Volume 87, Issue 5

May 2013

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Production cross sections from $^{82}$ Se fragmentation as indications of shell effects in neutron-rich isotopes close to the drip-line

O. B. Tarasov, M. Portillo, D. J. Morrissey, A. M. Amthor, L. Bandura, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, J. S. Berryman, B. A. Brown, G. Chubarian, N. Fukuda, A. Gade, T. N. Ginter, M. Hausmann, N. Inabe, T. Kubo, J. Pereira, B. M. Sherrill, A. Stolz, C. Sumithrarachichi, M. Thoennessen, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054612 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-beam setup for coherently controlling nuclear-state population

Wen-Te Liao, Adriana Pálffy, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054609 (2013) - Published 14 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Investigation of the triple- $α$ reaction in a full three-body approach

N. B. Nguyen, F. M. Nunes, and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054615 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determination of the coexistence curve, critical temperature, density, and pressure of bulk nuclear matter from fragment emission data

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

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054622 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equation of state of hypernuclear matter: Impact of hyperon–scalar-meson couplings

Giuseppe Colucci and Armen Sedrakian

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055806 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Angular distributions of the vector $A_{y}$ and tensor $A_{y y}$ , $A_{x x}$ , $A_{x z}$ analyzing powers in the $\vec{d} d \to^{3} H p$ reaction at 200 MeV

A. K. Kurilkin, T. Saito, V. P. Ladygin, T. Uesaka, M. Hatano, A. Yu. Isupov, M. Janek, H. Kato, N. B. Ladygina, Y. Maeda, A. I. Malakhov, J. Nishikawa, T. Ohnishi, H. Okamura, S. G. Reznikov, H. Sakai, N. Sakamoto, S. Sakoda, Y. Satou, K. Sekiguchi, K. Suda, A. Tamii, N. Uchigashima, T. A. Vasiliev, and K. Yako

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051001(R) (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Use of the discrete variable representation basis in nuclear physics

Aurel Bulgac and Michael McNeil Forbes

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051301(R) (2013) - Published 3 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Evolution of surface deformations of weakly bound nuclei in the continuum

J. C. Pei, Y. N. Zhang, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051302(R) (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nuclear $β^{+}$ /EC decays in covariant density functional theory and the impact of isoscalar proton-neutron pairing

Z. M. Niu (牛中明), Y. F. Niu (牛一斐), Q. Liu (刘泉), H. Z. Liang (梁豪兆), and J. Y. Guo (郭建友)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051303(R) (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Decay pattern of the pygmy dipole resonance in $^{60}$ Ni

M. Scheck, V. Yu. Ponomarev, T. Aumann, J. Beller, M. Fritzsche, J. Isaak, J. H. Kelley, E. Kwan, N. Pietralla, R. Raut, C. Romig, G. Rusev, D. Savran, K. Sonnabend, A. P. Tonchev, W. Tornow, H. R. Weller, and M. Zweidinger

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051304(R) (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Proton pair correlations and the neutrinoless double- $β$ decay of $^{76}$ Ge

A. Roberts, A. M. Howard, J. J. Kolata, A. N. Villano, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, M. Febbraro, S. J. Freeman, B. P. Kay, S. A. McAllister, A. J. Mitchell, J. P. Schiffer, J. S. Thomas, and R. O. Torres-Isea

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051305(R) (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Constraining the density dependence of the symmetry energy from nuclear masses

B. K. Agrawal, J. N. De, S. K. Samaddar, G. Colò, and A. Sulaksono

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051306(R) (2013) - Published 29 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Exploring postsaddle nuclear dissipation with light-particle multiplicity at high energy

N. Wang and W. Ye

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051601(R) (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Improved values for the characteristics of prompt-fission $γ$ -ray spectra from the reaction $^{235}$ U( $n_{th}$ , $f$ )

