The fine structure of pygmy and giant multipole resonances in nuclei

In connection with the program of planned work on the megascience installation "Intensive Reverse Compton"(INOC) at the Scientific Center of Physics and Mathematics in Sarov, a brief overview of experimental and theoretical results in the field of pygmy- and giant resonance energies is presented. Considered: 1) pygmy-dipole resonance in 208Pb, for which the limit of experimental resolution has already been reached and separate 1 − levels have been identified, 2) the most important physical results of experiments with a resolution of (50–200) keV both for gamma strenght functions, that determine the characteristics of nuclear reactions, and for analysis of non–statistical mechanisms of formation of widths of giant resonances («doorway» states) in the framework of wavelet analysis. Some results in the field of excitation energies (1–5) MeV are also discussed.