Accepted in January 2008, to be published in Physical Review C


RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

    NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

Breakup reaction study of the Brunnian nucleus $^{10}$C
N. Curtis, N. L. Achouri, N. I. Ashwood, H. G. Bohlen, W. N. Catford, N. M. Clarke, M. Freer, P. J. Haigh, B. Laurent, N. A. Orr, N. P. Patterson, N. Soi\'{c}, J. S. Thomas, and V. Ziman
[abstract]

New shape minimum in $^{160}$Yb: Evidence for a triaxial, strongly deformed band
A. Aguilar, D. B. Campbell, K. Chandler, A. Pipidis, M. A. Riley, C. Teal, J. Simpson, D. J. Hartley, F. G. Kondev, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and I. Ragnarsson
[abstract]

Isospin effects on the evaporation residue spin distribution
W. Ye, H. W. Yang, and F. Wu

ARTICLES

    NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTION, FEW-BODY SYSTEMS

Cluster sum rules for three-body systems with angular-momentum dependent interactions
R. de Diego, E. Garrido, A. S. Jensen, and D. V. Fedorov
[abstract]

    NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

Converging sequences in the \textit {ab initio} no-core shell model
C. Forss\'{e}n, J. P. Vary, E. Caurier, and P. Navr\'{a}til
[abstract]

Nuclear dipole moment of $^{ 71}$Cu from online $\beta$-NMR measurements
N. J. Stone, K. van Esbroeck, J. Rikovska Stone, M. Honma, T. Giles, M. Veskovic, G. White, A. W\"{o}hr, V. I. Mishin, V. N. Fedoseyev, U. K\"{o}ster, P. F. Mantica, and W. B. Walters
[abstract]

$\beta$ decay of neutron-rich $^{53--56}$Ca
P. F. Mantica, R. Broda, H. L. Crawford, A. Damaske, B. Fornal, A. A. Hecht, C. Hoffman, M. Horoi, N. Hoteling, R. V. F. Janssens, J. Pereira, J. S. Pinter, J. B. Stoker, S. L. Tabor, T. Sumikama, W. B. Walters, X. Wang, and S. Zhu
[abstract]

    NUCLEAR REACTIONS

Unified description of scattering and fusion phenomena in heavy-ion collisions
Basudeb Sahu, G. S. Mallick, B. B. Sahu, S. K. Agarwalla, and C. S. Shastry
[abstract]

Elastic scattering of 96 MeV neutrons from iron, yttrium, and lead
A. \"{O}hrn, J. Blomgren, P. Andersson, A. Ata\c{c}, C. Gustavsson, J. Klug, P. Mermod, S. Pomp, P. Wolniewicz, M. \"{O}sterlund, L. Nilsson, B. Bergenwall, K. Elmgren, N. Olsson, U. Tippawan, S. Dangtip, P. Phansuke, P. Nadel-Turonski, O. Jonsson, A. Prokofiev, P.-U. Renberg, V. Blideanu, C. Le Brun, J. F. Lecolley, F. R. Lecolley, M. Louvel, N. Marie-Noury, C. Schweitzer, Ph. Eudes, F. Haddad, C. Lebrun, E. Bauge, J. P. Delaroche, M. Girod, X. Ledoux, K. Amos, S. Karataglidis, R. Crespo, and W. Haider
[abstract]

$s$-wave pion-nucleus optical potential
M. D\"{o}ring and E. Oset
[abstract]

Quasiclassical description of bremsstrahlung accompanying $\alpha$ decay including quadrupole radiation
U. D. Jentschura, A. I. Milstein, I. S. Terekhov, H. Boie, H. Scheit, and D. Schwalm
[abstract]

Multiple scattering effects in quasifree scattering from halo nuclei: A test of the distorted-wave impulse approximation
R. Crespo, A. Deltuva, E. Cravo, M. Rodr\'{i}guez-Gallardo, and A. C. Fonseca
[abstract]

Interpreting scattering wave functions in the presence of energy-dependent interactions
Scott Pratt
[abstract]

    RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS

Detailed description of accelerating, simple solutions of relativistic perfect fluid hydrodynamics
M. I. Nagy, T. Cs\"{o}rg\H{o}, and M. Csan\'{a}d
[abstract]

Energy dependence of jet transport parameter and parton saturation in quark-gluon plasma
Jorge Casalderrey-Solana and Xin-Nian Wang
[abstract]

