Volume 95, Issue 6

June 2017

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Multiplicity derivative: A new signature of a first-order phase transition in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

S. Mallik, G. Chaudhuri, P. Das, and S. Das Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061601(R) (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

The thermodynamic properties of nuclear matter can be probed by collisions between heavy nuclei at various energies, and then studying the resulting nuclear fragment distributions. The authors propose an observable which will indicate that nuclear matter has undergone a first-order liquid-gas phase transition. That observable is based on the total multiplicity of the fragmenting system (its first derivative) for collisions between heavy nuclei, and is directly accessible by experiments. It maximizes at the same energy as the specific heat, $C_{v}$ , which typically happens at any first-order phase transition. Other potential indicators of a phase transition are less indicative due to the long-range Coulomb interaction and the fact that the atomic nucleus has a finite size.

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Doubly magic ${}^{208}{Pb}$ : High-spin states, isomers, and $E 3$ collectivity in the yrast decay

R. Broda, R. V. F. Janssens, Ł. W. Iskra, J. Wrzesinski, B. Fornal, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Chiara, N. Cieplicka-Oryńczak, C. R. Hoffman, F. G. Kondev, W. Królas, T. Lauritsen, Zs. Podolyak, D. Seweryniak, C. M. Shand, B. Szpak, W. B. Walters, S. Zhu, and B. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064308 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

The nucleus $^{208}$ Pb provides an iconic test of the nuclear shell model because its 82 protons and 126 neutrons are both magic numbers. When excited levels are discovered and characterized, this nucleus provides a means to investigate the mechanisms responsible for the generation of angular momentum and, ultimately, for the development of collectivity. This experiment is a tour de force that reveals extensive new information on $^{208}$ Pb about high-angular-momentum states, isomeric states, and collective states of octupole nature; thus it serves as a showcase for shell-model descriptions. Many of the states explored show good overall agreement with theory, but others at the highest energies reveal discrepancies, pointing to the need for improved calculations. Above the highest-lying $28^{-}$ isomer $γ$ transitions arising from yet higher spin levels could be identified in two separate experiments as displayed in the figure.

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Calculation of Gamow-Teller and two-neutrino double- $β$ decay properties for ${}^{130}{Te}$ and ${}^{136}{Xe}$ with a realistic nucleon-nucleon potential

L. Coraggio, L. De Angelis, T. Fukui, A. Gargano, and N. Itaco

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064324 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

The authors tackle the important subject of nuclear matrix elements governing double- $β$ decay in a first-principles shell-model calculation. They derive the shell-model effective interaction and the Gamow-Teller transition operator from a realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction. The procedure is tested on the two-neutrino double- $β$ decays of $^{130}$ Te and $^{136}$ Xe for which experimental data exist. This test precedes an application to the neutrino $l e s s$ double- $β$ decay of the same nuclei.

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Hydrodynamic predictions for Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

Scott McDonald, Chun Shen, François Fillion-Gourdeau, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064913 (2017) - Published 28 June, 2017

This work demonstrates that the “standard model” of heavy ion collisions, starting with initial-state fluctuations, followed by viscous hydrodynamic expansion, and concluding with conversion to hadrons that undergo rescattering and resonance decays, describes data at the highest LHC energy.

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Combined mean-field and three-body model tested on the ${}^{26}O$ nucleus

D. Hove, E. Garrido, P. Sarriguren, D. V. Fedorov, H. O. U. Fynbo, A. S. Jensen, and N. T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061301(R) (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

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De-excitation of the strongly coupled band in ${}^{177}{Au}$ and implications for core intruder configurations in the light Hg isotopes

M. Venhart et al.

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061302(R) (2017) - Published 5 June, 2017

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Search for shape-coexisting $0^{+}$ states in ${}^{66}{Ni}$ from lifetime measurements

B. Olaizola, L. M. Fraile, H. Mach, A. Poves, F. Nowacki, A. Aprahamian, J. A. Briz, J. Cal-González, D. Ghiţa, U. Köster, W. Kurcewicz, S. R. Lesher, D. Pauwels, E. Picado, D. Radulov, G. S. Simpson, and J. M. Udías

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061303(R) (2017) - Published 7 June, 2017

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Jacobi-type transitions in the interacting boson model

Y. Zhang and F. Iachello

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061304(R) (2017) - Published 7 June, 2017

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Spreading widths of giant resonances in spherical nuclei: Damped transient response

