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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 68, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2003

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Prolate-oblate phase transition in the Hf-Hg mass region (4 pages) ...... 031301͑R͒ J. Jolie and A. Linnemann ␥ rays emitted in the decay of 31-yr 178Hf m2 (5 pages) ...... 031302͑R͒ M. B. Smith, P. M. Walker, G. C. Ball, J. J. Carroll, P. E. Garrett, G. Hackman, R. Propri, F. Sarazin, and H. C. Scraggs High-resolution study of the Gamow-Teller strength distribution in 51Ti measured through 51V(d,2He)51Ti (5 pages) ...... 031303͑R͒ C. Ba¨umer, A. M. van den Berg, B. Davids, D. Frekers, D. De Frenne, E.-W. Grewe, P. Haefner, M. N. Harakeh, F. Hofmann, M. Hunyadi, E. Jacobs, B. C. Junk, A. Korff, K. Langanke, G. Martı´nez-Pinedo, A. Negret, P. von Neumann-Cosel, L. Popescu, S. Rakers, A. Richter, and H. J. Wo¨rtche Nuclear matter incompressibility coefficient in relativistic and nonrelativistic microscopic models (5 pages) ...... 031304͑R͒ B. K. Agrawal, S. Shlomo, and V. Kim Au Proton-neutron structure of the effective quadrupole-octupole coupled E1 transition operator (5 pages) . . . . . 031305͑R͒ N. Pietralla, C. Fransen, A. Gade, N. A. Smirnova, P. von Brentano, V. Werner, and S. W. Yates Vibrational and intruder structures in 116Cd (4 pages) ...... 031306͑R͒ M. Kadi, N. Warr, P. E. Garrett, J. Jolie, and S. W. Yates Specific heat at constant volume in the thermodynamic model (4 pages) ...... 031601͑R͒ C. B. Das, S. Das Gupta, and A. Z. Mekjian Thermal radiation from baryons and mesons (3 pages) ...... 031901͑R͒ Jan-e Alam, Pradip Roy, and Sourav Sarkar ͑ ͒ v4: A small, but sensitive observable for heavy ion collisions (4 pages) ...... 031902 R Peter F. Kolb Production of the exotic ⌰ baryon in relativistic nuclear collisions (4 pages) ...... 031903͑R͒ Jo”rgen Randrup ␴ ជ ␲0 ⌬ Measurement of the polarized structure function LTЈ for p(e,eЈp) in the (1232) resonance region (5 pages) ...... 032201͑R͒ K. Joo, L. C. Smith, V. D. Burkert, R. Minehart, G. Adams, P. Ambrozewicz, E. Anciant, M. Anghinolfi, B. Asavapibhop, G. Audit, T. Auger, H. Avakian, H. Bagdasaryan, J. P. Ball, S. Barrow, M. Battaglieri, K. Beard, M. Bektasoglu, M. Bellis, N. Benmouna, N. Bianchi, A. S. Biselli, S. Boiarinov, S. Bouchigny, R. Bradford, D. Branford, W. J. Briscoe, W. K. Brooks, C. Butuceanu, J. R. Calarco, D. S. Carman, B. Carnahan, C. Cetina, L. Ciciani, P. L. Cole, A. Coleman, D. Cords, P. Corvisiero, D. Crabb, H. Crannell, J. P. Cummings, E. DeSanctis, R. DeVita, P. V. Degtyarenko, H. Denizli, L. Dennis, K. V. Dharmawardane, K. S. Dhuga, C. Djalali, G. E. Dodge, D. Doughty, P. Dragovitsch, M. Dugger, S. Dytman, O. P. Dzyubak, M. Eckhause, H. Egiyan, K. S. Egiyan, L. Elouadrhiri, A. Empl, P. Eugenio, R. Fatemi, R. J. Feuerbach, J. Ficenec, T. A. Forest,

