EXPERIMENTS WITH NEUTRONS AND PHOTONS AT ELBE

We describe the photo-neutron source at the superconducting electron accelerator ELBE of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and present first experiments to determine cross sections of inelastic scattering of neutrons in the MeV range. We discuss analysis and results of photon-scattering experiments using the bremsstrahlung facility at ELBE. A consistent determination of the dipole strength function from the combination of photon scattering and radiative neutron capture is presented.