Volume 98, Issue 6

December 2018

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Searching for the QCD critical point via the rapidity dependence of cumulants

Jasmine Brewer, Swagato Mukherjee, Krishna Rajagopal, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061901(R) (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Near a critical point in a phase diagram, certain observables show characteristic fluctuations. The authors qualitatively predict how such fluctuations depend on the rapidity in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and thereby present a distinctive observable to search for the critical endpoint in the QCD phase diagram. This is particularly relevant to the coming low-beam-energy scan at RHIC.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Uncertainty quantification in the nuclear shell model

Sota Yoshida, Noritaka Shimizu, Tomoaki Togashi, and Takaharu Otsuka

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061301(R) (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Energy spectrum of neutron-rich helium isotopes: Complex made simple

K. Fossez, J. Rotureau, and W. Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061302(R) (2018) - Published 17 December, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Partial seniority conservation and solvability of single- $j$ systems

Yibin Qian and Chong Qi

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061303(R) (2018) - Published 21 December, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Extremely asymmetric shears band in ${}^{143}{Sm}$

S. Rajbanshi, R. Raut, H. Pai, Sajad Ali, A. Goswami, S. Bhattacharyya, G. Mukherjee, R. K. Bhowmik, S. Muralithar, R. P. Singh, G. Gangopadhyay, M. Kumar Raju, and P. Singh

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061304(R) (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Heavy-ion double-charge-exchange and its relation to neutrinoless double- $β$ decay

E. Santopinto, H. García-Tecocoatzi, R. I. Magaña Vsevolodovna, and J. Ferretti (NUMEN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061601(R) (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Searching for the QCD critical point via the rapidity dependence of cumulants

Jasmine Brewer, Swagato Mukherjee, Krishna Rajagopal, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061901(R) (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Examination of the observability of a chiral magnetically driven charge-separation difference in collisions of the ${}_{44}^{96}{Ru} + {}_{44}^{96}{Ru}$ and ${}_{40}^{96}{Zr} + {}_{40}^{96}{Zr}$ isobars at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Niseem Magdy, Shuzhe Shi, Jinfeng Liao, Peifeng Liu, and Roy A. Lacey

Phys. Rev. C 98, 061902(R) (2018) - Published 19 December, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

$Ξ^{*}$ photoproduction from threshold to $W = 3.3 GeV$

J. T. Goetz et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 062201(R) (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Symmetric nuclear matter calculations: A variational approach

I. Ochala and J. O. Fiase

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064001 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Tensor-optimized high-momentum antisymmetrized molecular dynamics with a bare interaction, and its application to the ${}^{4}{He}$ nucleus

Mengjiao Lyu, Takayuki Myo, Masahiro Isaka, Hiroshi Toki, Kiyomi Ikeda, Hisashi Horiuchi, Tadahiro Suhara, and Taiichi Yamada

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064002 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear structure studies of double-charge-exchange Gamow-Teller strength

N. Auerbach and Bui Minh Loc

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064301 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Two-dimensional collective Hamiltonian for chiral and wobbling modes. II. Electromagnetic transitions

X. H. Wu (吴鑫辉), Q. B. Chen (陈启博), P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍), S. Q. Zhang (张双全), and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064302 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Band mixing and structure of ${}^{106, 108}{Pd}$

H. T. Fortune

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064303 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Macroscopic and microscopic description of low-energy collective states in ${}^{86, 88}{Se}$

G. Thiamova, Y. Grachev, M. Abolghasem, P. Alexa, P.-G. Reinhard, T. R. Rodríguez, and G. S. Simpson

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064304 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Measurement of the ${}^{115}{In} (γ, γ^{'}) {}^{115 m}{In}$ inelastic scattering cross section in the 1.8 to 3.7 MeV energy range with monoenergetic photon beams

W. Tornow, M. Bhike, S. W. Finch, Krishichayan, and A. P. Tonchev

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064305 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Incorporating Brueckner-Hartree-Fock correlations in energy density functionals

Y. N. Zhang, S. K. Bogner, and R. J. Furnstahl

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064306 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Predictions for decay modes for superheavy nuclei $Z = 118 - 124$

Tian Liang Zhao (赵天亮) and Xiao Jun Bao (包小军)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064307 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Deep excursion beyond the proton dripline. I. Argon and chlorine isotope chains

