Volume 98, Issue 3

September 2018

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quadrupole phonons in the cadmium isotopes

A. Leviatan, N. Gavrielov, J. E. García-Ramos, and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. C 98, 031302(R) (2018) - Published 26 September, 2018

The cadmium isotopes have been a classic testing ground for vibrational models of atomic nuclei with various multiphonon states identified. However, intruder states arising from the promotion of two protons across the $Z = 50$ shell gap are also present at low energy. Most models have trouble accounting for all the experimental data. The present paper takes a unique approach to obtain improved agreement with an extensive data set for $^{110}$ Cd, by including proton excitations in the phonon basis and exploiting a partial dynamical symmetry that mixes only certain classes of normal states.

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Signatures of few-body resonances in finite volume

P. Klos, S. König, H.-W. Hammer, J. E. Lynn, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034004 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

The authors explore the detectability (signatures) of true few-body resonances, involving the separation of all particles in the system, through avoided level crossings in energy spectra in a finite box. In so doing they adapt the numerical method of a discrete variable representation (DVR) for fermions and bosons in periodic boxes and describe thoroughly its implementation.

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Statistical theory of deformation distributions in nuclear spectra

M. T. Mustonen, C. N. Gilbreth, Y. Alhassid, and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034317 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

The shape of atomic nuclei affects their density of states, a dependence needed to understand nuclear processes such as fission. This paper offers a new, model-independent method to extract nuclear shape distributions via a Landau-like expansion and without invoking a mean-field approximation. This allows the authors to track how nuclear deformation changes as a function of temperature and neutron number in a rotationally invariant framework, and to calculate the dependence of the state density on deformation.

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Bayesian approach to model-based extrapolation of nuclear observables

Léo Neufcourt, Yuchen Cao (曹宇晨), Witold Nazarewicz, and Frederi Viens

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034318 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

The Bayesian statistical approaches have a recognized utility in improving the quantified predictions for nuclear masses away from stability that provide key inputs for a variety of astrophysical applications. The present paper is devoted to the methodology of such efforts. It applies Bayesian Gaussian processes and neural networks to two-neutron separation energies of nuclei. The authors find that Gaussian processes deliver a more stable performance.

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Current status and desired precision of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays: Li, Be, B, C, and N

Yoann Génolini, David Maurin, Igor V. Moskalenko, and Michael Unger

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034611 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

The precision of the current generation of space-based cosmic-ray experiments, such as AMS-02, PAMELA, CALET, and ISS-CREAM, is now reaching $\approx 1$ –3%, from energies of GeV/nucleon to multi-TeV/nucleon. These and future measurements of the isotopic composition and energy spectra of cosmic rays may reveal signatures of as-yet unknown phenomena in a wide range of topics, provided that the currently large uncertainties of 20–50% in many of the isotopic production cross sections can be reduced. This paper provides a systematic study of the reaction channels to produce particular isotopes and identifies the most important channels for reducing the present uncertainties. It provides a first road map for planning new measurement campaigns worldwide to reach the desired uncertainties.

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Net-baryon diffusion in fluid-dynamic simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Gabriel S. Denicol, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon, Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034916 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

For the first time, the baryon current and its diffusive effects have been incorporated into one of the 3D relativistic viscous hydrodynamics models, successfully used to describe heavy-ion collisions at the top RHIC energies and at the LHC. This approach will be very useful in the interpretation of data coming from the low-energy Beam Energy Scan (BES) at RHIC, and for the search for a critical point in the QCD phase diagram.

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Quenching of nuclear matrix elements for $0 ν β β$ decay by chiral two-body currents

Long-Jun Wang, Jonathan Engel, and Jiang Ming Yao

Phys. Rev. C 98, 031301(R) (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quadrupole phonons in the cadmium isotopes

A. Leviatan, N. Gavrielov, J. E. García-Ramos, and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. C 98, 031302(R) (2018) - Published 26 September, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Reexamining nuclear chiral geometry from the orientation of the angular momentum

Q. B. Chen (陈启博) and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 031303(R) (2018) - Published 26 September, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Mass distributions of fission fragments from nuclei populated by multinucleon transfer or incomplete fusion channels in ${}^{6, 7}{Li} + {}^{238}U$ reactions

A. Pal, S. Santra, D. Chattopadhyay, A. Kundu, A. Jhingan, P. Sugathan, N. Saneesh, Mohit Kumar, N. L. Singh, A. Yadav, C. Yadav, R. Dubey, K. Kapoor, Kavita Rani, Honey Arora, Visakh A. C., Devinder Kaur, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena, S. Kailas, and K.-H. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 98, 031601(R) (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

