Volume 76, Issue 5

A. Klimkiewicz, N. Paar, P. Adrich, M. Fallot, K. Boretzky, T. Aumann, D. Cortina-Gil, U. Datta Pramanik, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, K. L. Jones, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, C. Nociforo, R. Palit, H. Simon, G. Surówka, K. Sümmerer, D. Vretenar, and W. Waluś (LAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 76, 051603(R) (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Onset of $J / ψ$ melting in a quark-gluon fluid at RHIC

T. Gunji, H. Hamagaki, T. Hatsuda, and T. Hirano

Phys. Rev. C 76, 051901(R) (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Selection of special orientations in relativistic collisions of deformed heavy nuclei

C. Nepali, G. Fai, and D. Keane

Phys. Rev. C 76, 051902(R) (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Unitarity constraints on deeply virtual Compton scattering

J. M. Laget

Phys. Rev. C 76, 052201(R) (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Measurement of coherent ϕ-meson photoproduction from the deuteron at low energies

T. Mibe et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 76, 052202(R) (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Subthreshold production of $Σ (1385)$ baryons in Al+Al collisions at $1.9 A$ GeV

X. Lopez et al. (FOPI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 76, 052203(R) (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

General relativistic effects on the conversion of nuclear to two-flavor quark matter in compact stars

Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Sanjay K. Ghosh, Ritam Mallick, and Sibaji Raha

Phys. Rev. C 76, 052801(R) (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

RAPID COMMUNICATION

New ${}^{30}P$ ( $p, γ$ ) ${}^{31}S$ resonances and oxygen-neon nova nucleosynthesis

C. Wrede, J. A. Caggiano, J. A. Clark, C. Deibel, A. Parikh, and P. D. Parker

Phys. Rev. C 76, 052802(R) (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

ARTICLES

Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems

Nucleon-nucleon cross sections in dense nuclear matter

H. F. Zhang, Z. H. Li, U. Lombardo, P. Y. Luo, F. Sammarruca, and W. Zuo

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054001 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Dependence of nuclear binding on hadronic mass variation

V. V. Flambaum and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054002 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Three-body model of light nuclei with microscopic nonlocal interactions

M. Theeten, H. Matsumura, M. Orabi, D. Baye, P. Descouvemont, Y. Fujiwara, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054003 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Quasifree $Λ, Σ^{0}$ , and $Σ^{-}$ electroproduction from ${}^{1, 2}H$ , ${}^{3, 4}{He}$ , and carbon

F. Dohrmann et al.

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054004 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Nuclear Structure

Nuclear levels in proton-unbound ${}^{109}I$ : Relative single-particle energies beyond the proton drip line

M. Petri et al.

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054301 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Self-consistent quasiparticle random-phase approximation for a multilevel pairing model

N. Quang Hung and N. Dinh Dang

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054302 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Yrast structures in the neutron-rich isotopes ${}^{59, 60}{Fe}$ and the role of the $g_{9 / 2}$ orbital

A. N. Deacon, S. J. Freeman, R. V. F. Janssens, M. Honma, M. P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, J. F. Smith, S. L. Tabor, B. J. Varley, F. R. Xu, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054303 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Nuclear shape-phase diagrams

M. L. Liu

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054304 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Systematic calculations of low-lying states in odd- $A$ nuclei within the nucleon pair approximation

L. Y. Jia, H. Zhang, and Y. M. Zhao

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054305 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Structure of the isomeric states in ${}^{123, 125}{Sb}$

D. S. Judson, A. M. Bruce, T. Kibédi, G. D. Dracoulis, A. P. Byrne, G. J. Lane, K. H. Maier, C.-B. Moon, P. Nieminen, J. N. Orce, and M. J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054306 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

( ${}^{3}{He}$ , $t$ ) reaction on the double β decay nucleus ${}^{48}{Ca}$ and the importance of nuclear matrix elements

E.-W. Grewe, D. Frekers, S. Rakers, T. Adachi, C. Bäumer, N. T. Botha, H. Dohmann, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, K. Nakanishi, A. Negret, R. Neveling, L. Popescu, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, F. D. Smit, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, J. Thies, P. von Brentano, M. Yosoi, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054307 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Investigation of phonon excitations in ${}^{114}{Cd}$ with the $(n, n^{'} γ)$ reaction

