Signatures of enhanced octupole correlations at high spin in 136Nd

Abstract
Experimental signatures of moderately enhanced octupole correlations at high spin in 136Nd are indicated for the first time. The extracted dipole moments of two negative-parity bands are only two times smaller than those of the lanthanide nuclei with N≈90 which present well-established octupole correlations. Calculations using the cranked quasiparticle random phase approximation and a model of quadrupole-octupole rotations with octupole vibrations reveal the structure of the bands and the enhanced octupole correlations at high spin in 136Nd.
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English
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Physical Review C
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  • Petrache, C. M., Minkov, N., Nakatsukasa, T., Lv, B. F., Astier, A., Dupont, E., Zheng, K.K., Greenlees, P., Badran, H., Calverley, T., Cox, D. M., Grahn, T., Hilton, J., Julin, R., Juutinen, S., Konki, J., Pakarinen, J., Papadakis, P., Partanen, J., . . . Andreoiu, C. (2020). Signatures of enhanced octupole correlations at high spin in 136Nd. Physical Review C, 102(1), Article 014311. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.014311
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This work was supported by the Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Programme (2012–2017), the EU 7th Framework Programme Project No. 262010 (ENSAR), the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DEFG02-95ER-40934, the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary (Project No. K128947), the European Regional Development Fund (Contract No. GINOP-2.3.3-15-2016-00034), the National Research, Development and Innovation Office–NKFIH under Contract No. PD124717, the Polish National Science Centre under Grant No. 2013/10/M/ST2/00427, the Swedish Research Council under Grant No. 621-2014-5558, the Chinese Major State 973 Program No. 2013CB834400, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11335002, No. 11375015, No. 11461141002, and No. 11621131001), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF) under Contract No. KP-06-N28/6.
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