Volume 101, Issue 5

May 2020

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved determination of the $β − {\bar{ν}}_{e}$ angular correlation coefficient $a$ in free neutron decay with the $a SPECT$ spectrometer

M. Beck, F. Ayala Guardia, M. Borg, J. Kahlenberg, R. Muñoz Horta, C. Schmidt, A. Wunderle, W. Heil, R. Maisonobe, M. Simson, T. Soldner, R. Virot, O. Zimmer, M. Klopf, G. Konrad, S. Baeßler, F. Glück, and U. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055506 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

This work presents the until now most precise measurement of the angular correlation coefficient $a$ between the momenta of the electron and the electron-antineutrino in free neutron decay. The coefficient $a$ is inferred from a detailed analysis of the integral proton recoil spectrum measured with the $a$ SPECT setup, a MAC-E-Filter type spectrometer with $4 π$ acceptance. The result can be used to determine the axial-vector coupling constant $g_{A}$ in the weak interaction and shows a tantalizing disagreement with recent measurements of $g_{A}$ via the $β$ -decay asymmetry in neutron decay.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Predicting nuclear masses with the kernel ridge regression

X. H. Wu and P. W. Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 101, 051301(R) (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Optimum orientations for octupole deformed nuclei in fusion configurations

Shivani Jain, Manoj K. Sharma, and Raj Kumar

Phys. Rev. C 101, 051601(R) (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Extracting free-space observables from trapped interacting clusters

Xilin Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 101, 051602(R) (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

RAPID COMMUNICATION

$ω N$ scattering length from $ω$ photoproduction on the proton near the reaction threshold

T. Ishikawa et al.

Phys. Rev. C 101, 052201(R) (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nuclear mass measurements map the structure of atomic nuclei and accreting neutron stars

Z. Meisel et al.

Phys. Rev. C 101, 052801(R) (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Low-energy ${}^{23}{Al} β$ -delayed proton decay and ${}^{22}{Na}$ destruction in novae

M. Friedman, T. Budner, D. Pérez-Loureiro, E. Pollacco, C. Wrede, J. José, B. A. Brown, M. Cortesi, C. Fry, B. Glassman, J. Heideman, M. Janasik, M. Roosa, J. Stomps, J. Surbrook, and P. Tiwari

Phys. Rev. C 101, 052802(R) (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Neutrino-deuteron reactions at solar neutrino energies in pionless effective field theory with dibaryon fields

Shung-Ichi Ando, Young-Ho Song, and Chang Ho Hyun

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054001 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Three-nucleon force effects in inclusive spectra of the neutron-deuteron breakup reaction

H. Witała, J. Golak, R. Skibiński, V. Soloviov, and K. Topolnicki

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054002 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear shape coexistence from the perspective of an algebraic many-nucleon version of the Bohr-Mottelson unified model

David J. Rowe

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054301 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Hyperfine fields at ${}^{66}{Ga}$ , ${}^{67, 69}{Ge}$ implanted into iron and gadolinium hosts at 6 K, and applications to $g$ -factor measurements

T. J. Gray, A. E. Stuchbery, B. J. Coombes, J. T. H. Dowie, M. S. M. Gerathy, T. Kibédi, G. J. Lane, B. P. McCormick, A. J. Mitchell, and M. W. Reed

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054302 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Rotational excitations in rare-earth nuclei: A comparative study within three cranking models with different mean fields and treatments of pairing correlations

Zhen-Hua Zhang (张振华), Miao Huang (黄苗), and A. V. Afanasjev

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054303 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

$α$ decay half-life estimation and uncertainty analysis

Boshuai Cai, Guangshang Chen, Jiongyu Xu, Cenxi Yuan, Chong Qi, and Yuan Yao

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054304 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Shell-model-like approach based on cranking covariant density functional theory with a separable pairing force

B. W. Xiong

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054305 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Shell-like quarteting in heavy nuclei: Algebraic approaches based on the pseudo- and proxy-SU(3) schemes

J. Cseh

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054306 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Limits on assigning a shape to a nucleus

A. Poves, F. Nowacki, and Y. Alhassid

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054307 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Uncertainty quantification of an empirical shell-model interaction using principal component analysis

Jordan M. R. Fox, Calvin W. Johnson, and Rodrigo Navarro Perez

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054308 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Two-phonon structure of low-energy $1^{+}$ excitations of ${}^{130}{In}$

A. P. Severyukhin, N. N. Arsenyev, I. N. Borzov, E. O. Sushenok, D. Testov, and D. Verney

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054309 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Theoretical studies on $α$ -decay half-lives of $N = 125, 126, and 127$ isotones

Zhen Wang, Zhongzhou Ren, and Dong Bai

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054310 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Octupole states in ${}^{207}{Tl}$ studied through $β$ decay

