Volume 92, Issue 6

December 2015

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Numerical assessment of post-prior equivalence for inclusive breakup reactions

Jin Lei and Antonio M. Moro

Phys. Rev. C 92, 061602(R) (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

The authors provide a numerical resolution for a decades-old controversy involving the post versus prior descriptions of inclusive breakup reactions. This is the first calculation to compare the two formalisms at the heart of the controversy and lays it to rest

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Neutron skin thickness from the measured electric dipole polarizability in ${}^{68}{Ni}$ , ${}^{120}{Sn}$ , and ${}^{208}{Pb}$

X. Roca-Maza, X. Viñas, M. Centelles, B. K. Agrawal, G. Colò, N. Paar, J. Piekarewicz, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064304 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

The authors use recent available experimental data on the electric dipole polarizability of $^{68}$ Ni, $^{120}$ Sn, and $^{208}$ Pb to constrain physically important quantities including the symmetry energy, its slope, and the neutron skin thickness. The strong correlation between the electric dipole polarizabilities of two nuclei is instrumental in predicting the values of electric dipole polarizabilities in other nuclei. The results are of interest for future observational, experimental, and theoretical work on these interconnected nuclear quantities.

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Effective field theory for nuclear vibrations with quantified uncertainties

E. A. Coello Pérez and T. Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064309 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

The authors develop an effective field theory for low-energy nuclear vibrations and use Bayesian statistics to estimate uncertainties for the model energies and transition rates. From the consistent description of a range of Ni, Ru, Pd, Cd, and Te isotopes within the theoretical uncertainties, they conclude that these nuclei can be described as anharmonic vibrators, consistent with older “textbook” interpretations but in contrast to some more recent interpretations.

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Measurement of the branching ratio for the $β$ decay of ${}^{14}O$

P. A. Voytas, E. A. George, G. W. Severin, L. Zhan, and L. D. Knutson

Phys. Rev. C 92, 065502 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

A new measurement significantly lowers the uncertainty on the branching ratio of the $^{14}$ O $0^{+} \to 0^{+}$ superallowed $β$ -decay transition. Combined with the recently improved $Q$ value, this result renders the $^{14}$ O system the third most precise among the “traditional 14” transitions that are used in the determination of the CKM $V_{u d}$ matrix element.

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Observation of a crossover of $S_{2 n}$ in the island of inversion from precision mass spectrometry

A. A. Kwiatkowski, C. Andreoiu, J. C. Bale, A. Chaudhuri, U. Chowdhury, S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer, A. T. Gallant, A. Grossheim, G. Gwinner, A. Lennarz, T. D. Macdonald, T. J. M. Rauch, B. E. Schultz, S. Seeraji, M. C. Simon, V. V. Simon, D. Lunney, A. Poves, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. C 92, 061301(R) (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

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New low-energy $0^{+}$ state and shape coexistence in ${}^{70}{Ni}$

C. J. Prokop, B. P. Crider, S. N. Liddick, A. D. Ayangeakaa, M. P. Carpenter, J. J. Carroll, J. Chen, C. J. Chiara, H. M. David, A. C. Dombos, S. Go, J. Harker, R. V. F. Janssens, N. Larson, T. Lauritsen, R. Lewis, S. J. Quinn, F. Recchia, D. Seweryniak, A. Spyrou, S. Suchyta, W. B. Walters, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 92, 061302(R) (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

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New integral formula for obtaining analytical Legendre expansion coefficients and its applications to light-nucleus reactions

Xiaojun Sun and Jingshang Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 92, 061601(R) (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

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Numerical assessment of post-prior equivalence for inclusive breakup reactions

Jin Lei and Antonio M. Moro

Phys. Rev. C 92, 061602(R) (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

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Bottomonia suppression in 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions

Brandon Krouppa, Radoslaw Ryblewski, and Michael Strickland

Phys. Rev. C 92, 061901(R) (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Dominant contributions to the nucleon-nucleon interaction at sixth order of chiral perturbation theory

D. R. Entem, N. Kaiser, R. Machleidt, and Y. Nosyk

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064001 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Deuteron electrodisintegration with unitarily evolved potentials

S. N. More, S. König, R. J. Furnstahl, and K. Hebeler

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064002 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Statistical error propagation in ab initio no-core full configuration calculations of light nuclei

