http://prc.aps.org/ Accepted Papers for Physical Review C hourly 1 2012-02-09T21:06:24-05:00 rss@aps.org assocpub@aps.org 2012-02-09T21:06:24-05:00 en Copyright © 2012 the American Physical Society. Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Copyright © 2012 the American Physical Society assocpub@aps.org http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/9407eYd1Xc01522fd8277808409dbdde5a998cb2b We present the physics and feasibility of reactor antineutrino monitoring to verify the burnup of plutonium loaded in the reactor as a Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel. We examine the magnitude and temporal variations in the antineutrino signals expected for different MOX fuels, for the purposes of nuclear ac... Antineutrino monitoring of burning mixed oxide plutonium fuels 2012-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/9407eYd1Xc01522fd8277808409dbdde5a998cb2b Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/83079P23X1813708d23f8ad52959a5d2fb70fca3a We study the predictions of three mean-field theoretical approaches in the description of the ground state properties of some spherical nuclei far from the stability line. We compare binding energies, single particle spectra, density distributions, charge and neutron radii obtained with non-relativi... Mean-field calculations of the ground states of exotic nuclei 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/83079P23X1813708d23f8ad52959a5d2fb70fca3a Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/fb077Pe0W201c70ad2a66bb3b8fabb55f3f37ca35 Ground-state, radially-excited and exotic scalar-, vector- and flavoured-pseudoscalar-mesons are studied in rainbow-ladder truncation using an interaction kernel that is consonant with modern DSE- and lattice-QCD results. The inability of this truncation to provide realistic predictions for the mass... Commentary on rainbow-ladder truncation for excited states and exotics 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/fb077Pe0W201c70ad2a66bb3b8fabb55f3f37ca35 Hadronic Physics and QCD Hadronic Physics and QCD http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/03076P49X5115e0fb2cf54e63b3e088d6dc2daf1f The symmetry energy at sub- and supra-saturation densities has a great importance in understanding the exact nature of asymmetric nuclear matter as well as neutron star, but, it is poor known, especially at supra-saturation densities. We will demonstrate here that the neutron to proton ratios from d... Sensitivity of neutron to proton ratio toward the high density behavior of the symmetry energy in heavy-ion collisions 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/03076P49X5115e0fb2cf54e63b3e088d6dc2daf1f Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/0b073P9bX3a19e0082697858d7d4f6fbbb4ca0758 We explore the phase structure of a chiral model of constituent quarks and gluons implementing scale symmetry breaking at finite temperature and chemical potential. In this model the chiral dynamics is intimately linked to the trace anomaly saturated by a dilaton field. The thermodynamics is governe... Phase structure of a chiral model with dilatons in hot and dense matter 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/0b073P9bX3a19e0082697858d7d4f6fbbb4ca0758 Hadronic Physics and QCD Hadronic Physics and QCD http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/3f075PafA6a1ce0982bb35c46777ce9e41fc8b03d \begin{description} \item[Background] Analysis of data involving nuclei far from stability often requires optical potential (OP) for neutron scattering. Since neutron data is seldom available, while proton scattering data is more abundant, it is useful to have estimates of the difference of the neut... Neutron scattering from $^{208}$Pb at 30.4 and 40.0 MeV and isospin dependence of the nucleon optical potential 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/3f075PafA6a1ce0982bb35c46777ce9e41fc8b03d Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/6a07aP43Yce1bd04724a69d5e3250dc402b50b915 This paper presents a detailed assessment of the ability of the 240 Skyrme interaction parameter sets in the literature to satisfy a series of criteria derived from macroscopic properties of nuclear matter in the vicinity of nuclear saturation density at zero temperature and their density dependence... Skyrme interaction and nuclear matter constraints 2012-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/6a07aP43Yce1bd04724a69d5e3250dc402b50b915 Hadronic Physics and QCD Hadronic Physics and QCD http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/c0073P18U3a1c203e2d17ef007fb7092295d6c1a7 Systematic calculations of fission barriers allowing for