Volume 86, Issue 5

Y. Oktem, D. L. Balabanski, B. Akkus, L. Amon Susam, L. Atanasova, C. W. Beausang, R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, M. Danchev, M. Djongolov, E. Ganioğlu, K. A. Gladnishki, J. Tm. Goon, D. J. Hartley, A. A. Hecht, R. Krücken, J. R. Novak, G. Rainovski, L. L. Riedinger, T. Venkova, I. Yigitoglu, N. V. Zamfir, and O. Zeidan

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054305 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Electromagnetic transition strengths in soft deformed nuclei

L. M. Robledo and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054306 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Interplay of classical and quantal features within the coherent-state model

A. A. Raduta and C. M. Raduta

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054307 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Collective and two-quasiparticle excitations in $^{128}$ Te

S. F. Hicks, J. C. Boehringer, N. Boukharouba, C. Fransen, S. R. Lesher, J. M. Mueller, J. R. Vanhoy, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054308 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

New parametrization of Skyrme's interaction for regularized multireference energy density functional calculations

K. Washiyama, K. Bennaceur, B. Avez, M. Bender, P.-H. Heenen, and V. Hellemans

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054309 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Nonaxial shapes in the odd-odd $^{194}$ Au nucleus

B. S. Gao, X. H. Zhou, Y. D. Fang, Y. H. Zhang, S. C. Wang, N. T. Zhang, M. L. Liu, J. G. Wang, F. Ma, Y. X. Guo, X. G. Wu, C. Y. He, Y. Zheng, Z. M. Wang, S. C. Li, X. L. Yan, L. He, Z. G. Wang, Y. Zheng, F. Fang, and X. M. Chen

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054310 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Transition probabilities in the U(3,3) limit of the symplectic interacting vector boson model

H. G. Ganev

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054311 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Resonant states of deformed nuclei in the complex scaling method

Quan Liu, Jian-You Guo, Zhong-Ming Niu, and Shou-Wan Chen

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054312 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Microscopic study of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance in Cd, Sn, and Pb isotopes

Li-Gang Cao, H. Sagawa, and G. Colò

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054313 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

High-spin structure, $K$ isomers, and state mixing in the neutron-rich isotopes $^{173}$ Tm and $^{175}$ Tm

R. O. Hughes, G. J. Lane, G. D. Dracoulis, A. P. Byrne, P. H. Nieminen, H. Watanabe, M. P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, R. V. F. Janssens, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, D. Seweryniak, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054314 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Spectra of open-shell nuclei with Padé-resummed degenerate perturbation theory

Joachim Langhammer, Robert Roth, and Christina Stumpf

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054315 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isospin-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi $β$ decay in isospin- and angular-momentum-projected nuclear density functional theory

W. Satuła, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, and T. R. Werner

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054316 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock versus chiral effective field theory

Francesca Sammarruca, B. Chen, L. Coraggio, N. Itaco, and R. Machleidt

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054317 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Pair correlation of giant halo nuclei in continuum Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory

Y. Zhang (张颖), M. Matsuo (松尾正之), and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054318 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Observation of new microsecond isomers among fission products from in-flight fission of 345 MeV/nucleon $^{238}$ U

D. Kameda et al.

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054319 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

High-spin structure in $^{40}$ K

P.-A. Söderström et al. (AGATA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054320 (2012) - Published 27 November, 2012

Long-lived isomers in neutron-rich $Z = 72$ –76 nuclides

M. W. Reed et al.

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054321 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Yrast structure of $^{206}$ Bi: Isomeric states and one-proton-particle, three-neutron-hole excitations

N. Cieplicka, K. H. Maier, B. Fornal, B. Szpak, R. V. F. Janssens, M. Alcorta, R. Broda, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Chiara, C. R. Hoffman, B. P. Kay, F. G. Kondev, W. Królas, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, E. A. McCutchan, T. Pawłat, A. M. Rogers, D. Seweryniak, N. Sharp, W. B. Walters, J. Wrzesiński, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054322 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