R. Navarro Pérez, J. E. Amaro, E. Ruiz Arriola, P. Maris, and J. P. Vary

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064003 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Nuclear Structure

Systematic study of $α$ -decay energies and half-lives of superheavy nuclei

Y. Z. Wang (王艳召), S. J. Wang (王少敬), Z. Y. Hou (侯召宇), and J. Z. Gu (顾建中)

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064301 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Constraining the slope parameter of the symmetry energy from nuclear structure

T. Inakura and H. Nakada

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064302 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Decay of the compound nucleus ${}^{297}118^{*}$ formed in the reaction ${}^{249}{Cf} + {}^{48}{Ca}$ using the dynamical cluster-decay model

Gudveen Sawhney, Amandeep Kaur, Manoj K. Sharma, and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064303 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

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Neutron skin thickness from the measured electric dipole polarizability in ${}^{68}{Ni}$ , ${}^{120}{Sn}$ , and ${}^{208}{Pb}$

X. Roca-Maza, X. Viñas, M. Centelles, B. K. Agrawal, G. Colò, N. Paar, J. Piekarewicz, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064304 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015

Weak interaction rates and shape coexistence for the $Z = N + 2$ isotopes ${}^{70}{Kr}$ and ${}^{74}{Sr}$

A. Petrovici and O. Andrei

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064305 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

Quasiparticle-random-phase approximation treatment of the transverse wobbling mode reconsidered

S. Frauendorf and F. Dönau

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064306 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

Evidence for octupole correlation and chiral symmetry breaking in ${}^{124}{Cs}$

K. Selvakumar, A. K. Singh, Chandan Ghosh, Purnima Singh, A. Goswami, R. Raut, A. Mukherjee, U. Datta, P. Datta, S. Roy, G. Gangopadhyay, S. Bhowal, S. Muralithar, R. Kumar, R. P. Singh, and M. Kumar Raju

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064307 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015

$E 1$ and $M 1 γ$ -strength functions in ${}^{144}{Nd}$

A. V. Voinov and S. M. Grimes

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064308 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

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Effective field theory for nuclear vibrations with quantified uncertainties

E. A. Coello Pérez and T. Papenbrock

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064309 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Variation after projection with a triaxially deformed nuclear mean field

Zao-Chun Gao, Mihai Horoi, and Y. S. Chen

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064310 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Slope-dependent nuclear-symmetry energy within the effective-surface approximation

J. P. Blocki, A. G. Magner, and P. Ring

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064311 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

New lifetime measurements in ${}^{109}{Pd}$ and the onset of deformation at $N = 60$

B. Bucher, H. Mach, A. Aprahamian, G. S. Simpson, J. Rissanen, D. G. Ghiţă, B. Olaizola, W. Kurcewicz, J. Äystö, I. Bentley, T. Eronen, L. M. Fraile, A. Jokinen, P. Karvonen, I. D. Moore, H. Penttilä, M. Reponen, E. Ruchowska, A. Saastamoinen, M. K. Smith, and C. Weber

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064312 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Toward complete spectroscopy of ${}^{167}{Lu}$

D. G. Roux, W. C. Ma, G. B. Hagemann, H. Amro, D. R. Elema, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, B. Herskind, H. Hübel, Y. Li, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. C. Marsh, G. Sletten, D. Ward, and J. N. Wilson

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064313 (2015) - Published 16 December, 2015

Lifetime measurements of ${}^{17}C$ excited states and three-body and continuum effects

D. Smalley, H. Iwasaki, P. Navrátil, R. Roth, J. Langhammer, V. M. Bader, D. Bazin, J. S. Berryman, C. M. Campbell, J. Dohet-Eraly, P. Fallon, A. Gade, C. Langer, A. Lemasson, C. Loelius, A. O. Macchiavelli, C. Morse, J. Parker, S. Quaglioni, F. Recchia, S. R. Stroberg, D. Weisshaar, K. Whitmore, and K. Wimmer

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064314 (2015) - Published 18 December, 2015

Multidimensionally constrained relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov study of spontaneous nuclear fission

Jie Zhao (赵杰), Bing-Nan Lu (吕炳楠), Tamara Nikšić, and Dario Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064315 (2015) - Published 18 December, 2015

