CAPTUREGAMMA-RAYSPECTROSCOPYAND RELATEDTOPICS12th International Symposium

Notre Dome, Indiono 4-9 September 2005

EDITORSAndreas Woehr

Ani AprahamianInstitute for Structure & Nuclear Astrophysics

Notre Dame, Indiana

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONSJoint Institute for Astrophysics (JINA)University of Notre Dame College of ScienceUniversity of Notre Dame Graduate SchoolUniversity of Notre Dame Office of Research

AIP Melville, New York, 200675 Years of Service AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS • VOLUME 819

CONTENTS

Preface xix

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE (ISOMERS AND GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY)

K-Isomers and Aspects of Nuclear Structure 3G. D. Dracoulis

In-Beam ^Spectroscopy of Low-Spin Mixed-Symmetry States of138Ce with Gammasphere in Singles-Mode 11

N. Pietralla, G. Rainovski, T. Ahn, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens,C. J. Lister, and S. Zhu

Nuclear Isomers: Stepping Stones to the Unknown 16P. M. Walker

Violations of K-Conservation in 178Hf 24A. B. Hayes, D. Cline, C. Y. Wu, J. Ai, H. Amro, C. Beausang,R. F. Casten, J. Gerl, A. A. Hecht, A. Heinz, R. Hughes, R. V. F. Janssens,C. J. Lister, A.O. Macchiavelli, D. A. Meyer, E. F. Moore, P. Napiorkowski,R. C. Pardo, Ch. Schlegel, D. Seweryniak, M. W. Simon, J. Srebrny,R. Teng, K. Vetter, and H. J. Wollersheim

Theoretical Description of K-Isomers 30Y. Sun

Isomer and In-Beam Spectroscopy of Medium-Spin States in 91'92Zr 35P. H. Regan, N. J. Thompson, A. B. Garnsworthy, H. C. Ai, L. Amon,R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, C. R. Fitzpatrick, S. J. Freeman, G. Gurdal,A. Heinz, G. A. Jones, E. A. McCutchan, J. Qian, V. Werner,S. J. Williams, and R. Winkler

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE: DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF D. D. WARNER

Dave Warner: Friend, Mentor, Colleague 43A. Aprahamian

Emerging Collectivity in Nuclei, Shape Coexistence, andProton-Neutron Interactions 49

R. F. CastenSymmetry and Wigner Energy in Nuclear Matter 57

P. Van Isacker

Varying Shell Structure of sd-pf Nuclei 65T. Otsuka

Recent Advances in Studies of Mirror-symmetry in the A=40-56 Shell 71A. M. Bruce

FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

Measurement of Parity-Violating Gamma-ray Asymmetry inCompound Nuclei with Cold Neutrons 81

P.-N. Seo, J. D. Bowman, R. D. Carlini, T. E. Chupp, S. D. Covrig,M. Dabaghyan, S. J. Freedman, T. Gentile, M. T. Gericke, R. C. Gillis,G. L. Greene, F. W. Hersman, T. Ino, G. L. Jones, M. Kandes, B. Lauss,M. B. Leuschner, W. R. Lozowski, R. Mahurin, M. Mason, Y. Masuda,G. S. Mitchell, S. Muto, H. Nann, S. A. Page, S. I. Penttila, W. D. Ramsay,S. Santra, E. I. Sharapov, T. B. Smith, W. M. Snow, W. S. Wilburn,V. Yuan, and H. Zhu

Scattering of keV Neutrons and the Problem ofQuantum Entanglement 86

R. Moreh, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, and M. NeumanRandom Matrix Thermodynamics 91

G. E. Mitchell, T. N. Nogueira, M. P. Pato, J.C. Sartorelli, andA. P. B. Tufaile

Symmetry of Isoscalar Matrix Elements and Systematics in the sdand Beginning of fp Shells 96

J. N. Orce, P. Petkov, V. Velazquez, C. J. McKay, S. R. Lesher, S. Choudry,M. Mynk, A. Linnemann, J. Jolie, P. von Brentano, V. Werner, S. W. Yates,and M.T. McEllistrem

Symmetry and Structure Tests in 18O and 18Ne 101S. Choudry, J. N. Orce, V. Varadarajan, S. Lesher, D. Bandyopadhyay,S. Mukhopadhyay, S. W. Yates, and M. T. McEllistrem

Gamma-Ray Transitions in the Decay of the Superallowed BetaEmitter 62Ga . 105

B. Hyland, C. E. Svensson, G. C. Ball, J. R. Leslie, D. Albers,C. Andreoiu, P. Bricault, R. Churchman, D. Cross, M. Dombsky,P. E. Garrett, C. Geppert, G. F. Grinyer, G. Hackman, V. Hanemaayer,J. Lassen, J. P. Lavoie, D. Melconian, A. C. Morton, C. J. Pearson,M. Pearson, A. A. Phillips, M.A. Schumaker, and J. J. Valiente- Dobon

