https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01657-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Angela and the electric dipole response: giant and pygmy, hot and cold, isoscalar and isovector
1
Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
2
Department of Physics and Norwegian Nuclear Research Center, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway
Received:
29
May
2025
Accepted:
30
July
2025
Published online:
8
August
2025
The impact of Angela Bracco’s work on the electric dipole response of nuclei is discussed using three examples of current nuclear structure problems: disentangling different contributions to the decay width of the giant dipole resonance, the equivalence of photoabsorption and emission and the nature of the pygmy dipole resonance.
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