Volume 113, Issue 4

April 2026

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: PRC Launches Perspectives

Joseph I. Kapusta, Bradley Rubin, and Christopher Wesselborg

Phys. Rev. C 113, 040001 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mass spectrometry of ${}^{75}{Zn}$ ground and isomeric states from in-trap decay of ${}^{75}{Cu}$

M. Müller, N. A. Althubiti, D. Atanasov, K. Blaum, R. B. Cakirli, T. E. Cocolios, F. Herfurth, S. Kreim, D. Lunney, V. Manea, N. Minkov, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, A. Welker, F. Wienholtz, and R. N. Wolf

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044321 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Located just beyond the $Z = 28$ proton-shell closure, the odd- $N$ zinc isotopes ( $Z = 30$ ) provide a sensitive testing ground for the evolution of neutron orbitals through their low-lying states. The authors report high-precision Penning-trap mass measurements of the ground and first isomeric state in $^{75}$ Zn at ISOLTRAP, with both states populated via the decay of $^{75}$ Cu inside a Penning trap. Earlier work had identified only a single long-lived state in $^{75}$ Zn and assigned its mass to the ground state. The new measurements show that the previously observed state is instead the first isomeric state, restoring a smooth trend in the two-neutron separation energies and supporting a ground-state spin-parity assignment of $J^{π} = 1 / 2^{-}$ . The results of the new high-precision measurements also provide benchmarks for improving theoretical models in this region of rapidly evolving nuclear structure.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Separable character of ab initio no-core shell model one-body densities

J. Foy, Ch. Elster, P. Maris, S. P. Weppner, and S. K. Bogner

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044323 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Optical potentials are necessary for modeling scattering and reactions, but are challenging to derive rigorously; practitioners often resort to phenomenology instead. Inspired by other recent work, this paper investigates a key input into optical potentials, the off-shell densities, here computed in the $a b$ - $i n i t i o$ no-core shell model. The authors find these densities are well approximated by a handful of separable terms, with the number of needed terms depending only upon the number of protons and neutrons. Such insights will likely influence the future development of both phenomenological and first-principles optical potentials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radiative strength functions from the energy-localized Brink-Axel hypothesis

Oliver C. Gorton, Konstantinos Kravvaris, Jutta E. Escher, and Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044327 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Radiative strength functions (RSFs) are crucial inputs for statistical nuclear reaction codes but are difficult to calculate because they require wave functions of highly excited states. The authors used large-scale shell model calculations to identify a key result of the energy-localized Brink-Axel hypothesis: the shape of the RSF evolves smoothly with wave-function energy. Combined with an efficient Lanczos strength-function method, this insight leads to a practical new approach for computing RSFs which was validated for $^{24}$ Mg and provided novel results for $^{56}$ Fe. The method is expected to simplify RSF calculations while motivating the use of energy-dependent RSFs in modern reaction codes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic triaxial quadrupole-octupole collective Hamiltonian for low-energy nuclear excitations

J. Xiang, J. Zhao, Z. P. Li, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044328 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

The importance of quadrupole degrees of freedom has long been a hallmark of nuclear structure studies, while octupole degrees of freedom become increasingly important as proton and neutron numbers increase. This work introduces a microscopic collective Hamiltonian built upon multidimensionally constrained covariant density functional theory, incorporating both axial and triaxial quadrupole and octupole modes and their mutual couplings. As an example application, the complex excitation spectrum of $^{152}$ Sm is well reproduced, along with a good replication of $E 0$ , $E 1$ , and $E 2$ transitions. The unifying microscopic collective Hamiltonian proposed here is relevant for achieving a microscopic description of shape coexistence in nuclei and their associated excitation modes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Wavefunction-based emulation of coupled-channels scattering with nonaffinely parametrized interactions