DATA FOR NUCLEAR- AND ASTROPHYSICS APPLICATIONS

Nuclear Structure and Decay Data: Current Status andFuture Perspectives 113

F. G. Kondev and J. K. TuliAn Updated Library of Reaction Rates for the Astrophysicalrp-Process 118

A. Sakharuk, T. Elliot, J. L. Fisker, S. Hemingray, A. Kruizenga,T. Rauscher, H. Schatz, K. Smith, F.-K. Thielemann, and M. Wiescher

KADoNiS—The Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesisin Stars 123

I. Dillmann, M. Heil, F. Kappeler, R. Plag, T. Rauscher, andF.-K. Thielemann

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Nuclear Data Resources for Capture y-Ray Spectroscopy andRelated Topics 128

B. Pritychenko, M. W. Herman, P. Oblozinsky, A. A. Sonzogni, andV. Zerkin

Measurements of Neutron Capture Cross Sections for Gd Isotopes inthe Energy Region from 10 keV to 90 keV 133

G. N. Kim, W. C. Chung, T. L Ro, T. Ohsaki, and M. IgashiraThe Evaluated Gamma-ray Activation File (EGAF) 138

R. Firestone, G. L. Molnar, Zs. Revay, T. Belgya, D. P. McNabb, andB. W. Sleaford

NUCLEAR MASSES AND SHELL MODEL

Nuclear Forecasting as Pattern Recognition: Can we PredictNuclear Masses? 151

A. Frank, J. C. Lopez Vieyra, J. Barea, J. G. Hirsch, V. Velazquez, andP. Van Isacker

Mass Measurements with the CSS2 and CIME Cyclotrons at GANIL 159M. B. Gomez Hornillos, M. Chartier, W. Mittig, B. Blank, L. Caballero,F. Chautard, C. E. Demonchy, G. Georgiev, A. Gillibert, B. Jacquot,B. Jurado, N. Lecesne, A. Lepine-Szily, N. Orr, G. Politi, M. Rousseau,P. Roussel-Chomaz, H. Savajols, and A. C. C. Villari

Recent Achievements and Future of Mass Measurements with FastRadioactive Beams 164

M. Matos

NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

How Accurately Do We Know the Cross Section of the7Be (p, y)8B Reaction? 171

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Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments at CIAE 176W. Liu, Z. Li, X. Bai, G. Lian, B. Guo, S. Zeng, S. Yan, B. Wang, N. Shu,and Y. Chen

An Independent Measurement of the i2C(a, y)16O Cross Section withthe Karlsruhe 4n BaF2 Detector 181

R. Plag, M. Heil, F. Kappeler, and K. Wisshak19F(p, y) 20Ne: Putting a Lid on the CNO Cycle 186

A. Couture, M. Beard, M. Couder, J. Gorres, L. Lamm, P. LeBlanc,H.-Y. Lee, S. O'Brien, A. Palumbo, E. Stech, E. Strandberg, W. Tan,E. Uberseder, C. Ugalde, and M. Wiescher

Threshold States in 19Ne and the CNO BreakoutReaction 15O(a, y)19Ne 191

W. P. Tan, J. Gorres, J. Daly, M. Couder, A. Couture, H. Y. Lee, E. Stech,E. Strandberg, C. Ugalde, and M. Wiescher

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Nuclear Isomers: Structures and Applications 196Y. Sun, M. Wiescher, A. Aprahamian, and J. Fisker

Radiative Capture Reactions and a-Elastic Scattering on 106Cd forthe Astrophysical p-Process 201

Gy. Gyurky, Z. Elekes, G. G. Kiss, Zs. Fiilop, E. Somorjai, Z. Mate,J. Gorres, A. Palumbo, M. Wiescher, H.-Y. Lee, N. Ozkan, R. T. Giiray,G. Efe, D. Galaviz, A. Kretschmer, K. Sonnabend, A. Zilges, andT. Rauscher

NUCLEAR REACTIONS (REACTIONS WITH NEUTRON-RICH NUCLEI)

Neutron-Transfer Reactions with Exotic Neutron-Rich Beams:Surrogates for Neutron-Capture Reactions 209

J. A. Cizewski, K. L. Jones, S. D. Pain, J. S. Thomas, D. W. Bardayan,J. C. Blackmon, M. S. Smith, R. L. Kozub, and M. S. Johnson

Do Halos Exist on the Dripline of Deformed Nuclei? 216F. M. Nunes, B. Avez, and T. Dugnet

