Volume 71, Issue 5

May 2005

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Knockout from ${}^{46}{Ar} : ℓ = 3$ neutron removal and deviations from eikonal theory

A. Gade, D. Bazin, C. A. Bertulani, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, J. A. Church, D. C. Dinca, J. Enders, T. Glasmacher, P. G. Hansen, Z. Hu, K. W. Kemper, W. F. Mueller, H. Olliver, B. C. Perry, L. A. Riley, B. T. Roeder, B. M. Sherrill, J. R. Terry, J. A. Tostevin, and K. L. Yurkewicz

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051301(R) (2005) - Published 13 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Two-neutron transfer in the ${}^{6}{He} + {}^{209}{Bi}$ reaction near the Coulomb barrier

P. A. DeYoung, Patrick J. Mears, J. J. Kolata, E. F. Aguilera, F. D. Becchetti, Y. Chen, M. Cloughesy, H. Griffin, C. Guess, J. D. Hinnefeld, H. Jiang, Scott R. Jones, U. Khadka, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, M. Ojaniega, G. F. Peaslee, A. Pena, J. Rieth, S. VanDenDriessche, and J. A. Zimmerman

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051601(R) (2005) - Published 13 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Estimation of ( $n, f$ ) cross sections by measuring reaction probability ratios

C. Plettner, H. Ai, C. W. Beausang, L. A. Bernstein, L. Ahle, H. Amro, M. Babilon, J. T. Harke, J. A. Caggiano, R. F. Casten, J. A. Church, J. R. Cooper, B. Crider, G. Gürdal, A. Heinz, E. A. McCutchan, K. Moody, J. A. Punyon, J. Qian, J. J. Ressler, A. Schiller, E. Williams, and W. Younes

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051602(R) (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Incoherent $π^{0}$ photoproduction from complex nuclei

T. E. Rodrigues, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, J. Mesa, C. Garcia, K. Shtejer, D. Dale, and I. Nakagawa

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051603(R) (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Possibility to study a two-proton halo in ${}^{17}{Ne}$

L. V. Grigorenko, Yu. L. Parfenova, and M. V. Zhukov

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051604(R) (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Possible resolutions of the D-puzzle

C. Nonaka, B. Müller, S. A. Bass, and M. Asakawa

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051901(R) (2005) - Published 13 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Jet structure of baryon excess in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 71, 051902(R) (2005) - Published 27 May, 2005

RAPID COMMUNICATION

The ${}^{8}{Li} (d, p) {}^{9}{Li}$ reaction and the astrophysical ${}^{8}{Li} (n, γ) {}^{9}{Li}$ reaction rate

Z. H. Li, W. P. Liu, X. X. Bai, B. Guo, G. Lian, S. Q. Yan, B. X. Wang, S. Zeng, Y. Lu, J. Su, Y. S. Chen, K. S. Wu, N. C. Shu, and T. Kajino

Phys. Rev. C 71, 052801(R) (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Relativistic effects in neutron-deuteron elastic scattering

H. Witała, J. Golak, W. Glöckle, and H. Kamada

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054001 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Excitation functions of spin correlation parameters $A_{NN}, A_{SS}$ , and $A_{SL}$ in elastic $\binom{\to}{p} \binom{\to}{p}$ scattering between 0.45 and 2.5 GeV

F. Bauer et al. (EDDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054002 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

The reaction ${}^{2}H (p, pp) n$ in three kinematical configurations at $E_{p} = 16 MeV$

C. Düweke, R. Emmerich, A. Imig, J. Ley, G. Tenckhoff, H. Paetz gen. Schieck, J. Golak, H. Witała, E. Epelbaum, W. Glöckle, and A. Nogga

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054003 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

Vector meson photoproduction studied in its radiative decay channel

Qiang Zhao, J. S. Al-Khalili, and P. L. Cole

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054004 (2005) - Published 24 May, 2005

Momentum-space treatment of the Coulomb interaction in three-nucleon reactions with two protons

A. Deltuva, A. C. Fonseca, and P. U. Sauer

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054005 (2005) - Published 24 May, 2005

Nuclear Structure

Screening of nuclear pairing in nuclear and neutron matter

Caiwan Shen, U. Lombardo, and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054301 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Spherical and deformed structures in ${}^{189}{Pb}$

A. M. Baxter, A. P. Byrne, G. D. Dracoulis, P. M. Davidson, T. Kibédi, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, C. N. Davids, T. L. Khoo, and T. Lauritsen

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054302 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Nuclear pairing: Surface or bulk?