M. Catacora-Rios, K. Beyer, P. Giuliani, K. Godbey, R. J. Furnstahl, and F. M. Nunes

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044623 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Accurate modeling of nuclear reactions is relevant to understanding the structure and dynamics of atomic nuclei, as well as for nuclear science applications and for understanding how nuclei are created in the universe. The authors generalize the reduced basis method, a physics-based emulator used for elastic scattering, to coupled-channels equations for nuclear reactions. They apply the method to neutron scattering on $^{48}$ Ca and $^{208}$ Pb and show that the calculated elastic and inelastic cross sections match those obtained using traditional accurate methods. Because emulators can offer a fast and reliable alternative to the exact solution of several scattering problems in nuclear physics, and because many reactions can be cast as a coupled-channels problem, the new developments will have significant impact on future research.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-voltage and electrode system for a cryogenic experiment to search for the neutron electric dipole moment

M. A. Blatnik, S. M. Clayton, S. A. Currie, B. W. Filippone, M. Makela, C. M. O'Shaughnessy, N. S. Phan, J. C. Ramsey, G. V. Riley, A. Roberts, T. Sandborn, T. J. Schaub, G. M. Seidel, E. Smith, I. L. Smythe, J. Surbrook, W. Wei, W. Yao, and T. M. Ito

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045503 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

The neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) is a key probe of $C P$ violation and physics beyond the Standard Model. Experimental sensitivity scales with the applied electric field, making higher fields essential for improved measurements. A 1994 proposal to perform an nEDM experiment in superfluid $^{4}$ He suggested several potential advantages, including in-situ production of ultracold neutrons with reduced loss and the possibility of higher electric fields. Here, the authors report the outcome of a comprehensive program to develop the high-voltage and electrode system for such an experiment, including new insights into relevant physical phenomena and detailing selected technical solutions with their corresponding experimental demonstrations. The results demonstrate the necessary technology for operation at electric fields up to $E = 75$ kV/cm, compared with $E \approx 10$ kV/cm in recent nEDM experiments—a major step toward significantly enhanced sensitivity.

PERSPECTIVES

PERSPECTIVE

Nuclear cold QCD: Review and future strategy

F. Arleo, P. Caucal, A. Deshpande, J. M. Durham, G. M. Innocenti, J. Jalilian-Marian, A. Kusina, M. X. Liu, Y. Mehtar-Tani, C.-J. Naïm, H. Paukkunen, S. Platchkov, F. Salazar, I. Vitev, and R. Vogt

Phys. Rev. C 113, 040501 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

This comprehensive review of nuclear cold QCD effects in hadron-nucleus collisions, produced by an international collaboration of leading experts, integrates results from decades of experimental data on hard probes such as Drell-Yan, quarkonium, and heavy-flavor production and synthesizes the results to provide a means of better understanding these probes of cold nuclear matter.

Open questions such as the dynamics of parton energy loss; the role of saturation physics relative to nuclear parton distribution functions; and the interplay between initial- and final-state effects are identified and addressed. Targeted measurements are proposed to answer these questions. Opportunities at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) and its complementarity with other facilities is emphasized. The kinematic reach and high-precision capabilities of the EIC will provide data that can disentangle competing mechanisms and build a unified, coherent picture of cold nuclear matter effects.

This Perspective is intended as a timely reference for researchers entering the field as well as a proposed strategy to shape the next decade of cold QCD experimental programs.

LETTERS

LETTER

Computational schemes for the Magnus expansion of the in-medium similarity renormalization group

Matthias Heinz

Phys. Rev. C 113, L041301 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

LETTER

Bulk and spectroscopic nuclear properties within an ab initio renormalized random-phase approximation framework

R. Folprecht, F. Knapp, G. De Gregorio, R. Mancino, P. Veselý, and N. Lo Iudice

Phys. Rev. C 113, L041302 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

LETTER

Proton radioactivity in deformed nuclei with a microscopic optical potential: A novel angular-dependent emission mechanism in the nanosecond-lived ${}^{149}{Lu}$

Yin Fan, Sibo Wang, Xiao-Hua Li, and Haozhao Liang

Phys. Rev. C 113, L041601 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

LETTER

Signatures of a baryonic spin-Hall effect in dense QCD matter

Baochi Fu, Long-Gang Pang, Huichao Song, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. C 113, L041901 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Active learning emulators for nuclear two-body scattering in momentum space

