Volume 89, Issue 2

February 2014

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions in $A \leq 12$ nuclei

R. B. Wiringa, R. Schiavilla, Steven C. Pieper, and J. Carlson

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024305 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Momentum distributions of nucleons and pairs of nucleons not only reflect the short-range structure of light nuclei arising from tensor and spin-isospin correlations, they also provide useful insights into electroweak interactions with such nuclei.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic description of octupole shape-phase transitions in light actinide and rare-earth nuclei

K. Nomura, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, and Bing-Nan Lu

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024312 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

The authors present a systematic analysis of low-lying quadrupole and octupole collective states based on the microscopic energy density functional framework. Consistent with the empirical trend, the resulting nuclear structure characteristics show evidence of a shape transition between stable octupole deformation and octupole softness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disappearance of Mott oscillations in sub-barrier elastic scattering of identical heavy ions, and the nuclear interaction

L. F. Canto, M. S. Hussein, and W. Mittig

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024610 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

The authors treat sub-Coulomb-barrier elastic scattering of heavy ions around 90 degrees where a critical energy exists for which the cross section becomes independent of angle. They point out that the influence of the long-range part of the strong interaction produces a second critical energy which has been seen experimentally in α-α scattering.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Production cross sections of heavy neutron-rich nuclei approaching the nucleosynthesis r-process path around $A = 195$

T. Kurtukian-Nieto, J. Benlliure, K.-H. Schmidt, L. Audouin, F. Becker, B. Blank, E. Casarejos, F. Farget, M. Fernández-Ordóñez, J. Giovinazzo, D. Henzlova, B. Jurado, J. Pereira, and O. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024616 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

This work reports production cross sections for more than 190, mostly neutron-rich, isotopes in the region of the closed N=126 neutron shell, by fragmentation of a 208Pb beam. The work represents a step toward making regions located at the outermost borders of the chart of nuclides experimentally accessible with new-generation radioactive-beam facilities, such as nuclei near the A=195 nucleosynthesis ``waiting point''.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charged-pion electroproduction above the resonance region

Tom Vrancx and Jan Ryckebusch

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025203 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

In order to describe pion electroproduction data above the nucleon resonance region, the authors introduce a gauged pion-exchange current and propose a new electromagnetic transition form factor. Unlike that of prior descriptions, this form factor has a simple physical interpretation and respects the correct on-shell limit.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neutral-current interactions of low-energy neutrinos in dense neutron matter

Alessandro Lovato, Omar Benhar, Stefano Gandolfi, and Cristina Losa

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025804 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

To effectively cool a neutron star, a massive number of neutrinos must escape the dense neutron matter that results from the progenitor star’s collapse. The authors show that, to achieve a realistic description, both long-range and short-range correlations need to be consistently accounted for.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explosive nucleosynthesis of ${}^{15}N$ in a massive-star model

Michael J. Bojazi and Bradley S. Meyer

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025807 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

The authors explore explosive nucleosynthesis of 15N with a simple but realistic model of shock propagation through the outer layers of an exploding massive star. They conclude that neutron-capture reactions on 18F in helium-rich stellar layers play an important role. The authors perform all calculations with open-source, freely available codes.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Shape coexistence in ${}^{68}{Ni}$

S. Suchyta, S. N. Liddick, Y. Tsunoda, T. Otsuka, M. B. Bennett, A. Chemey, M. Honma, N. Larson, C. J. Prokop, S. J. Quinn, N. Shimizu, A. Simon, A. Spyrou, V. Tripathi, Y. Utsuno, and J. M. VonMoss

Phys. Rev. C 89, 021301(R) (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

RAPID COMMUNICATION

In-flight fast-timing measurements in ${}^{152}{Sm}$

C. Plaisir, L. Gaudefroy, V. Méot, A. Blanc, J. M. Daugas, O. Roig, N. Arnal, T. Bonnet, F. Gobet, F. Hannachi, M. Tarisien, M. Versteegen, T. Roger, M. Rejmund, A. Navin, C. Schmitt, G. Fremont, J. Goupil, J. Pancin, C. Spitaels, and M. Zielińska

Phys. Rev. C 89, 021302(R) (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spin constraints on nuclear energy density functionals

L. M. Robledo, R. N. Bernard, and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 89, 021303(R) (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Novel determination of density, temperature, and symmetry energy for nuclear multifragmentation through primary fragment-yield reconstruction

W. Lin (林炜平) et al.

Phys. Rev. C 89, 021601(R) (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Model for the electroproduction of kaons and $Λ$ 's from the deuteron

Oren V. Maxwell

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024001 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Spin-dependent cross sections from the three-body photodisintegration of ${}^{3}{He}$ at incident energies of 12.8 and 14.7 MeV