Doppler Shift as a Tool for Studies of Resonant (p,n) Reactions withRIBs, Spectroscopy of 7He 221

P. Boutachkov, G. V. Rogachev, V. Z. Goldberg, A. Aprahamian,F. D. Becchetti, J. P. Bychowski, Y. Chen, G. Chubarian, P. A. DeYoung,J. J. Kolata, L. O. Lamm, G. F. Peaslee, M. Quinn, B. B. Skorodumov, andA. Wohr

Model Calculations of Radiative Capture of Nucleons in MeV Region 226E. Betak

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE (0+ STATES)

Study of 0 + States in Deformed Nuclei 233S. R. Lesher, Z. Ammar, M. Merrick, C. D. Hannant, N. Warr,T. B. Brown, N. Boukharouba, C. Fransen, M. T. McEllistrem, and iS. W. Yates

Pairing Versus Quadrupole Collectivity of Low-Lying 0 + States inDeformed Nuclei 239

N. Lo Iudice, A. V. Sushkov, and N. Yu. ShirikovaRecent Progress on the 0+ Dominance 244

N. Yoshinaga, A. Arima, and Y. M. ZhaoGamma-Ray Spectroscopy at TRIUMF-ISAC 249

P. E. Garrett, C. E. Svensson, G. C. Ball, G. Hackman, E. F. Zganjar,C. Andreoiu, A. Andreyev, S. F. Ashley, R. A. E. Austin,D. Bandyopadhyay, J. A. Becker, S. Chan, H. Coombes, R. Churchman,R. S. Chakrawarthy, P. Finlay, G. F. Grinyer, B. Hyland, E. Tiles,G. A. Jones, W. D. Kulp, J. R. Leslie, C. Mattoon, A. C. Morton,C. J. Pearson, A. A. Phillips, P. H. Regan, J. J. Ressler, F. Sarazin,M. A. Schumaker, J. Schwarzenberg, M. B. Smith, J. J. Valiente-Dobon,P. M. Walker, S. J. Williams, J. C. Waddington, L. M. Walters, J. Wong,and J. L. Wood

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NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS (S-PROCESS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS)

Neutron Capture Reaction Rates for Stellar Nucleosynthesis 257A. Mengoni

The Weak s-Process and its Relation to Explosive Nucleosynthesis 265M. Heil and M. Pignatari

Measurement of Neutron Capture Cross Section of 62Ni in thekeV-Region 273

A. M. Alpizar-Vicente, T. A. Bredeweg, E.-I. Esch, U. Greife, R. C. Haight,R. Hatarik, J. M. O'Donnell, R. Reifarth, R. S. Rundberg, J. L. Ullmann,D. J. Vieira, J. B. Wilhelmy, and J. M. Wouters

1D2Pd(n, y) Cross Section Measurement Using DANCE 278R. Hatarik, A. M. Alpizar-Vicente, T. A. Bredeweg, E.-I. Esch, U. Greife,R. C. Haight, J. M. O'Donnell, R. Reifarth, R. S. Rundberg, J. L. Ullmann,D. J. Vieira, and J. M. Wouters

Measurement of 139La(n, y) Cross Section 283R. Terlizzi, U. Abbondanno, G. Aerts, H. Alvarez, F. Alvarez-Velarde,S. Andriamonje, J. Andrzejewski, P. Assimakopoulos, L. Audouin,G. Badurek, P. Baumann, F. Becvar, E. Berthoumieux, F. Calvino,D. Cano-Ott, R. Capote, A. Carrillo de Albornoz, P. Cennini, V. Chepel,E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. Cortes, A. Couture, J. Cox, M. Dahlfors,S. David, I. Dillmann, R. Dolfini, C. Domingo-Pardo, W. Dridi, I. Duran,C. Eleftheriadis, M. Embid-Segura, L. Ferrant, A. Ferrari,R. Ferreira-Marques, L. Fitzpatrick, H. Frais-Koelbl, K. Fujii, W. Furman,R. Gallino, I. Goncalves, E. Gonzalez-Romero, A. Goverdovski,F. Gramegna, E. Griesmayer, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, B. Haas, R. Haight,M. Heil, A. Herrera-Martinez, M. Igashira, S. Isaev, E. Jericha, Y. Kadi,F. Kappeler, D. Karamanis, D. Karadimos, M. Kerveno, V. Ketlerov,P. Koehler, V. Konovalov, E. Kossionides, M. Krticka, C. Lamboudis,H. Leeb, A. Lindote, I. Lopes, M. Lozano, S. Lukic, J. Marganiec,L. Marques, S. Marrone, P. Mastinu, A. Mengoni, P. M. Milazzo,C. Moreau, M. Mosconi, F. Neves, H. Oberhummer, S. O'Brien,M. Oshima, J. Pancin, C. Papachristodoulou, C. Papadopoulos, C. Paradela,N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, P. Pavlopoulos, L. Perrot, R. Plag, A. Plompen,A. Plukis, A. Poch, C. Pretel, J. Quesada, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth,M. Rosetti, C. Rubbia, G. Rudolf, P. Rullhusen, J. Salgado, L. Sarchiapone,I. Savvidis, C. Stephan, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, L. Tassan-Got, L. Tavora,G. Vannini, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, D. Villamarin, M. C. Vincente,V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, F. Voss, S. Walter, H. Wendler, M. Wiescher,and K. Wisshak

