Giant dipole resonance in the hot and thermalized 132Ce nucleus: damping of collective modes at finite temperature.
The gamma decay of the giant dipole resonance (GDR) in the 132Ce compound nucleus with temperature up to approximately 4 MeV has been measured, using the reaction 64Ni + 68Zn at E(beam) = 300, 400, and 500 MeV. The gamma and charged particles measured in coincidence with recoils are consistent with a fully equilibrated compound nucleus emission. The GDR width, obtained with the statistical model analysis, is found to increase almost linearly with temperature. This increase is rather well reproduced within a model including thermal shape fluctuations and the lifetime of the compound nucleus.
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Milano and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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