Excitation-Energy Dependent Strength-Function Analysis of Hot GDR Experiments

Complete statistical model calculations including temperature- and spin-dependent theoretical strength functions of the Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) have been performed for the decay of excited 120Sn. Previous analyses of GDR data with theoretical models compared the centroid and FWHM of the theoretical strength functions with the extracted GDR parameters. In the new approach presented, the entire shape of the strength functions is considered and the theoretical spectra obtained can be directly compared with the experiment