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TY - UNPB AU - Pietralla, N. ED - Meseck, Atoosa ED - McAteer, Meghan ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - V\xF6lker, Jens TI - Nuclear Photonics with an ERL-Based Hard X-Ray Source J2 - Proc. of ERL2019, Berlin, Germany, 15-20 September 2019 CY - Berlin, Germany T2 - ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Energy Recovery Linacs T3 - 63 LA - english AB - Electromagnetic (EM) coupling is small compared to hadronic interaction. Reaction cross sections of EM probes with nuclei can be, therefore, calculated perturbatively and are in principle under control to any desired precision. EM probes are, thus, well appreciated for being best suited for precision studies of nuclear structure. They have significantly contributed to our understanding of nuclear structure physics through a vast amount of precision data in the past. Accelerator technology and instrumentation have been advanced in recent years. Hard X-ray sources based on Compton scattering of laser beams on intense electron beams were developed and provide quasi-monochromatic, energy-tunable, fully polarized gamma-ray beams for photonuclear reactions. This opens up the new field of "Nuclear Photonics". Fundamentals of photonuclear reactions will be discussed. Examples for photonuclear reactions from the superconducting Darmstadt linear electron accelerator, S-DALINAC, [1, 2] and from the High-Intensity gamma-ray Source (HIgS) at Duke Univ. will be provided [3, 4]. We will dare an outlook to future opportunities for Nuclear Photonics at ERL-based hard X-ray sources. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland ER -