triaxial deformation are performed for even-even superheavy nuclei with charge number Z=112-120 using three classes of covariant density functional models. The softness of nuclei in the triaxial plane leads to an emergence of several competing... Fission barriers in covariant density functional theory: Extrapolation to superheavy nuclei 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/c0073P18U3a1c203e2d17ef007fb7092295d6c1a7 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/a207eP8eX2b15501d37222d9b06332b3ec4ccce48 The Q-values of a-decay and the half-lives (log10Ta1/2(s)) are calculated for the a-decay chains of 293,294117 nuclei, within the framework of Isospin Cluster Model (ICM). In the ICM model the proximity energy is improved by using the isospin dependent radius of parent, daughter and alpha particle. ... $\alpha$ decay chains study for the recently observed superheavy element $Z=117$ within the isospin cluster model 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/a207eP8eX2b15501d37222d9b06332b3ec4ccce48 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/5c075P5eY301230e22497133f88202c008b8b9e97 The dependence of fusion-fission process on Skyrme forces is studied by using the dynamical cluster-decay model (DCM) and the l-summed extended-Wong model in 132Sn+64Ni196Pt* reaction, where the nuclear proximity potential is obtained by using the semiclassical extended Thomas Fermi (ETF) approach i... Skyrme forces and the fusion-fission dynamics of the $^{132}$Sn + $^{64}$Ni $\rightarrow$ $^{196}$Pt$\ast$ reaction 2012-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/5c075P5eY301230e22497133f88202c008b8b9e97 Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/2f074P59Z371820483e020e3c7070295353e5362b Captures of a particles on the proton-richest Barium isotope, 130Ba, have been studied in order to provide cross section data for the modelling of the astrophysical g process. The cross sections of the 130Ba(a,g)134Ce and 130Ba(a,n)133Ce reactions have been measured with the activation technique in ... Investigation of $\alpha$-induced reactions on $^{130}$Ba and $^{132}$Ba and their importance for the synthesis of heavy $p$ nuclei 2012-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/2f074P59Z371820483e020e3c7070295353e5362b Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclear Astrophysics http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/4507aP04Zac15e0143f33e70a6616966fcb808b0b BackgroundNuclear structure plays a significant role on the rapid neutron capture process (r-process) since shapes evolve with the emergence of shells and sub-shells. There was some indication in neighboring nuclei that we might find examples of a new N=56 sub-shell, which may give rise to a doubly ... $\beta$-decay of nuclei around $^{90}$Se: Search for signatures of a $N$=56 sub-shell closure relevant to the $r$ process 2012-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/4507aP04Zac15e0143f33e70a6616966fcb808b0b Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclear Astrophysics http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/74073Pb7Ze1W861ff07d36467328f805dcb23f35c Within the density-dependent cluster model, we have systematically investigated partial a-decay half-lives of ground-state to ground-state (g.s.) transitions. Emphasis is placed on the unfavored a transitions in the range 53 Z 91 of both odd-A and odd-odd nuclei. The a-preformation factor is estimat... Unfavored $\alpha$ decay from ground state to ground state in the range $53\leq Z\leq91$ 2012-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/74073Pb7Ze1W861ff07d36467328f805dcb23f35c Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/74076PbbZ391930c335e1a1127d5f490eb29cd1f9 The Trojan Horse Method allows one to extract the cross section of a binary reaction by properly selecting the quasi-free component of a suitable surrogate reaction. A crucial point of its application is the discrimination of the quasi-free contribution to the total reaction yield, requiring the stu... Influence of the $d$-state component of the deuteron wave function on the application of the Trojan horse method 2012-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/74076PbbZ391930c335e1a1127d5f490eb29cd1f9 Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclear Astrophysics http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7c07fY7fS811613ae6f222f4df2b12b167c40df38 For the first time, the shell structure of open-shell nuclei is described in a fully self-consistent extension of the covariant energy density functional theory. The approach implies quasiparticle-vibration coupling for superfluid systems. One-body Dyson