Low-spin excited states in ${}^{68}\mathrm{Zn}$ have been studied at the High Intensity Gamma-Ray Source ($\mathrm{HI}\gamma \mathrm{S}$) from the ground state up to the particle emission threshold using the nuclear resonance fluorescence technique and the newly developed clover array. Low-spin levels were excited by linearly polarized, 2.9…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034318] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Background: Mass-asymmetric fission in the actinide nuclei is dominated by shell gaps in the heavy fragment, proposed to be due to octupole deformed shell gaps between $Z=52$ and 56. The mass-asymmetric fission of nuclei lighter than lead shows the influence of different shell gaps, centered around $Z=\mathrm{\dots }$

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034615] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

The synthesis of superheavy nuclei (SHN) through fusion reactions is a critical area of nuclear physics, offering insights into nuclear stability and the limits of the periodic table. However, theoretical predictions of evaporation residue cross sections ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{ER}}$ remain challenging due to large uncertain…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034616] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

The generation of fission fragment spin as a probe of scission mechanism remains a question of considerable interests. We present here microscopic calculations of rapidly rotating fission of the compound nucleus ${}^{240}\mathrm{Pu}$ under varying initial conditions within the time-dependent density functional theo…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, L031602] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

Nuclear pear-shaped, or octupole, deformation enhances the sensitivity of nuclei to fundamental symmetry-violating effects, including CP violation, yet its quantitative characterization, particularly its quantum fluctuations, remains challenging. We establish a multiscale validation strategy that co…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, L031603] Published Tue Sep 15, 2026

This work proposes Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for interacting many-fermion systems by leveraging the stochastic gauge freedom, originally developed in Gaussian phase-space QMC, within the phaseless auxiliary-field QMC (AFQMC) framework. In particular, the approach reinterprets the conventiona…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034314] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Conventional nuclear mass formulas, predicated on the charge independence of nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interactions, generally parametrize the neutron-proton asymmetry $[I=(N-Z)/A]$ using even powers or absolute values. Previously, an $I^3$ term was incorporated into the classical liquid drop model to examine…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034315] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

A consistent finite-temperature microscopic theory for the response of strongly coupled superfluid fermionic systems is formulated. We start from the general many-body Hamiltonian with the vacuum (bare) two-fermion interaction and derive the equation of motion (EOM) for the thermally averaged two-ti…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034316] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We investigate the Gamow-Teller (GT) transition strength distributions in the light carbon isotopes ${}^{12,14,16}\mathrm{C}$ within the framework of the deformed quasiparticle random-phase approximation (DQRPA). Nuclear deformation is explicitly incorporated through Skyrme-Hartree-Fock mean-field calculations comb…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034317] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We report measurements of the total two-neutron stripping cross section for the ${}^{197}\mathrm{Au}({}^{18}\mathrm{O},{}^{16}\mathrm{O}){}^{199}\mathrm{Au}$ reaction across the energy range $E_{\mathrm{Lab}}$ = 63–125 MeV, corresponding to $0.8\le E_{\mathrm{Lab}}/V_B^{\mathrm{Lab}}\le 1.6$. The experiment employed the stacked-foil activation technique, where eight thin gold targets were irradiated se…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034612] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Background: Neutron reactions off lithium isotopes up to 50 MeV are important for nuclear data science, around the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) facility in particular.

Purpose: We aim at constructing a semimicroscopic reaction model that describes neutron elastic scatte…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034613] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

Angular distributions for the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(p,p^{\prime }){}^{12}\mathrm{C}^{*}\left(7.65\mathrm{MeV}\right)$ reaction populating the Hoyle state have been measured at incident proton energies between 10.8 and 18.0 MeV. It extends the available experimental cross section data in the intermediate energy region and suggests a small resonance around 12.0 MeV…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034614] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

