Volume 111, Issue 1

January 2025

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-precision mass measurement of ${}^{103}{Sn}$ restores smoothness of the mass surface

C. M. Ireland, F. M. Maier, G. Bollen, S. E. Campbell, X. Chen, H. Erington, N. D. Gamage, M. J. Gutiérrez, C. Izzo, E. Leistenschneider, E. M. Lykiardopoulou, R. Orford, W. S. Porter, D. Puentes, M. Redshaw, R. Ringle, S. Rogers, S. Schwarz, L. Stackable, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, A. A. Valverde, A. C. C. Villari, and I. T. Yandow

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014314 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

$^{100}$ Sn is often regarded as the holy grail of nuclear structure studies as it is the heaviest proton-bound nucleus with equal numbers of protons and neutrons; and with $N = Z = 50$ it is also expected to be doubly magic. Aside from the proximity to the proton dripline, the region of the nuclear chart near $^{100}$ Sn also harbors nuclei at the end of the $r p$ process which powers x-ray bursts on the surface of accreting neutron stars. The nuclear mass is a telltale observable for nuclear structure studies and nuclear astrophysics. Just three neutrons heavier than $^{100}$ Sn, $^{103}$ Sn had been identified as an outlier with a seriously irregular mass deduced from its $β$ -decay $Q$ value and the decay-daughter mass. An international research team performed high-precision Penning-trap mass measurements of $^{103}$ Sn at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). Their measured mass value is more than an order of magnitude more precise than that of a previous storage ring measurement. The team’s reported result reestablishes the smoothness of the nuclear mass surface and provides reevaluated values for the masses of several other important isotopes connected to $^{103}$ Sn via decays.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Refining the nuclear mass surface with the mass of ${}^{103}{Sn}$

L. Nies, D. Atanasov, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, C. Bernerd, K. Blaum, K. Chrysalidis, P. Fischer, R. Heinke, C. Klink, D. Lange, D. Lunney, V. Manea, B. A. Marsh, M. Müller, M. Mougeot, S. Naimi, Ch. Schweiger, L. Schweikhard, and F. Wienholtz

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014315 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

Expected to be doubly magic, $^{100}$ Sn is the heaviest proton-bound, self-conjugate ( $N = Z$ ) nucleus. Its mass and those of nearby nuclei are key to understanding nuclear structure and reactions near the proton dripline, including neutron-star-surface nucleosynthesis. The mass of $^{103}$ Sn, previously an outlier due to a discrepant $β$ -decay measurement, was precisely determined by an international team at CERN ISOLDE using multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrometry, their results agreeing well with those from another, complementary technique at FRIB. This new value enables re-evaluating the masses of five parent nuclei connected via decays. Comparing their results with theory calculations, the authors recovered a smooth trend of the local nuclear mass surface for tin, tellurium, and xenon isotopes, with possible impact on nuclear structure and astrophysics. Insights into ISOL target and source performances also suggest a path toward improved production of lighter tin isotopes for future studies.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining theoretical corrections to Gamow-Teller transition rates

L. Xayavong and Y. Lim

Phys. Rev. C 111, 015501 (2025) - Published 13 January, 2025

$β$ decays provide important tests of the Standard Model, but the precision is limited by model dependencies and small but crucial corrections such as isospin breaking. By comparing theoretical and experimental ratios of mirror decays, the authors find cancellation of many of the model dependencies, allowing constraints on the remaining corrections and ultimately on possible new physics.

