Physical Review C - February 2024

Physical Review C covering nuclear physics View Email Online   Volume 109, Issue 2 February 2024   View Issue   Advertisement Congratulations to the 2024 Outstanding Referees In this year, 2024, 156 Outstanding Referees were selected from the 91,600 currently active referees. The honorees come from over 42 different countries and will be recognized at the upcoming March Meeting. Read more.     Advertisement Attend April Meeting 2024 Register today to attend April Meeting 2024! Discover groundbreaking research from Quarks to Cosmos, connect with new collaborators and longtime colleagues, and prepare for career success at April Meeting 2024. Learn more about pricing and attendance options.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Quantitative feasibility study of sequential neutron captures using intense lasers Vojtěch Horný, Sophia N. Chen, Xavier Davoine, Laurent Gremillet, and Julien Fuchs Phys. Rev. C 109, 025802 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024 Synopsis:How Lasers Could Build Heavy Elements Laser-generated nucleosynthesis remains out of reach of present-day technology—but more powerful lasers could eventually make it possible.     Editors' Suggestion Eigenvector continuation for the pairing Hamiltonian M. Companys Franzke, A. Tichai, K. Hebeler, and A. Schwenk Phys. Rev. C 109, 024311 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 This work reports on an emulator for the evaluation of many-body observables based on an eigenvector continuation (EC) framework as an example of a reduced-basis method for a detailed study of the exactly solvable pairing Hamiltonian that serves as a model for nuclear superfluidity. EC is established as a robust resummation tool for many-body perturbation theory even though the bare perturbative expansion breaks down. The authors obtain a reliable, computation-saving, description of the exact solution with a small number of training points, provided these are taken from both sides of the pairing phase transition.     Editors' Suggestion Elastic electron scattering from deformed and oriented odd-A nuclei P. Sarriguren Phys. Rev. C 109, 024312 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024 Deformation is a common property of nuclei, typically deduced from excitation spectra and γ-transition rates. Such deduction is more difficult for odd-A nuclei. In this paper, Sarriguren shows how one can use the interference between monopole and quadrupole Coulomb form factors in electron scattering off polarized odd-A nuclei to obtain detailed information on the quadrupole deformation, including its sign.     Editors' Suggestion Ternary quasifission in collisions of actinide nuclei D. D. Zhang, B. Li, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, Z. X. Ren, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng Phys. Rev. C 109, 024316 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 Far away from the heaviest known nuclei, an island of relatively stable nuclei should exist in the nuclear chart. Reaching that island of stability requires a nuclear reaction that will transfer a large number of nucleons from one nucleus to another, such as in the collision of two actinide nuclei, which are heavy and already neutron-rich. In one particular collision scenario, ternary quasifission, the composite system formed by the two colliding nuclei is not in equilibrium, splitting into three fragments, instead of the more commonly observed binary fission process. The authors report a systematic study of ternary quasifission in 238U + 238U collisions in a microscopic framework that has been successfully applied to various nuclear phenomena. They find that including octupole deformation has a pronounced effect on the formation of the middle fragment. For tail-to-tail and tail-to-side collisions, the model calculations predict the formation of very heavy neutron-rich systems in certain energy intervals, a result that is potentially interesting for the synthesis of superheavy elements.     Editors' Suggestion Atomic corrections for the unique first-forbidden β transition of 187Re O. Niţescu, R. Dvornický, and F. Šimkovic Phys. Rev. C 109, 025501 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 The shape of the spectrum of electrons emitted in β decay near the highest (endpoint) energy offers a direct way to determine the absolute values of neutrino masses. The authors reexamine one of the most promising candidates for determining the neutrino mass scale, the unique first-forbidden β transition from 187Re(5/2+) to 187Os(1/2−). Their results show that exchange effects between the emitted electrons and the atomic bound electrons can considerably impact the shape of the electron spectrum near the endpoint. The authors conclude that atomic effects, especially the exchange effect, should be considered in current and future investigations of the neutrino mass scale from β decays.     