Coulomb Excitation of Multi-Phonon Levels of the Giant Dipole Resonance

Abstract

A closed expression is obtained for the cross-section for Coulomb excitation of levels of the giant dipole resonance of given angular momentum and phonon number. Applications are made to the Goldhaber-Teller and Steinwedel-Jensen descriptions of the resonance, at non-relativistic and relativistic bombarding energies.

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures