PERIODICALS Postmaster send address changes to: PHYSICALREVIEWCTM For editorial and subscription correspondence, PHYSICAL REVIEW C please see inside front cover APS Subscription Services (ISSN: 0556-2813) P.O. Box 41 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS DECEMBER 2014 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Nuclear Structure Stretched states in 12,13B with the (d,α) reaction (5 pages) ................................................ 061301(R) A. H. Wuosmaa, J. P. Schiffer, S. Bedoor, M. Albers, M. Alcorta, S. Almaraz-Calderon, B. B. Back, P. F. Bertone, C. M. Deibel, C. R. Hoffman, J. C. Lighthall, S. T. Marley, R. C. Pardo, K. E. Rehm, and D. V. Shetty Intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation of 104Sn: Moderate E2 strength decrease approaching 100Sn (6 pages) ..................................................................................... 061302(R) P. Doornenbal, S. Takeuchi, N. Aoi, M. Matsushita, A. Obertelli, D. Steppenbeck, H. Wang, L. Audirac, H. Baba, P. Bednarczyk, S. Boissinot, M. Ciemala, A. Corsi, T. Furumoto, T. Isobe, A. Jungclaus, V. Lapoux, J. Lee, K. Matsui, T. Motobayashi, D. Nishimura, S. Ota, E. C. Pollacco, H. Sakurai, C. Santamaria, Y. Shiga, D. Sohler, and R. Taniuchi Probing shape coexistence by α decays to 0+ states (5 pages) ............................................. 061303(R) D. S. Delion, R. J. Liotta, Chong Qi, and R. Wyss Pairing-induced speedup of nuclear spontaneous fission (5 pages) .......................................... 061304(R) Jhilam Sadhukhan, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, J. A. Sheikh, and A. Baran Evidence of halo structure in 37Mg observed via reaction cross sections and intruder orbitals beyond the island of inversion (5 pages) ................................................................................ 061305(R) M. Takechi et al. From the lightest nuclei to the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter with realistic nuclear interactions (5 pages) ................................................................................ 061306(R) S. Gandolfi, A. Lovato, J. Carlson, and Kevin E. Schmidt Nuclear Reactions Predictive theory for elastic scattering and recoil of protons from 4He (5 pages) .............................. 061601(R) Guillaume Hupin, Sofia Quaglioni, and Petr Navratil´ Separable representation of proton-nucleus optical potentials (5 pages) ..................................... 061602(R) L. Hlophe, V. Eremenko, Ch. Elster, F. M. Nunes, G. Arbanas, J. E. Escher, and I. J. Thompson (TORUS Collaboration) Copyright 2014 by American Physical Society 0556-2813(201412)90:6;1-B (Continued) The editors and referees of PRC find these papers to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. C 86, 010001 (2012). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW C THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 2014 Elastic nucleon-nucleus scattering as a direct probe of correlations beyond the independent-particle model (5 pages)..................................................................................... 061603(R) H. Dussan, M. H. Mahzoon, R. J. Charity, W. H. Dickhoff, and A. Polls Decay and structure of the Hoyle state (4 pages) ......................................................... 061604(R) S. Ishikawa Symmetry energy dependence of long-timescale isospin transport (5 pages) ................................. 061605(R) K. Stiefel, Z. Kohley, R. T. deSouza, S. Hudan, and K. Hammerton Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Hadronic versus partonic J/ψ production in the statistical hadronization model (5 pages) ..................... 061901(R) Philipp B. Bahavar, Jan Uphoff, and Carsten Greiner ARTICLES Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems Fermion-dimer scattering using an impurity lattice Monte Carlo approach and the adiabatic projection method (12 pages) .................................................................................. 064001 Serdar Elhatisari and Dean Lee Zemach moments of 3He and 4He (3 pages)............................................................. 064002 Ingo Sick ∗ 3 3 Theoretical study of a d resonance in the coupled D3- G3 partial waves of nucleon-nucleon scattering (5 pages) 064003 Hongxia Huang, Jialun Ping, Chengrong Deng, and Fan Wang Neutron interferometric measurement of the scattering length difference between the triplet and singlet states of n-3He (15 pages) ............................................................................ 064004 M. G. Huber, M. Arif, W. C. Chen, T. R. Gentile, D. S. Hussey, T. C. Black, D. A. Pushin, C. B. Shahi, F. E. Wietfeldt, and L. Yang Nucleon-nucleon potentials in phase-space representation (14 pages) ....................................... 064005 H. Feldmeier, T. Neff, and D. Weber Momentum distributions for 2H(e,ep) (11 pages) ....................................................... 