Evidence for a cluster of collective 1(+) states in 150Nd near 3 MeV.

Compton polarimeters have been used to measure the linear polarization of resonantly scattered photons. In the deformed nucleus /sup 150/Nd the first direct and model-independent evidence has been obtained that in a cluster of enhanced dipole excitations near 3 MeV the three strongest transitions are of the same, /ital positive/ parity.