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# Nonlinear Enhancement of the Multiphonon Coulomb Excitation in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

(Impact Factor: 3.88). 08/1998; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.59.R1242
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ABSTRACT We propose a soluble model to incorporate the nonlinear effects in the transition probabilities of the multiphonon Giant Dipole Resonances based on the SU(1,1) algebra. Analytical expressions for the multi-phonon transition probabilities are derived. Enhancement of the Double Giant Resonance excitation probabilities in relativistic ion collisions scales as \$(2 k +1)(2k)^{-1}\$ for the degree of nonlinearity \$(2k)^{-1}\$ and is able to reach values \$1.5-2\$ compatible with experimental data. The enhancement factor is found to decrease with increasing bombarding energy. [KEYWORDS: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions,Double Giant Resonance] Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures

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