Volume 90, Issue 1

L. A. Riley, M. L. Agiorgousis, T. R. Baugher, D. Bazin, M. Bowry, P. D. Cottle, F. G. DeVone, A. Gade, M. T. Glowacki, K. W. Kemper, E. Lunderberg, D. M. McPherson, S. Noji, F. Recchia, B. V. Sadler, M. Scott, D. Weisshaar, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. C 90, 011305(R) (2014) - Published 25 July, 2014

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Impact of variational space on $M 1$ transitions between first and second quadrupole excitations in ${}^{132, 134, 136}{Te}$

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

Phys. Rev. C 90, 011306(R) (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nucleation and cluster formation in low-density nucleonic matter: A mechanism for ternary fission

S. Wuenschel, H. Zheng, K. Hagel, B. Meyer, M. Barbui, E. J. Kim, G. Röpke, and J. B. Natowitz

Phys. Rev. C 90, 011601(R) (2014) - Published 8 July, 2014

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Precision $Q_{EC} -value$ measurement of ${}^{23}{Mg}$ for testing the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix unitarity

B. E. Schultz, M. Brodeur, C. Andreoiu, A. Bader, A. Chaudhuri, U. Chowdhury, A. T. Gallant, A. Grossheim, R. Klawitter, A. A. Kwiatkowski, K. G. Leach, A. Lennarz, T. D. Macdonald, J. Lassen, H. Heggen, S. Raeder, A. Teigelhöfer, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. C 90, 012501(R) (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

ARTICLES

Nuclear Structure

${}^{19}{Mg}$ two-proton decay lifetime

P. Voss, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, A. Dewald, H. Iwasaki, D. Miller, A. Ratkiewicz, A. Spyrou, K. Starosta, M. Thoennessen, C. Vaman, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014301 (2014) - Published 8 July, 2014

Merging of the islands of inversion at $N = 20$ and $N = 28$

E. Caurier, F. Nowacki, and A. Poves

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014302 (2014) - Published 10 July, 2014

Mass predictions of the relativistic mean-field model with the radial basis function approach

J. S. Zheng (郑江山), N. Y. Wang (汪念怡), Z. Y. Wang (王章银), Z. M. Niu (牛中明), Y. F. Niu (牛一斐), and B. Sun (孙保华)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014303 (2014) - Published 10 July, 2014

${}^{236}{Pu} (n, f)$ , ${}^{237}{Pu} (n, f)$ , and ${}^{238}{Pu} (n, f)$ cross sections deduced from $(p, t)$ , $(p, d)$ , and $(p, p^{'})$ surrogate reactions

R. O. Hughes, C. W. Beausang, T. J. Ross, J. T. Harke, R. J. Casperson, N. Cooper, J. E. Escher, K. Gell, E. Good, P. Humby, M. McCleskey, A. Saastimoinen, T. D. Tarlow, and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014304 (2014) - Published 10 July, 2014

Effects of the symmetry energy on the isovector properties of neutron-rich nuclei within a Thomas-Fermi approach

M. C. Papazoglou and Ch. C. Moustakidis

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014305 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Yrast structure of the shell model nucleus ${}^{89}{Nb}$

Purnima Singh, R. Palit, S. Saha, J. Sethi, S. Biswas, D. Choudhury, P. C. Srivastava, and T. Trivedi

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014306 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Probing nuclear forces beyond the drip-line using the mirror nuclei ${}^{16}N$ and ${}^{16}F$

I. Stefan et al.

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014307 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Structure of superheavy nuclei along decay chains of element 115

Yue Shi (石跃), D. E. Ward, B. G. Carlsson, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, I. Ragnarsson, and D. Rudolph

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014308 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Effective $Λ N$ potential from relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock theory

Jinniu Hu, Emiko Hiyama, and Hiroshi Toki

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014309 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Dipole response in ${}^{132}{Sn}$ within a self-consistent multiphonon approach

F. Knapp, N. Lo Iudice, P. Veselý, F. Andreozzi, G. De Gregorio, and A. Porrino

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014310 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Proton spectroscopy of ${}^{48}{Ni}, {}^{46}{Fe}$ , and ${}^{44}{Cr}$