Measurement of the Resonance Capture Cross Section of 204>206pD a n jTermination of the s-Process 288

C. Domingo-Pardo, S. O'Brien, U. Abbondanno, G. Aerts, H. Alvarez,F. Alvarez-Velarde, S. Andriamonje, J. Andrzejewski, P. Assimakopoulos,L. Audouin, G. Badurek, P. Baumann, F. Becvar, E. Berthoumieux,F. Calvino, D. Cano-Ott, R. Capote, A. Carrillo de Albornoz, P. Cennini,V. Chepel, E. Chiaveri, N. Colonna, G. Cortes, A. Couture, J. Cox,M. Dahlfors, S. David, I. Dillmann, R. Dolfini, W. Dridi, I. Duran,C. Eleftheriadis, M. Embid-Segura, L. Ferrant, A. Ferrari,

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R. Ferreira-Marques, L. Fitzpatrick, H. Frais-Koelbl, K. Fujii, W. Furman,C. Guerrero, I. Goncalves, R. Gallino, E. Gonzalez-Romero,A. Goverdovski, F. Gramegna, E. Griesmayer, F. Gunsing, B. Haas,R. Haight, M. Heil, A. Herrera-Martinez, M. Igashira, S. Isaev, E. Jericha,Y. Kadi, F. Kappeler, D. Karamanis, D. Karadimos, M. Kerveno,V. Ketlerov, P. Koehler, V. Konovalov, E. Kossionides, M. Krticka,C. Lamboudis, H. Leeb, A. Lindote, I. Lopes, M. Lozano, S. Lukic,J. Marganiec, L. Marques, S. Marrone, P. Mastinu, A. Mengoni,P. M. Milazzo, C. Moreau, M. Mosconi, F. Neves, H. Oberhummer,M. Oshima, J. Pancin, C. Papachristodoulou, C. Papadopoulos, C. Paradela,N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, P. Pavlopoulos, L. Perrot, R. Plag, A. Plompen,A. Plukis, A. Poch, C. Pretel, J. Quesada, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth,M. Rosetti, C. Rubbia, G. Rudolf, P. Rullhusen, J. Salgado, L. Sarchiapone,I. Sayvidis, C. Stephan, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, L. Tassan-Got, L. Tavora,R. Terlizzi, G. Vannini, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, D. Villamarin, M. C. Vincente,V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, F. Voss, S. Walter, H. Wendler, M. Wiescher,K. Wisshak, and The n_TOF Collaboration

NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS

The Radiative Strength Function Using the Neutron-CaptureReaction on m'153Eu 295

U. Agvaanluvsan, A. Alpizar-Vicente, J. A. Becker, F. Becvar,T. A. Bredeweg, R. Clement, E. Esch, C. M. Folden, III, R. Hatarik,R. C. Haight, D. C. Hoffman, M. Krticka, R. A. Macri, G. E. Mitchell,H. Nitsche, J. M. O'Donnell, W. Parker, R. Reifarth, R. S. Rundberg,J. M. Schwantes, S. A. Sheets, J. L. Ullmann, D. J. Vieira, J. B. Wilhelmy,P. Wilk, J. M. Wouters, and C. Y. Wu

Determination of Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Sections UsingCold Neutron Beams at the Budapest PGAA-NIPS Facilities 300

T. Belgya, Zs. Revay, L. SzentmiklosiMethod for (n, y) Cross Section Measurements on Unstable Isotopes 307

S. Walter, M. Heil, F. Kappeler, R. Plag, and R. ReifarthNeutron Capture Cross Sections of 236U and 234U 312

R. S. Rundberg, T. A. Bredeweg, E. M. Bond, R. C. Haight, L. F. Hunt,A. Kronenberg, J. M. O'Donnell, J. M. Schwantes, J. L. Ullmann,D. J. Vieira, J. B. Wilhelmy, and J. M. Wouters

Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements at n_TOF of 237Np,240Pu and M3Am for the Transmutation of Nuclear Waste 318