G. Laskaris et al.

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024002 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Inelastic versus total nucleon-nucleon cross section at large $N_{c}$

Thomas D. Cohen and Vojtěch Krejčiřík

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024003 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Coarse-grained NN potential with chiral two-pion exchange

R. Navarro Pérez, J. E. Amaro, and E. Ruiz Arriola

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024004 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Nuclear Structure

Comparative study of rotational bands in the $A \approx 60$ mass region: Modification of Nilsson parameters

J. Gellanki, B. G. Carlsson, I. Ragnarsson, and D. Rudolph

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024301 (2014) - Published 3 February, 2014

Cluster states and monopole transitions in ${}^{16}O$

Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024302 (2014) - Published 4 February, 2014

High spin spectroscopy in $^{34}$ Cl

Abhijit Bisoi, M. Saha Sarkar, S. Sarkar, S. Ray, D. Pramanik, R. Kshetri, Somnath Nag, K. Selvakumar, P. Singh, A. Goswami, S. Saha, J. Sethi, T. Trivedi, B. S. Naidu, R. Donthi, V. Nanal, and R. Palit

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024303 (2014) - Published 5 February, 2014

$Q_{α}$ values in superheavy nuclei from the deformed Woods-Saxon model

P. Jachimowicz, M. Kowal, and J. Skalski

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024304 (2014) - Published 5 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nucleon and nucleon-pair momentum distributions in $A \leq 12$ nuclei

R. B. Wiringa, R. Schiavilla, Steven C. Pieper, and J. Carlson

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024305 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

$^{16} O$ resonances near the $4 α$ threshold through the $^{12} {C(}^{6} Li, d$ ) reaction

M. R. D. Rodrigues, T. Borello-Lewin, H. Miyake, J. L. M. Duarte, C. L. Rodrigues, M. A. Souza, L. B. Horodynski-Matsushigue, G. M. Ukita, F. Cappuzzello, A. Cunsolo, M. Cavallaro, C. Agodi, and A. Foti

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024306 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Shape coexistence in neutron-deficient Hg isotopes studied via lifetime measurements in ${}^{184, 186}{Hg}$ and two-state mixing calculations

L. P. Gaffney et al.

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024307 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Charged-current neutrino and antineutrino scattering off ${}^{116}{Cd}$ described by Skyrme forces

W. Almosly, B. G. Carlsson, J. Dobaczewski, J. Suhonen, J. Toivanen, P. Vesely, and E. Ydrefors

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024308 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

Coulomb excitation of $^{29, 30}$ Na: Mapping the borders of the island of inversion

M. Seidlitz et al.

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024309 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Superdeformed $Λ$ hypernuclei with antisymmetrized molecular dynamics

M. Isaka, K. Fukukawa, M. Kimura, E. Hiyama, H. Sagawa, and Y. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024310 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Accuracy of theoretical descriptions of nuclear masses

Adam Sobiczewski and Yuri A. Litvinov

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024311 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic description of octupole shape-phase transitions in light actinide and rare-earth nuclei

K. Nomura, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, and Bing-Nan Lu

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024312 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Multi-shell effective interactions

Naofumi Tsunoda, Kazuo Takayanagi, Morten Hjorth-Jensen, and Takaharu Otsuka

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024313 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Analytic approach to nuclear rotational states and the role of spin: A minimal model

W. Bentz, A. Arima, A. Richter, and J. Wambach

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024314 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Dinucleon correlations in the ground states of $^{9} Li$ , $^{10}$ Be, and $^{9, 10} C$

Fumiharu Kobayashi and Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024315 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Quasiparticle alignments and $α$ -decay fine structure of $^{175}$ Pt

P. Peura et al.

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024316 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Charge-exchange scattering to the isobaric analog state at medium energies as a probe of the neutron skin

Bui Minh Loc, Dao T. Khoa, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024317 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Tentative probe into the nuclear charge radii of superheavy odd-mass and odd-odd nuclei

Yibin Qian, Zhongzhou Ren, and Dongdong Ni

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024318 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Realistic shell-model calculations for isotopic chains “north-east” of ${}^{48}{Ca}$ in the ( $N$ , $Z$ ) plane

L. Coraggio, A. Covello, A. Gargano, and N. Itaco

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024319 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Comparison of the $α$ -decay half-life of ${}^{210}{Po}$ implanted in a copper matrix at 4.2 and 293 K

P. Pöml, F. Belloni, E. D'Agata, E. Colineau, A. Morgenstern, J.-C. Griveau, V. V. Rondinella, R. Repnow, V. Nassisi, P. B. J. M. Benneker, J.-M. Lapetite, and J. Himbert

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024320 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Nuclear vorticity in isoscalar $E 1$ modes: Skyrme-random-phase approximation analysis

