Chirality of nuclear rotation.
It is shown that the rotating mean field of triaxial nuclei can break the chiral symmetry. Two nearly degenerate DeltaI=1 rotational bands originate from the left-handed and right-handed solutions.
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Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
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