Editors' Suggestion Radiative decay branching ratio of the Hoyle state Zifeng Luo (罗梓锋), M. Barbui, J. Bishop, G. Chubarian, V. Z. Goldberg, E. Harris, E. Koshchiy, C. E. Parker, M. Roosa, A. Saastamoinen, D. P. Scriven, and G. V. Rogachev Phys. Rev. C 109, 025801 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 In 1954 Fred Hoyle postulated that a 7.65 MeV excited state in 12C had to exist for carbon-based life to develop on Earth. During stellar helium burning, such a state allows a short-lived 8Be, formed from two α particles, to resonantly react with a third α particle to form this state which can decay to the 12C ground state via γ or electron-positron pair emission. The branching fraction for this radiative decay determines the amount of 12C produced in stars. A recent experiment suggested that the decay was significantly different from previous results from the 1960's and 1970's, adding considerable uncertainty to this important reaction. This paper uses modern detection technology to remeasure the branching ratio with reduced uncertainties compared with the new result and confirms that the earlier results were correct, thus significantly reducing the uncertainty in stellar 12C production.     LETTERS Letter Atomic mass determination of uranium-238 Kathrin Kromer, Chunhai Lyu, Jacek Bieroń, Menno Door, Lucia Enzmann, Pavel Filianin, Gediminas Gaigalas, Zoltán Harman, Jost Herkenhoff, Wenjia Huang, Christoph H. Keitel, Sergey Eliseev, and Klaus Blaum Phys. Rev. C 109, L021301 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Letter Static quadrupole moment as a criterion to distinguish chiral modes B. Hu and Q. B. Chen Phys. Rev. C 109, L021302 (2024) – Published 7 February 2024   Letter Indications of electron emission from the deuteron-deuteron threshold resonance K. Czerski, R. Dubey, M. Kaczmarski, A. Kowalska, N. Targosz-Ślęczka, G. Das Haridas, and M. Valat Phys. Rev. C 109, L021601 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Letter Novel approach to light-cluster production in heavy-ion collisions Hui-Gan Cheng and Zhao-Qing Feng Phys. Rev. C 109, L021602 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Letter Odd-even stagger in dissipative fission of excited nuclear systems W. Ye and N. Wang Phys. Rev. C 109, L021603 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Letter Novel Pauli blocking method in quantum molecular dynamics type models Xiang Chen, Junping Yang, Ying Cui, Kai Zhao, Zhuxia Li, and Yingxun Zhang Phys. Rev. C 109, L021604 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024   Letter First direct 7Be electron-capture Q-value measurement toward high-precision searches for neutrino physics beyond the Standard Model R. Bhandari, G. Bollen, T. Brunner, N. D. Gamage, A. Hamaker, Z. Hockenbery, M. Horana Gamage, D. K. Keblbeck, K. G. Leach, D. Puentes, M. Redshaw, R. Ringle, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, and I. Yandow Phys. Rev. C 109, L022501 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   ARTICLES Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems Hypertriton lifetime D. Gazda, A. Pérez-Obiol, E. Friedman, and A. Gal Phys. Rev. C 109, 024001 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Four-body systems at large cutoffs in effective field theory Xincheng Lin Phys. Rev. C 109, 024002 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Contributions of 2π exchange, 1π exchange, and contact three-body forces in NNLO chiral effective field theory to Λ3H M. Kohno, H. Kamada, and K. Miyagawa Phys. Rev. C 109, 024003 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024   Nuclear Structure Calculation of nuclear matrix elements for 0νββ decay of 124Sn using the nonclosure approach in the nuclear shell model Shahariar Sarkar, P. K. Rath, V. Nanal, R. G. Pillay, Pushpendra P. Singh, Y. Iwata, K. Jha, and P. K. Raina Phys. Rev. C 109, 024301 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Measurement of g9/2 strength in the stretched 8− state and other negative parity states via the 51V(d,p)52V reaction I. C. S. Hay, P. D. Cottle, L. A. Riley, L. T. Baby, S. Baker, A. L. Conley, J. Esparza, K. Hanselman, M. Heinze, D. Houlihan, B. Kelly, K. W. Kemper, G. W. McCann, R. Renom, A. Sandrik, D. Simms, M. Spieker, and I. Wiedenhöver Phys. Rev. C 109, 024302 (2024) – Published 5 February 2024   Shape coexistence and first-forbidden decay of 92Rb to 92Sr A. Petrovici Phys. Rev. C 109, 024303 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Lifetime measurement for the 15/21− and 13/21− levels in 129Sn D. Kumar, A. Pal, S. Basak, T. Bhattacharjee, S. S. Alam, L. Gerhard, L. Knafla, A. Esmaylzadeh, M. Ley, F. Dunkel, K. Schomaker, J.