DSAM lifetime measurements for the chiral bands in ¹⁹⁴Tl

When a left-handed and a right-handed nuclear system form in angular momentum space, a pair of nearly degenerate rotational bands is observed. To identify chiral symmetry most important is to establish near-degeneracy not only in excitation energies of the partner bands, but also in their intra-band and inter-band B(M1) and B(E2) transition probabilities. This needs dedicated lifetime measurements. Such measurements were performed for four bands of ¹⁹⁴Tl. Two of these have very close near-degeneracy and form a prime candidate for best chiral pair. The lifetime measurements confirm the excellent near-degeneracy in this chiral pair. (paper)