equation formulated in the doubled quasiparti... Quasiparticle-vibration coupling in a relativistic framework: Shell structure of $Z=120$ isotopes 2012-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7c07fY7fS811613ae6f222f4df2b12b167c40df38 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/fd07cYb3Ua11a23d567f0635b299524e6c1dab069 The similarity renormalization group is used to transform Dirac Hamiltonian into a diagonal form, which the upper(lower) diagonal element becomes an operator describing Dirac (anti)particle. The eigenvalues of the operator are checked in good agreement with that of the original Hamiltonian. Furtherm... Exploration of relativistic symmetry by the similarity renormalization group 2012-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/fd07cYb3Ua11a23d567f0635b299524e6c1dab069 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/46075P5cZb11110a425592742030a30152c3f65c2 High-spin states in the 164 68Er96 region were studied using 9Be + 160Gd reactions. Pulsed beam conditions were exploited for enhanced sensitivity to delayed g-ray transitions. New isomers were identified in 161Dy, 163Ho, 162Er and 165Er. The 162Er isomer is interpreted to decay by E1 transitio... Discovery of isomers in dyprosium, holmium, and erbium isotopes with $N=94$ to 97 2012-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/46075P5cZb11110a425592742030a30152c3f65c2 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/0507fYc2Z011f935302e3200ada8c0a5c31989a27 The prompt g-ray energy and multiplicity distributions in the spontaneous fission of 252Cf have been measured using a highly segmented 4p g-ray calorimeter. Corrections were made for both distributions according to the detector response, which is simulated numerically using a model validated with th... Evidence for the stochastic aspect of prompt $\gamma$ emission in spontaneous fission 2012-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/0507fYc2Z011f935302e3200ada8c0a5c31989a27 Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/ab07dP5aZc41ca07b3ea44063e001bb7ad25c1a80 Using the Hartree-Fock plus random-phase-approximation (HF+RPA), we study the impurity effect of L hyperon on the collective vibrational excitations of double-L hypernuclei. To this end, we employ a Skyrme-type L N and LL interactions for the HF calculations, and the residual interactions for RPA de... Application of random-phase approximation to vibrational excitations of double-$\Lambda$ hypernuclei 2012-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/ab07dP5aZc41ca07b3ea44063e001bb7ad25c1a80 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7807aYfaZ2c1c721171983c5a4fa5b4529965517c The role of neutron transfer with positive Q-value in sub-barrier capture reactions 132Sn,130Te + 58,64Ni and 60Ni + 100Mo, measured recently by Z. Kohley et al.  and F. Scarlassara et al. , is studied and explained within the quantum diffusion approach. It is shown that the... Role of neutron transfer in capture processes at sub-barrier energies 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7807aYfaZ2c1c721171983c5a4fa5b4529965517c Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/8207eRe3X7c1c10057c09386557bfc7fa19d38951 A simple, exactly solvable statistical model is presented for the description of baryonic matter in the thermodynamic conditions associated to the evolution of core-collapsing supernova. It is shown that the model presents a first order phase transition in the grandcanonical ensemble which is not ob... Ensemble inequivalence in supernova matter within a simple model 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/8207eRe3X7c1c10057c09386557bfc7fa19d38951 Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclear Astrophysics http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/04071Y5aTc517432b5697af01dd307d034e94a375 Baryon number cumulants are invaluable tools to diagnose the primordial stage of heavy ion collisions if they can be measured. In experiments, however, proton number cumulants have been measured as substitutes. In fact, proton number fluctuations are further modified in the hadron phase and differen... Revealing baryon number fluctuations from proton number fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/04071Y5aTc517432b5697af01dd307d034e94a375 Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Relativistic Nuclear Collisions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7e071P6bY4114f0ad32009d14506be9dc9dcf904b We investigate how the initial geometry of a heavy-ion collision is transformed into final flow observables by solving event-by-event ideal hydrodynamics with realistic fluctuating initial conditions. We