The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) is a world-class research facility in beam and accelerator physics at the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, on the University of Maryland, College Park campus.  Using a scaled low-energy electron beam, UMER cleverly accesses the intense, high-brightness, regime of beam operation in accelerators, at a much lower cost than larger and more energetic machines.  UMER therefore makes an ideal testbed for experimenting in pushing up the brightness of existing and future accelerators.


Funding for the project is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, and by the US Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research and the Joint Technology Office.

(Click here for access to the pre-2005 UMER website)