"A powerful method to study the properties of a system is to subject it to a weak external perturbation and to examine its response. For the atomic nucleus subjected to the absorption of a photon or to the scattering of a particle (electron, proton, etc.) the response is ... a function of the energy and linear momentum transferred to the system. ... Up to about 10 MeV the nucleus responds through the excitation of relatively simple states often involving only one or a few particles. In the energy range between 10 and 30 MeV the system response exhibits broad resonances. These are the giant resonances ... Giant resonances correspond to a collective motion involving many if not all the particles in the nucleus. The occurrence of such a collective motion is a common feature of many-body quantum systems. In quantum-mechanical terms the resonance corresponds to a transition between the ground state and the collective state and its strength is described by a transition amplitude. Intuitively it is clear that the strength of the transition will depend on the basic properties of the system such as the number of particles participating in the response and the size of the system. This implies that the total transition strength should be limited by a sum rule which depends 'only' on ground-state properties. If the transition strength of an observed resonance exhausts a major part, say greater than 50%, of the corresponding sum rule we call it a giant resonance."
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