Volume 85, Issue 1

D. Radeck, V. Werner, G. Ilie, N. Cooper, V. Anagnostatou, T. Ahn, L. Bettermann, R. J. Casperson, R. Chevrier, A. Heinz, J. Jolie, D. McCarthy, M. K. Smith, and E. Williams

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014301 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Cluster correlations for low-lying intruder states of $^{12}$ Be

M. Ito, N. Itagaki, and K. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014302 (2012) - Published 4 January, 2012

Pairing correlations and odd-even staggering in reaction cross sections of weakly bound nuclei

K. Hagino and H. Sagawa

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014303 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Resonances in $^{11}$ C observed in the $^{4}$ He( $^{7} Be, α$ ) $^{7}$ Be and $^{4}$ He( $^{7} Be, p$ ) $^{10}$ B reactions

M. Freer, N. L. Achouri, C. Angulo, N. I. Ashwood, D. W. Bardayan, S. Brown, W. N. Catford, K. A. Chipps, N. Curtis, P. Demaret, C. Harlin, B. Laurent, J. D. Malcolm, M. Milin, T. Munoz-Britton, N. A. Orr, S. D. Pain, D. Price, R. Raabe, N. Soić, J. S. Thomas, C. Wheldon, G. Wilson, and V. A. Ziman

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014304 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Microscopic theory of the $γ$ decay of nuclear giant resonances

Marco Brenna, Gianluca Colò, and Pier Francesco Bortignon

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014305 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

Description of single- $Λ$ hypernuclei with a relativistic point-coupling model

Y. Tanimura and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014306 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Evolution of the $N = 50$ gap from $Z = 30$ to $Z = 38$ and extrapolation toward $^{78}$ Ni

M.-G. Porquet and O. Sorlin

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014307 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Uncertainties in nuclear transition matrix elements for neutrinoless $β β$ decay: The heavy Majorana neutrino mass mechanism

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

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014308 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Recoil-decay tagging study of $^{205}$ Fr

U. Jakobsson, J. Uusitalo, S. Juutinen, M. Leino, T. Enqvist, P. T. Greenlees, K. Hauschild, P. Jones, R. Julin, S. Ketelhut, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Nyman, P. Peura, P. Rahkila, P. Ruotsalainen, J. Sarén, C. Scholey, and J. Sorri

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014309 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Collective and noncollective states in $^{120}$ Te

Somnath Nag, A. K. Singh, A. N. Wilson, J. Rogers, H. Hübel, A. Bürger, S. Chmel, I. Ragnarsson, G. Sletten, B. Herskind, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, S. Zhu, A. Korichi, Hoa Ha, P. Fallon, A. O. Macchiavelli, B. M. Nyakó, J. Timár, and K. Juhász

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014310 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Dipole strength in $^{78}$ Se below the neutron separation energy from a combined analysis of $^{77}$ Se( $n, γ$ ) and $^{78}$ Se( $γ, γ^{'}$ ) experiments

G. Schramm, R. Massarczyk, A. R. Junghans, T. Belgya, R. Beyer, E. Birgersson, E. Grosse, M. Kempe, Z. Kis, K. Kosev, M. Krtička, A. Matic, K. D. Schilling, R. Schwengner, L. Szentmiklósi, A. Wagner, and J. L. Weil

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014311 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Experimental study of the decays of $^{112}$ Cs and $^{111}$ Xe

L. Cartegni, C. Mazzocchi, R. Grzywacz, I. G. Darby, S. N. Liddick, K. P. Rykaczewski, J. C. Batchelder, L. Bianco, C. R. Bingham, E. Freeman, C. Goodin, C. J. Gross, A. Guglielmetti, D. T. Joss, S. H. Liu, M. Mazzocco, S. Padgett, R. D. Page, M. M. Rajabali, M. Romoli, P. J. Sapple, J. Thomson, and H. V. Watkins

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014312 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Upgraded formulation of the nuclear eigenvalue problem in a microscopic multiphonon basis

D. Bianco, F. Knapp, N. Lo Iudice, F. Andreozzi, and A. Porrino

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014313 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

$B (E 2)$ value and configuration mixing in $^{32}$ Mg

H. T. Fortune

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014315 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Phenomenological and microscopic cluster models. I. The geometric mapping

H. Yépez-Martínez, P. R. Fraser, P. O. Hess, and G. Lévai

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014316 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Phenomenological and microscopic cluster models. II. Phase transitions

