The photo-absorption cross section for 28 Si has been measured in the energy range 17.5-21.5 MeV, using a highresolution high-energy photon spectrometer and laser Compton photons. Four intermediate structure peaks in the giant dipole resonance of 28 Si have been resolved into about thirty fine-structure peaks. The comparison of the observed structure with those in (γ, p 0 ) and (γ, n 0 ) reactions shows that the energies of the fine structure peaks in (γ , abs) reaction have a correlation with those in both of the (γ, p 0 ) and (γ, n 0 ) reactions.
465(BGO) anti-coincidence shields. The experimental arrangement is described in Refs. 1) and 2). A natural silicon target (92.18% in 28 Si) was used of the thickness 137.4 g/cm 2 . After the measurement of the 28 Si target, the energy distribution of the LCP beam was measured with a blank target instead of the 28 Si target.The photon energy was calibrated with a 60 Co source (E γ =1.173 and 1.333 MeV) and the 15.11 MeV peak in 13 C. 1) The error in E γ was estimated as less than 0.1% for the energy of about 20 MeV. The LCP beam was obtained using a CW Nd:YVO 4 laser beam (λ=532 nm and the power 1-5 W) and the electron storage ring TERAS. 11) The energy of the stored electron beam was 793 MeV and the stored current was 5-120 mA. The lead collimator of 150 mm in length with a hole of 4.0 mmφ was placed along the LCP beam axis to cut off the low energy tail of the LCP beam. Figure 1 shows the transmitted-photon spectra, Y( 28 Si) (•) and Y(blank) (•), of the HHS for the 28 Si and blank targets, respectively. Many absorption dips are shown in the Y( 28 Si) spectrum, whereas there is no significant absorption dip in the Y(blank) spectrum. This means the absorption dips originate in the photo-absorption by the 28 Si target. The (γ , abs) cross section is given by
III. Results and Discussionwhere ρ and l mean the atomic density and the length of the 28 Si target. The U and U 0 are obtained by unfolding the observed spectra Y( 28 Si) and Y(blank), respectively, with the response functions 10) of HHS calculated using the EGS4 simulation code. 12) The c in Eq. (1) is a normalization constant for the observed spectrum for the blank target. The σ atom (E γ ) is the photo-atomic cross section that is well known to have smooth energy dependence and tabulated. 13) The (γ , abs) cross section for 28 Si obtained in the present experiments is shown as a function of excitation energy by the closed circles in Fig. 2. The cross section includes "contami-