High-energy {gamma}-ray spectra associated with selected evaporation residues in low-energy fusion reactions
The spectra of high-energy {gamma} rays in coincidence with evaporation residues {sup 155,154}Er populated in the reaction of 241 MeV {sup 64}Ni on {sup 92}Zr have been compared with results from Monte Carlo statistical model calculations. The shape of the spectrum in coincidence with the {sup 155}Er nuclei is reproduced only by simulations in which the spin distribution is extended towards very high spin values.

title: Rotation-aligned coupling in Fe 61
abstract: New levels have been established above the 861-keV, $9/{2}^{+}$ isomeric state in $^{61}\mathrm{Fe}$. The observations can be reproduced satisfactorily by shell model calculations, but only after a significant lowering of the $\ensuremath{\nu}{g}_{9/2}$ single-particle energy with respect to the value determined empirically from levels outside a $^{48}\mathrm{Ca}$ core. The results are also described well within the scope of the particle-triaxial-rotor model assuming a deformation ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{2}~0.24$. The present findings, together with the recently measured magnetic and quadrupole moments of this state, point toward a structure possibly associated with a prolate shape.

title: Excitations of two and three valence proton nuclei Te-134 and I-135

title: Structure of Co-65,Co-67 studied through the beta decay of Fe-65,Fe-67 and a deep-inelastic reaction
abstract: The neutron-rich isotopes {sup 65,67}Fe and {sup 65}Co have been produced at the LISOL facility, Louvain-La-Neuve, in the proton-induced fission of {sup 238}U. Beams of these isotopes have been extracted with high selectivity by means of resonant laser ionization combined with mass separation. Yrast and near-yrast levels of {sup 65}Co have also been populated in the {sup 64}Ni+{sup 238}U reaction at Argonne National Laboratory. The level structure of {sup 65}Co could be investigated by combining all the information from both the {sup 65}Fe and {sup 65}Co{beta} decay and the deep-inelastic reaction. The {sup 65}Fe, {sup 65}Co, and {sup 67}Fe decay schemes and the {sup 65}Co yrast structure are fully established. The {sup 65,67}Co level structures can be interpreted as resulting from the coexistence of core-coupled states with levels based on a low-energy proton-intruder configuration.

title: Observation of Octupole Structures in Radon and Radium Isotopes and Their Contrasting Behavior at High Spin
abstract: Multinucleon transfer reactions have been used, for the first time, to populate high-spin bands of alternating parity states in {sup 218,220,222}Rn and {sup 222,224,226}Ra. The behavior of the angular momentum alignment with rotational frequency for the Rn isotopes is very different when compared with Ra and Th isotopes with N{approx}134, indicating a transition from octupole vibrational to stable octupole deformation. Throughout the measured spin range the values of {vert_bar}D{sub 0}/Q{sub 0}{vert_bar} remain constant for {sup 222}Ra and {sup 226}Ra and have a very small value for {sup 224}Ra, suggesting that the charge and mass distributions are not affected appreciably by rotations.

title: Possible dynamic effects in the particle decay of 59Cu compound nuclei.
abstract: The slopes of the energy spectra of {ital p}, {ital d}, {ital t}, and {alpha} particles emitted from {sup 59}Cu nuclei formed in the reaction of {sup 32}S+{sup 27}Al at a bombarding energy of 150 MeV are described by statistical-model calculations in which the deformation is frozen during the first two steps of the deexcitation chain. The resultant fits to the high-energy portions of the spectra are comparable to those previously obtained by modifying the spin dependence of the level density, suggesting that dynamic effects may be important in evaporation from light nuclei.

title: A Survey of Open Clusters in the u'g'r'i'z' Filter System. 3. Results for the Cluster NGC 188
abstract: The authors continue the series of papers describing the results of a photometric survey of open star clusters, primarily in the southern hemisphere, taken in the u'g'r'i'z' filter system. The entire observed sample covered more than 100 clusters, but here they present data only on NGC 188, which is one of the oldest open clusters known in the Milky Way. They fit the Padova theoretical isochrones to the data. Assuming a solar metallicity for NGC 188, they find a distance of 1700 {+-} 100 pc, an age of 7.5 {+-} 0.7 Gyr, and a reddening E(B-V) of 0.025 {+-} 0.005. This yields a distance modulus of 11.23 {+-} 0.14.

title: Standard model with compactified spatial dimensions
abstract: We analyze the structure of the standard model coupled to gravity with spatial dimensions compactified on a three-torus. We find that there are no stable one-dimensional vacua at zero temperature, although there does exist an unstable vacuum for a particular set of Dirac neutrino masses.

title: Lee–Wick theories at high temperature
abstract: An extension of the standard model, the Lee–Wick standard model, based on ideas of Lee and Wick was 
recently introduced. It does not contain quadratic divergences in the Higgs mass and hence solves the 
hierarchy puzzle. The Lee–Wick standard model contains new heavy Lee–Wick resonances at the TeV 
scale that decay to ordinary particles. In this Letter we examine the behavior of Lee–Wick resonances at 
high temperature. We argue that they contribute negatively to the energy density ρ and pressure p and 
at temperatures much greater than their mass M their O(T^4) contributions to ρ and p cancel against 
those of the ordinary (light) particles. The remaining O(M2T^2) contributions are positive and result in 
an equation of state that approaches w = 1 from below as T → ∞.

title: Supersymmetric dark matter sectors
abstract: We investigate the properties of a dark matter sector where supersymmetry is a good symmetry. In this context we find that the stability of the dark matter candidate is possible even when R-parity is broken in the visible sector. In order to illustrate the idea we investigate a simple scenario where the dark matter candidate is the lightest scalar field in the dark sector which annihilates mainly into two sfermions when these channels are available. We study the relic density constraints and the predictions for the dark matter detection experiments.