RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON FACILITY FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH AT HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY

The Relativistic Electron Facility for Education and Research (REFER) at Hiroshima University accepts a 150 MeV electron beam from a microtron, the injector to the 700 MeV storage ring of the Hiroshima Synchrotron Research Center, and keep it circulating for 2.5ms without a RF acceleration. It acts as a beam stretcher and has been used for the following researches: 1) X-ray generation from an internal multiple foil crystalline target due to the parametric X-radiation (PXR) and the resonant transition radiation (RTR). 2) Laser backward Compton scattering. 3) Coherent pair creation from Si crystal by 150 MeV bremsstrahlung. 4) Study of the Ter-Mikaelian effect in the low energy part of the bremsstrahlung in an extracted electron line. 5) A novel scheme of beam stabilization by the induction coil. This paper reports the experimental results and the current status of the REFER electron ring.