Volume 85, Issue 2

A. Chyzh, C. Y. Wu, E. Kwan, R. A. Henderson, J. M. Gostic, T. A. Bredeweg, R. C. Haight, A. C. Hayes-Sterbenz, M. Jandel, J. M. O’Donnell, and J. L. Ullmann

Phys. Rev. C 85, 021601(R) (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Revealing baryon number fluctuations from proton number fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Masakiyo Kitazawa and Masayuki Asakawa

Phys. Rev. C 85, 021901(R) (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Lattice QCD calculation of nuclear parity violation

Joseph Wasem

Phys. Rev. C 85, 022501(R) (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Resonances in $^{19}$ Ne with relevance to the astrophysically important $^{18}$ F( $p$ , $α$ ) $^{15}$ O reaction

D. J. Mountford, A. St J. Murphy, N. L. Achouri, C. Angulo, J. R. Brown, T. Davinson, F. de Oliveira Santos, N. de Séréville, P. Descouvemont, O. Kamalou, A. M. Laird, S. T. Pittman, P. Ujic, and P. J. Woods

Phys. Rev. C 85, 022801(R) (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Cooling of the neutron star in Cassiopeia A

D. Blaschke, H. Grigorian, D. N. Voskresensky, and F. Weber

Phys. Rev. C 85, 022802(R) (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Total nucleon-nucleon cross sections in large $N_{c}$ QCD

Thomas D. Cohen and Boris A. Gelman

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024001 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

Charge independence, charge symmetry breaking in the $S$ -wave nucleon-nucleon interaction, and renormalization

A. Calle Cordón, M. Pavón Valderrama, and E. Ruiz Arriola

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024002 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Comparative study of three-nucleon potentials in nuclear matter

Alessandro Lovato, Omar Benhar, Stefano Fantoni, and Kevin E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024003 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Nuclear Structure

Volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients

H. Jiang, G. J. Fu, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024301 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Nuclear matter fourth-order symmetry energy in the relativistic mean field models

Bao-Jun Cai and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024302 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

$^{6}$ He-triton cluster states in $^{9}$ Li

Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo and Tadahiro Suhara

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024303 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Nuclear energy density optimization: Large deformations

M. Kortelainen, J. McDonnell, W. Nazarewicz, P.-G. Reinhard, J. Sarich, N. Schunck, M. V. Stoitsov, and S. M. Wild

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024304 (2012) - Published 8 February, 2012

Single-nucleon potential decomposition of the nuclear symmetry energy

Rong Chen, Bao-Jun Cai, Lie-Wen Chen, Bao-An Li, Xiao-Hua Li, and Chang Xu

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024305 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Calculated fission yields of neutron-deficient mercury isotopes

Peter Möller, Jørgen Randrup, and Arnold J. Sierk

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024306 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Subtraction of the spurious translational mode from the random-phase approximation response function

Kazuhito Mizuyama and Gianluca Colò

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024307 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

High-resolution study of Gamow-Teller transitions via the $^{54}$ Fe( $^{3}$ He, $t$ ) $^{54}$ Co reaction

T. Adachi et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024308 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Core-coupled protons, $f_{7 / 2}$ intruder states, and competing $g_{9 / 2}$ proton and neutron structures in $^{65, 67}$ Cu

C. J. Chiara, I. Stefanescu, W. B. Walters, S. Zhu, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, R. Broda, B. Fornal, A. A. Hecht, N. Hoteling, E. G. Jackson, B. P. Kay, W. Królas, T. Lauritsen, E. A. McCutchan, T. Pawłat, D. Seweryniak, X. Wang, A. Wöhr, and J. Wrzesiński

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024309 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Temperature dependence of the symmetry energy of finite nuclei

J. N. De and S. K. Samaddar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024310 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

In-beam spectroscopic studies of the $^{44}$ S nucleus

L. Cáceres et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024311 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

Deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum

Lulu Li (李璐璐), Jie Meng (孟杰), P. Ring, En-Guang Zhao (赵恩广), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024312 (2012) - Published 16 February, 2012

Discovery of isomers in dysprosium, holmium, and erbium isotopes with $N = 94$ to 97

T. P. D. Swan, P. M. Walker, Zs. Podolyák, M. W. Reed, G. D. Dracoulis, G. J. Lane, T. Kibédi, and M. L. Smith

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024313 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Fission barriers in covariant density functional theory: Extrapolation to superheavy nuclei

