Volume 79, Issue 4

W. Urban, K. Sieja, G. S. Simpson, H. Faust, T. Rząca-Urban, A. Złomaniec, M. Łukasiewicz, A. G. Smith, J. L. Durell, J. F. Smith, B. J. Varley, F. Nowacki, and I. Ahmad

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044304 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Global investigation of the fine structure of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance

A. Shevchenko, O. Burda, J. Carter, G. R. J. Cooper, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Förtsch, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, Y. Kalmykov, D. Lacroix, J. J. Lawrie, P. von Neumann-Cosel, R. Neveling, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, E. Sideras-Haddad, F. D. Smit, and J. Wambach

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044305 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Criteria for nonlinear parameters of relativistic mean field models

A. Sulaksono, T. J. Bürvenich, P. -G. Reinhard, and J. A. Maruhn

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044306 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

IBM-1 calculations towards the neutron-rich nucleus ${}^{106}{Zr}$

Stefan Lalkovski and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044307 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Time-dependent approach to the continuum shell model

Alexander Volya

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044308 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Structure of ${}^{65, 67}{Co}$ studied through the $β$ decay of ${}^{65, 67}{Fe}$ and a deep-inelastic reaction

D. Pauwels et al.

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044309 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Mass tensor in the Bohr Hamiltonian from the nondiagonal energy weighted sum rules

R. V. Jolos and P. von Brentano

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044310 (2009) - Published 20 April, 2009

Low-lying magnetic excitations of doubly-closed-shell nuclei and nucleon-nucleon effective interactions

V. De Donno, G. Co', C. Maieron, M. Anguiano, A. M. Lallena, and M. Moreno Torres

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044311 (2009) - Published 21 April, 2009

Three-dimensional angular momentum projection in relativistic mean-field theory

J. M. Yao, J. Meng, P. Ring, and D. Pena Arteaga

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044312 (2009) - Published 21 April, 2009

Theoretical study of nuclear charge densities with elastic electron scattering

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

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044313 (2009) - Published 21 April, 2009

Electric quadrupole moments of $17 / 2^{-}$ and $13 / 2^{-}$ subsequent isomers in ${}^{209}{Po}$

G. Nicolescu, E. A. Ivanov, and D. Plostinaru

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044314 (2009) - Published 21 April, 2009

Shape mixing and $β$ -decay properties of neutron-deficient Kr and Sr isotopes

P. Sarriguren

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044315 (2009) - Published 22 April, 2009

High-spin level structure in ${}^{94, 95}{Mo}$

Y. H. Zhang, M. Hasegawa, W. T. Guo, M. L. Liu, X. H. Zhou, G. de Angelis, T. M. Axiotis, A. Gadea, N. Marginean, Martinez, D. R. Napoli, C. Rusu, Zs. Podolyak, C. Ur, D. Bazzacco, F. Brandolini, S. Lunardi, S. M. Lenzi, R. Menegazzo, R. Schwengner, A. Gargano, W. von Oertzen, and S. Tazaki

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044316 (2009) - Published 22 April, 2009

Band structures in ${}^{129}{Cs}$

S. Sihotra, K. Singh, S. S. Malik, J. Goswamy, R. Palit, Z. Naik, D. Mehta, N. Singh, R. Kumar, R. P. Singh, and S. Muralithar

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044317 (2009) - Published 23 April, 2009

Configuration mixing within the energy density functional formalism: Removing spurious contributions from nondiagonal energy kernels

D. Lacroix, T. Duguet, and M. Bender

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044318 (2009) - Published 23 April, 2009

Particle-number restoration within the energy density functional formalism

M. Bender, T. Duguet, and D. Lacroix

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044319 (2009) - Published 23 April, 2009

Particle-number restoration within the energy density functional formalism: Nonviability of terms depending on noninteger powers of the density matrices

T. Duguet, M. Bender, K. Bennaceur, D. Lacroix, and T. Lesinski

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044320 (2009) - Published 23 April, 2009

Fast decay of a three-quasiparticle isomer in ${}^{171}{Tm}$

P. M. Walker, R. J. Wood, G. D. Dracoulis, T. Kibédi, R. A. Bark, A. M. Bruce, A. P. Byrne, P. M. Davidson, H. M. El-Masri, G. J. Lane, C. Moon, J. N. Orce, F. M. Prados Estevéz, C. Wheldon, and A. N. Wilson

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044321 (2009) - Published 24 April, 2009

New description of the doublet bands in doubly odd nuclei

H. G. Ganev, A. I. Georgieva, S. Brant, and A. Ventura

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044322 (2009) - Published 28 April, 2009

Density functional approach to finite temperature nuclear properties and the role of a momentum dependent isovector interaction

S. J. Lee and A. Z. Mekjian

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044323 (2009) - Published 29 April, 2009

Loss of collectivity in the transitional ${}^{156}{Er}$ nucleus at high spin

E. S. Paul, S. V. Rigby, M. A. Riley, J. Simpson, D. E. Appelbe, D. B. Campbell, P. T. W. Choy, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, A. O. Evans, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, D. T. Joss, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, P. J. Nolan, A. Pipidis, D. Ward, and I. Ragnarsson

