Physical Review C - January 2023

Physical Review C covering nuclear physics View Email Online   Volume 107, Issue 1 January 2023   View Issue   Advertisement Attend April Meeting 2023 Early bird registration is open for April Meeting 2023: Quarks to Cosmos! Discover cutting-edge research in astrophysics, particle physics, nuclear physics, and gravitation, network with other physicists to advance your career, and learn about current issues relevant to the physics community. Register today »     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Letter Microscopic study of fusion reactions with a weakly bound nucleus: Effects of deformed halo Xiang-Xiang Sun (孙向向) and Lu Guo (郭璐) Phys. Rev. C 107, L011601 (2023) – Published 4 January 2023 Synopsis:Targeting a Nuclear Halo New modeling explains the relatively high fusion reaction probabilities of halo nuclei, which are composed of a dense core surrounded by a "satellite" of one or two nucleons.     Editors' Suggestion Densities and momentum distributions in A≤12 nuclei from chiral effective field theory interactions M. Piarulli, S. Pastore, R. B. Wiringa, S. Brusilow, and R. Lim Phys. Rev. C 107, 014314 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023 This study presents calculations of one- and two-body densities in both coordinate and momentum space for various nuclei up to 12C, using the phenomenological AV18+UX and various Norfolk NN + NNN χEFT interactions. It features new calculations of the pair density as a function of both pair separation and center-of-mass, as well as the two-body momentum distribution for short- and long-range pairs differentiated by a pair separation boundary. The full set of results are available online for general use by the nuclear physics community and are intended to provide useful insights into the short-range structure of nuclei and various reaction processes.     Editors' Suggestion KamNet: An integrated spatiotemporal deep neural network for rare event searches in KamLAND-Zen A. Li, Z. Fu, C. Grant, H. Ozaki, I. Shimizu, H. Song, A. Takeuchi, and L. A. Winslow Phys. Rev. C 107, 014323 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023 Searches for rare events employ customized detectors with large fiducial mass to effectively reduce background. Leveraging recent breakthroughs in geometric deep learning and spatiotemporal analysis, this work presents a novel machine-learning algorithm (KamNet) as a new, robust tool to maximize the information provided by the kiloton-scale KamLAND liquid-scintillator detector. Adding a so-called "attention mechanism" to KamNet, the authors demonstrate that this enhanced machine-learning approach can increase the sensitivity of the KamLAND-Zen experiment to zero-neutrino- and two-neutrino double-β decay. That mechanism also elucidates the underlying physics KamNet is using for background rejection.     Editors' Suggestion Multinucleon transfer mechanism in 250Cf+232Th collisions using the quantal transport description based on the stochastic mean-field approach S. Ayik, M. Arik, O. Yilmaz, B. Yilmaz, and A. S. Umar Phys. Rev. C 107, 014609 (2023) – Published 10 January 2023 The production of elements close to the superheavy island of stability, with Z>100, is one of the most appealing challenges in nuclear physics. Based on a stochastic extension of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory, this article presents accurate microscopic calculations of multinucleon transfer for the 250Cf+232Th system at Ec.m.=950 MeV. Isotope production cross sections are described without any adjustable parameters, thus providing a benchmark to new experimental searches.     Editors' Suggestion Confronting anomalous kaon correlations measured in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV Joseph I. Kapusta, Scott Pratt, and Mayank Singh Phys. Rev. C 107, 014913 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023 This paper uses simple models to interpret recent measurements of anomalously strong correlations between neutral and charged kaon production performed at the LHC for high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Thermal models, including charge conservation effects, are found to be insufficient to explain the data for the most central collisions. More exotic conjectures involving coherent emission can reproduce the observations if 30% of the kaons are emitted from coherent sources in the most central collisions. Such coherence might be related to the melting and re-freezing of the QCD vacuum.     