A. Oberstedt, T. Belgya, R. Billnert, R. Borcea, T. Bryś, W. Geerts, A. Göök, F.-J. Hambsch, Z. Kis, T. Martinez, S. Oberstedt, L. Szentmiklosi, K. Takàcs, and M. Vidali

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051602(R) (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics from kinetic theory with relaxation-time approximation

Amaresh Jaiswal

Phys. Rev. C 87, 051901(R) (2013) - Published 21 May, 2013

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Functional renormalization group for few-nucleon systems: SU(4) symmetry and its breaking

Michael C. Birse, Boris Krippa, and Niels R. Walet

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054001 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

Calculation of proton- $^{3}$ He elastic scattering between 7 and 35 MeV

A. Deltuva and A. C. Fonseca

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054002 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Elastic $\bar{p} d$ scattering and total $\bar{p} d$ cross sections

Yu. N. Uzikov and J. Haidenbauer

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054003 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Combined analysis of $η^{'}$ production reactions: $γ N \to η^{'} N$ , $N N \to N N η^{'}$ , and $π N \to η^{'} N$

F. Huang, H. Haberzettl, and K. Nakayama

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054004 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Polarization observables in low-energy antiproton-proton scattering

Daren Zhou and Rob G. E. Timmermans

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054005 (2013) - Published 23 May, 2013

$^{2}$ H $(e, e^{'} p)$ observables using a Regge model parametrization of final-state interactions

William P. Ford, Sabine Jeschonnek, and J. W. Van Orden

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054006 (2013) - Published 24 May, 2013

Chiral three-nucleon force at N $^{4}$ LO. II. Intermediate-range contributions

H. Krebs, A. Gasparyan, and E. Epelbaum

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054007 (2013) - Published 29 May, 2013

Nuclear Structure

Resonant $α$ scattering of $^{6}$ He: Limits of clustering in $^{10}$ Be

D. Suzuki, A. Shore, W. Mittig, J. J. Kolata, D. Bazin, M. Ford, T. Ahn, F. D. Becchetti, S. Beceiro Novo, D. Ben Ali, B. Bucher, J. Browne, X. Fang, M. Febbraro, A. Fritsch, E. Galyaev, A. M. Howard, N. Keeley, W. G. Lynch, M. Ojaruega, A. L. Roberts, and X. D. Tang

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054301 (2013) - Published 2 May, 2013

Collective nature of low-lying excitations in $^{70, 72, 74}$ Zn from lifetime measurements using the AGATA spectrometer demonstrator

C. Louchart et al.

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054302 (2013) - Published 3 May, 2013

Fluctuating parts of nuclear ground-state correlation energies

B. G. Carlsson, J. Toivanen, and U. von Barth

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054303 (2013) - Published 3 May, 2013

Isospin nonconservation in $s d$ -shell nuclei

Yi Hua Lam (蓝乙华), Nadezda A. Smirnova, and Etienne Caurier

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054304 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

Beyond relativistic mean-field studies of low-lying states in neutron-deficient krypton isotopes

Y. Fu, H. Mei, J. Xiang, Z. P. Li, J. M. Yao, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054305 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

Microscopic study of tetrahedrally symmetric nuclei by an angular-momentum and parity projection method

Shingo Tagami, Yoshifumi R. Shimizu, and Jerzy Dudek

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054306 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Structure of $^{80}$ Ge revealed by the $β$ decay of isomeric states in $^{80}$ Ga: Triaxiality in the vicinity of $^{78}$ Ni

D. Verney, B. Tastet, K. Kolos, F. Le Blanc, F. Ibrahim, M. Cheikh Mhamed, E. Cottereau, P. V. Cuong, F. Didierjean, G. Duchêne, S. Essabaa, M. Ferraton, S. Franchoo, L. H. Khiem, C. Lau, J.-F. Le Du, I. Matea, B. Mouginot, M. Niikura, B. Roussière, I. Stefan, D. Testov, and J.-C. Thomas

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054307 (2013) - Published 9 May, 2013