P. R. Fraser, H. Yépez-Martínez, P. O. Hess, and G. Lévai

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014317 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Specific heat capacity in the low-density regime of asymmetric nuclear matter

R. Aguirre

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014318 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Influence of proton shell closure on production and identification of new superheavy nuclei

A. N. Kuzmina, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, and W. Scheid

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014319 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Primary $γ$ -ray spectra in $^{44}$ Ti of astrophysical interest

A. C. Larsen, S. Goriely, A. Bürger, M. Guttormsen, A. Görgen, S. Harissopulos, M. Kmiecik, T. Konstantinopoulos, A. Lagoyannis, T. Lönnroth, K. Mazurek, M. Norrby, H. T. Nyhus, G. Perdikakis, A. Schiller, S. Siem, A. Spyrou, N. U. H. Syed, H. K. Toft, G. M. Tveten, and A. Voinov

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014320 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Global investigation of odd-even mass differences and radii with isospin-dependent pairing interactions

C. A. Bertulani, Hongliang Liu, and H. Sagawa

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014321 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Occupation-number-based energy functional for nuclear masses

M. Bertolli, T. Papenbrock, and S. M. Wild

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014322 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Level density and thermodynamic properties of dysprosium isotopes

H. T. Nyhus, S. Siem, M. Guttormsen, A. C. Larsen, A. Bürger, N. U. H. Syed, H. K. Toft, G. M. Tveten, and A. Voinov

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014323 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Systematic investigation of the rotational bands in nuclei with $Z \approx 100$ using a particle-number conserving method based on a cranked shell model

Zhen-Hua Zhang (张振华), Xiao-Tao He (贺晓涛), Jin-Yan Zeng (曾谨言), En-Guang Zhao (赵恩广), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014324 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Double magic nuclei for $Z > 82$ and $N > 126$

H. F. Zhang, Y. Gao, N. Wang, J. Q. Li, E. G. Zhao, and G. Royer

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014325 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Tensor part of the Skyrme energy density functional. III. Time-odd terms at high spin

V. Hellemans, P.-H. Heenen, and M. Bender

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014326 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Small quadrupole deformation for the dipole bands in $^{112}$ In

T. Trivedi et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014327 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Low-energy structure of $_{27}^{66}$ Co $_{39}$ and $_{27}^{68}$ Co $_{41}$ populated through $β$ decay

S. N. Liddick, B. Abromeit, A. Ayres, A. Bey, C. R. Bingham, M. Bolla, L. Cartegni, H. L. Crawford, I. G. Darby, R. Grzywacz, S. Ilyushkin, N. Larson, M. Madurga, D. Miller, S. Padgett, S. Paulauskas, M. M. Rajabali, K. Rykaczewski, and S. Suchyta

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014328 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Isomeric levels in $^{92}$ Rb and the structure of neutron-rich $^{92, 94}$ Rb isotopes

W. Urban, K. Sieja, G. S. Simpson, T. Soldner, T. Rząca-Urban, A. Złomaniec, I. Tsekhanovich, J. A. Dare, A. G. Smith, J. L. Durell, J. F. Smith, R. Orlandi, A. Scherillo, I. Ahmad, J. P. Greene, J. Jolie, and A. Linneman

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014329 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Observation of new levels and proposed octupole correlations in neutron-rich $^{150}$ Ce

S. J. Zhu (朱胜江), M. Sakhaee, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, N. T. Brewer, J. K. Hwang, S. H. Liu, E. Y. Yeoh (杨韵颐), Z. G. Xiao (肖志刚), Q. Xu (徐强), Z. Zhang (张钊), Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, I. Y. Lee, K. Li, and W. C. Ma

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014330 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Quasiparticle renormalization and pairing correlations in spherical superfluid nuclei

A. Idini, F. Barranco, and E. Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014331 (2012) - Published 31 January, 2012

Nuclear Reactions

Effects of consistent and inconsistent isobar coupling in the nuclear medium

C. L. Korpa

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014601 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Excitation functions of proton-induced reactions on natural Nd in the 10–30 MeV energy range, and production of radionuclides relevant for double-β decay

O. Lebeda, V. Lozza, P. Schrock, J. Štursa, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014602 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Angular momentum limit for fusion of halo and weakly bound systems

E. F. Aguilera and J. J. Kolata

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014603 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Nuclear in-medium effects and collective flows in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies

Zhao-Qing Feng

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014604 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Measurement of prompt neutron polarization asymmetries in photofission of $^{235, 238}$ U, $^{239}$ Pu, and $^{232}$ Th