Editors' Suggestion Ab initio calculation of the β-decay spectrum of 6He G. B. King, A. Baroni, V. Cirigliano, S. Gandolfi, L. Hayen, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, and M. Piarulli Phys. Rev. C 107, 015503 (2023) – Published 27 January 2023 Searches for new physics can be conducted by brute force or, like the perihelion shift of Mercury, looking for subtle but persistent discrepancies. This detailed paper carries out high-precision calculations of the β-decay spectrum of 6He, and estimates the experimental precision needed to reveal hints of charged-current interactions beyond the Standard Model and/or sterile neutrinos.     Editors' Suggestion Fermi operator expansion method for nuclei and inhomogeneous matter with a nuclear energy density functional Takashi Nakatsukasa Phys. Rev. C 107, 015802 (2023) – Published 9 January 2023 Calculations for nuclear structure at high excitation energy or of nuclear matter in explosive stellar phenomena and neutron stars require intensive computations. The author tests the performance of a numerical method based on Fermi operator expansion that requires neither diagonalization nor Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization. The approach is suitable for massively parallel computing with distributed memory, and the calculations promise to scale well for large space sizes. Applied to finite nuclei and inhomogeneous nuclear matter, the method is efficient at high temperature, and the calculations clearly show the liquid-gas phase transition.     LETTERS Featured in Physics Letter Microscopic study of fusion reactions with a weakly bound nucleus: Effects of deformed halo Xiang-Xiang Sun (孙向向) and Lu Guo (郭璐) Phys. Rev. C 107, L011601 (2023) – Published 4 January 2023 Synopsis:Targeting a Nuclear Halo New modeling explains the relatively high fusion reaction probabilities of halo nuclei, which are composed of a dense core surrounded by a "satellite" of one or two nucleons.     Letter Extracting model-independent nuclear level densities away from stability D. Mücher, A. Spyrou, M. Wiedeking, M. Guttormsen, A. C. Larsen, F. Zeiser, C. Harris, A. L. Richard, M. K. Smith, A. Görgen, S. N. Liddick, S. Siem, H. C. Berg, J. A. Clark, P. A. DeYoung, A. C. Dombos, B. Greaves, L. Hicks, R. Kelmar, S. Lyons, J. Owens-Fryar, A. Palmisano, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, G. Savard, and W. W. von Seeger Phys. Rev. C 107, L011602 (2023) – Published 11 January 2023   Letter Gamow shell model description of the 40Ca(d,p) transfer reaction A. Mercenne, N. Michel, J. P. Linares Fernández, and M. Płoszajczak Phys. Rev. C 107, L011603 (2023) – Published 12 January 2023   ARTICLES Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems Bayesian estimation of the low-energy constants up to fourth order in the nucleon-nucleon sector of chiral effective field theory Isak Svensson, Andreas Ekström, and Christian Forssén Phys. Rev. C 107, 014001 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Posterior predictive distributions of neutron-deuteron cross sections Sean B. S. Miller, Andreas Ekström, and Christian Forssén Phys. Rev. C 107, 014002 (2023) – Published 25 January 2023   Three-body calculations of β decay applied to 11Li E. Garrido, A. S. Jensen, H. O. U. Fynbo, and K. Riisager Phys. Rev. C 107, 014003 (2023) – Published 31 January 2023   Nuclear Structure Possible interpretation of the complex expectation values associated with resonances Takayuki Myo and Kiyoshi Katō Phys. Rev. C 107, 014301 (2023) – Published 4 January 2023   Investigation of isospin-symmetry breaking in mirror energy difference and nuclear mass with ab initio calculations H. H. Li, Q. Yuan, J. G. Li, M. R. Xie, S. Zhang, Y. H. Zhang, X. X. Xu, N. Michel, F. R. Xu, and W. Zuo Phys. Rev. C 