Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Dynamical polarization potential due to the excitation of collective states’ ’’

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This is a reply to the preceding Comment. We conGrm the results of our paper. The differences between our calculations and those of the preceding Comment come mainly from the form factors.Our random-phase-approximation -based form factors are in good agreement with those obtained by using experimental transition densities. PACS number(s): 25.70. Gh, 25.70.Bc In a recent paper [1] we calculated the heavy ion polarization potential due to the excitation of vibrational collective states which we describe in a microscopic way by using the random phase approximation (RPA). The result of the check is that the imaginary part of the polarization potential calculated by our code coincides with the one calculated by the analytic formula, Eq. (16)