Volume 86, Issue 2

August 2012

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering as a probe of neutron density distributions

Kelly Patton, Jonathan Engel, Gail C. McLaughlin, and Nicolas Schunck

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024612 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Examining a reduced jet-medium coupling in Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Barbara Betz and Miklos Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024903 (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Overlap of quasiparticle random-phase approximation states for nuclear matrix elements of the neutrino-less double- $β$ decay

J. Terasaki

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021301(R) (2012) - Published 2 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Localized form of Fock terms in nuclear covariant density functional theory

Haozhao Liang (梁豪兆), Pengwei Zhao (赵鹏巍), Peter Ring, Xavier Roca-Maza, and Jie Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021302(R) (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Reexamination and extension of the liquid drop model: Correlation between liquid drop parameters and curvature term

L. G. Moretto, P. T. Lake, L. Phair, and J. B. Elliott

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021303(R) (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Second random-phase approximation with the Gogny force: First applications

D. Gambacurta, M. Grasso, V. De Donno, G. Co', and F. Catara

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021304(R) (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Limits on Majoron-emitting double- $β$ decays of $^{136}$ Xe in the KamLAND-Zen experiment

A. Gando et al. (KamLAND-Zen Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021601(R) (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Elastic proton scattering of medium mass nuclei from coupled-cluster theory

G. Hagen and N. Michel

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021602(R) (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Tracking saddle-to-scission dynamics using $N / Z$ in projectile breakup reactions

S. Hudan, A. B. McIntosh, R. T. de Souza, S. Bianchin, J. Black, A. Chbihi, M. Famiano, M. O. Frégeau, J. Gauthier, D. Mercier, J. Moisan, C. J. Metelko, R. Roy, C. Schwarz, W. Trautmann, and R. Yanez

Phys. Rev. C 86, 021603(R) (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of the second peak in the cross section of $K^{+} Λ$ photoproduction

T. Mart and M. J. Kholili

Phys. Rev. C 86, 022201(R) (2012) - Published 10 August, 2012

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Determination of the $^{8}$ B( $p$ , $γ$ ) $^{9}$ C reaction rate from $^{9}$ C breakup

Tokuro Fukui, Kazuyuki Ogata, Kosho Minomo, and Masanobu Yahiro

Phys. Rev. C 86, 022801(R) (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Short-range nuclear forces in singlet channels

Bingwei Long and C.-J. Yang

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024001 (2012) - Published 1 August, 2012

Effective range corrections from effective field theory with dibaryon fields and perturbative pions

Shung-Ichi Ando and Chang Ho Hyun

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024002 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Separable potential model for meson-baryon interaction beyond the $S$ wave

Vojtěch Krejčiřík

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024003 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Nuclear Structure

Theoretical investigation of the double- $β$ processes in $^{96}$ Ru

Jouni Suhonen

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024301 (2012) - Published 3 August, 2012

Specific shear viscosity in hot rotating systems of paired fermions

N. Quang Hung and N. Dinh Dang

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024302 (2012) - Published 3 August, 2012

Giant monopole resonances and nuclear incompressibilities studied for the zero-range and separable pairing interactions

P. Veselý, J. Toivanen, B. G. Carlsson, J. Dobaczewski, N. Michel, and A. Pastore

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024303 (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

Curved and diffuse interface effects on the nuclear surface tension

V. M. Kolomietz, S. V. Lukyanov, and A. I. Sanzhur

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024304 (2012) - Published 7 August, 2012

Intruder–normal-state mixing in $^{30}$ Mg

H. T. Fortune

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024305 (2012) - Published 8 August, 2012

Correlations in nuclear matter

M. Baldo and H. R. Moshfegh

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024306 (2012) - Published 9 August, 2012

$β$ - $γ$ and $β$ -delayed neutron- $γ$ decay of neutron-rich copper isotopes

A. Korgul, K. P. Rykaczewski, J. A. Winger, S. V. Ilyushkin, C. J. Gross, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, I. N. Borzov, C. Goodin, R. Grzywacz, J. H. Hamilton, W. Królas, S. N. Liddick, C. Mazzocchi, C. Nelson, F. Nowacki, S. Padgett, A. Piechaczek, M. M. Rajabali, D. Shapira, K. Sieja, and E. F. Zganjar

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024307 (2012) - Published 10 August, 2012

Fission-barrier heights of neutron-deficient mercury nuclei

M. Veselský, A. N. Andreyev, S. Antalic, M. Huyse, P. Möller, K. Nishio, A. J. Sierk, P. Van Duppen, and M. Venhart

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024308 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