P.-G. Reinhard, V. O. Nesterenko, A. Repko, and J. Kvasil

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024321 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

Determining the strength of undetectable particle-hole configurations by complete spectroscopy of negative parity states in ${}^{208}{Pb}$

A. Heusler, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, H.-F. Wirth, and P. von Brentano

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024322 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Ab initio self-consistent Gorkov-Green's function calculations of semi-magic nuclei: Numerical implementation at second order with a two-nucleon interaction

V. Somà, C. Barbieri, and T. Duguet

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024323 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Nuclear structure study of ${}^{26}{Mg}$ following heavy-ion-induced fusion-evaporation reaction

S. S. Bhattacharjee, R. Bhattacharjee, R. Chakrabarti, R. Raut, S. S. Ghugre, A. K. Sinha, T. Trivedi, L. Chaturvedi, S. Saha, J. Sethi, and R. Palit

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024324 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Coexisting shapes with rapid transitions in odd- $Z$ rare-earth proton emitters

Mamta Aggarwal

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024325 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Nuclear Reactions

Quasielastic contribution to antineutrino-nucleus scattering

V. Pandey, N. Jachowicz, J. Ryckebusch, T. Van Cuyck, and W. Cosyn

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024601 (2014) - Published 4 February, 2014

Two-neutron transfer reaction mechanisms in $^{12}$ C( $^{6}$ He, $^{4}$ He) $^{14}$ C using a realistic three-body $^{6}$ He model

D. Smalley et al.

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024602 (2014) - Published 6 February, 2014

Factorization of exclusive electron-induced two-nucleon knockout

Camille Colle, Wim Cosyn, Jan Ryckebusch, and Maarten Vanhalst

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024603 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Neutron emission in the fusion process and its effect on the formation of superheavy nuclei

Zu-Hua Liu and Jing-Dong Bao

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024604 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Adiabatic model of $(d, p)$ reactions with explicitly energy-dependent nonlocal potentials

R. C. Johnson and N. K. Timofeyuk

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024605 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

Determining ${}^{234}{Pa}$ ( $n$ , $f$ ) cross sections using the surrogate method

V. V. Desai, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena, and E. T. Mirgule

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024606 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

Fusion and quasi-elastic scattering in the ${}^{6, 7}{Li}$ + ${}^{197}{Au}$ systems

C. S. Palshetkar, Shital Thakur, V. Nanal, A. Shrivastava, N. Dokania, V. Singh, V. V. Parkar, P. C. Rout, R. Palit, R. G. Pillay, S. Bhattacharyya, A. Chatterjee, S. Santra, K. Ramachandran, and N. L. Singh

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024607 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

Influence of a one-neutron-excess projectile on low-energy incomplete fusion

Vijay R. Sharma, Abhishek Yadav, Pushpendra P. Singh, Devendra P. Singh, Sunita Gupta, M. K. Sharma, Indu Bala, R. Kumar, S. Murlithar, B. P. Singh, and R. Prasad

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024608 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Measurement of evaporation residue excitation functions for the ${}^{19}F$ + ${}^{194, 196, 198}{Pt}$ reactions

Varinderjit Singh, B. R. Behera, Maninder Kaur, A. Kumar, K. P. Singh, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, G. Mohanto, A. Jhingan, Ish Mukul, T. Varughese, Jhilam Sadhukhan, Santanu Pal, S. Goyal, A. Saxena, S. Santra, and S. Kailas

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024609 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disappearance of Mott oscillations in sub-barrier elastic scattering of identical heavy ions, and the nuclear interaction

L. F. Canto, M. S. Hussein, and W. Mittig

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024610 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter

J. A. López, E. Ramírez-Homs, R. González, and R. Ravelo

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024611 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Experimental study of incomplete fusion reactions in the ${}^{16}O$ + ${}^{130}{Te}$ system below 6 MeV/nucleon

Devendra P. Singh, Vijay R. Sharma, Abhishek Yadav, Pushpendra P. Singh, Unnati, M. K. Sharma, R. Kumar, B. P. Singh, and R. Prasad

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024612 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Combining ab initio calculations and low-energy effective field theory for halo nuclear systems: The case of $^{7} Li + n \to^{8} Li + γ$

Xilin Zhang, Kenneth M. Nollett, and D. R. Phillips

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024613 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Transfer reactions in inverse kinematics: An experimental approach for fission investigations

C. Rodríguez-Tajes, F. Farget, X. Derkx, M. Caamaño, O. Delaune, K.-H. Schmidt, E. Clément, A. Dijon, A. Heinz, T. Roger, L. Audouin, J. Benlliure, E. Casarejos, D. Cortina, D. Doré, B. Fernández-Domínguez, B. Jacquot, B. Jurado, A. Navin, C. Paradela, D. Ramos, P. Romain, M. D. Salsac, and C. Schmitt