A. P. Severyukhin, S. Åberg, N. N. Arsenyev, and R. G. Nazmitdinov

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061305(R) (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

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$α$ -cluster formation and decay in the quartetting wave function approach

Chang Xu, G. Röpke, P. Schuck, Zhongzhou Ren, Y. Funaki, H. Horiuchi, A. Tohsaki, T. Yamada, and Bo Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061306(R) (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multiplicity derivative: A new signature of a first-order phase transition in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions

S. Mallik, G. Chaudhuri, P. Das, and S. Das Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061601(R) (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

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Comprehensive ${}^{242 m}{Am}$ neutron-induced reaction cross sections and resonance parameters

M. Q. Buckner, C. Y. Wu, R. A. Henderson, B. Bucher, N. Wimer, A. Chyzh, T. A. Bredeweg, B. Baramsai, A. Couture, M. Jandel, S. Mosby, and J. L. Ullmann

Phys. Rev. C 95, 061602(R) (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

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Fully coupled-channels complex scaling method for the $K^{-} p p$ system

Akinobu Doté, Takashi Inoue, and Takayuki Myo

Phys. Rev. C 95, 062201(R) (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

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Crust-core transition of a neutron star: Effects of the symmetry energy and temperature under strong magnetic fields

Jianjun Fang, Helena Pais, Sagar Pratapsi, and Constança Providência

Phys. Rev. C 95, 062801(R) (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Precise determination of charge-dependent pion-nucleon-nucleon coupling constants

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

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064001 (2017) - Published 19 June, 2017

Nuclear Structure

Precise measurement of $α_{K}$ and $α_{T}$ for the 109.3-keV $M 4$ transition in ${}^{125}{Te}$ : Test of internal-conversion theory

N. Nica, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, T. A. Werke, C. M. Folden, III, K. Ofodile, and M. B. Trzhaskovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064301 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Structure of ${}^{90, 91}{Kr}$ nuclei: Solving the puzzle of their population in fission

T. Rząca-Urban, K. Sieja, W. Urban, M. Czerwiński, A. Blanc, M. Jentschel, P. Mutti, U. Köster, T. Soldner, G. de France, G. S. Simpson, and C. A. Ur

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064302 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

New excitations in ${}^{142}{Ba}$ and ${}^{144}{Ce}$ : Evolution of $γ$ bands in the $N = 86$ isotones

H. Naïdja, F. Nowacki, B. Bounthong, M. Czerwiński, T. Rząca-Urban, T. Rogiński, W. Urban, J. Wiśniewski, K. Sieja, A. G. Smith, J. F. Smith, G. S. Simpson, I. Ahmad, and J. P. Greene

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064303 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Improvement to the gross theory of $β$ decay by inclusion of change in parity

Hiroyuki Koura and Satoshi Chiba

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064304 (2017) - Published 5 June, 2017

Virtual-state character of the two-body system in the complex scaling method

Myagmarjav Odsuren, Yuma Kikuchi, Takayuki Myo, Gonchigdorj Khuukhenkhuu, Hiroshi Masui, and Kiyoshi Katō

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064305 (2017) - Published 7 June, 2017

Combining symmetry collective states with coupled-cluster theory: Lessons from the Agassi model Hamiltonian

Matthew R. Hermes, Jorge Dukelsky, and Gustavo E. Scuseria

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064306 (2017) - Published 9 June, 2017

Implementation of the variation-after-projection approach in calculations with a time-odd Hartree-Fock mean field

Tu Ya, Yan He, Zao-Chun Gao, Jia-Qi Wang, and Y. S. Chen

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064307 (2017) - Published 9 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Doubly magic ${}^{208}{Pb}$ : High-spin states, isomers, and $E 3$ collectivity in the yrast decay

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064308 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Lifetime measurements of low-spin negative-parity levels in ${}^{160}{Gd}$

S. R. Lesher, C. Casarella, A. Aprahamian, L. M. Robledo, B. P. Crider, R. Ikeyama, I. R. Marsh, M. T. McEllistrem, E. E. Peters, F. M. Prados-Estévez, M. K. Smith, Z. R. Tully, J. R. Vanhoy, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064309 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Structural evolution in germanium and selenium nuclei within the mapped interacting boson model based on the Gogny energy density functional

K. Nomura, R. Rodríguez-Guzmán, and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064310 (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