A. Giri, J. Kim, C. Drischler, Ch. Elster, and R. J. Furnstahl

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044001 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Ab initio study of the neutron and Fermi polarons on the lattice

Ryan Curry, Jasmine Kozar, and Alexandros Gezerlis

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044002 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Wave-packet solutions of time-dependent Faddeev equations: Calculation of the rearrangement and breakup $S$ matrices from the time-to-energy transform of the wave packet

Zeki C. Kuruoğlu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044003 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Assessing convergence patterns across modern nucleon-nucleon potentials

P. J. Millican, R. J. Furnstahl, J. A. Melendez, and D. R. Phillips

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044004 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Scrutiny of the new class of three-nucleon forces

E. Epelbaum, A. M. Gasparyan, J. Gegelia, D. Hog, and H. Krebs

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044005 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Nuclear Structure

From closed shells to open shells: Coupled-cluster calculations of atomic nuclei

F. Marino, F. Bonaiti, P. Demol, S. Bacca, T. Duguet, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, T. Papenbrock, and A. Tichai

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044301 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Benchmarking the projected generator coordinate method for nuclear Gamow-Teller transitions

R. N. Chen, X. Lian, J. M. Yao, and C. L. Bai

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044302 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Spectral measurement of the ${}^{214}{Bi} β$ decay to the ${}^{214}{Po}$ ground state with the XENONnT Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044303 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Anomalous quadrupole transition probabilities in the $f_{7 / 2}$ mirror nuclei

R. Escudeiro et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044304 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Entanglement entropy as a novel signature of shape evolution

Y. M. Wang, J. Y. Lin, and Q. B. Chen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044305 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Resolving anomalous collectivity in the $4_{1}^{+} \to 2_{1}^{+}$ transition of ${}^{58}{Fe}$

J. A. Woodside, B. J. Coombes, A. E. Stuchbery, A. J. Mitchell, M. Reece, G. J. Lane, T. J. Gray, G. Pasqualato, L. J. McKie, and N. J. Spinks

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044306 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Lifetimes of the $2_{1}^{+}$ and $4_{1}^{+}$ states of the neutron-rich nuclide ${}^{200}{Pt}$

C. M. Nickel et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044307 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Single-particle neutron states in ${}^{199}{Hg}$ populated in the ${}^{200}{Hg} (d, t) {}^{199}{Hg}$ reaction

E. T. Rand, P. E. Garrett, K. Yanase, N. Shimizu, G. C. Ball, V. Bildstein, C. Burbadge, A. Diaz Varela, T. Faestermann, B. Hadinia, R. Hertenberger, D. S. Jamieson, B. Jigmeddorj, A. T. Laffoley, K. G. Leach, A. D. MacLean, A. J. Radich, B. Rebeiro, C. E. Svensson, S. Triambak, and H.-F. Wirth

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044308 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Spectroscopy of ${}^{209}{Ac}$ and ${}^{207}{Ac}$

H. Kokkonen et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044309 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Exploring the statistical properties of the neutron-deficient ${}^{109}{In}$ isotope with the Oslo method

M. Markova, A. C. Larsen, P. von Neumann-Cosel, E. Litvinova, S. Goriely, L. T. Bell, T. K. Eriksen, A. Görgen, M. Guttormsen, E. F. Matthews, A. J. Nordberg, W. Paulsen, L. G. Pedersen, F. Pogliano, E. Sahin, S. Siem, and T. G. Tornyi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044310 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Single-particle strength toward $N = 32$ : Spectroscopy of ${}^{51}{Ca}$ via the ${}^{50}{Ca} (d, p)$ reaction

C. Ferrera et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044311 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Addendum to “Electromagnetic moments of ground and excited states calculated in heavy odd- $N$ open-shell nuclei”

J. Dobaczewski, A. E. Stuchbery, G. Danneaux, A. Nagpal, P. L. Sassarini, and H. Wibowo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044312 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Robustness of the octupole deformation in the pear-shaped nucleus ${}^{224}{Ra}$

Y. Sun (孙宇), Y. Y. Wang (王媛媛), and F. F. Xu (许方方)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044313 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Extended multiconfigurational dynamical symmetry