$p_t$-differential quantity $v_2\left(p_t\right)$ is meant to measure elliptic flow manifested by a dense QCD medium formed in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Elliptic flow may be referred to more neutrally as a cylindrical quadrupole component of the transverse motion of particle sources within a collision. …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034911] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We assess the effects of a recently proposed generalized relaxation time approximation (RTA) for multispecies relativistic gases within a realistic numerical hybrid framework and study its phenomenological consequences in $p$-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions. The novel approximation introduces counterterms to …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034912] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 039901] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 039902] Published Mon Sep 14, 2026

We derive the long-range components of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) two-pion-exchange potential with an intermediate Roper resonance. Leading-order interactions in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory are considered. To assess the Roper contributions in a unified framework, we include the leading con…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034006] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We analyze 67 heavy-ion fusion reactions with high-quality sub-barrier excitation functions using the single-Gaussian model of Jiang et al. [Phys. Rev. C 112, 034612 (2025)] and extract the barrier parameters $R_g,V_g,W_g,R_g^2{W}_g$. The reactions involve seven projectiles, ${}^{16,18}\mathrm{O}, {}^{28,30}\mathrm{Si}, {}^{32,34}\mathrm{S}$, and ${}^{40}\mathrm{Ca}$,…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034609] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Evaluated nuclear databases currently in use for numerical simulations to develop new nuclear technology and design advanced nuclear reactors still present large uncertainties. Their improvement is necessary, in particular through better reaction models and experimental nuclear data. Among the react…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034610] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Although coupled-channels (CC) calculations have been widely used to describe sub-barrier fusion cross sections, theoretical interpretations can be affected by ambiguities arising from the choice of input potential parameters and explicit coupling schemes. In this work, we systematically investigate…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034611] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

In low-energy heavy-ion collisions, baryon stopping is an important process, in which protons from the initial colliding nuclei are stopped at the midrapidity region. Quantifying such stopping can reveal information on the properties of the nuclear medium, such as net-baryon density. Although experi…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034908] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

We investigate charm-quark dynamics in asymmetric $\mathrm{Cu}+\mathrm{Au}$ collisions at top energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider using a Langevin approach embedded in a realistic hydrodynamic background. The intrinsic asymmetry of the colliding nuclei leads to a spatially lopsided initial ene…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034909] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Higher-order cumulants between the mean transverse momentum and elliptic flow are calculated in a relativistic viscous hydrodynamic model of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The results of the hydrodynamic simulations are compared with calculations using event-by-event predictors of the final coll…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034910] Published Fri Sep 11, 2026

Background: The nuclear structure in the region southwest of the doubly magic ${}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$ is important to benchmark theoretical models relevant for neutron-rich heavy element formation and for the origin of the $A\approx 195$ peak in the mass abundance distribution. Although neutron-rich Pb, Tl, and Hg ($Z=80\text{–}82$) i…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034313] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Monochromatic neutron emissions from photonuclear sources ${}^{88}\mathrm{Y}/\mathrm{Be}$ and ${}^{124}\mathrm{Sb}/\mathrm{Be}$ are employed to obtain the response of pure (undoped) cesium iodide at 80 K. The use of a low-noise, high-quantum-efficiency avalanche photodiode in combination with a novel wave shifter results in a 70 eV analysis thresho…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034607] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Cluster structure of atomic nuclei, which plays a crucial role in the reaction mechanism, can be probed using breakup and transfer followed by breakup processes. The reaction mechanism, including breakup and transfer breakup, involving the ${}^{10}\mathrm{B}$ nucleus has been investigated by performing charged part…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034608] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

High-precision measurements of nuclear decay energies can reveal rare low-Q transitions with enhanced sensitivity to the absolute neutrino mass. Using the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap and the PI-ICR technique, the electron-capture Q value of ${}^{113}$Sn was determined with an eightfold improvement in precision over the previous evaluation. Combining the new mass result with known excited states in ${}^{113}$In identifies two energetically allowed low-Q electron-capture branches. In particular, an allowed transition to the 1029.650-keV state has $Q{*}_{EC}=9.60(20)$ keV and lies close to the L-shell binding energies. Atomic and nuclear calculations show enhanced spectral sensitivity near the endpoint, making this decay an interesting complementary system for future direct neutrino-mass studies.