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044324 (2009) - Published 29 April, 2009

Evidence for a $β$ -decaying $1 / 2^{-}$ isomer in ${}^{71}{Ni}$

I. Stefanescu, D. Pauwels, N. Bree, T. E. Cocolios, J. Diriken, S. Franchoo, M. Huyse, O. Ivanov, Y. Kudryavtsev, N. Patronis, J. Van De Walle, P. Van Duppen, and W. B. Walters

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044325 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Nuclear Reactions

Survey of heavy-ion fusion hindrance for lighter systems

C. L. Jiang, K. E. Rehm, B. B. Back, and R. V. F. Janssens

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044601 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Longitudinal and transverse scaling functions within the coherent density fluctuation model

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

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044602 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Δ-mediated pion production in nuclei

C. Praet, O. Lalakulich, N. Jachowicz, and J. Ryckebusch

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044603 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Calculation of the total potential between two deformed heavy ion nuclei using the Monte Carlo method and M3Y nucleon-nucleon forces

O. N. Ghodsi and V. Zanganeh

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044604 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Analytical potential for the elastic scattering of light halo nuclei below and close to the Coulomb barrier

L. Borowska, K. Terenetsky, V. Verbitsky, and S. Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044605 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Ab initio many-body calculations of nucleon-nucleus scattering

Sofia Quaglioni and Petr Navrátil

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044606 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Direct observation of first-chance fission of ${}^{258}{No}$

D. Peterson, W. Loveland, O. Batenkov, M. Majorov, A. Veshikov, K. Aleklett, and C. Rouki

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044607 (2009) - Published 27 April, 2009

Calculation for the excitation functions of the ${}^{93}{Nb} (p, n) {}^{93}{Mo}^{m}$ , ${}^{93}{Nb} (p, α n) {}^{89}{Zr}$ , and ${}^{93}{Nb} (p, np + pn) {}^{92}{Nb}^{m}$ reactions

K. Gul

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044608 (2009) - Published 28 April, 2009

Surrogate ratio method in the actinide region using the $(α, α^{'} f)$ reaction

S. R. Lesher, J. T. Harke, L. A. Bernstein, H. Ai, C. W. Beausang, D. L. Bleuel, R. M. Clark, F. S. Dietrich, J. E. Escher, P. Fallon, J. Gibelin, B. L. Goldblum, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. A. McMahan, K. J. Moody, E. B. Norman, L. Phair, E. Rodriguez-Vieitez, N. D. Scielzo, and M. Wiedeking

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044609 (2009) - Published 29 April, 2009

Low and medium energy deuteron-induced reactions on ${}^{27}{Al}$

P. Bém, E. Šimečková, M. Honusek, U. Fischer, S. P. Simakov, R. A. Forrest, M. Avrigeanu, A. C. Obreja, F. L. Roman, and V. Avrigeanu

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044610 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Statistical model of heavy-ion fusion-fission reactions

J. P. Lestone and S. G. McCalla

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044611 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Charged-particle (pseudo-)rapidity distributions in $p + \bar{p} / p + p$ and $Pb + Pb / Au + Au$ collisions from UrQMD calculations at energies available at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron to the Large Hadron Collider

Michael Mitrovski, Tim Schuster, Gunnar Gräf, Hannah Petersen, and Marcus Bleicher

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044901 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Hadronic observables from $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV and $Pb + Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.5$ TeV from a simple kinematic model

T. J. Humanic

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044902 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Constraining relativistic viscous hydrodynamical evolution

Mauricio Martinez and Michael Strickland

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044903 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations in $Pb + Pb$ collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at $20 A$ to $158 A$ GeV

T. Anticic et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044904 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Ratios of heavy baryons to heavy mesons in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions

Yongseok Oh, Che Ming Ko, Su Houng Lee, and Shigehiro Yasui

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044905 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Tomography of quark gluon plasma at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

P. B. Gossiaux, R. Bierkandt, and J. Aichelin

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044906 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Three-particle cumulant study of conical emission

Claude A. Pruneau

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044907 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Hadron correlation in jets on the near and away sides of high- $p_{T}$ triggers in heavy-ion collisions

Rudolph C. Hwa and C. B. Yang

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044908 (2009) - Published 20 April, 2009

Antiproton evolution in little bangs and in the Big Bang

H. Schade and B. Kämpfer

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044909 (2009) - Published 21 April, 2009

Energy dependence of particle ratio fluctuations in central $Pb + Pb$ collisions from $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 6.3$ to 17.3 GeV

C. Alt et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044910 (2009) - Published 24 April, 2009

Classical strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. III. The free energy

Sungtae Cho and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044911 (2009) - Published 27 April, 2009

Elliptic flow from collision geometry and rescattering

H. Bøggild, Ole Hansen, and T. J. Humanic

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044912 (2009) - Published 27 April, 2009