H. G. Ganev

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044314 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Nuclear excitation and control induced by intense vortex lasers

Zhi-Wei Lu, Hanxu Zhang, Tao Li, Mamutjan Ababekri, Xu Wang, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044315 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Precise absolute $γ - ray$ intensities following the $β$ decay of ${}^{156}{Eu}$

D. E. M. Hoff, K. Kolos, N. D. Scielzo, V. E. Iacob, M. Bencomo, D. Melconian, M. T. Burkey, N. Callahan, J. A. Clark, P. Copp, M. Gott, G. E. Morgan, T. S. Nagel, E. B. Norman, W.-J. Ong, R. Orford, D. Ray, J. Rohrer, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, G. Savard, M. Stoyer, A. Tonchev, L. Varriano, A. A. Valverde, and X. Yan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044316 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Production and decay properties of the lightest osmium isotopes

A. D. Briscoe et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044317 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Octupole correlation effects on two-neutron transfer intensity in rare-earth nuclei

Kosuke Nomura

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044318 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Modeling propagation of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays using the input from the configuration interaction shell model

O. Le Noan, S. Goriely, E. Khan, and K. Sieja

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044319 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Impact of octupole deformation on the nuclear electromagnetic response

Manu Kanerva and Markus Kortelainen

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044320 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mass spectrometry of ${}^{75}{Zn}$ ground and isomeric states from in-trap decay of ${}^{75}{Cu}$

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044321 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Systematics of characteristics of pygmy dipole resonances in medium-heavy and heavy atomic nuclei with neutron excess

V. A. Plujko, O. M. Gorbachenko, and N. O. Romanovskyi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044322 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Separable character of ab initio no-core shell model one-body densities

J. Foy, Ch. Elster, P. Maris, S. P. Weppner, and S. K. Bogner

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044323 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Quantum simulations of Green's functions for small superfluid systems

Samuel Aychet-Claisse, Denis Lacroix, Vittorio Somà, and Jing Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044324 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Low-energy electric and magnetic dipole excitations in ${}^{166}{Er}$

T. Shizuma, M. Omer, R. Hajima, M. Koizumi, T. Takahashi, Y. Tsunoda, and T. Otsuka

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044325 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Novel fast-timing measurement and nature of partial seniority symmetry breaking in $N = 50$ isotones

W. H. Wei et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044326 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radiative strength functions from the energy-localized Brink-Axel hypothesis

Oliver C. Gorton, Konstantinos Kravvaris, Jutta E. Escher, and Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044327 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic triaxial quadrupole-octupole collective Hamiltonian for low-energy nuclear excitations

J. Xiang, J. Zhao, Z. P. Li, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044328 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Isomer depletion via nuclear excitation by inelastic electron scattering

Ziwen Li, Jingyan Zhao, Xuyang Pu, and Yuanbin Wu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044329 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

New level scheme and lifetime measurement of the $13 / 2^{+}$ state in ${}^{209}{Po}$

Kun Dong et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044330 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Quasiparticle structure and $α$ -decay scheme of nuclei along the $α$ -decay chain of ${}^{288}{Mc}$

L. A. Malov, N. Yu. Shirikova, A. N. Bezbakh, E. A. Kolganova, and R. V. Jolos

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044331 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Investigation of shell evolution with entanglement entropy

D. Xu, A. T. Kruppa, J. G. Li, and H. F. Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044332 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

Nuclear Reactions

Laser-assisted $α$ decay of actinide nuclei in bichromatic fields

You-Tian Zou and Tong-Pu Yu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044601 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Cross correlation between neutron- and proton-shell closure in the pre-actinide region

Punit Dubey, Mahima Upadhyay, Mahesh Choudhary, Namrata Singh, Sriya Paul, Shweta Singh, Ajay Kumar, N. Saneesh, Mohit Kumar, Rishabh Prajapati, K. S. Golda, Akhil Jhingan, P. Sugathan, Jhilam Sadhukhan, Raghav Aggarwal, and Kiran

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044602 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Precision measurement of the ${}^{89}Y (γ, n) {}^{88}Y$ cross section and its constraint on the ${}^{88}Y (n, γ) {}^{89}Y$ cross section prediction