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035501] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

The present investigation focuses on the improvement of the accuracy of the description of physical observables of interest in a moderately sized fermionic basis within the framework of covariant density functional theory. It extends the previous study [B. Osei et al., Phys. Rev. C 112, 054321 (202…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034312] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

Coherent hard exclusive reactions on light nuclei provide access to their quark and gluon structure and enable three-dimensional tomography of these complex systems. We study deeply virtual Compton scattering on a helium-4 target, including both kinematic twist-3 and twist-4 corrections, as well as …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035203] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

One of the outstanding challenges in nuclear physics is achieving a comprehensive understanding of the equation of state that governs dense nuclear matter, and, by extension, the internal composition and structure of compact astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and quark stars. The primary ap…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035804] Published Wed Sep 09, 2026

The low-energy $\mathrm{\Xi }$-deuteron scattering is investigated through the solution of Faddeev equations, employing three sets of the currently available representation of the $\mathrm{\Xi }$-nucleon interactions. One of these is the chiral next-to-leading order interaction specified by the Jülich group, and the other two …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034004] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

The identical charged-kaon correlations induced by quantum-statistics effects and final-state interactions are measured in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02\mathrm{TeV}$. The results of one- (1D) and three-dimensional (3D) analyses show that the obtained system-size parameters (radii) are smaller for more peripher…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034005] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Systematic calculations of $\alpha$-decay and spontaneous-fission (SF) properties are presented for the even-even superheavy isotopic chains with $Z=120–130$. The $\alpha$-decay half-lives are evaluated within the density-dependent cluster model using a double-folding potential with a zero-range exchange approximat…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034306] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Starting from a chiral two- plus three-nucleon interaction, we perform a systematic study of the low-lying states of neutron-rich nuclei around $N=20$ using the in-medium generator coordinate method, which combines the multireference in-medium similarity renormalization group with the quantum-number p…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034307] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

A simple pattern of organization, the nuclear shell structure, emerges from the complex interactions between nucleons in nuclei and determines, to some significant degree, nuclear structure properties. Recent experimental investigations of exotic nuclei revealed a shortfall in our current understand…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034308] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

The relativistic wave functions of ${}^3\mathrm{He}$ and ${}^3\mathrm{H}$ nuclei are calculated in the framework of light-front dynamics. They are determined by 32 spin-isospin components, each of which depends on five scalar variables. For nucleon-nucleon interaction, the one-boson exchange model is assumed but without a pote…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034309] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Nuclear mass prediction is one of the core issues in nuclear physics research, yet it faces the challenge of small-sample datasets with high complexity. This study introduces the Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) into the refinement of nuclear mass models, proposing an efficient and interpretable solu…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034310] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Neutron-deficient nuclei in the $N\approx Z, A\approx 90$ region were produced by fragmentation of a relativistic ${}^{107}\mathrm{Ag}$ beam at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), separated in the fragment separator FRS, slowed down, and thermalized, and high-precision mass measurements were performed employing …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034311] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Within the isospin-dependent quantum molecular-dynamics (IQMD) framework, we investigate the multiplicity information entropy $H$ of neutrons, protons, intermediate-mass fragments (IMFs), and all fragments, together with the $\mathrm{\Delta }$-scaling behaviors, in central ${}^{197}\mathrm{Au}+{}^{197}\mathrm{Au}$ collisions over an incident energ…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034603] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

A negative muon captured by an actinide cascades down through the muonic atomic levels; deeply bound transitions can proceed via inverse internal conversion, depositing the muonic transition energy directly into the nucleus and, when the deposited energy exceeds the fission barrier, inducing prompt …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034604] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Platinum radioisotopes are of growing interest for targeted cancer therapy and diagnostic imaging because their decay delivers highly localized radiation doses in tissue, herewith enabling precise DNA damage through Auger-electron emission. Developing production technologies that provide platinum is…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034605] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

