Stochastic approach to giant dipole resonances in hot rotating nuclei

A stochastic macroscopic approach to giant dipole resonances (GDR’s) in hot rotating nuclei is presented. In the adiabatic limit the theory reduces exactly to a previous adiabatic model where the unitary invariant metric is used to calculate equilibrium averages. Nonadiabatic effects cause changes in the GDR cross section and motional narrowing. Comparisons with experiments where deviations from the adiabatic limit are substantial are shown and can be used to determine the damping of the quadrupole motion at finite temperature.