Zi-Rui Hao, Zhi-Cai Li, Gong-Tao Fan, Hong-Wei Wang, Hang-Hua Xu, Long-Xiang Liu, Yue Zhang, Yu-Xuan Yang, Kai-Jie Chen, Qian-Kun Sun, Zhen-Wei Wang, Xiang-Fei Wang, Meng-Ke Xu, Meng-Die Zhou, Yu-Long Shen, Chang Yang, and Jia-Wen Ding

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044603 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Deuteron-induced charged-particle emission on molybdenum at low energies

E. Šimečková, M. Avrigeanu, J. Mrázek, X. Ledoux, J. Novak, M. Štefánik, M. Ansorge, A. Cassisa, J. Kozic, C. Costache, and V. Avrigeanu

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044604 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Correlated fission fragment spin dynamics

Jørgen Randrup, Pavel Nadtochy, Christelle Schmitt, and Katarzyna Mazurek

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044605 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Forward modeling approach to nuclear reaction cross sections: Applications in neutron inelastic scattering

J. M. Gordon, B. L. Goldblum, D. L. Bleuel, C. A. Brand, J. A. Brown, T. A. Laplace, T. S. Nagel, and L. A. Bernstein

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044606 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Elastic and inelastic scattering of ${}^{12}C$ on ${}^{64}{Zn}$ at energies near the Coulomb barrier

L. Garrido-Gómez, E. López-Miguélez, J. P. Fernández-García, M. A. G. Alvarez, L. M. Martinis, J. K. L. Chaves, G. P. Cessel, W. A. Y. Hatano, V. Scarduelli, L. R. Gasques, L. C. Chamon, A. Arazi, A. Vegas-Díaz, and G. L. Guardo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044607 (2026) - Published 6 April, 2026

Quantization-constrained parameter method for studying $α$ and cluster decay

Nguyen Thi Huyen Nga, Le Hoang Chien, Nguyen Tri Toan Phuc, and Chau Van Tao

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044608 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Dependencies of the fission path of superheavy nuclei on the excitation energy and spin-orbit strength

A. N. Bezbakh, A. Rahmatinejad, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044609 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Reduced basis emulator for elastic scattering in continuum-discretized coupled-channels calculations

Jin Lei

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044610 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Determination of nuclear deformations with an emulator for sub-barrier fusion reactions

Zehong Liao, K. Hagino, Long Zhu, S. Yoshida, and K. Uzawa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044611 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Charged-current quasielastic-like neutrino scattering from ${}^{12}C$ in the coherent density fluctuation model with two-nucleon emission

M. V. Ivanov and A. N. Antonov

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044612 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Experimental study of bremsstrahlung $γ$ -ray emission and short-range correlations in ${}^{124}{Sn} + {}^{124}{Sn}$ collisions at 25 MeV/nucleon

Junhuai Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044613 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Scattering cross sections of solid ortho-deuterium for ultracold neutrons: Role of defects, phonons, and temperature

Stefan Döge, Jürgen Hingerl, and Christoph Morkel

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044614 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

First investigation of the ${}^{209}{Bi} ({}^{6}{Li}, {}^{7}{Li}^{} \to α + t) {}^{208}{Bi}^{}$ breakup channel

Y. S. Wu, G. X. Zhang, N. Keeley, C. J. Lin, N. R. Ma, L. Yang, H. M. Jia, S. P. Hu, H. Q. Zhang, M. Mazzocco, Y. J. Yao, C. Cheng, C. L. Zhang, K. Dong, H. B. Lv, J. L. Chen, L. Jiang, R. Cao, B. R. Gonçalves, C. Huang, Y. NZ. Tan, and G. L. Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044616 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Temperature-dependent electron-capture decay rate of ${}^{7}{Be}$ in a Nb crystal

Riichi Kuwahara, Tsutomu Ohtsuki, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Hashimoto, Yasuo Wakabayashi, Seiya Hayakawa, Daid Kahl, Shigeru Kubono, Kentaro Hirose, and Kaoru Ohno