Rotational properties of the superheavy nucleus $^{256}$ Rf and its neighboring even-even nuclei in a particle-number-conserving cranked shell model

Zhen-Hua Zhang (张振华), Jie Meng (孟杰), En-Guang Zhao (赵恩广), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054308 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Low-lying excited states in the neutron-deficient isotopes $^{163}$ Os and $^{165}$ Os

M. C. Drummond et al.

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054309 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Feasibility of the finite-amplitude method in covariant density functional theory

Haozhao Liang (梁豪兆), Takashi Nakatsukasa (中務孝), Zhongming Niu (牛中明), and Jie Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054310 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

$α$ -decay spectroscopy of the chain $^{179}$ Tl $^{g} \to^{175}$ Au $^{g} \to^{171}$ Ir $^{g} \to^{167}$ Re $^{m}$

A. N. Andreyev et al.

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054311 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

Structure of $p$ -shell nuclei using three-nucleon interactions evolved with the similarity renormalization group

E. D. Jurgenson, P. Maris, R. J. Furnstahl, P. Navrátil, W. E. Ormand, and J. P. Vary

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054312 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

Giant dipole resonance in $^{88}$ Mo from phonon damping model strength functions averaged over temperature and angular momentum distributions

N. Dinh Dang, M. Ciemala, M. Kmiecik, and A. Maj

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054313 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Nuclear superfluidity for antimagnetic rotation in $^{105}$ Cd and $^{106}$ Cd

Zhen-Hua Zhang (张振华), Peng-Wei Zhao (赵鹏巍), Jie Meng (孟杰), Jin-Yan Zeng (曾谨言), En-Guang Zhao (赵恩广), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054314 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Comparison of $1 n$ and $2 n$ prescriptions for matter radii

H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054315 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

High-spin structures of $_{55}^{136}$ Cs $_{81}$

A. Astier, M.-G. Porquet, G. Duchêne, F. Azaiez, D. Curien, I. Deloncle, O. Dorvaux, B. J. P. Gall, M. Houry, R. Lucas, P. C. Srivastava, N. Redon, M. Rousseau, O. Stézowski, and Ch. Theisen

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054316 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Properties of trapped neutrons interacting with realistic nuclear Hamiltonians

Pieter Maris, James P. Vary, S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, and Steven C. Pieper

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054318 (2013) - Published 16 May, 2013

Influence of electron screening on $α$ decay

F. F. Karpeshin

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054319 (2013) - Published 16 May, 2013

Spectroscopy of the proton drip-line nucleus $^{203}$ Fr

U. Jakobsson, S. Juutinen, J. Uusitalo, M. Leino, K. Auranen, 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 87, 054320 (2013) - Published 17 May, 2013

Quantitative study of coherent pairing modes with two-neutron transfer: Sn isotopes

G. Potel, A. Idini, F. Barranco, E. Vigezzi, and R. A. Broglia

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054321 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Structure of chlorine isotopes populated by heavy ion transfer reactions

S. Szilner et al.

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054322 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Attempt to probe nuclear charge radii by cluster and proton emissions

Yibin Qian, Zhongzhou Ren, and Dongdong Ni

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054323 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

New nuclear structure features in transactinide nuclei

D. Bucurescu and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054324 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Magnetic moments of 2 $_{1}^{+}$ states in $^{124, 126, 128}$ Sn

J. M. Allmond, A. E. Stuchbery, D. C. Radford, A. Galindo-Uribarri, N. J. Stone, C. Baktash, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, M. Danchev, C. J. Gross, P. A. Hausladen, K. Lagergren, Y. Larochelle, E. Padilla-Rodal, and C.-H. Yu

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054325 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Character and prevalence of third minima in actinide fission barriers

Takatoshi Ichikawa, Peter Möller, and Arnold J. Sierk

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054326 (2013) - Published 21 May, 2013