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024614 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Production cross sections of superheavy elements $Z = 119$ and 120 in hot fusion reactions

Long Zhu, Wen-Jie Xie, and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024615 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Production cross sections of heavy neutron-rich nuclei approaching the nucleosynthesis r-process path around $A = 195$

T. Kurtukian-Nieto, J. Benlliure, K.-H. Schmidt, L. Audouin, F. Becker, B. Blank, E. Casarejos, F. Farget, M. Fernández-Ordóñez, J. Giovinazzo, D. Henzlova, B. Jurado, J. Pereira, and O. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024616 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

Microscopic description of $α + N$ bremsstrahlung by a Siegert approach

J. Dohet-Eraly

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024617 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Production of ${}^{262}{Db}$ in the ${}^{248}{Cm}$ ( ${}^{19}F$ ,5 $n$ ) ${}^{262}{Db}$ reaction and decay properties of ${}^{262}{Db}$ and ${}^{258}{Lr}$

H. Haba, M. Huang, D. Kaji, J. Kanaya, Y. Kudou, K. Morimoto, K. Morita, M. Murakami, K. Ozeki, R. Sakai, T. Sumita, Y. Wakabayashi, A. Yoneda, Y. Kasamatsu, Y. Kikutani, Y. Komori, K. Nakamura, A. Shinohara, H. Kikunaga, H. Kudo, K. Nishio, A. Toyoshima, and K. Tsukada

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024618 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Optical potential for the n- $^{9}$ Be reaction

Angela Bonaccorso and Robert J. Charity

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024619 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Multiplicity distributions in $p + p$ , $p + A$ , and $A + A$ collisions from Yang-Mills dynamics

Björn Schenke, Prithwish Tribedy, and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024901 (2014) - Published 5 February, 2014

Medium modifications of jet shapes in Pb + Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV within a multiphase transport model

Guo-Liang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024902 (2014) - Published 5 February, 2014

Two- and three-pion quantum statistics correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

B. Abelev et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 89, 024911 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Exclusive photoproduction of quarkonium in proton-nucleus collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

G. Sampaio dos Santos and M. V. T. Machado

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025201 (2014) - Published 3 February, 2014

Determination of compositeness of the $Λ (1405)$ resonance from its radiative decay

T. Sekihara and S. Kumano

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025202 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charged-pion electroproduction above the resonance region

Tom Vrancx and Jan Ryckebusch

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025203 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Two-photon-exchange amplitude with $π N$ intermediate states: $P_{33}$ channel

Dmitry Borisyuk and Alexander Kobushkin

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025204 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Measurements of production properties of $K_{S}^{0}$ mesons and $Λ$ hyperons in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/ $c$

N. Abgrall et al. (NA61/SHINE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025205 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Model-independent aspects of the reaction $\bar{K} + N \to K + Ξ$

Benjamin C. Jackson, Yongseok Oh, H. Haberzettl, and K. Nakayama

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025206 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Limits on tensor-type weak currents from nuclear and neutron $β$ decays

F. Wauters, A. García, and R. Hong

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025501 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explosive nucleosynthesis of ${}^{15}N$ in a massive-star model

Michael J. Bojazi and Bradley S. Meyer

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025807 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Charge distribution about an ionizing electron track in liquid helium

G. M. Seidel, T. M. Ito, A. Ghosh, and B. Sethumadhavan

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025808 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Astrophysical reaction rate for ${}^{17}F$ ( $p$ , $γ$ ) ${}^{18}{Ne}$ from the transfer reaction ${}^{13}C$ ( ${}^{17}O$ , ${}^{18}O$ ) ${}^{12}C$

T. Al-Abdullah, F. Carstoiu, X. Chen, H. L. Clark, C. A. Gagliardi, Y.-W. Lui, A. Mukhamedzhanov, G. Tabacaru, Y. Tokimoto, L. Trache, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025809 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

${}^{62}{Ni}$ ( $n, γ$ ) and ${}^{63}{Ni}$ ( $n, γ$ ) cross sections measured at the n_TOF facility at CERN

C. Lederer et al. (n_TOF Collaboration )

Phys. Rev. C 89, 025810 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Beam asymmetry $Σ$ for $π^{+}$ and $π^{0}$ photoproduction on the proton for photon energies from 1.102 to 1.862 GeV [Phys. Rev. C 88, 065203 (2013)]

M. Dugger et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 89, 029901 (2014) - Published 3 February, 2014

Erratum: Low lying modes of triplet-condensed neutron matter and their effective theory [Phys. Rev. C 87, 055807 (2013)]

Paulo F. Bedaque and Amy N. Nicholson

Phys. Rev. C 89, 029902 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Volume 89, Issue 2

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

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