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044617 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Investigation of entrance channel effects on fission dynamics of the transactinide nucleus ${}^{260}{Rf}$

Avitesh Agrawal, Meenu Thakur, B. R. Behera, Ruchi Mahajan, N. Saneesh, Jhilam Sadhukhan, Gurpreet Kaur, M. Kumar, A. Yadav, Neeraj Kumar, Kavita Rani, H. Arora, D. Kaur, Shruti, Kavita, R. Kumar, P. Sugathan, A. Jhingan, K. S. Golda, A. Chatterjee, Hardev Singh, S. Mandal, A. Saxena, and S. Kailas

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044618 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Theoretical study of the surface diffuseness anomaly in heavy ion fusion reactions: Introducing a new universal function for the nuclear proximity potential

Z. Gharooni, M. Arabikhan, and R. Gharaei

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044619 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Photoneutron reactions on ${}^{159}{Tb}$ in the giant dipole resonance region: Reaction cross sections and average kinetic energies of ( $γ, x n$ ) photoneutrons

I. Gheorghe, S. Goriely, K. Stopani, S. Belyshev, G. Fan, L. Liu, M. Krzysiek, D. Filipescu, T. Ari-izumi, S. Miyamoto, and H. Utsunomiya

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044620 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Energy-differential measurement of the ${}^{nat}C (n, p)$ and ${}^{nat}C (n, d)$ reactions at the n_TOF facility at CERN

P. Žugec et al. (The n_TOF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044621 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

Isotopic evolution of single-particle strengths and energies in the 50–82 shell

A. Kundu, S. Santra, S. Kailas, A. Pal, D. Chattopadhyay, and R. Tripathi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044622 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Wavefunction-based emulation of coupled-channels scattering with nonaffinely parametrized interactions

M. Catacora-Rios, K. Beyer, P. Giuliani, K. Godbey, R. J. Furnstahl, and F. M. Nunes

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044623 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

$γ$ spectroscopy of fission fragments from the ${}^{12}C + {}^{182}W$ fusion-fission reaction

K. Miernik, P. Garczyński, A. Korgul, J. N. Wilson, A. Algora, M. Chotkowski, S. Czajkowski, N. Dzysiuk, L. M. Fraile, C. Hiver, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, K. Komuda, M. Lebois, A. Lopez-Martens, J. Ljungvall, L. Mathieu, J. A. B. Monago, G. Pasqualato, W. Poklepa, P. Połczyński, H. A. Rösch-Kabadayi, K. Solak, I. Tsekhanovich, and S. Zajda

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044624 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

$Q$ -value and neutron-separation-energy dependence in one-neutron stripping reactions on ${}^{197}{Au}$

Sunil Dutt et al.

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044625 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

De-excitation effects on entanglement in multi-nucleon transfer reactions

Y. C. Yang, D. D. Zhang, D. Vretenar, B. Li, T. Nikšić, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044626 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Initial state and evolution of the hot and dense medium produced in isobaric collisions at $200 A$ GeV at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Amit Paul and Rupa Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044901 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Nonequilibrium phenomenology of identified particle spectra in heavy-ion collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Oleksandr Vitiuk, David Blaschke, Benjamin Dönigus, and Gerd Röpke

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044902 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Shear viscosity and electrical conductivity of a rotating nuclear medium in the hadron-resonance-gas and Nambu–Jona-Lasinio models

Ashutosh Dwibedi, Dani Rose J. Marattukalam, Nandita Padhan, Dushmanta Sahu, Jayanta Dey, Kangkan Goswami, Arghya Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Ghosh, and Raghunath Sahoo

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044903 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Elliptic flow of deuterons from simulations with a hybrid model

Tomáš Poledníček, Radka Vozábová, and Boris Tomášik

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044904 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Measurement of the angle between jet axes in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02$ TeV

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044905 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Pushing the hybrid approach to low beam energies with dynamic initial conditions from hadronic transport

Renan Góes-Hirayama, Joscha Egger, Zuzana Paulínyová, Iurii Karpenko, and Hannah Elfner

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044906 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Data-driven method to estimate contamination from light ion beam transmutation at colliders

