[en] Complete text of publication follows. The existence of nuclear chirality is one of the most intriguing questions of contemporary high-spin nuclear structure studies. Rotational doublet-band candidates for chiral structures have been observed mostly in two regions of the nuclear chart: around ¹³⁴Pr, and around ¹⁰⁴Rh. In this second region chirality in the Rh isotopes are rather well studied, chiral doubling have also been observed in ¹⁰⁰Tc, however, results obtained for chirality in the studied Ag nuclei (¹⁰⁵Ag and ¹⁰⁶Ag) look rather contradictory. Thus, it is interesting to study these doublet bands in the nearby higher-mass Ag nuclei. In order to search for a chiral-candidate partner band to the yrast πg_9/2v(h_11/2)² band in ¹⁰⁹Ag, high-spin states of this nucleus have been studied using the ⁹⁶Zr(¹⁸O,p4n) reaction. The experiment was performed at iThemba LABS using 8 Clover detectors of the AFRODITE array and the DIAMANT charged-particle array to detect the γ-rays and the charged particles, respectively. Altogether ∼140 million γγ-coincidence events were collected. Approximately 10 million events of them correspond to the reaction channel producing ¹⁰⁹Ag. No chiral candidate partner band has been found to the πg_9/2v(h_11/2)² band with this statistics, however, the level scheme could be extended by several new levels and γ-transitions. A preliminary level scheme of ¹⁰⁹Ag obtained from the ongoing data analysis is shown in Fig. 1