J. M. Mueller, M. W. Ahmed, B. Davis, J. M. Hall, S. S. Henshaw, M. S. Johnson, H. J. Karwowski, D. Markoff, L. S. Myers, B. A. Perdue, S. Stave, J. R. Tompkins, M. J. Tuffley, and H. R. Weller

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014605 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Angular dependence in proton-proton correlation functions in central $^{40}$ Ca + $^{40}$ Ca and $^{48}$ Ca + $^{48}$ Ca reactions

V. Henzl, M. A. Kilburn, Z. Chajęcki, D. Henzlova, W. G. Lynch, D. Brown, A. Chbihi, D. D. S. Coupland, P. Danielewicz, R. T. deSouza, M. Famiano, C. Herlitzius, S. Hudan, Jenny Lee, S. Lukyanov, A. M. Rogers, A. Sanetullaev, L. G. Sobotka, Z. Y. Sun, M. B. Tsang, A. Vander Molen, G. Verde, M. S. Wallace, and M. Youngs

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014606 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Correlation between the $^{12}$ C+ $^{12}$ C, $^{12}$ C+ $^{13}$ C, and $^{13}$ C+ $^{13}$ C fusion cross sections

M. Notani, H. Esbensen, X. Fang, B. Bucher, P. Davies, C. L. Jiang, L. Lamm, C. J. Lin, C. Ma, E. Martin, K. E. Rehm, W. P. Tan, S. Thomas, X. D. Tang, and E. Brown

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014607 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Possibilities for synthesis of new isotopes of superheavy elements in fusion reactions

V. I. Zagrebaev, A. V. Karpov, and Walter Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014608 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Systematic study of the decay of $^{118, 122}$ Ba $^{*}$ formed in $^{78, 82}$ Kr-induced reactions at $E_{lab}$ $=$ 5.5 MeV/nucleon

Manpreet Kaur, Raj Kumar, and Manoj K. Sharma

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014609 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Intermediate-energy inverse-kinematics one-proton pickup reactions on neutron-deficient $f p$ -shell nuclei

S. McDaniel, A. Gade, J. A. Tostevin, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, J. M. Cook, T. Glasmacher, G. F. Grinyer, A. Ratkiewicz, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014610 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Systematic behavior of mass distributions in $^{48}$ Ti-induced fission at near-barrier energies

C. J. Lin, R. du Rietz, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, R. G. Thomas, M. L. Brown, M. Evers, L. R. Gasques, and M. D. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014611 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Disentangling reaction mechanisms for $α$ production in the $^{6}$ Li + $^{209}$ Bi reaction

S. Santra, S. Kailas, V. V. Parkar, K. Ramachandran, V. Jha, A. Chatterjee, P. K. Rath, and A. Parihari

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014612 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Pre-neutron-emission mass distributions for low-energy neutron-induced actinide fission

Xiaojun Sun, Chenggang Yu, and Ning Wang

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014613 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Directed and elliptic flow of charged particles in Cu $+$ Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 22.4$ GeV

G. Agakishiev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014901 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Bottomonia suppression in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Taesoo Song, Kyong Chol Han, and Che Ming Ko

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014902 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

System size and energy dependence of near-side dihadron correlations

G. Agakishiev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014903 (2012) - Published 6 January, 2012

General charge balance functions: A tool for studying the chemical evolution of the quark-gluon plasma

Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014904 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Fluctuation probes of early-time correlations in nuclear collisions

Sean Gavin and George Moschelli

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014905 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Modification of Eckart theory of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics by introducing extended matching conditions

Takeshi Osada

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014906 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

$Δ^{0}$ (1232) production in $d$ $+$ $^{12}$ C collisions at 4.2 $A$ GeV/ $c$

Kh. K. Olimov, Mahnaz Q. Haseeb, Imran Khan, A. K. Olimov, and V. V. Glagolev

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014907 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Description of hot and dense hadron-gas properties in a new excluded-volume model

S. K. Tiwari, P. K. Srivastava, and C. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014908 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and electromagnetic effects

K. F. Liu

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014909 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

$ρ^{0}$ photoproduction in AuAu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 62.4$ GeV measured with the STAR detector

G. Agakishiev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014910 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Collective flow in $p$ -Pb and $d$ -Pb collisions at TeV energies

Piotr Bożek

Phys. Rev. C 85, 014911 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Compositeness of dynamically generated states in a chiral unitary approach

Tetsuo Hyodo, Daisuke Jido, and Atsushi Hosaka

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015201 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Semi-inclusive charged-pion electroproduction off protons and deuterons: Cross sections, ratios, and access to the quark-parton model at low energies

