It is pointed out that the

exact

solutions given in the recent Comment by A. Rabhi on the paper by N. Dinh Dang
Energies of the ground state and first excited 0
+ state in an exactly solvable pairing model (Eur. Phys. J. A
16, 181 (2003)) do not correspond to the standard exact solution of the well-known two-level pairing model. Other issues raised in the Comment reiterate the discussions already published in the original paper by N. Dinh Dang.
Communicated by A. Molinari
Received: 21 July 2003, Published online: 17 February 2004PACS:
21.60.Jz Hartree-Fock and random-phase approximations - 21.60.-n Nuclear-structure models and methods