H. Abusara, A. V. Afanasjev, and P. Ring

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024314 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Search for superheavy elements with $292 ⩽ A ⩽ 310$ in nature with accelerator mass spectrometry

P. Ludwig, T. Faestermann, G. Korschinek, G. Rugel, I. Dillmann, L. Fimiani, S. Bishop, and P. Kumar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024315 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Application of random-phase approximation to vibrational excitations of double- $Λ$ hypernuclei

F. Minato and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024316 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Penning-trap mass measurements of the neutron-rich K and Ca isotopes: Resurgence of the $N = 28$ shell strength

A. Lapierre, M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, S. Ettenauer, P. Finlay, A. T. Gallant, V. V. Simon, P. Delheij, D. Lunney, R. Ringle, H. Savajols, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024317 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Magnetic rotations in $^{198}$ Pb and $^{199}$ Pb within covariant density functional theory

L. F. Yu (余灵妃), P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍), S. Q. Zhang (张双全), P. Ring, and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024318 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Measuring the absolute decay probability of $^{82}$ Sr by ion implantation

C. J. Gross, K. P. Rykaczewski, D. W. Stracener, M. Wolinska-Cichocka, R. L. Varner, D. Miller, C. U. Jost, M. Karny, A. Korgul, S. Liu, and M. Madurga

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024319 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

$α$ decay chains study for the recently observed superheavy element $Z = 117$ within the isospin cluster model

Sushil Kumar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024320 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Microscopic approach to the proton asymmetry in the nonmesonic weak decay of $Λ$ hypernuclei

E. Bauer, G. Garbarino, A. Parreño, and A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024321 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Mean-field calculations of the ground states of exotic nuclei

G. Co’, V. De Donno, P. Finelli, M. Grasso, M. Anguiano, A. M. Lallena, C. Giusti, A. Meucci, and F. D. Pacati

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024322 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Effect of time-odd mean fields on inertial parameters of the quadrupole collective Hamiltonian

N. Hinohara, Z. P. Li, T. Nakatsukasa, T. Nikšić, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024323 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Residual interactions and the K-mixing-induced fast decay of the three-quasiparticle isomer in $^{171}$ Tm

Fang-Qi Chen (陈芳祁), Yan-Xin Liu (刘艳鑫), Yang Sun (孙扬), P. M. Walker, and G. D. Dracoulis

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024324 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Nuclear Reactions

Low-lying dipole response: Isospin character and collectivity in $^{68}$ Ni, $^{132}$ Sn, and $^{208}$ Pb

X. Roca-Maza, G. Pozzi, M. Brenna, K. Mizuyama, and G. Colò

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024601 (2012) - Published 3 February, 2012

Influence of in-medium $N N$ cross sections, symmetry potential, and impact parameter on isospin observables

Yingxun Zhang (张英逊), D. D. S. Coupland, P. Danielewicz, Zhuxia Li (李祝霞), Hang Liu (刘航), Fei Lu (卢飞), W. G. Lynch (連致標), and M. B. Tsang (曾敏兒)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024602 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Finite-size effects in isobaric ratios

S. R. Souza and M. B. Tsang

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024603 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Fusion-evaporation residue as a dynamical decay process in the $^{48}$ Ca + $^{249}$ Bk $\to$ $^{297} 117$ $^{*}$ reaction

Kirandeep Sandhu, Manoj K. Sharma, and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024604 (2012) - Published 6 February, 2012

Near- and sub-barrier fusion of $^{20}$ O incident ions with $^{12}$ C target nuclei

M. J. Rudolph, Z. Q. Gosser, K. Brown, S. Hudan, R. T. de Souza, A. Chbihi, B. Jacquot, M. Famiano, J. F. Liang, D. Shapira, and D. Mercier

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024605 (2012) - Published 7 February, 2012

Surface term optical model nonlocality in the $N A$ elastic scattering process

M. I. Jaghoub

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024606 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Fusion of $^{40} Ca +^{40} Ca$ and other $Ca + Ca$ systems near and below the barrier

G. Montagnoli, A. M. Stefanini, C. L. Jiang, H. Esbensen, L. Corradi, S. Courtin, E. Fioretto, A. Goasduff, F. Haas, A. F. Kifle, C. Michelagnoli, D. Montanari, T. Mijatović, K. E. Rehm, R. Silvestri, Pushpendra P. Singh, F. Scarlassara, S. Szilner, X. D. Tang, and C. A. Ur