Generalized second-order Thomas-Fermi method for superfluid Fermi systems

J. C. Pei (裴俊琛), Na Fei (费娜), Y. N. Zhang (张一怒), and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064316 (2015) - Published 18 December, 2015

Collective excitations of ${}^{96}{Ru}$ by means of $(p, p^{'} γ)$ experiments

A. Hennig, T. Ahn, V. Anagnostatou, A. Blazhev, N. Cooper, V. Derya, M. Elvers, J. Endres, P. Goddard, A. Heinz, R. O. Hughes, G. Ilie, M. N. Mineva, P. Petkov, S. G. Pickstone, N. Pietralla, D. Radeck, T. J. Ross, D. Savran, M. Spieker, V. Werner, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064317 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Numerical accuracy of mean-field calculations in coordinate space

W. Ryssens, P.-H. Heenen, and M. Bender

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064318 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Spectroscopy of ${}^{232}U$ in the ( $p$ , $t$ ) reaction: More information on $0^{+}$ excitations

A. I. Levon, P. Alexa, G. Graw, R. Hertenberger, S. Pascu, P. G. Thirolf, and H.-F. Wirth

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064319 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Low-lying states of the ${}^{132}{Ba}$ nucleus within the nucleon-pair approximation

Y. Y. Cheng, Y. Lei, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064320 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Two-step $γ$ cascades following thermal neutron capture in ${}^{155, 157}{Gd}$

S. Valenta, F. Bečvář, J. Kroll, M. Krtička, and I. Tomandl

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064321 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Transition probabilities in neutron-rich ${}^{84, 86}{Se}$

J. Litzinger et al.

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064322 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Photodisintegration of ${}^{9}{Be}$ through the $1 / 2^{+}$ state and cluster dipole resonance

H. Utsunomiya, S. Katayama, I. Gheorghe, S. Imai, H. Yamaguchi, D. Kahl, Y. Sakaguchi, T. Shima, K. Takahisa, and S. Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064323 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

High spin spectroscopy and shape coexistence in ${}^{73}{As}$

M. Kumar Raju, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, S. K. Tandel, P. Sugathan, R. P. Singh, S. Muralithar, T. Seshi Reddy, B. V. Thirumala Rao, Jie Meng, Shuangquan Zhang, Jian Li, Q. B. Chen, Bin Qi, and R. K. Bhowmik

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064324 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Configuration-constrained cranking Hartree-Fock pairing calculations for sidebands of nuclei

W. Y. Liang (梁午阳), C. F. Jiao (焦长峰), Q. Wu (吴强), X. M. Fu (付熙明), and F. R. Xu (许甫荣)

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064325 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

${}^{10}B + α$ states with chain-like structures in ${}^{14}N$

Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064326 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Nuclear Reactions

Improved thermometer for intermediate-mass fragments in heavy-ion collisions with isobaric yield ratio difference

Chun-Wang Ma (马春旺), Tian-Tian Ding (丁甜甜), Chun-Yuan Qiao (乔春源), and Xi-Guang Cao (曹喜光)

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064601 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Enhancement factor for two-neutron transfer reactions with a schematic coupled-channels model

K. Hagino and G. Scamps

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064602 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Quantum coupled-channels model of nuclear fusion with a semiclassical consideration of neutron rearrangement

A. V. Karpov, V. A. Rachkov, and V. V. Samarin

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064603 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

Systematic investigations of deep sub-barrier fusion reactions using an adiabatic approach

Takatoshi Ichikawa

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064604 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Finite-size effects on the phase diagram of the thermodynamical cluster model

S. Mallik, F. Gulminelli, and G. Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064605 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015

Coulomb chronometry to probe the decay mechanism of hot nuclei

D. Gruyer et al. (INDRA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064606 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015

Fusion of ${}^{48}{Ti} + {}^{58}{Fe}$ and ${}^{58}{Ni} + {}^{54}{Fe}$ below the Coulomb barrier

A. M. Stefanini, G. Montagnoli, L. Corradi, S. Courtin, D. Bourgin, E. Fioretto, A. Goasduff, J. Grebosz, F. Haas, M. Mazzocco, T. Mijatović, D. Montanari, M. Pagliaroli, C. Parascandolo, F. Scarlassara, E. Strano, S. Szilner, N. Toniolo, and D. Torresi

Phys. Rev. C 92, 064607 (2015) - Published 14 December, 2015