Number-conserving approach to the pairing problem: Application to Kr and Sn isotopic chains

Guillaume Hupin and Denis Lacroix

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024309 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Three-body properties of low-lying $^{12}$ Be resonances

E. Garrido, A. S. Jensen, D. V. Fedorov, and J. G. Johansen

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024310 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Proton-neutron symmetry in $^{92}$ Zr, $^{94}$ Mo with Skyrme interactions in a separable approximation

A. P. Severyukhin, N. N. Arsenyev, and N. Pietralla

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024311 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

High-resolution study of Gamow-Teller transitions with the $^{37}$ Cl( $^{3} He, t$ ) $^{37}$ Ar reaction

Y. Shimbara, Y. Fujita, T. Adachi, G. P. A. Berg, H. Fujimura, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, K. Hara, K. Y. Hara, K. Hatanaka, J. Kamiya, K. Katori, T. Kawabata, K. Nakanishi, G. Martìnez-Pinedo, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimizu, Y. Tameshige, M. Uchida, M. Yoshifuku, and M. Yosoi

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024312 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

Heine-Stieltjes correspondence and the polynomial approach to the standard pairing problem

Xin Guan, Kristina D. Launey, Mingxia Xie, Lina Bao, Feng Pan, and Jerry P. Draayer

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024313 (2012) - Published 28 August, 2012

Schematic and realistic model calculations of the isovector spin monopole excitations in $^{116}$ In

D. R. Bes, O. Civitarese, and J. Suhonen

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024314 (2012) - Published 28 August, 2012

Systematic study of $p$ -shell nuclei via single-nucleon knockout reactions

G. F. Grinyer, D. Bazin, A. Gade, J. A. Tostevin, P. Adrich, M. D. Bowen, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, T. Glasmacher, S. McDaniel, A. Obertelli, K. Siwek, J. R. Terry, D. Weisshaar, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024315 (2012) - Published 29 August, 2012

Shape transition and fluctuations in neutron-rich Cr isotopes around $N = 40$

Koichi Sato, Nobuo Hinohara, Kenichi Yoshida, Takashi Nakatsukasa, Masayuki Matsuo, and Kenichi Matsuyanagi

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024316 (2012) - Published 29 August, 2012

Relativistic energy density functional description of shape transitions in superheavy nuclei

V. Prassa, T. Nikšić, G. A. Lalazissis, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024317 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Tensor-optimized shell model for the Li isotopes with a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction

Takayuki Myo, Atsushi Umeya, Hiroshi Toki, and Kiyomi Ikeda

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024318 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Second order phase transitions from octupole-nondeformed to octupole-deformed shape in the alternating parity bands of nuclei around $^{240}$ Pu based on data

R. V. Jolos, P. von Brentano, and J. Jolie

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024319 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

High-spin structure and intruder excitations in $^{36}$ Cl

S. Aydin et al.

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024320 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

In-beam $γ$ -ray spectroscopy of $^{43 - 46}$ Cl

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

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024321 (2012) - Published 31 August, 2012

Nuclear Reactions

Fission modes of mercury isotopes

M. Warda, A. Staszczak, and W. Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024601 (2012) - Published 7 August, 2012

Analyticity of the time dependence of resonance poles: Solving the Friedrichs model with a time-dependent interaction

O. Civitarese and M. Gadella

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024602 (2012) - Published 8 August, 2012

Capture of $K^{-}$ by the $^{4}$ He atom and the internal Auger effect in the $K α e$ kaonic atom

S. Z. Kalantari, Sh. Sanayehajari, and M. Dayyanikelisani

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024603 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

Monte Carlo eikonal scattering

W. R. Gibbs and J. P. Dedonder

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024604 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Isospin observables from fragment energy spectra

T. X. Liu, W. G. Lynch, R. H. Showalter, M. B. Tsang, X. D. Liu, W. P. Tan, M. J. van Goethem, G. Verde, A. Wagner, H. F. Xi, H. S. Xu, M. A. Famiano, R. T. de Souza, V. E. Viola, R. J. Charity, and L. G. Sobotka

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024605 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

Effects of medium on nuclear properties in multifragmentation

J. N. De, S. K. Samaddar, X. Viñas, M. Centelles, I. N. Mishustin, and W. Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024606 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Fusion reaction studies for the $^{6}$ Li $+$ $^{90}$ Zr system at near-barrier energies

