Volume 63, Issue 6

June 2001

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Lifetimes of superdeformed rotational states in $^{36} Ar$

C. E. Svensson, A. O. Macchiavelli, A. Juodagalvis, A. Poves, I. Ragnarsson, S. Åberg, D. E. Appelbe, R. A. E. Austin, G. C. Ball, M. P. Carpenter, E. Caurier, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, R. V. F. Janssens, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, F. Nowacki, D. G. Sarantites, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, and D. Ward

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061301(R) (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effect of oblate deformation on $E 3$ strengths in light lead and polonium isotopes

G. D. Dracoulis, T. Kibédi, A. P. Byrne, A. M. Baxter, S. M. Mullins, and R. A. Bark

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061302(R) (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

New approach to large-scale nuclear structure calculations

J. Dukelsky and S. Pittel

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061303(R) (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observation of chiral doublet bands in odd-odd $N = 73$ isotones

T. Koike, K. Starosta, C. J. Chiara, D. B. Fossan, and D. R. LaFosse

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061304(R) (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Signature inversion in axially deformed $^{160, 162} Tm$

J. Kvasil, R. G. Nazmitdinov, A. Tsvetkov, and P. Alexa

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061305(R) (2001) - Published 18 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Microscopic description of $α +^{40} Ca$ quasimolecular resonances

D. S. Delion and J. Suhonen

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061306(R) (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Statistical evolution of isotope composition of nuclear fragments

A. S. Botvina and I. N. Mishustin

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061601(R) (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Squeezing mode in nuclear collisions

Klaus Morawetz and Pavel Lipavský

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061602(R) (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Elastic scattering and transfer in the $^{6} He +^{209} Bi$ system below the Coulomb barrier

E. F. Aguilera, J. J. Kolata, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, J. D. Hinnefeld, Á. Horváth, L. O. Lamm, Hye-Young Lee, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, P. Mohr, T. W. O’Donnell, D. A. Roberts, and G. Rogachev

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061603(R) (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Systematics of transfer/breakup yields for weakly bound light nuclei

J. J. Kolata

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061604(R) (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Probing chiral dynamics by charged-pion correlations

Jørgen Randrup

Phys. Rev. C 63, 061901(R) (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Measurement of the vector analyzing power in elastic electron-proton scattering as a probe of the double virtual Compton amplitude

S. P. Wells et al.

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064001 (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

Complete set of polarization observables in $\vec{p} \vec{p} \to pp π^{0}$ close to threshold

H. O. Meyer, A. Wellinghausen, J. T. Balewski, J. Doskow, R. E. Pollock, B. v. Przewoski, T. Rinckel, P. Thörngren-Engblom, L. D. Knutson, W. Haeberli, B. Lorentz, F. Rathmann, B. Schwartz, T. Wise, W. W. Daehnick, Swapan K. Saha, and P. V. Pancella

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064002 (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

Renormalization of the ladder light-front Bethe-Salpeter equation in the Yukawa model

J. H. O. Sales, T. Frederico, B. V. Carlson, and P. U. Sauer

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064003 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Phase shifts and mixing parameters for low-energy proton-deuteron scattering

A. Kievsky, J. L. Friar, G. L. Payne, S. Rosati, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064004 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Nuclear Structure

Local realizations of contact interactions in two- and three-body problems

A. T. Kruppa, K. Varga, and J. Révai

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064301 (2001) - Published 26 April, 2001

Anatomy of nuclear shape transition in the relativistic mean field theory

Tapas Sil, B. K. Agrawal, J. N. De, and S. K. Samaddar

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064302 (2001) - Published 26 April, 2001

Properties of microscopic nucleus-nucleus interaction for molecular resonance formation in $^{12} {C +}^{12} C$ and $3 α + 3 α$ systems

M. Ito, Y. Sakuragi, and Y. Hirabayashi

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064303 (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

Neutrinoless double-β-decay matrix elements within the second quasirandom phase approximation method

S. Stoica and H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064304 (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

Collective response of nuclei: Comparison between experiments and extended mean-field calculations

Denis Lacroix, Sakir Ayik, and Philippe Chomaz

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064305 (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

Measurements of g factors and lifetimes of low lying states in $^{58 - 64} Ni$ and their shell model implications

O. Kenn, K.-H. Speidel, R. Ernst, J. Gerber, P. Maier-Komor, and F. Nowacki

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064306 (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

Universal trend of the information entropy of a fermion in a mean field

C. P. Panos, S. E. Massen, and C. G. Koutroulos

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064307 (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

Correlated model for $Λ$ hypernuclei

F. Arias de Saavedra, G. Co’, and A. Fabrocini

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064308 (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

First observation of excited states in the neutron deficient $N = 86$ isotones $^{159} Ta$ and $^{160} W$

A. Keenan, R. D. Page, J. Simpson, N. Amzal, J. F. C. Cocks, D. M. Cullen, P. T. Greenlees, S. L. King, K. Helariutta, P. Jones, D. T. Joss, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, H. Kankaanpää, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, M. Muikku, A. Savelius, M. B. Smith, and M. J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064309 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