I. Mukha et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064308 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Deep excursion beyond the proton dripline. II. Toward the limits of existence of nuclear structure

L. V. Grigorenko et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064309 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Semiclassical trace formula for truncated spherical well potentials: Toward the analyses of shell structures in nuclear fission processes

Ken-ichiro Arita

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064310 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Nascent fragment shell effects on the nuclear fission processes in semiclassical periodic orbit theory

Ken-ichiro Arita, Takatoshi Ichikawa, and Kenichi Matsuyanagi

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064311 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Shell-model study of the $M 1$ dipole strength at low energy in the $A > 100$ nuclei

K. Sieja

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064312 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Low-lying dipole response in the unstable ${}^{70}{Ni}$ nucleus

O. Wieland et al.

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064313 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Insight into nuclear midshell structures by studying $K$ isomers in rare-earth neutron-rich nuclei

Xiao-Tao He and Yu-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064314 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Low-spin excitations in ${}^{97}{Zr}$

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

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064315 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Nucleon effective mass and its isovector splitting

Tuhin Malik, C. Mondal, B. K. Agrawal, J. N. De, and S. K. Samaddar

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064316 (2018) - Published 17 December, 2018

Dipole strength distribution in ${}^{206}{Pb}$ for the evaluation of the neutron capture cross section of ${}^{205}{Pb}$

T. Shizuma, N. Iwamoto, A. Makinaga, R. Massarczyk, R. Schwengner, R. Beyer, D. Bemmerer, M. Dietz, A. Junghans, T. Kögler, F. Ludwig, S. Reinicke, S. Schulz, S. Urlaß, and A. Wagner

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064317 (2018) - Published 19 December, 2018

Shape evolution of Zr nuclei and roles of the tensor force

S. Miyahara and H. Nakada

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064318 (2018) - Published 19 December, 2018

Isovector and isoscalar proton-neutron pairing in $N > Z$ nuclei

D. Negrea, P. Buganu, D. Gambacurta, and N. Sandulescu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064319 (2018) - Published 19 December, 2018

New insights into triaxiality and shape coexistence from odd-mass ${}^{109}{Rh}$

B. Bucher, H. Mach, A. Aprahamian, L. M. Robledo, G. S. Simpson, J. Rissanen, D. G. Ghiţă, B. Olaizola, W. Kurcewicz, J. Äystö, 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 98, 064320 (2018) - Published 20 December, 2018

Consolidating the concept of low-energy magnetic dipole decay radiation

J. E. Midtbø, A. C. Larsen, T. Renstrøm, F. L. Bello Garrote, and E. Lima

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064321 (2018) - Published 20 December, 2018

Neutron matter in the hole-line expansion

Jia-Jing Lu (陆家靖), Zeng-Hua Li (李增花), Chong-Yang Chen (陈重阳), M. Baldo, and H.-J. Schulze

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064322 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Strutinsky shell correction energies in relativistic Hartree-Fock theory

P. Jiang (姜攀), Z. M. Niu (牛中明), Y. F. Niu (牛一斐), and W. H. Long (龙文辉)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064323 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Neutrinoless double- $β$ decay of ${}^{124}{Sn}$ , ${}^{130}{Te}$ , and ${}^{136}{Xe}$ in the Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method

C. F. Jiao, M. Horoi, and A. Neacsu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064324 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

$0 ν β β$ and $2 ν β β$ nuclear matrix elements evaluated in closure approximation, neutrino potentials and SU(4) symmetry

Fedor Šimkovic, Adam Smetana, and Petr Vogel

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064325 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

$β^{-}$ decay study of the ${}^{66}{Mn} − {}^{66}{Fe} − {}^{66}{Co} − {}^{66}{Ni}$ decay chain

M. Stryjczyk, Y. Tsunoda, I. G. Darby, H. De Witte, J. Diriken, D. V. Fedorov, V. N. Fedosseev, L. M. Fraile, M. Huyse, U. Köster, B. A. Marsh, T. Otsuka, D. Pauwels, L. Popescu, D. Radulov, M. D. Seliverstov, A. M. Sjödin, P. Van den Bergh, P. Van Duppen, M. Venhart, W. B. Walters, and K. Wimmer

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064326 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Low-lying collective excited states in nonintegrable pairing models based on the stationary-phase approximation to the path integral

Fang Ni, Nobuo Hinohara, and Takashi Nakatsukasa

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064327 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Nuclear Reactions