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H. Funsten, S. J. Gaff, G. Gavalian, S. Gilad, G. P. Gilfoyle, K. L. Giovanetti, P. Girard, C. I. O. Gordon, K. Griffioen, M. Guidal, M. Guillo, L. Guo, V. Gyurjyan, C. Hadjidakis, R. S. Hakobyan, J. Hardie, D. Heddle, P. Heimberg, F. W. Hersman, K. Hicks, R. S. Hicks, M. Holtrop, J. Hu, C. E. Hyde-Wright, Y. Ilieva, M. M. Ito, D. Jenkins, J. H. Kelley, M. Khandaker, K. Y. Kim, K. Kim, W. Kim, A. Klein, F. J. Klein, A. V. Klimenko, M. Klusman, M. Kossov, L. H. Kramer, Y. Kuang, S. E. Kuhn, J. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, J. M. Laget, D. Lawrence, Ji Li, A. C. S. Lima, K. Lukashin, J. J. Manak, C. Marchand, S. McAleer, J. W. C. McNabb, B. A. Mecking, S. Mehrabyan, J. J. Melone, M. D. Mestayer, C. A. Meyer, K. Mikhailov, M. Mirazita, R. Miskimen, L. Morand, S. A. Morrow, M. U. Mozer, V. Muccifora, J. Mueller, L. Y. Murphy, G. S. Mutchler, J. Napolitano, R. Nasseripour, S. O. Nelson, S. Niccolai, G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu, B. B. Niczyporuk, R. A. Niyazov, M. Nozar, G. V. O’Rielly, A. K. Opper, M. Osipenko, K. Park, E. Pasyuk, G. Peterson, S. A. Philips, N. Pivnyuk, D. Pocanic, O. Pogorelko, E. Polli, S. Pozdniakov, B. M. Preedom, J. W. Price, Y. Prok, D. Protopopescu, L. M. Qin, B. A. Raue, G. Riccardi, G. Ricco, M. Ripani, B. G. Ritchie, F. Ronchetti, P. Rossi, D. Rowntree, P. D. Rubin, F. Sabatie´, K. Sabourov, C. Salgado, J. P. Santoro, V. Sapunenko, M. Sargsyan, R. A. Schumacher, V. S. Serov, Y. G. Sharabian, J. Shaw, S. Simionatto, A. V. Skabelin, E. S. Smith, D. I. Sober, M. Spraker, A. Stavinsky, S. Stepanyan, P. Stoler, I. I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, M. Taiuti, S. Taylor, D. J. Tedeschi, U. Thoma, R. Thompson, L. Todor, C. Tur, M. Ungaro, M. F. Vineyard, A. V. Vlassov, K. Wang, L. B. Weinstein, H. Weller, D. P. Weygand, C. S. Whisnant, E. Wolin, M. H. Wood, A. Yegneswaran, J. Yun, J. Zhao, and Z. Zhou ͑CLAS Collaboration͒

ARTICLES Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems Description of SU͑3͒ s-wave and p-wave baryons (15 pages) ...... 034001 Mikito Furuichi, Kiyotaka Shimizu, and Sachiko Takeuchi Modern nuclear force predictions for the neutron-deuteron scattering lengths (8 pages) ...... 034002 H. Witała, A. Nogga, H. Kamada, W. Glo¨ckle, J. Golak, and R. Skibin´ski Low-energy operators in effective theories (8 pages) ...... 034003 C. Felline, N. P. Mehta, J. Piekarewicz, and J. R. Shepard Parity violation in proton-proton scattering at 221 MeV (16 pages) ...... 034004 A. R. Berdoz, J. Birchall, J. B. Bland, J. D. Bowman, J. R. Campbell, G. H. Coombes, C. A. Davis, A. A. Green, P. W. Green, A. A. Hamian, R. Helmer, S. Kadantsev, Y. Kuznetsov, L. Lee, C. D. P. Levy, R. E. Mischke, N. T. Okumusoglu, S. A. Page, W. D. Ramsay, S. D. Reitzner, T. Ries, G. Roy, A. M. Sekulovich, J. Soukup, G. M. Stinson, T. J. Stocki, V. Sum, N. A. Titov, W. T. H. van Oers, R. J. Woo, S. Zadorozny, and A. N. Zelenski ͑TRIUMF E497 Collaboration͒

