THE SCRIT ELECTRON SCATTERING FACILITY PROJECT AT THE RIKEN RI BEAM FACTORY

The SCRIT electron scattering facility has been constructed at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory. The commissioning experiment was performed and the properties of the ion trapping were studied. The first electron elastic scattering experiment of Xe-132 was performed and the charge density distribution was obtained. The achieved luminosity in the experiment was 1.8x10(27)cm(-2)s(-1) with a 250 mA electron beam current and the injection of 10(8) ions. The production of unstable nuclei has been started with a new online isotope separator (ISOL) system at the SCRIT facility, and developments of the ISOL system for increasing rates of unstable nuclei are underway. Electron scattering with unstable nuclei will be performed in the near future.