-M. Régis, J. Jolie, Y. H. Kim, and U. Köster Phys. Rev. C 109, 024304 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Finite-temperature effects in magnetic dipole transitions Amandeep Kaur, Esra Yüksel, and Nils Paar Phys. Rev. C 109, 024305 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Exact expressions of the distributions of total magnetic quantum number and angular momentum in single-j orbits: A general technique for any number of fermions Michel Poirier and Jean-Christophe Pain Phys. Rev. C 109, 024306 (2024) – Published 7 February 2024   Evidence for possible multiple chiral doublet bands with identical configuration in the odd-odd nucleus 126Cs T. J. Gao, Jing-Bin Lu, Yingjun Ma, Yuhu Zhang, S. Q. Zhang, H. D. Wang, Jia-Qiang Liu, Pei-Yao Yang, Zhen Ren, Cheng-Qian Li, Q. B. Chen, Z. C. Gao, Jian Li, K. Y. Ma, and Guoxiang Dong Phys. Rev. C 109, 024307 (2024) – Published 7 February 2024   g factor of chiral doublets with π(1h11/2)1⊗ν(1h11/2)−1 configuration Q. B. Chen Phys. Rev. C 109, 024308 (2024) – Published 8 February 2024   Structure of the high-spin, β-decaying state in the neutron-rich nucleus 146La S. Lalkovski, F. G. Kondev, K. Auranen, A. D. Ayangeakaa, M. P. Carpenter, J. A. Clark, P. Copp, N. P. Giha, D. J. Hartley, T. Lauritsen, S. Marley, G. E. Morgan, C. Müller-Gatermann, S. Nandi, W. Reviol, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, G. Savard, D. Seweryniak, Ir. B. Vasilev, and J. Wu Phys. Rev. C 109, 024309 (2024) – Published 8 February 2024   Nuclear mass predictions of the relativistic continuum Hartree-Bogoliubov theory with the kernel ridge regression X. H. Wu (吴鑫辉), C. Pan (潘琮), K. Y. Zhang (张开元), and J. Hu (胡进) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024310 (2024) – Published 8 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Eigenvector continuation for the pairing Hamiltonian M. Companys Franzke, A. Tichai, K. Hebeler, and A. Schwenk Phys. Rev. C 109, 024311 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 This work reports on an emulator for the evaluation of many-body observables based on an eigenvector continuation (EC) framework as an example of a reduced-basis method for a detailed study of the exactly solvable pairing Hamiltonian that serves as a model for nuclear superfluidity. EC is established as a robust resummation tool for many-body perturbation theory even though the bare perturbative expansion breaks down. The authors obtain a reliable, computation-saving, description of the exact solution with a small number of training points, provided these are taken from both sides of the pairing phase transition.     Editors' Suggestion Elastic electron scattering from deformed and oriented odd-A nuclei P. Sarriguren Phys. Rev. C 109, 024312 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024 Deformation is a common property of nuclei, typically deduced from excitation spectra and γ-transition rates. Such deduction is more difficult for odd-A nuclei. In this paper, Sarriguren shows how one can use the interference between monopole and quadrupole Coulomb form factors in electron scattering off polarized odd-A nuclei to obtain detailed information on the quadrupole deformation, including its sign.     Landscape of nuclear deformation softness with spherical quasiparticle random-phase approximation Nguyen Le Anh, Bui Minh Loc, Panagiota Papakonstantinou, and Naftali Auerbach Phys. Rev. C 109, 024313 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Determination of the spins and parities for the 04+ and 05+ states in 100Zr J. Wu, M. P. Carpenter, F. G. Kondev, R. V. F. Janssens, S. Zhu, E. A. McCutchan, A. D. Ayangeakaa, J. Chen, J. Clark, D. J. Hartley, T. Lauritsen, N. Pietralla, G. Savard, D. Seweryniak, and V. Werner Phys. Rev. C 109, 024314 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Reexamination of nuclear magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments of polonium isotopes Leonid V. Skripnikov and Anatoly E. Barzakh Phys. Rev. C 109, 024315 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Ternary quasifission in collisions of actinide nuclei D. D. Zhang, B. Li, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, Z. X. Ren, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng Phys. Rev. C 109, 024316 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 Far away from the