H. Kumawat, V. Jha, V. V. Parkar, B. J. Roy, S. K. Pandit, R. Palit, P. K. Rath, C. S. Palshetkar, Sushil K. Sharma, Shital Thakur, A. K. Mohanty, A. Chatterjee, and S. Kailas

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024607 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Single-particle dissipation in a time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach studied from a phase-space perspective

N. Loebl, A. S. Umar, J. A. Maruhn, P.-G. Reinhard, P. D. Stevenson, and V. E. Oberacker

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024608 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

Photonuclear production of cosmogenic beryllium-7 in the terrestrial atmosphere

M. V. Bezuglov, V. S. Malyshevsky, G. V. Fomin, A. V. Torgovkin, B. I. Shramenko, and T. V. Malykhina

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024609 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

Contrasting fission potential-energy structure of actinides and mercury isotopes

Takatoshi Ichikawa, Akira Iwamoto, Peter Möller, and Arnold J. Sierk

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024610 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

Meson production in high-energy electron-nucleus scattering

Göran Fäldt

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024611 (2012) - Published 28 August, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering as a probe of neutron density distributions

Kelly Patton, Jonathan Engel, Gail C. McLaughlin, and Nicolas Schunck

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024612 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Systematic studies on $α$ -decay fine structure of odd-odd nuclei in the region $83 \leq Z \leq 101$

K. P. Santhosh and Jayesh George Joseph

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024613 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Glauber-model analysis of total reaction cross sections for Ne, Mg, Si, and S isotopes with Skyrme-Hartree-Fock densities

W. Horiuchi, T. Inakura, T. Nakatsukasa, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024614 (2012) - Published 31 August, 2012

Systematic study of the isotopic dependence of fusion dynamics for neutron- and proton-rich nuclei using a proximity formalism

O. N. Ghodsi, R. Gharaei, and F. Lari

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024615 (2012) - Published 31 August, 2012

Consistent analysis of neutral- and charged-current neutrino scattering off carbon

Artur M. Ankowski

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024616 (2012) - Published 31 August, 2012

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Effects of minijets on hadronic spectra and azimuthal harmonics in Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV

Rudolph C. Hwa and Lilin Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024901 (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

Centrality dependence of charged-hadron pseudorapidity distributions in PbPb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in the relativistic diffusion model

David M. Röhrscheid and Georg Wolschin

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024902 (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Examining a reduced jet-medium coupling in Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Barbara Betz and Miklos Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024903 (2012) - Published 6 August, 2012

Relation between baryon number fluctuations and experimentally observed proton number fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Masakiyo Kitazawa and Masayuki Asakawa

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024904 (2012) - Published 7 August, 2012

Parton showers as sources of energy-momentum deposition in the quark-gluon plasma and their implication for shockwave formation at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

R. B. Neufeld and I. Vitev

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024905 (2012) - Published 8 August, 2012

Di-electron spectrum at mid-rapidity in $p + p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024906 (2012) - Published 8 August, 2012

Shocks in quark-gluon plasmas

Edward Shuryak

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024907 (2012) - Published 10 August, 2012

Method for separating jets and the underlying event in heavy ion collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

J. A. Hanks, A. M. Sickles, B. A. Cole, A. Franz, M. P. McCumber, D. P. Morrison, J. L. Nagle, C. H. Pinkenburg, B. Sahlmueller, P. Steinberg, M. von Steinkirch, and M. Stone

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024908 (2012) - Published 10 August, 2012

Nuclear-modification factor for open-heavy-flavor production at forward rapidity in Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024909 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Decomposition of flow and nonflow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Lingshan Xu, Li Yi, Daniel Kikola, Joshua Konzer, Fuqiang Wang, and Wei Xie

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024910 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Effects of initial flow velocity fluctuation in event-by-event (3+1)D hydrodynamics

Longgang Pang, Qun Wang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024911 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

New method for measuring longitudinal fluctuations and directed flow in ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions

L. P. Csernai, G. Eyyubova, and V. K. Magas

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024912 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Hadron mass spectrum and the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of hot hadronic matter

Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Jorge Noronha, and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024913 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

Two-particle interferometry for the sources undergoing a first-order QCD phase transition in high-energy heavy ion collisions

Hong-Jie Yin, Jing Yang, Wei-Ning Zhang, and Li-Li Yu

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024914 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

Gluon dissociation of $J / ψ$ in anisotropic quark-gluon plasma

Mahatsab Mandal and Pradip Roy

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024915 (2012) - Published 29 August, 2012

