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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: ------------------ Astrophysics Exotic Nuclei General Nuclear Theory Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) Instrumentation Light Ion Reactions -- Experimental & Theoretical Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical Photonuclear and Electron Physics Radioactivity and Fission Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions Miscellaneous ================================================================ Astrophysics ================================================================ A Study of Nuclei of Astrophysical Interest in the Continuum Shell Model K. Bennaceur, F. Nowacki et al; sc: GANIL; da: 1/15/98; dn: GANIL P 97 39; pb: International Workshop on Physics With Radioactive Nuclear Beams, January 12-17, 1998, Puri, India; NSCL# 4705 Applications of Coulomb Breakup to Nuclear Astrophysics J. Kiener; sc: CSNSM; da: 1/7/98; dn: CSNSM 97-24; pb: International School Seminar ISS97, Structure of Particles and Nuclei and their Interactions, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 6-13 October 1997; NSCL# 4700 Cosmic-Ray Half-Life of PM144 K. Zaerpoor, Y.D. Chan et al; sc: OREC; da: 1/5/98; NSCL# 4697 Spin Strength and Supernovae S.M. Austin; sc: NSCL; da: 1/30/98; dn: MSUCL-1087; pb: International Symposium on Spin Giant Resonances, Nov. 17-20, 1997, Tokyo, Japan; NSCL# 4721 ================================================================ Exotic Nuclei ================================================================ Proton Radioactivity from Highly Deformed Nuclei C.N. Davids, P.J. Woods et al; sc: ANL; da: 1/21/98; dn: PHY-8851-HI-97; NSCL# 4711 Structure and Continuum Response of Halo Nuclei I.J. Thompson, B.V. Danilin et al; sc: SURR; da: 1/22/98; pb: J. of Phys. G; NSCL# 4707 ================================================================ General Nuclear Theory ================================================================ An Alternative Basis for the Wigner-Racah Algebra of the Group SU(2) M. Kibler and M. Daoud; sc: IPNL; da: 1/22/98; dn: LYCEN 9757; pb: International Conference Quantum Groups, Deformations and Contractions (Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 1997) - Turkish Journal of Physics; NSCL# 4712 PL3: Structure Functions R. Devenish; sc: OXFORD; da: 1/27/98; dn: OUNP-98-01; NSCL# 4747 ================================================================ Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory ================================================================ Optimized Discretization of Sources Imaged in Heavy-Ion Reactions D.A. Brown and E. Danielewicz; sc: NSCL; da: 1/15/98; dn: MSUCL-1086; NSCL# 4704 ================================================================ High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) ================================================================ Azimuthal Anisotropies as Stringent Test for Nuclear Transport Models P. Crochet, F. Rami et al; sc: IRES; da: 1/7/98; dn: IReS 97-10; pb: Nucl. Phys. A; NSCL# 4701 Temperatures of Exploding Nuclei V. Serfling, C. Schwarz et al; sc: GSI; da: 1/30/98; dn: GSI-Prepirint-98-06; NSCL# 4720 ================================================================ Instrumentation ================================================================ Study of Spin and Orbital Motion in Siberian Snake Based on Calculated Three Dimensional Magnetic Field M. Xiao and T. Katayama; sc: INS; da: 1/28/98; dn: CNS-REP- 5; NSCL# 4715 ================================================================ Light Ion Reactions -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ Close to Threshold eta Production in Proton-Proton Scattering P. Moskal et al; sc: KFA-JUL; da: 1/22/98; dn: FZJ-IKP(I)- 1997-2; pb: Phys. Rev. Lett.; NSCL# 4710 Total Cross Section of the Reaction pp--> pK+Lamda Close to Threshold J.T. Balewski et al; sc: KFA-JUL; da: 1/22/98; dn: FZJ- IKP(I)-1997-1; pb: Phys. Lett. B; NSCL# 4709 ================================================================ Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ DGOE and the Statistical Fluctuations in the Quartic Oscillator C.I. Barbosa, C.L Lima et al; sc: SAOP; da: 1/22/98; NSCL# 4706 E2 Component in Subcoulomb Breakup of B8 R. Shyam and I.J. Thompson; sc: SAHA; da: 1/7/98; pb: Phys. Lett. B; NSCL# 4698 Quadrupole Collectivity in 32,34,36,38 Si and the N = 20 Shell Closure R.W. Ibbotson, T. Glasmacher et al; sc: NSCL; da: 1/30/98; dn: MSUCL-1089; pb: Phys. Rev. Lett.; NSCL# 4719 ================================================================ Photonuclear and Electron Physics ================================================================ B hadron production and inclusive b decays at LEP Lionel Chaussard; sc: IPNL; da: 1/22/98; dn: LYCEN 9759; pb: International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Jerusalem, Israel, August 19-26, 1997; NSCL# 4714 ================================================================ Radioactivity and Fission ================================================================ Analytic Description of the Fusion and Fission Processes Through Compact Quasi-molecular Shapes G. Royer, C. Normand et al; sc: SUBATECH; da: 1/5/98; dn: SUBATECH 97-29; NSCL# 4695 Fission Fragment Spectroscopy on a 28Si + 28Si Quasi-Molecular Resonance R. Nouicer, C. Beck, N. Aissaoui et al; sc: IRES; da: 1/14/98; dn: IReS 97-32; pb: VI International School-Seminar "Heavy Ion Physics", Dubna, Russia (Sept. 22-27,1997); NSCL# 4703 New Results on Superasymmetric Fission at Intermediate Energy J. Aystro, P. Dendooven et al; sc: JYVA; da: 1/6/98; dn: 16/1997; pb: International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nucei, Nov. 10-15, Sanibel Island, Florida; NSCL# 4696 ================================================================ Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions ================================================================ Search for Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC H. Hamagaki; sc: INS; da: 1/27/98; dn: CNS-REP-6; pb: 3rd Japan China Joint Nuclear Physics Symposium, "Recent Topics in Physics", July 24-29, 1997, Sendai, Ogatsu, Niigata, Japan; NSCL# 4716 ================================================================ Miscellaneous ================================================================ About Symmetries in Physics Francois Gieres; sc: IPNL; da: 1/22/98; dn: LYCEN 9754; pb: Symmetries in Physics, F. Gieres, M. Kibler et al; NSCL# 4713 Structure Functions of the Nucleon and Their Interpretations A.M. Cooper-Sarker, R.C.E Denenish et al; sc: OXFORD; da: 1/22/98; dn: OUNP-97-10; pb: Journal of Modern Physics A; NSCL# 4708 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Source Code Addresses: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ANL Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439 CSNSM Centre de Spectr. Nucl. et de Spectr. de Masse CNRS-IN2P3 F-91405 Orsay-Campus 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 INS Institute for Nuclear Study University of Tokyo Midori-cho Tanashi Tokyo 188 Japan IPNL Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon et Université Claude Bernard F 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex France IRES Institut de Recherches Subatomique B.P. 28 F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2 France JYVA Department of Physics University of Jyvaskyla SF-40351 Finland KFA-JUL Institut fur Kernphysik Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH D-5170 Julich Germany NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 USA OREC Department of Physics Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 OXFORD Nuclear Physics Laboratory 1 Keble Road Oxford England OX1 3RH SAHA Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 1/AF Bidhan Nagar Calcutta-700064 India SAOP Instituto de Fisica Universidade de Sao Paolo 01 498 Sao Paolo SP Brasil SUBATECH Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique 4, Rue Alfred Kastler La Chantrerie 44070 Nantes Cedex 03 France SURR University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, U.K.