New aspects of chiral symmetry breaking in atomic nucleus

Abstract

The significant progresses of the chirality in atomic nuclei are briefly reviewed for both experimental and theoretical sides. A particle rotor model is developed which couples several valence protons and neutrons to a rigid triaxial rotor core and applied to investigating the chirality in odd-A nucleus 135Nd. Static chirality has been shown to be a transient phenomenon surrounding by chiral vibrations. It is found that the B(M1) staggering is associated strongly with the characters of nuclear chirality, i.e., the staggering is weak in chiral vibration region while strong in the static chirality region. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.