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024607 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Event-by-event evaluation of the prompt fission neutron spectrum from $^{239} Pu (n, f)$

R. Vogt, J. Randrup, D. A. Brown, M. A. Descalle, and W. E. Ormand

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024608 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Probing the $^{17} F + p$ potential by elastic scattering at near-barrier energies

N. Patronis et al.

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024609 (2012) - Published 14 February, 2012

$^{176}$ Lu/ $^{175}$ Lu thermometry for the Oklo natural reactors: A new examination of old data

C. R. Gould and E. I. Sharapov

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024610 (2012) - Published 15 February, 2012

Production of $^{265}$ Sg in the $^{248}$ Cm( $^{22}$ Ne,5 $n$ ) $^{265}$ Sg reaction and decay properties of two isomeric states in $^{265}$ Sg

H. Haba, D. Kaji, Y. Kudou, K. Morimoto, K. Morita, K. Ozeki, R. Sakai, T. Sumita, A. Yoneda, Y. Kasamatsu, Y. Komori, A. Shinohara, H. Kikunaga, H. Kudo, K. Nishio, K. Ooe, N. Sato, and K. Tsukada

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024611 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Nuclear fission cross sections induced by deuterons of 4 GeV

S. Stoulos, W. Westmeier, R. Hashemi-Nezhad, M. Fragopoulou, A. Lagoyannis, and M. Zamani

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024612 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Utilizing ( $p$ , $d$ ) and ( $p$ , $t$ ) reactions to obtain ( $n$ , $f$ ) cross sections in uranium nuclei via the surrogate-ratio method

R. O. Hughes, C. W. Beausang, T. J. Ross, J. T. Harke, N. D. Scielzo, M. S. Basunia, C. M. Campbell, R. J. Casperson, H. L. Crawford, J. E. Escher, J. Munson, L. W. Phair, and J. J. Ressler

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024613 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Kaon and hyperon production in antiproton-induced reactions on nuclei

A. B. Larionov, T. Gaitanos, and U. Mosel

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024614 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Skyrme forces and the fusion-fission dynamics of the $^{132} Sn +^{64} Ni \to {^{196} Pt}^{*}$ reaction

Deepika Jain, Raj Kumar, Manoj K. Sharma, and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024615 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Role of neutron transfer in capture processes at sub-barrier energies

V. V. Sargsyan, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, W. Scheid, and H. Q. Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024616 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Antineutrino monitoring of burning mixed oxide plutonium fuels

A. C. Hayes, H. R. Trellue, Michael Martin Nieto, and W. B. Wilson

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024617 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Hard-photon flow and photon-photon correlation in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

Y. G. Ma (马余刚), G. H. Liu (刘桂华), X. Z. Cai (蔡翔舟), D. Q. Fang (方德清), W. Guo (郭威), W. Q. Shen (沈文庆), W. D. Tian (田文栋), and H. W. Wang (王宏伟)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024618 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Neutron scattering from $^{208}$ Pb at 30.4 and 40.0 MeV and isospin dependence of the nucleon optical potential

R. P. DeVito, Dao T. Khoa, Sam M. Austin, U. E. P. Berg, and Bui Minh Loc

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024619 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Sensitivity of neutron to proton ratio toward the high density behavior of the symmetry energy in heavy-ion collisions

Sanjeev Kumar, Y. G. Ma, G. Q. Zhang, and C. L. Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024620 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Projectile fragmentation reactions of $^{40}$ Ar at 57 MeV/nucleon

X. H. Zhang (章学恒), Z. Y. Sun (孙志宇), R. F. Chen (陈若富), Z. Q. Chen (陈志强), Z. Y. Guo (郭忠言), J. L. Han (韩建龙), Z. G. Hu (胡正国), T. H. Huang (黄天衡), R. S. Mao (毛瑞士), Z. G. Xu (徐治国), M. Wang (王猛), J. S. Wang (王建松), Y. Wang (王玥), G. Q. Xiao (肖国青), H. S. Xu (徐瑚珊), X. H. Yuan (袁小华), H. B. Zhang (张宏斌), X. Y. Zhang (张雪荧), and T. C. Zhao (赵铁成)

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024621 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Neutron resonance parameters in $^{155}$ Gd measured with the DANCE $γ$ -ray calorimeter array