M. Pomorski, M. Pfützner, W. Dominik, R. Grzywacz, A. Stolz, T. Baumann, J. S. Berryman, H. Czyrkowski, R. Dąbrowski, A. Fijałkowska, T. Ginter, J. Johnson, G. Kamiński, N. Larson, S. N. Liddick, M. Madurga, C. Mazzocchi, S. Mianowski, K. Miernik, D. Miller, S. Paulauskas, J. Pereira, K. P. Rykaczewski, and S. Suchyta

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014311 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Lipkin method of particle-number restoration to higher orders

X. B. Wang (王小保), J. Dobaczewski, M. Kortelainen, L. F. Yu (余灵妃), and M. V. Stoitsov

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014312 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

Single-particle structures, high-spin isomers, and a strongly coupled band in odd-odd ${}^{120}{Sb}$

L. Liu (刘雷), S. Y. Wang (王守宇), Z. Q. Chen (陈志强), C. Liu (刘晨), B. Qi (亓斌), D. P. Sun (孙大鹏), S. Wang (王硕), Q. An (安强), C. J. Xu (徐长江), P. Zhang (张盼), Z. Q. Li (李志泉), C. Y. Niu (牛晨阳), X. G. Wu (吴晓光), G. S. Li (李广生), C. Y. He (贺创业), Y. Zheng (郑云), C. B. Li (李聪博), S. H. Yao (姚顺和), S. P. Hu (胡世鹏), H. W. Li (李红伟), J. J. Liu (刘嘉健), and J. L. Wang (汪金龙)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014313 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

${}^{12}C$ properties with evolved chiral three-nucleon interactions

P. Maris, J. P. Vary, A. Calci, J. Langhammer, S. Binder, and R. Roth

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014314 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Testing the spin-cutoff parametrization with shell-model calculations

William M. Spinella and Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014315 (2014) - Published 21 July, 2014

Interpretation of the high spin states in ${}^{161}{Lu}$ : A paired and unpaired study

Hai-Liang Ma, B. Gillis Carlsson, Ingemar Ragnarsson, and Hans Ryde

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014316 (2014) - Published 23 July, 2014

Laser spectroscopy of francium isotopes at the borders of the region of reflection asymmetry

I. Budinčević, J. Billowes, M. L. Bissell, T. E. Cocolios, R. P. de Groote, S. De Schepper, V. N. Fedosseev, K. T. Flanagan, S. Franchoo, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, H. Heylen, K. M. Lynch, B. A. Marsh, G. Neyens, T. J. Procter, R. E. Rossel, S. Rothe, I. Strashnov, H. H. Stroke, and K. D. A. Wendt

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014317 (2014) - Published 23 July, 2014

Symplectic group structure of the ${}^{48}{Cr}, {}^{88}{Ru}$ , and ${}^{92}{Pd}$ ground states

K. Neergård

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014318 (2014) - Published 24 July, 2014

States at high excitation in ${}^{12}C$ from the ${}^{12}C$ $({}^{3}{He}, {}^{3}{He})$ $3 α$ reaction

C. Wheldon, Tz. Kokalova, M. Freer, A. Glenn, D. J. Parker, T. Roberts, and I. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014319 (2014) - Published 24 July, 2014

Low-lying isomeric states in ${}^{80}{Ga}$ from the $β^{-}$ decay of ${}^{80}{Zn}$

R. Lică et al.

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014320 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Description of collective and quasiparticle excitations in deformed actinide nuclei: The first application of the multishell shell model for heavy nuclei

Ji-Wei Cui, Xian-Rong Zhou, Fang-Qi Chen, Yang Sun, Cheng-Li Wu, and Zao-Chun Gao

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014321 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

$2 π 1 ν$ states populated in ${}^{135}{Te}$ from ${}^{9}{Be}$ -induced reactions with a ${}^{132}{Sn}$ beam

J. M. Allmond et al.

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014322 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Structure of ${}^{130}{La}$ at low and medium spins

M. Ionescu-Bujor, A. Iordăchescu, N. Mărginean, R. Lica, D. Bucurescu, F. Brandolini, D. Deleanu, D. Filipescu, I. Gheorghe, D. Ghiţă, T. Glodariu, R. Mărginean, N. H. Medina, C. Mihai, A. Negret, L. Stroe, and C. A. Ur

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014323 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Nuclear Reactions

Fission-fragment charge yields: Variation of odd-even staggering with element number, energy, and charge asymmetry

Peter Möller, Jørgen Randrup, Akira Iwamoto, and Takatoshi Ichikawa

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014601 (2014) - Published 10 July, 2014

