Abstract

The first elastic electron scattering has been successfully performed at the self-confining radioactive-isotope ion target (SCRIT) facility, the world’s first electron scattering facility for SCRIT technique achieved high luminosity (over 1027  cm-2 s-1, sufficient for determining the nuclear shape) with only 108 target ions. While Xe132 used in this time as a target is a stable isotope, the charge density distribution was first extracted from the momentum transfer distributions of the scattered electrons by comparing the results with those calculated by a phase shift calculation.