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Quenching of 1+ excitations in the double giant resonance C.A. Bertulania,b, V.Yu. Ponomareva,c and V.V. Voronovc aInstitut fu?r Kernphysik II, GSI, Planckstr. 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany bPermanent address: Instituto de F??sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, e-mail: bertu@if.ufrj.br cPermanent address: Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia Abstract The electromagnetic excitation of the two-phonon isovector giant dipole res- onance in relativistic projectiles incident on heavy targets can be proceed via several intermediate 1? one-phonon giant resonance states. In two step elec- tric dipole transitions the population of 0+, 1+, and 2+ two-phonon states are possible. We calculate the amplitude distribution of 1? excitations with an RPA formalism, and use it to calculate the electromagnetic excitation of two-phonon states in second order perturbation theory and coupled-channels. We show that a conspiracy between angular momentum coupling and the strength of the electromagnetic fields suppresses contributions of 1+ states to the total cross sections. Keywords: Two-Phonon Giant Dipole Resonance, Electromagnetic Excitation, Quenching PACS: 24.30.Cz, 25.70.De, 25.75+r 1 The electromagnetic excitation of two-phonon states of giant dipole resonances in heavy- ion collisions at relativistic energies has been studied in several experiments [1–5]. In LAND measurements [1,2,5] these cross sections were extracted from total cross sections by sep- arating a contribution coming from excitation of single dipole and quadrupole resonances. The observed cross sections are large, on the order of several hundred of millibarn. How- ever, the first experimental results for the double giant dipole resonance (DGDR) excitation were found to be enhanced by factors of 2-3 for 136Xe [1] and 197Au [2] as compared to any theoretical calculations available. Although for the later me