Morphology of high-multiplicity events in heavy ion collisions

P. Naselsky, C. H. Christensen, P. R. Christensen, P. H. Damgaard, A. Frejsel, J. J. Gaardhøje, A. Hansen, M. Hansen, J. Kim, O. Verkhodanov, and U. A. Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024916 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Chemical and mechanical instability in warm and dense nuclear matter

A. Lavagno and D. Pigato

Phys. Rev. C 86, 024917 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Hadronic Physics and QCD

$Σ$ resonances from $K^{-} N \to π Λ$ reactions with center-of-mass energies from 1550 to 1676 MeV

Puze Gao, Jun Shi, and B. S. Zou

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025201 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

Processes $e^{+} e^{-} \to π π (π^{'})$ in the extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model

M. K. Volkov and D. G. Kostunin

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025202 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Surface tension of quark matter in a geometrical approach

Marcus B. Pinto, Volker Koch, and Jørgen Randrup

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025203 (2012) - Published 27 August, 2012

General analysis and numerical estimations of polarization observables in the $\bar{p} + p \to π^{0} + e^{+} + e^{-}$ reaction in an exclusive experimental setup

G. I. Gakh, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, A. Dbeyssi, and A. G. Gakh

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025204 (2012) - Published 30 August, 2012

Nuclear Astrophysics

Level structure of $^{18}$ Ne and its importance in the $^{14}$ O( $α$ , $p$ ) $^{17}$ F reaction rate

S. Almaraz-Calderon, W. P. Tan, A. Aprahamian, B. Bucher, A. Roberts, M. Wiescher, C. R. Brune, T. N. Massey, N. Özkan, R. T. Güray, and H. Mach

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025801 (2012) - Published 1 August, 2012

Ultracold-neutron trap as a tool to search for dark matter interacting with long-range forces

A. P. Serebrov, O. M. Zherebtsov, A. K. Fomin, and M. S. Onegin

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025802 (2012) - Published 9 August, 2012

Vertex renormalization of weak interactions in compact stars: Beyond leading order

Armen Sedrakian

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025803 (2012) - Published 10 August, 2012

Generic constraints on the relativistic mean-field and Skyrme-Hartree-Fock models from the pure neutron matter equation of state

F. J. Fattoyev, W. G. Newton, Jun Xu, and Bao-An Li

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025804 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Phase transition toward strange matter

F. Gulminelli, Ad. R. Raduta, and M. Oertel

Phys. Rev. C 86, 025805 (2012) - Published 31 August, 2012

BRIEF REPORTS

Spin assignments of rotational bands in $^{128}$ La

K. Y. Ma (马克岩), J. B. Lu (陆景彬), D. Yang (杨东), H. D. Wang (王辉东), Y. Z. Liu (刘运祚), X. G. Wu (吴晓光), Y. Zheng (郑云), and C. Y. He (贺创业)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 027301 (2012) - Published 1 August, 2012

High-spin states in near-spherical $^{88}$ Y

C. J. Xu (徐长江), S. Y. Wang (王守宇), C. Y. Niu (牛晨阳), C. Liu (刘晨), B. Qi (亓斌), D. P. Sun (孙大鹏), L. Liu (刘雷), P. Zhang (张盼), Z. Q. Li (李志泉), Z. Wang (王振), X. G. Wu (吴晓光), G. S. Li (李广生), C. Y. He (贺创业), Y. Zheng (郑云), B. B. Yu (于蓓蓓), C. B. Li (李聪博), S. P. Hu (胡世鹏), S. H. Yao (姚顺和), X. P. Cao (曹雪鹏), and J. L. Wang (汪金龙)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 027302 (2012) - Published 7 August, 2012

La-138/139 isotopic data and neutron fluences for Oklo RZ10 reactor

C. R. Gould and E. I. Sharapov

Phys. Rev. C 86, 027601 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Higher order corrections to density and temperature of fermions from quantum fluctuations

Hua Zheng and Aldo Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 86, 027602 (2012) - Published 31 August, 2012

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Level structure of $^{18}$ Ne and its importance in the $^{14}$ O( $α$ , $p$ ) $^{17}$ F reaction rate [Phys. Rev. C 86, 025801 (2012)]

S. Almaraz-Calderon, W. P. Tan, A. Aprahamian, B. Bucher, A. Roberts, M. Wiescher, C. R. Brune, T. N. Massey, N. Özkan, R. T. Güray, and H. Mach

Phys. Rev. C 86, 029901 (2012) - Published 10 August, 2012