Volume 98, Issue 4

October 2018

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Sub-shell closure and shape coexistence in the transitional nucleus ${}^{98}{Zr}$

W. Witt, V. Werner, N. Pietralla, M. Albers, A. D. Ayangeakaa, B. Bucher, M. P. Carpenter, D. Cline, H. M. David, A. Hayes, C. Hoffman, R. V. F. Janssens, B. P. Kay, F. G. Kondev, W. Korten, T. Lauritsen, O. Möller, G. Rainovski, G. Savard, D. Seweryniak, J. Smith, R. Stegmann, S. Zhu, and C. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041302(R) (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

As zirconium gains neutrons, its nucleus morphs in shape—changing from a soccer ball to an American football—and researchers have found the exact moment of the transition.

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Symmetry conserving configuration mixing description of odd mass nuclei

M. Borrajo and J. Luis Egido

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044317 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

The excitation spectrum and other properties of nuclei with odd proton or neutron numbers have long been interpreted in terms of the Nilsson and particle-plus-rotor models which, however, provide a rather rudimentary description of these systems. In this work, beyond-mean-field calculations, which are well-established for even-even nuclei, have been extended to odd-mass nuclei by means of the generator-coordinate method based on particle-number- and angular-momentum-projected triaxially deformed blocked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov states, and the Gogny force. As an example, the authors present a complete spectroscopic description, including energies, transition probabilities, and collective wave functions, of the classical, textbook case $^{25}$ Mg.

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Hydrodynamic response in simulations within a multiphase transport model

De-Xian Wei, Xu-Guang Huang, and Li Yan

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044908 (2018) - Published 26 October, 2018

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions it is of significant interest to study the nature of microscopic transport theories such as the multiphase transport theory (AMPT), which is based on simulated parton scattering. Such studies allow one to determine whether or to what extent these simulations are compatible with a traditional and well-established hydrodynamic description. The authors find that AMPT simulations indeed display the same “hydrodynamic” response to initial conditions. In particular, just as in hydrodynamics, various measured properties of elliptic flow can be understood in AMPT directly from properties of the initial eccentricity, including the expected dependence on the viscosity of the system.

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Critical examination of constraints on the equation of state of dense matter obtained from GW170817

I. Tews, J. Margueron, and S. Reddy

Phys. Rev. C 98, 045804 (2018) - Published 22 October, 2018

The detection of gravitational waves from the neutron-star merger GW170817 provided the first firm observational constraint on the radius of neutron stars—nature’s densest visible objects. The authors find that modern nuclear-physics-based calculations of the equation of state of dense neutron-rich matter predict radii that are compatible but more restrictive. They critically examine associated uncertainties and determine how improved constraints from future observations can provide new insights into dense matter and possible phase transitions in the neutron-star core.

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Competing $1 n$ and $2 n$ decays in ${}^{12}{Be}$

H. T. Fortune

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041301(R) (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Sub-shell closure and shape coexistence in the transitional nucleus ${}^{98}{Zr}$

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041302(R) (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

As zirconium gains neutrons, its nucleus morphs in shape—changing from a soccer ball to an American football—and researchers have found the exact moment of the transition.

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Spectral anomaly of reactor antineutrinos based on theoretical energy spectra

Tadashi Yoshida, Takahiro Tachibana, Shin Okumura, and Satoshi Chiba

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041303(R) (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

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Affirmation of transfer-breakup as a source for $α$ -particle emission in ${}^{12, 13}C + {}^{232}{Th}$ fission reactions

Y. K. Gupta, D. C. Biswas, G. K. Prajapati, L. S. Danu, B. N. Joshi, S. Mukhopadhyay, B. V. John, S. Dubey, Siddarth Chettri, N. Kumar, R. P. Vind, and S. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041601(R) (2018) - Published 9 October, 2018

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Cluster radioactivity in superheavy nuclei

M. Warda, A. Zdeb, and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041602(R) (2018) - Published 24 October, 2018

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Signatures of higher-multipole deformations and non-coplanarity as essential, additional degrees-of-freedom in heavy-ion reactions

Sahila Chopra, Hemdeep, Pooja Kaushal, and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041603(R) (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