107, 014302 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   Fission dynamics, dissipation, and clustering at finite temperature B. Li, D. Vretenar, Z. X. Ren, T. Nikšić, J. Zhao, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng Phys. Rev. C 107, 014303 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   Isochronous mass measurements of neutron-deficient nuclei from 112Sn projectile fragmentation Y. M. Xing et al. Phys. Rev. C 107, 014304 (2023) – Published 11 January 2023   Comparative analysis of formalisms and performances of three different beyond-mean-field approaches F. Knapp, P. Papakonstantinou, P. Veselý, G. De Gregorio, J. Herko, and N. Lo Iudice Phys. Rev. C 107, 014305 (2023) – Published 12 January 2023   Odd-odd neutron-rich rhodium isotopes studied with the double Penning trap JYFLTRAP M. Hukkanen, W. Ryssens, P. Ascher, M. Bender, T. Eronen, S. Grévy, A. Kankainen, M. Stryjczyk, L. Al Ayoubi, S. Ayet, O. Beliuskina, C. Delafosse, W. Gins, M. Gerbaux, A. Husson, A. Jokinen, D. A. Nesterenko, I. Pohjalainen, M. Reponen, S. Rinta-Antila, A. de Roubin, and A. P. Weaver Phys. Rev. C 107, 014306 (2023) – Published 17 January 2023   Possible coexistence of magnetic and antimagnetic rotations in 61Ni J. Lin, Y. K. Wang, C. Xu, Z. H. Li, H. Hua, S. Q. Zhang, D. W. Luo, H. Y. Wu, J. Meng, X. G. Wu, Y. Zheng, C. B. Li, T. X. Li, Z. Y. Huang, H. Cheng, C. Y. Guo, Z. X. Zhou, Z. Q. Chen, and C. G. Wang Phys. Rev. C 107, 014307 (2023) – Published 17 January 2023   Decay spectroscopy of 171,172Os and 171,172,174Ir W. Zhang et al. Phys. Rev. C 107, 014308 (2023) – Published 19 January 2023   Ab initio no-core shell-model description of 10–14C isotopes Priyanka Choudhary, Praveen C. Srivastava, Michael Gennari, and Petr Navrátil Phys. Rev. C 107, 014309 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Simple deep-learning approach for α-decay half-life studies Na-Na Ma, Tian-Liang Zhao, Wen-Xia Wang, and Hong-Fei Zhang Phys. Rev. C 107, 014310 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Gamow-Teller decay of 142Te to 142I B. Moon et al. Phys. Rev. C 107, 014311 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Spectroscopic amplitudes in microscopic three-cluster systems P. Descouvemont Phys. Rev. C 107, 014312 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Editors' Suggestion Densities and momentum distributions in A≤12 nuclei from chiral effective field theory interactions M. Piarulli, S. Pastore, R. B. Wiringa, S. Brusilow, and R. Lim Phys. Rev. C 107, 014314 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023 This study presents calculations of one- and two-body densities in both coordinate and momentum space for various nuclei up to 12C, using the phenomenological AV18+UX and various Norfolk NN + NNN χEFT interactions. It features new calculations of the pair density as a function of both pair separation and center-of-mass, as well as the two-body momentum distribution for short- and long-range pairs differentiated by a pair separation boundary. The full set of results are available online for general use by the nuclear physics community and are intended to provide useful insights into the short-range structure of nuclei and various reaction processes.     Quantifying uncertainties due to irreducible three-body forces in deuteron-nucleus reactions L. Hlophe, K. Kravvaris, and S. Quaglioni Phys. Rev. C 107, 014315 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Cluster structures of the 0+ states of Λ13C with the 3α+Λ four-body orthogonality condition model Qian Wu, Yasuro Funaki, and Xurong Chen Phys. Rev. C 107, 014317 (2023) – Published 23 January 2023   Spin-isospin excitations in the direction of β+ decay for 80Zn and 126Ru at finite temperature L. Guo, W. L. Lv, Y. F. Niu, D. L. Fang, B. S. Gao, K. A. Li, and X. D. Tang Phys. Rev. C 107, 014318 (2023) – Published 23 January 2023   Toward observation of three-nucleon short-range correlations in high-Q2 A(e,e′)X reactions Donal B. Day, Leonid L. Frankfurt, Misak M. Sargsian, and Mark I. Strikman Phys. Rev. C 107, 014319 (2023) – Published 24 January 2023   Cluster structure of 11C investigated