Tilted dipole bands in 123Xe

High-spin states in Xe-123 were populated in the Pd-110(O-18,5n) reaction at 75 MeV and gamma-ray coincidences were measured with the GASP spectrometer. A new rotational sequence of enhanced dipole transitions was established. This band, as well as a similar band in Xe-124, may be described within the framework of the tilted axis cranking model as bands for which comparable amounts of angular momentum are generated by magnetic and collective rotation, respectively.