At the keV-scale energies of stellar nucleosynthesis, the resonant charged-particle reactions addressed by the Trojan-horse method (THM) proceed through isolated near-threshold resonances, so the low-energy cross section and the resonance strength carry the same information. The standard THM working…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034606] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

We study the sensitivity of anisotropic flow in $\mathrm{Pb}+\mathrm{Pb}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV to the neutron skin of ${}^{208}\mathrm{Pb}$ using the improved string-melting version of a multiphase transport (AMPT) Model. By varying the neutron surface diffuseness, we trace the impact of several neutron-skin scenarios from the i…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034901] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Photons and dileptons produced in high energy nuclear collisions contain undistorted information about the conditions at their point of emission, such as the local temperature, flow velocity, and chemical potential. Using state of the art modeling of the collision dynamics, which reproduce hadronic spectra, the authors find good agreement with measurements by the STAR Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Collider, but differ from measurements by the PHENIX Collaboration in terms of magnitude but not shape. This work shows that the multimessenger approach to heavy-ion collisions previously used at higher energy is amenable to baryon-rich environments at lower temperatures, and paves the way for more comprehensive studies of the QCD phase diagram.

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034902] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

We present an upgraded formula for Wigner function and spin polarization of fermions emitted by a relativistic fluid at local thermodynamic equilibrium at the decoupling, which improves the one obtained by F. Becattini, M. Buzzegoli, and A. Palermo [Phys. Lett. B 820, 136519 (2021)] and by S. Y. F. …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034903] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

The simultaneous observation of strong sequential bottomonium suppression and small azimuthal anisotropy constrains the time scale and geometry of quarkonium dissociation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This work investigates an early-time contribution in which strong pre-equilibrium color fie…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034904] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Relativistic ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}+{}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ collisions provide a valuable opportunity to study both the quark-gluon plasma formed in small systems and the intrinsic structure of ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$. Recent implementations of ab initio nuclear configurations in heavy-ion simulations have produced different predictions for cluster-sensitiv…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034905] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

We present a new formulation for the mean-field propagation part of relativistic quantum molecular dynamics, simulating an $N$-body system of interacting Gaussian wave packets via Lorentz scalar and vector potentials. Covariant equations of motion are derived based on the principle of least action wit…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034906] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

The correlation between vorticity and spin alignment in heavy-ion collisions can be probed through polarization measurements of hadrons, whose total spin originates from both constituent-quark spins and orbital angular momentum in the quark-model framework. So far, experimental measurements have bee…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034907] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

In this work, we discuss the $\gamma W$-exchange contributions in neutron $\beta$ decay with an elastic intermediate state, beyond the forward-angle limit (FAL). By decomposing the one-$W$-exchange and $\gamma W$-exchange amplitudes in terms of 16 independent Pauli-spinor structures, we calculate the $\gamma W$-exchange correction…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035202] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

The astrophysical $S^{*}\left(E\right)$ factor for the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}+{}^{12}\mathrm{C}$ reaction within the Gamow window ($E_G=1.5\pm 0.3$ MeV) plays a pivotal role in modeling stellar carbon burning and explosive nucleosynthesis scenarios. However, direct measurements—or even simple extrapolations—at these energies are severely hindered by Coul…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035801] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

We investigate neutron star matter with hyperons within a density-dependent relativistic mean-field framework using Bayesian inference, considering three composition scenarios: purely nucleonic matter, hyperonic matter under SU(6) flavor symmetry, and hyperonic matter under SU(3) symmetry with free …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035802] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Gravitational-wave observations have renewed interest in the black-hole mass gap and in the maximum mass of first-generation black holes below its lower edge. The ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha ,\gamma ){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction plays a central role in this problem because it determines the carbon-to-oxygen ratio after core-helium burning and …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035803] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