System-size dependence of the viscous attenuation of anisotropic flow in $p$ + Pb and Pb + Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Peifeng Liu and Roy A. Lacey

Phys. Rev. C 98, 031901(R) (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Possible existence of a dibaryon candidate $N Δ (D_{21})$

Hongxia Huang, Jialun Ping, Xinmei Zhu, and Fan Wang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034001 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Universal physics of the few-body system of two neutrons and one flavored meson

Udit Raha, Yuki Kamiya, Shung-Ichi Ando, and Tetsuo Hyodo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034002 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Charge and magnetic properties of three-nucleon systems in pionless effective field theory

Jared Vanasse

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034003 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

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Signatures of few-body resonances in finite volume

P. Klos, S. König, H.-W. Hammer, J. E. Lynn, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034004 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

Quantum Monte Carlo formalism for dynamical pions and nucleons

Lucas Madeira, Alessandro Lovato, Francesco Pederiva, and Kevin E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034005 (2018) - Published 27 September, 2018

Nuclear Structure

Collective modes of low-lying states in the interacting boson model with random interactions

G. J. Fu, Y. Zhang, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034301 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Seniority structure of ${}^{136}{Xe}_{82}$

E. E. Peters, P. Van Isacker, A. Chakraborty, B. P. Crider, A. Kumar, S. H. Liu, M. T. McEllistrem, C. V. Mehl, F. M. Prados-Estévez, T. J. Ross, J. L. Wood, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034302 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Lifetime measurements in ${}^{156}{Gd}$

A. Aprahamian, R. C. de Haan, S. R. Lesher, C. Casarella, A. Stratman, H. G. Börner, H. Lehmann, M. Jentschel, and A. M. Bruce

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034303 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Systematic investigation of the high- $K$ isomers and the high-spin rotational bands in the neutron-rich Nd and Sm isotopes by a particle-number conserving method

Zhen-Hua Zhang (张振华)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034304 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Vibrational- $γ$ bands in even ${}^{104 - 118}{Pd}$ isotopes

A. Giannatiempo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034305 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Low-energy Gamow-Teller transitions in deformed $N = Z$ odd-odd nuclei

Hiroyuki Morita and Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034307 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Least action description of spontaneous fission in fermium and nobelium nuclei based on the Gogny energy density functional

R. Rodríguez-Guzmán and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034308 (2018) - Published 10 September, 2018

Updated $β$ -decay measurement of neutron-rich ${}^{74}{Cu}$

J. L. Tracy, Jr. et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034309 (2018) - Published 10 September, 2018

First determination of $β$ -delayed multiple neutron emission beyond $A = 100$ through direct neutron measurement: The $P_{2 n}$ value of ${}^{136}{Sb}$

R. Caballero-Folch et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034310 (2018) - Published 10 September, 2018

$γ$ -ray spectroscopy of ${}^{150}{Sm}$ through the $β$ decay of ${}^{150}{Pm}$ ( $T = 2.7$ h) and ${}^{150}{Eu}^{m}$ ( $T = 12.8$ h)

P. Schmelzenbach, K. S. Krane, J. L. Wood, W. D. Kulp, J. Loats, C. J. Staples, and E. B. Norman

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034311 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Effect of shell corrections on the $α$ -decay properties of ${}^{280 – 305}{Fl}$ isotopes

Zhishuai Ge, Cheng Li, Jingjing Li, Gen Zhang, Bing Li, Xinxin Xu, Cheikh A. T. Sokhna, Xiaojun Bao, Hongfei Zhang, Yu. S. Tsyganov, and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034312 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Quantitative analysis of tensor effects in the relativistic Hartree-Fock theory

Zhiheng Wang (王之恒), Qiang Zhao (赵强), Haozhao Liang (梁豪兆), and Wen Hui Long (龙文辉)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034313 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Structure of the low-lying positive-parity states in ${}^{154}{Sm}$

H. G. Ganev

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034314 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Investigation of $J = 1$ states and their $γ$ -decay behavior in ${}^{52}{Cr}$

J. Wilhelmy, B. A. Brown, P. Erbacher, U. Gayer, J. Isaak, Krishichayan, B. Löher, M. Müscher, H. Pai, N. Pietralla, P. Ries, D. Savran, P. Scholz, M. Spieker, W. Tornow, V. Werner, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034315 (2018) - Published 19 September, 2018

Shells in a toroidal nucleus in the intermediate-mass region

Cheuk-Yin Wong and Andrzej Staszczak

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034316 (2018) - Published 19 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Statistical theory of deformation distributions in nuclear spectra

M. T. Mustonen, C. N. Gilbreth, Y. Alhassid, and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034317 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bayesian approach to model-based extrapolation of nuclear observables