Third minima in thorium and uranium isotopes in a self-consistent theory

J. D. McDonnell, W. Nazarewicz, and J. A. Sheikh

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054327 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

$α$ decay of $_{97}^{249}$ Bk and levels in $_{95}^{245}$ Am

I. Ahmad, J. P. Greene, F. G. Kondev, S. Zhu, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, R. A. Boll, J. G. Ezold, S. M. Van Cleve, and E. Browne

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054328 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

Proton decay of excited states in $^{12}$ N and $^{13}$ O and the astrophysical $^{11}$ C( $p$ , ${γ)}^{12}$ N reaction rate

L. G. Sobotka, W. W. Buhro, R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, M. F. Jager, J. Manfredi, M. H. Mahzoon, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, V. Eremenko, M. McCleskey, R. G. Pizzone, B. T. Roeder, A. Spiridon, E. Simmons, L. Trache, M. Kurokawa, and P. Navrátil

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054329 (2013) - Published 23 May, 2013

Effects of ground-state correlations on collective excitations of $^{16}$ O

Mitsuru Tohyama

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054330 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Odd-even staggering of the nuclear binding energy described by covariant density functional theory with calculations for spherical nuclei

Long Jun Wang (王龙军), Bao Yuan Sun (孙保元), Jian Min Dong (董建敏), and Wen Hui Long (龙文辉)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054331 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Half-Skyrmions and the equation of state for compact-star matter

Huan Dong, T. T. S. Kuo, Hyun Kyu Lee, R. Machleidt, and Mannque Rho

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054332 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

Energies within the $A = 10$ isospin quintet

R. Sherr and H. T. Fortune

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054333 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

Novel and simple description for a smooth transition from $α$ -cluster wave functions to $j j$ -coupling shell model wave functions

Tadahiro Suhara, Naoyuki Itagaki, József Cseh, and Marek Płoszajczak

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054334 (2013) - Published 31 May, 2013

Nuclear Reactions

Effect of spin-spin interactions on nucleon-nucleus scattering

E. S. Cunningham, J. S. Al-Khalili, and R. C. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054601 (2013) - Published 1 May, 2013

0 $^{+}$ cross-section ratio in $^{12}$ Be( $p$ , $t$ ) $^{10}$ Be

H. T. Fortune

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054602 (2013) - Published 2 May, 2013

γ-ray cascade transitions in $^{112}$ Cd and $^{114}$ Cd following resonance capture of epithermal neutrons

G. Rusev, M. Jandel, M. Krtička, T. A. Bredeweg, A. Couture, T. N. Taddeucci, and J. L. Ullmann

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054603 (2013) - Published 3 May, 2013

Photofission of $^{232}$ Th and $^{238}$ U at intermediate energies

A. Deppman, E. Andrade-II, V. Guimarães, G. S. Karapetyan, and N. A. Demekhina

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054604 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

Evaluation of the neutron energy spectrum, angular distribution, and yield of the $^{9}$ Be( $d$ , $n$ ) reaction with a thick beryllium target

Z. Wei (韦峥), Y. Yan (严岩), Z. E. Yao (姚泽恩), C. L. Lan (兰长林), and J. Wang (王洁)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054605 (2013) - Published 9 May, 2013

Quasielastic backscattering and barrier distributions for the $^{6, 7} Li +^{64} Zn$ systems

M. Zadro, P. Figuera, A. Di Pietro, M. Fisichella, M. Lattuada, T. Lönnroth, M. Milin, V. Ostashko, M. G. Pellegriti, V. Scuderi, D. Stanko, E. Strano, and D. Torresi

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054606 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Isospin transport in $^{84}$ Kr+ $^{112, 124}$ Sn collisions at Fermi energies

S. Barlini et al. (FAZIA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054607 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

Charmonium production in antiproton-nucleus reactions at low energies

A. B. Larionov, M. Bleicher, A. Gillitzer, and M. Strikman

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054608 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-beam setup for coherently controlling nuclear-state population