064006 William P. Ford, Sabine Jeschonnek, and J. W. Van Orden Ultraviolet extrapolations in finite oscillator bases (24 pages).............................................. 064007 S. Konig,¨ S. K. Bogner, R. J. Furnstahl, S. N. More, and T. Papenbrock Nuclear Structure Pairing in the continuum: The quadrupole response of the Borromean nucleus 6He (6 pages) .................. 064301 L. Fortunato, R. Chatterjee, Jagjit Singh, and A. Vitturi Microscopic particle-rotor model for the low-lying spectrum of hypernuclei (6 pages) ...................... 064302 H. Mei, K. Hagino, J. M. Yao, and T. Motoba I 4 dependence in nuclear symmetry energy (6 pages) .................................................... 064303 H. Jiang, M. Bao, Lie-Wen Chen, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima Reconstitution of local mass relations (5 pages) ......................................................... 064304 Y. Y. Cheng, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima 14Be(g.s.) and single-particle energies in 13Be (2 pages) .................................................. 064305 H. T. Fortune (Continued) The editors and referees of PRC find these papers to be of particular interest, importance, or clarity. Please see our Announcement Phys. Rev. C 86, 010001 (2012). CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW C THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 90, NUMBER 6 DECEMBER 2014 Simple nuclear mass formula (6 pages)................................................................. 064306 A. Bhagwat Quark mean field approach with alternative derivative coupling models for nuclear matter (6 pages) ............ 064307 M. Kawabata and Y. Futami Predictions on properties of α decay and spontaneous fission in superheavy odd-Z nuclei (8 pages)............. 064308 Yibin Qian and Zhongzhou Ren Shape coexistence and triaxiality in nuclei near 80Zr (6 pages) ............................................. 064309 S. J. Zheng, F. R. Xu, S. F. Shen, H. L. Liu, R. Wyss, and Y. P. Yan Attempt to link the neutron skin thickness of 208Pb with the symmetry energy through cluster radioactivity (6 pages) ............................................................................... 064310 Chang Xu, Zhongzhou Ren, and Jian Liu Borromean structures in medium-heavy nuclei (15 pages) ................................................ 064311 D. Hove, D. V. Fedorov, H. O. U. Fynbo, A. S. Jensen, K. Riisager, N. T. Zinner, and E. Garrido Short-range correlations in isospin symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter: A microscopic perspective (7 pages) 064312 Francesca Sammarruca Correlations between low-lying yrast states for sd bosons with random interactions (5 pages) .................. 064313 Y. Lu, Y. M. Zhao, N. Yoshida, and A. Arima Crossing of large multiquasiparticle magnetic-rotation bands in 198Bi (11 pages) ............................. 064314 H. Pai, G. Mukherjee, S. Bhattacharyya, C. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, T. Bhattacharjee, S. K. Basu, S. Kundu, T. K. Ghosh, K. Banerjee, T. K. Rana, J. K. Meena, R. K. Bhowmik, R. P. Singh, S. Muralithar, S. Chanda, R. Garg, B. Maheshwari, D. Choudhury, and A. K. Jain Neutron configurations in 113Pd (15 pages) ............................................................. 064315 J. Kurpeta, W. Urban, A. Płochocki, T. Rza¸ca-Urban, A. G. Smith, J. F. Smith, G. S. Simpson, I. Ahmad, J. P. Greene, A. Jokinen, and H. Penttila¨ SU(3)-flavor breaking in octet baryon masses and axial couplings (8 pages) ................................. 064316 Manuel E. Carrillo-Serrano, Ian C. Cloet,¨ and Anthony W. Thomas Constraining the density slope of nuclear symmetry energy at subsaturation densities using electric dipole polarizability in 208Pb (6 pages) ....................................................................... 064317 Zhen Zhang and Lie-Wen Chen Emergent dynamical symmetry at the triple point of nuclear deformations (8 pages) .......................... 064318 Yu Zhang, Feng Pan, Yu-xin Liu, Yan-An Luo, and J. P. Draayer 3α clustering in excited states of 16C (7 pages) .......................................................... 064319 T. Baba, Y. Chiba, and M. Kimura Regularities of low-lying states with random interactions in the fermion dynamical symmetry model (7 pages) . 064320 G. J. Fu, Y. M. Zhao, and A. Arima Low-energy behavior of E2 strength functions (6 pages).................................................. 064321 R. Schwengner Shape coexistence in excited odd-Z proton emitters 131–136Eu (5 pages) ..................................... 064322 Mamta Aggarwal Nuclear Reactions Deriving capture and reaction cross sections from observed quasi-elastic and elastic backscattering (14 pages) . 064601 V. V. Sargsyan, G. G. Adamian, N. V. Antonenko, A. Diaz-Torres, P. R. S. Gomes, and H. Lenske (Continued) The editors and referees