Spectroscopy of high-lying resonances in ${}^{9}{Be}$ by the measurement of ( $p, p$ ), ( $p, d$ ), and ( $p, α$ ) reactions with a radioactive ${}^{8}{Li}$ beam

E. Leistenschneider, A. Lépine-Szily, M. A. G. Alvarez, D. R. Mendes, Jr., R. Lichtenthäler, V. A. P. Aguiar, M. Assunção, R. Pampa Condori, U. U. da Silva, P. N. de Faria, N. Deshmukh, J. G. Duarte, L. R. Gasques, V. Guimarães, E. L. A. Macchione, M. C. Morais, V. Morcelle, K. C. C. Pires, V. B. Scarduelli, G. Scotton, J. M. B. Shorto, and V. A. B. Zagatto

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064601 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Proton-nucleus elastic scattering: Comparison between phenomenological and microscopic optical potentials

Matteo Vorabbi, Paolo Finelli, and Carlotta Giusti

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064602 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Statistical production and binding energy of hypernuclei

N. Buyukcizmeci, A. S. Botvina, A. Ergun, R. Ogul, and M. Bleicher

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064603 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Consistent mean-field description of the ${}^{12}C + {}^{12}C$ optical potential at low energies and the astrophysical $S$ factor

Le Hoang Chien, Dao T. Khoa, Do Cong Cuong, and Nguyen Hoang Phuc

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064604 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Search for possible fusion reactions to synthesize the superheavy element $Z = 121$

K. N. Sridhar, H. C. Manjunatha, and H. B. Ramalingam

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064605 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Neutron inelastic scattering measurements on ${}^{136}{Xe}$ at $E_{n} = 0.7$ to 100 MeV

S. J. Daugherty, J. B. Albert, L. J. Kaufman, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, R. O. Nelson, and M. Krtička

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064606 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Influence of the tensor force on the microscopic heavy-ion interaction potential

Lu Guo (郭璐), K. Godbey, and A. S. Umar

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064607 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Schottky-like phase transition in the fission of atomic nuclei: ${}^{235}U$

V. T. Maslyuk, O. O. Parlag, M. I. Romanyuk, O. I. Lendyel, T. J. Marinetc, O. G. Laver, and I. F. Povkhan

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064608 (2018) - Published 19 December, 2018

Isotopic trends of quasifission and fusion-fission in the reactions ${}^{48}{Ca} + {}^{239, 244}{Pu}$

Lu Guo (郭璐), Caiwan Shen (沈彩万), Chong Yu (余冲), and Zhenji Wu (吴振基)

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064609 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Extrapolation of scattering data to the negative-energy region. III. Application to the $p - {}^{16}O$ system

L. D. Blokhintsev, A. S. Kadyrov, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and D. A. Savin

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064610 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Azimuthal angle distributions of neutrons emitted from the ${}^{9}{Be} (γ, n)$ reaction with linearly polarized $γ$ rays

Yuma Kikuchi, Kazuyuki Ogata, Takehito Hayakawa, and Satoshi Chiba

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064611 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Investigating the fusion enhancement for neutron-rich mid-mass nuclei using the dynamical cluster-decay model

Rupinder Kaur, Maninder Kaur, Varinderjit Singh, Sarbjeet Kaur, BirBikram Singh, and B. S. Sandhu

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064612 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Linearized Boltzmann-Langevin model for heavy quark transport in hot and dense QCD matter

Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu, and Steffen A. Bass

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064901 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Role of system size in freeze-out conditions extracted from transverse momentum spectra of hadrons

Ajay Kumar Dash, Ranbir Singh, Sandeep Chatterjee, Chitrasen Jena, and Bedangadas Mohanty

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064902 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Multiplicity-dependent $p_{T}$ distributions of identified particles in $p p$ collisions at 7 TeV within the HIJING/ $B \bar{B}$ v2.0 model

V. Topor Pop and M. Petrovici

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064903 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Predictions for azimuthal anisotropy in Xe+Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.44$ TeV using a multiphase transport model

Sushanta Tripathy, Sudipan De, Mohammed Younus, and Raghunath Sahoo

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064904 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Extracting strange-quark freeze-out information in Pb + Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76$ TeV from $ϕ$ and $Ω$ production

Jie Pu, Kai-Jia Sun, and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064905 (2018) - Published 17 December, 2018