Wen-Te Liao, Adriana Pálffy, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054609 (2013) - Published 14 May, 2013

Fusion-evaporation residues and $α$ -decay chains of the superheavy element $Z = 115$ formed in the $^{243}$ Am $+$ $^{48}$ Ca reaction using the dynamical cluster-decay model

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

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054610 (2013) - Published 14 May, 2013

Dispersive coupled-channels optical-model potential with soft-rotator couplings for Cr, Fe, and Ni isotopes

Rui Li, Weili Sun, E. Sh. Soukhovitskiĩ, J. M. Quesada, and R. Capote

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054611 (2013) - Published 17 May, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Production cross sections from $^{82}$ Se fragmentation as indications of shell effects in neutron-rich isotopes close to the drip-line

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054612 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Measurement of the elastic scattering cross section of neutrons from argon and neon

S. MacMullin, M. Kidd, R. Henning, W. Tornow, C. R. Howell, and M. Brown

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054613 (2013) - Published 21 May, 2013

$α$ -clustering effects in dissipative $^{12}$ C $+$ $^{12}$ C reactions at 95 MeV

G. Baiocco, L. Morelli, F. Gulminelli, M. D’Agostino, M. Bruno, U. Abbondanno, S. Barlini, M. Bini, S. Carboni, G. Casini, M. Cinausero, M. Degerlier, F. Gramegna, V. L. Kravchuk, T. Marchi, A. Olmi, G. Pasquali, S. Piantelli, and Ad. R. Raduta

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054614 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Investigation of the triple- $α$ reaction in a full three-body approach

N. B. Nguyen, F. M. Nunes, and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054615 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

Microscopic in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections with improved Pauli blocking effects

B. Chen, F. Sammarruca, and C. A. Bertulani

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054616 (2013) - Published 23 May, 2013

Structure of $^{8}$ B from elastic and inelastic $^{7}$ Be+ $p$ scattering

J. P. Mitchell, G. V. Rogachev, E. D. Johnson, L. T. Baby, K. W. Kemper, A. M. Moro, P. Peplowski, A. S. Volya, and I. Wiedenhöver

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054617 (2013) - Published 23 May, 2013

Anisotropy of the angular distribution of fission fragments in heavy-ion fusion-fission reactions: The influence of the level-density parameter and the neck thickness

D. Naderi, M. R. Pahlavani, and S. A. Alavi

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054618 (2013) - Published 23 May, 2013

Interplay of anisotropies of momentum distribution and mean field in heavy-ion collisions

Christian H. Simon and Paweł Danielewicz

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054619 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Elastic and quasi-elastic electron scattering off nuclei with neutron excess

Andrea Meucci, Matteo Vorabbi, Carlotta Giusti, Franco Davide Pacati, and Paolo Finelli

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054620 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Experimental studies of the $^{249}$ Bk + $^{48}$ Ca reaction including decay properties and excitation function for isotopes of element 117, and discovery of the new isotope $^{277}$ Mt

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054621 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determination of the coexistence curve, critical temperature, density, and pressure of bulk nuclear matter from fragment emission data

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

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054622 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

Spin observables in $71 A$ MeV $^{6, 8}$ He-hydrogen scattering

S. Karataglidis and K. Amos

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054623 (2013) - Published 31 May, 2013

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Event-by-event distributions of azimuthal asymmetries in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

H. Niemi, G. S. Denicol, H. Holopainen, and P. Huovinen

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054901 (2013) - Published 2 May, 2013

Effects of initial-state fluctuations on jet-energy loss

Hanzhong Zhang, Taesoo Song, and Che Ming Ko

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054902 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Spinodal density enhancements in simulations of relativistic nuclear collisions

Jan Steinheimer and Jørgen Randrup

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054903 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

Early thermalization of quark-gluon matter with the elastic scattering of $g g q$ and $g g \bar{q}$