with a breakup reaction Ziming Li et al. Phys. Rev. C 107, 014320 (2023) – Published 25 January 2023   Interpretable boosted-decision-tree analysis for the Majorana Demonstrator I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 107, 014321 (2023) – Published 25 January 2023   Testing the predictive power of realistic shell model calculations via lifetime measurement of the 11/2+ state in 131Sb S. Bottoni, E. R. Gamba, G. De Gregorio, A. Gargano, S. Leoni, B. Fornal, N. Brancadori, G. Ciconali, F. C. L. Crespi, N. Cieplicka-Oryńczak, Ł. W. Iskra, G. Colombi, Y. H. Kim, U. Köster, C. Michelagnoli, F. Dunkel, A. Esmaylzadeh, L. Gerhard, J. Jolie, L. Knafla, M. Ley, J.-M. Régis, K. Schomaker, and M. Sferrazza Phys. Rev. C 107, 014322 (2023) – Published 26 January 2023   Editors' Suggestion KamNet: An integrated spatiotemporal deep neural network for rare event searches in KamLAND-Zen A. Li, Z. Fu, C. Grant, H. Ozaki, I. Shimizu, H. Song, A. Takeuchi, and L. A. Winslow Phys. Rev. C 107, 014323 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023 Searches for rare events employ customized detectors with large fiducial mass to effectively reduce background. Leveraging recent breakthroughs in geometric deep learning and spatiotemporal analysis, this work presents a novel machine-learning algorithm (KamNet) as a new, robust tool to maximize the information provided by the kiloton-scale KamLAND liquid-scintillator detector. Adding a so-called "attention mechanism" to KamNet, the authors demonstrate that this enhanced machine-learning approach can increase the sensitivity of the KamLAND-Zen experiment to zero-neutrino- and two-neutrino double-β decay. That mechanism also elucidates the underlying physics KamNet is using for background rejection.     Spectroscopic quadrupole moments in 124Xe E. Clément et al. Phys. Rev. C 107, 014324 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023   Effects of two-particle–two-hole configurations and tensor force on β decay of magic nuclei M. J. Yang, H. Sagawa, C. L. Bai, and H. Q. Zhang Phys. Rev. C 107, 014325 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023   Investigation of isomeric states in 255Rf R. Chakma, A. Lopez-Martens, K. Hauschild, A. V. Yeremin, O. N. Malyshev, A. G. Popeko, Yu. A. Popov, A. I. Svirikhin, V. I. Chepigin, E. A. Sokol, A. V. Isaev, A. A. Kuznetsova, M. L. Chelnokov, M. S. Tezekbayeva, I. N. Izosimov, O. Dorvaux, B. Gall, and Z. Asfari Phys. Rev. C 107, 014326 (2023) – Published 31 January 2023   Ab initio calculation of muon capture on 24Mg L. Jokiniemi, T. Miyagi, S. R. Stroberg, J. D. Holt, J. Kotila, and J. Suhonen Phys. Rev. C 107, 014327 (2023) – Published 31 January 2023   Nuclear Reactions Disentangling fractional momentum transfer in the 19F+154Sm system Amritraj Mahato, Dharmendra Singh, Nitin Sharma, Pankaj K. Giri, Sneha B. Linda, Harish Kumar, Suhail A. Tali, Asif Ali, M. Afzal Ansari, Nabendu Kumar Deb, N. P. M. Sathik, S. Kumar, R. Kumar, S. Muralithar, and R. P. Singh Phys. Rev. C 107, 014601 (2023) – Published 3 January 2023   Uncertainty-quantified phenomenological optical potentials for single-nucleon scattering C. D. Pruitt, J. E. Escher, and R. Rahman Phys. Rev. C 107, 014602 (2023) – Published 3 January 2023   Production of 61Ca, 63Sc, 65Ti, 68,69V, 71Cr, 77Fe, and 79Co in projectile fragmentation with radioactive ion beams at 1A GeV Na Tang, Bing Li, Jing-Jing Li, and Feng-Shou Zhang Phys. Rev. C 107, 014603 (2023) – Published 3 January 2023   Experimental study of isospin transport with 40,48Ca+40,48Ca reactions at 35 MeV/nucleon Q. Fable, A. Chbihi, J. D. Frankland, P. Napolitani, G. Verde, E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, R. Bougault, E. Galichet, T. Génard, D. Gruyer, M. Henri, M. La Commara, A. Le Fèvre, J. Lemarié, N. Le Neindre, O. Lopez, P. Marini, M. Pârlog, A. Rebillard-Soulié, W. Trautmann, E. Vient, and M. Vigilante (INDRA Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 107, 014604 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   Color coherence effects in the reaction 2H(p,2p)n A. B. Larionov Phys. Rev. C 107, 014605 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   