Bulk viscosity of a gas of massless pions

Jiunn-Wei Chen and Juven Wang

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044913 (2009) - Published 29 April, 2009

Shear viscosity and out of equilibrium dynamics

Andrej El, Azwinndini Muronga, Zhe Xu, and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044914 (2009) - Published 29 April, 2009

Universal flow in the first stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions

Joshua Vredevoogd and Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044915 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Rapid hydrodynamic expansion in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Piotr Bożek and Iwona Wyskiel

Phys. Rev. C 79, 044916 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Hadron loops and hybrid mixing

F. E. Close and C. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045201 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

$K^{-} p \to Σ^{0} π^{0}$ reaction at low energies in a chiral quark model

Xian-Hui Zhong and Qiang Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045202 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Chiral condensate in holographic models of QCD

Aleksey Cherman, Thomas D. Cohen, and Elizabeth S. Werbos

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045203 (2009) - Published 23 April, 2009

$Λ (1405)$ resonance in baryon-meson scattering with a bound state embedded in the continuum

Sachiko Takeuchi and Kiyotaka Shimizu

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045204 (2009) - Published 24 April, 2009

Quark and gluon condensates in isospin matter

Lianyi He, Yin Jiang, and Pengfei Zhuang

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045205 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Investigation of $β β$ decay in ${}^{150}{Nd}$ and ${}^{148}{Nd}$ to the excited states of daughter nuclei

A. S. Barabash, Ph. Hubert, A. Nachab, and V. I. Umatov

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045501 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Superfluid response and the neutrino emissivity of baryon matter: Fermi-liquid effects

L. B. Leinson

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045502 (2009) - Published 27 April, 2009

Nuclear Astrophysics

Chiral Lagrangian with broken scale: Testing the restoration of symmetries in astrophysics and in the laboratory

Luca Bonanno and Alessandro Drago

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045801 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Impact of uncertainties in reaction $Q$ values on nucleosynthesis in type I x-ray bursts

A. Parikh, J. José, C. Iliadis, F. Moreno, and T. Rauscher

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045802 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurements of ${}^{31}S$ energy levels and reevaluation of the thermonuclear resonant ${}^{30}P (p, γ) {}^{31}S$ reaction rate

C. Wrede, J. A. Caggiano, J. A. Clark, C. M. Deibel, A. Parikh, and P. D. Parker

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045803 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Properties of the $5^{-}$ state at 839 keV in ${}^{176}{Lu}$ and the $s$ -process branching at $A = 176$

P. Mohr, S. Bisterzo, R. Gallino, F. Käppeler, U. Kneissl, and N. Winckler

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045804 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Low density instabilities in asymmetric nuclear matter within the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model with the δ meson

Alexandre M. Santos, Constança Providência, and Prafulla K. Panda

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045805 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Equation of state for $β$ -stable hot nuclear matter

Ch. C. Moustakidis and C. P. Panos

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045806 (2009) - Published 20 April, 2009

New measurement of the relative scintillation efficiency of xenon nuclear recoils below 10 keV

E. Aprile, L. Baudis, B. Choi, K. L. Giboni, K. Lim, A. Manalaysay, M. E. Monzani, G. Plante, R. Santorelli, and M. Yamashita

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045807 (2009) - Published 22 April, 2009

Thermonuclear ${}^{30}S (p, γ) {}^{31}{Cl}$ reaction in type I x-ray bursts

C. Wrede, J. A. Caggiano, J. A. Clark, C. M. Deibel, A. Parikh, and P. D. Parker

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045808 (2009) - Published 23 April, 2009

Neutron capture rates near $A = 130$ that effect a global change to the $r$ -process abundance distribution

R. Surman, J. Beun, G. C. McLaughlin, and W. R. Hix

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045809 (2009) - Published 28 April, 2009

Phase transition from quark-meson coupling hyperonic matter to deconfined quark matter

J. D. Carroll, D. B. Leinweber, A. G. Williams, and A. W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045810 (2009) - Published 28 April, 2009

Variational theory of hot nucleon matter. II. Spin-isospin correlations and equation of state of nuclear and neutron matter

Abhishek Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. C 79, 045811 (2009) - Published 28 April, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Existence of long-lived isomeric states in naturally-occurring neutron-deficient Th isotopes”

R. C. Barber and J. R. De Laeter

Phys. Rev. C 79, 049801 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

Reply to “Comment on ‘Existence of long-lived isomeric states in naturally-occurring neutron-deficient Th isotopes’”

A. Marinov, I. Rodushkin, Y. Kashiv, L. Halicz, I. Segal, A. Pape, R. V. Gentry, H. W. Miller, D. Kolb, and R. Brandt

Phys. Rev. C 79, 049802 (2009) - Published 30 April, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Mass parameters for relative and neck collective motions in heavy ion fusion reactions [Phys. Rev. C 79, 024614 (2009)]

Kai Zhao, Zhuxia Li, Xizhen Wu, and Zhixiang Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 79, 049901 (2009) - Published 20 April, 2009

Volume 79, Issue 4

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