From chiral vibration to static chirality in (135)Nd

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Oct 26;99(17):172501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.172501. Epub 2007 Oct 23.

Abstract

Electromagnetic transition probabilities have been measured for the intraband and interband transitions in the two sequences in the nucleus (135)Nd 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.