Nuclear Structure Fine structure of the Gamow-Teller resonance revealed in the decay of 150Ho 2Ϫ isomer (20 pages) ...... 034301 A. Algora, B. Rubio, D. Cano-Ott, J. L. Taı´n, A. Gadea, J. Agramunt, M. Gierlik, M. Karny, Z. Janas, A. Płochocki, K. Rykaczewski, J. Szerypo, R. Collatz, J. Gerl, M. Go´rska, H. Grawe, M. Hellstro¨m, Z. Hu, R. Kirchner, M. Rejmund, E. Roeckl, M. Shibata, GSI Euroball Collaboration, L. Batist, and J. Blomqvist 5 6 Brueckner rearrangement effects in ⌳He and ⌳⌳He (7 pages) ...... 034302 M. Kohno, Y. Fujiwara, and Y. Akaishi Resonance states of 5H and 5Be in a microscopic three-cluster model (7 pages) ...... 034303 Koji Arai Structure of Tϭ2 24Ne from 14Con 14C (10 pages) ...... 034304 C. R. Hoffman, S. L. Tabor, M. W. Cooper, T. Baldwin, D. B. Campbell, C. Chandler, K. W. Kemper, J. Pavan, A. Pipidis, M. A. Riley, M. Wiedeking, and B. A. Brown

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Ab initio shell model with a genuine three-nucleon force for the p-shell nuclei (13 pages) ...... 034305 Petr Navra´til and W. Erich Ormand Identification of isomers in the NϭZϩ1 nucleus 95Ag (6 pages) ...... 034306 J. Do¨ring, H. Grawe, K. Schmidt, R. Borcea, S. Galanopoulos, M. Go´rska, S. Harissopulos, M. Hellstro¨m, Z. Janas, R. Kirchner, M. La Commara, C. Mazzocchi, E. Roeckl, and R. Schwengner Properties of states at 7–8 MeV in 18Ne (4 pages) ...... 034307 H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr ␤ decay of odd-A Cs isotopes in the interacting boson-fermion model (6 pages) ...... 034308 L. Zuffi, S. Brant, and N. Yoshida Width of 12O͑g.s.͒ (2 pages) ...... 034309 H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr Self-consistent solution to the nuclear many-body problem at finite temperature (9 pages) ...... 034310 T. Frick and H. Mu¨ther Free energy and criticality in the nucleon pair breaking process (6 pages) ...... 034311 M. Guttormsen, R. Chankova, M. Hjorth-Jensen, J. Rekstad, S. Siem, A. Schiller, and D. J. Dean Pair correlation in neutron drip line nuclei (7 pages) ...... 034312 Ikuko Hamamoto and Ben R. Mottelson New method of analytic continuation in the coupling constant with the complex scaling method (3 pages) . . . 034313 Shigeyoshi Aoyama Recoil-gated plunger lifetime measurements in 188Pb (8 pages) ...... 034314 A. Dewald, R. Peusquens, B. Saha, P. von Brentano, A. Fitzler, T. Klug, I. Wiedenho¨ver, M. P. Carpenter, A. Heinz, R. V. F. Janssens, F. G. Kondev, C. J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, K. Abu Saleem, R. Kru¨cken, J. R. Cooper, C. J. Barton, K. Zyromski, C. W. Beausang, Z. Wang, P. Petkov, A. M. Oros-Peusquens, U. Garg, and S. Zhu Structure of 120Te from the 118Sn(␣,2n␥) reaction and 120I decay (15 pages) ...... 034315 J. R. Vanhoy, R. T. Coleman, K. A. Crandell, S. F. Hicks, B. A. Sklaney, M. M. Walbran, N. V. Warr, J. Jolie, F. Corminboeuf, L. Genilloud, J. Kern, J.-L. Schenker, and P. E. Garrett 56 ϭ 58 Experimental evidence for Ni-core breaking from the low-spin structure of the N Z nucleus 29Cu29 (10 pages) ...... 034316 A. F. Lisetskiy, N. Pietralla, M. Honma, A. Schmidt, I. Schneider, A. Gade, P. von Brentano, T. Otsuka, T. Mizusaki, and B. A. Brown Lϭ1␣ widths near 5 MeV in 19F (3 pages) ...... 034317 H. T. Fortune Exclusive measurement of breakup reactions with the one-neutron halo nucleus 11Be (14 pages) ...... 034318 R. Palit, P. Adrich, T. Aumann, K. Boretzky, B. V. Carlson, D. Cortina, U. Datta Pramanik, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, H. Geissel, M. Hellstro¨m, K. L. Jones, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, Y. Leifels, A. Leistenschneider, G. Mu¨nzenberg, C. Nociforo, P. Reiter, H. Simon, K. Su¨mmerer, and W. Walus ͑LAND/FRS Collaboration͒ ␣ decay of odd-A nuclei with an extra nucleon outside a closed shell (5 pages) ...... 034319 Chang Xu and Zhongzhou Ren Ground-state properties of closed-shell nuclei with low-momentum realistic interactions (5 pages) ...... 034320 L. Coraggio, N. Itaco, A. Covello, A. Gargano, and T. T. S. Kuo Closed-shell effects from the stability and instability of nuclei against cluster decays in the mass regions 130–158 and 180–198 (10 pages) ...... 034321 Raj K. Gupta, Sharda Dhaulta, Rajesh Kumar, M. Balasubramaniam, G. Mu¨nzenberg, and Werner Scheid Shape coexistence and their configuration mixing in 98Sr and 100Zr (4 pages) ...... 034322 C. Y. Wu, H. Hua, and D. Cline Spherical relativistic Hartree theory in a Woods-Saxon basis (12 pages) ...... 034323 Shan-Gui Zhou, Jie Meng, and P. Ring