We employ the three-body model to the ${}^{12}\mathrm{Be}$ nucleus by solving the Faddeev equations in momentum space using the partial-wave decomposition method. Four sets of interactions between the ${}^{10}\mathrm{Be}$ core and the neutron, $V_{cn}$, are constructed in different ways to test the validity of the three-body model. The…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034003] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

We theoretically investigate a quartet superfluid state in fermionic matter by using the quartet Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) variational theory and the Green's function method. We demonstrate that the quartet BCS theory with the multiple-infinite-product ansatz successfully reproduces an exact f…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034304] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

To study the isoscalar giant resonances in a deformed case, background-free $\alpha$-particle inelastic scattering measurements using a 386 MeV $\alpha$ beam were performed on the highly deformed ${}^{172}\mathrm{Yb}$ nucleus using the Grand Raiden spectrometer at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) at very forward an…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034305] Published Fri Sep 04, 2026

We develop a generalized finite-temperature proton-neutron BCS framework using the superoperator formalism, incorporating both isovector and isoscalar monopole pairing channels. Numerical calculations for a schematic equidistant multilevel model and realistic even-even Ge isotopes demonstrate the em…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034303] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

An enhanced Full-Potential Linear Augmented Plane Wave (FLAPW) method is introduced which incorporates the small Dirac components of valence states—specifically the 6p1/2 semicore states—in actinide solids such as Ac, Th, ThO${}_2$, and UO${}_2$. By accounting for these small components, it is demonstrated that the valence electron density at the nucleus increases by a factor of 2.4 to 4.3, correcting standard approximations in computational physics that omit significant valence electron density near the atomic nucleus. These refined relativistic Dirac calculations offer improved theoretical precision for nuclear phenomena such as internal conversion, Mossbauer spectroscopy, and electron bridge effects, providing foundational electronic structure insights relevant to technologies like ${}^{229}$Th-based solid-state nuclear clocks.

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034601] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

We have demonstrated a new way to reveal the electrical ‘fingerprint’ left by a single nuclear decay. When a radioactive atom implanted just beneath a surface decays, its products can eject a shower of secondary electrons from the surrounding material. Often undetected by conventional laboratory instruments, these electrons can create a substantial background in experiments that rely on precise electron counting. To study this process, we use a microscopic glass sphere suspended by laser light as a highly isolated charge detector with sub-electron charge sensitivity. We pair the sphere with a conventional scintillation detector that records the emitted radiation. By matching the timing of the two signals, we can link each charge change to a specific decay. We found that one alpha decay can knock more than 100 electrons from a material’s surface, while beta decays release far fewer. Measuring these electrical fingerprints one decay at a time could help experiments searching for rare events, including future sterile neutrino searches, to distinguish genuine signals from electrons released by radioactive impurities near detector surfaces.

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034602] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

The excitation energy difference between terminating states based on the $f_{7/2}^n$ and $d_{3/2}^{-1}{f}_{7/2}^{n+1}$ configurations has been studied within the cranked relativistic mean field framework. The discrepancy between the experimental data and the theoretical predictions is found to decrease systematically wit…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034302] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

In this work, a comprehensive, two-photon-exchange (TPE)-consistent analysis of the unpolarized reduced cross section ${\sigma }_R(\varepsilon ,Q^2)$ for elastic electron-proton ($ep$) scattering is performed to search for possible contributions from a light neutral scalar mediator and to establish quantitative constraints …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 035201] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

The impact of Coulomb core polarization on the neutron density distribution of ${}^{48}\mathrm{Ca}$ is investigated. The Coulomb boundary radius is located before the neutron skin region, leading to proton admixture and establishing neutron skin impurity as an intrinsic feature of the density profile. Using the ${(}^3\mathrm{H\dots }$

[Phys. Rev. C 114, L031601] Published Wed Sep 02, 2026

The halo nucleon-core system is, by definition, a shallow state nucleus. The nucleon, in most cases a neutron, is loosely bound to the other nucleons forming the core. Accordingly, the system is located inside the universal window; the halo nucleon most likely resides far from the rest of the nucleo…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034001] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

