IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Asano, H.)

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WEPS049	Floor Deformation of J-PARC Linac after the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan	2601
	T. Morishita, H. Asano JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan M. Ikegami KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
	J-PARC linac has finalized its precise alignment at the end of summer 2006, and the beam provision to the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron has been started at Sept. 2007. Since then, the deformation of the accelerator tunnel is small enough to keep the soundness of the alignment accuracy. Therefore, the linac has been operated without realignment of the accelerator components for these four years. However, the alignment has seriously been damaged due to the large earthquake at Mar. 11th, 2011 in eastern Japan. Now, work for restoration is being continued. In this paper, the deformation of the linac tunnel floor due to the earthquake is reported. Since then, aftershock happens frequently. We also report the stability of the tunnel floor.

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Floor Deformation of J-PARC Linac after the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan

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T. Morishita, H. Asano
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
M. Ikegami
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan

J-PARC linac has finalized its precise alignment at the end of summer 2006, and the beam provision to the Rapid Cycling Synchrotron has been started at Sept. 2007. Since then, the deformation of the accelerator tunnel is small enough to keep the soundness of the alignment accuracy. Therefore, the linac has been operated without realignment of the accelerator components for these four years. However, the alignment has seriously been damaged due to the large earthquake at Mar. 11th, 2011 in eastern Japan. Now, work for restoration is being continued. In this paper, the deformation of the linac tunnel floor due to the earthquake is reported. Since then, aftershock happens frequently. We also report the stability of the tunnel floor.