γ-to-neutron branching ratio for deuterium-tritium fusion determined using high-energy-density plasmas and a fused silica Cherenkov detector Z. L. Mohamed, Y. Kim, J. P. Knauer, and M. S. Rubery Phys. Rev. C 107, 014606 (2023) – Published 6 January 2023   Green's function knockout formalism C. Hebborn and G. Potel Phys. Rev. C 107, 014607 (2023) – Published 6 January 2023   Environmental sub-MeV neutron measurement at the Gran Sasso surface laboratory with a super-fine-grained nuclear emulsion detector T. Shiraishi, S. Akamatsu, T. Naka, T. Asada, G. De Lellis, V. Tioukov, G. Rosa, R. Kobayashi, N. D'Ambrosio, A. Alexandrov, and O. Sato Phys. Rev. C 107, 014608 (2023) – Published 10 January 2023   Editors' Suggestion Multinucleon transfer mechanism in 250Cf+232Th collisions using the quantal transport description based on the stochastic mean-field approach S. Ayik, M. Arik, O. Yilmaz, B. Yilmaz, and A. S. Umar Phys. Rev. C 107, 014609 (2023) – Published 10 January 2023 The production of elements close to the superheavy island of stability, with Z>100, is one of the most appealing challenges in nuclear physics. Based on a stochastic extension of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory, this article presents accurate microscopic calculations of multinucleon transfer for the 250Cf+232Th system at Ec.m.=950 MeV. Isotope production cross sections are described without any adjustable parameters, thus providing a benchmark to new experimental searches.     Systematic analysis of the decay of 287,288,290,292Fl* formed in the complete fusion reactions 239,240,242,244Pu+48Ca including Skyrme forces Nirupama Kumari, Aman Deep, Sahila Chopra, and Rajesh Kharab Phys. Rev. C 107, 014610 (2023) – Published 17 January 2023   Kaon electroproduction on 2H and 3He Mikhail Egorov Phys. Rev. C 107, 014611 (2023) – Published 18 January 2023   Correlations between energy and γ-ray emission in 239Pu(n,f) Nathan P. Giha, Stefano Marin, James A. Baker, Isabel E. Hernandez, Keegan J. Kelly, Matthew Devlin, John M. O'Donnell, Ramona Vogt, Jørgen Randrup, Patrick Talou, Ionel Stetcu, Amy E. Lovell, Olivier Litaize, Olivier Serot, Abdelaziz Chebboubi, Ching-Yen Wu, Shaun D. Clarke, and Sara A. Pozzi Phys. Rev. C 107, 014612 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Fusion enhancement within a collective clusterization approach applied to the isotopic chain of neutron-rich light-mass compound nuclei Sarbjeet Kaur, Navjot Kaur, Rupinder Kaur, BirBikram Singh, and S. K. Patra Phys. Rev. C 107, 014613 (2023) – Published 24 January 2023   Dynamics of charge equilibration and effects on producing neutron-rich isotopes around N=126 in multinucleon transfer reactions Zehong Liao, Long Zhu, Jun Su, and Cheng Li Phys. Rev. C 107, 014614 (2023) – Published 24 January 2023   Examination of promising reactions with 241Am and 244Cm targets for the synthesis of new superheavy elements within the dinuclear system model with a dynamical potential energy surface Xiang-Quan Deng (邓祥泉) and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵) Phys. Rev. C 107, 014616 (2023) – Published 25 January 2023   Final-state interactions and spin structure in E1 breakup of 11Li in halo effective field theory Matthias Göbel, Bijaya Acharya, Hans-Werner Hammer, and Daniel R. Phillips Phys. Rev. C 107, 014617 (2023) – Published 25 January 2023   Employing ternary fission of 242Pu as a probe of very neutron-rich matter J. B. Natowitz, H. Pais, and G. Röpke Phys. Rev. C 107, 014618 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023   Transfer reactions in 206Pb+118Sn: From quasielastic to deep-inelastic processes J. Diklić, S. Szilner, L. Corradi, T. Mijatović, G. Pollarolo, P. Čolović, G. Colucci, E. Fioretto, F. Galtarossa, A. Goasduff, A. Gottardo, J. Grebosz, A. Illana, G. Jaworski, M. Jurado Gomez, T. Marchi, D. Mengoni, G. Montagnoli, D. Nurkić, M. Siciliano, N. Soić, A. M. Stefanini, D. Testov, J. J. Valiente-Dobón, and N. Vukman Phys. Rev. C 107, 014619 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023   Relative population of states in 21Mg from few-nucleon removal reactions