A. Bracco

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors briefly discuss some of the open problems in the field of excited state giant resonances and discuss the necessity to define observable quantities to specific regions in the excitation energy versus angular momentum in order to improve the sensitivity to different models of nuclear structure at finite temperature.

TL;DR: The FRS-RISING set-up at GSI uses secondary radioactive beams at relativistic energies for nuclear structure studies as mentioned in this paper, where the fragmentation or fission of stable primary beams up to 238U provide secondary beams with suffcient intensity to perform γ-ray spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this article, the unresolved rotational bands of the superdeformed nucleus {sup 151}Tb were measured with EUROBALL IV in high fold coincidence, and the analysis of the intensities and count fluctuations of the ridge structures showed the existence of approximately 30 discrete rotational band of super-deformed nature, half of which is in direct coincidence with the super deformed yrast band.

TL;DR: In this paper, the soft dipole modes in 140 Ce, excited via inelastic scattering of weakly bound 17 O projectiles, were investigated for the first time, and the main aim was to investigate the splitting of the PDR into two parts: a low-energy isoscalar component dominated by neutron skin oscillations and a higher-energy component lying on the tail of the giant dipole resonance of a rather isovector character.

TL;DR: In this article, the experimental and theoretical status of the upbend is discussed, and preliminary calculations of (n,γ) reaction rates for neutron-rich, mid-mass nuclei including the scissors mode are shown.