Short-range correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs provide a sensitive probe of the short-distance structure of atomic nuclei and the underlying nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction. We present a simple numerical method to estimate the number of two- and three-nucleon SRC clusters using an independent-particle …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034002] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

We examined the ratios of neutron and proton transition matrix elements, $M_n/M_p$, for the $0_{gs}^{+}\to 2_1^{+}$ transitions in 48 even-even stable nuclei with $N>20$ for which electromagnetic matrix elements were compiled by Pritychenko et al. and for which high-quality inelastic proton-scattering data were avail…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 034301] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

Nuclear effective field theories (EFTs) have had enormous impact on ab initio nuclear physics, yet many open questions remain regarding their development and application. This work studies Chiral EFT in a strictly RG-invariant formulation and applies it to the process of deuteron electrodisintegration, extending the reach of such calculations from static properties to breakup processes that probe a larger range of physics. To achieve this, the Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method is extended such that all subleading corrections, including those to the electromagnetic current operator, are included in perturbation theory, reaching second order in the EFT expansion. Finding good agreement with available data, this perturbative LIT framework paves the way for similar studies involving heavier nuclei.

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024004] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

A microscopic statistical model based on the relativistic density functional theory (RDFT) is developed to calculate the nuclear level density (NLD). The approach employs self-consistent single-particle levels obtained from RDFT as input, incorporates pairing correlations within a finite-temperature…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024345] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

Background: Recent studies of the β decay of fission fragments by total absorption spectroscopy have found less decay energy attributed to leptons than previously believed, with studies of ${}^{105}\mathrm{Mo}$ and ${}^{105}\mathrm{Tc}$ being particularly impactful for reactor decay heat. These results are also crucial for interpr…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024346] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

The fission fragment mass and total kinetic energy (TKE) distributions of neutron deficient ${}^{193}\mathrm{Tl}$, populated in the ${}^{28}\mathrm{Si}+{}^{165}\mathrm{Ho}$ and ${}^{34}\mathrm{S}+{}^{159}\mathrm{Tb}$ reactions, have been measured at overlapping excitation energies. By employing a two-dimensional unbinned maximum likelihood fitting procedure, a substantial a…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024612] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

Dynamical fission calculations show that the post-scission configurations resemble two collinear pear-shaped fragments whose juxtaposed surface bulges subside relatively quickly, as the fragments acquire smoother shapes. The associated rapid speed of the healing bulge surface may boost nucleons in t…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024613] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

Equations of a boost-invariant and cylindrically symmetric perfect hydrodynamics are solved numerically for initial conditions inspired by the wounded nucleon model. The energy-momentum and spin tensors are used in the form that describes a relativistic massive gas governed by Boltzmann statistics. …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024910] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

We present variable precision GP (VarP-GP), a new cost-efficient Bayesian emulator for expensive computational models with variable statistical precision. We focus on the interpretation of measurements of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) generated in high-energy nuclear collisions, through comparison to…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024911] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

We present a data-driven analysis within a quantum evolutionary microscopic framework to constrain the in-medium bottomonium potential. In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, bottomonium bound states serve as invaluable probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) owing to their negligible production in th…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024912] Published Mon Aug 31, 2026

I discuss the peculiarities of scattering in a three-proton system induced by the presence of an entangled proton-proton Bell-like state in the initial configuration. I formulate the problem using the standard spin formalism of nuclear physics in order to follow in detail the reaction pathways leadi…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024003] Published Fri Aug 28, 2026

We study fluctuations and correlations of conserved charges in QCD using a string-based description of the hadronic mass spectrum. Mesons and baryons are modeled as open relativistic strings with quark-antiquark and quark-diquark endpoints, respectively, leading to an exponential Hagedorn growth of …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 025205] Published Fri Aug 28, 2026