D. Cano-Ott, U. Abbondanno, G. Aerts, H. Alvarez, F. Alvarez-Velarde,S. Andriamonje, J. Andrzejewski, P. Assimakopoulos, L. Audouin,G. Badurek, P. Baumann, F. Becvar, E. Berthoumieux, F. Calvino,R. Capote, A. Carrillo de Albornoz, P. Cennini, V. Chepel, E. Chiaveri,N. Colonna, G. Cortes, A. Couture, J. Cox, M. Dahlfors, S. David,I. Dillmann, R. Dolfini, C. Domingo-Pardo, W. Dridi, I. Duran,C. Eleftheriadis, M. Embid-Segura, L. Ferrant, A. Ferrari,R. Ferreira-Marques, L. Fitzpatrick, H. Frais-Koelbl, K. Fujii, W. Furman,R. Gallino, I. Goncalves, E. Gonzalez-Romero, A. Goverdovski,

F. Gramegna, E. Griesmayer, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, B. Haas, R. Haight,M. Heil, A. Herrera-Martinez, M. Igashira, S. Isaev, E. Jericha, Y. Kadi,F. Kappeler, D. Karamanis, D. Karadimos, M. Kerveno, V. Ketlerov,P. Koehler, V. Konovalov, E. Kossionides, M. Krticka, C. Lamboudis,H. Leeb, A. Lindote, I. Lopes, M. Lozano, S. Lukic, J. Marganiec,L. Marques, S. Marrone, T. Martinez, P. Mastinu, A. Mengoni,P. M. Milazzo, C. Moreau, M. Mosconi, F. Neves, H. Oberhummer,S. O'Brien, M. Oshima, J. Pancin, C. Papachristodoulou, C. Papadopoulos,C. Paradela, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, P. Pavlopoulos, L. Perrot, R. Plag,A. Plompen, A. Plukis, A. Poch, C. Pretel, J. Quesada, T. Rauscher,R. Reifarth, M. Rosetti, C. Rubbia, G. Rudolf, P. Rullhusen, J. Salgado,L. Sarchiapone, I. Savvidis, C. Stephan, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain,L. Tassan-Got, L. Tavora, R. Terlizzi, G. Vannini, P. Vaz, A. Ventura,D. Villamarin, M. C. Vincente, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, F. Voss,S. Walter, H. Wendler, M. Wiescher, K. Wisshak, and The n_TOFCollaboration

Gamma-Ray Cross Section Standards in the MeV Energy Range and56Fe Inelastic Scattering 323

R. O. Nelson, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, J. A. Becker, P. E. Garrett,W. Younes, D. Dashdorj, T. Ethvignot, and T. Granier

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

Level Dynamics of Non-Yrast States 331J. Jolie and S. Heinze

New Findings for Mixed-Symmetry States 340V. Werner, N. Pietralla, P. von Brentano, U. Kneissl, H. H. Pitz,A. Tonchev, M. W. Ahmed, C. Fransen, H. von Garrel, C. Kohstall, J. Li,A. Linnemann, S. Miiller, I. V. Pinayev, D. Savran, M. Scheck, F. Stedile,W. Tornow, S. Walter, H. R. Weller, and Y. K. Wu

Independent Evidence for Ml Scissors Resonances Built on the Levelsin the Quasicontinuum of 163Dy 345

M. Krticka, F. Becvar, M. Heil, F. Kappeler, R. Reifarth, I. Tomandl,F. Voss, and K. Wisshak

Low-Energy Dipole Modes of Excitation Below the NeutronSeparation Energy 350

A. P. Tonchev, C. Angell, M. Boswell, C. R. Howell, H. J. Karwowski,J. H. Kelley, W. Tornow, and N. Tsoneva

Search for Enhanced Alpha Preformation in the N=Z+1 Nucleill3Ba, 109Xe, 105Te 355

A. A. Hecht, C. J. Lister, C. N. Davids, A. Heinz, N. Hoteling,C. Mazzocchi, J. Palombo, D. Seweryniak, J. Shergur, M. Stoyer,W. B. Walters, P. J. Woods, and S. Zhu

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NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS II AND NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

Photo-Induced Population of the h11/2 Isomeric States in(y, n) Reactions 363

C. T. Angell, H. J. Karwowski, J. H. Kelley, A. P. Tonchev, and W. TornowGeneral Approach to Materials Classification Using NeutronAnalysis Techniques 368

V. G. Solovyev and D. S. KoltickMeasurement of Gamma Rays from keV-Neutron Capture Reactionon Zr-90, 94 373

K. Ohgama, M. Igashira, and T. OhsakiMeasurement of Capture Gamma Rays from the 46- and 84-keVNeutron Resonances of MMg 378