LETTERS

LETTER

Heavy-ion collisions as probes of nuclear structure

Nicolas Miró Fortier, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 111, L011901 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Resonances and collisional properties of neutron-rich helium isotopes in the adiabatic hyperspherical representation

Michael D. Higgins and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014001 (2025) - Published 16 January, 2025

Nuclear Structure

Density-dependent relativistic mean-field model for $Ξ^{-}$ hypernuclei

Shi Yuan Ding (丁士缘), Bao Yuan Sun (孙保元), and Ting-Ting Sun (孙亭亭)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014301 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025

Gamow shell model for dynamic Thomas-Ehrman shift in ${}^{16}{Ne} / {}^{16}C$ and ${}^{18}{Mg} / {}^{18}C$

K. H. Li, J. G. Li, N. Michel, H. H. Li, N. Chen, C. W. Ma, and W. Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014302 (2025) - Published 2 January, 2025

Natural solution of the low-lying level structure of ${}^{114}I$ from complementary measurements and new interpretation of the high-spin bands

P. M. Jodidar et al.

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014303 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025

Direct observation of $β$ and $γ$ decay from a high-spin long-lived isomer in ${}^{187}{Ta}$

J. L. Chen, H. Watanabe, P. M. Walker, Y. Hirayama, Y. X. Watanabe, M. Mukai, C. F. Jiao, M. Ahmed, M. Brunet, T. Hashimoto, S. Ishizawa, F. G. Kondev, G. J. Lane, Yu. A. Litvinov, H. Miyatake, J. Y. Moon, T. Niwase, J. H. Park, Zs. Podolyák, M. Rosenbusch, P. Schury, M. Wada, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014304 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025

Confirmation and extension of a mini-valence Wigner-like energy in Sm, Gd, and Dy

R. B. Cakirli, K. Blaum, and R. F. Casten

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014305 (2025) - Published 3 January, 2025

One-proton-hole, one-neutron-hole excitations at low spins in ${}^{206}{Tl}$

N. Cieplicka-Oryńczak, C. Michelagnoli, S. Leoni, B. Fornal, A. Gargano, G. Benzoni, A. Blanc, S. Bottoni, F. C. L. Crespi, Ł.W. Iskra, M. Jentschel, U. Köster, P. Mutti, N. Pietralla, E. Ruiz-Martinez, and V. Werner

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014306 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

Multiple shape coexistence in ${}^{98}{Zr}$ and first-forbidden $β$ decay of ${}^{98}Y$

A. Petrovici and O. Andrei

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014307 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

Excitation of the isoscalar giant monopole resonance using ${}^{6}{Li}$ inelastic scattering

J. Arroyo, U. Garg, H. Akimune, G. P. A. Berg, D. C. Cuong, M. Fujiwara, M. N. Harakeh, M. Itoh, T. Kawabata, K. Kawase, J. T. Matta, D. Patel, M. Uchida, and M. Yosoi

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014308 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025

Isoscalar and isovector multipole $L = 0$ to 3 strength functions in even-even ${}^{90 - 94}{Zr}$ and ${}^{92 - 100}{Mo}$ nuclei

Elina Kauppinen and Jouni Suhonen

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014309 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025

Investigation of possible antimagnetic rotation with neutron “blades” in ${}^{140}{Sm}$ and ${}^{140}{Gd}$

H. Jia (贾慧), B. Qi (亓斌), L. Liu (刘雷), and E. H. Wang (王恩宏)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014310 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

Impact of ground-state properties and collective excitations on the Skyrme ansatz: A Bayesian study

Pietro Klausner, Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza, and Enrico Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014311 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

Photoexcitation of ${}^{59}{Co}$

R. Schwengner, R. Massarczyk, R. Beyer, N. Benouaret, A. Ferrari, A. Hartmann, T. Hensel, E. Masha, S. E. Müller, K. Römer, M. Scheck, K. Schmidt, S. Turkat, S. Urlaß, A. Wagner, and A. Yadav

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014312 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

Global analysis of the nonuniformity of nucleon density distributions

Shuichiro Ebata and Wataru Horiuchi

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014313 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-precision mass measurement of ${}^{103}{Sn}$ restores smoothness of the mass surface

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014314 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Refining the nuclear mass surface with the mass of ${}^{103}{Sn}$

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014315 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

Yrast structures of ${}^{98}{Nb}$ and ${}^{99}{Mo}$

N. Fotiades, J. A. Cizewski, P. Fallon, P. G. Kevrekidis, R. Krücken, and I. Y. Lee

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014316 (2025) - Published 13 January, 2025

