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Send inquiry to:tsang@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 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 Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions Miscellaneous ================================================================ Accelerator Physics ================================================================ Automatic Beam Tuning at GANIL A. Savalle, P. Gillette et al; sc: GANIL; da: 11/24/98; dn: GANIL A 98 04; pb: 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications; NSCL# 5058 Experience wtih High Intensity Operation of the GANIL Facility E. Baron, J.L. Baelde et al; sc: GANIL; da: 11/24/98; dn: GANIL A 98 02; pb: 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications; NSCL# 5056 Luminosity of Particle Collider Y. Batygin and T. Katayama; sc: RIKEN; da: 11/30/98; dn: RIKEN-AF-AC-10; NSCL# 5068 Software Trends for Both the GANIL & SPIRAL Control L. David, E. Lecorche et al; sc: GANIL; da: 11/24/98; dn: GANIL A 98 03; pb: 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications; NSCL# 5057 Storage Rings at RIKEN RI Beam Factory M. Wakasugi, Y. Batygin et al; sc: RIKEN; da: 11/30/98; dn: RIKEN-AF-AC-11; NSCL# 5069 ================================================================ General Nuclear Theory ================================================================ Worldline Path Intergral for the Massive Dirac Propagator: A Four- Dimensional Approach C. Alexandrou, R. Rosenfelder et al; sc: PSI; da: 11/2/98; dn: PSI-PR-98-20; NSCL# 5026 ================================================================ Heavy-Ion Reaction Theory ================================================================ Cold or Hot, Stable or Unstable Collective Nuclear Motion Ph. Chomaz, D. Lacroix et al; sc: GANIL; da: 11/16/98; dn: GANIL P 98 32; pb: International Conference on Nuclear States; NSCL# 5041 Energy Correlations as a Thermodynamical Signal for Phase Transitions in Finite Systems Ph. Chomaz and F. Gulminelli; sc: GANIL; da: 11/25/98; NSCL# 5064 On the Variation of the Coulomb Repulsion in Multifragmentation H. Oeschler, A.S. Botvina et al; sc: IKDA; da: 11/13/98; dn: IKDA 98/23; NSCL# 5040 ================================================================ High Energy Heavy-Ion Reactions (E/A>20 MeV) ================================================================ A New Type of Shape Instability of Hot Nuclei and Prompt Nuclear Fragmentation Jan Toke and W. Udo Schroder; sc: ROCH-NSRL; da: 11/19/98; dn: NSRL 98-431; NSCL# 5054 Experimental Evidence of Critical Behavior in Cluster Fragmentation Using an Event by Event Data Analysis B. Farizon, M. Farizon et al; sc: IPNL; da: 11/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9873; pb: Physical Review Letters; NSCL# 5032 Formation and Deexcitation of the Composite Nucleus in the Ni + Al Reaction at 28 A.MeV L. Lebreton, D. Benchekroun et al; sc: IPNL; da: 11/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9807; NSCL# 5033 ================================================================ Instrumentation ================================================================ Calibration of a CsI (Tl) Crystal with Nuclear Recoils and Pulse Shape Measurements for Dark Matter Detection S. Pecourt, B. Chambon et al; sc: IPNL; da: 11/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9874; pb: Astroparticle Physics; NSCL# 5035 ================================================================ Light Ion Reactions -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ Importance of Coulomb Dissociation of the Deuteron on Nucleon Production Reactions D. Ridikas, W. Mittig et al; sc: GANIL; da: 11/24/98; dn: GANIL P 98 28; NSCL# 5059 ================================================================ Nuclear Structure -- Experimental & Theoretical ================================================================ Coulomb Excitation of Odd-A Neutron-rich pi(s-d) and v(f-p) Shell Nuclei R.W. Ibbotson, T. Glasmacher et al; sc: NSCL; da: 11/25/98; dn: MSUCL-1118; NSCL# 5067 Pseudo SU(4) Symmetry in pf-Shell Nuclei P. Van Isacker, O. Juillet et al; sc: GANIL; da: 11/13/98; dn: GANIL P 98 31; NSCL# 5043 Semi-Classical Coulomb Excitation of A Damped Oscillator and the Brink-Axel Mechanism B.V. Carlson, L.F. Canto et al; sc: UFRJ; da: 11/18/98; NSCL# 5051 Semiclassical Description of Multiple Giant Dipole Resonance Excitation & Decay B.V. Carlson, M.S. Hussein et al; sc: UFRJ; da: 11/18/98; NSCL# 5050 Shape Evolution of the Hot Giant Dipole Resonance N.D. Dang, K. Tanabe et al; sc: RIKEN; da: 11/25/98; dn: RIKEN-AF-NP-296; NSCL# 5065 Time Scales of Multiple Giant Dipole Resonance Excitation and Decay B.V. Carlson and M.S. Hussein; sc: UFRJ; da: 11/18/98; NSCL# 5049 ================================================================ Relativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions ================================================================ Hadronization and Strangeness Production in a Chirally Symmetric Nonequilibrium Model P. Rehber, and J. Aichelin; sc: SUBATECH; da: 11/6/98; dn: SUBATECH 98-20; NSCL# 5036 Particle Correlations with Heavy Ions at LHC Energies B. Erazmus, L. Martin et al; sc: SUBATECH; da: 11/17/98; dn: SUBATECH 98-21; NSCL# 5045 ================================================================ Miscellaneous ================================================================ Different Approaches to Improve the Wavefront of Low-Loss Mirrors Used in the Virgo Gravitational Wave Antenna J-M Mackowski, L. Pinard et al; sc: IPNL; da: 11/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9875; pb: Applied Optics; NSCL# 5034 High Laser Threshold HfO_2/SiO_2 Mirrrors Manufactured by Sputtering Process A. Fornier, D. Bernardino et al; sc: IPNL; da: 11/3/98; dn: LYCEN 9876; pb: Proceedings of Solid State Lasers for Applications to Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). Monterey USA, June 1998; NSCL# 5031 Neutron Skyshine Measurement at a K1200 Superconducting Heavy Ion Cyclotron Using Bubble Dosimeters B. Mukherjee, R.M. Ronningen et al; sc: NSCL; da: 11/30/98; dn: MSUCL-1119; pb: 15th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications; NSCL# 5070 Polycarbonate-Based Cryogenic Sealing P. Wertelaers; sc: CERN; da: 11/3/98; dn: CERN 98-07; NSCL# 5029 Scheming in Dimensional Regularization D.R. Phillips, S.R. Beane et al M.C. Birse; sc: UMD; da: 11/3/98; dn: DOE/ER/40762-162; pb: Phys. Rev. D; NSCL# 5027 The Advantages of Being Vectorlike S.R. Beane; sc: UMD; da: 11/3/98; dn: DOE/ER/40762-161; NSCL# 5028 W Physics at LEP M. Campanelli; sc: ETHZ; da: 11/16/98; dn: PR-98-06; pb: Nucl. Phys. B; NSCL# 5042 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Source Code Addresses: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> CERN CERN CH-1211 Geneva 23 Switzerland 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 IKDA Institut fur Kernphysik Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Schlossgartenstrasse 9, D-6100 Darmstadt Germany IPNL Institut de Physique Nucliaire de Lyon et Universiti Claude Bernard F 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex France NSCL National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1321 USA 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 ROCH-NSRL Nuclear Structure Research Lab University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627 SUBATECH Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique 4, Rue Alfred Kastler La Chantrerie 44070 Nantes Cedex 03 France UFRJ Instituto De Fisica Unicersidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro Ciaxa Postal 68.528 21945-970 Rio De Janeiro-RJ UMD Departments of Physics & Astronomy University of Maryland College Park MD 20742 USA