Léo Neufcourt, Yuchen Cao (曹宇晨), Witold Nazarewicz, and Frederi Viens

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034318 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

Energy-density functionals inspired by effective-field theories: Applications to neutron drops

Jérémy Bonnard, Marcella Grasso, and Denis Lacroix

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034319 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

Spectroscopy of weakly deformed bands in ${}^{87}{Zr}$ : First observation of the shears mechanism in a Zr isotope

P. Banerjee, S. Ganguly, M. K. Pradhan, Md. Moin Shaikh, H. P. Sharma, S. Chakraborty, R. Palit, R. G. Pillay, V. Nanal, S. Saha, and J. Sethi

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034320 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

Nuclear Reactions

Systematic study of ${}^{192, 202, 206, 210}{Po}$ compound nuclei using neutron multiplicity as a probe

Ruchi Mahajan, B. R. Behera, Meenu Thakur, Gurpreet Kaur, Priya Sharma, Kushal Kapoor, A. Kumar, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, A. Chatterjee, N. Saneesh, A. Yadav, R. Dubey, Neeraj Kumar, Hardev Singh, A. Saxena, and Santanu Pal

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034601 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Neutron halos in the excited states of ${}^{12}B$

T. L. Belyaeva, S. A. Goncharov, A. S. Demyanova, A. A. Ogloblin, A. N. Danilov, V. A. Maslov, Yu. G. Sobolev, W. Trzaska, S. V. Khlebnikov, G. P. Tyurin, N. Burtebaev, D. Janseitov, and E. Mukhamejanov

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034602 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

Incomplete fusion in ${}^{16}O + {}^{89}Y$ reactions at energies of $\approx 7$ MeV/nucleon

Muntazir Gull, Kamal Kumar, Sabir Ali, Tauseef Ahmad, S. Dutt, I. A. Rizvi, Avinash Agarwal, and R. Kumar

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034603 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

Multinucleon transfer in ${}^{58}{Ni} + {}^{60}{Ni}$ and ${}^{60}{Ni} + {}^{60}{Ni}$ in a stochastic mean-field approach

B. Yilmaz, S. Ayik, O. Yilmaz, and A. S. Umar

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034604 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Measurement of the cross sections of the ${}^{25}{Mg} (n, α) {}^{22}{Ne}$ reaction in the 4–6 MeV region

Yu. M. Gledenov, M. V. Sedysheva, G. Khuukhenkhuu, Huaiyong Bai, Haoyu Jiang, Yi Lu, Zengqi Cui, Jinxiang Chen, and Guohui Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034605 (2018) - Published 10 September, 2018

Consistent account of deuteron-induced reactions on $^{nat} Cr$ up to 60 MeV

E. Šimečková, M. Avrigeanu, U. Fischer, J. Mrázek, J. Novak, M. Štefánik, C. Costache, and V. Avrigeanu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034606 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

${}^{191}{Ir} (n, 2 n)$ and ${}^{191}{Ir} (n, 3 n)$ reaction cross sections in the 15–21 MeV energy range

A. Kalamara, R. Vlastou, M. Kokkoris, S. Chasapoglou, A. Stamatopoulos, N. Patronis, M. Serris, A. Lagoyannis, and S. Harissopulos

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034607 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

From Coulomb excitation cross sections to nonresonant astrophysical rates in three-body systems: The ${}^{17}{Ne}$ case

Yu. L. Parfenova, L. V. Grigorenko, I. A. Egorova, N. B. Shulgina, J. S. Vaagen, and M. V. Zhukov

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034608 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Multinucleon transfer process in the reaction ${}^{160}{Gd}$ + ${}^{186}W$

Long Zhu, Jun Su, Pei-Wei Wen, Chen-Chen Guo, and Cheng Li

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034609 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Dissecting reaction calculations using halo effective field theory and ab initio input

P. Capel, D. R. Phillips, and H.-W. Hammer

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034610 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Current status and desired precision of the isotopic production cross sections relevant to astrophysics of cosmic rays: Li, Be, B, C, and N

Yoann Génolini, David Maurin, Igor V. Moskalenko, and Michael Unger

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034611 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

High-precision spontaneous fission branching-ratio measurements for ${}^{240, 242}{Pu}$ and ${}^{252}{Cf}$ isotopes

G. Bélier, J. Aupiais, G. Sibbens, A. Moens, and D. Vanleeuw

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034612 (2018) - Published 28 September, 2018

Neutrino-nucleus reactions on ${}^{16}O$ based on new shell-model Hamiltonians

Toshio Suzuki, Satoshi Chiba, Takashi Yoshida, Koh Takahashi, and Hideyuki Umeda

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034613 (2018) - Published 28 September, 2018