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Discrepancy in low transverse momentum dileptons from relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Taesoo Song, Wolfgang Cassing, Pierre Moreau, and Elena Bratkovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 98, 041901(R) (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

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Extraction of $γ n \to π N$ observables from deuteron-target data

Satoshi X. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. C 98, 042201(R) (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Large- $N_{c}$ relationships among two-derivative pionless effective field theory couplings

Matthias R. Schindler, Hersh Singh, and Roxanne P. Springer

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044001 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Neutron-proton scattering with lattice chiral effective field theory at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order

Ning Li, Serdar Elhatisari, Evgeny Epelbaum, Dean Lee, Bing-Nan Lu, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044002 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Local chiral interactions, the tritium Gamow-Teller matrix element, and the three-nucleon contact term

A. Baroni, R. Schiavilla, L. E. Marcucci, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky, A. Lovato, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, Steven C. Pieper, M. Viviani, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044003 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

Nuclear Structure

Shell-model interactions from chiral effective field theory

L. Huth, V. Durant, J. Simonis, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044301 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Identification of the new isotope ${}^{224}{Np}$

T. H. Huang (黄天衡) et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044302 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Bose-Einstein condensation of $α$ clusters and new soft mode in ${}^{12}C$ – ${}^{52}{Fe}$ $4 N$ nuclei in a field-theoretical superfluid cluster model

R. Katsuragi, Y. Kazama, J. Takahashi, Y. Nakamura, Y. Yamanaka, and S. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044303 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Evolution from $γ$ -soft to stable triaxiality in ${}^{136}{Nd}$ as a prerequisite of chirality

B. F. Lv et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044304 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Realistic shell-model calculations for $p$ -shell nuclei including contributions of a chiral three-body force

T. Fukui, L. De Angelis, Y. Z. Ma, L. Coraggio, A. Gargano, N. Itaco, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044305 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Explicit inclusion of the spin-orbit contribution in the Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-Röpke wave function

N. Itagaki, H. Matsuno, and A. Tohsaki

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044306 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Low-lying states in ${}^{219}{Ra}$ and ${}^{215}{Rn}$ : Sampling microsecond $α$ -decaying nuclei

A. Såmark-Roth et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044307 (2018) - Published 9 October, 2018

Comparison of double-folding effective interactions within the cluster model

B. D. C. Kimene Kaya, S. M. Wyngaardt, T. T. Ibrahim, and W. A. Yahya

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044308 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

Nuclear structure of ${}^{112}{Cd}$ studied through the ${}^{111}{Cd} (\vec{d}, p)$ reaction

D. S. Jamieson, P. E. Garrett, G. C. Ball, G. A. Demand, T. Faestermann, P. Finlay, K. L. Green, R. Hertenberger, K. G. Leach, A. A. Phillips, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, S. Triambak, and H.-F. Wirth

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044309 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

Elastic electron scattering form factors of deformed exotic Xe isotopes

Tongqi Liang, Jian Liu, Zhongzhou Ren, Chang Xu, and Shuo Wang

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044310 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

Yrast and non-yrast spectroscopy of ${}^{199}{Tl}$ using $α$ -induced reactions

Soumik Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Banik, S. Das Gupta, G. Mukherjee, A. Dhal, S. S. Alam, Md. A. Asgar, T. Roy, A. Saha, S. Nandi, T. Bhattacharjee, A. Choudhury, Debasish Mondal, S. Mukhopadhyay, P. Mukhopadhyay, S. Pal, Deepak Pandit, I. Shaik, and S. R. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044311 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018

Rod-shaped rotational states in $N = Z$ even-even nuclei from ${}^{12}C$ to ${}^{32}S$

Tsunenori Inakura and Shoujirou Mizutori

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044312 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Systematic study of giant quadrupole resonances with the subtracted second random-phase approximation: Beyond-mean-field centroids and fragmentation

O. Vasseur, D. Gambacurta, and M. Grasso

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044313 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Behavior of the collective rotor in wobbling motion

E. Streck, Q. B. Chen, N. Kaiser, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044314 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Lifetime measurements of lowest states in the $π g_{7 / 2} \otimes ν h_{11 / 2}$ rotational band in ${}^{112}I$

M. M. Giles et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044315 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Deformed band structures in neutron-rich ${}^{152 - 158}{Pm}$ isotopes

