Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 118
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12118-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Identifying chiral bands in real nuclei

¹ iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, P.O. Box 722, 7129, Somerset West, South Africa
² University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, 7525, Bellville, South Africa

^* e-mail: obed@tlabs.ac.za

Received: 25 April 2012
Revised: 17 August 2012
Accepted: 29 August 2012
Published online: 13 September 2012

Abstract

The application of the presently used fingerprints of chiral bands (originally derived for strongly broken chirality) is investigated for real chiral systems. In particular the chiral fingerprints concerning the B(M1) staggering patterns and the energy staggering are studied. It is found that both fingerprints show considerable changes for real chiral systems, a behaviour that creates a significant risk for misinterpretation of the experimental data and can lead to a failure to identify real chiral systems.