VITTURI , A.

We exploit a model describing the break-up of weakly-bound nuclei that can be used as a laboratory for testing different prescriptions that have been advanced in the literature to take into account the near-by presence of continuum states. In the model we follow the evolution of a single particle wave function in one dimension, initially bound...

We present a short review of the properties of the so-called Pygmy Dipole Resonance (PDR) which can be studied with both isovector and isoscalar probes. This is possible due to the particular property of this new mode where the isoscalar and isovector characters are mixed. The use of both probes unveils new features which otherwise will...