S. Bhattacharyya, E. H. Wang, A. Navin, M. Rejmund, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, J. K. Hwang, A. Lemasson, A. V. Afanasjev, Soumik Bhattacharya, J. Ranger, M. Caamaño, E. Clément, O. Delaune, F. Farget, G. de France, B. Jacquot, Y. X. Luo, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, J. O. Rasmussen, G. M. Ter-Akopian, and S. J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044316 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

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Symmetry conserving configuration mixing description of odd mass nuclei

M. Borrajo and J. Luis Egido

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044317 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Nonquenching of $g_{A}$ in nuclei, Landau-Migdal fixed-point theory, and emergence of scale symmetry in dense baryonic matter

Yan-Ling Li, Yong-Liang Ma, and Mannque Rho

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044318 (2018) - Published 23 October, 2018

Damped transient response of the giant dipole resonance in the lead region

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

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044319 (2018) - Published 25 October, 2018

Gogny-force-derived effective shell-model Hamiltonian

W. G. Jiang, B. S. Hu, Z. H. Sun, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044320 (2018) - Published 25 October, 2018

Octupole phonon model based on the shell model for octupole vibrational states

N. Yoshinaga, K. Yanase, K. Higashiyama, and E. Teruya

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044321 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

Nuclear Reactions

Searching for states analogous to the ${}^{12}C$ Hoyle state in heavier nuclei using the thick target inverse kinematics technique

M. Barbui, K. Hagel, J. Gauthier, S. Wuenschel, R. Wada, V. Z. Goldberg, R. T. deSouza, S. Hudan, D. Fang, X.-G. Cao, and J. B. Natowitz

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044601 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Neutron-proton equilibration in 35 MeV/ $u$ collisions of $^{64, 70}$ Zn + $^{64, 70}$ Zn and $^{64}$ Zn, $^{64}$ Ni + $^{64}$ Zn, $^{64}$ Ni quantified using triplicate probes

L. W. May, A. Wakhle, A. B. McIntosh, Z. Kohley, S. Behling, A. Bonasera, G. Bonasera, P. Cammarata, K. Hagel, L. Heilborn, A. Jedele, A. Raphelt, A. Rodriguez Manso, G. Souliotis, R. Tripathi, M. D. Youngs, A. Zarrella, and S. J. Yennello

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044602 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Fission cross sections as a probe of fusion dynamics at high angular momentum

C. S. Palshetkar, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, E. Williams, K. Ramachandran, I. P. Carter, K. J. Cook, D. Y. Jeung, D. H. Luong, S. D. McNeil, D. C. Rafferty, and A. Wakhle

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044603 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Semiclassical calculations of complete and incomplete fusion in collisions of weakly bound nuclei

G. D. Kolinger, L. F. Canto, R. Donangelo, and S. R. Souza

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044604 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Benchmark of the GEF code for fission-fragment yields over an enlarged range in fissioning nucleus mass, excitation energy, and angular momentum

C. Schmitt, K.-H. Schmidt, and B. Jurado

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044605 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

Role of breakup processes in deuteron-induced spallation reactions at 100–200 MeV/nucleon

Shinsuke Nakayama, Naoya Furutachi, Osamu Iwamoto, and Yukinobu Watanabe

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044606 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018

Production of ${}^{229}{Th}$ for medical applications: Excitation functions of low-energy protons on ${}^{232}{Th}$ targets

J. R. Griswold, C. U. Jost, D. W. Stracener, S. H. Bruffey, D. Denton, M. Garland, L. Heilbronn, and S. Mirzadeh

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044607 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Elastic scattering of the proton drip line nuclei ${}^{7}{Be}, {}^{8}B$ , and ${}^{9}C$ on a lead target at energies around three times the Coulomb barriers

Y. Y. Yang et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044608 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Low-energy corrections to the eikonal description of elastic scattering and breakup of one-neutron halo nuclei in nuclear-dominated reactions

C. Hebborn and P. Capel

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044610 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

New “3D calorimetry” of hot nuclei

E. Vient et al. (INDRA Collaboration )

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044611 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Validation of a new “3D calorimetry” of hot nuclei with the HIPSE event generator

E. Vient et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044612 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Reaction mechanisms of the ${}^{18}O + {}^{63}{Cu}$ system at near-barrier energies

