Volume 78, Issue 5

D. W. Bardayan, P. D. O'Malley, J. C. Blackmon, K. Y. Chae, K. A. Chipps, J. A. Cizewski, R. Hatarik, K. L. Jones, R. L. Kozub, C. Matei, B. H. Moazen, C. D. Nesaraja, S. D. Pain, S. Paulauskas, W. A. Peters, S. T. Pittman, K. T. Schmitt, J. F. Shriner, Jr., and M. S. Smith

Phys. Rev. C 78, 052801(R) (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

$f_{LT}$ response function of $^{2} H (e, e^{'} p) n$ at $Q^{2} = 0.33 (GeV / c)^{2}$

W. U. Boeglin et al.

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054001 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Wigner symmetry, large $N_{c}$ , and renormalized one-boson exchange potentials

A. Calle Cordón and E. Ruiz Arriola

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054002 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

In-medium $T$ matrix for nuclear matter with three-body forces: Binding energy and single-particle properties

V. Somà and P. Bożek

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054003 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Nuclear Structure

Mean-field approach to nuclear structure with semi-realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions

H. Nakada

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054301 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Nuclear deformation and neutrinoless double- $β$ decay of ${}^{94, 96}{Zr}$ , ${}^{98, 100}{Mo}$ , ${}^{104}{Ru}$ , ${}^{110}{Pd}$ , ${}^{128, 130}{Te}$ , and ${}^{150}{Nd}$ nuclei within a mechanism involving neutrino mass

K. Chaturvedi, R. Chandra, P. K. Rath, P. K. Raina, and J. G. Hirsch

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054302 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Band terminations in density functional theory

A. V. Afanasjev

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054303 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Microscopic structure of low-lying states in ${}^{188, 190, 192}{Os}$

N. Lo Iudice and A. V. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054304 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Abundance of ground states with positive parity

T. Papenbrock and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054305 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Λ hyperons and the neutron drip line

Xian-Rong Zhou (周先荣), A. Polls, H.-J. Schulze, and I. Vidaña

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054306 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Investigation of particle-unbound excited states in light nuclei with resonance-decay spectroscopy using a ${}^{12}{Be}$ beam

R. J. Charity, S. A. Komarov, L. G. Sobotka, J. Clifford, D. Bazin, A. Gade, Jenny Lee, S. M. Lukyanov, W. G. Lynch, M. Mocko, S. P. Lobastov, A. M. Rogers, A. Sanetullaev, M. B. Tsang, M. S. Wallace, R. G. T. Zegers, S. Hudan, C. Metelko, M. A. Famiano, A. H. Wuosmaa, and M. J. van Goethem

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054307 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Multiphonon nuclear response in ${}^{16}O$ : A microscopic treatment equivalent to the shell model

F. Andreozzi, F. Knapp, N. Lo Iudice, A. Porrino, and J. Kvasil

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054308 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Observation of high- $j$ quasiparticle states in ${}^{249}{Cm}$ by in-beam $γ$ -ray spectroscopy using heavy-ion transfer reactions

T. Ishii, H. Makii, M. Asai, K. Tsukada, A. Toyoshima, M. Matsuda, A. Makishima, S. Shigematsu, J. Kaneko, T. Shizuma, H. Toume, I. Hossain, T. Kohno, and M. Ogawa

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054309 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Mass measurements in the vicinity of the $r p$ -process and the $ν p$ -process paths with the Penning trap facilities JYFLTRAP and SHIPTRAP

C. Weber et al.

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054310 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Deformation of Λ hypernuclei

Myaing Thi Win and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054311 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Collectivity-induced quenching of signatures for shell closures

M. Bender, G. F. Bertsch, and P.-H. Heenen

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054312 (2008) - Published 17 November, 2008

Measurement of the reaction cross section of ${}^{18}C$ and observations of fragments from ${}^{17}C$ and ${}^{18}C$ at $80 A$ MeV

A. Ozawa, D. Q. Fang, M. Fukuda, N. Iwasa, T. Izumikawa, H. Jeppesen, R. Kanungo, R. Koyama, T. Ohnishi, T. Ohtsubo, W. Shinozaki, T. Suda, T. Suzuki, M. Takahashi, I. Tanihata, C. Wu, and Y. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054313 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Improved procedure to construct a hyperspherical basis for the $N$ -body problem: Application to bosonic systems

N. K. Timofeyuk

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054314 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Lowest order constrained variational calculation of polarized neutron matter at finite temperature

G. H. Bordbar and M. Bigdeli

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054315 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Light Ξ hypernuclei in four-body cluster models

E. Hiyama, Y. Yamamoto, T. Motoba, Th. A. Rijken, and M. Kamimura

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054316 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

α-decay half-lives for neutral atoms and bare nuclei

Zygmunt Patyk, Hans Geissel, Yuri A. Litvinov, Agatino Musumarra, and Chiara Nociforo

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054317 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Deformations and magnetic rotations in the ${}^{60}{Ni}$ nucleus

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

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054318 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Possible shears bands in ${}^{204}{At}$ and ${}^{206}{Fr}$ , and identification of excited states in ${}^{205, 207}{Fr}$

D. J. Hartley, E. P. Seyfried, W. Reviol, D. G. Sarantites, C. J. Chiara, O. L. Pechenaya, K. Hauschild, A. Lopez-Martens, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, D. Seweryniak, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054319 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Fragmentation of mixed-symmetry excitations in stable even-even tellurium nuclei

S. F. Hicks, J. R. Vanhoy, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054320 (2008) - Published 25 November, 2008

Thermodynamic properties of ${}^{56, 57}{Fe}$

E. Algin, U. Agvaanluvsan, M. Guttormsen, A. C. Larsen, G. E. Mitchell, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, S. Siem, and A. Voinov