For a long time, studies of femtoscopic correlations have provided information about space-time characteristics of particle sources in high-energy collisions. Recently, the correlation functions have also been used to determine interaction parameters of correlated particles, which is especially impo…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 025206] Published Fri Aug 28, 2026

The gap equations lie at the core of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory, a standard tool in the description of superfluidity. As a set of non-inear integral equations, the gap equations' inherent difficulties oftentimes hinder even the crudest descriptions of superfluid states. Hard-core pot…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024340] Published Thu Aug 27, 2026

We report new data from a ${}^{150}\mathrm{Nd}(p,t){}^{148}\mathrm{Nd}$ experiment performed at the John D. Fox Accelerator Laboratory of Florida State University. In total, 54 excited states of ${}^{148}\mathrm{Nd}$ were observed up to an excitation energy of 3500 keV. In this work, we focus on $0^{+}$ states and their band members. In contrast to …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024344] Published Thu Aug 27, 2026

Based on relativistic mean field theory for atomic nuclei, we compute the mass radius and other radii associated with the energy momentum tensor for dozens of spin-0 nuclei across the nuclear chart. We also compute the D-term of these nuclei, the forward limit of the gravitational form factor $D(t=0)\dots$

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024343] Published Wed Aug 26, 2026

The production cross sections of 23 fission fragments in the mass range $71\le A\le 141$ have been measured in the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}+{}^{193}\mathrm{Ir}$ reaction at $E_{\mathrm{lab}}=83.99\pm 0.013, 80.99\pm 0.007$, and $74.82\pm 0.026\mathrm{MeV}$ using the recoil-catcher activation technique followed by offline $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy. The mass and charge distributions …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024611] Published Wed Aug 26, 2026

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 029902] Published Wed Aug 26, 2026

The collective structure of low-lying states in the $N=50$ nucleus ${}^{92}\mathrm{Mo}$ $(Z=42)$ has been investigated through sub-barrier Coulomb excitation using the CHICO2 device coupled to the $\gamma$-ray energy tracking in-beam nuclear array (GRETINA). Quadrupole and octupole collective properties are measured for the $2_{\mathrm{\dots }}^{}$

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024338] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

Quantum computing is increasingly offering concrete solutions toward the simulation of nuclear structure, with the potential to overcome the exponential scaling that limits classical diagonalization methods in large spaces. A particularly efficient encoding scheme, based on collective like-nucleon p…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024339] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

This study investigates nuclear responses to two-body external fields, interpreted as double-phonon excitations, within the subtracted second random-phase approximation (SSRPA) for ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ and ${}^{40}\mathrm{Ca}$. To clarify the underlying characteristics of these modes, Hartree–Fock and SSRPA with the diagonal approx…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024341] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

Half-lives of yrast excited states in ${}^{94}\mathrm{Pd}$ were measured using isomeric decay spectroscopy. The experiment was performed at Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory, where ${}^{94}\mathrm{Pd}$ ions were produced via in-flight fragmentation of a ${}^{124}\mathrm{Xe}$ beam impinging on a ${}^9\mathrm{Be}$ target. These ions were implanted into the GARi a…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024342] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

A framework for computing $\gamma$-ray feeding probabilities in nuclear decay schemes based on absorbing Markov chains is presented. In this approach, excited nuclear states are treated as transient states and long-lived levels as absorbing states, allowing feeding fractions to be obtained exactly from the…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 025807] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

The electrostatic field strength inside heavy nuclei far exceeds the famous Schwinger critical field strength and most intense laser fields available nowadays. Under such an extreme electric field, the quantum electrodynamics (QED) effect dominated by vacuum polarization in the nuclear system turns …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, L021303] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

High-spin states in the neutron-deficient nucleus ${}_{61}{}^{131}\mathrm{Pm}_{70}$ have been investigated using the Jurogam 3 $\gamma$-ray spectrometer. This is the lightest promethium isotope with known excited states. The proton intruder $h_{11/2}$ rotational structure has been extended to both higher and lower spin, and its unfavo…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, L021304] Published Tue Aug 25, 2026