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Nuclear matter and neutron-star properties calculated with the Skyrme interaction (16 pages) ...... 034324 J. Rikovska Stone, J. C. Miller, R. Koncewicz, P. D. Stevenson, and M. R. Strayer How well do we know the electromagnetic form factors of the proton? (14 pages) ...... 034325 J. Arrington Ground-state shape phase transitions in nuclei: Thermodynamic analogy and finite-N effects (17 pages) ..... 034326 Pavel Cejnar, Stefan Heinze, and Jan Jolie Thermal shape fluctuation effects in the description of hot nuclei (11 pages) ...... 034327 V. Martin, J. L. Egido, and L. M. Robledo Collectivity at high spins in 156Dy (10 pages) ...... 034328 P. Petkov, A. Dewald, O. Mo¨ller, B. Saha, A. Fitzler, K. Jessen, D. Tonev, T. Klug, S. Heinze, J. Jolie, P. von Brentano, D. Bazzacco, C. Ur, E. Farnea, M. Axiotis, S. Lunardi, C. Rossi-Alvarez, G. de Angelis, D. R. Napoli, N. Marginean, T. Martinez, M. Caprio, and R. F. Casten Nuclear structure of 229Th from ␥-ray spectroscopy study of 233U ␣-particle decay (23 pages) ...... 034329 V. Barci, G. Ardisson, G. Barci-Funel, B. Weiss, O. El Samad, and R. K. Sheline Neutron single-particle states populated via proton emission from 146Tm and 150Lu (8 pages) ...... 034330 T. N. Ginter, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, C. J. Gross, R. Grzywacz, J. H. Hamilton, Z. Janas, M. Karny, A. Piechaczek, A. V. Ramayya, K. P. Rykaczewski, W. B. Walters, and E. F. Zganjar

Nuclear Reactions Characteristics of quasifission products within the dinuclear system model (18 pages) ...... 034601 G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, and W. Scheid Structure function of a damped harmonic oscillator (11 pages) ...... 034602 R. Rosenfelder Search for entrance channel effects in heavy ion induced fusion reactions via neutron evaporation (5 pages) ...... 034603 Ajay Kumar, A. Kumar, G. Singh, B. K. Yogi, Rakesh Kumar, S. K. Datta, M. B. Chatterjee, and I. M. Govil Fusion reactions with germanium isotopes (12 pages) ...... 034604 H. Esbensen Photon asymmetry measurement in radiative muon capture on 40Ca (14 pages) ...... 034605 A. Pouladdej, T. P. Gorringe, M. D. Hasinoff, A. J. Larabee, A. J. Noble, C. J. Virtue, D. H. Wright, G. Azuelos, and B. C. Robertson Coherent and incoherent giant dipole resonance ␥-ray emission induced by heavy ion collisions: Study of the 40Caϩ48Ca system by means of the constrained molecular dynamics model (18 pages) ...... 034606 Massimo Papa, Antonio Bonanno, Francesca Amorini, Aldo Bonasera, Giuseppe Cardella, Alessia Di Pietro, Pier Paolo Figuera, Toshiki Maruyama, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Francesca Rizzo, and Salvatore Tudisco First two energy levels in 15F (6 pages) ...... 034607 W. A. Peters, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, R. R. C. Clement, N. Frank, P. Heckman, B. A. Luther, F. Nunes, J. Seitz, A. Stolz, M. Thoennessen, and E. Tryggestad Relativistic predictions of spin observables for exclusive proton knockout reactions (11 pages) ...... 034608 G. C. Hillhouse, J. Mano, S. M. Wyngaardt, B. I. S. van der Ventel, T. Noro, and K. Hatanaka Isospin effects in nuclear multifragmentation (16 pages) ...... 034609 W. P. Tan, S. R. Souza, R. J. Charity, R. Donangelo, W. G. Lynch, and M. B. Tsang Simulated neutron-induced fission cross sections for various Pu, U, and Th isotopes (9 pages) ...... 034610 W. Younes and H. C. Britt Meson-exchange currents in (e,eЈp) recoil polarization observables (21 pages) ...... 034611 F. Kazemi Tabatabaei, J. E. Amaro, and J. A. Caballero Near-threshold ␻ and ␾ meson productions in pp collisions (16 pages) ...... 034612 K. Tsushima and K. Nakayama