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054321 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Spectroscopic factors and asymptotic normalization coefficients in mirror three-body systems

N. K. Timofeyuk and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054322 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Temperature and momentum dependence of single-particle properties in hot asymmetric nuclear matter

Ch. C. Moustakidis

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054323 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Nuclear Reactions

Calculation of delayed-neutron energy spectra in a quasiparticle random-phase approximation–Hauser-Feshbach model

T. Kawano, P. Möller, and W. B. Wilson

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054601 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Coulomb-corrected eikonal description of the breakup of halo nuclei

P. Capel, D. Baye, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054602 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

$R$ -matrix and dynamical model calculations of three-body resonance decay widths

A. J. Bartlett, J. A. Tostevin, and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054603 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Ratios of disintegration rates for distinct decay modes of an excited nucleus

W. J. Świątecki, K. Siwek-Wilczyńska, and J. Wilczyński

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054604 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Production of medium-mass neutron-rich nuclei in reactions induced by ${}^{136}{Xe}$ projectiles at 1 $A$ GeV on a beryllium target

J. Benlliure, M. Fernández-Ordóñez, L. Audouin, A. Boudard, E. Casarejos, J. E. Ducret, T. Enqvist, A. Heinz, D. Henzlova, V. Henzl, A. Kelic, S. Leray, P. Napolitani, J. Pereira, F. Rejmund, M. V. Ricciardi, K.-H. Schmidt, C. Schmitt, C. Stéphan, L. Tassan-Got, C. Volant, C. Villagrasa, and O. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054605 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Geochemical constraints on the half-life of ${}^{130}{Te}$

H. V. Thomas, R. A. D. Pattrick, S. A. Crowther, D. J. Blagburn, and J. D. Gilmour

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054606 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Orientation effects of deformed nuclei on the production of superheavy elements

Nan Wang, Jun-qing Li, and En-guang Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054607 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

$^{132} Sn +^{96} Zr$ reaction: A study of fusion enhancement/hindrance

A. M. Vinodkumar, W. Loveland, J. J. Neeway, L. Prisbrey, P. H. Sprunger, D. Peterson, J. F. Liang, D. Shapira, C. J. Gross, R. L. Varner, J. J. Kolata, A. Roberts, and A. L. Caraley

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054608 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Angular momentum dependence of the nuclear level-density parameter around $Z ~ 50$

Y. K. Gupta, Bency John, D. C. Biswas, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena, and R. K. Choudhury

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054609 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

New calculation method of neutron kerma coefficients for carbon and oxygen below 30 MeV

Xiaojun Sun, Wenjing Qu, Junfeng Duan, and Jingshang Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054610 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Chemical freeze-out in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130$ and 200 GeV

J. Manninen and F. Becattini

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054901 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Landau hydrodynamics reexamined

Cheuk-Yin Wong

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054902 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Decreasing elliptic flow at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Calculations in a parton recombination approach

Daniel Krieg and Marcus Bleicher

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054903 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Centrality dependence of the parton bubble model for high-energy heavy-ion collisions and fireball surface substructure at energies available at the BNL relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC)

S. J. Lindenbaum and R. S. Longacre

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054904 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Understanding the optical potential in Hanbury-Brown–Twiss interferometry

Matthew Luzum, John G. Cramer, and Gerald A. Miller

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054905 (2008) - Published 19 November, 2008

Femtoscopy in relativistic heavy ion collisions and its relation to bulk properties of QCD matter

Scott Pratt and Joshua Vredevoogd

Phys. Rev. C 78, 054906 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in QED3

A. Bashir, A. Raya, I. C. Cloët, and C. D. Roberts

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055201 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Properties of $Q \bar{Q}$ mesons in nonrelativistic QCD formalism

Ajay Kumar Rai, Bhavin Patel, and P. C. Vinodkumar

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055202 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

QCD sum rules for ρ mesons in vacuum and in-medium, re-examined

Youngshin Kwon, Massimiliano Procura, and Wolfram Weise

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055203 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Quantum-mechanical description of in-medium fragmentation

B. Z. Kopeliovich, H.-J. Pirner, I. K. Potashnikova, Ivan Schmidt, A. V. Tarasov, and O. O. Voskresenskaya

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055204 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Correct use of the Gordon decomposition in the calculation of nucleon magnetic dipole moments

Mustapha Mekhfi

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055205 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

$F t$ values of the $T = 1 / 2$ mirror β transitions

N. Severijns, M. Tandecki, T. Phalet, and I. S. Towner

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055501 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Nuclear Astrophysics

Cluster formation in compact stars: Relativistic versus Skyrme nuclear models

C. Ducoin, C. Providência, A. M. Santos, L. Brito, and Ph. Chomaz

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055801 (2008) - Published 18 November, 2008

Photoactivation experiment on ${}^{197}{Au}$ and its implications for the dipole strength in heavy nuclei

C. Nair, M. Erhard, A. R. Junghans, D. Bemmerer, R. Beyer, E. Grosse, J. Klug, K. Kosev, G. Rusev, K. D. Schilling, R. Schwengner, and A. Wagner

Phys. Rev. C 78, 055802 (2008) - Published 26 November, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Kinetic energy sum spectra in nonmesonic weak decay of hypernuclei [Phys. Rev. C 78, 044312 (2008)]

Cesar Barbero, Alfredo P. Galeão, Mahir S. Hussein, and Francisco Krmpotić

Phys. Rev. C 78, 059901 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Publisher's Note: Semi-classical equation of state and specific-heat expressions with proton shell corrections for the inner crust of a neutron star [Phys. Rev. C 77, 065805 (2008)]

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

Phys. Rev. C 78, 059902 (2008) - Published 24 November, 2008