Angle and magnitude decorrelation in the factorization breaking of collective flow

Piotr Bożek

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064906 (2018) - Published 21 December, 2018

Evolution of the moments of multiplicity distributions

Radka Sochorová, Boris Tomášik, and Marcus Bleicher

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064907 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Longitudinal dynamics of high baryon density matter in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

Ming Li and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064908 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Monte Carlo approach to the excluded-volume hadron resonance gas in grand canonical and canonical ensembles

Volodymyr Vovchenko, Mark I. Gorenstein, and Horst Stoecker

Phys. Rev. C 98, 064909 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Mass-dependent cuts in longitudinal phase space

P. Pauli, D. I. Glazier, M. Battaglieri, A. Celentano, R. De Vita, S. Diehl, A. Filippi, J. T. Londergan, V. Mathieu, and A. P. Szczepaniak

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065201 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Charmonium states in strong magnetic fields

Amal Jahan C. S., Nikhil Dhale, Sushruth Reddy P., Shivam Kesarwani, and Amruta Mishra

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065202 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Strangeness $S = - 2$ baryon-baryon interactions in relativistic chiral effective field theory

Kai-Wen Li, Tetsuo Hyodo, and Li-Sheng Geng

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065203 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Bound-state double- $β$ decay

A. Babič, D. Štefánik, M. I. Krivoruchenko, and F. Šimkovic

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065501 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Effective operators in two-nucleon systems

James P. Vary, Robert Basili, Weijie Du, Matthew Lockner, Pieter Maris, Soham Pal, and Shiplu Sarker

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065502 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Charged-current deep-inelastic scattering of muon neutrinos ( $ν_{μ}$ ) off ${}^{56}{Fe}$

Deepika Grover, Kapil Saraswat, Prashant Shukla, and Venktesh Singh

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065503 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Muon-electron lepton-flavor-violating transitions: Shell-model calculations of transitions in ${}^{27}{Al}$

J. Kostensalo, J. Suhonen, and O. Civitarese

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065504 (2018) - Published 21 December, 2018

Effect of Siegert's theorem on low-energy neutrino-nucleus interactions

A. C. Hayes and J. L. Friar

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065505 (2018) - Published 21 December, 2018

Effective-field-theory predictions of the muon-deuteron capture rate

Bijaya Acharya, Andreas Ekström, and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065506 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Nuclear Astrophysics

Effects of quark-matter symmetry energy on hadron-quark coexistence in neutron-star matter

Xuhao Wu, Akira Ohnishi, and Hong Shen

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065801 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Sensitivity of nuclear statistical equilibrium to nuclear uncertainties during stellar core collapse

Shun Furusawa

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065802 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Mass measurement of ${}^{51}{Fe}$ for the determination of the ${}^{51}{Fe} (p, γ) {}^{52}{Co}$ reaction rate

W.-J. Ong, A. A. Valverde, M. Brodeur, G. Bollen, M. Eibach, K. Gulyuz, A. Hamaker, C. Izzo, D. Puentes, M. Redshaw, R. Ringle, R. Sandler, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, J. Surbrook, A. C. C. Villari, and I. T. Yandow

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065803 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Relativistic parameterizations of neutron matter and implications for neutron stars

Nadine Hornick, Laura Tolos, Andreas Zacchi, Jan-Erik Christian, and Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065804 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic nuclear energy density functionals

Young-Min Kim, Yeunhwan Lim, Kyujin Kwak, Chang Ho Hyun, and Chang-Hwan Lee

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065805 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

$β$ equilibrium in neutron-star mergers

Mark G. Alford and Steven P. Harris

Phys. Rev. C 98, 065806 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: The ${}^{8}{Li} (p, α) {}^{5}{He}$ reaction at low energies, and ${}^{9}{Be}$ spectroscopy around the proton threshold [Phys. Rev. C 86, 064321 (2012)]

D. R. Mendes, Jr., A. Lépine-Szily, P. Descouvemont, R. Lichtenthäler, V. Guimarães, P. N. de Faria, A. Barioni, K. C. C. Pires, V. Morcelle, R. Pampa Condori, M. C. Morais, E. Leistenschneider, C. E. F. Lima, J. C. Zamora, J. A. Alcantara, V. Zagatto, M. Assunção, and J. M. B. Shorto

Phys. Rev. C 98, 069901 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018