heaviest known nuclei, an island of relatively stable nuclei should exist in the nuclear chart. Reaching that island of stability requires a nuclear reaction that will transfer a large number of nucleons from one nucleus to another, such as in the collision of two actinide nuclei, which are heavy and already neutron-rich. In one particular collision scenario, ternary quasifission, the composite system formed by the two colliding nuclei is not in equilibrium, splitting into three fragments, instead of the more commonly observed binary fission process. The authors report a systematic study of ternary quasifission in 238U + 238U collisions in a microscopic framework that has been successfully applied to various nuclear phenomena. They find that including octupole deformation has a pronounced effect on the formation of the middle fragment. For tail-to-tail and tail-to-side collisions, the model calculations predict the formation of very heavy neutron-rich systems in certain energy intervals, a result that is potentially interesting for the synthesis of superheavy elements.     Evolution of the giant monopole resonance with triaxial deformation Kouhei Washiyama, Shuichiro Ebata, and Kenichi Yoshida Phys. Rev. C 109, 024317 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Spectroscopic study of 40K Rozina Rahaman, Abhijit Bisoi, Ananya Das, Y. Sapkota, Arkabrata Gupta, S. Ray, S. Sarkar, Yashraj, A. Sharma, Bharti Rohila, I. Ahmed, Kaushik Katre, S. Dutt, S. Kumar, R. P. Singh, R. Kumar, and S. Muralithar Phys. Rev. C 109, 024318 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Collective modes of excitation in 64Cu A. Saracino, S. Zhu, N. Sensharma, A. D. Ayangeakaa, R. V. F. Janssens, Q. B. Chen, M. P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, A. Gade, F. G. Kondev, T. M. Kowalewski, T. Lauritsen, E. A. McCutchan, and D. Seweryniak Phys. Rev. C 109, 024319 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Descent of the nucleus from the fission barrier in the presence of long-range memory effects S. V. Radionov Phys. Rev. C 109, 024320 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Toward accurate nuclear mass tables in covariant density functional theory A. Taninah, B. Osei, A. V. Afanasjev, U. C. Perera, and S. Teeti Phys. Rev. C 109, 024321 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Alternating-parity doublets of even-even Ba isotopes X. Yin, C. Ma, and Y. M. Zhao Phys. Rev. C 109, 024322 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Ultrahigh-precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV A. Zec, S. Premathilake, J. C. Cornejo, M. M. Dalton, C. Gal, D. Gaskell, M. Gericke, I. Halilovic, H. Liu, J. Mammei, R. Michaels, C. Palatchi, J. Pan, K. D. Paschke, B. Quinn, and J. Zhang Phys. Rev. C 109, 024323 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Structure of low-lying states of 12C and Λ13C in a beyond-mean-field approach Huai-Tong Xue (薛怀通), Q. B. Chen (陈启博), Ji-Wei Cui (崔继伟), C.-F. Chen (陈超锋), H.-J. Schulze, and Xian-Rong Zhou (周先荣) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024324 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Structure of low-lying states in 116Te F. von Spee, M. Beckers, A. Blazhev, A. Dewald, F. Dunkel, A. Esmaylzadeh, C. Fransen, G. Hackenberg, J. Jolie, L. Knafla, C.-D. Lakenbrink, M. Schiffer, N. Warr, and M. Weinert Phys. Rev. C 109, 024325 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Experimental study of the level structure in 90Nb and systematics of level structure characteristics near A=90 Yi-Heng Wu, Jing-Bin Lu, Zhen Ren, Guan-Jian Fu, Cheng-Qian Li, Pei-Yao Yang, Yan Hao, Tian-Jiao Gao, Li-Hua Zhu, Xing-Zhu Cui, Xiao-Guang Wu, and Chuang-Ye He Phys. Rev. C 109, 024326 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024   Solving the Lipkin model using quantum computers with two qubits only with a hybrid quantum-classical technique based on the generator coordinate method Yann Beaujeault-Taudière and Denis Lacroix Phys. Rev. C 109, 024327 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024   Nuclear Reactions Constraining the Woods-Saxon potential in fusion reactions based on the neural network Zepeng Gao, Siyu Liu, Peiwei Wen, Zehong Liao, Yu Yang, Jun Su, Yongjia Wang, and Long Zhu Phys. Rev. C 109, 024601 (2024) – Published 5 February 2024   Effects of viscosity and scission configuration on the fission dynamics of the excited compound nucleus 240Pu produced in neutron-induced reactions H. Eslamizadeh Phys. Rev. C 109, 024602 (2024) – Published 5 February 2024   Suppression of the elastic scattering cross section for the 17Ne+208Pb system Kyoungsu Heo, Myung-Ki