Physical Review C

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PRC Letter: Background-free signal of a jet-induced diffusion wake in quark-gluon plasma Zhong Yang and Xin-Nian Wang Testing a background free rapidity asymmetry measure: The trigger is restricted to a symmetrical range while the associated jet rapidity is varied.

PRC Letter: 𝐽/𝜓 production in proton-proton collisions at Spin Physics Detector energies of the JINR Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility Shubham Sharma and Alexey Aparin go.aps.org/4rpEzsx Timely theoretical guidance for upcoming 𝐽/𝜓 measurements at SPD/NICA.

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Di-nucleons do not form bound states at heavy pion mass John Bulava go.aps.org/4rYjDsL Lattice QCD results address controversy regarding determining the 𝑁𝑁 spectra and amplitudes and are a significant step toward first principles nuclear physics

PRC Letter: Mass of 101Sn and Bayesian extrapolations to the proton drip line C. M. Ireland, et al go.aps.org/4bWEWpT A 300x improved mass measurement of 101Sn shows it is less bound than previously thought and has implications for extrapolations to the proton drip line

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Charged particle scattering in renormalizable pionless effective field theory at next-to-leading order: The 𝑝⁢𝑑, 𝑑⁢𝑑, and 𝑝⁢3He cases Matúš Rojik, et al go.aps.org/46zKQcU

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Backscattering study of electrons from 0.1 to 3.4 MeV M. Kanafani, et al go.aps.org/4r6iFuk Meaningful agreement of simulations and experimental data achieved for a large range of energies and incident angles, mostly < 5% for low-mass targets.

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Bayesian framework for the 𝑆_𝐸⁢1(300 keV) and 𝑆_𝐸⁢2(300 keV) factors for 12C⁡(𝛼,𝛾)⁢16O from subthreshold and ground-state asymptotic normalization coefficients A. M. Mukhamedzhanov go.aps.org/4aILhE4

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Electromagnetic moments of ground and excited states calculated in heavy odd-𝑁 open-shell nuclei J. Dobaczewski, et al go.aps.org/45Vo9zC Theory and experiment compare well for almost all magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole states examined

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Impact of shape coexistence on the symmetric to asymmetric fission mode transition in Th isotopes Shengyuan Chen, et al go.aps.org/45R07px The transition is strongly correlated with rapid changes in the configuration of the nucleus at scission

PRC Letter: Shape inheritance and staggering in 𝛼 decay: A machine learning approach to the nuclear structure properties of superheavy nuclei Ruixiong Li, et al go.aps.org/3NUX9u1 A practical paradigm for physics-driven ML using decay theory and statistical correlations.

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Correlation of multiple physical quantities in multinucleon transfer reactions: Insight into production of isotopes near the 𝑁=152 shell closure Zimeng Shen, Zehong Liao, and Long Zhu go.aps.org/3ZelIo6

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Structure of high-lying excited states in 47Ca with ℓ≥3 populated in fast-beam 𝛾-ray-tagged one-neutron pickup reactions T. Parry, et al go.aps.org/4btu56x Introducing 𝛾-tagged n-adding reactions for exploring n single-particle excitations

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Emergence of critical-point symmetry from a microscopic perspective: Evidence for 134Ba as the “softest” nucleus without definite shape K. Kaneko, et al go.aps.org/4kwKDND

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Microscopic theory of angular momentum distributions across the full range of fission fragments Petar Marević, Nicolas Schunck, and Marc Verriere go.aps.org/4k9XB3A More accurate fission modeling based on robust quantum-mechanical methods

PRC Editors' Suggestion: Guide to nuclear polarization in muonic atoms Mikhail Gorchtein go.aps.org/4qZANWv Formulas are presented to compute the nuclear polarization for light to medium-mass nuclides which will provide better constraints in interpreting key experiments.

PRC Letter: Tracing the evolution of nuclear excitation at the future Electron-Ion Collider Niseem Magdy go.aps.org/4aTMCbU An event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuation observable can serve as a diagnostic for disentangling stages of nuclear excitation at EIC.

PRC Letter: Locating the QCD critical point through contours of constant entropy density Hitansh Shah, et al go.aps.org/49ApjkS Proposing a method for locating the high-temperature critical point of strongly interacting matter via contours of constant entropy density.

PRC Letter: 𝐴𝛽⁢[𝐸]𝛽 in 37K decay: New physics with opposite 𝛽 helicity Melissa Anholm, et al go.aps.org/3YsEXKb Allowing 𝛽 asymmetry with respect to nuclear spin to vary with 𝛽 energy provides new sensitivity to physics dependent on a helicity factor for the 𝛽

PRC Letter: Reexamination of fusion hindrance in astrophysical 12C + 12C and 12C + 13C reactions K. Uzawa and K. Hagino go.aps.org/4pJChDP For 12C + 12C hindrance is found to depend on fitting procedure and data selection; for 12C + 13C no hindrance is found