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Fusion-fission and fusion-evaporation processes in 20Neϩ159Tb and 20Neϩ169Tm interactions between E/Aϭ8 and 16 MeV (21 pages) ...... 034613 J. Cabrera, Th. Keutgen, Y. El Masri, Ch. Dufauquez, V. Roberfroid, I. Tilquin, J. Van Mol, R. Re´gimbart, R. J. Charity, J. B. Natowitz, K. Hagel, R. Wada, and D. J. Hinde Reaction mechanisms in the scattering of 8Li on 208Pb around the Coulomb barrier (9 pages) ...... 034614 A. M. Moro, R. Crespo, H. Garcı´a-Martı´nez, E. F. Aguilera, E. Martı´nez-Quiroz, J. Go´mez-Camacho, and F. M. Nunes

Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Numerical solution of the color superconductivity gap in a weak coupling constant (7 pages) ...... 034901 I. Zakout, H. R. Jaqaman, and W. Greiner Net-charge fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion interactions (7 pages) ...... 034902 J. Nystrand, E. Stenlund, and H. Tydesjo¨ Directed and elliptic flow of charged pions and protons in PbϩPb collisions at 40A and 158A GeV (32 pages) ...... 034903 C. Alt, T. Anticic, B. Baatar, D. Barna, J. Bartke, M. Behler, L. Betev, H. Białkowska, A. Billmeier, C. Blume, B. Boimska, N. Borghini, M. Botje, J. Bracinik, R. Bramm, R. Brun, P. Buncˇic´, V. Cerny, O. Chvala, G. E. Cooper, J. G. Cramer, P. Csato´, P. M. Dinh, P. Dinkelaker, V. Eckardt, P. Filip, Z. Fodor, P. Foka, P. Freund, V. Friese, J. Ga´l, M. Gaz´dzicki, G. Georgopoulos, E. Gładysz, S. Hegyi, C. Ho¨hne, P. Jacobs, K. Kadija, A. Karev, S. Kniege, V. I. Kolesnikov, T. Kollegger, R. Korus, M. Kowalski, I. Kraus, M. Kreps, M. van Leeuwen, P. Le´vai, A. I. Malakhov, C. Markert, B. W. Mayes, G. L. Melkumov, C. Meurer, A. Mischke, M. Mitrovski, J. Molna´r, St. Mro´wczyn´ski, G. Odyniec, J.-Y. Ollitrault, G. Pa´lla, A. D. Panagiotou, K. Perl, A. Petridis, M. Pikna, L. Pinsky, A. M. Poskanzer, F. Pu¨hlhofer, J. G. Reid, R. Renfordt, W. Retyk, H. G. Ritter, C. Roland, G. Roland, M. Rybczyn´ski, A. Rybicki, A. Sandoval, H. Sann, N. Schmitz, P. Seyboth, F. Sikle´r, B. Sitar, E. Skrzypczak, R. J. Snellings, G. Stefanek, R. Stock, H. Stro¨bele, T. Susa, I. Szentpe´tery, J. Sziklai, T. A. Trainor, D. Varga, M. Vassiliou, G. I. Veres, G. Vesztergombi, S. A. Voloshin, D. Vranic´, A. Wetzler, Z. Włodarczyk, I. K. Yoo, J. Zaranek, and J. Zima´nyi ͑NA49 Collaboration͒ Partonic coalescence in relativistic heavy ion collisions (12 pages) ...... 034904 V. Greco, C. M. Ko, and P. Le´vai Freeze-out mechanism and phase-space density in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (8 pages) ...... 034905 Boris Toma´sˇik and Urs Achim Wiedemann Coulomb corrections in the calculation of ultrarelativistic heavy ion production of continuum eϩeϪ pairs (6 pages) ...... 034906 A. J. Baltz Erraticity analysis of particle production in 32S-Ag/Br interaction at 200A GeV/c (7 pages) ...... 034907 Malay Kumar Ghosh and Amitabha Mukhopadhyay