N. Sandulescu, P. Schuck, and X. Viñas

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054303 (2005) - Published 11 May, 2005

Investigation of low-spin states in ${}^{92}{Zr}$ with the ( $n, n^{'} γ$ ) reaction

C. Fransen, V. Werner, D. Bandyopadhyay, N. Boukharouba, S. R. Lesher, M. T. McEllistrem, J. Jolie, N. Pietralla, P. von Brentano, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054304 (2005) - Published 12 May, 2005

Energy levels of ${}^{249}{Bk}$ populated in the α decay of $_{99}^{253} Es$ and $β^{-}$ decay of $_{96}^{249} Cm$

I. Ahmad, F. G. Kondev, E. F. Moore, M. P. Carpenter, R. R. Chasman, J. P. Greene, R. V. F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, R. W. Hoff, J. E. Evans, R. W. Lougheed, C. E. Porter, and L. K. Felker

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054305 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Simple description of light W, Os, and Pt nuclei in the interacting boson model

E. A. McCutchan and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054306 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Evolution of the nuclear structure approaching ${}^{78}{Ni} : β$ decay of ${}^{74 - 78}{Cu}$

J. Van Roosbroeck, H. De Witte, M. Gorska, M. Huyse, K. Kruglov, D. Pauwels, J.-Ch. Thomas, K. Van de Vel, P. Van Duppen, S. Franchoo, J. Cederkall, V. N. Fedoseyev, H. Fynbo, U. Georg, O. Jonsson, U. Köster, L. Weissman, W. F. Mueller, V. I. Mishin, D. Fedorov, A. De Maesschalck, N. A. Smirnova, and K. Heyde

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054307 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Alternate derivation of Ginocchio-Haxton relation $[(2 j + 3) / 6]$

L. Zamick and A. Escuderos

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054308 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Highest spin discrete levels in ${}^{131, 132}{Ce}$ : Spin generation near the mesoscopic limit

E. S. Paul et al.

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054309 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

α-decay properties of superheavy elements $Z = 113 − 125$ in the relativistic mean-field theory with vector self-coupling of ω meson

M. M. Sharma, A. R. Farhan, and G. Münzenberg

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054310 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Fitting theories of nuclear binding energies

G. F. Bertsch, B. Sabbey, and M. Uusnäkki

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054311 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

Properties of the superheavy element $^{287} 115$ and its α-decay time

Hongfei Zhang, Junqing Li, Wei Zuo, Zhongyu Ma, Baoqiu Chen, and Soojae Im

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054312 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

Low-lying GT $^{+}$ strength in ${}^{116}{In}$ from a $(d, {}^{2}{He})$ reaction experiment and its implications for ${}^{116}{Cd}$ double β decay

S. Rakers, C. Bäumer, A. M. van den Berg, B. Davids, D. Frekers, D. De Frenne, E.-W. Grewe, P. Haefner, M. N. Harakeh, S. Hollstein, M. Hunyadi, E. Jacobs, B. C. Junk, A. Korff, A. Negret, L. Popescu, and H. J. Wörtche

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054313 (2005) - Published 23 May, 2005

Triaxiality and the determination of the cubic shape parameter $K_{3}$ from five observables

V. Werner, C. Scholl, and P. von Brentano

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054314 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

High-spin structures in ${}^{108}{Pd}$ : γ-vibrational band and two-quasineutron excitations

J. A. Alcántara-Núñez, J. R. B. Oliveira, E. W. Cybulska, N. H. Medina, M. N. Rao, R. V. Ribas, M. A. Rizzutto, W. A. Seale, F. Falla-Sotelo, and K. T. Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054315 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Shell-model description of $N ≃ Z 1 f_{7 / 2}$ nuclei