Sruthy Jyothi Das and Austin Baty

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044907 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

In-medium heavy quark-antiquark $T$ matrix without partial-wave expansion

Anurag Tiwari and Min He

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044908 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Jet cone size dependence of single inclusive jet suppression due to jet quenching in $Pb + Pb$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

Qing-Fei Han, Man Xie, and Han-Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044909 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Size of the quark-gluon plasma in ultracentral collisions: Impact of initial density fluctuations on the average transverse momentum

Fabian Zhou, Giuliano Giacalone, and Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044910 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Practical considerations for measuring global spin density matrix elements of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions

Gavin Wilks, Xu Sun, and Zhenyu Ye

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044911 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Nonflow suppression in flow analysis with a maximum likelihood estimator

Chong Ye, Wei-Liang Qian, Cesar A. Bernardes, Sandra S. Padula, Rui-Hong Yue, Yutao Xing, and Takeshi Kodama

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044912 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Bayesian constraints on pre-equilibrium jet quenching and predictions for oxygen collisions

Daniel Pablos and Adam Takacs

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044913 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Isolation of photon-nuclear interaction backgrounds in the search for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Jing Gu (顾婧), Jinhui Chen (陈金辉), and Jie Zhao (赵杰)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044914 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Extension of the validity of proper time expansions in the study of glasma dynamics

Margaret E. Carrington, Bryce T. Friesen, Doug Pickering, Shane Sangster, and Kaene Soopramania

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044915 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Centrality dependence of the balance functions for identified particles in $Pb - Pb$ collisions using Pythia $+$ Angantyr

Rashi Gupta and Ankhi Roy

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044917 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

${}^{12}C$ -induced total reaction cross sections based on the intranuclear cascade model

Masahiro Nakano, Yuji Yamaguchi, and Yusuke Uozumi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 044918 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Magnetic susceptibility of a hot hadronic medium and quark degrees of freedom near the QCD crossover point

Rupam Samanta and Wojciech Broniowski

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045201 (2026) - Published 6 April, 2026

Quantum fluctuation energies over a spatially inhomogeneous field background in a chiral soliton model

Jiarui Xia, Song Shu, and Xiaogang Li

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045202 (2026) - Published 6 April, 2026

Effects of equilibrium coexisting phases in the first-order chiral transition within the linear $σ$ model with quarks

R. M. Aguirre

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045204 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of charged particles in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.36 TeV {}^{16}O + {}^{16}O$ and ${}^{20}{Ne} + {}^{20}{Ne}$ collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045205 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Inclusive $J / ψ$ productions in $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 5.02, 7, and 13 TeV$ with the parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE

Jin-Peng Zhang, Guan-Yu Wang, Wen-Chao Zhang, Bo Feng, An-Ke Lei, Zhi-Lei She, Hua Zheng, Dai-Mei Zhou, Yu-Liang Yan, and Ben-Hao Sa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045210 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

New extraction of the proton's conventional charge and magnetic radii utilizing electron-proton elastic scattering experimental data

I. A. Qattan

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045211 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Relativistic corrections for lepton-nucleus scattering in the short-time approximation

L. Andreoli, R. Weiss, G. Chambers-Wall, A. Gnech, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, and S. Gandolfi

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045501 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Radiative corrections to the parity-violating spin asymmetry

D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen and X. Roca-Maza

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045502 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-voltage and electrode system for a cryogenic experiment to search for the neutron electric dipole moment

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045503 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

Data-driven exploration of the neutron ${}^{3}P_{2}$ pairing gap using Cassiopeia A neutron star observational data: Direct $χ^{2}$ minimization

Yoonhak Nam and Kazuyuki Sekizawa

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045807 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Kinetic-theory bounds on the equation of state of dense QCD matter

Michał Marczenko

Phys. Rev. C 113, 045808 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Exploring the fission barrier of ${}^{235}U$ [Phys. Rev. C 104, 024611 (2021)]

A. Oberstedt and S. Oberstedt

Phys. Rev. C 113, 049901 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Volume 113, Issue 4

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

PERSPECTIVES

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