CONTINUUM TAMM-DANCOFF APPROXIMATION CALCULATIONS FOR THE ESCAPE WIDTHS OF THE ISOBARIC ANALOG STATE AND GAMOW-TELLER RESONANCE IN BI-208 -REPLY

A response is made to the Comment in Ref. [1]. The discussion centers on two approaches to evaluate the nuclear response in the continuum. B oth approaches approximate the damping mechanism and can be considered complementary to each other since they can be used to study different aspects of the nuclear response. The issue of self-consistency betwee n the mean field and residual interaction is addressed along with a di scussion concerning the nature of the damping in the continuum.