“…First experiments using a tagged high-energy photon beam (E γ = 0.3-2.6 GeV), which offered sufficient energy to excite the second resonance region, have been performed by the Yerevan group [294,295]. Following up this pioneering work, photon absorption on nuclei has been measured at the Mainz Microton (MAMI) facility [296,297] with a beam energy of E γ = 0.05-0.8 GeV, with higher energies of E γ = 0.2-1.2 GeV at the Adone storage ring facility (Frascati, Italy) [298,299,300,301,302], using the SAPHIR tagged photon beam of E γ = 0.5-2.67 GeV at ELSA (Bonn, Germany) [303] and at Hall B of the Jefferson Laboratory (Newport News, USA) [304,305] with a beam energy of E γ = 0.17-3.84 GeV. In fact, some of the above experiments have not measured directly the photoabsorption cross section but only the photofission cross section [296,297,300,298,304,305].…”