D. Bandyopadhyay, S. R. Lesher, C. Fransen, N. Boukharouba, P. E. Garrett, K. L. Green, M. T. McEllistrem, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054308 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Resonances of ${}^{7}{He}$ using the complex scaling method

Takayuki Myo, Kiyoshi Katō, and Kiyomi Ikeda

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054309 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Effect of the tensor force in the exchange channel on the spin-orbit splitting in ${}^{23}F$ in the Hartree-Fock framework

Satoru Sugimoto, Hiroshi Toki, and Kiyomi Ikeda

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054310 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Measurement of the $g$ factor of the $4_{1}^{+}$ state in ${}^{70}{Ge}$

P. Boutachkov, S. J. Q. Robinson, A. Escuderos, G. Kumbartzki, N. Benczer-Koller, E. Stefanova, Y. Y. Sharon, L. Zamick, E. A. McCutchan, V. Werner, H. Ai, A. B. Garnsworthy, G. Gürdal, A. Heinz, J. Qian, N. J. Thompson, E. Williams, and R. Winkler

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054311 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Low-energy states of $_{31}^{81} {Ga}_{50}$ : Proton structure of the nuclei close to ${}^{78}{Ni}$

D. Verney, F. Ibrahim, C. Bourgeois, S. Essabaa, S. Galès, L. Gaudefroy, D. Guillemaud-Mueller, F. Hammache, C. Lau, F. Le Blanc, A. C. Mueller, O. Perru, F. Pougheon, B. Roussière, J. Sauvage, and O. Sorlin (PARRNe Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054312 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Impact of the electron environment on the lifetime of the $^{229} {Th}^{m}$ low-lying isomer

F. F. Karpeshin and M. B. Trzhaskovskaya

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054313 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Neutron-skin thickness of finite nuclei in relativistic mean-field models with chiral limits

Wei-Zhou Jiang, Bao-An Li, and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054314 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Particle-number projection and the density functional theory

J. Dobaczewski, M. V. Stoitsov, W. Nazarewicz, and P.-G. Reinhard

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054315 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Isospin-dependent properties of asymmetric nuclear matter in relativistic mean field models

Lie-Wen Chen, Che Ming Ko, and Bao-An Li

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054316 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Yrast studies of ${}^{80, 82}{Se}$ using deep-inelastic reactions

G. A. Jones et al.

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054317 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Collectivity of low-lying states under random two-body interactions

Y. M. Zhao, J. L. Ping, and A. Arima

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054318 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Nilsson diagrams for light neutron-rich nuclei with weakly-bound neutrons

Ikuko Hamamoto

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054319 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Identification of an α-decaying ( $9^{-}$ ) isomer in ${}^{216}{Fr}$

J. Kurcewicz, W. Czarnacki, M. Karny, M. Kasztelan, M. Kisieliński, A. Korgul, W. Kurcewicz, J. Kurpeta, S. Lewandowski, P. Majorkiewicz, H. Penttilä, A. Płochocki, B. Roussière, O. Steczkiewicz, and A. Wojtasiewicz

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054320 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

$s$ -wave approximation for asymmetry in nonmesonic decay of finite hypernuclei

Cesar Barbero, Alfredo P. Galeão, and Francisco Krmpotić

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054321 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Transition probabilities in the U(6) limit of the symplectic interacting vector boson model

H. G. Ganev and A. I. Georgieva

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054322 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Nuclear Reactions

Strong transfer channels in the ${}^{6}{Li} + {}^{28}{Si}$ system at near-barrier energies

A. Pakou, K. Rusek, N. Alamanos, X. Aslanoglou, S. Harissopulos, M. Kokkoris, A. Lagoyannis, T. J. Mertzimekis, A. Musumarra, N. G. Nicolis, C. Papachristodoulou, D. Pierroutsakou, and D. Roubos

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054601 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Elastic magnetic form factors of exotic nuclei

Tiekuang Dong, Zhongzhou Ren, and Yanqing Guo

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054602 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Zipf's law in nuclear multifragmentation and percolation theory

Kerstin Paech, Wolfgang Bauer, and Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054603 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Measurement of the fusion probability $P_{CN}$ for the reaction of ${}^{50}{Ti}$ with ${}^{208}{Pb}$

R. S. Naik, W. Loveland, P. H. Sprunger, A. M. Vinodkumar, D. Peterson, C. L. Jiang, S. Zhu, X. Tang, E. F. Moore, and P. Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054604 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Decay studies for states in ${}^{9}{Be}$ up to 11 MeV: Insights into the $n +$ ${}^{8}{Be}$ and $α +$ ${}^{5}{He}$ cluster structure

