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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 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 ================================================================ Experiments With Stored Relativistic Exotic Nuclei H. Geissel, T. Radon et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/17/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-39; pb: Second International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses, 23-27 June 1998, Michigan, USA; NSCL# 4921 RIB Production With High Energy Neutrons From Be (d,xn) Reactions D. Ridikas and W. Mittig; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL P 98 22; NSCL# 4927 ================================================================ Astrophysics ================================================================ Rhenium-187 and the Age of the Universe F. Bosch; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-50; pb: ICAP XVI proceedings; NSCL# 4946 ================================================================ General Nuclear Theory ================================================================ Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Polarized Moller Scattering at High Energies A. Denner and S. Pozzorini; sc: PSI; da: 8/24/98; dn: PSI- PR-98-16; NSCL# 4934 Electroweak Radiative Corrections to W Boson Production in Hadronic Collisions U. Baur, S. Keller et al; sc: PSI; da: 8/12/98; dn: PSI-PR- 98-15; NSCL# 4917 Heavy Quark Mass Effects and Improved Test of the Flavour Independence of Strong Interactions P.N. Burrows; sc: OXFORD; da: 8/31/98; dn: OUNP-98-06; pb: XXIX International Conference on High Energy Physics, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, July 23-29 1998: Parallel session 3 - QCD + Jet Physics; NSCL# 4947 Thermodynamics of One-Flavour QCD C. Alexandrou, A. Borici et al; sc: PSI; da: 8/3/98; dn: PSI-PR-98-14; NSCL# 4903 Two-Color QCD and Aharonov-Bohm Fluxes R.A. Janik, M.A. Nowak et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-49; NSCL# 4945 ================================================================ Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory ================================================================ Finite Temperature Nuclear Response in Extended RPA D. Lacroix, P. Chomaz et al; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL P 98 21; NSCL# 4926 Role of the Experimental Filter in Obtaining the Arrhenius Plot in Multi-Fragmentation Reactions O. TIrel, G. Auger et al; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL P 98 26; NSCL# 4931 Universal Features of the Order-Parameter Fluctuations R. Botet and M. Ploszajczak; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL P 98 24; NSCL# 4929 Universality of the Off-Equilibrium Critical Fragmentation R. Botet and M. Ploszajczak; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL P 98 23; pb: Workshop on Nuclear Matter in Different Phases and Transitions, Les Houches, France March 30 - April 10, 1998; NSCL# 4928 ================================================================ High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) ================================================================ Hadronic Particle Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions P. Senger and H. Strobele; sc: GSI; da: 8/17/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-38; pb: J. of Phys. G; NSCL# 4920 ================================================================ Instrumentation ================================================================ Radiation Damage Measurements of Undoped Lead-Tungstate Crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter at LHC H.F. Chen, K. Deiters et al; sc: ETHZ; da: 8/10/98; dn: ETHZ-IPP-98-01; pb: Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A; NSCL# 4914 ================================================================ Low Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A<20 MeV) ================================================================ Competition Between Quasi-Molecular Resonances and Fusion-Fission In Light Dinuclear Systems C. Beck; sc: IRES; da: 8/25/98; dn: IReS-98-17; pb: Nuclear Physics close to the barrier, Warsaw, Poland, June 30-July 4, 1998; NSCL# 4935 ================================================================ Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ Anharmonic Double-gamma Vibrations n Nuclei and Their Description in the Interacting Boson Model J.E. Garcia-Ramos, C.E. Alsonso et al; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL P 98 25; NSCL# 4930 Beta-Decay Near Sn100 and Gd146: Experiments Performed by Using a Total Absorption Spectrometer or Using an Array of Six Euroball Cluster Detectors J. Agramunt et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: Gsi-Preprint- 98-44; pb: Second Int. Conf. on Exotic Nuclei; NSCL# 4939 Contribution of Higher-Order Processes to the Damping of Hot Giant Dipole Resonances N.D. Dang, K. Tanabe et al; sc: RIKEN; da: 8/10/98; dn: RIKEN-AF-NP-286; NSCL# 4915 Nuclear Structure from N=Z to