T. Ohsaki, D. Ikenaga, and M. IgashiraBound Excited States in 27F 383

Z. Elekes, Zs. Dombradi, A. Saito, N. Aoi, H. Baba, K. Demichi,Zs. Fiilop, J. Gibelin, T. Gomi, H. Hasegawa, N. Imai, M. Ishihara,H. Iwasaki, S. Kanno, S. Kawai, T. Kishida, T. Kubo, K. Kurita,Y. Matsuyama, S. Michimasa, T. Minemura, T. Motobayashi, M. Notani,T. K. Ohnishi, H. J. Ong, S. Ota, A. Ozawa, H. K. Sakai, H. Sakurai,S. Shimoura, E. Takeshita, S. Takeuchi, M. Tamaki, Y. Togano, K. Yamada,Y. Yanagisawa, and K. Yoneda

APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES

Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Sections of the Palladium Isotopes 389R. B. Firestone, M. Krtiaka, DP . McNabb, B. Sleaford, U. Agvaanluvsan,T. Belgya, and Zs. Revay

Atomic-Nuclear Coupling Experiments 396J. A. Becker

Distortion of Pulse-Height Spectra of Neutron Capture Gamma Rays 402A. Laptev, H. Harada, S. Nakamura, J. Hori, M. Igashira, T. Ohsaki, andK. Ohgama

NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS (R-PROCESS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS)

Nuclear-Physics Issues of r-Process Nucleosynthesis 409K.-L. Kratz

Neutron Captures and the r-Process 419K. Farouqi, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, T. Rauscher, and F.-K. Thielemann

Radioactive Beam Experiments Relevant for the Astrophysicalr-Process 423

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Magnetic Dipole and Gamow-Teller Modes in Neutrino-NucleusReactions: Impact on Supernova Dynamics and Nucleosynthesis 432

P. von Neumann-Cosel, T. Adachi, A. Byelikov, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita,A. Heger, E. Kolbe, K. Langanke, G. Martmez-Pinedo, A. Richter,A. Shevchenko, and Y. Shimbara

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE (HIGH SPIN EXPERIMENTS)

Hyperdefof med Rotational Bands Observed in the Actinide Region 439A. Krasznahorkay, M. Csatlos, Y. Eisermann, T. Faestermann, G. Graw,J. Gulyas, D. Habs, M. N. Harakeh, R. Hertenberger, M. Hunyadi,H. J. Maier, Z. Mate, O. Schaile, P. G. Thirolf, and H. J. Wirth

High Spin Bands in the A-130 Nuclei: A "Non- Chiral" Explanation 447R. Kaczarowski

Nuclear Structure and Octupole Collectivity in Nucleus 122Cs 454I. M. Govil

Rotational Damping, Ridges, and the Quasi-continuum of y raysin 152Dy 459

T. Lauritsen, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, I. Ahmad, M. P. Carpenter,F. G. Kondev, C. J. Lister, E. F. Moore, D. Seweryniak, S. Zhu, T. D0ssing,B. Herskind, A. M. Heinz, D. G. Jenkins, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon,A. O. Macchiavelli, D. Ward, G. Lane, P. Chowdhury, A. Korichi,A. Lopez-Martens, and A. J. Larabee

Multinucleon Transfer Reactions to Study Single-Particle Evolution inSe Isotopes 464

P. H. Regan, G. A. Jones, Zs. Podolyak, N. Yoshinaga, K. Higashiyama,G. deAngelis, Y. H. Zhang, A. Gadea, C. A. Ur, M. Axiotis, D. Bazzacco,R. Broda, D. Bucurescu, E. Farnea, W. Gelletly, M. Ionescu-Bujor,A. Iordachescu, Th. Kroll, S. D. Langdown, S. Lenzi, S. Lunardi,N. Marginean, T. Martinez, N. Medina, R. Menegazzo, D. R. Napoli,B. Quintana, B. Rubio, C. Rusu, R. Schwenger, D. Tonev, J. J. ValienteDobon, and W. von Oertzen

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE (THEORY)

Nuclear Mean Field from the Shell Model Point of View 475N. A. Smirnova, A. De Maesschalck, and K. Heyde

Softness of Doubly-Magic 78Ni and Related Topics 483A. F. Lisetskiy, B. A. Brown, and H. Schatz

Regular and Chaotic Nuclear Vibrations 487

P. Cejnar, M. Macek, P. Stransky, and M. Kurian

Continuum Shell Model, Reactions and Giant Resonances 493V. Zelevinsky and A. Volya

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Correlation of Nuclear Level Densities and Masses 498T. von Egidy and D. Bucurescu

Effective Interactions and Operators in Nuclei within the No-CoreShell Model 504

B. R. Barrett, P. Navratil, I. Stetcu, and J. P. Vary

NUCLEAR REACTIONS

Precision Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy at the Institut Laue Langevin 511H. G. Borner