B. Longfellow, A. Gade, D. Bazin, P. C. Bender, M. Bowry, B. A. Brown, B. Elman, E. Lunderberg, D. Rhodes, M. Spieker, D. Weisshaar, and S. J. Williams Phys. Rev. C 107, 014620 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023   Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Directed flow in relativistic resistive magneto-hydrodynamic expansion for symmetric and asymmetric collision systems Kouki Nakamura, Takahiro Miyoshi, Chiho Nonaka, and Hiroyuki R. Takahashi Phys. Rev. C 107, 014901 (2023) – Published 4 January 2023   Accounting for nonvanishing net-charge with unified balance functions Claude Pruneau, Victor Gonzalez, Brian Hanley, Ana Marin, and Sumit Basu Phys. Rev. C 107, 014902 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   Speed of sound and liquid-gas phase transition in nuclear matter Wei-bo He, Guo-yun Shao, and Chong-long Xie Phys. Rev. C 107, 014903 (2023) – Published 6 January 2023   3D structure of anisotropic flow in small collision systems at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Wenbin Zhao, Sangwook Ryu, Chun Shen, and Björn Schenke Phys. Rev. C 107, 014904 (2023) – Published 6 January 2023   Effect of global momentum conservation on longitudinal flow decorrelation Pingal Dasgupta, Han-Sheng Wang (王瀚生), and Guo-Liang Ma (马国亮) Phys. Rev. C 107, 014905 (2023) – Published 10 January 2023   X(3872) and Tcc: Structures and productions in heavy ion collisions Hyeongock Yun, Daeho Park, Sungsik Noh, Aaron Park, Woosung Park, Sungtae Cho, Juhee Hong, Yongsun Kim, Sanghoon Lim, and Su Houng Lee Phys. Rev. C 107, 014906 (2023) – Published 12 January 2023   Measurement of ϕ-meson production in Cu+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV and U+U collisions at √sNN=193 GeV N. J. Abdulameer et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 107, 014907 (2023) – Published 13 January 2023   Critical net-baryon fluctuations in an expanding system Gregoire Pihan, Marcus Bluhm, Masakiyo Kitazawa, Taklit Sami, and Marlene Nahrgang Phys. Rev. C 107, 014908 (2023) – Published 18 January 2023   Complementary two-particle correlation observables for relativistic nuclear collisions Mary Cody, Sean Gavin, Brendan Koch, Mark Kocherovsky, Zoulfekar Mazloum, and George Moschelli Phys. Rev. C 107, 014909 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Conductivity, diffusivity, and violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in a hadron resonance gas with van der Waals interactions Kshitish Kumar Pradhan, Dushmanta Sahu, Ronald Scaria, and Raghunath Sahoo Phys. Rev. C 107, 014910 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Simulations of momentum correlation functions of light (anti)nuclei in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at √sNN=39 GeV Ting-Ting Wang (王婷婷), Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚), and Song Zhang (张松) Phys. Rev. C 107, 014911 (2023) – Published 20 January 2023   Energy dependence of light hypernuclei production in heavy-ion collisions from a coalescence and statistical-thermal model perspective Tom Reichert, Jan Steinheimer, Volodymyr Vovchenko, Benjamin Dönigus, and Marcus Bleicher Phys. Rev. C 107, 014912 (2023) – Published 23 January 2023   Editors' Suggestion Confronting anomalous kaon correlations measured in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV Joseph I. Kapusta, Scott Pratt, and Mayank Singh Phys. Rev. C 107, 014913 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023 This paper uses simple models to interpret recent measurements of anomalously strong correlations between neutral and charged kaon production performed at the LHC for high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Thermal models, including charge conservation effects, are found to be insufficient to explain the data for the most central collisions. More exotic conjectures involving coherent emission can reproduce the observations if 30% of the kaons are emitted from coherent sources in the most central collisions. Such coherence might be related to the melting and re-freezing of the QCD vacuum.     