R. Asaturyan et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015202 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Charmed mesons have no discernible color-Coulomb attraction

T. Goldman and Richard R. Silbar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015203 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Scattering lengths of strangeness $S = - 2$ baryon-baryon interactions

A. M. Gasparyan, J. Haidenbauer, and C. Hanhart

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015204 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Upper limits for the photoproduction cross section for the $Φ^{- -} (1860)$ pentaquark state off the deuteron

H. Egiyan et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015205 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Nuclear Astrophysics

Attempt to detect primordial $^{244}$ Pu on Earth

Johannes Lachner, Iris Dillmann, Thomas Faestermann, Gunther Korschinek, Mikhail Poutivtsev, Georg Rugel, Christoph Lierse von Gostomski, Andreas Türler, and Udo Gerstmann

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015801 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

$β$ decays of isotones with neutron magic number of $N = 126$ and $r$ -process nucleosynthesis

Toshio Suzuki, Takashi Yoshida, Toshitaka Kajino, and Takaharu Otsuka

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015802 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Experimental determination of the $^{41}$ Ca( $n$ , $α$ ) $^{38}$ Ar reaction cross section up to 80 keV, and calculation of the Maxwellian averaged cross section at stellar temperatures

S. Vermote, C. Wagemans, L. De Smet, C. Lampoudis, and J. Van Gils

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015803 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Role of higher order couplings in the presence of kaons in relativistic mean field description of neutron stars

Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015804 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Strong $^{25} Al + p$ resonances via elastic proton scattering with a radioactive $^{25} Al$ beam

J. Chen, A. A. Chen, G. Amádio, S. Cherubini, H. Fujikawa, S. Hayakawa, J. J. He, N. Iwasa, D. Kahl, L. H. Khiem, S. Kubono, S. Kurihara, Y. K. Kwon, M. La Cognata, J. Y. Moon, M. Niikura, S. Nishimura, J. Pearson, R. G. Pizzone, T. Teranishi, Y. Togano, Y. Wakabayashi, and H. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015805 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Phase separation in low-density neutron matter

Alexandros Gezerlis and Rishi Sharma

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015806 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Proton fraction in the inner neutron-star crust

J. Piekarewicz and G. Toledo Sánchez

Phys. Rev. C 85, 015807 (2012) - Published 31 January, 2012

BRIEF REPORTS

Vector analyzing powers of deuteron-proton elastic scattering and breakup at 130 MeV

I. Ciepał et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 017001 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Collectivity in $^{66}$ Ge and $^{68}$ Ge via lifetime measurements

R. Lüttke, E. A. McCutchan, V. Werner, K. Aleksandrova, S. Atwater, H. Ai, R. J. Casperson, R. F. Casten, A. Heinz, A. F. Mertz, J. Qian, B. Shoraka, J. R. Terry, E. Williams, and R. Winkler

Phys. Rev. C 85, 017301 (2012) - Published 3 January, 2012

Structures of nuclei in $α$ -decay chains of $^{291, 293} 117$

A. N. Kuzmina, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko

Phys. Rev. C 85, 017302 (2012) - Published 5 January, 2012

Spectroscopy of $^{26}$ F

M. Stanoiu et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 017303 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Excited states of the $^{150}$ Pm odd-odd nucleus

D. Bucurescu, E. Drăgulescu, S. Pascu, H-F. Wirth, D. Filipescu, G. Căta-Danil, I. Căta-Danil, D. Deleanu, K. Eppinger, T. Faestermann, D. G. Ghiţă, T. Glodariu, R. Hertenberger, M. Ivaşcu, R. Krücken, N. Mărginean, R. Mărginean, C. Mihai, A. Negret, T. Sava, L. Stroe, K. Wimmer, and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. C 85, 017304 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Measurement of the $^{96}$ Ru $g (4_{1}^{+})$ factor and its nuclear structure interpretation

D. A. Torres, G. J. Kumbartzki, Y. Y. Sharon, L. Zamick, B. Manning, N. Benczer-Koller, K.-H. Speidel, T. Ahn, V. Anagnostatou, M. Elvers, P. Goddard, A. Heinz, G. Ilie, D. Radeck, D. Savran, V. Werner, G. Gürdal, M. J. Taylor, P. Maier-Komor, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and S. J. Q. Robinson

Phys. Rev. C 85, 017305 (2012) - Published 30 January, 2012

Volume 85, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear Reactions

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Nuclear Astrophysics

BRIEF REPORTS

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