Einstein condensation in the relativistic pion gas: Thermodynamic limit and finite size effects

V. V. Begun and M. I. Gorenstein

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064903 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Critical behavior of charmonia across the phase transition: A QCD sum rule approach

Kenji Morita and Su Houng Lee

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064904 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Electric flux tube in a magnetic plasma

Jinfeng Liao and Edward Shuryak

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064905 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

General formulation of transverse hydrodynamics

Radoslaw Ryblewski and Wojciech Florkowski

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064906 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Quantitative constraints on the transport properties of hot partonic matter from semi-inclusive single high transverse momentum pion suppression in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064907 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Bose-Einstein correlations of $π^{-} π^{-}$ pairs in central Pb+Pb collisions at $20 A, 30 A, 40 A, 80 A$ , and $158 A$ GeV

C. Alt et al.

Phys. Rev. C 77, 064908 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Extension of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model predictions at high densities and temperatures using an implicit regularization scheme

R. L. S. Farias, G. Dallabona, G. Krein, and O. A. Battistel

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065201 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Chiral condensate in a constant electromagnetic field at $O (p^{6})$

Elizabeth S. Werbos

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065202 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Effect of pion exchange in a relativistic quark model of baryons

T. Goldman and Richard R. Silbar

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065203 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Modification of nucleon properties in nuclear matter and finite nuclei

W. Wen and H. Shen

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065204 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

Friedberg-Lee model at finite temperature and density

Hong Mao, Minjie Yao, and Wei-Qin Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065205 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Empirical fit to inelastic electron-deuteron and electron-neutron resonance region transverse cross sections

P. E. Bosted and M. E. Christy

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065206 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Transition form factors of the $N^{*} (1535)$ as a dynamically generated resonance

D. Jido, M. Döring, and E. Oset

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065207 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Polarized structure function $σ_{{LT}^{'}}$ for ${}^{1}H$ $(\vec{e}, e^{'} K^{+}) Λ$ in the nucleon resonance region

R. Nasseripour et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065208 (2008) - Published 11 June, 2008

Photon bremsstrahlung and diffusive broadening of a hard jet

A. Majumder, R. J. Fries, and B. Müller

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065209 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Critical review of $K^{-} ppn$ bound states

V. K. Magas, E. Oset, and A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065210 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Polarizability of the pion: No conflict between dispersion theory and chiral perturbation theory

B. Pasquini, D. Drechsel, and S. Scherer

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065211 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Properties of nucleon resonances by means of a genetic algorithm

C. Fernández-Ramírez, E. Moya de Guerra, A. Udías, and J. M. Udías

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065212 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Meson-baryon threshold effects in the light-quark baryon spectrum

P. González, J. Vijande, and A. Valcarce

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065213 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Cross section and polarization observables for the reaction $e^{+} + e^{-} \to a_{1} (1260) + π$

E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, G. I. Gakh, and C. Adamuščín

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065214 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

CP violation in Compton scattering

Mikhail Gorchtein

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065501 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Precise measurement of the β decay and electron capture of ${}^{22}{Na}$ , ${}^{198}{Au}$ , and ${}^{196}{Au}$ in low-temperature metal hosts, and reexamination of lifetime modifications

Götz Ruprecht, Christof Vockenhuber, Lothar Buchmann, Russell Woods, Chris Ruiz, Suzanne Lapi, and Daniel Bemmerer

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065502 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

$ft$ value of the $0^{+} \to 0^{+}$ $β^{+}$ decay of ${}^{32}{Ar}$ : A measurement of isospin symmetry breaking in a superallowed decay

M. Bhattacharya, D. Melconian, A. Komives, S. Triambak, A. García, E. G. Adelberger, B. A. Brown, M. W. Cooper, T. Glasmacher, V. Guimaraes, P. F. Mantica, A. M. Oros-Peusquens, J. I. Prisciandaro, M. Steiner, H. E. Swanson, S. L. Tabor, and M. Wiedeking

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065503 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Neutron–mirror-neutron oscillations in a trap

B. Kerbikov and O. Lychkovskiy

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065504 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Nuclear Astrophysics

Cross section measurements of ( $p, γ$ ) reactions on Pd isotopes relevant to the $p$ process

A. Spyrou, A. Lagoyannis, P. Demetriou, S. Harissopulos, and H.-W. Becker

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065801 (2008) - Published 9 June, 2008

${}^{138}{La}$ - ${}^{138}{Ce}$ - ${}^{136}{Ce}$ nuclear cosmochronometer of the supernova neutrino process

T. Hayakawa, T. Shizuma, T. Kajino, K. Ogawa, and H. Nakada

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065802 (2008) - Published 10 June, 2008

Density dependent nuclear matter compressibility

V. A. Dexheimer, C. A. Z. Vasconcellos, and B. E. J. Bodmann

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065803 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

$^{3} P_{2}$ superfluidity in neutron star matter

Wei Chen, Bao-jiang Li, De-hua Wen, and Liang-gang Liu

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065804 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Semi-classical equation of state and specific-heat expressions with proton shell corrections for the inner crust of a neutron star

M. Onsi, A. K. Dutta, H. Chatri, S. Goriely, N. Chamel, and J. M. Pearson

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065805 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Magnetization of a neutron plasma with Skyrme and Gogny forces in the presence of a strong magnetic field

M. Ángeles Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065806 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Deconfinement phase transition in hybrid neutron stars from the Brueckner theory with three-body forces and a quark model with chiral mass scaling

G. X. Peng, A. Li, and U. Lombardo

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065807 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Neutrino emission due to Cooper-pair recombination in neutron stars reexamined

E. E. Kolomeitsev and D. N. Voskresensky

Phys. Rev. C 77, 065808 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Electromagnetic and strong contributions to $d Au$ soft coherent inelastic diffraction at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

V. Guzey and M. Strikman

Phys. Rev. C 77, 067901 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Half-life of the ${}^{164}{Ho}$ by the ( $γ, n$ ) reaction from laser Compton scattering $γ$ rays at the electron storage ring NewSUBARU

T. Hayakawa, T. Shizuma, S. Miyamoto, S. Amano, K. Horikawa, K. Ishihara, M. Mori, K. Kawase, M. Kando, N. Kikuzawa, S. Chiba, T. Mochizuki, T. Kajino, and M. Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. C 77, 068801 (2008) - Published 13 June, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Structure of excited states in ${}^{21}{Mg}$ studied in one-neutron knockout [Phys. Rev. C 77, 064309 (2008)]

Phys. Rev. C 77, 069901 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Volume 77, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLES

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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