N>Z-100Sn, Ni78, Pb208 H. Grawe, M. Gorska et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/17/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-41; pb: Sixth International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics "Highlights of Modern Nuclear Structure", S. Agata sui due Golfi, Italy, May 18-22, 1998; NSCL# 4923 Rotational Dependence of Coulomb Energy Differences J.A. Sheikh, D.D. Warner et al; sc: GANIL; da: 8/21/98; dn: GANIL 98 27; NSCL# 4932 Spectroscopy of Radioactive Beams From Single-Nucleon Knockout Reactions: Application to the sd Shell Nuclei and Al25 and P26,27,28 A. Navin, D. Bazin et al; sc: NSCL; da: 8/12/98; dn: MSUCL- 1109; NSCL# 4918 Width and Shape of Hot Giant Dipole Resonance N.D. Dang, K. Tanabe et al; sc: RIKEN; da: 8/17/98; dn: RIKEN-AF-NP-290; NSCL# 4919 ================================================================ Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions ================================================================ Centrality Dependence of Neutral Pion Production in 158.A GeV Pb208+Pb208 Collisions M.M. Aggarwal, A. Agnihotri et al; sc: IFKM; da: 8/24/98; dn: IKP-MS-98/0601; NSCL# 4933 Chiral Disorder and Diffusion of Light Quarks in the QCD Vacuum R.A. Janik, M.A. Nowak et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-47; pb: MAN at the Workshop on the Structure of Mesons, Baryons,and Nuclei; NSCL# 4943 Chiral Disorder and QCD Phase Transition R.A. Janik, M.A. Nowak et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-48; NSCL# 4944 Chiral Symmetry Restoration and Pion Interaction in Nuclear Matter G. Chunfray and D. Davesne; sc: IPNL; da: 8/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9843; pb: Nucl. Phys. A; NSCL# 4906 Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions J. Cleymans and K. Redlich; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-43; NSCL# 4938 ================================================================ Miscellaneous ================================================================ Charge-Exchange Cross Sections and Beam Lifetimes for Stored and Decelerated Bare Uranium Ions Th. Stohlker, T. Ludziejewski et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/17/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98-42; pb: Phys. Rev. A; NSCL# 4924 Different Approaches to Improve the Wavefront of Low-Loss Mirrors in the VIRGO Gravitational Wave Antenna J.M. Mackowski, L. Pinard et al; sc: IPNL; da: 8/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9846; pb: Optical Interference Coating '98, Tucson, Arizona (USA); NSCL# 4908 Fermion-Pair Production Above the Z and Search for New Phenomena D. Bourilkov; sc: ETHZ; da: 8/10/98; dn: ETHZ-IPP PR-98- 02; pb: XXXIInd Recontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 14-21, 1998; NSCL# 4913 Hardness, Wear and Microstructure of Carbon Implanted AISI M2 High Speed Steel F. Jahrling, D.M. Ruck et al; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI- Preprint-98-46; pb: Surface and Coating Technology; NSCL# 4942 Hot QED Beyond Ladder Graphs E. Petitgirard; sc: GSI; da: 8/31/98; dn: GSI-Preprint-98- 45; NSCL# 4991 Modeling Pionic Fusion A. Volya, S. Pratt et al; sc: NSCL; da: 8/4/98; dn: MSUCL- 1106; NSCL# 4912 New Possibilities of Old Soft Pomeron in DIS P. Desgrolard, A. Lengyel et al; sc: IPNL; da: 8/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9835; pb: European Physical Journal C; NSCL# 4907 Optical Losses of Multilayer Stacks Synthesized With Silicon Oxynitride by rf Magnetron Sputtering L. Pinard and J.M. Mackowski; sc: IPNL; da: 8/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9847; NSCL# 4909 Precision Electroweak Data: Present Status and Future Prospects P.B. Renton; sc: OXFORD; da: 8/31/98; dn: OUNP-98-04; NSCL# 4948 Radiation-Damage Study of a Monocrystalline Tungsten Positron Converter X. Artru, R. Kirsh et al; sc: IPNL; da: 8/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9849; pb: EPAC '98, Stockholm, June 22-26, 1998; NSCL# 4911 Scattered Light Noise in Gravitational wave Interferometric Detectors: A Statistical Approach J.-Y. Vinet and V. Brisson; sc: IPNL; da: 8/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9848; pb: Phys. Rev. D; NSCL# 4910 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Source Code Addresses: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ETHZ Institute for Intermediate Energy Physics ETH Zurich CH-5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland GANIL Laboratoire GANIL Boite Postale No. 5027 F-14021 Caen Cedex France GSI Gesellschaft fur Schwerionforschung Postfach 11 05 52 D-64220 Darmstadt Germany IFKM Institut fur Kernphysik Universitat Munster Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9, 4400 Munster Germany 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 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 PSI Paul Scherrer Institute CH-5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland RIKEN The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research 2-1 Hirosawa Wako, Saitama 351-01 Japan