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Direct Evidence for Octupole Deformation in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mrow><mml:mi>Ba</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mprescripts /><mml:none /><mml:mrow><mml:mn>146</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:mrow></mml:math> and the Origin of Large <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>E</mml:mi><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:math> Moment Variations in Reflection-Asymmetric Nuclei
Despite the more than 1 order of magnitude difference between the measured dipole moments in ^{144}Ba and ^{146}Ba, the octupole correlations in ^{146}Ba are found to be as strong as those in ^{144}Ba with a similarly large value of B(E3;3^{-}→0^{+}) determined as 48(+21-29) W.u. The new results not only establish …