Abstract Different factors that affect the beam emittance of highly charged ions extracted from the RIKEN 28-GHz superconducting ECR ion source have been investigated. Since the ion source ...parameters, space charge effects and various beamline components directly affect the beam quality, it was attempted to experimentally determine the different components that contribute to the beam emittance growth. From the experimental measurements, a beam emittance defined by the ion source has been evaluated based on a simple model calculation for space charge induced beam emittance. Ion beams using 40 Ar 11+ and 136 Xe 20+ ions were generated, and the beam emittance from the ion source and space charge were fitted from the experimental results. These parameters will be used to further evaluate the relationship between the extracted beam emittances and the ECR ion source parameters.
A high-intensity deuteron linear accelerator is currently being studied as a promising candidate to treat high-level radioactive waste through the nuclear transmutation process. This paper presents ...the study on a design of a 75.5 MHz, 400 mA, continuous-wave deuteron radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ), which is proposed as the front-end of such a linear accelerator. The results of the beam dynamics simulation suggest that the designed RFQ can accelerate a 400-mA deuteron beam from 100 keV to 2.5 MeV with a transmission rate of 92.0 ∼ 93.3%, depending on the assumed input transverse emittance.
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The MuSEUM collaboration is planning measurements of the ground-state hyperfine structure (HFS) of muonium at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), Materials and Life ...Science Experimental Facility. The high-intensity beam that will soon be available, the H-line, allows for more precise measurements by one order of magnitude. We plan to conduct two staged measurements. First, we will measure the Mu-HFS in a near-zero magnetic field, and thereafter we will measure it in a strong magnetic field. We have developed two microwave cavities for this purpose. Furthermore, we evaluated the systematic uncertainties from such a fluctuation of microwave fields and confirmed the requirements for the microwave system; we use a microwave field distribution calculated with the finite element method.
The RIKEN accelerator complex started feeding the next-generation exotic beam facility radioisotope beam factory (RIBF) with heavy-ion beams from 2007 after the successful commissioning of RIBF at ...the end of 2006. Many improvements made from 2007 to 2010 were instrumental in increasing the intensity of various heavy-ion beams. However, the available beam intensity of very heavy ion beams, especially uranium beams, is far below our goal of 1pμA (6×1012particles/s ). In order to achieve this goal, upgrade programs are already in progress; the programs include the construction of a new 28-GHz superconducting electron cyclotron resonance ion source and a new injector linac. However, the most serious problem, that of a charge stripper for high-power uranium beams, still remains unsolved, despite extensive research and development work using large foils mounted on a rotating cylinder and a N2 gas stripper. A gas stripper is free from problems related to lifetime, though the equilibrium charge state in this stripper is considerably lower than that in a carbon foil, owing to the absence of the density effect. Nevertheless, the merits of gas strippers motivated us to develop a low-Z gas stripper to achieve a higher equilibrium charge state even in gases. We measured the electron-loss and electron-capture cross sections of uranium ions in He gas as a function of their charge state at 11, 14, and 15MeV/nucleon . The equilibrium charge states extracted from the intersection of the lines of the two cross sections were promisingly higher than those in N2 gas by more than 10. Simple simulations of charge development along the stripper thickness were performed by assuming the measured cross sections. The simulation results show that about 1mg/cm2 of He gas should be accumulated to achieve a charge state higher than that of N2 gas, notwithstanding the difficulty in accumulation of this helium amount owing to its fast dispersion. However, we now believe that the following two solutions can overcome this difficulty: a gas cell with a very large differential pumping system and a gas cell with a plasma window. Their merits and demerits are discussed in the paper.
A new injector linac “RILAC2”, has recently been constructed at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory. The main part of the RILAC2 is a drift tube linac that consists of three newly designed cavities. These ...cavities operate in continuous wave (CW) mode at a fixed frequency of 36.5MHz. Their structure is based on a quarter-wavelength resonator because this is the smallest resonator available in this frequency range among the available structures. We adopted the direct coupling method in the construction of these cavities. A power amplifier was directly coupled to the cavity without a long transmission line to reduce the installation area and simultaneously reduce construction cost. A detailed cavity and coupler design was carried out via simulation. Our work also describes the design process using three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation software. Construction and operation tests are also shown.
The Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) is a cyclotron-based accelerator facility that is used for nuclear science studies and was completed at the end of 2006. RIBF can produce the most intense ...RI beams using fragmentation or fission of high speed heavy ion beams. Ever since the first beam was produced, effort has focused on increasing the intensity of uranium beams. Ions beams with high intensity and high availability have been used to produce many important scientific achievements. Upgrade programs have been proposed to further expand scientific opportunities. These programs have two goals. The first goal is to find heavier elements than element 118, which is already named. The upgrade program for the heavy ion linac (RILAC), including installation of a superconducting linac, has been funded and is under construction. The second goals is to increase the intensity of uranium ion beams up to 1 pµA, thus facilitating further investigations into the physics of unstable nuclei. This program for uranium beams is still been unfunded. We are pursuing a budget-friendly version without changing the project goals.
Development of a nondestructive, efficient electric-charge-stripping method is a key requirement for next-generation high-intensity heavy-ion accelerators such as the RIKEN Radioactive-Isotope Beam ...Factory. A charge stripper employing a low-Z gas is an important candidate applicable to high-intensity uranium beams for replacing carbon-foil strippers. In this study, a high-beam-transmission charge-stripping system employing helium gas for U238 beams injected at 10.8MeV/u was developed and demonstrated for the first time. The charge-state evolution measured using helium in a thickness range of 0.24–1.83mg/cm2 is compared with theoretical predictions. Energy attenuation and energy spread due to the helium stripper are also investigated.
We have developed a monitoring system dedicated for heavy-ion cyclotrons that incorporates lock-in amplifiers (LIAs) that can measure the beam phase of signals from phase probe with an amplitude of a ...few hundred nanovolts. We have compared the performance of the LIA system with that of a conventional system that incorporates oscilloscopes (OSCs). It was confirmed that the LIA system has a much higher precision than the OSC system by the measurement with a wide dynamic range of beam current. Isochronism measurements for a ring cyclotron with a low velocity gain (1.5) were made using both systems and excellent agreement was found between them. However there was a discrepancy between the beam phase measurements using the OSC system and the LIA system, for the case of a ring cyclotron with a high velocity gain of 4.0. It turned out due to a large radial variation of the phase width of circulating beam bunch according to a radial distribution of the acceleration voltage. It was also confirmed that the cable dispersion disturbs the beam-phase measurement using OSC system.
•We have developed a beam monitoring system using lock-in amplifiers (LIAs).•LIA can measure the signal as small as 200nV corresponds to 10enA of beam current.•LIA has higher phase resolution (=0.02°) than the conventional oscilloscope system.•LIA system has contributed to the stability improvement of cyclotron-facility RIBF.•Disturbance of cable dispersion to the isochronism measurement was confirmed.
A new representation of the external-Q (Qext) calculations for cavities coupled to waveguides is derived based on a circuit model. The Qext value is obtained by solving analytical equations of the ...input impedance of a cavity provided as a function of the frequency; large numerical simulations are not necessary. The derivation starts with a fundamental expression of the ratio of the stored energies of two loss-free circuits forming a parallel resonant circuit. By applying this expression to the input impedance of a cavity seen from the detuned-short-circuit plane, as well as to those of open- and short-end waveguides, a precise estimation of Qext is given. It is then explained that the result is almost independent of the choice of the cavity boundary. This method is an alternative to the electromagnetic representation of the Qext calculation P. Balleyguier, in Proceedings of the XIX International Linac Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, edited by C. E. Eyberger, R. C. Pardo, and M. M. White (ANL-98/28, 1998), pp. 133–135.. It is also shown why this estimation provides a good approximation when Qext is high. Formulas for the TEM, TE, and TM modes of waveguides are presented along with a simple example of a loop-coupled cavity.
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