E. Crema, V. A. B. Zagatto, J. M. B. Shorto, B. Paes, J. Lubian, R. F. Simões, D. S. Monteiro, J. F. P. Huiza, N. Added, M. C. Morais, and P. R. S. Gomes

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044614 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Prompt neutrons in correlation with fission fragments from ${}^{235}U (n, f)$

Alf Göök, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Stephan Oberstedt, and Marzio Vidali

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044615 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

Effects of entrance channels on the deexcitation properties of the same compound nucleus formed by different pairs of collision partners

G. Mandaglio, A. Anastasi, F. Curciarello, G. Fazio, G. Giardina, and A. K. Nasirov

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044616 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

Theoretical considerations about heavy-ion fusion in potential scattering

L. F. Canto, R. Donangelo, M. S. Hussein, P. Lotti, J. Lubian, and J. Rangel

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044617 (2018) - Published 22 October, 2018

Entry-level spin distributions and relative $γ$ -neutron branching ratios of samarium isotopes populated by the $(p, t)$ reaction

N. Cooper, C. W. Beausang, P. Humby, A. Simon, J. T. Harke, R. O. Hughes, S. Ota, C. Reingold, A. Saastamoinen, and E. Wilson

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044618 (2018) - Published 24 October, 2018

Three-body Faddeev equations in two-particle Alt-Grassberger-Sandhas form with distorted-wave-Born-approximation amplitudes as effective potentials

A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044626 (2018) - Published 30 October, 2018

Validity of the distorted-wave impulse-approximation description of ${}^{40}{Ca} (e, e^{'} p) {}^{39}K$ data using only ingredients from a nonlocal dispersive optical model

M. C. Atkinson, H. P. Blok, L. Lapikás, R. J. Charity, and W. H. Dickhoff

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044627 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Measurement of the suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of muons from heavy-flavor decays in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044905 (2018) - Published 22 October, 2018

Thermodynamic versus kinetic approach to polarization-vorticity coupling

Wojciech Florkowski, Avdhesh Kumar, and Radoslaw Ryblewski

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044906 (2018) - Published 24 October, 2018

Practical considerations for measuring global spin alignment of vector mesons in relativistic heavy ion collisions

A. H. Tang, B. Tu, and C. S. Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044907 (2018) - Published 24 October, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic response in simulations within a multiphase transport model

De-Xian Wei, Xu-Guang Huang, and Li Yan

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044908 (2018) - Published 26 October, 2018

Pion-kaon femtoscopy in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV modeled in (3+1)D hydrodynamics coupled to the Therminator 2 code, and the effect of delayed kaon emission

Adam Kisiel

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044909 (2018) - Published 30 October, 2018

Thermodynamics of the strange baryon system from a coupled-channels analysis and missing states

César Fernández-Ramírez, Pok Man Lo, and Peter Petreczky

Phys. Rev. C 98, 044910 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Decay patterns of low-lying $N_{s \bar{s}}$ states via strangeness channels

Chun-Sheng An, Ju-Jun Xie, and Gang Li

Phys. Rev. C 98, 045201 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Phenomenological bound on the viscosity of the hadron resonance gas

Snigdha Ghosh, Sabyasachi Ghosh, and Sumana Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. C 98, 045202 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Measurement of unpolarized and polarized cross sections for deeply virtual Compton scattering on the proton at Jefferson Laboratory with CLAS

N. Hirlinger Saylor et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 045203 (2018) - Published 9 October, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical examination of constraints on the equation of state of dense matter obtained from GW170817

I. Tews, J. Margueron, and S. Reddy

Phys. Rev. C 98, 045804 (2018) - Published 22 October, 2018

Cross sections of $α$ -induced reactions slightly below doubly magic ${}^{40}{Ca}$ from the statistical model

P. Mohr, R. Talwar, and M. L. Avila

Phys. Rev. C 98, 045805 (2018) - Published 25 October, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Effective field theory of Bose-Einstein condensation of $α$ clusters and Nambu-Goldstone-Higgs states in ${}^{12}C$ [Phys. Rev. C 94, 014314 (2016)]

Y. Nakamura, J. Takahashi, Y. Yamanaka, and S. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 049901 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Volume 98, Issue 4

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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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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