Evidence for different time scales controlling thermal fluctuations in hot nuclei

Abstract
A comparison between the predictions of a theoretical model describing the giant dipole resonance in hot nuclei, which includes the coupling to time-dependent thermal fluctuations of the nuclear surface, and experimental data on the cross section and the angular distribution associated with the dipole decay of Mo*92 is presented. Effects of different time scales for fluctuuations in the deformation and orientation degrees of freedom are observed.