$N / Z$ dependence of core polarization charges and quadrupole moments of B isotopes

H. Sagawa and K. Asahi

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064310 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Jacobi shape transition in fp shell nuclei

G. Shanmugam, V. Ramasubramanian, and S. N. Chintalapudi

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064311 (2001) - Published 10 May, 2001

Direct proton-decay properties of the isobaric analog and isovector monopole giant resonances

M. L. Gorelik and M. H. Urin

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064312 (2001) - Published 18 May, 2001

Angular correlations and internal conversion coefficients of γ-ray transitions in $^{104} Pd$

M. E. Bellizzi, A. Giannatiempo, A. Nannini, A. Perego, and P. Sona

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064313 (2001) - Published 18 May, 2001

Selective bosonization of the many-fermion problem in a model framework

E. R. Marshalek and Y. Miyanishi

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064314 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

Structure of high-spin states in $^{89} Sr$ and $^{90} Sr$

E. A. Stefanova, R. Schwengner, G. Rainovski, K. D. Schilling, A. Wagner, F. Dönau, E. Galindo, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, O. Thelen, J. Eberth, D. R. Napoli, C. A. Ur, G. de Angelis, M. Axiotis, A. Gadea, N. Marginean, T. Martinez, Th. Kröll, and T. Kutsarova

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064315 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

Degeneracies when $T = 0$ two body matrix elements are set equal to zero and Regge’s $6 j$ symmetry relations

Shadow J. Q. Robinson and Larry Zamick

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064316 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

Nuclear Reactions

First complete set of spin $3 / 2$ nuclear scattering analyzing powers

P. D. Cathers, E. E. Bartosz, M. W. Cooper, N. Curtis, N. Keeley, K. W. Kemper, F. Maréchal, E. G. Myers, B. G. Schmidt, K. Rusek, and V. Hnizdo

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064601 (2001) - Published 26 April, 2001

Systematics of midrapidity transverse energy distributions in limited apertures from $p + Be$ to Au+Au collisions at relativistic energies

T. Abbott et al.

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064602 (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

Fission widths of hot nuclei from Langevin dynamics

Gargi Chaudhuri and Santanu Pal

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064603 (2001) - Published 2 May, 2001

$S$ factor of the $^{3} H (^{3} H {, 2 n)}^{4} He$ and $^{3} He (^{3} He {, 2 p)}^{4} He$ reactions using a three-cluster exit channel

V. Vasilevsky, A. V. Nesterov, F. Arickx, and J. Broeckhove

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064604 (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

Schematic model for narrow $Δ (1232)$ resonances bound in a nucleus

Thomas Walcher

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064605 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Threshold anomaly in the $^{19} F +^{208} Pb$ system

C. J. Lin, J. C. Xu, H. Q. Zhang, Z. H. Liu, F. Yang, and L. X. Lu

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064606 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Microscopic study of fission fragment angular distributions

A. N. Behkami, Z. Kargar, P. Nazarzadeh, and M. N. Nasrabadi

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064607 (2001) - Published 18 May, 2001

Compton scattering from the proton at fourth order in the chiral expansion

Judith A. McGovern

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064608 (2001) - Published 18 May, 2001

Interplay between angular momentum transfer and nuclear structure in the production of isomers at intermediate energies

J. M. Daugas, R. Grzywacz, M. Lewitowicz, M. J. Lopez-Jimenez, F. de Oliveira-Santos, J. C. Angélique, L. Axelsson, C. Borcea, C. Longour, and G. Neyens

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064609 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Fragment excitation energies at freeze-out in $^{84} Kr +^{93} Nb$ collisions at 45 MeV/nucleon

P. Staszel, Z. Majka, L. G. Sobotka, D. G. Sarantites, R. J. Charity, J. Cibor, K. Hagel, N. Marie, J. B. Natowitz, R. Wada, D. W. Stracener, G. Auger, Y. Schutz, J. P. Wieleczko, R. Dayras, E. Plagnol, J. Barreto, and E. Norbeck

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064610 (2001) - Published 23 May, 2001

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Boundary and expansion effects on two-pion correlation functions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Alejandro Ayala and Angel Sánchez

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064901 (2001) - Published 26 April, 2001

Equation of state of resonance-rich matter in the central cell in heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 A GeV$

L. V. Bravina, E. E. Zabrodin, S. A. Bass, M. Bleicher, M. Brandstetter, Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, W. Greiner, S. Soff, and H. Stöcker

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064902 (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

Long-range charge fluctuations and search for a quark-gluon plasma signal

E. V. Shuryak and M. A. Stephanov

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064903 (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

Anomalous multiplicity fluctuations from phase transitions in heavy-ion collisions

H. Heiselberg and A. D. Jackson

Phys. Rev. C 63, 064904 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Hadronic interactions of the $J / ψ$

Kevin L. Haglin and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065201 (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

Calculation of the nucleon $g_{1}$ structure function using the meson cloud model in the light-cone frame

