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Send inquiry to TSANG@NSCL.NSCL.MSU.EDU Current and previous versions are also available on the World Wide web at http://www.nscl.msu.edu/news/nscl_library/preprints Table of Contents: ------------------ Accelerator Physics Astrophysics Exotic Nuclei General Nuclear Theory Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) Instrumentation Low Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A<20 MeV) Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions Miscellaneous ================================================================ Accelerator Physics ================================================================ BEARS: Radioactive Ion Beams at LBNL J. Powell, F.Q. Guo et al; sc: LBL; da: 7/30/98; pb: Second International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses, 23-27 June 1998, Michigan, USA; NSCL# 4902 ================================================================ Astrophysics ================================================================ High Resolution Study of the Ne18 Structure Relevant to the Hot-CNO Cycle S.H. Park , S. Kubono; sc: CNS; da: 7/13/98; dn: CNS-REP- 11; pb: Phys. Rev. C; NSCL# 4886 High Temperature Rapid-Proton Capture Process S. Kubono, S.H. Park et al; sc: CNS; da: 7/13/98; dn: CNS- REP-10; pb: International Symposium on the Origin of Stars and Evolution of Galaxies 97, Atami, Japan, November 5-7, 1997); NSCL# 4885 ================================================================ Exotic Nuclei ================================================================ Exotic Molecular and Halo States in Be 12,14 M. Freer, N.A. Orr et al; sc: CAEN; da: 7/7/98; pb: Second International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses, 23-27 June 1998, Michigan, USA; NSCL# 4878 ================================================================ General Nuclear Theory ================================================================ Complete O(alpha) QED Corrections to Polarized Compton Scattering A. Denner and S. Dittmaier; sc: PSI; da: 7/13/98; dn: PSI- PR-98-10; NSCL# 4884 Darboux Method and Search of Invariants for the Lotka-Volterra and Complex Quadratic Systems L. Cairo, M.R. Feix et al; sc: SUBATECH; da: 7/7/98; dn: SUBATECH 98-10; NSCL# 4879 Self-consistent Approximations to Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Theory Yu.B. Ivanov, J. Knoll et al; sc: GSI; da: 7/22/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-34; pb: Nucl. Phys. A; NSCL# 4892 Variational Methods in the Worldline Representation of Field Theory R. Rosenfelder, C..Alexandrou et al; sc: PSI; da: 7/13/98; dn: PSI-PR-98-13; NSCL# 4883 ================================================================ Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory ================================================================ Influence of Secondary Decay on Isotope-Ratio Temperature Measurement H. Xi, W.G. Lynch et al.; sc: NSCL; da: 7/28/98; dn: MSUCL- 1107; NSCL# 4900 The Excluded Volume in Nuclear Fragmentation A. Majunder and S. Das Gupta; sc: MCGI; da: 7/27/98; NSCL# 4899 ================================================================ High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) ================================================================ Enhanced Out-of-Plane Emission of K+ Mesons Observed in Au+Au Collisions at 1 AGeV Y. Shin, W. Ahner et al; sc: GSI; da: 7/22/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-35; pb: Phys. Rev. Lett.; NSCL# 4893 Light Particle Correlations with Heavy Ion Collisions: Space-Time Ambiguities D. Ardouin; sc: SUBATECH; da: 7/23/98; dn: SUBATECH-98- 11; NSCL# 4896 Time-Scales From Two-Neutron Intensity Interferometry for the Reaction Ar40 + Ho165 at E/A = 25 MeV S.J. Gaff, A. Galonsky et al; sc: NSCL; da: 7/1/98; NSCL# 4673 ================================================================ Instrumentation ================================================================ Energy and Efficiency Calibration of an Array of Six Euroball Cluster Detectors Used for Beta-decay Studies Z. Hu, R. Collatz et al; sc: GSI; da: 7/22/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-37; pb: Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A; NSCL# 4895 The RICH Amplifier T. Matsumoto, M. Hibino et al; sc: CNS; da: 7/13/98; dn: CNS-REP-12; NSCL# 4887 ================================================================ Low Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A<20 MeV) ================================================================ Macroscopic-Microscopic Energy of Rotating Nuclei in the Fusion-Like Deformation Valley R.A. Gherghescu and G. Royer; sc: SUBATECH; da: 7/23/98; dn: SUBATECH-98-12; NSCL# 4897 Measuring Barriers to Fusion M. Dasgupta, D.J. Hinde et al; sc: ANU; da: 7/27/98; dn: ANU-P/1365; pb: Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science; NSCL# 4898 ================================================================ Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ Beta Decay of Ga61 M. Oinonen, P. Baumann et al; sc: JYVA; da: 7/6/98; dn: 10/1998; NSCL# 4876 Decay of the O12 Ground State A. Azhari, R.A. Kryger et al; sc: NSCL; da: 7/7/98; dn: MSUCL-1104; NSCL# 4877 Multiphonon Giant Resonances in Nuclei T. Aumann, P.F. Bortignon et al; sc: GSI; da: 7/22/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-36; NSCL# 4894 ================================================================ Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions ================================================================ Spin Asymmetries at RHIC and Polarized Parton Distributions S. Hino, M. Hirai et al; sc: SAGA; da: 7/10/98; dn: SAGA- HE-131-98; pb: 6th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD, Brussels, Belgium, April 4-8, 1998 (talk on April 7, 1998); NSCL# 4881 ================================================================ Miscellaneous ================================================================ Electron Capture in the Collision of Mass-Selected Hydrogen Cluster Ions With Helium Atoms S. Louc, B. Farizon et al; sc: IPNL; da: 7/28/98; dn: LYCEN 9858; pb: Phys. Rev. A; NSCL# 4901 Growth of Potassium Iodide Single-Crystals Using Ion Track Membranes as Templates D. Dobrev, J. Vetter et al; sc: GSI; da: 7/17/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-33; pb: Nucl. Instr. & Meth. B; NSCL# 4890 Microscopic Description of the Surface Dipole Plasmon in Large Na(N) Clusters (950<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Source Code Addresses: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ANL Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439 ANU Dept. of Physics Research School of Physical Sciences and Eng. The Australian National University Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia CAEN Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire ISMRA - Boulevard Marechal Juin 14050 Caen Cedex France CNS Center for Nuclear Study Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo 3-2-1 Midori-cho, Tanashi, Tokyo 188-0002 Japn GIT School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atalanta, Georgia 30332-0430 GSI Gesellschaft fur Schwerionforschung Postfach 11 05 52 D-64220 Darmstadt Germany IPNL Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon et Université Claude Bernard F 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex France JYVA Department of Physics University of Jyvaskyla SF-40351 Finland LBL Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road Berkeley CA 94720 MCGI McGill University 3600 University Street Montreal, PQ Canada, V6T 2A3 NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 USA PSI Paul Scherrer Institute CH-5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland SAGA Department of Physics Saga University Saga 840 Japan SUBATECH Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique 4, Rue Alfred Kastler La Chantrerie 44070 Nantes Cedex 03 France