An experimental study on the temperature ($T$) dependence of giant dipole resonance (GDR) width was performed for the medium mass nucleus ${}^{74}\mathrm{Kr}$ in the range of $T\approx 2–2.5$ MeV at an average angular momentum of $26\hslash$ using the ${}^{16}\mathrm{O}+{}^{58}\mathrm{Ni}$ fusion reaction. The emitted high-energy $\gamma$ rays and evaporated neutrons were measured in coincidence with low-energy discrete $\gamma$-ray multiplicities. The GDR parameters, nuclear level density parameter, and nuclear temperature were determined by the statistical model analysis of the high-energy $\gamma$-ray spectra as well as evaporated neutron spectra. The measured GDR width is found to increase monotonically with temperature, in contradiction with the recent observation of the width saturation in ${}^{88}\mathrm{Mo}$. Comparisons of the measured data with predictions of the adiabatic thermal shape fluctuation model and its refined version, the critical temperature included fluctuation model, are presented and discussed.

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• Collective levels
• Low & intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions
• Thermal & statistical models