T. A. Berry et al.

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054311 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Identification of new transitions and levels in ${}^{163}{Gd}$ from $β$ -decay studies

C. J. Zachary et al.

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054312 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Measurement of the quadrupole moment of ${}^{185}{Re}$ and ${}^{187}{Re}$ from the hyperfine structure of muonic X rays

A. Antognini et al.

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054313 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

$γ$ -ray spectroscopy of a four-quasiparticle isomer band in ${}^{174}{Re}$

R. J. Carroll, P. M. Walker, G. J. Lane, M. W. Reed, A. Akber, H. M. Albers, J. J. Carroll, D. M. Cullen, A. C. Dai, C. Fahlander, M. S. M. Gerathy, S. S. Hota, G. Lotay, T. Kibédi, V. Margerin, A. J. Mitchell, N. Palalani, T. Palazzo, Z. Patel, R. Shearman, A. E. Stuchbery, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054314 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Collective enhancements in the level densities of Dy and Mo isotopes

A. Rahmatinejad, T. M. Shneidman, N. V. Antonenko, A. N. Bezbakh, G. G. Adamian, and L. A. Malov

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054315 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Nuclear Reactions

Yield ratios of light particles as a probe of the proton skin of a nucleus and its centrality dependence

T. Z. Yan and S. Li

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054601 (2020) - Published 5 May, 2020

Internal conversion of the low-energy ${}^{229 m}{Th}$ isomer in the thorium anion

E. V. Tkalya and R. Si

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054602 (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

Insight into the radial sensitivity of phenomenological nucleus-nucleus interaction potentials

L. Yang, C. J. Lin, H. M. Jia, D. X. Wang, N. R. Ma, P. W. Wen, F. Yang, F. P. Zhong, S. H. Zhong, and T. P. Luo

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054603 (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

Conditions on the pion electroproduction and photoproduction form factors in the soft-pion limit

César Barbero, Alejandro Mariano, and Juan José Quirós

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054604 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Nonfuel antineutrino contributions in the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)

A. B. Balantekin et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054605 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Effect of the repulsive core in the proton-neutron potential on deuteron elastic breakup cross sections

Yuen Sim Neoh, Mengjiao Lyu, Yoshiki Chazono, and Kazuyuki Ogata

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054606 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Primary fission fragment mass yields across the chart of nuclides

M. R. Mumpower, P. Jaffke, M. Verriere, and J. Randrup

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054607 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Reexamining an extended-mean-field approach in heavy-ion collisions near the Fermi energy

G. Besse, V. de la Mota, E. Bonnet, P. Eudes, P. Napolitani, and Z. Basrak

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054608 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Simplified dynamical eikonal approximation

C. Hebborn and D. Baye

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054609 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Magnetic field effects in peripheral heavy ion collisions near 1 GeV/nucleon

X. G. Deng (邓先概) and Y. G. Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054610 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Hydrodynamic generators in relativistic kinetic theory

M. McNelis and U. Heinz

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054901 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Universality in hadronic and nuclear collisions at high energy

P. Castorina, A. Iorio, D. Lanteri, H. Satz, and M. Spousta

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054902 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Charmed hadron production via equal-velocity quark combination in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

Rui-Qin Wang, Jun Song, Feng-Lan Shao, and Zuo-Tang Liang

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054903 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Modeling of charged kaon and neutral kaon fluctuations as a signature for the production of a disoriented chiral condensate in $A - A$ collisions

Ranjit Nayak, Sadhana Dash, Basanta Kumar Nandi, and Claude Pruneau

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054904 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Influence of hadronic resonances on the chemical freeze-out in heavy-ion collisions

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

Phys. Rev. C 101, 054905 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Two-photon-exchange effects in $e p \to e n π^{+}$ and their corrections to separated cross sections $σ_{L, T, L T, T T}$ at small $- t$

Hui-Yun Cao and Hai-Qing Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055201 (2020) - Published 5 May, 2020

Suppression of hard two-photon-exchange contributions to $R_{e^{+} e^{-}}$ elastic scattering cross-section ratios: A phenomenological approach

I. A. Qattan, Shashikant P. Patole, and A. Alsaad

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055202 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Particle representation for the kaonic $N N \bar{K}$ system

I. Filikhin and B. Vlahovic

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055203 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Massive neutron stars with a color superconducting quark matter core

Takehiro Tanimoto, Wolfgang Bentz, and Ian C. Cloët

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055204 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Simultaneous measurements of the $β$ -neutrino angular correlation in ${}^{32}{Ar}$ pure Fermi and pure Gamow-Teller transitions using $β$ -proton coincidences