T. A. D. Brown, P. Papka, B. R. Fulton, D. L. Watson, S. P. Fox, D. Groombridge, M. Freer, N. M. Clarke, N. I. Ashwood, N. Curtis, V. Ziman, P. McEwan, S. Ahmed, W. N. Catford, D. Mahboub, C. N. Timis, T. D. Baldwin, and D. C. Weisser

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054605 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Folding model analysis of 240 MeV ${}^{6}{Li}$ elastic scattering on ${}^{116}{Sn}$ and inelastic scattering to low-lying states of ${}^{116}{Sn}$

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

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054606 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Polarization observables in the elastic scattering of protons from ${}^{4, 6, 8}{He}$

R. Crespo and A. M. Moro

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054607 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Nuclear spin polarization following intermediate-energy heavy-ion reactions

D. E. Groh, J. S. Pinter, P. F. Mantica, T. J. Mertzimekis, A. E. Stuchbery, and D. T. Khoa

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054608 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Hindrance of ${}^{16}O + {}^{208}{Pb}$ fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies

Henning Esbensen and Şerban Mişicu

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054609 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Unified description of Bjorken and Landau 1+1 hydrodynamics

A. Bialas, R. A. Janik, and R. Peschanski

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054901 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Jet quenching as a probe of the phases of QCD in relativistic nuclear collisions

Yu. A. Tarasov

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054902 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Rapidity and species dependence of particle production at large transverse momentum for $d + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054903 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Hadron production in deuteron-gold collisions and nuclear parton distributions

Adeola Adeluyi and George Fai

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054904 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Fluctuating initial conditions in heavy ion collisions from the Glauber approach

Wojciech Broniowski, Piotr Bożek, and Maciej Rybczyński

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054905 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Charge fluctuations and electric mass in a hot meson gas

M. Döring and V. Koch

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054906 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Dynamical freeze-out in three-fluid hydrodynamics

V. N. Russkikh and Yu. B. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054907 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Ridge structure in the $Δ ϕ − Δ η$ correlation function associated with a near-side jet

Cheuk-Yin Wong

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054908 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Hot QCD equations of state and relativistic heavy ion collisions

Vinod Chandra, Ravindra Kumar, and V. Ravishankar

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054909 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Elliptic flow of deuterons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Yongseok Oh and Che Ming Ko

Phys. Rev. C 76, 054910 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Chiral condensate in a constant electromagnetic field

Thomas D. Cohen, David A. McGady, and Elizabeth S. Werbos

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055201 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Production of baryon resonances in $π^{-} +$ ${}^{12}C$ interactions at 40 GeV/ $c$

Kh. K. Olimov

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055202 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Light nuclei as quantized Skyrmions

Olga V. Manko, Nicholas S. Manton, and Stephen W. Wood

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055203 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Dynamics of $\bar{K}$ and multi- $\bar{K}$ nuclei

D. Gazda, E. Friedman, A. Gal, and J. Mareš

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055204 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Radiative decay of the dynamically generated open and hidden charm scalar meson resonances $D_{s 0}^{*} (2317)$ and $X (3700)$

D. Gamermann, L. R. Dai, and E. Oset

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055205 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Dependence of the wave function of a bound nucleon on its momentum and the EMC effect

C. Ciofi degli Atti, L. L. Frankfurt, L. P. Kaptari, and M. I. Strikman

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055206 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Inclusive photoproduction of η mesons on nuclei and the in-medium properties of the $S_{11}$ resonance

M. Hedayati-Poor and H. S. Sherif

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055207 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries

Strangeness content of the nucleon in quasielastic neutrino-nucleus reactions

N. Jachowicz, P. Vancraeyveld, P. Lava, C. Praet, and J. Ryckebusch

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055501 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Detecting $CP$ violation in a single neutrino oscillation channel at very long baselines

D. C. Latimer, J. Escamilla, and D. J. Ernst

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055502 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Nuclear Astrophysics

${}^{3}{He} + {}^{4}{He}$ $\to$ ${}^{7}{Be}$ astrophysical $S$ factor

T. A. D. Brown, C. Bordeanu, K. A. Snover, D. W. Storm, D. Melconian, A. L. Sallaska, S. K. L. Sjue, and S. Triambak

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055801 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Investigation of structure in ${}^{23}{Al}$ via resonant proton scattering of ${}^{22}{Mg}$ $+ p$ and the $^{22} Mg (p, γ)$ ${}^{23}{Al}$ astrophysical reaction rate

