Author: Nagase, M.
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MOPPD029 Recent Achievements and Upgrade Programs at RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory 430
 
  • H. Okuno, T. Dantsuka, M. Fujimaki, T. Fujinawa, N. Fukunishi, H. Hasebe, Y. Higurashi, K. Ikegami, E. Ikezawa, H. Imao, T. Kageyama, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, M. Kidera, M. Komiyama, H. Kuboki, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, M. Nagase, T. Nakagawa, M. Nakamura, J. Ohnishi, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, H. Watanabe, T. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, K. Yamada, H. Yamasawa
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
 
  Recent achievements and upgrade programs in the near future at RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) are presented. The beam intensity and available ion species are increasing at RIBF, owing to the continuous efforts that have been paid since the first beam in 2006. So far, we accelerated deuteron, helium, nitrogen, oxygen, aluminum, calcium, krypton, and uranium beams with the world's first superconducting ring cyclotron, SRC*. The extracted beam intensities reached 1,000 pnA for helium and oxygen beams. From the operational point of view, however, the intensity of the uranium beam should be much increased. Therefore we constructed a new injector system for the RIBF, consisting of a 28 GHz ECR ion sources, RFQ and DTL, which was successfully commissioned in the end of 2010. Furthermore we developed low-Z (low atomic number Z) gas stripper** alternative to standard carbon foil stripping, which will be reliable and efficient charge stripping scheme for such high-power uranium beams.
* H. Okuno et al., IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., 18, 226 (2008).
** H. Okuno et al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 14, 033503 (2011).
 
 
MOPPD030 Present Status of RIKEN Ring Cyclotron 433
 
  • Y. Watanabe, M. Fujimaki, N. Fukunishi, H. Hasebe, Y. Higurashi, E. Ikezawa, H. Imao, T. Kageyama, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, M. Kidera, M. Komiyama, H. Kuboki, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, M. Nagase, T. Nakagawa, J. Ohnishi, H. Okuno, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, H. Watanabe, T. Watanabe, K. Yamada, S. Yokouchi
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • T. Aihara, S. Fukuzawa, M. Hamanaka, S. Ishikawa, K. Kobayashi, Y. Kotaka, R. Koyama, T. Nakamura, M. Nishida, M. Nishimura, T.O. Ohki, K. Oyamada, J. Shibata, M. Tamura, N. Tsukiori, A. Uchiyama, K. Yadomi, H. Yamauchi
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
 
  The RIKEN Ring Cyclotron (RRC K540) has been in stable operation over twenty-five years, and supplying many kinds of heavy-ion beams to experiments. Since 2007, it has also been supplying beams to the RIBF four Ring cyclotrons including the Super-conducting Ring Cyclotron (SRC K2500). Now the RRC has three kinds of injectors, one is K70 AVF cyclotron for light ions, the second is the variable-frequency linac for heavy ions, and the third is the RILAC2 for using the high intensity very heavy ions like U and Xe. The many combinations of accelerators are possible, and in any acceleration modes, the RRC should works as a first energy booster. A total operation time of the RRC is more than 5000 hr in every year. The present status of the RRC operation will be reported.