Asymmetry in the analogous spin–isospin-flip excitations of the $[J^{π}, T] = {[2^{+}, 1]}_{1}$ and ${[2^{+}, 1]}_{2}$ states in ${}_{6}^{14}C_{8}, {}_{7}^{14}N_{7}$ , and ${}_{8}^{14}O_{6}$ from the ${[1^{+}, 0]}_{1}$ ground state of ${}^{14}N$

H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, P. Adsley, J. W. Brümmer, A. Fujimoto, D. Houngbo, M. Kohne, K. C. W. Li, P. Z. Mabika, A. Negret, R. Neveling, P. Papka, L. Pellegri, F. D. Smit, and S. Triambak

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014317 (2025) - Published 14 January, 2025

In-beam $γ$ -spectroscopy of ${}^{217}{Ac}$

Dhananjaya Sahoo, A. Y. Deo, Madhu, Khamosh Yadav, S. S. Tiwary, P. C. Srivastava, R. Palit, S. K. Tandel, Anil Kumar, P. Dey, Biswajit Das, Vishal Malik, A. Kundu, A. Sindhu, S. V. Jadhav, B. S. Naidu, and A. V. Thomas

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014318 (2025) - Published 14 January, 2025

Influences of $Z = 100$ and $N = 152$ deformed shells on $K^{π} = 8^{-}$ isomers and rotational bands in $N = 150$ isotones

Jun Zhang, Hai-Qian Zhang, T. M. Shneidman, R. V. Jolos, and Xiao-Tao He

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014319 (2025) - Published 14 January, 2025

Phase diagrams of neutron-proton superfluid in asymmetric nuclear matter

K. D. Duan, H. B. Zhang, and X. L. Shang

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014320 (2025) - Published 16 January, 2025

Configuration dependent shapes and types of rotations in the $γ$ -soft ${}^{136}\Pr$ nucleus revealed by detailed calculations with tilted axis cranking covariant density functional theory

B. F. Lv et al.

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014321 (2025) - Published 16 January, 2025

Evidence for shape transitions near ${}^{189}W$ through direct mass measurements

M. Mukai, Y. Hirayama, P. Schury, Y. X. Watanabe, T. Hashimoto, N. Hinohara, S. C. Jeong, H. Miyatake, J. Y. Moon, T. Niwase, M. Reponen, M. Rosenbusch, H. Ueno, and M. Wada

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014322 (2025) - Published 17 January, 2025

Analysis of clustering fragments of ${}^{7}{Li}$ and ${}^{7}{Be}$ in the microscopic cluster model

De-Ye Tao (陶德晔), Bo Zhou (周波), Si-Min Wang (王思敏), and Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014323 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

$B (E 2)$ anomaly and triaxial deformation in the interacting boson model

Yu Zhang and Wei Teng

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014324 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Nuclear mass predictions based on a convolutional neural network

Yanhua Lu, Tianshuai Shang, Pengxiang Du, Jian Li, Haozhao Liang, and Zhongming Niu

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014325 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

$0 ν β β$ decay of ${}^{136}{Xe}$ using the nonclosure approach in the nuclear shell model

S. Sarkar, Y. Iwata, K. Jha, and R. Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014326 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Precision mass measurements of ${}^{74 - 76}{Sr}$ using the multiple reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer at TITAN

Z. Hockenbery et al.

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014327 (2025) - Published 23 January, 2025

Coexistence of single-particle and collective states in ${}^{116}{Sb}$

Shabir Dar, Soumik Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya, G. H. Bhat, S. Jehangir, J. A. Sheikh, R. Banik, S. Nandi, G. Mukherjee, Sajad Ali, S. Chakraborty, S. Chatterjee, S. Das, S. Das Gupta, A. Dhal, S. S. Ghugre, A. Goswami, D. Mondal, S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Pal, D. Pandit, R. Raut, and P. Ray