Further observations on midrapidity ET distributions with aperture corrected scale (6 pages) ...... 034908 T. Abbott, L. Ahle, Y. Akiba, D. Alburger, D. Beavis, L. Birstein, M. A. Bloomer, P. D. Bond, H. C. Britt, B. Budick, C. Chasman, Z. Chen, C. Y. Chi, Y. Y. Chu, V. Cianciolo, B. A. Cole, J. B. Costales, H. J. Crawford, J. B. Cumming, R. Debbe, E. Duek, J. Engelage, S. Y. Fung,

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M. Gonin, L. Grodzins, S. Gushue, H. Hamagaki, O. Hansen, R. S. Hayano, S. Hayashi, S. Homma, H. Z. Huang, Y. Ikeda, I. Juricic, H. Kaneko, J. Kang, S. Katcoff, S. Kaufman, W. L. Kehoe, K. Kimura, K. Kitamura, K. Kurita, R. J. Ledoux, M. J. LeVine, Y. Miake, D. P. Morrison, R. J. Morse, B. Moskowitz, S. Nagamiya, M. N. Namboodiri, T. K. Nayak, J. Olness, C. G. Parsons, L. P. Remsberg, P. Rothschild, H. Sakurai, T. C. Sangster, M. Sarabura, R. Seto, K. Shigaki, A. Shor, R. Soltz, P. Stankus, S. G. Steadman, G. S. F. Stephans, T. Sugitate, T. Sung, M. Tanaka, M. J. Tannenbaum, J. Thomas, S. Tonse, M. Torikoshi, S. Ueno-Hayashi, J. H. van Dijk, F. Videbæk, M. Vient, P. Vincent, O. Vossnack, E. Vulgaris, V. Vutsadakis, F. Q. Wang, Y. Wang, W. A. Watson III, H. E. Wegner, D. S. Woodruff, Y. D. Wu, K. Yagi, X. Yang, D. Zachary, and W. A. Zajc ͑E-802 Collaboration͒ Chromodynamic Weibel instabilities in relativistic nuclear collisions (11 pages) ...... 034909 ´ ´ Jo”rgen Randrup and Stanisław Mrowczynski Transverse expansion in 197Auϩ197Au collisions at RHIC (3 pages) ...... 034910 Y. Cheng, F. Liu, Z. Liu, K. Schweda, and N. Xu Thermal analysis of production of resonances in relativistic heavy-ion collisions (12 pages) ...... 034911 Wojciech Broniowski, Wojciech Florkowski, and Brigitte Hiller Statistical hadronization probed by resonances (10 pages) ...... 034912 Giorgio Torrieri and Johann Rafelski Effect of shear viscosity on spectra, elliptic flow, and Hanbury Brown–Twiss radii (11 pages) ...... 034913 Derek Teaney Ter-Mikayelian effect on QCD radiative energy loss (11 pages) ...... 034914 Magdalena Djordjevic and Miklos Gyulassy

