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The project A.2 of the SFB/TR16 “Subnuclear Structure of Matter” aimed at a combined multichannel partial wave analysis of all or of most data on pion and photo-induced reactions for invariant masses from the Δ(1232) region to 2300MeV. In this review the most important results are presented. It is shown that the data and their partial wave analysis have improved our understanding of the dynamics of excited light-quark baryons significantly.

Within project A.1 of the SFB/TR16 “Subnuclear Structure of Matter”, a large amount of data on photoproduction reactions has been accumulated at the Bonn Electron Stretcher Accelerator ELSA with the CBELSA/TAPS detector and was analysed in detail. In particular, data have been taken with unpolarized or with linearly or circularly polarized photons and with unpolarized or with longitudinally or transversely polarized protons. Photoproduction off neutrons was studied to determine the helicity amplitudes for the excitation of resonances off neutrons. In a partial wave analysis of the data, new resonances have been found and the properties of new and of known resonances have been determined, including the measurement of partial widths of so far unmeasured decay modes.