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014328 (2025) - Published 28 January, 2025

Binding energies, charge radii, spins, and moments: Odd-odd Ag isotopes and discovery of a new isomer

B. van den Borne et al.

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014329 (2025) - Published 30 January, 2025

Nuclear Reactions

Charged-current neutrino-nucleus scattering off even-even Xe isotopes including the meson-exchange contributions

Joona Kasurinen, Pekka Pirinen, and Jouni Suhonen

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014601 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

Role of excited states in the sub-barrier fusion of light nuclei

S. T. Sun, T. Depastas, H. B. He, H. Zheng, and A. Bonasera

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014602 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025

Production of neutron-rich nuclei near $N = 126$ in multinucleon transfer reactions with potential pockets

Gen Zhang and Feng-Shou Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014603 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025

Influence of the capture of breakup fragments on the fusion of ${}^{8}B$ with several targets

A. Gómez Camacho, J. Rangel, and J. Lubian

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014604 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

Measurement of spin versus total kinetic energy of ${}^{144}{Ba}$ produced in spontaneous fission of ${}^{252}{Cf}$

N. P. Giha, S. Marin, I. A. Tolstukhin, M. B. Oberling, R. A. Knaack, C. Mueller-Gatermann, A. Korichi, K. Bhatt, M. P. Carpenter, C. Fougères, V. Karayonchev, B. P. Kay, T. Lauritsen, D. Seweryniak, N. Watwood, D. L. Duke, S. Mosby, K. B. Montoya, D. S. Connolly, W. Loveland, I. E. Hernandez, S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, and F. Tovesson

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014605 (2025) - Published 13 January, 2025

Branching ratio and information entropy for the $p + {}^{12}C$ reaction in the extended-quantum-molecular-dynamics model

Lei Shen (沈雷), Bo-Song Huang (黄勃松), and Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014606 (2025) - Published 16 January, 2025

Correlation of the symmetry energy at subsaturation densities and neutron-skin thickness in low-energy antiproton-induced reactions

Ban Zhang and Zhao-Qing Feng

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014607 (2025) - Published 17 January, 2025

Measurement of the sequential $3 α$ process in the photodissociation of ${}^{12}C$

Resmi K. Bharathan, Midhun C. V., M. M. Musthafa, Sreena M., Silpa Ajaykumar, Farhana Thesni M. P., Swapna B., Vafiya Thaslim T. T., Shaima A., Nived K., Akhil R., Anagha P. K., Arunima Dev T. V., Keerthi E. S., Akshay K. S., Arun P. V., and S. Ghugre

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014608 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Probing nuclear structure and the equation of state through pre-equilibrium dipole emission in charge-asymmetric reactions

L. Shvedov, S. Burrello, M. Colonna, and H. Zheng

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014609 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Examination of deformations and noncoplanarity in the fusion reaction ${}^{37}{Cl} + {}^{68}{Zn}$ using the dynamical cluster-decay model

Gayatri Sarkar and Pooja Kaushal

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014610 (2025) - Published 22 January, 2025

Photoneutron reactions on gold in the giant dipole resonance region: Reaction cross sections and average kinetic energies of $(γ, x n)$ photoneutrons

I. Gheorghe, T. Ari-izumi, S. Goriely, D. Filipescu, S. Belyshev, K. Stopani, H. Wang, G. Fan, H. Scheit, D. Symochko, M. Krzysiek, T. Renstrøm, G. M. Tveten, S. Miyamoto, and H. Utsunomiya

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014611 (2025) - Published 27 January, 2025

Population of tetraneutron continuum in reactions of ${}^{8}{He}$ on deuterium

I. A. Muzalevskii et al.

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014612 (2025) - Published 30 January, 2025

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Comparisons and predictions for collisions of deformed ${}^{238}U$ nuclei at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 193$ GeV

Nicolas Miro Fortier, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014901 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

Investigation of suppression of $Υ (n S)$ in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV and 5.02 TeV