Cheoun, Ki-Seok Choi, K. S. Kim, and W. Y. So Phys. Rev. C 109, 024603 (2024) – Published 8 February 2024   Importance of physical information on the prediction of heavy-ion fusion cross sections with machine learning Zhilong Li, Zepeng Gao, Ling Liu, Yongjia Wang, Long Zhu, and Qingfeng Li Phys. Rev. C 109, 024604 (2024) – Published 8 February 2024   Design and validation of a fission-product source for radioactive beams J. Song, G. Savard, J. Greene, and J. A. Nolen Phys. Rev. C 109, 024605 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Fusion enhancement in the collisions with 44Ca beams and the production of neutron-deficient 245–250Lr isotopes Li-Lin Zhou, Jun-Jun Cai, Lu-Qi Li, Zi-Long Wang, Rui Zhu, Xiao-Ye Zhang, Xin-Rui Zhang, Long Zhu, Gen Zhang, and Feng-Shou Zhang Phys. Rev. C 109, 024606 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   R-matrix analysis of 22Ne states populated in 18O(α,α) resonant elastic scattering A. K. Nurmukhanbetova, V. Z. Goldberg, A. Volya, D. K. Nauruzbayev, G. E. Serikbayeva, and G. V. Rogachev Phys. Rev. C 109, 024607 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Towards a more complete description of nucleon distortion in lepton-induced single-pion production at low-Q2 J. García-Marcos, T. Franco-Munoz, R. González-Jiménez, A. Nikolakopoulos, N. Jachowicz, and J. M. Udías Phys. Rev. C 109, 024608 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Electron-capture decay rate of 7Be in cluster and crystal forms of beryllium: A first-principles study Riichi Kuwahara, Kaoru Ohno, and Tsutomu Ohtsuki Phys. Rev. C 109, 024609 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Optimal incident energy of heavy ion fusion Reddi Rani L., N. Sowmya, H. C. Manjunatha, K. N. Sridhar, and M. M. Armstrong Arasu Phys. Rev. C 109, 024610 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Decay of the superheavy nucleus 310126 R. A. Gherghescu, H. Stoecker, and D. N. Poenaru Phys. Rev. C 109, 024611 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Systematic study of heavy-cluster radioactivity from superheavy nuclei O. N. Ghodsi, M. Morshedloo, and M. M. Amiri Phys. Rev. C 109, 024612 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Optimal colliding energy for the synthesis of a superheavy element with Z=119 Avazbek Nasirov and Bakhodir Kayumov Phys. Rev. C 109, 024613 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Multinucleon transfer with time-dependent covariant density functional theory D. D. Zhang, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng Phys. Rev. C 109, 024614 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Analysis of one-proton transfer reaction in 18O+76Se collisions at 275 MeV I. Ciraldo et al. (NUMEN collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024615 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Effects of neutron-skin thickness on light-particle production Meng-Qi Ding (丁梦琦), De-Qing Fang (方德清), and Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024616 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024   Theoretical study of multinucleon transfer reactions by coupling the Langevin dynamics iteratively with the master equation F. C. Dai, P. W. Wen, C. J. Lin, J. J. Liu, X. X. Xu, K. L. Wang, H. M. Jia, L. Yang, N. R. Ma, and F. Yang Phys. Rev. C 109, 024617 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024   Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Triply heavy baryons QQQ in vacuum and in a hot QCD medium Jiaxing Zhao and Shuzhe Shi Phys. Rev. C 109, 024901 (2024) – Published 5 February 2024   Squeezed correlations of bosons with nonzero widths for expanding sources Yong Zhang and Peng Ru Phys. Rev. C 109, 024902 (2024) – Published 5 February 2024   Stability of initial glasma fields Sylwia Bazak and Stanisław Mrówczyński Phys. Rev. C 109, 024903 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Spatial diffusion of heavy quarks in a background magnetic field Sarthak Satapathy, Sudipan De, Jayanta Dey, and Sabyasachi Ghosh Phys. Rev. C 109, 024904 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Dissociation and thermodynamical properties of heavy quarkonia in an anisotropic strongly coupled hot quark gluon plasma: Using a baryonic chemical potential Siddhartha Solanki, Manohar Lal, Rishabh Sharma, and Vineet Kumar Agotiya Phys. Rev. C 109, 024905 (2024) – Published 6 February 2024   Characterizing the initial- and final-state effects in isobaric collisions at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Niseem Magdy Phys. Rev. C 109, 024906 (2024) – Published 7 February 2024   Production of η and η′ mesons in pp and pPb collisions