Total prompt $γ$ -ray emission in fission of ${}^{235}U$ , ${}^{239, 241}{Pu}$ , and ${}^{252}{Cf}$

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

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014602 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Fission fragment angular distributions in ${}^{6, 7}{Li}$ $+ {}^{235, 238}U$ reactions

A. Parihari, S. Santra, A. Pal, N. L. Singh, K. Mahata, B. K. Nayak, R. Tripathi, K. Ramachandran, P. K. Rath, R. Chakrabarti, and S. Kailas

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014603 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Mass dependence of transverse flow in heavy ion collisions at intermediate energies

X. Liu (刘星泉), W. Lin (林炜平), R. Wada, M. Huang (黄美容), Z. Chen (陈志强), G. Q. Xiao (肖国青), S. Zhang (张苏雅拉吐), R. Han (韩瑞), M. H. Zhao (赵明辉), P. Ren (任培培), Z. Jin (靳增雪), J. Liu (刘建立), F. Shi (石福栋), J. B. Natowitz, A. Bonasera, K. Hagel, H. Zheng (郑华), M. Barbui, and K. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014604 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Primary isotope yields and characteristic properties of the fragmenting source in heavy-ion reactions near the Fermi energy

X. Liu (刘星泉), W. Lin (林炜平), R. Wada, M. Huang (黄美容), Z. Chen (陈志强), G. Q. Xiao (肖国青), S. Zhang (张苏雅拉吐), X. Jin (靳增雪), R. Han (韩瑞), J. Liu (刘建立), F. Shi (石福栋), H. Zheng (郑华), J. B. Natowitz, and A. Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014605 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Quasi-elastic scattering of ${}^{10, 11}C$ and ${}^{10}B$ from a ${}^{nat}{Pb}$ target

Y. Y. Yang et al.

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014606 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Breakup of three particles within the adiabatic expansion method

E. Garrido, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014607 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Measurement of dynamical dipole $γ$ -ray emission in the $N / Z$ -asymmetric fusion reaction ${}^{16}O + {}^{116}{Sn}$ at 12 MeV/nucleon

A. Giaz et al.

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014609 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Influence of neutron-skin thickness on the $π^{-} / π^{+}$ ratio in Pb + Pb collisions

Gao-Feng Wei, Bao-An Li, Jun Xu, and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014610 (2014) - Published 21 July, 2014

Intermediate-energy deuteron scattering from $α$ -cluster nuclei

Yu. A. Berezhnoy, D. V. Fedorchenko, V. V. Pilipenko, and V. P. Mikhailyuk

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014611 (2014) - Published 22 July, 2014

Orientation effects on evaporation residue cross sections in ${}^{48}{Ca}$ -induced hot fusion reactions

Long Zhu, Zhao-Qing Feng, Cheng Li, and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014612 (2014) - Published 24 July, 2014

Photodisintegration of ${}^{6}{Li}$

W. A. Wurtz, R. E. Pywell, B. E. Norum, S. Kucuker, B. D. Sawatzky, H. R. Weller, S. Stave, and M. W. Ahmed

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014613 (2014) - Published 25 July, 2014

Examining the enhancement of sub-barrier fusion cross sections by neutron transfer with positive $Q$ values

V. A. Rachkov, A. V. Karpov, A. S. Denikin, and V. I. Zagrebaev

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014614 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Coulomb problem in momentum space without screening

N. J. Upadhyay, V. Eremenko, L. Hlophe, F. M. Nunes, Ch. Elster, G. Arbanas, J. E. Escher, and I. J. Thompson (TORUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014615 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Near- and sub-barrier fusion of the ${}^{7}{Be} + {}^{58}{Ni}$ system

E. Martinez-Quiroz, E. F. Aguilera, D. Lizcano, P. Amador-Valenzuela, H. García-Martínez, J. J. Kolata, A. Roberts, L. O. Lamm, G. Rogachev, V. Guimarães, F. D. Becchetti, A. Villano, M. Ojaruega, M. Febbraro, Y. Chen, H. Jiang, P. A. DeYoung, and G. F. Peaslee

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014616 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Collective interaction of QCD strings and early stages of high-multiplicity $p A$ collisions

Tigran Kalaydzhyan and Edward Shuryak

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014901 (2014) - Published 3 July, 2014

Energy and centrality dependence of particle multiplicity in heavy ion collisions from $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 20$ to 2760 GeV

