Beam Properties of UVSOR Storage Ring

UVSOR constructed at the IMS (Institute for Molecular Science) is an electron storage ring dedicated to synchrotron radiation research in molecular science and its related fields. The first beam was stored on 10th Nov. in 1983. From that time on, efforts have been devoted to improvement of the performance of the ring. During the accelerator studies, some inconvenient phenomena were found. One of the big problems is ion trapping effect. Trapped ions change the operating point and enhance the coupling between horizontal and vertical oscillations. As a result, the beam height is enlarged considerably at high beam current. The beam is shaken slightly in the vertical plane and the electrostatic clearing field is applied to solve this problem. The bunch length is somewhat longer than the expected value. This effect is also a problem to be solved.