J. J. He, S. Kubono, T. Teranishi, M. Notani, H. Baba, S. Nishimura, J. Y. Moon, M. Nishimura, H. Iwasaki, Y. Yanagisawa, N. Hokoiwa, M. Kibe, J. H. Lee, S. Kato, Y. Gono, and C. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055802 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Comparative study of Gamow-Teller strength distributions in the odd-odd nucleus ${}^{50}V$ and its impact on electron capture rates in astrophysical environments

Jameel-Un Nabi and Muhammad Sajjad

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055803 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Constraining a possible time variation of the gravitational constant $G$ with terrestrial nuclear laboratory data

Plamen G. Krastev and Bao-An Li

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055804 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Vertex renormalization of weak interactions and Cooper-pair breaking in cooling compact stars

Armen Sedrakian, Herbert Müther, and Peter Schuck

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055805 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Search for the second forbidden β decay of ${}^{8}B$ to the ground state of ${}^{8}{Be}$

M. K. Bacrania, N. M. Boyd, R. G. H. Robertson, and D. W. Storm

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055806 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

${}^{70}{Ge}$ ( $p, γ$ ) ${}^{71}{As}$ and ${}^{76}{Ge}$ ( $p, n$ ) ${}^{76}{As}$ cross sections for the astrophysical $p$ process: Sensitivity of the optical proton potential at low energies

G. G. Kiss, Gy. Gyürky, Z. Elekes, Zs. Fülöp, E. Somorjai, T. Rauscher, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. C 76, 055807 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

BRIEF REPORTS

Vector and tensor analyzing powers of elastic deuteron-proton scattering at 130 MeV deuteron beam energy

E. Stephan, St. Kistryn, R. Sworst, A. Biegun, K. Bodek, I. Ciepał, A. Deltuva, E. Epelbaum, A. Fonseca, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, H. Kamada, M. Kiš, A. Kozela, M. Mahjour-Shafiei, A. Micherdzińska, A. Nogga, P. U. Sauer, R. Skibiński, H. Witała, J. Zejma, and W. Zipper

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057001 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

$nd$ scattering lengths from a quark-model based $NN$ interaction

H. Garcilazo and A. Valcarce

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057002 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Neutron-proton pairing reexamined

W. A. Friedman and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057301 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Charge radii in macroscopic-microscopic mass models of axial asymmetry

H. Iimura and F. Buchinger

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057302 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Lifetime measurement of the 167.1 keV state in ${}^{41}{Ar}$

E. R. White et al.

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057303 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Activation cross sections for reactions induced by 14 MeV neutrons on natural ruthenium

Junhua Luo, Gang Liu, Fei Tuo, Xiangzhong Kong, Rong Liu, Li Jiang, and Benchao Lou

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057601 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Approximate Lane consistency of the dispersive coupled-channels potential for actinides

J. M. Quesada, R. Capote, E. Sh. Soukhovitskii, and S. Chiba

Phys. Rev. C 76, 057602 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Time delay in a multichannel formalism

Helmut Haberzettl and Ron Workman

Phys. Rev. C 76, 058201 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Dynamics of nuclear fluid. VIII. Time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation from a classical point of view”

M. I. Krivoruchenko, B. V. Martemyanov, and C. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. C 76, 059801 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Intrinsic quadrupole tensor in the geometric interpretation of the interacting boson approximation (IBA-1) [Phys. Rev. C 74, 044307 (2006)]

Eugene R. Marshalek

Phys. Rev. C 76, 059901 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Erratum: β decay of ${}^{31}{Mg}$ : Extending the “island of inversion” [Phys. Rev. C 72, 044314 (2005)]

F. Maréchal, D. L. Balabanski, D. Borremans, J.-M. Daugas, F. de Oliveira Santos, P. Dessagne, G. Georgiev, J. Giovinazzo, S. Grévy, P. Himpe, C. Jollet, I. Matea, G. Neyens, F. Perrot, E. Poirier, O. Roig, M. Stanoiu, C. Stodel, J.-C. Thomas, K. Turzó, D. Yordanov, E. Caurier, F. Nowacki, and A. Poves

Phys. Rev. C 76, 059902 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007