Leo Zhou and George S. F. Stephans

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014902 (2014) - Published 8 July, 2014

Examination of the directed flow puzzle in heavy-ion collisions

V. P. Konchakovski, W. Cassing, Yu. B. Ivanov, and V. D. Toneev

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014903 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Evolution of transverse flow and effective temperatures in the parton phase from a multiphase transport model

Zi-Wei Lin

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014904 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Magneto-sonoluminescence and its signatures in photon and dilepton production in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Gökçe Başar, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, and Edward V. Shuryak

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014905 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Explanation of hadron transverse-momentum spectra in heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV within a chemical nonequilibrium statistical hadronization model

Viktor Begun, Wojciech Florkowski, and Maciej Rybczynski

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014906 (2014) - Published 21 July, 2014

Azimuthal anisotropies of reconstructed jets in Pb + Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV in a multiphase transport model

Mao-Wu Nie and Guo-Liang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014907 (2014) - Published 25 July, 2014

Bulk viscous evolution within anisotropic hydrodynamics

Mohammad Nopoush, Radoslaw Ryblewski, and Michael Strickland

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014908 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Extracting the jet transport coefficient from jet quenching in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Karen M. Burke, Alessandro Buzzatti, Ningbo Chang, Charles Gale, Miklos Gyulassy, Ulrich Heinz, Sangyong Jeon, Abhijit Majumder, Berndt Müller, Guang-You Qin, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen, Xin-Nian Wang, Jiechen Xu, Clint Young, and Hanzhong Zhang (JET Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 014909 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Electromagnetic transition form factors of the Roper resonance in a phenomenological field theory

T. Bauer, S. Scherer, and L. Tiator

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015201 (2014) - Published 8 July, 2014

Associate $K^{0}$ production in $p + p$ collisions at 3.5 GeV: The role of $Δ {(1232)}^{+ +}$

G. Agakishiev et al. (HADES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015202 (2014) - Published 9 July, 2014

Investigation of diffractive photoproduction of $J / Ψ$ in hadronic collisions

V. P. Gonçalves, B. D. Moreira, and F. S. Navarra

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015203 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

SU(3) Polyakov linear- $σ$ model in an external magnetic field

Abdel Nasser Tawfik and Niseem Magdy

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015204 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

Quasifree photoproduction of $η$ mesons off protons and neutrons

D. Werthmüller et al. (A2 Collaboration at MAMI)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015205 (2014) - Published 25 July, 2014

Electric and magnetic form factors of the proton

J. C. Bernauer, M. O. Distler, J. Friedrich, Th. Walcher, P. Achenbach, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, R. Böhm, D. Bosnar, L. Debenjak, L. Doria, A. Esser, H. Fonvieille, M. Gómez Rodríguez de la Paz, J. M. Friedrich, M. Makek, H. Merkel, D. G. Middleton, U. Müller, L. Nungesser, J. Pochodzalla, M. Potokar, S. Sánchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, S. Širca, and M. Weinriefer (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015206 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

New source for ultracold neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin

F. M. Piegsa, M. Fertl, S. N. Ivanov, M. Kreuz, K. K. H. Leung, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, T. Soldner, and O. Zimmer

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015501 (2014) - Published 23 July, 2014

Nuclear Astrophysics

Massive neutron stars with antikaon condensates in a density-dependent hadron field theory

Prasanta Char and Sarmistha Banik

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015801 (2014) - Published 10 July, 2014

Coupling highly excited nuclei to the atomic shell in dense astrophysical plasmas

Stephan Helmrich, Katja Spenneberg, and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015802 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014

Pulsar glitches: The crust may be enough

J. Piekarewicz, F. J. Fattoyev, and C. J. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. C 90, 015803 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

BRIEF REPORTS

High-spin structure of odd-odd ${}^{172}{Re}$

D. J. Hartley, R. V. F. Janssens, L. L. Riedinger, M. A. Riley, X. Wang, S. Miller, A. D. Ayangeakaa, M. P. Carpenter, J. J. Carroll, J. Cavey, C. J. Chiara, P. Chowdhury, U. Garg, S. S. Hota, E. G. Jackson, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, M. Litz, W. C. Ma, J. Matta, E. S. Paul, E. E. Pedicini, J. Simpson, J. R. Vanhoy, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 90, 017301 (2014) - Published 11 July, 2014