!!\ !! !! \\ !! \\ !! \\ !! !! // !! // !! \\ !! !!/// !!/// !! \!! !! !! !! !! !! !! Prepared at the NATIONAL SUPERCONDUCTING CYCLOTRON LABORATORY Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823-1321 Vol. 16 No. 6 5/30/97 Communicate all comments and questions, and for each preprint you produce, send a copy to: Dr. Betty Tsang at the NSCL. Electronic mail subscription of NPP is available. Send inquiry to TSANG@NSCL.NSCL.MSU.EDU Current and previous versions are also available via anonymous ftp at 35.8.32.44 in the /pub/preprints directory and on the World Wide Web at ftp://www.nscl.msu.edu/pub/preprints Table of Contents: ------------------ Accelerator Physics Astrophysics General Nuclear Theory Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) Instrumentation Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions Miscellaneous ================================================================ Accelerator Physics ================================================================ Symposium Summary and Outlook: Twenty Years of Meson Factory Physics W.C. Haxton; sc: WASH; da: 5/9/97; dn: DOE/ER/40561-318- INT97-00-166; NSCL# 4443 ================================================================ Astrophysics ================================================================ Finite Size Effects and the Mixed Quark-Hadron Phase in Neutron Stars M.B. Christiansen and N.K. Glendenning; sc: UAAR; da: 5/19/97; dn: LBL-40284; NSCL# 4450 Signal of the Quark Deconfinement in the Timing Structure of Pulsar Spin-Down N.K. Glendenning, S. Pei et al; sc: LBL; da: 5/19/97; dn: LBL-39746; NSCL# 4451 ================================================================ General Nuclear Theory ================================================================ Measurement of the Slope Parameter of Beauty Baryon Form Factor D. Bertini, L. Chaussard et al; sc: IPNL; da: 5/1/97; NSCL# 4439 Perspective: Atomic Parity Violation and the Nuclear Anapole Moment W.C. Haxton; sc: WASH; da: 5/9/97; dn: DOE/ER/40561-318- INT97-00-166; NSCL# 4444 ================================================================ Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory ================================================================ Thermodynamical Equilibrium up to the Gas Phase? F. Guilminelli, B. Borderie et al; sc: CAEN; da: 5/1/97; dn: LPCC-97-07; pb: XXXV International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy, Feb. 3-7, 1997; NSCL# 4437 ================================================================ High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) ================================================================ A Possible Scenario for the Time Dependence of the Multifragmentation Process in Xe + Sn Collisions (An Explanation of the He3 Puzzle) R. Bougault, J.P. Wieleczko et al; sc: CAEN; da: 5/1/97; dn: LPCC 97-04; pb: XXXV International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy, Feb. 3-7, 1997; NSCL# 4436 Apparent Temperatures in Hot Quasi-Projectiles and the Caloric Curve J. Peter, M. Assenard et al; sc: CAEN; da: 5/1/97; pb: 13th International Conference on Nuclear Dynamics, Marathon Key, Florida, Feb. 1-8, 1997; NSCL# 4438 Examining the Cooling of Hot Nuclei H. Xi, M.J. Huang et al; sc: NSCL; da: 5/22/97; dn: MSUCL- 1073; NSCL# 4454 Hard Photons and Neutral Pions as Probes of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter Y. Schutz, G. Martinez et al; sc: GANIL; da: 5/14/97; dn: GANIL P 97 15; pb: Nucl. Phys. A; NSCL# 4446 ================================================================ Instrumentation ================================================================ A Prototype LED/PIN Diode Optical Data Link for the Atlas Semiconductor Tracker A. Rudge, A.R. Weidberg et al; sc: OXFORD; da: 5/19/97; dn: OUNP-97-02; NSCL# 4448 Gas-Silicon Detector Telescope for Charged Particle Spectroscopy A. Honkanen, M. Oinonen et al; sc: JYVA; da: 5/28/97; dn: 4/1997; pb: Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A; NSCL# 4459 ================================================================ Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ Beta-Decay of Ti40 W. Liu, M. Hellstrom et al; sc: GSI; da: 5/29/97; dn: GSI- Preprint-97-28; pb: Z. Phys. A; NSCL# 4460 Decay Properties of Very Neutron-Deficient Isotopes of Silver and Cadmium K. Schmidt, P.C. Divari et al; sc: GSI; da: 5/29/97; dn: GSI-Preprint-97-29; pb: Nucl. Phys. A; NSCL# 4461 eta-Helium Quasi-Bound States N. Willis, Y. Le Bornec et al; sc: IPN; da: 5/6/97; dn: IPNO-DRE-97-09; pb: Phys. Lett. B; NSCL# 4442 Fission and Cluster Decay of Sr76 Nucleus in the Ground-State and Formed in Heavy-Ion Reactions R.K. Gupta, M.K. Sharma et al; sc: CRN; da: 5/13/97; dn: CRN 97-08; pb: Phys. Rev. C; NSCL# 4445 High-Resolution Study of the Beta Decay of Ti41 A. Honkanen, P. Dendooven et al; sc: JYVA; da: 5/31/97; dn: 15a/1996; pb: Elsevier Preprint; NSCL# 4458 Search for O28 and Study of Neutron-rich Nuclei Near the N=20 Shell Closure O. Tarasov, R. Allatt et al; sc: GANIL; da: 5/23/97; dn: GANIL P 97 16; NSCL# 4455 ================================================================ Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions ================================================================ (bb) and (cc) Resonances Detection in Pb-Pb Collisions at CMS M. Bedjidian and the CMS Collaboration; sc: IPNL; da: 5/1/97; dn: LYCEN 9716; pb: 3rd International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, Jaipur, India, March 17-21, 1997; NSCL# 4440 Mean-Field Transport Theory for Two-Flavour NJL Model W. Florkowski; sc: GSI; da: 5/19/97; dn: GSI-Preprint-97- 26; NSCL# 4452 Thermal Photon Production Rate From Non-Equilibrium Quantum Field Theory R. Baier, M. Dirks et al; sc: GSI; da: 5/28/97; dn: GSI- Preprint-97-22; NSCL# 4456 ================================================================ Miscellaneous ================================================================ High Desorption-Ionization Yield of Large Molecules By Fast C60 Projectiles A. Brunelle, S. Della-Negra et al; sc: IPN; da: 5/6/97; dn: IPNO-DRE-97-04; NSCL# 4441 Precision Electroweak Data: Present Status and Future Prospects P.B. Renton; sc: OXFORD; da: 5/19/97; dn: OUNP-97-01; pb: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A; NSCL# 4447 Transport Theory of Scalar Fields for Particles With Width R. Fauser and P. Zhuang; sc: GSI; da: 5/19/97; dn: GSI- Preprint-97-25; NSCL# 4453 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Source Code Addresses: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> CAEN Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire ISMRA - Boulevard Marechal Juin 14050 Caen Cedex France CRN Centre de Recherches Nucleaires Rue du Loers F-67037 Strasbourg France GANIL Laboratoire GANIL Boite Postale No. 5027 F-14021 Caen Cedex France GSI Gesellschaft fur Schwerionforschung Postfach 11 05 52 D-64220 Darmstadt Germany IPN Institut de Physique Nucleaire Boite Postale No. 1 F-91406 Orsay Cedex France IPNL Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon et Universite 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 NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 USA OXFORD Nuclear Physics Laboratory 1 Keble Road Oxford England OX1 3RH UAAR Institute of Physics and Astronomy Aarhus University DK-8000 Aarhus C Denmark WASH Department of Physics University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195