study quantitatively to what extent anisotropic flow (vn) is determined by the initial eccentric... Mapping the hydrodynamic response to the initial geometry in heavy-ion collisions 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7e071P6bY4114f0ad32009d14506be9dc9dcf904b Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Relativistic Nuclear Collisions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7b07eY08X2911c3a64be5619026bf5e27229696d0 Using realistic wave functions, the proton-neutron and proton-proton momentum distributions in 3He and 4He are calculated as a function of the relative, k\textrel, and center of mass, K\textc.m., momenta, and the angle between them. For large values of k\textrel >~ 2 fm-1 and small values of K\textc.... Universality of nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations: Two-nucleon momentum distributions in few-body systems 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7b07eY08X2911c3a64be5619026bf5e27229696d0 Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/91074P79Xa218a07e3460db005ef6ac0356467ac2 The temperature dependence of the symmetry energy and the symmetry free energy coefficients of atomic nuclei is investigated in a finite temperature Thomas-Fermi framework employing the subtraction procedure. A substantial decrement in the symmetry energy coefficient is obtained for finite systems, ... Temperature dependence of the symmetry energy of finite nuclei 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/91074P79Xa218a07e3460db005ef6ac0356467ac2 Nuclear Structure Nuclear Structure http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7107cPd6U781b507c29d42b2a17f912555f24132b Hard photons emitted from energetic heavy ion collisions are of very interesting since they do not experience nuclear interaction, therefore they are useful to explore properties of nuclear matter. We investigated hard photon production and its properties in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions ... Hard-photon flow and photon-photon correlation in intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions 2012-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/7107cPd6U781b507c29d42b2a17f912555f24132b Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/d207bPcdZc21290342cf8f33de3a414f7c6f361fd \begin{description} \item[Background] Lutetium thermometry has been used to analyze Oklo natural nuclear reactor zones but leads to widely varying and puzzling predictions for the temperatures $T_O$ which in turn impacts bounds on time variation of the fine structure constant $\alpha$. \item[Purpose... $^{176}$Lu/$^{175}$Lu thermometry for the Oklo natural reactors: A new examination of old data 2012-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/d207bPcdZc21290342cf8f33de3a414f7c6f361fd Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/8607cPe2Ya315b09d2bf767440a82aadf253df644 Proton elastic scattering angular distributions for the reaction 17F+p, were measured in inverse kinematics over a wide angular range (qc.m.=50-160) at two near barrier energies of 3.5 MeV/u and 4.3 MeV/u. The optical potential was probed in a phenomenological and microscopic approach. Moreover, tot... Probing the $^{17}$F + $p$ potential by elastic scattering at near-barrier energies 2012-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/8607cPe2Ya315b09d2bf767440a82aadf253df644 Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/18070P02Y3612007b21a9c294868e2aa1e8fc6fdd The anti-D meson self-energy is evaluated self-consistently, using unitarized coupled-channel theory, by computing the in-medium meson-baryon T-matrix in the C=-1,S=0 sector. The heavy pseudo-scalar and heavy vector mesons, \bD and \bD*, are treated on equal footing as required by heavy quark spin s... $D^-$ mesic atoms 2012-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/18070P02Y3612007b21a9c294868e2aa1e8fc6fdd Hadronic Physics and QCD Hadronic Physics and QCD http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/44076P85Ub71940053a41676f3745410dae62886f The 155Gd(n,g) reaction was measured with the DANCE g-ray calorimeter at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. Spins were determined for the s-wave resonances by analysis of the g-ray multiplicity distributions. The analysis was performed with a pattern recognition method. The resulting level densi... Neutron resonance parameters in $^{155}$Gd measured with the DANCE $\gamma$-ray calorimeter array 2012-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited Phys. Rev. C article Physical Review C http://prc.aps.org/accepted/C/44076P85Ub71940053a41676f3745410dae62886f Nuclear Reactions Nuclear Reactions