Radiative Capture versus Coulomb Dissociation 518H. Esbensen

Spectroscopy Studies Using Two-Nucleon Knockout 523J. A. Tostevin

Influence of the Projectile Description on Breakup Calculations 528P. Capel and F. Nunes

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE

Distribution of the GT Strength Starting from the Ground Stateof 14N 535

A. Negret, T. Adachi, C. Baumer, A. M. van den Berg, G. P. A. Berg,P. von Brentano, D. Frekers, D. De Frenne, K. Fujita, Y. Fujita,E. W. Grewe, P. Haefner, K. Hatanaka, M. Hunyadi, M. A. de Huu,H. Johansson, E. Jacobs, Y. Kalmykov, K. Kawabata, A. Korff,K. Nakanishi, P. von Neumann-Cosel, T. Ogama, L. Popescu, S. Rakers,A. Richter, N. Ryezayeva, Y. Sakemi, A. Shevchenko, Y. Shimbara,Y. Shimizu, A. Tamii, M. Uchida, H. J. Wortche, and M. Yosoi ,'

Microscopic Calculations for Waiting-Point Nuclei 540K. P. Drumev, C. Bahri, and J. P. Draayer

Level Densities of Iron Isotopes and Low-Energy Enhancement ofy-Strength Function 545

A. V. Voinov, S. M. Grimes, U. Agvaanluvsan, E. Algin, T. Belgya,C. R. Brune, M. Guttormsen, M. J. Hornish, T. N. Massey, G. E. Mitchell,J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, and S. Siem

Spin-Isospin Excitations from the Ground-State of MNi 550L. Popescu, T. Adachi, C. Baumer, G. P. A. Berg, A. M. van den Berg,P. von Brentano, D. Frekers, D. de Frenne, K. Fujita, Y. Fujita, ,E. W. Grewe, P. Haefner, K. Hatanaka, M. Hunyadi, M. de Huu, E. Jacobs,H. Johansson, A. Korff, A. Negret, K. Nakanishi, P. von Neumann-Cosel,S. Rakers, N. Ryezayeva, Y. Sakemi, A. Shevchenko, Y. Shimbara,Y. Shimizu, H. Simon, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, M. Uchida, H. J. Wortche,and M. Yosoi

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POSTER SESSION

a-Stripping Reactions with Excotic Nuclei: 12C(7Be,3He)16O 557H. Amro, F. D. Becchetti, Y. Chen, H. Jiang, M. Ojaruega, H. C. Griffin,J. J. Kolata, B. B. Skorodumov, J. D. Hinnefeld, and G. Peaslee

Structural Ambiguities In n4Cd 559D. Bandyopadhyay, P. E. Garrett, S. R. Lesher, C. Fransen,N. Boukharouba, M. T. McEllistrem, and S.W. Yates

207Pb(n,2n y)206Pb Cross-Section Measurements by In-BeamGamma-Ray Spectroscopy 561

P. Baumann, C. Borcea, E. Jericha, S. Jokic, M. Kerveno, S. Lukic,L. C. Mihailescu, A. Pavlik, A. J. M. Plompen, G. Rudolf, and the n_TOFCollaboration

Anomalous Neutron Radiative Capture in 197Au Revisited 563M. M. Krticka, F. Becvaf, M. Heil, F. Kappeler, R. Reifarth, I. Tomandl,F. Voss, and K. Wisshak

New Method for the Determination of Accurate Gamma-RayIntensities for the 14N(n, y) lsN High Energy Standard 565

T. BelgyaSimultaneous Measurement of (n, y) and (n,fission) Cross Sectionswith the DANCE 4TT BaF2 Array 568

T. A. Bredeweg, M. M. Fowler, J. A. Becker, E. M. Bond,M. B. Chadwick, R. R. C. Clement, E.-I. Esch, T. Ethvignot, T. Granier,L. F. Hunt, R. A. Macri, J. M. O'Donnell, R. S. Rundberg,J. M. Schwantes, J. L. Ullmann, D. J. Viera, J. B. Wilhelmy, J. M. Wouters,C.-Y. Wu, and J. E. Yurkon

Ciassial Chaos in the Interacting Boson Model 570M. Macek and P. Cejnar

Measurement of Disintegration Rates and Absolute y-ray Intensities 572D. J. DeVries and H. C. Griffin

New Band Mechanism of Doubly-odd Nuclei Around Mass 130 575K. Higashiyama and N. Yoshinaga t

Measurement of Neutron Capture Cross Section for NaturalPalladium 577

J. Hori, H. Yashima, T. Oishi, W. Takahashi, M. Baba, and K. NakajimaSystematic Measurement of keV-neutron Capture Cross Sections andCapture Gamma-ray Spectra of Sn Isotopes 579