V. Araujo-Escalona, D. Atanasov, X. Fléchard, P. Alfaurt, P. Ascher, B. Blank, L. Daudin, M. Gerbaux, J. Giovinazzo, S. Grévy, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, E. Liénard, G. Quéméner, N. Severijns, S. Vanlangendonck, M. Versteegen, and D. Zákoucký

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055501 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Box diagram contribution to the axial two-nucleon current

H. Krebs, E. Epelbaum, and U.-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055502 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Parity-violating inelastic electron-proton scattering at low $Q^{2}$ above the resonance region

D. Androić et al. (Qweak Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055503 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Precise half-life determination of the mixed-mirror $β$ -decaying ${}^{15}O$

D. P. Burdette, M. Brodeur, D. W. Bardayan, F. D. Becchetti, D. Blankstein, C. Boomershine, L. Caves, S. L. Henderson, J. J. Kolata, B. Liu, J. Long, P. D. O'Malley, and S. Y. Strauss

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055504 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Large- $N_{c}$ analysis of magnetic and axial two-nucleon currents in pionless effective field theory

Thomas R. Richardson and Matthias R. Schindler

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055505 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved determination of the $β − {\bar{ν}}_{e}$ angular correlation coefficient $a$ in free neutron decay with the $a SPECT$ spectrometer

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055506 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Nuclear Astrophysics

Measurement of the $^{7} Li {(γ, t)}^{4} He$ ground-state cross section between $E_{γ} = 4.4$ and 10 MeV

M. Munch, C. Matei, S. D. Pain, M. T. Febbraro, K. A. Chipps, H. J. Karwowski, C. Aa. Diget, A. Pappalardo, S. Chesnevskaya, G. L. Guardo, D. Walter, D. L. Balabanski, F. D. Becchetti, C. R. Brune, K. Y. Chae, J. Frost-Schenk, M. J. Kim, M. S. Kwag, M. La Cognata, D. Lattuada, R. G. Pizzone, G. G. Rapisarda, G. V. Turturica, C. A. Ur, and Y. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055801 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Elastic properties of phases with nonspherical nuclei in dense matter

C. J. Pethick, Zhao-Wen Zhang, and D. N. Kobyakov

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055802 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Propagation of statistical uncertainties of Skyrme mass models to simulations of $r$ -process nucleosynthesis

T. M. Sprouse, R. Navarro Perez, R. Surman, M. R. Mumpower, G. C. McLaughlin, and N. Schunck

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055803 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Survey of nuclear pasta in the intermediate-density regime: Structure functions for neutrino scattering

B. Schuetrumpf, G. Martínez-Pinedo, and P.-G. Reinhard

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055804 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Constraining the destruction rate of ${}^{40}K$ in stellar nucleosynthesis through the study of the ${}^{40}{Ar} (p, n) {}^{40}K$ reaction

P. Gastis, G. Perdikakis, J. Dissanayake, P. Tsintari, I. Sultana, C. R. Brune, T. N. Massey, Z. Meisel, A. V. Voinov, K. Brandenburg, T. Danley, R. Giri, Y. Jones-Alberty, S. Paneru, D. Soltesz, and S. Subedi

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055805 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Coexistence phase of ${}^{1}S_{0}$ and ${}^{3}P_{2}$ superfluids in neutron stars

Shigehiro Yasui, Daisuke Inotani, and Muneto Nitta

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055806 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Nuclear physics uncertainties in neutrino-driven, neutron-rich supernova ejecta

J. Bliss, A. Arcones, F. Montes, and J. Pereira

Phys. Rev. C 101, 055807 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Langevin dynamics and decoherence of heavy quarks at high temperatures [Phys. Rev. C 92, 044911 (2015)]

Yukinao Akamatsu

Phys. Rev. C 101, 059901 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Erratum: Inverse-kinematics proton scattering from ${}^{42, 44}S, {}^{41, 43}P$ , and the collapse of the $N = 28$ major shell closure [Phys. Rev. C 100, 044312 (2019)]

L. A. Riley, D. Bazin, J. Belarge, P. C. Bender, B. A. Brown, P. D. Cottle, B. Elman, A. Gade, S. D. Gregory, E. B. Haldeman, K. W. Kemper, B. R. Klybor, M. A. Liggett, S. Lipschutz, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, T. Mijatovic, J. Pereira, L. M. Skiles, R. Titus, A. Volya, D. Weisshaar, J. C. Zamora, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. C 101, 059902 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Erratum: Measurement of angular and momentum distributions of charged particles within and around jets in $Pb + Pb$ and $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$ with the ATLAS detector [Phys. Rev. C 100, 064901 (2019)]

G. Aad et al. and ATLAS Collaboration

Phys. Rev. C 101, 059903 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020