Oblate deformation in neutron-rich ${}^{118, 119}{Ag}$

E. H. Wang, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, Y. X. Liu, H. J. Li, A. C. Dai, W. Y. Liang, F. R. Xu, J. K. Hwang, S. H. Liu, N. T. Brewer, Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, Y. Sun, S. J. Zhu, G. M. Ter-Akopian, and Yu. Ts. Oganessian

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064311 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

Band structures in ${}^{101}{Pd}$

V. Singh, S. Sihotra, G. H. Bhat, J. A. Sheikh, M. Kaur, S. Kumar, K. Singh, J. Goswamy, S. Saha, J. Sethi, R. Palit, S. S. Malik, N. Singh, U. Garg, and D. Mehta

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064312 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

Weak magnetism correction to allowed $β$ decay for reactor antineutrino spectra

X. B. Wang and A. C. Hayes

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064313 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Systematic study of multi-quasiparticle $K$ -isomeric bands in tungsten isotopes by the extended projected shell model

Xin-Yi Wu, S. K. Ghorui, Long-Jun Wang, Yang Sun, Mike Guidry, and Philip M. Walker

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064314 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Stability of the wobbling motion in an odd-mass nucleus and the analysis of ${}^{135}\Pr$

Kosai Tanabe and Kazuko Sugawara-Tanabe

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064315 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Beyond-mean-field effects on nuclear triaxiality

Tu Ya, Yong-Shou Chen, Zao-Chun Gao, Ling Liu, and Yong-Jing Chen

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064316 (2017) - Published 19 June, 2017

Unexpected distribution of $ν 1 f_{7 / 2}$ strength in ${}^{49}{Ca}$

H. L. Crawford et al.

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064317 (2017) - Published 21 June, 2017

Three-body decay of linear-chain states in ${}^{14}C$

T. Baba and M. Kimura

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064318 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

Toroidal, compressive, and $E 1$ properties of low-energy dipole modes in ${}^{10}{Be}$

Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo and Yuki Shikata

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064319 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

High-spin states in ${}^{133}{Cs}$ and the shell model description

S. Biswas, R. Palit, J. Sethi, S. Saha, A. Raghav, U. Garg, Md. S. R. Laskar, F. S. Babra, Z. Naik, S. Sharma, A. Y. Deo, V. V. Parkar, B. S. Naidu, R. Donthi, S. Jadhav, H. C. Jain, P. K. Joshi, S. Sihotra, S. Kumar, D. Mehta, G. Mukherjee, A. Goswami, and P. C. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064320 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

In-beam $γ$ -ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich platinum isotope ${}^{200}{Pt}$ toward the $N = 126$ shell gap

P. R. John et al.

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064321 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

$β$ -decay half-lives and $β$ -delayed neutron emission probabilities for several isotopes of Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, and Bi, beyond $N = 126$

R. Caballero-Folch et al.

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064322 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Complete spectroscopy of ${}^{211}{Po}$ below 2.0 MeV via the ( $α, n$ ) reaction

J. R. Cottle, Vandana Tripathi, B. A. Brown, B. Abromeit, J. M. Allmond, M. Anastasiou, L. T. Baby, J. S. Baron, P. D. Cottle, R. Dungan, T. C. Hensley, K. W. Kemper, R. S. Lubna, N. Rijal, E. Rubino, S. L. Tabor, P.-L. Tai, K. Villafana, and I. Wiedenhoever

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064323 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Calculation of Gamow-Teller and two-neutrino double- $β$ decay properties for ${}^{130}{Te}$ and ${}^{136}{Xe}$ with a realistic nucleon-nucleon potential

L. Coraggio, L. De Angelis, T. Fukui, A. Gargano, and N. Itaco

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064324 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Proxy-SU(3) symmetry in heavy deformed nuclei

Dennis Bonatsos, I. E. Assimakis, N. Minkov, Andriana Martinou, R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064325 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Analytic predictions for nuclear shapes, prolate dominance, and the prolate-oblate shape transition in the proxy-SU(3) model

Dennis Bonatsos, I. E. Assimakis, N. Minkov, Andriana Martinou, S. Sarantopoulou, R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064326 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Simultaneous investigation of the $T = 1 (J^{π} = 0^{+})$ and $T = 0 (J^{π} = 9^{+})$ $β$ decays in ${}^{70}{Br}$

A. I. Morales et al.

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064327 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Toward a global description of nuclear charge radii: Exploring the Fayans energy density functional

