The giant dipole resonance (GDR) is one of the most fundamental nuclear excitations and it dominates the dipole response of all nuclei. Since its discovery in the early days of nuclear physics it has consistently attracted a great deal of attention. Its evolution from a single-humped structure in spherical nuclei to a double-humped one in deformed nuclei is considered one of the prime...
Photon-induced reactions provide unique data on nuclear fission due to their selectivity on excitations of low multipolarity and thereby contribute significantly towards a detailed microscopic description of the nuclear fission process. In particular, using quasi-monochromatic linearly-polarized photons to induce the fission process gives access to information about the nuclear energy...
The theoretical description of nuclear fission is a challenging quantum many body problem since it involves quantum tunneling of the nuclei through fission barriers. This tunneling is very sensitive to the collective inertia along the fission path. In most of the fission calculations, the collective inertia is evaluated using cranking approximation which neglects the dynamical residual...