F. Zamani and D. Saranchak

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065202 (2001) - Published 9 May, 2001

Low energy pion-hyperon interaction

C. C. Barros, Jr. and Y. Hama

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065203 (2001) - Published 18 May, 2001

QCD sum rules for ρ mesons in nuclear matter

Samir Mallik and Andreas Nyffeler

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065204 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

Exclusive electroproduction of $φ$ mesons at 4.2 GeV

K. Lukashin et al. (The CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065205 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Limits on the Majorana neutrino mass and right-handed weak currents by neutrinoless double $β$ decay of $^{100} Mo$

H. Ejiri, K. Fushimi, K. Hayashi, T. Kishimoto, N. Kudomi, K. Kume, H. Kuramoto, K. Matsuoka, H. Ohsumi, K. Takahisa, and S. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065501 (2001) - Published 26 April, 2001

$Q_{EC}$ value and internal bremsstrahlung spectra of $^{179} Ta$

M. M. Hindi, B. O. Faircloth, R. L. Kozub, K. R. Czerwinski, R.-M. Larimer, E. B. Norman, B. Sur, and I. Žlimen

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065502 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

Nuclear Astrophysics

Neutron stars in a class of nonlinear relativistic models

A. R. Taurines, C. A. Z. Vasconcellos, M. Malheiro, and M. Chiapparini

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065801 (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

Destruction of $^{18} F$ via $^{18} F (p, α)^{15} O$ burning through the $E_{c . m .} = 665$ keV resonance

D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, W. Bradfield-Smith, C. R. Brune, A. E. Champagne, T. Davinson, B. A. Johnson, R. L. Kozub, C. S. Lee, R. Lewis, P. D. Parker, A. C. Shotter, M. S. Smith, D. W. Visser, and P. J. Woods

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065802 (2001) - Published 1 May, 2001

Are the level densities for r- and $rp$ -process nuclei different from nearby nuclei in the valley of stability?

S. I. Al-Quraishi, S. M. Grimes, T. N. Massey, and D. A. Resler

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065803 (2001) - Published 8 May, 2001

First order kaon condensation in neutron stars: Finite size effects in the mixed phase

Travis Norsen and Sanjay Reddy

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065804 (2001) - Published 11 May, 2001

Production of $A = 6, 7$ nuclides in the $α + α$ reaction and cosmic ray nucleosynthesis

David J. Mercer, Sam M. Austin, J. A. Brown, S. A. Danczyk, S. E. Hirzebruch, J. H. Kelley, T. Suomijärvi, D. A. Roberts, and T. P. Walker

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065805 (2001) - Published 15 May, 2001

Electromagnetic dissociation of $^{8} B$ and the rate of the $^{7} Be (p, γ)^{8} B$ reaction in the Sun

B. Davids, Sam M. Austin, D. Bazin, H. Esbensen, B. M. Sherrill, I. J. Thompson, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065806 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Structure of $^{22} Mg$ and its implications for explosive nucleosynthesis

A. A. Chen, R. Lewis, K. B. Swartz, D. W. Visser, and P. D. Parker

Phys. Rev. C 63, 065807 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

BRIEF REPORTS

Isoscalar $E 0,$ $E 1,$ and $E 2$ strength in $^{40} Ca$

D. H. Youngblood, Y.-W. Lui, and H. L. Clark

Phys. Rev. C 63, 067301 (2001) - Published 3 May, 2001

Systematics of nuclear deformation in large regions

Y. M. Zhao, A. Arima, and R. F. Casten

Phys. Rev. C 63, 067302 (2001) - Published 4 May, 2001

Evidence for a strongly deformed band in $^{80} Y$ using isomer decay tagging

J. J. Ressler, W. B. Walters, R. Grzywacz, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, C. J. Gross, Z. Janas, M. Lipoglavsek, J. McConnell, S. D. Paul, A. Piechaczek, K. Rykaczewski, D. Radford, and J. Shergur

Phys. Rev. C 63, 067303 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Analytical approximation for the sphere-sphere Coulomb potential

R. Anni

Phys. Rev. C 63, 067601 (2001) - Published 22 May, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Signature splitting and quasiparticle alignment in the yrast band of $^{165} Ta$ [Phys. Rev. C 63, 024303 (2001)]

D. G. Roux, M. S. Fetea, E. Gueorguieva, B. R. S. Babu, R. T. Newman, J. J. Lawrie, R. Fearick, D. G. Aschman, R. Beetge, M. Benatar, G. K. Mabala, S. M. Mullins, S. H. T. Murray, S. Naguleswaran, C. Rigollet, J. F. Sharpey-Schafer, F. D. Smit, and W. J. Whittaker

Phys. Rev. C 63, 069901 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001

Erratum: Bremsstrahlung from an equilibrating quark-gluon plasma [Phys. Rev. C 62, 014902 (2000)]

Munshi G. Mustafa and Markus H. Thoma

Phys. Rev. C 63, 069902 (2001) - Published 16 May, 2001