High-resolution $^{96}$ Zr( $^{3}$ He, $t$ ) experiment and the matrix element for double- $β$ decay

J. H. Thies, P. Puppe, T. Adachi, M. Dozono, H. Ejiri, D. Frekers, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, E.-W. Grewe, K. Hatanaka, P. Heinrichs, D. Ishikawa, N. T. Khai, A. Lennarz, H. Matsubara, H. Okamura, Y. Y. Oo, T. Ruhe, K. Suda, A. Tamii, H. P. Yoshida, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054323 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Effect of nondiagonal lowest order constrained variational effective two-body matrix elements on the binding energy of closed shell nuclei

M. Modarres and H. Mariji

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054324 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Nuclear Reactions

Impact of prompt-neutron corrections on final fission-fragment distributions

A. Al-Adili, F.-J. Hambsch, S. Pomp, and S. Oberstedt

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054601 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

$γ$ -ray fluxes in Oklo natural reactors

C. R. Gould, E. I. Sharapov, and A. A. Sonzogni

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054602 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Projectile deformation effects on single-nucleon removal reactions

E. C. Simpson and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054603 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

One- and two-neutron removal reactions from the most neutron-rich carbon isotopes

N. Kobayashi et al.

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054604 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Nuclear spin relaxation in ionic dielectrics at low temperatures via conduction electrons in metallic covering

E. V. Tkalya

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054605 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Neutrino energy reconstruction in quasielastic-like scattering in the MiniBooNE and T2K experiments

O. Lalakulich, U. Mosel, and K. Gallmeister

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054606 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Mass-yield distributions of fission products from photofission of $^{232}$ Th induced by 45- and 80-MeV bremsstrahlung

H. Naik, A. Goswami, G. N. Kim, M. W. Lee, K. S. Kim, S. V. Suryanarayana, E. A. Kim, S. G. Shin, and M.-H. Cho

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054607 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Systematic calculation of fine structure in the $α$ decay of heavy odd-mass nuclei

Dongdong Ni and Zhongzhou Ren

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054608 (2012) - Published 28 November, 2012

Microscopic two-nucleon overlaps and knockout reactions from $^{12}$ C

E. C. Simpson, P. Navrátil, R. Roth, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054609 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Search for a systematic behavior of the breakup probability in reactions with weakly bound projectiles at energies around the Coulomb barrier

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

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054610 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Temperature determined by isobaric yield ratios in heavy-ion collisions

C. W. Ma (马春旺), J. Pu (普洁), Y. G. Ma (马余刚), R. Wada, and S. S. Wang (王闪闪)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054611 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Results of a systematic study of dijet suppression measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

C. E. Coleman-Smith and B. Müller

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054901 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Shear viscosity of a strongly interacting system: Green-Kubo correlator versus Chapman-Enskog and relaxation-time approximations

S. Plumari, A. Puglisi, F. Scardina, and V. Greco

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054902 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

System-size and centrality dependence of charged kaon and pion production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at 40 $A$ GeV and 158 $A$ GeV beam energy

T. Anticic et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054903 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quenching of high- $p_{T}$ hadrons: Energy loss versus color transparency

B. Z. Kopeliovich, J. Nemchik, I. K. Potashnikova, and Iván Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054904 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Holographic jets in an expanding plasma

Alexander Stoffers and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054905 (2012) - Published 13 November, 2012

Hadron yield correlation in quark combination models in high-energy $A A$ collisions

Rui-qin Wang, Feng-lan Shao, Jun Song, Qu-bing Xie, and Zuo-tang Liang

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054906 (2012) - Published 14 November, 2012

Components of the dilepton continuum in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV

V. Kumar, P. Shukla, and R. Vogt

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054907 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Inclusive charged hadron elliptic flow in Au $+$ Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 7.7$ –39 GeV

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054908 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Strangeness balance in HADES experiments and the $Ξ^{-}$ enhancement

