Interfering Doorway States and Giant Resonances II: Transition strengths Manuskript-Nr.: CC6302

The mixing of the doorway components of a giant resonance due to the interaction via the common decay channels influences significantly the distribution of the multipole strength and the energy spectrum of the decay products of the giant resonance. The photoemission turns out to be most sensitive to the overlapping of the doorway states. At high excitation energies, the interference between the doorway states leads to a restructuring towards lower energies and apparent quenching of the dipole strength