Xiao-Ming Xu, Zhen-Yu Shen, Zhi-Cheng Ye, and Wei-Jie Xu

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054904 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Production of antinuclei and hypernuclei in a relativistic Hagedorn resonance gas model

Subrata Pal and Walter Greiner

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054905 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Universal centrality dependence of particle multiplicities in heavy-ion collisions

H. J. Pirner, K. Reygers, and B. Z. Kopeliovich

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054906 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Direct photon production in $d$ +Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054907 (2013) - Published 17 May, 2013

$π^{+} π^{-}$ and $π^{0} π^{0}$ pair production in photon-photon scattering and ultraperipheral ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

M. Kłusek-Gawenda and A. Szczurek

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054908 (2013) - Published 24 May, 2013

Spectator-induced electromagnetic effect on directed flow in heavy ion collisions

A. Rybicki and A. Szczurek

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054909 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

Impact-parameter dependence of the nuclear modification of $J / ψ$ production in $d$ +Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV

D. McGlinchey, A. D. Frawley, and R. Vogt

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054910 (2013) - Published 30 May, 2013

Hadronic Physics and QCD

$Λ (1405)$ poles obtained from $π^{0} Σ^{0}$ photoproduction data

L. Roca and E. Oset

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055201 (2013) - Published 3 May, 2013

Theoretical analysis of $Λ (1405) \to {(Σ π)}^{0}$ mass spectra produced in $p + p \to p + Λ (1405) + K^{+}$ reactions

Maryam Hassanvand, Seyed Zafarollah Kalantari, Yoshinori Akaishi, and Toshimitsu Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055202 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

Isospin symmetry breaking and the neutron-proton mass difference

N. F. Nasrallah

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055203 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

Case in favor of the $N^{*} (1700) (3 / 2^{-})$

E. J. Garzon, J. J. Xie, and E. Oset

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055204 (2013) - Published 14 May, 2013

Incompleteness of complete pseudoscalar-meson photoproduction

Tom Vrancx, Jan Ryckebusch, Tom Van Cuyck, and Pieter Vancraeyveld

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055205 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Ordinary muon capture in hydrogen reexamined

U. Raha, F. Myhrer, and K. Kubodera

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055501 (2013) - Published 24 May, 2013

Lorentz violation in neutron decay and allowed nuclear $β$ decay

J. P. Noordmans, H. W. Wilschut, and R. G. E. Timmermans

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055502 (2013) - Published 31 May, 2013

Nuclear Astrophysics

Interplay between the symmetry energy and the strangeness content of neutron stars

Constança Providência and Aziz Rabhi

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055801 (2013) - Published 9 May, 2013

Systematic study of ( $p, γ$ ) reactions on Ni isotopes

A. Simon et al.

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055802 (2013) - Published 9 May, 2013

Dynamics of the inner crust of neutron stars: Hydrodynamics, elasticity, and collective modes

D. Kobyakov and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055803 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

Three-body calculations of the triple- $α$ reaction

S. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055804 (2013) - Published 13 May, 2013

Time-dependent Hartree-Fock approach to nuclear “pasta” at finite temperature

B. Schuetrumpf, M. A. Klatt, K. Iida, J. A. Maruhn, K. Mecke, and P.-G. Reinhard

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055805 (2013) - Published 14 May, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equation of state of hypernuclear matter: Impact of hyperon–scalar-meson couplings

Giuseppe Colucci and Armen Sedrakian

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055806 (2013) - Published 20 May, 2013

Low lying modes of triplet-condensed neutron matter and their effective theory

Paulo F. Bedaque and Amy N. Nicholson

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055807 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

Relative proton and $γ$ widths of astrophysically important states in $^{30}$ S studied in the $β$ -delayed decay of $^{31}$ Ar