E. E. Kolomeitsev, B. Tomášik, and D. N. Voskresensky

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054909 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Antimatter production in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

Gang Chen, Yu-Liang Yan, De-Sheng Li, Dai-Mei Zhou, Mei-Juan Wang, Bao-Guo Dong, and Ben-Hao Sa

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054910 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Thermal conductivity and chiral critical point in heavy ion collisions

Joseph I. Kapusta and Juan M. Torres-Rincon

Phys. Rev. C 86, 054911 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Strategy to find the two $Λ (1405)$ states from lattice QCD simulations

A. Martínez Torres, M. Bayar, D. Jido, and E. Oset

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055201 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Evidence for a narrow $D_{03}$ state in $K^{-} p \to η Λ$ near threshold

Bo-Chao Liu and Ju-Jun Xie

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055202 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Multichannel parametrization of $π N$ scattering amplitudes and extraction of resonance parameters

M. Shrestha and D. M. Manley

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055203 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

$Δ$ -resonance contribution to the two-photon exchange amplitude

Dmitry Borisyuk and Alexander Kobushkin

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055204 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Relativistic quantum mechanics and the quark-pair creation model

Michael G. Fuda

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055205 (2012) - Published 30 November, 2012

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Measurement of the neutron $β$ -asymmetry parameter $A_{0}$ with ultracold neutrons

B. Plaster et al. (UCNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055501 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Nuclear Astrophysics

Proton capture on $^{17}$ O and its astrophysical implications

A. Kontos, J. Görres, A. Best, M. Couder, R. deBoer, G. Imbriani, Q. Li, D. Robertson, D. Schürmann, E. Stech, E. Uberseder, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055801 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Direct measurement of the $^{16}$ O( $α$ , $γ$ ) $^{20}$ Ne reaction at $E_{c . m .} = 2.43$ MeV and 1.69 MeV

U. Hager, L. Buchmann, B. Davids, J. Fallis, U. Greife, D. A. Hutcheon, D. Irvine, D. Ottewell, A. Rojas, S. Reeve, and C. Ruiz

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055802 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Plasma effects on resonant fusion

R. F. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055803 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Properties of the outer crust of strongly magnetized neutron stars from Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov atomic mass models

N. Chamel, R. L. Pavlov, L. M. Mihailov, Ch. J. Velchev, Zh. K. Stoyanov, Y. D. Mutafchieva, M. D. Ivanovich, J. M. Pearson, and S. Goriely

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055804 (2012) - Published 21 November, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological characterization of neutron star crusts

C. O. Dorso, P. A. Giménez Molinelli, and J. A. López

Phys. Rev. C 86, 055805 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

BRIEF REPORTS

Search for the neutron-rich hypernucleus $_{Λ}^{9}$ He

M. Agnello et al. (FINUDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057301 (2012) - Published 1 November, 2012

Neutron unbound states in $^{28}$ Ne and $^{25}$ F

J. K. Smith, T. Baumann, B. A. Brown, G. Christian, J. E. Finck, C. R. Hoffman, Z. Kohley, S. Mosby, J. F. Novak, S. J. Quinn, J. Snyder, A. Spyrou, M. J. Strongman, and M. Thoennessen (MoNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057302 (2012) - Published 6 November, 2012

Investigation of anomalously high transition strength for the $2_{1}^{+}$ state in $^{174}$ Os through lifetime measurement

C. B. Li, X. G. Wu, X. F. Li, C. Y. He, Y. Zheng, G. S. Li, S. H. Yao, S. P. Hu, H. W. Li, J. L. Wang, J. J. Liu, C. Xu, J. J. Sun, and W. W. Qu

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057303 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Nonaxial-octupole $Y_{32}$ correlations in $N = 150$ isotones from multidimensional constrained covariant density functional theories

Jie Zhao (赵杰), Bing-Nan Lu (吕炳楠), En-Guang Zhao (赵恩广), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057304 (2012) - Published 20 November, 2012

