SUPERRADIANT STATES IN INTERMEDIATE-ENERGY NUCLEAR-PHYSICS

A ''super-radiant'' state emerges when, under certain conditions, one or a few ''internal'' states acquire a large collective decay width du e to the coupling to one or a few ''external'' decay channels. The res t of the internal states are ''stripped'' of their decay width and bec ome long-lived quasistationary states. The essentials of such mechanis m and its possible role in intermediate energy nuclear physics are dis cussed in this work.