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Uchiyama, T.

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THPLS039 Upgrade and Current Status of the PF Ring Vacuum System 3371
 
  • Y. Tanimoto, Y. Hori, T. Nogami, T. Uchiyama
    KEK, Ibaraki
  
  The vacuum system for the KEK Photon Factory (PF) was extensively modified in 2005 as part of the PF ring straight-sections upgrade project. This project required replacements of the quad magnets in both northern and southern straight-sections that account for nearly two-thirds of the whole circumference. Therefore, the vacuum ducts in these new quad magnets (Q-ducts), as well as the vacuum ducts in their related bend magnets (B-ducts), needed to be replaced. The new Q-ducts have a narrower cross-section and are equipped with new 4-electrode beam position monitors, and the new B-ducts are furnished with new distributed ion pumps. After the installation of these vacuum chambers, we omitted the thermal in-situ baking, anticipating that beam scrubbing would provide more efficient cleaning. Furthermore, even pre-baking before installation was not performed for the chambers in the northern half in order to evaluate the effect of the pre-baking during the early period of the commissioning. Details of these modifications, as well as the current status of the new vacuum system, will be presented.  
THPLS036 Results of the Straight-sections Upgrade of the Photon Factory Storage Ring 3365
 
  • T. Honda, S. Asaoka, W.X. Cheng, K. Haga, K. Harada, Y. Hori, M. Izawa, T. Kasuga, Y. Kobayashi, H. Maezawa, A. Mishina, T. Mitsuhashi, T. Miyajima, H. Miyauchi, S. Nagahashi, T. Nogami, T. Obina, C.O. Pak, S. Sakanaka, H. Sasaki, Y. Sato, T. Shioya, M. Tadano, T. Takahashi, Y. Tanimoto, K. Tsuchiya, T. Uchiyama, A. Ueda, K. Umemori, S. Yamamoto
    KEK, Ibaraki
  
  At the 2.5-GeV ring of the Photon Factory (PF), a large reconstruction of the lattice around the straight sections* has been accomplished in 2005. As a result, four short straight sections of 1.5 m have been newly created, and the lengths of the existing straight sections have been much improved. For example, the length of the longest straight section has been extended to 9 m from 5 m. The optics has been optimized for installing short-period narrow-gap (in-vacuum) undulators at the new straight sections. The reconstruction work on the ring was held from March to September 2005. In the range over two-thirds of the storage ring, all the quadrupole magnets and all the beam ducts have been renewed and rearranged. Commissioning of the storage ring was started from the end of September 2005 and continued for one month. The operation for the user experiment was resumed from the end of October on schedule. Though we made no in-situ baking after the installation for the beam ducts, the vacuum scrubbing by the synchrotron radiation is running very well. The product of the beam lifetime and the beam current exceeded 700 A min for the operation current 450 mA at the end of December 2005.

*S. Asaoka et al. "New Upgrade Project for the Photon Factory Storage Ring", AIP Conf. Proc. 705, p161 (2004).