title: Multiple chiral doublet bands of identical configuration in 103Rh.
abstract: Three sets of chiral doublet band structures have been identified in the ^{103}Rh nucleus. The properties of the observed chiral doublet bands are in good agreement with theoretical results obtained using constrained covariant density functional theory and particle rotor model calculations. Two of them belong to an identical configuration and provide the first experimental evidence for a novel type of multiple chiral doublets, where an "excited" chiral doublet of a configuration is seen together with the "yrast" one. This observation shows that the chiral geometry in nuclei can be robust against the increase of the intrinsic excitation energy.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pf. 51, 4001 Debrecen, Hungary.
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authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pf. 51, 4001 Debrecen, Hungary.
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authors.affiliation: Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pf. 51, 4001 Debrecen, Hungary.
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authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Koike
authors.affiliation: Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.
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