RIKEN SPring-8 Center Beam Dynamics Team
Team Leader: Toru Hara (D.Sc.)
Research Summary

The team does research on generation, precise control and stabilization of brilliant electron beams on the basis of charged particle dynamics and electrodynamics. The team also does research on optimum schemes for Seeded FEL in wavelengths from soft to hard X-rays.
Main Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Quantum beam science
- General applied physics
- Power engineering/Power conversion/Electric machinery
Keywords
- Free-electron laser
- Linear accelerator
- Synchrotron radiation
- Electro-magnet
Selected Publications
- 1.Hara T et al.:
"Two-colour hard X-ray free-electron laser with wide tunability"
Nature Communications, vol. 4, 2919 (2013). - 2.Hara T et al..:
"Time-interleaved multienergy acceleration for an x-ray free-electron laser facility"
Physical Review ST-AB, vol.16, 080701 (2013). - 3.Ishikawa T et al.:
"A compact X-ray free-electron laser emitting in the sub-angstrom region"
Nature Photonics 6, p. 540 (2012). - 4.Hara T, Togawa K, Tanaka H.:
"Transverse envelope analysis for accelerating relativistic electron beams in a linear accelerator as a photon source."
NUCL INSTRUM METH A, vol.624, p.65 (2010). - 5.Togawa K, Hara T, Tanaka H.:
"Electron-bunch compression using a dynamical nonlinearity correction for a compact x-ray free-electron laser."
Physical Review ST-AB, vol.12, p.080706 (2009). - 6.Shintake T, Tanaka H, Hara T, Tanaka T, Togawa K et al.:
"Stable operation of a self-amplified spontaneous-emission free-electron laser in the extremely ultraviolet region."
Physical Review ST-AB, vol.12, p.070701 (2009). - 7.Lambert G, Hara T, Garzella D, Tanikawa T, Labat M, et al.:
"Injection of harmonics generated in gas in a free-electron laser providing intense and coherent extreme-ultraviolet light."
Nature Physics, vol. 4, p.296 (2008). - 8.Shintake T, Tanaka H, Hara T, Togawa K, Tanaka T, et al.:
"A compact free-electron laser for generating coherent radiation in the extreme ultraviolet region."
Nature Photonics vol. 2, p. 555 (2008). - 9.Hara T, Togawa K, Tanaka H.:
"BEAM OPTICS AND PARMETER DESIGN OF THE XFEL/SPRING-8."
Proceedings of the FEL conference 2010, Malmo, p.111 (2010). - 10.Kano Y, Hara T, Takebe H, Fukami K, Kumagai N.:
"XFEL ELECTRO-MAGNETS AND THEIR EXCITATION CHARACTERISTICS,"
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (in Japanese), Himeji, p.558 (2010).
Recent Research Results
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Toru Hara
- Team Leader
Core members
- Kazuaki Togawa
- Senior Research Scientist
- Hirokazu Maesaka
- Senior Research Scientist
- Takahiro Inagaki
- Research Scientist
Contact Information
1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho
Sayo-gun, Hyogo
679-5148 Japan
Email: toru [at] spring8.or.jp