R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024907 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Effects of nuclear structure and quantum interference on diffractive vector meson production in ultraperipheral nuclear collisions Heikki Mäntysaari, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen, and Wenbin Zhao Phys. Rev. C 109, 024908 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Difference between signal and background of the chiral magnetic effect relative to spectator and participant planes in isobar collisions at √sNN=200 GeV Bang-Xiang Chen (陈帮祥), Xin-Li Zhao (赵新丽), and Guo-Liang Ma (马国亮) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024909 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Correlations of conserved quantities at finite baryon density Oleh Savchuk and Scott Pratt Phys. Rev. C 109, 024910 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Inelastic and elastic parton scattering in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma Ilia Grishmanovskii, Olga Soloveva, Taesoo Song, Carsten Greiner, and Elena Bratkovskaya Phys. Rev. C 109, 024911 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Calculation of momentum correlation functions between π, K, and p for several heavy-ion collision systems at √sNN=39 GeV Ting-Ting Wang (王婷婷), Yu-Gang Ma (马余刚), and Song Zhang (张松) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024912 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Heavy quark diffusion and radiation at intermediate momentum Juhee Hong Phys. Rev. C 109, 024913 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Two-particle Bose-Einstein correlations and their Lévy parameters in PbPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024914 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Femtoscopic correlations of identical charged pions and kaons in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with event-shape selection S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 109, 024915 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Causal hydrodynamic fluctuations in a one-dimensional expanding system Shin-ei Fujii and Tetsufumi Hirano Phys. Rev. C 109, 024916 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024   Hadronic Physics and QCD Open strange and open heavy flavor mesons in asymmetric nuclear matter within quark meson coupling model Arpita Mondal and Amruta Mishra Phys. Rev. C 109, 025201 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   η and η′ mesons in nuclear matter and nuclei J. J. Cobos-Martínez and Kazuo Tsushima Phys. Rev. C 109, 025202 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Thermal effect in hot QCD matter in strong magnetic fields Xin-Jian Wen and Jia Zhang Phys. Rev. C 109, 025203 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Recoil contributions in neutron β− decay and their corrections to the correlation coefficients Hui-Yun Cao and Hai-Qing Zhou Phys. Rev. C 109, 025204 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Composite octet baryons in a relativistic mean field description of nuclear and neutron star matter Kaito Noro, Wolfgang Bentz, Ian C. Cloët, and Teruyuki Kitabayashi Phys. Rev. C 109, 025205 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   New approach to the 3-momentum regularization of the in-medium one- and two-fermion line integrals with applications to cross sections in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model Renan Câmara Pereira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência, and João Moreira Phys. Rev. C 109, 025206 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Electroweak Interaction, Symmetries Editors' Suggestion Atomic corrections for the unique first-forbidden β transition of 187Re O. Niţescu, R. Dvornický, and F. Šimkovic Phys. Rev. C 109, 025501 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 The shape of the spectrum of electrons emitted in β decay near the highest (endpoint) energy offers a direct way to determine the absolute values of neutrino masses. The authors reexamine one of the most promising candidates for determining the neutrino mass scale, the unique first-forbidden β transition from 187Re(5/2+) to 187Os(1/2−). Their results show that exchange effects between the emitted electrons and the atomic bound electrons can considerably impact the shape of the electron spectrum near the endpoint. The authors conclude that atomic effects, especially the exchange effect, should be considered in current and future investigations of the neutrino mass scale from β decays.     