Candidate antimagnetic rotational band in $^{112}$ In

X. W. Li (李晓伟), J. Li (李剑), J. B. Lu (陆景彬), K. Y. Ma (马克岩), Y. H. Wu (吴义恒), L. H. Zhu (竺礼华), C. Y. He (贺创业), X. Q. Li (李雪琴), Y. Zheng (郑云), G. S. Li (李广生), X. G. Wu (吴晓光), Y. J. Ma (马英君), and Y. Z. Liu (刘运祚)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057305 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012

Precise $γ$ -ray intensity measurements in $^{10}$ B

E. A. McCutchan, C. J. Lister, M. Elvers, D. Savran, J. P. Greene, T. Ahmed, T. Ahn, N. Cooper, A. Heinz, R. O. Hughes, G. Ilie, B. Pauerstein, D. Radeck, N. Shenkov, and V. Werner

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057306 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Excitation function measurements of $^{12}$ C( $^{4}$ He, $^{8}$ Be) $^{8}$ Be, $^{12}$ C( $^{4}$ He, $^{12}$ C[7.65, $0^{+}$ ]) $^{4}$ He, and $^{12}$ C( $^{4}$ He, $^{12}$ C[9.64, $3^{-}$ ]) $^{4}$ He reactions

A. Soylu, M. Freer, N. I. Ashwood, N. Curtis, T. Munoz-Britton, S. Spencer, C. Wheldon, V. Ziman, S. Brown, J. S. Thomas, G. Wilson, and G. Goldring

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057601 (2012) - Published 15 November, 2012

Quarter-point angle for light, weakly bound projectiles

Jin Lei (金磊), J. S. Wang (王建松), S. Mukherjee, Q. Wang (王琦), R. Wada, Y. Y. Yang (杨彦云), J. B. Chen (陈江波), J. L. Hang (韩建龙), M. R. Huang (黄美容), Z. Bai (白真), P. Ma (马朋), S. L. Jin (金仕纶), J. B. Ma (马军兵), Y. Li (李勇), and M. H. Zhao (赵明辉)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057602 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

Phenomenological formula of total reaction cross sections for low-energy systems

Jin Lei (金磊), J. S. Wang (王建松), S. Mukherjee, Q. Wang (王琦), and R. Wada

Phys. Rev. C 86, 057603 (2012) - Published 29 November, 2012

ERRATA

Erratum: Symmetries in the $g_{9 / 2}$ shell [Phys. Rev. C 86, 047306 (2012)]

L. Zamick and A. Escuderos

Phys. Rev. C 86, 059901 (2012) - Published 12 November, 2012

Publisher's Note: Two-proton decay of $^{12}$ O and its isobaric analog state in $^{12}$ N [Phys. Rev. C 86, 011304(R) (2012)]

M. F. Jager, R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, J. Manfredi, M. H. Mahzoon, L. G. Sobotka, M. McCleskey, R. G. Pizzone, B. T. Roeder, A. Spiridon, E. Simmons, L. Trache, and M. Kurokawa

Phys. Rev. C 86, 059902 (2012) - Published 16 November, 2012

Erratum: Hadron spectra and elliptic flow for 200 $A$ GeV Au+Au collisions from viscous hydrodynamics coupled to a Boltzmann cascade [Phys. Rev. C 83, 054910 (2011)]

Huichao Song, Steffen A. Bass, Ulrich Heinz, Tetsufumi Hirano, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. C 86, 059903 (2012) - Published 19 November, 2012

Erratum: Polarized proton $+^{4, 6, 8} He$ elastic scattering with breakup effects in the eikonal approximation [Phys. Rev. C 86, 044601 (2012)]

K. Kaki, Y. Suzuki, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. C 86, 059904 (2012) - Published 21 November, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Search for the neutron-rich hypernucleus $_{Λ}^{9}$ He [Phys. Rev. C 86, 057301 (2012)]

M. Agnello et al. (FINUDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 86, 059905 (2012) - Published 26 November, 2012