Junlee Kim, Jaebeom Park, Byungsik Hong, Juhee Hong, Eun-Joo Kim, Yongsun Kim, MinJung Kweon, Su Houng Lee, Sanghoon Lim, and Jinjoo Seo

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014902 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

Heavy ion collisions from $\sqrt{s_{N N}}$ of 62.4 GeV down to 7.7 GeV in the EPOS4 framework

K. Werner, J. Jahan, I. Karpenko, T. Pierog, M. Stefaniak, and D. Vintache

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014903 (2025) - Published 6 January, 2025

Information entropy for central ${}^{197}{Au} + {}^{197}{Au}$ collisions within the ultrarelativistic quantum molecular dynamics model

X. G. Deng (邓先概) and Y. G. Ma (马余刚)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014904 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025

Baryon number transportation over full rapidity space in $p p$ collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Banajit Barman, Nur Hussain, and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014905 (2025) - Published 8 January, 2025

Measurement of directed flow in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 19.6$ and 27 GeV with the STAR event plane detector

M. I. Abdulhamid et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014906 (2025) - Published 9 January, 2025

System-size dependence of energy loss and correlations of heavy mesons at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Jiaxing Zhao, Joerg Aichelin, Pol Bernard Gossiaux, and Klaus Werner

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014907 (2025) - Published 13 January, 2025

Features of strangeness production in $p p$ and heavy-ion collisions

A. Pop and M. Petrovici

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014908 (2025) - Published 14 January, 2025

Energy dependence of polarized $γ γ \to e^{+} e^{-}$ in peripheral $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 54.4$ and 200 GeV with the STAR experiment at RHIC

M. I. Abdulhamid et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014909 (2025) - Published 16 January, 2025

Dynamics of the conserved net-baryon density near the QCD critical point within an inhomogeneous quark-gluon plasma profile

Shanjin Wu

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014915 (2025) - Published 30 January, 2025

Net proton number cumulants from viscous hydrodynamics with an equation of state including a critical end point

Yifan Shen, Wei Chen, Xiang-Yu Wu, Kun Xu, and Mei Huang

Phys. Rev. C 111, 014916 (2025) - Published 31 January, 2025

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining theoretical corrections to Gamow-Teller transition rates

L. Xayavong and Y. Lim

Phys. Rev. C 111, 015501 (2025) - Published 13 January, 2025

Pressure and chemical potentials in the inner crust of a cold neutron star within Hartree-Fock and extended Thomas-Fermi methods

N. Chamel, N. N. Shchechilin, and A. I. Chugunov

Phys. Rev. C 111, 015805 (2025) - Published 21 January, 2025

Resonant shattering flares as asteroseismic tests of chiral effective field theory

Duncan Neill, David Tsang, Christian Drischler, Jeremy W. Holt, and William G. Newton

Phys. Rev. C 111, 015809 (2025) - Published 27 January, 2025

Reexamining constraints on neutron star properties from perturbative QCD

Dake Zhou

Phys. Rev. C 111, 015810 (2025) - Published 27 January, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Number of virtual photons in the Coulomb dipole excitation [Phys. Rev. C 107, 064608 (2023)]

Kyoungsu Heo, Myung-Ki Cheoun, Ki-Seok Choi, K. S. Kim, and W. Y. So

Phys. Rev. C 111, 019901 (2025) - Published 7 January, 2025

Erratum: First measurement of neutron birefringence in polarized ${}^{129}{Xe}$ and ${}^{131}{Xe}$ nuclei [Phys. Rev. C 109, L011001 (2024)]

H. Lu, M. J. Barlow, D. Basler, P. Gutfreund, O. Holderer, A. Ioffe, S. Pasini, P. Pistel, Z. Salhi, K. Zhernenkov, B. M. Goodson, W. M. Snow, and E. Babcock

Phys. Rev. C 111, 019902 (2025) - Published 24 January, 2025

Volume 111, Issue 1

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear Reactions

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Nuclear Astrophysics

ERRATA