F. Brandolini and C. A. Ur

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054316 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Discretization of the continuum in ${}^{6}{He}$ : A schematic model to test the validity of the concept

N. Vinh Mau and J. C. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054317 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

$β$ -delayed proton decays near the proton drip line

S.-W. Xu, Z.-K. Li, Y.-X. Xie, Q.-Y. Pan, W.-X. Huang, X.-D. Wang, Y. Yu, Y.-B. Xing, N.-C. Shu, Y.-S. Chen, F.-R. Xu, and K. Wang

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054318 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Multiparticle configurations in $N = 84$ isotones located at the proton drip line

D. Seweryniak, J. Uusitalo, P. Bhattacharyya, M. P. Carpenter, J. A. Cizewski, K. Y. Ding, C. N. Davids, N. Fotiades, R. V. F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. Nisius, P. Reiter, W. B. Walters, and P. J. Woods

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054319 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Precise measurement of K-shell fluorescence yield in iridium: An improved test of internal-conversion theory

N. Nica, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, J. R. Montague, and M. B. Trzhaskovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054320 (2005) - Published 27 May, 2005

Coordinate space Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations for the zirconium isotope chain up to the two-neutron drip line

A. Blazkiewicz, V. E. Oberacker, A. S. Umar, and M. Stoitsov

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054321 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Neutron capture cross section of ${}^{102}{Pd}$

C. L. Duncan and K. S. Krane

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054322 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Systematic study of charge form factors of elastic electron-nucleus scattering with the relativistic eikonal approximation

Zaijun Wang and Zhongzhou Ren

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054323 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Shape coexistence and lifetime measurement in ${}^{187}{Tl}$ nucleus

S. K. Chamoli, P. Joshi, A. Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, R. P. Singh, S. Muralithar, R. K. Bhowmik, and I. M. Govil

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054324 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Nuclear Reactions

Production of ultracold neutrons from a cold neutron beam on a $^{2} H_{2}$ target

F. Atchison, B. van den Brandt, T. Bryś, M. Daum, P. Fierlinger, P. Hautle, R. Henneck, S. Heule, M. Kasprzak, K. Kirch, J. A. Konter, A. Michels, A. Pichlmaier, M. Wohlmuther, A. Wokaun, K. Bodek, U. Szerer, P. Geltenbort, J. Zmeskal, and Y. Pokotilovskiy

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054601 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

${}^{16}C$ inelastic scattering studied with the microscopic coupled-channels method

M. Takashina, Y. Kanada-En'yo, and Y. Sakuragi

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054602 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

Probing the isospin dependence of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon cross sections with radioactive beams

Bao-An Li, Pawel Danielewicz, and William G. Lynch

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054603 (2005) - Published 23 May, 2005

Comparison of midvelocity fragment formation with projectilelike decay

S. Hudan, R. Alfaro, B. Davin, Y. Larochelle, H. Xu, L. Beaulieu, T. Lefort, R. Yanez, R. T. de Souza, R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, T. X. Liu, X. D. Liu, W. G. Lynch, R. Shomin, W. P. Tan, M. B. Tsang, A. Vander Molen, A. Wagner, and H. F. Xi

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054604 (2005) - Published 23 May, 2005

Evolution of the prompt dipole $γ$ -ray emission with incident energy in fusion reactions

D. Pierroutsakou, B. Martin, G. Inglima, A. Boiano, A. De Rosa, M. Di Pietro, M. La Commara, R. Mordente, M. Romoli, M. Sandoli, M. Trotta, E. Vardaci, T. Glodariu, M. Mazzocco, C. Signorini, L. Stroe, V. Baran, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro, and N. Pellegriti

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054605 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Critical behavior in light nuclear systems: Experimental aspects

Y. G. Ma et al.

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054606 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Distribution of the largest fragment in the lattice gas model

F. Gulminelli and Ph. Chomaz

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054607 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Ghoshal-like test of equilibration in near-Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions

J. Wang et al. (NIMROD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054608 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Radiative decays of the $Σ^{0} (1385)$ and $Λ (1520)$ hyperons

S. Taylor et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054609 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

The ( ${}^{8}{Li}$ , α) reaction at low energy: Direct ${}^{4}H$ cluster transfer?