We investigate the finite-temperature evolution of microscopic free-energy corrections in nuclear fission, focusing on pairing and shell effects near scission. The analysis is based on a finite-temperature BCS treatment combined with the Strutinsky method and is performed for representative deformat…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024336] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

We study deformed neutron halo nuclei in the mass region $40<A<90$ and their soft electric dipole $\left(E1\right)$ excitations based on the deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory in continuum. Three candidates, ${}^{43}\mathrm{Si}$, ${}^{69}\mathrm{Ti}$, and ${}^{75}\mathrm{Cr}$, are selected for detailed analysis. Unique features are identified…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024337] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

We extend previous halo effective field theory analyses of low-energy elastic scattering of ${}^3\mathrm{He}\text{−}{}^4\mathrm{He}$, including the ${\frac{7}{2}}^{-}$ $f$-wave resonance as an explicit degree of freedom. The presence of this resonance necessitates a changing power counting scheme depending on the kinematic region. Therefore, we cons…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024610] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

The present study provides an extension to our recent work on the vector (V) electromagnetic single-nucleon current and associated response functions, both for unpolarized situations and in situations where the target nucleon is polarized. Here the axial-vector (A) single-nucleon current matrix elem…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 025502] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

Neutrino processes are important in the modeling of supernova explosions, proto-neutron star evolution, and binary neutron star mergers. We study neutrino production and absorption in proto-neutron star and supernova matter and direct Urca neutrino emission of neutron star matter in the framework of…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 025806] Published Mon Aug 24, 2026

High-spin states of ${}^{125}\mathrm{I}$ have been populated using the ${}^{122}\mathrm{Sn}({}^7\mathrm{Li},4n){}^{125}\mathrm{I}$ reaction at a beam energy of 44 MeV. Four three-quasiparticle rotational bands originating from neutron alignment were observed. A pair of nearly degenerate positive-parity doublet bands is assigned the $\pi g_{7/2}\otimes \nu h_{11/2}^2$ configurat…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024335] Published Fri Aug 21, 2026

In this study, we investigate the impact of the effective nucleon mass and the existence of the dineutron and the tetraneutron on the thermodynamic properties and nuclear composition by constructing new equations of state. Our results indicate that the model with a larger effective nucleon mass slig…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 025805] Published Fri Aug 21, 2026

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 029901] Published Fri Aug 21, 2026

Per-trigger yields of ${\pi }^0\text{−}\mathrm{hadron}$ correlations were measured in semicentral Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02\text{TeV}$ in ALICE at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The reconstructed ${\pi }^0\to \gamma \gamma$, with a transverse momentum of $11\mathrm{GeV}/c<p_{\mathrm{T}}\left({\pi }^0\right)<14\mathrm{GeV}/c$, is used as the trigger particle to calculate yields of associated…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024002] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Background: The $N=80$ isotones offer an important opportunity for studying nuclear structure evolution and the interplay between single-particle motion and collective behavior near the $N=82$ shell closure. Although the nuclear shell model is a powerful and predictive framework, progress for the open-s…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024332] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Low-spin excitations of ${}^{91}\mathrm{Zr}$ and ${}^{93}\mathrm{Zr}$ nuclei, populated in the ($n,\gamma$) cold-neutron-capture reactions, have been studied using the highly efficient array EXILL, at the Institute-Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble. 14 new excited levels and 36 new $\gamma$ transitions, including 16 primary decays, have been found …

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024333] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026

Knowing that stable Zr isotopes near the double-magic ${}^{90}\mathrm{Zr}$ nucleus remain spherical, we construct a dispersive optical potential to describe nucleon scattering on zirconium isotopes by introducing linear dependence on mass number $A$ into selected geometric parameters of the optical potential for ${}^{90}\mathrm{Zr}$…

[Phys. Rev. C 114, 024609] Published Thu Aug 20, 2026