Probing postsaddle dissipation with light-particle multiplicity of hot heavy nuclear systems

N. Wang and W. Ye

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034614 (2018) - Published 28 September, 2018

Interaction of ${}^{8}{He}$ with ${}^{208}{Pb}$ at near-barrier energies: ${}^{4}{He}$ and ${}^{6}{He}$ production

G. Marquínez-Durán et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034615 (2018) - Published 28 September, 2018

Models, measurements, and effective field theory: Proton capture on ${}^{7}{Be}$ at next-to-leading order

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

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034616 (2018) - Published 28 September, 2018

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Origin of elliptic flow and its dependence on the equation of state in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies

A. Le Fèvre, Y. Leifels, C. Hartnack, and J. Aichelin

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034901 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Off-equilibrium corrections to energy and conserved charge densities in the relativistic fluid in heavy-ion collisions

Akihiko Monnai

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034902 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Multiparticle azimuthal cumulants in $p + Pb$ collisions from a multiphase transport model

Mao-Wu Nie, Peng Huo, Jiangyong Jia, and Guo-Liang Ma

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034903 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Responses of the chiral-magnetic-effect–sensitive sine observable to resonance backgrounds in heavy-ion collisions

Yicheng Feng, Jie Zhao, and Fuqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034904 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Estimation of the freeze-out parameters reachable in a fixed-target experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Viktor Begun, Daniel Kikoła, Volodymyr Vovchenko, and Daniel Wielanek

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034905 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Finite resonance widths influence the thermal-model description of hadron yields

Volodymyr Vovchenko, Mark I. Gorenstein, and Horst Stoecker

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034906 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Heavy flavor azimuthal correlations in cold nuclear matter

R. Vogt

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034907 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Extension of the Bjorken energy density formula of the initial state for relativistic heavy ion collisions

Zi-Wei Lin

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034908 (2018) - Published 14 September, 2018

Effect of the QCD equation of state and strange hadronic resonances on multiparticle correlations in heavy ion collisions

P. Alba, V. Mantovani Sarti, J. Noronha, J. Noronha-Hostler, P. Parotto, I. Portillo Vazquez, and C. Ratti

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034909 (2018) - Published 14 September, 2018

Hanbury-Brown–Twiss correlation functions and radii from event-by-event hydrodynamics

Christopher Plumberg and Ulrich Heinz

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034910 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Thermal noise in non-boost-invariant dissipative hydrodynamics

Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay and Subrata Pal

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034911 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Two-particle angular correlations in $p p$ and $p$ -Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider from a multiphase transport model

Liu-Yao Zhang, Jin-Hui Chen, Zi-Wei Lin, Yu-Gang Ma, and Song Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034912 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Medium-induced gluon emission via transverse and longitudinal scattering in dense nuclear matter

Le Zhang, De-Fu Hou, and Guang-You Qin

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034913 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Charm-strange meson production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Shuang Li and Chaowen Wang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034914 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Effect of the chromo-electromagnetic field fluctuations on heavy quark propagation in a deconfined hadronic medium at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Ashik Ikbal Sheikh, Zubayer Ahammed, Prashant Shukla, and Munshi G. Mustafa

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034915 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Net-baryon diffusion in fluid-dynamic simulations of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Gabriel S. Denicol, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon, Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034916 (2018) - Published 24 September, 2018

Effect of single string structure and multiple string interaction on strange particle production in $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

Liang Zheng, Dai-Mei Zhou, Zhong-Bao Yin, Yu-Liang Yan, Gang Chen, Xu Cai, and Ben-Hao Sa

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034917 (2018) - Published 25 September, 2018

Harmonic decomposition of three-particle azimuthal correlations at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 034918 (2018) - Published 28 September, 2018

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Asymmetric relativistic Fermi gas model for quasielastic lepton-nucleus scattering

M. B. Barbaro, A. De Pace, T. W. Donnelly, J. A. Caballero, G. D. Megias, and J. W. Van Orden

Phys. Rev. C 98, 035501 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Shell model study of using an effective field theory for disentangling several contributions to neutrinoless double- $β$ decay

Mihai Horoi and Andrei Neacsu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 035502 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Tests of the standard model in neutron $β$ decay with a polarized neutron and electron and an unpolarized proton

A. N. Ivanov, R. Höllwieser, N. I. Troitskaya, M. Wellenzohn, and Ya. A. Berdnikov

Phys. Rev. C 98, 035503 (2018) - Published 19 September, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Shell model states in the continuum [Phys. Rev. C 94, 064320 (2016)]

A. M. Shirokov, A. I. Mazur, I. A. Mazur, and J. P. Vary

Phys. Rev. C 98, 039901 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

Volume 98, Issue 3

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

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