Hadronic Physics and QCD Exclusive π− electroproduction off the neutron in deuterium in the resonance region Y. Tian et al. (The CLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 107, 015201 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   Resonant behavior of the pp→{pp}sπ0 reaction at the energy √s=2.65 GeV D. Tsirkov, B. Baimurzinova, V. Komarov, A. Kulikov, A. Kunsafina, V. Kurbatov, Zh. Kurmanalyiev, and Yu. Uzikov Phys. Rev. C 107, 015202 (2023) – Published 11 January 2023   Pseudoscalar and scalar meson photoproduction interpreted by Regge phenomenology Igor I. Strakovsky, William J. Briscoe, Olga Cortes Becerra, Michael Dugger, Gary Goldstein, Victor L. Kashevarov, Axel Schmidt, Peter Solazzo, and Byung-Geel Yu Phys. Rev. C 107, 015203 (2023) – Published 18 January 2023   Extraction of ωn, ωp, and ϕN scattering lengths from ω and ϕ differential photoproduction cross sections on a deuterium target Chengdong Han, Wei Kou, Rong Wang, and Xurong Chen Phys. Rev. C 107, 015204 (2023) – Published 23 January 2023   Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries 0νββ decay to the first 2+ state with a two-nucleon mechanism for a L−R symmetric model Dong-Liang Fang and Amand Faessler Phys. Rev. C 107, 015501 (2023) – Published 17 January 2023   Ft values of the mirror β transitions and the weak-magnetism-induced current in allowed nuclear β decay N. Severijns, L. Hayen, V. De Leebeeck, S. Vanlangendonck, K. Bodek, D. Rozpedzik, and I. S. Towner Phys. Rev. C 107, 015502 (2023) – Published 23 January 2023   Editors' Suggestion Ab initio calculation of the β-decay spectrum of 6He G. B. King, A. Baroni, V. Cirigliano, S. Gandolfi, L. Hayen, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, and M. Piarulli Phys. Rev. C 107, 015503 (2023) – Published 27 January 2023 Searches for new physics can be conducted by brute force or, like the perihelion shift of Mercury, looking for subtle but persistent discrepancies. This detailed paper carries out high-precision calculations of the β-decay spectrum of 6He, and estimates the experimental precision needed to reveal hints of charged-current interactions beyond the Standard Model and/or sterile neutrinos.     Updated evaluation of potential ultralow Q-value β-decay candidates D. K. Keblbeck, R. Bhandari, N. D. Gamage, M. Horana Gamage, K. G. Leach, X. Mougeot, and M. Redshaw Phys. Rev. C 107, 015504 (2023) – Published 30 January 2023   Nuclear Astrophysics Nucleonic metamodeling in light of multimessenger, PREX-II, and CREX data C. Mondal and F. Gulminelli Phys. Rev. C 107, 015801 (2023) – Published 5 January 2023   Editors' Suggestion Fermi operator expansion method for nuclei and inhomogeneous matter with a nuclear energy density functional Takashi Nakatsukasa Phys. Rev. C 107, 015802 (2023) – Published 9 January 2023 Calculations for nuclear structure at high excitation energy or of nuclear matter in explosive stellar phenomena and neutron stars require intensive computations. The author tests the performance of a numerical method based on Fermi operator expansion that requires neither diagonalization nor Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization. The approach is suitable for massively parallel computing with distributed memory, and the calculations promise to scale well for large space sizes. Applied to finite nuclei and inhomogeneous nuclear matter, the method is efficient at high temperature, and the calculations clearly show the liquid-gas phase transition.     Relativistic approach for the determination of nuclear and neutron star properties in consideration of PREX-II results Virender Thakur, Raj Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Mukul Kumar, C. Mondal, Kaixuan Huang, Jinniu Hu, B. K. Agrawal, and Shashi K. Dhiman Phys. Rev. C 107, 015803 (2023) – Published 12 January 2023   Uncertainty quantification for neutrino opacities in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers Zidu Lin, Andrew W. Steiner, and Jérôme Margueron Phys. Rev. C 107, 015804 (2023) – Published 24 January 2023     American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2023 American Physical Society | All rights reserved   You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your preferences.