F. D. Becchetti, R. S. Raymond, D. A. Roberts, J. Lucido, P. A. DeYoung, B. Hilldore, J. Bychowski, A. J. Huisman, P. J. VanWylen, J. J. Kolata, G. Rogachev, and J. D. Hinnefeld

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054610 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Quantum statistical effects on fusion dynamics of heavy ions

S. Ayik, B. Yilmaz, A. Gokalp, O. Yilmaz, and N. Takigawa

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054611 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Macroscopic-microscopic deformation energy in fusion isobaric reactions

R. A. Gherghescu and N. Carjan

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054612 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Centrality dependence of thermal parameters deduced from hadron multiplicities in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$

J. Cleymans, B. Kämpfer, M. Kaneta, S. Wheaton, and N. Xu

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054901 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Shadowing and absorption effects on $J / ψ$ production in $d A$ collisions

R. Vogt

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054902 (2005) - Published 12 May, 2005

Onset of classical QCD dynamics in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Dmitri Kharzeev, Eugene Levin, and Marzia Nardi

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054903 (2005) - Published 13 May, 2005

Particle number fluctuations in the microcanonical ensemble

V. V. Begun, M. I. Gorenstein, A. P. Kostyuk, and O. S. Zozulya

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054904 (2005) - Published 26 May, 2005

Anisotropic flow of charged and identified hadrons in thequark-gluon string model for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

G. Burau, J. Bleibel, C. Fuchs, Amand Faessler, L. V. Bravina, and E. E. Zabrodin

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054905 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Quantum derivation of the use of classical electromagnetic potentials in relativistic Coulomb excitation

B. F. Bayman and F. Zardi

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054906 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

$Σ^{-} / Σ^{+}$ ratio as a candidate for probing the density dependence of the symmetry potential at high nuclear densities

Qingfeng Li, Zhuxia Li, Euguang Zhao, and Raj K. Gupta

Phys. Rev. C 71, 054907 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Polarization observables for two-pion production off the nucleon

W. Roberts and T. Oed

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055201 (2005) - Published 6 May, 2005

MILESTONE

Proton elastic form factor ratios to $Q^{2} = 3.5 GeV^{2}$ by polarization transfer

V. Punjabi et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055202 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

Nuclear phenomena derived from quark-gluon strings

Henrik Bohr, Constança Providência, and João da Providência

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055203 (2005) - Published 20 May, 2005

Comparison of nucleon form factors from lattice QCD against the light front cloudy bag model and extrapolation to the physical mass regime

Hrayr H. Matevosyan, Gerald A. Miller, and Anthony W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055204 (2005) - Published 23 May, 2005

Electroproduction, photoproduction, and inverse electroproduction of pions in the first resonance region

Yurii S. Surovtsev, Tatiana D. Blokhintseva, Petr Bydžovský, and Miroslav Nagy

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055205 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Coupled-channel analysis of ω-meson production in $π N$ and $γ N$ reactions for c.m. energies up to 2 GeV

V. Shklyar, H. Lenske, U. Mosel, and G. Penner

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055206 (2005) - Published 31 May, 2005

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Superallowed $0^{+} \to 0^{+}$ nuclear $β$ decays: A critical survey with tests of the conserved vector current hypothesis and the standard model

J. C. Hardy and I. S. Towner

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055501 (2005) - Published 19 May, 2005

Measurement of the neutron lifetime by counting trapped protons in a cold neutron beam

J. S. Nico, M. S. Dewey, D. M. Gilliam, F. E. Wietfeldt, X. Fei, W. M. Snow, G. L. Greene, J. Pauwels, R. Eykens, A. Lamberty, J. Van Gestel, and R. D. Scott

Phys. Rev. C 71, 055502 (2005) - Published 25 May, 2005