1. Manifestation of the Berry phase in the atomic nucleus $^{213}$Pb
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Valiente-Dobón, J. J., Gottardo, A., Benzoni, G., Gadea, A., Lunardi, S., Algora, A., de Angelis, G., Bazzacco, D., Benlliure, J., Boutachkov, P., Bracco, A., Bruce, A. M., Camera, F., Casarejos, E., Cortés, M. L., Crespi, F. C. L., Corsi, A., Domingo-Pardo, C., Doncel, M., Engert, T., Geissel, H., Gerl, J., Goel, N., Górska, M., Grebosz, J., Gregor, E., Habermann, T., Klupp, S., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Lenzi, S. M., Leoni, S., Mandal, S., Menegazzo, R., Mengoni, D., Million, B., Morales, A. I., Napoli, D. R., Naqvi, F., Nociforo, C., Pfutzner, M., Pietri, S., Podolyak, Zs., Prochazka, A., Recchia, F., Regan, P. H., Rudolph, D., Sahin, E., Scha_ner, H., Sharma, A., Sitar, B., Siwal, D., Strmen, P., Szarka, I., Ur, C. A., Walker, P. M., Weick, H., Wieland, O., Wollersheim, H-J., and Van Isacker, P.
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Nuclear Experiment ,Nuclear Theory - Abstract
The neutron-rich $^{213}$Pb isotope was produced in the fragmentation of a primary 1 GeV $A$ $^{238}$U beam, separated in FRS in mass and atomic number, and then implanted for isomer decay $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy with the RISING setup at GSI. A newly observed isomer and its measured decay properties indicate that states in $^{213}$Pb are characterized by the seniority quantum number that counts the nucleons not in pairs coupled to angular momentum $J=0$. The conservation of seniority is a consequence of the Berry phase associated with particle-hole conjugation, which becomes gauge invariant and therefore observable in semi-magic nuclei where nucleons half-fill the valence shell. The $\gamma$-ray spectroscopic observables in $^{213}$Pb are thus found to be driven by two mechanisms, particle-hole conjugation and seniority conservation, which are intertwined through the Berry phase.
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- 2020
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