J. Nishiyama, M._Igashira, T. Ohsaki, G. N. Kim; W. C. Chung, andT. I. Ro

18F(a,p)21Ne Reaction: Neutron Source For r-Process In Supernovae 581H.-Y. Lee, M. Beard, H.-W. Becker, M. Couder, A. Couture, J. Gorres,L. Lamm, P. LeBlanc, S. O'Brien, A. Palumbo, E. Stech, E. Strandberg,W. Tan, C. Ugalde, and M. Wiescher

Search for Multiphonon and Mixed-Symmetry States in 127I 583S. Mukhopadhyay, J. N. Orce, S. N. Choudry, V. Varadarajan, A. Kumar,M. T. McEllistrem, and S. W. Yates

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106Cd and U2Sn: Alpha-Induced Cross Section Measurements for theAstrophysical P-Process 585

A. Palumbo, J. Gorres, H.-Y. Lee, M. Wiescher, W. Rapp, N. Ozkan,R. T. Giiray, G. Efe, Gy. Gyiirky, Zs. Fiilop, and E. Somorjai

K=0 + Bands in Gadolinium Nuclei 587G. Popa, A. Aprahamian, A. M. Bruce, J. G. Hirsch, and J. P. Draayer

Nuclear Reaction and Structure Databases of the National NuclearData Center 589

B. Pritychenko, R. Arcilla, M. W. Herman, P. Oblozinsky, D. Rochman,A. A. Sonzogni, J. K. Tuli, and D. F. Winchell

Nuclear Structure Properties of Neutron Rich Ge-Br Isotopes in theAstrophysical r-Process 591

M. Quinn, A. Aprahamian, A. Woehr, P. Mantica, J. Pereira Conca,H. Schatz, S. Hennrich, and K.-L. Kratz

Thermal Neutron Capture and Thermal Neutron Burn-up of KIsomeric State of 177mLu: A Way to the Neutron Super-ElasticScattering Cross Section 593

O. Roig, G. Belier, V. Meot, J. Aupiais, J.-M. Daugas, Ch. Jutier,G. Le Petit, A. Letourneau, F. Marie, P. Romain, and Ch. Veyssiere

y-ray Detection Possibilities in the European Recoil Separator forNuclear Astrophysics 595

D. Schiirmann, A. Di Leva, L. Gialanella, D. Rogalla, F. Strieder,N. De Cesare, A. D' Onofrio, G. Imbriani, R. Kunz, A. Ordine, V. Roca,C. Rolfs, M. Romano, F. Schumann, F. Terrasi, and H.-P. Trautvetter

The Radiative Strength Function Using the Neutron-CaptureReaction on 94>9SMo 597

S. A. Sheets, U. Agvaanluvsan, M. Krticka, G. E. Mitchell, J. A. Becker,F. Becvar, and the DANCE Collaboration

Multichannel R-matrix Analysis of CNO Cycle Reactions 599E. C. Simpson, R. E. Azuma, M. Wiescher, A. Champagne, P. Bertone,H.-P. Trautvetter, J. Gorres, and C. Ugalde

Spectroscopic Structure of Exotic 19Na: Astrophysics Implication 601B. B. Skorodumov, G. V. Rogachev, P. Boutachkov, A. Aprahamian,J. J. Kolata, L. O. Lamm, M. Quinn, and A. Woehr

Development of a Prompt Gamma-ray Analysis Combined withMultiple Gamma-ray Detection 603

Y. Toh, M. Oshima, M. Koizumi, A. Osa, and A. KimuraSystematic Studies of Odd Isotopes in the Vicinity of the ClosedShell Z=50 '; 605

J. Honzatko, I. Tomandl, V. Bondarenko, T. von Egidy, H.-F. Wirth,R. Hertenberger, Y. Eisermann, G. Graw, D. Bucurescu, andV. Yu. Ponomarev

Mass of the lowest T=2 State of 32S 607S. Triambak, A. Garcia, E. G. Adelberger, G. J. P. Hodges, H. E. Swanson,S. A. Hoedl, S. K. L. Sjue, and A. L. Sallaska

The Complete (n, y) Level Scheme of 124Te 609T. von Egidy, H.-F. Wirth, I. Tomandl, and J. Honzatko

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Nature of One- and Two-Phonon Mixed Symmetry States in 92Zr and94Mo from High-Resolution Electron and Proton Scattering 611

P. von Neumann-Cosel, N. T. Botha, O. Burda, J. Carter, R. W. Fearick,S. V. Fortsch, C. Fransen, H. Fujita, M. Kuhar, A. Lenhardt, R. Neveling,N. Pietralla, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, E. Sideras-Haddad, F. D. Smit,and J. Warnbach

Photographs 613Programs 628List of Participants 638Author Index 653

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