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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 172501 (2007) [4 pages]

From Chiral Vibration to Static Chirality in 135Nd

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S. Mukhopadhyay1,2, D. Almehed1, U. Garg1, S. Frauendorf1, T. Li1, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao1, X. Wang1,3, S. S. Ghugre2, M. P. Carpenter3, S. Gros3, A. Hecht3,4, R. V. F. Janssens3, F. G. Kondev5, T. Lauritsen3, D. Seweryniak3, and S. Zhu3
1Physics Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
2UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre, Kolkata 700098, India
3Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
4Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
5Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

Received 26 June 2007; published 23 October 2007

Electromagnetic transition probabilities have been measured for the intraband and interband transitions in the two sequences in the nucleus 135Nd that were previously identified as a composite chiral pair of rotational bands. The chiral character of the bands is affirmed and it is shown that their behavior is associated with a transition from a vibrational into a static chiral regime.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.172501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.172501
PACS:
21.10.Tg, 11.30.Rd, 21.60.Ev, 27.60.+j
 
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