40Ca transverse response function from coupled-cluster theory J. E. Sobczyk, B. Acharya, S. Bacca, and G. Hagen Phys. Rev. C 109, 025502 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Nuclear Astrophysics Editors' Suggestion Radiative decay branching ratio of the Hoyle state Zifeng Luo (罗梓锋), M. Barbui, J. Bishop, G. Chubarian, V. Z. Goldberg, E. Harris, E. Koshchiy, C. E. Parker, M. Roosa, A. Saastamoinen, D. P. Scriven, and G. V. Rogachev Phys. Rev. C 109, 025801 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 In 1954 Fred Hoyle postulated that a 7.65 MeV excited state in 12C had to exist for carbon-based life to develop on Earth. During stellar helium burning, such a state allows a short-lived 8Be, formed from two α particles, to resonantly react with a third α particle to form this state which can decay to the 12C ground state via γ or electron-positron pair emission. The branching fraction for this radiative decay determines the amount of 12C produced in stars. A recent experiment suggested that the decay was significantly different from previous results from the 1960's and 1970's, adding considerable uncertainty to this important reaction. This paper uses modern detection technology to remeasure the branching ratio with reduced uncertainties compared with the new result and confirms that the earlier results were correct, thus significantly reducing the uncertainty in stellar 12C production.     Featured in Physics Quantitative feasibility study of sequential neutron captures using intense lasers Vojtěch Horný, Sophia N. Chen, Xavier Davoine, Laurent Gremillet, and Julien Fuchs Phys. Rev. C 109, 025802 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024 Synopsis:How Lasers Could Build Heavy Elements Laser-generated nucleosynthesis remains out of reach of present-day technology—but more powerful lasers could eventually make it possible.     Impact of Fermi-surface distortion in a relativistic mean-field model on the moment of inertia and tidal deformability of neutron stars R. Rizaldy and A. Sulaksono Phys. Rev. C 109, 025803 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Direct mapping of tidal deformability to the isoscalar and isovector nuclear matter parameters Sk Md Adil Imam, Arunava Mukherjee, B. K. Agrawal, and Gourab Banerjee Phys. Rev. C 109, 025804 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Influence of the symmetry energy and σ-cut potential on the properties of pure nucleonic and hyperon-rich neutron star matter Prashant Thakur, B. K. Sharma, A. Ashika, S. Srivishnu, and T. K. Jha Phys. Rev. C 109, 025805 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Correlating isothermal compressibility to nucleon fluctuations in the inner crust of neutron stars R. Shafieepour, H. R. Moshfegh, and J. Piekarewicz Phys. Rev. C 109, 025806 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Probing quarkyonic matter in neutron stars with the Bayesian nuclear-physics multimessenger astrophysics framework Peter T. H. Pang, Lars Sivertsen, Rahul Somasundaram, Tim Dietrich, Srimoyee Sen, Ingo Tews, Michael W. Coughlin, and Chris Van Den Broeck Phys. Rev. C 109, 025807 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024   Stellar s-process neutron capture cross section of Ce isotopes R. N. Sahoo, M. Paul, Y. Kashiv, M. Tessler, M. Friedman, S. Halfon, A. Kreisel, A. Shor, and L. Weissman Phys. Rev. C 109, 025808 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024   ERRATA Erratum: Measurements of the suppression and correlations of dijets in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV [Phys. Rev. C 107, 054908 (2023)] G. Aad and et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. C 109, 029901 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Erratum: Identification of new transitions and mass assignments of levels in 143–153Pr [Phys. Rev. C 92, 034317 (2015)] E. H. Wang et al. Phys. Rev. C 109, 029902 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Erratum: Angular distribution of γ-rays from neutron-induced compound states of 140La [Phys. Rev. C 97, 034622 (2018)] T. Okudaira, S. Takada, K. Hirota, A. Kimura, M. Kitaguchi, J. Koga, K. Nagamoto, T. Nakao, A. Okada, K. Sakai, H. M. Shimizu, T. Yamamoto, and T. Yoshioka Phys. Rev. C 109, 029903 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024   Erratum: Systematic shell-model study of β-decay properties and Gamow-Teller strength distributions in A≈40 neutron-rich nuclei [Phys. Rev. C 97, 054321 (2018)] Sota Yoshida, Yutaka Utsuno, Noritaka Shimizu, and Takaharu Otsuka Phys. Rev. C 109, 029904 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024     American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2024 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.