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Dark matter scattering off ${}^2\mathrm{H}$ and ${}^4\mathrm{He}$ nuclei within chiral effective field theory

Elena Filandri and Michele Viviani

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034002 (2024) – Published 6 September 2024

The nature of dark matter is one of the outstanding problems in particle physics and cosmology. To assist in the search for dark matter (DM), the authors examine the most general interactions between weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), assumed to be spin-1/2 fermions, and isotopes of the lightest nuclei, hydrogen and helium, using chiral effective field theory for a wide range of masses and coupling constants. The authors conclude that the scalar nuclear response functions are much greater than the others and severely constrained by the existing limits provided by experiments. The present study could be extended to other possible types of DM interactions, lighter DM candidates or heavier nuclei, such as lithium, argon, and xenon, currently widely used in dark matter detectors.

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Inferring fission timescales from prescission neutron multiplicity using a Langevin dynamical model

G. Mohanto, M. T. Senthil Kannan, Jhilam Sadhukhan, and B. Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034604 (2024) – Published 6 September 2024

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Femtoscopy analysis of ultrasoft pion trap at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

W. Rzesa, G. Kornakov, A. R. Kisiel, Yu. M. Sinyukov, and V. M. Shapoval

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034904 (2024) – Published 6 September 2024

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Simultaneous extraction of the weak radius and the weak mixing angle from parity-violating electron scattering on ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}$

M. Cadeddu, N. Cargioli, J. Erler, M. Gorchtein, J. Piekarewicz, Xavier Roca-Maza, and H. Spiesberger

Phys. Rev. C 110, 035501 (2024) – Published 6 September 2024

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Uncertainty quantification in $(p,n)$ reactions

A. J. Smith, C. Hebborn, F. M. Nunes, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034602 (2024) – Published 5 September 2024

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Importance of whispering gallery resonances for nuclear scattering from weakly bound or unstable nuclei

Alan C. Shotter and Alessia Di Pietro

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034603 (2024) – Published 5 September 2024

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Structure of the deuteron from an analysis of bremsstrahlung emission in proton-deuteron scattering in cluster models

K. A. Shaulskyi, S. P. Maydanyuk, and V. S. Vasilevsky

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034001 (2024) – Published 4 September 2024

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Weak entanglement approximation for nuclear structure

Oliver C. Gorton and Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034305 (2024) – Published 4 September 2024

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Rotation-vibration model for the chiral doublet bands and wobbling bands in transitional nuclei

H. D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, B. Qi, and H. Zhang

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034301 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Time-dependent density functional theory study of induced-fission dynamics of ${}^{226}\mathrm{Th}$

B. Li (李博), D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍), and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034302 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Decay of a microsecond seniority 3 isomeric state in ${}^{155}\mathrm{Hf}$

B. Alayed et al.

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034303 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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High-resolution spectroscopy of neutron-rich Br isotopes and signatures for a prolate-to-oblate shape transition at $N=56$

J. Dudouet et al.

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034304 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Experimental evidence of shell effects in slow quasifission

A. Pal, S. Santra, P. C. Rout, A. Kundu, D. Chattopadhyay, Ramandeep Gandhi, P. N. Patil, R. Tripathi, B. J. Roy, Y. Sawant, T. N. Nag, Abhijit Baishya, T. Santhosh, P. K. Rath, and N. Deshmukh

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034601 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Role of initial transverse momentum in a hybrid approach

Niklas Götz, Lucas Constantin, and Hannah Elfner

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034901 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Exploring system-size dependence of jet modification in heavy-ion collisions

Yang He, Mengxue Zhang, Maowu Nie, Shanshan Cao, and Li Yi

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034902 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Antiflow of mesons in the high baryon density region

Zuo-Wen Liu and Shusu Shi

Phys. Rev. C 110, 034903 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

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Editors' Suggestion Letter

Observation and spectroscopy of the proton-unbound nucleus ${}^{21}\mathrm{Al}$

D. Kostyleva et al.

Phys. Rev. C 110, L031301 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024

The proton dripline demarcates the nuclear landscape on the neutron-deficient side. A measurement at the SIS/FRS facility at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany of the anatomy of the immediate breakup of fragile ${}^{21}$Al into ${}^{20}$Mg + proton has now established that ${}^{21}$Al is unbound against proton emission in its ground state. The result thus places ${}^{21}$Al as the first Al isotope beyond the proton dripline. Its precise, negative proton separation energy will be a benchmark for nuclear structure models that treat nuclei as open quantum systems.

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Inclusion of the long-range proton-proton Coulomb force in the three-nucleon scattering Faddeev calculations

H. Witała, J. Golak, and R. Skibiński

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024005 (2024) – Published 30 August 2024

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Axially deformed relativistic quasiparticle random-phase approximation based on point-coupling interactions

A. Ravlić, T. Nikšić, Y. F. Niu, P. Ring, and N. Paar

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024323 (2024) – Published 29 August 2024

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Proton and neutron contributions to the quadrupole transition strengths in ${}^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ and ${}^{39}\mathrm{K}$ studied by lifetime measurements of mirror transitions

A. Sanchez, H. Iwasaki, A. Revel, B. A. Brown, J. Ash, D. Bazin, J. Chen, R. Elder, A. Gade, A. Goldkuhle, M. Grinder, D. Lempke, J. Li, B. Longfellow, C. Müller-Gatermann, J. Pereira, D. Rhodes, R. Salinas, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024322 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024

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Exploring the possibility of wobbling motion in ${}^{129}\mathrm{Ba}$

S. Chakraborty, S. Bhattacharyya, G. Mukherjee, and C. Majumder

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024324 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024

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Machine learning study to identify collective flow in small and large colliding systems

Shuang Guo (郭爽), Han-Sheng Wang (王瀚生), Kai Zhou (周凯), and Guo-Liang Ma (马国亮)

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024910 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024

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Uncertainty-quantification-enabled inversion of nuclear responses

Krishnan Raghavan and Alessandro Lovato

Phys. Rev. C 110, 025504 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024

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$\beta$-delayed neutron emission of ${}^{64}\mathrm{Mn}, {}^{62}\mathrm{Cr}$, and ${}^{65}\mathrm{Fe}$

W.-J. Ong, H. Schatz, K. Kravvaris, S. Ahn, K. Childers, B. P. Crider, A. C. Dombos, C. Langer, R. Lewis, S. N. Liddick, S. Lyons, Z. Meisel, F. Montes, J. Pereira, D. Richman, K. Schmidt, and A. Spyrou

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024321 (2024) – Published 27 August 2024

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Single-channel and single-energy partial-wave analysis with continuity improved through minimal phase constraints

A. Švarc and R. L. Workman

Phys. Rev. C 110, 024614 (2024) – Published 27 August 2024

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