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Multiple chiral bands in \(^{137}\)Nd

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Two new bands have been identified in \(^{137}\)Nd from a high-statistics JUROGAM II gamma-ray spectroscopy experiment. Constrained density functional theory and particle rotor model calculations are used to assign configurations and investigate the band properties, which are well described and understood. It is demonstrated that these two new bands can be interpreted as chiral partners of previously known three-quasiparticle positive- and negative-parity bands. The newly observed chiral doublet bands in \(^{137}\)Nd represent an important support to the existence of multiple chiral bands in nuclei. The present results constitute the missing stone in the series of Nd nuclei showing multiple chiral bands, which becomes the most extended sequence of odd–even and even-even nuclei presenting multiple chiral bands in the Segré chart.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Programme (2012–2017); by the EU 7th Framework Programme Project No. 262010 (ENSAR); by the National Key R&D Program of China (Contract No. 2018YFA0404400 and No. 2017YFE0116700), by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11621131001 and No. 11875075); by the GINOP-2.3.3-15-2016-00034, National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH, Contracts No. PD 124717 and K128947; by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) Grant No. 2013/10/M/ST2/00427; by the Swedish Research Council under Grant No. 621-2014-5558; and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11505242, No. 11305220, No. U1732139, No. 11775274, and No. 11575255), and by the National Sciences and Engineering Research of Canada. The use of germanium detectors from the GAMMAPOOL is acknowledged. The work of Q.B.C. is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through funds provided to the Sino-German CRC 110 “Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD” (DFG Grant No.  TRR110 and NSFC Grant No. 11621131001). I.K. was supported by National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH, contract number PD 124717. The authors are indebted to M. Loriggiola for his help in target preparation.

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  1. Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et Sciences de la Matière, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Bât. 104-108, 91405, Orsay, France

    C. M. Petrache, A. Astier, E. Dupont & K. K. Zheng

  2. Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    B. F. Lv, S. Guo, J. G. Wang & X. H. Zhou

  3. Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, 85747, Garching, Germany

    Q. B. Chen

  4. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    J. Meng

  5. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    J. Meng

  6. Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, 40014, Jyvaskyla, Finland

    P. T. Greenlees, H. Badran, T. Calverley, D. M. Cox, T. Grahn, J. Hilton, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, J. Konki, J. Pakarinen, P. Papadakis, J. Partanen, P. Rahkila, P. Ruotsalainen, M. Sandzelius, J. Saren, C. Scholey, J. Sorri, S. Stolze & J. Uusitalo

  7. The Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK

    T. Calverley & J. Hilton

  8. Department of Mathematical Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, 22362, Lund, Sweden

    D. M. Cox

  9. CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    J. Konki

  10. STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK

    P. Papadakis

  11. Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, 99600, Sodankylä, Finland

    J. Sorri

  12. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    S. Stolze

  13. KTH Department of Physics, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden

    B. Cederwall, A. Ertoprak & H. Liu

  14. Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pf. 51, 4001, Debrecen, Hungary

    I. Kuti & J. Timár

  15. Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5a, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland

    A. Tucholski & J. Srebrny

  16. Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

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Petrache, C.M., Lv, B.F., Chen, Q.B. et al. Multiple chiral bands in \(^{137}\)Nd. Eur. Phys. J. A 56, 208 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00218-5

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