G. T. Koldste, B. Blank, M. J. G. Borge, J. A. Briz, M. Carmona-Gallardo, L. M. Fraile, H. O. U. Fynbo, J. Giovinazzo, J. G. Johansen, A. Jokinen, B. Jonson, T. Kurturkian-Nieto, J. H. Kusk, T. Nilsson, A. Perea, V. Pesudo, E. Picado, K. Riisager, A. Saastamoinen, O. Tengblad, J.-C. Thomas, and J. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055808 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Strangeness-driven phase transition in (proto-)neutron star matter

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

Phys. Rev. C 87, 055809 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

BRIEF REPORTS

Neutrinoless double-positron decay and positron-emitting electron capture in the interacting boson model

J. Barea, J. Kotila, and F. Iachello

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057301 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

New high-spin level scheme of neutron-rich $^{112}$ Rh

S. H. Liu, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, S. J. Zhu, Y. Shi, F. R. Xu, J. C. Batchelder, N. T. Brewer, J. K. Hwang, Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, W. C. Ma, A. V. Daniel, G. M. Ter-Akopian, and Yu. Ts. Oganessian

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057302 (2013) - Published 9 May, 2013

Multiphonon $γ$ -vibrational bands in the $γ$ -soft nucleus $^{138}$ Nd

H. J. Li (李红洁), Z. G. Xiao (肖志刚), S. J. Zhu (朱胜江), E. Y. Yeoh (杨韵颐), Y. X. Liu (刘艳鑫), Y. Sun (孙扬), Z. Zhang (张钊), R. S. Wang (王仁生), H. Yi (易晗), W. H. Yan (闫威华), Q. Xu (徐强), X. G. Wu (吴晓光), C. Y. He (贺创业), Y. Zheng (郑云), G. S. Li (李广生), C. B. Li (李聪博), H. W. Li (李红伟), J. J. Liu (刘嘉健), S. P. Hu (胡世鹏), J. L. Wang (汪金龙), and S. H. Yao (姚顺和)

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057303 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

New features of the Garvey-Kelson mass relations

Z. He, M. Bao, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057304 (2013) - Published 15 May, 2013

Systematics of nuclear ground-state properties of Sr isotopes by covariant density functional theory

Yuan Tian and Ying Cui

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057305 (2013) - Published 22 May, 2013

$β$ decay spectroscopy of light Nd isotopes

E. A. McCutchan, R. F. Casten, V. Werner, R. J. Casperson, A. Heinz, J. Qian, B. Shoraka, J. R. Terry, E. Williams, and R. Winkler

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057306 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Precision measurement of the 9.641 MeV, 3 $^{-}$ state in $^{12}$ C

Tz. Kokalova, M. Freer, Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Förtsch, H. Fujita, R. Neveling, P. Papka, F. D. Smit, J. A. Swartz, and I. Usman

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057307 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Connection between separation energy and matter radius: Application to $^{34}$ Na

H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057308 (2013) - Published 28 May, 2013

Yield measurements for resonances above the multi- $α$ threshold in $^{20}$ Ne

Tz. Kokalova, M. Freer, N. Curtis, N. I. Ashwood, M. Barr, J. D. Malcolm, C. Wheldon, V. A. Ziman, S. Almaraz-Calderon, A. Aprahamian, B. Bucher, M. Couder, X. Fang, F. Jung, W. Lu, A. Roberts, W. P. Tan, P. Copp, and S. R. Lesher

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057309 (2013) - Published 29 May, 2013

Formation of superheavy elements in the capture of very heavy ions at high excitation energies

G. Royer

Phys. Rev. C 87, 057601 (2013) - Published 31 May, 2013

Gamow peak approximation near strong resonances

Sachie Kimura and Aldo Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 87, 058801 (2013) - Published 23 May, 2013

COMMENTS

Comment on “Evidence of antimagnetic rotation in odd- $A$ $^{105}$ Cd”

Santosh Roy and S. Chattopadhyay

Phys. Rev. C 87, 059801 (2013) - Published 3 May, 2013

Volume 87, Issue 5

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear Reactions

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Nuclear Astrophysics

BRIEF REPORTS

COMMENTS

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