P.-G. Reinhard and W. Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064328 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Research on the halo in ${}^{31}{Ne}$ with the complex momentum representation method

Ya-Juan Tian, Quan Liu, Tai-Hua Heng, and Jian-You Guo

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064329 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

Low density nuclear matter with light clusters in a generalized nonlinear relativistic mean-field model

Zhao-Wen Zhang and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064330 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

Nuclear Reactions

Applicability of the Wong formula for fusion cross sections from light to heavy systems

N. W. Lwin, N. N. Htike, and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064601 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Measurement of the cross section of the residues from the ${}^{11}B$ -induced reaction on ${}^{89}Y$ and ${}^{93}{Nb}$ : Production of ${}^{97}{Ru}$ and ${}^{101 m}{Rh}$

Deepak Kumar and Moumita Maiti

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064602 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Fragment emission mechanism in the ${}^{32}S + {}^{12}C$ reaction

Ratnesh Pandey, S. Kundu, C. Bhattacharya, K. Banerjee, T. K. Rana, S. Manna, G. Mukherjee, J. K. Meena, A. Chaudhuri, T. Roy, Pratap Roy, Md. A. Asgar, V. Srivastava, A. Dey, M. Sinha, T. K. Ghosh, S. Bhattacharya, S. K. Pandit, K. Mahata, P. Patle, S. Pal, A. Shrivastava, and V. Nanal

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064603 (2017) - Published 5 June, 2017

Medium effects on pion production in heavy ion collisions

Zhen Zhang and Che Ming Ko

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064604 (2017) - Published 7 June, 2017

Neutron scattering cross section measurements for ${}^{56}{Fe}$

A. P. D. Ramirez, J. R. Vanhoy, S. F. Hicks, M. T. McEllistrem, E. E. Peters, S. Mukhopadhyay, T. D. Harrison, T. J. Howard, D. T. Jackson, P. D. Lenzen, T. D. Nguyen, R. L. Pecha, B. G. Rice, B. K. Thompson, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064605 (2017) - Published 9 June, 2017

$K^{*} {(892)}^{0}$ and $ϕ (1020)$ meson production at high transverse momentum in $p p$ and Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV

J. Adam et al. (ALICE Collaboration )

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064606 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Decay of the excited compound system ${}^{56}{Ni}^{*}$ formed through various channels using deformed Coulomb and deformed nuclear proximity potentials

K. P. Santhosh and P. V. Subha

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064607 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Examination of the adiabatic approximation for $(d, p)$ reactions

Yoshiki Chazono, Kazuki Yoshida, and Kazuyuki Ogata

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064608 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Prompt-fission $γ$ -ray spectral characteristics from ${}^{239}{Pu} (n_{th}, f)$

A. Gatera, T. Belgya, W. Geerts, A. Göök, F.-J. Hambsch, M. Lebois, B. Maróti, A. Moens, A. Oberstedt, S. Oberstedt, F. Postelt, L. Qi, L. Szentmiklósi, G. Sibbens, D. Vanleeuw, M. Vidali, and F. Zeiser

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064609 (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

Translation invariance and antisymmetry in the theory of the nucleon optical model

R. C. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064610 (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

Predictions of probable projectile-target combinations for the synthesis of superheavy isotopes of Ts

K. P. Santhosh and V. Safoora

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064611 (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

Measurement of the energy and multiplicity distributions of neutrons from the photofission of ${}^{235}U$

S. D. Clarke, B. M. Wieger, A. Enqvist, R. Vogt, J. Randrup, R. C. Haight, H. Y. Lee, B. A. Perdue, E. Kwan, C. Y. Wu, R. A. Henderson, and S. A. Pozzi

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064612 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Relative fragmentation in ternary systems within the temperature-dependent relativistic mean-field approach

M. T. Senthil Kannan, Bharat Kumar, M. Balasubramaniam, B. K. Agrawal, and S. K. Patra

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064613 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

Elastic scattering, inelastic excitation, and neutron transfer for ${}^{7}{Li} + {}^{120}{Sn}$ at energies around the Coulomb barrier

V. A. B. Zagatto, J. Lubian, L. R. Gasques, M. A. G. Alvarez, L. C. Chamon, J. R. B. Oliveira, J. A. Alcántara-Núñez, N. H. Medina, V. Scarduelli, A. Freitas, I. Padron, E. S. Rossi, Jr., and J. M. B. Shorto

Phys. Rev. C 95, 064614 (2017) - Published 28 June, 2017