Angular momentum conservation in heavy ion collisions at very high energy
F. Becattini, F. Piccinini, and J. Rizzo
[abstract]

Thermal charm production in a quark-gluon plasma in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV
Ben-Wei Zhang, Che Ming Ko, and Wei Liu
[abstract]

Importance of correlations and fluctuations on the initial source eccentricity in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
B. Alver, B. B. Back, M. D. Baker, M. Ballintijn, D. S. Barton, R. R. Betts, R. Bindel, W. Busza, V. Chetluru, E. Garc\'{\i}a, T. Gburek, J. Hamblen, U. Heinz, D. J. Hofman, R. S. Hollis, A. Iordanova, W. Li, C. Loizides, S. Manly, A. C. Mignerey, R. Nouicer, A. Olszewski, C. Reed, C. Roland, G. Roland, J. Sagerer, P. Steinberg, G. S. F. Stephans, MB. Tonjes, A. Trzupek, G. J. van Nieuwenhuizen, S. S. Vaurynovich, R. Verdier, G. I. Veres, P. Walters, E. Wenger, B. Wosiek, K. Wo\'{z}niak, and B. Wys{\l}ouch
[abstract]

Radiative heavy quark energy loss in a dynamical QCD medium
Magdalena Djordjevic and Ulrich Heinz
[abstract]

    HADRONIC PHYSICS AND QCD

Systematic study of multi-quark states: A $qq-qq-\bar{q}$ configuration
Hongxia Huang, Chengrong Deng, Jialun Ping, Fan Wang, and T. Goldman
[abstract]

Strangeness $-2$ and $-3$ baryons in a constituent quark model
Muslema Pervin and W. Roberts
[abstract]

Deuteron spin structure functions in the resonance and deep inelastic scattering regions
S. A. Kulagin and W. Melnitchouk
[abstract]

Role of the $N\ast (1535)$ in $pp \rightarrow pp\phi$ and $\pi^- p \rightarrow n\phi$ reactions
Ju-Jun Xie, Bing-Song Zou, and Huan-Ching Chiang
[abstract]

    ELECTROWEAK INTERACTION, SYMMETRIES

Improved calculation of the isospin-symmetry-breaking corrections to superallowed Fermi $\beta$ decay
I. S. Towner and J. C. Hardy
[abstract]

High-precision half-life determination for the superallowed $\beta^+$ emitter $^{62}$Ga
G. F. Grinyer, P. Finlay, C. E. Svensson, G. C. Ball, J. R. Leslie, R. A. E. Austin, D. Bandyopadhyay, A. Chaffey, R. S. Chakrawarthy, P. E. Garrett, G. Hackman, B. Hyland, R. Kanungo, K. G. Leach, C. M. Mattoon, A. C. Morton, C. J. Pearson, A. A. Phillips, J. J. Ressler, F. Sarazin, H. Savajols, M. A. Schumaker, and J. Wong
[abstract]

    NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

Direct and semi-direct capture in low-energy ($n$,$\gamma$) reactions of neutron-rich tin isotopes and its implications for $r$-process nucleosynthesis
S. Chiba, H. Koura, T. Hayakawa, T. Maruyama, T. Kawano, and T. Kajino
[abstract]

Interplay between kaon condensation and hyperons in highly dense matter
Takumi Muto
[abstract]

    EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcement: Associate Editor leaving position in Physical Review C
Benjamin F. Gibson

BRIEF REPORTS

    NUCLEAR REACTIONS

Comparative study of the radius of sensitivity of the optical model potentials for $^{6}$Li+$^{58,64}$Ni and $^{16}$O+$^{58,64}$Ni
Mili Biswas
[abstract]

Surface diffuseness of the nucleus-nucleus interaction potential for a very massive system
D. S. Monteiro and P. R. S. Gomes

ERRATA

Erratum: Initial fields and instabilities in the classical model of relativistic heavy-ion collisions [Phys. Rev. C 76}, 021902 (2007)]
Kenji Fukushima
[abstract]

Erratum: Dynamics of $\bar{K}$ and multi-$\bar{K}$ nuclei [Phys. Rev. C 76}, 055204 (2007)]
D. Gazda, E. Friedman, A. Gal, and J. Mare\v{s}
[abstract]

Erratum: Axial $N\rightarrow\Delta(1232)$ and $N\rightarrow{N}^{\ast}(1440)$ transition form factors [Phys. Rev. C 75}, 065203 (2007)]
D. Barquilla-Cano, A. J. Buchmann, and E. Hern\'{a}ndez