Author: Fujimaki, M.
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MOPA04 New High-energy Beam Transport Line Dedicated to Biological Applications in RIKEN RI Beam Factory 42
 
  • N. Fukunishi, T. Abe, M. Fujimaki, T. Hirano, M. Komiyama, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, Y. Watanabe
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
 
  RIKEN RI Beam Factory is one of the world-leading heavy-ion facilities where nuclear physics research and application research have been conducted. One important application, performed more than twenty years at RIBF, is breeding plants and others where energetic heavy ions are used as very effective mutagens. Our previous main accelerator RIKEN Ring Cyclotron has been used for this purpose but available beam energies and resultant ion ranges are limited for medium heavy ions such as argon and iron ions. Hence, a new beam transport line delivering beams accelerated by one of our new-generation cyclotrons, RIKEN Intermediate Ring Cyclotron, to E5H experimental vault, where biological samples are irradiated in air, has been constructed. We will report design of the new beam line and the results obtained by the beam-commissioning test performed using a 160 MeV/nucleon argon beam in January 2015. We obtained performances as designed, for example, nearly 100% transmission efficiency, and a threefold increase of ion ranges. The higher-energy argon beam delivered by the new beam line was used to induce seaweed mutations immediately after the beam test.  
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MOPA09 RIKEN Ring Cyclotron (RRC) 54
 
  • Y. Watanabe, M. Fujimaki, N. Fukunishi, E. Ikezawa, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, J. Ohnishi, H. Okuno, K. Ozeki, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, S. Watanabe, K. Yamada
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • S. Fukuzawa, M. Hamanaka, S. Ishikawa, K. Kobayashi, R. Koyama, T. Nakamura, M. Nishida, M. Nishimura, J. Shibata, N. Tsukiori, K. Yadomi
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
 
  The RIKEN Ring Cyclotron (RRC) has been in stable operation over 28 years, and has been used for supplying many types of heavy-ion beams for various experiments. Since 2007, it has also been used for supplying beams to the three Ring Cyclotrons at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF). The RRC has three types of injectors: the AVF cyclotron for comparatively light ions, variable-frequency linac for heavy-ions (RILAC), and the RIKEN Heavy-ions Linac 2 (RILAC2) for using high-intensity very-heavy ions. The total operation time of the RRC is more than 4000 h/year. Recently, some problems caused by age-related deterioration have often been occurring in the RRC. Some main coils of sector magnets had a sign of layer short. Two Magnetic Deflection Channels and some electrodes of Electrostatic Deflection Channel were damaged by some beam-loss. Several leaks of vacuum have happened at a feed-through of trim coils in the E-sector, at a bellows between the Resonator No.2 and the S-sector magnet, and at some copper cooling water pipes in the Resonator No.1 and the Resonator No.2. These present statuses of the RRC are presented in this paper.  
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MOPA12 Status Report of the Operation of the RIKEN AVF Cyclotron 65
 
  • K. Suda, M. Fujimaki, N. Fukunishi, T. Kageyama, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, M. Komiyama, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, M. Nagase, T. Nagatomo, T. Nakagawa, H. Okuno, N. Sakamoto, A. Uchiyama, T. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, K. Yamada
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • S. Fukuzawa, M. Hamanaka, S. Ishikawa, K. Kobayashi, R. Koyama, T. Nakamura, M. Nishida, M. Nishimura, J. Shibata, N. Tsukiori, K. Yadomi
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
  • Y. Kotaka, Y. Ohshiro, S. Yamaka
    CNS, Saitama, Japan
 
  The RIKEN AVF cyclotron was commissioned in 1989. Since then, it has been operated as an injector for the RIKEN ring cyclotron. The AVF cyclotron also provides low energy ion beams for the Radio-Isotope Beam separator (CRIB) of the Center for Nuclear Study (CNS), the University of Tokyo, as well as to produce RIs for commercial use. The operating time is more than 3,000 hours per year. We will report the operating status (nuclear species, energy, supply destination of accelerated ions), troubles, maintenance work, and the improvement of ion sources and diagnostics tools for the period from August 2014 to July 2015.  
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MOPA27 Recent Updates on the RIKEN RI Beam Factory Control System 104
 
  • M. Komiyama, M. Fujimaki, N. Fukunishi, K. Kumagai, A. Uchiyama
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • T. Nakamura
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
 
  RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) is a heavy-ion accelerator facility producing unstable nuclei and studying their properties. The major part of the RIBF accelerator complex has been controlled by Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS). After the first beam extraction from Superconducting Ring Cyclotron (SRC), the final stage accelerator of RIBF, in 2006, several kinds of extensions and updates have been performed in the EPICS-based RIBF control system as well as the accelerators and their components. We will here present the overview of the EPICS-based RIBF control system and its two latest updates. One is a newly installed safety system in addition to the existing two kinds of RIBF beam interlock systems following significant increase of the beam intensity extracted from the SRC. The other is development of some kinds of successors that are designed to be compatible with the existing aged controllers for magnet power supplies.  
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WEPB01 Status Report on the Operation of the RIBF Ring Cyclotrons 191
 
  • K. Ozeki, T. Dantsuka, M. Fujimaki, T. Fujinawa, N. Fukunishi, H. Hasebe, Y. Higurashi, E. Ikezawa, H. Imao, T. Kageyama, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, M. Kidera, M. Komiyama, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, M. Nagase, T. Nagatomo, T. Nakagawa, M. Nakamura, J. Ohnishi, H. Okuno, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, A. Uchiyama, S. Watanabe, T. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, K. Yamada, H. Yamasawa
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • S. Fukuzawa, M. Hamanaka, S. Ishikawa, K. Kobayashi, R. Koyama, T. Nakamura, M. Nishida, M. Nishimura, J. Shibata, N. Tsukiori, K. Yadomi
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
  • Y. Kotaka
    CNS, Saitama, Japan
 
  Operational status of four ring cyclotrons (RRC, fRC, IRC, SRC) from August 2014 to July 2015 is reported. We are engaging in the improvements and adjustments for increasing beam intensities year after year, and maintenances for the stabilization of beam supply. In these contributions, we will report the past performances of accelerated beams, statistics of operational and tuning time on corresponding period, as well as failures and copings with them.  
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WEPB14 Heavy-Ion Beam Acceleration at RIKEN for the Super-Heavy Element Search 222
 
  • E. Ikezawa, M. Fujimaki, Y. Higurashi, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, M. Komiyama, T. Nakagawa, K. Ozeki, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, A. Uchiyama
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • K. Kaneko, T.O. Ohki, K. Oyamada, M. Tamura, H. Yamauchi, Y.A. Yusa
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
 
  The RIKEN heavy ion linac (RILAC) is composed of a variable-frequency Wideröe linac, an 18 GHz ECR ion source, a variable-frequency folded-coaxial radio frequency quadrupole linac (FC-RFQ) as a pre-injector, and a Charge-State Multiplier system (CSM) as a booster. The operation of RILAC was started to supply heavy ion beams for experiments in 1981. The 18 GHz ECR ion source and the FC-RFQ were installed in 1996. The CSM was installed in 2000. The maximum beam energy, boosted by the CSM, is 6.0 MeV/nucleon. A GAs-filled Recoil Isotope Separator (GARIS) was moved from the E1 experiment room of the RRC to the No. 1 target room of the RILAC in 2000. In RIKEN Nishina center, the experiment on the super-heavy element (Z=113) search was carried out at RILAC from September 2003 to October 2012. As a result, three events for Z=113 have been successfully observed. The heavy-ion beam acceleration at RIKEN for the super-heavy element search will be reported.  
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