B. Baramsai, G. E. Mitchell, U. Agvaanluvsan, F. Bečvář, T. A. Bredeweg, A. Chyzh, A. Couture, D. Dashdorj, R. C. Haight, M. Jandel, A. L. Keksis, M. Krtička, J. M. O'Donnell, R. S. Rundberg, J. L. Ullmann, D. J. Vieira, and C. L. Walker

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024622 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Mass distribution in the 50-, 60-, and 70-MeV bremsstrahlung-induced fission of $^{232}$ Th

H. Naik, T. N. Nathaniel, A. Goswami, G. N. Kim, M. W. Lee, S. V. Suryanarayana, S. Ganesan, E. A. Kim, M.-H. Cho, and K. L. Ramakumar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024623 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Systematic study of ( $n$ , $p$ ) reaction cross sections from the reaction threshold to 20 MeV

B. Lalremruata, N. Otuka, G. J. Tambave, V. K. Mulik, B. J. Patil, S. D. Dhole, A. Saxena, S. Ganesan, and V. N. Bhoraskar

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024624 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Higher flow harmonics from $(3 + 1)$ D event-by-event viscous hydrodynamics

Björn Schenke, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024901 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

$γ$ -charge correlation in heavy ion collisions: Various approaches

Prithwish Tribedy, Subhasis Chattopadhyay, and Aihong Tang

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024902 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012

Predictions for $p$ $+$ Pb at 4.4 $A$ TeV to test initial-state nuclear shadowing at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

G. G. Barnaföldi, J. Barrette, M. Gyulassy, P. Levai, and V. Topor Pop

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024903 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Dispersion of longitudinal momentum distributions induced in fragmentation reactions

A. Bacquias, V. Föhr, D. Henzlova, A. Kelić-Heil, M. V. Ricciardi, and K.-H. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024904 (2012) - Published 13 February, 2012

Fluid dynamical equations and transport coefficients of relativistic gases with non-extensive statistics

T. S. Biró and E. Molnár

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024905 (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

Di-electron production from vector mesons with medium modifications in heavy ion collisions

Hao-jie Xu, Hong-fang Chen, Xin Dong, Qun Wang, and Yi-fei Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024906 (2012) - Published 17 February, 2012

Predictions for the production of light nuclei in $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 14 TeV

Yu-Liang Yan, Gang Chen, Xiao-Mei Li, Dai-Mei Zhou, Mei-Juan Wang, Shou-Yang Hu, Li Ye, and Ben-Hao Sa

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024907 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Mapping the hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions

Fernando G. Gardim, Frédérique Grassi, Matthew Luzum, and Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024908 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

2 + 1 dimensional hydrodynamics including bulk viscosity: A systematic study

Victor Roy and A. K. Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024909 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Analysis of dilepton production in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV within the parton-hadron-string dynamics transport approach

O. Linnyk, W. Cassing, J. Manninen, E. L. Bratkovskaya, and C. M. Ko

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024910 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Pion production by protons and $^{3}$ He on a $^{197}$ Au target at beam energies of 2.8, 5, 10, and 16.587 GeV/nucleon

Gao-Chan Yong, Xurong Chen, Hu-Shan Xu, and Wei Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 85, 024911 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Updated SAID analysis of pion photoproduction data

Ron L. Workman, William J. Briscoe, Mark W. Paris, and Igor I. Strakovsky

Phys. Rev. C 85, 025201 (2012) - Published 10 February, 2012

Phase structure of a chiral model with dilatons in hot and dense matter

Chihiro Sasaki and Igor Mishustin

Phys. Rev. C 85, 025202 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

$D^{-}$ mesic atoms

C. García-Recio, J. Nieves, L. L. Salcedo, and L. Tolos

Phys. Rev. C 85, 025203 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Baryon resonances in a chiral hadronic model for the QCD equation of state

Philip Rau, Jan Steinheimer, Stefan Schramm, and Horst Stöcker

Phys. Rev. C 85, 025204 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Nucleon and Roper electromagnetic elastic and transition form factors

D. J. Wilson, I. C. Cloët, L. Chang, and C. D. Roberts

Phys. Rev. C 85, 025205 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

$β$ decay of $^{32}$ Cl: Precision $γ$ -ray spectroscopy and a measurement of isospin-symmetry breaking

D. Melconian, S. Triambak, C. Bordeanu, A. García, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, N. Nica, H. I. Park, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, I. S. Towner, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Phys. Rev. C 85, 025501 (2012) - Published 9 February, 2012