Hadronic Physics and QCD

Deep inelastic scattering from Aϭ3 nuclei and the neutron structure function (17 pages) ...... 035201 I. R. Afnan, F. Bissey, J. Gomez, A. T. Katramatou, S. Liuti, W. Melnitchouk, G. G. Petratos, and A. W. Thomas ep→ep␲0 reaction studied in the ⌬(1232) mass region using polarization asymmetries (14 pages) ...... 035202 A. Biselli, G. S. Adams, M. J. Amaryan, E. Anciant, M. Anghinolfi, B. Asavapibhop, G. Asryan, G. Audit, T. Auger, H. Avakian, S. Barrow, M. Battaglieri, K. Beard, M. Bektasoglu, W. Bertozzi, N. Bianchi, S. Boiarinov, B. E. Bonner, P. Bosted, S. Bouchigny, R. Bradford, D. Branford, W. K. Brooks, S. Bueltmann, V. D. Burkert, J. R. Calarco, D. S. Carman, B. Carnahan, C. Cetina, L. Ciciani, P. L. Cole, A. Coleman, J. Connelly, D. Cords, P. Corvisiero, D. Crabb, H. Crannell, J. Cummings, E. De Sanctis, R. De Vita, P. V. Degtyarenko, R. A. Demirchyan, H. Denizli, L. C. Dennis, K. V. Dharmawardane, K. S. Dhuga, C. Djalali, G. E. Dodge, J. Domingo, D. Doughty, P. Dragovitsch, M. Dugger, S. Dytman, M. Eckhause, Y. V. Efremenko, H. Egiyan, K. S. Egiyan, L. Elouadrhiri, A. Empl, P. Eugenio, L. Farhi, R. Fatemi, R. J. Feuerbach, J. Ficenec, K. Fissum, T. A. Forest, A. Freyberger, V. Frolov, H. Funsten, S. J. Gaff, M. Gai, G. Gavalian, V. B. Gavrilov, S. Gilad, G. P. Gilfoyle, K. L. Giovanetti, P. Girard, E. Golovatch, K. A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, M. Guillo, L. Guo, V. Gyurjyan, D. Hanock, J. Hardie, D. Heddle, F. W. Hersman, K. Hicks, R. S. Hicks, M. Holtrop, J. Hu, C. E. Hyde-Wright, M. M. Ito, D. Jenkins, K. Joo, J. H. Kelley, M. Khandaker, K. Y. Kim, K. Kim, W. Kim, A. Klein, F. J. Klein, A. V. Klimenko, M. Klusman, M. Kossov, L. H. Kramer, Y. Kuang, J. Kuhn, S. E. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, J. M. Laget, D. Lawrence, G. A. Leksin,

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A. Longhi, K. Loukachine, R. W. Major, J. J. Manak, C. Marchand, S. K. Matthews, S. McAleer, J. W. C. McNabb, J. McCarthy, B. A. Mecking, M. D. Mestayer, C. A. Meyer, R. Minehart, M. Mirazita, R. Miskimen, V. Mokeev, V. Muccifora, J. Mueller, L. Y. Murphy, G. S. Mutchler, J. Napolitano, S. O. Nelson, G. Niculescu, B. Niczyporuk, R. A. Niyazov, M. Nozar, J. T. O’Brien, G. V. O’Rielly, M. S. Ohandjanyan, M. Osipenko, K. Park, Y. Patois, G. A. Peterson, S. Philips, N. Pivnyuk, D. Pocanic, O. Pogorelko, E. Polli, B. M. Preedom, J. W. Price, L. M. Qin, B. A. Raue, G. Riccardi, G. Ricco, M. Ripani, B. G. Ritchie, S. Rock, F. Ronchetti, P. Rossi, D. Rowntree, P. D. Rubin, K. Sabourov, C. W. Salgado, V. Sapunenko, M. Sargsyan, R. A. Schumacher, V. S. Serov, Y. G. Sharabian, J. Shaw, S. M. Shuvalov, S. Simionatto, A. Skabelin, E. S. Smith, L. C. Smith, T. Smith, D. I. Sober, L. Sorrell, M. Spraker, S. Stepanyan, P. Stoler, I. I. Strakovsky, M. Taiuti, S. Taylor, D. Tedeschi, U. Thoma, R. Thompson, L. Todor, T. Y. Tung, C. Tur, M. Ungaro, M. F. Vineyard, A. Vlassov, K. Wang, L. B. Weinstein, H. Weller, R. Welsh, D. P. Weygand, S. Whisnant, M. Witkowski, E. Wolin, A. Yegneswaran, J. Yun, B. Zhang, J. Zhao, and Z. Zhou ͑CLAS Collaboration͒ Charge symmetry breaking as a probe for the real part of ␩-nucleus scattering lengths (5 pages) ...... 035203 V. Baru, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart, and J. A. Niskanen Quark condensates in nuclear matter in the global color symmetry model of QCD (7 pages) ...... 035204 Yu-xin Liu, Dong-feng Gao, and Hua Guo ␩-nucleus interactions and in-medium properties of N*͑1535͒ in chiral models (9 pages) ...... 035205 H. Nagahiro, D. Jido, and S. Hirenzaki Nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering: Numerical solution of the evolution equation for the Green function (13 pages) ...... 035206 J. Nemchik Chiral quark model with relativistic kinematics (5 pages) ...... 035207 H. Garcilazo and A. Valcarce Progress in the determination of the J/␺-␲ cross section (11 pages) ...... 035208 Francisco O. Dura˜es, Hungchong Kim, Su Houng Lee, Fernando S. Navarra, and Marina Nielsen Scalar susceptibility and chiral symmetry restoration in nuclei (8 pages) ...... 035209 G. Chanfray, M. Ericson, and P. A. M. Guichon Symmetry breaking and quark-hadron duality in structure functions (13 pages) ...... 035210 F. E. Close and W. Melnitchouk Total hadron-hadron cross sections at high energies (13 pages) ...... 035211 Wei-Ning Zhang and Cheuk-Yin Wong

Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries Search for 2␤ decay of cadmium and tungsten isotopes: Final results of the Solotvina experiment (12 pages) ...... 035501 F. A. Danevich, A. Sh. Georgadze, V. V. Kobychev, B. N. Kropivyansky, A. S. Nikolaiko, O. A. Ponkratenko, V. I. Tretyak, S. Yu. Zdesenko, Yu. G. Zdesenko, P. G. Bizzeti, T. F. Fazzini, and P. R. Maurenzig Enhancement of nuclear Schiff moments and time-reversal violation in atoms due to soft nuclear octupole vibrations (7 pages) ...... 035502 V. V. Flambaum and V. G. Zelevinsky

Nuclear Astrophysics Neutron capture cross section of 139La (7 pages) ...... 035801 S. O’Brien, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Ka¨ppeler, R. Plag, R. Reifarth, R. Gallino, and M. Pignatari 22Mg and the 21Na(p,␥) reaction rate (5 pages) ...... 035802 H. T. Fortune, R. Sherr, and B. A. Brown

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Effects of neutrino trapping on K and K¯ production and K¯ condensation in supernova matter (5 pages) ..... 035803 Guo Hua, Chen Yanjun, Liu Bo, Zhao Qi, and Liu Yuxin Warm stellar matter with deconfinement: Application to compact stars (11 pages) ...... 035804 D. P. Menezes and C. Provideˆncia Extended relativistic hyperon star model (12 pages) ...... 035805 I. Bednarek, M. Keska, and R. Manka Structure of cold nuclear matter at subnuclear densities by quantum molecular dynamics (20 pages) ...... 035806 Gentaro Watanabe, Katsuhiko Sato, Kenji Yasuoka, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki ␥␥→␲0→␯ ␯ ␯ ␯ Medium effects in the pion-pole mechanism ͓ R¯ L( L¯ R)͔ of neutron star cooling (10 pages) . . . 035807 F. Arretche, A. A. Natale, and D. N. Voskresensky

BRIEF REPORTS Searching for X͑5͒ behavior in nuclei (4 pages) ...... 037301 R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, M. Descovich, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, R. B. Firestone, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, H. Mahmud, E. Rodriguez-Vieitez, F. S. Stephens, and D. Ward 4 Resonant state in ⌳He (4 pages) ...... 037302 D. E. Kahana, S. H. Kahana, and D. J. Millener Threshold model and the latest data on J/␺ suppression in PbϩPb collisions (4 pages) ...... 037901 A. K. Chaudhuri

COMMENTS Comment on ‘‘Angular momentum gated giant dipole resonance measurements in the reaction 28Siϩ58Ni at E(28Si)ϭ100 and 125 MeV’’ (2 pages) ...... 039801 P. Heckman and M. Thoennessen

ERRATA Publisher’s Note: Cluster decay of hot 56Nià formed in the 32Sϩ24Mg reaction ͓Phys. Rev. C 68, 014610 ͑2003͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039901͑E͒ Raj K. Gupta, Rajesh Kumar, Narinder K. Dhiman, M. Balasubramaniam, Werner Scheid, and C. Beck Erratum: Thermal quasiparticle correlations and continuum coupling in nuclei far from stability ͓Phys. Rev. C 67, 014304 ͑2003͔͒ (2 pages) ...... 039902͑E͒ Nguyen Dinh Dang and Akito Arima

Selected Abstracts from Other Physical Review Journals ...... i Cumulative Author Index ...... iv