Interfering Doorway States and Giant Resonances. I. Resonance Spectrum and Multipole Strengths

A phenomenological schematic model of multipole giant resonances (GR{close_quote}s) is considered which treats the external interaction via common decay channels on the same footing as the coherent part of the internal residual interaction. The damping due to the coupling to the sea of complicated states is neglected. As a result, the formation of GR is governed by the interplay and competition of two kinds of collectivity, the internal and the external one. The mixing of the doorway components of a GR due to the external interaction significantly influences their multipole strengths, widths, and positions in energy. In particular, a narrow resonance state with an appreciable multipole strength is formed when the doorway components strongly overlap. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}