Nuclear reactions induced by photons play a vital role for very different aspects of basic
research and applications in physics. They are a key ingredient for the synthesis of nuclei in …

The electric dipole response of atomic nuclei has attracted a lot of attention from
experimentalists and theorists in the last decade. This review gives an overview about the …

A benchmark experiment on Pb 208 shows that polarized proton inelastic scattering at very
forward angles including 0° is a powerful tool for high-resolution studies of electric dipole (E …

We review recent studies of the evolution of collective excitations in atomic nuclei far from
the valley of β-stability. Collective degrees of freedom govern essential aspects of nuclear …

This review paper concerns the research devoted to the study of the properties of dipole
excitations in nuclei. The main focus is on questions related to isospin effects in these types …

A new facility for the production of polarised bremsstrahlung has been built at the
superconducting electron accelerator ELBE of the Forschungszentrum Rossendorf. The …

A concentration of electric-dipole excitations below the particle threshold, which is frequently
denoted as the pygmy dipole resonance, has been studied in the semimagic nucleus Ce …

High resolution photon scattering experiments were performed at the 10 MeV
bremsstrahlung facility of the electron accelerator S-DALINAC at TU Darmstadt to investigate …

The photoresponse of the semimagic N= 82 nucleus Xe 136 was measured up to the
neutron separation energy S n using the (γ, γ′) reaction. A concentration of strong dipole …

Measurements of inelastic proton scattering with high energy resolution at forward scattering
angles including 0∘ are described. High-resolution halo-free beams were accelerated by …