IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Hasegawa, K.)

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Beam Loss Detected by Scintillation Monitor

1257

A. Miura, K. Hasegawa, T. Maruta, N. Ouchi, H. Sako
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
Z. Igarashi, M. Ikegami, T. Miyao
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan

Ar gas proportional BLMs have measured the beam loss through operations, but they are also sensitive to background noise of X-ray emitted from RF cavities. We have tried to measure the beam loss using scintillation monitors which would bring more accurate beam loss measurements with suppression of X-ray noise. We measured beam loss using scintillation beam loss monitors. Because this scintillation BLM is sensitive for low energy gamma-rays and fast neutrons, small signals from X-rays would be also detected. As the measurement results, a good signal to noise ratio is observed for the scintillation monitor with quite low sensitivity to the background X-ray. And many single events are observed in the intermediate pulse bunch with about 600 ns as pulse width. In addition, because we fabricated the filter and integrated circuit, total amount of X-ray noise can become smaller. We obtained the good performances of scintillation BLM with small effect of X-ray noise. This monitor can be used for beam loss measurement and a knob for tuning. Furthermore, because the detail structure can be detected, this monitor could be employed for another diagnostic device.

WEPC144

Beam Monitor Deformation by Tohoku Earthquake and its Recovery Project

2328

A. Miura, K. Hasegawa, H. Oguri, N. Ouchi
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
Z. Igarashi, M. Ikegami, T. Miyao
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan

On March 11, 2011, the biggest earthquake occurred at Tohoku and North Kanto area in Japan. This earthquake and related ones have attacked J-PARC accelerators and caused the big damage. As for the linac beam monitors, some commissioning tools which were installed in the linac had damage and the air leakage was observed. In the first step of the recovery work, we checked the damage and put the emergency treatment for vacuum of the cavities. All beam monitors were observed, the leak from the vacuum devices was tested and the conduction of the signal cables was measured to compare the previous performance. In the next step, we started to order the new devices which should be replaced and to obtain the calibration data. We found the leakage from the phase monitors. The earthquake caused the crack and deformation at the welded points between the metallic parts and ceramic parts. And a wire of the profile monitor was broken while the beam position monitors have no damage. We are continuing this recovery work ongoingly.

WEPS095

Status of J-PARC Accelerator Facilities after the Great East Japan Earthquake

2727

K. Hasegawa, M. Kinsho, H. Oguri
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
T. Koseki
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan

J-PARC was heavily affected by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. When the earthquake struck, we had a beam study operation of the linac and the machine immediately stopped. Fortunately, we had no effects of tsunami that happened nearby and no one was injured. We can see subsidence at many places; about 1.5m over the wide area at the entrance of the linac building, about 50cm over the area of 1m x 10m at the main ring building, etc. Underground water is coming into the linac and the main ring tunnels. The water level at the linac reached a depth of 10 cm, but pumping with a diesel generator successfully saved from further flooding. At the RCS, the circulating road went wavy and the yard area for electricity and water devices was heavily distorted. Therefore, a high voltage power is not available on the date of abstract submission. We are investigating damages of each facility and also we are trying to estimate the beam restoration. The current status of the J-PARC accelerator facilities after the earthquake will be presented.

MOPC019

Condition of MA Cut Cores in the RF Cavities of J-PARC Main Ring after Several Years of Operation

107

M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura, M. Yamamoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
E. Ezura, K. Hasegawa, K. Takata
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
K. Hara, C. Ohmori, M. Toda, M. Yoshii
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
T. Sato, M. Yamamoto
JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

J-PARC 3 GeV RCS and 50 GeV Synchrotron (MR) employ RF cavities loaded with Magnetic Alloy (MA) cores to generate a high field gradient. The RF cavities in RCS use MA un-cut cores. On the other hand, the RF cavities in MR employ MA cut cores to increase the Q-value from 0.6 to 26. We observed the impedance reductions of all MR RF cavities during several years operation. Opening the RF cavities, we found that the impedance reductions were resulting from corrosion on the cut and polished surfaces of MA cores. Before installation of the RF cavities, we had 1000 and 2000 hours long tests at a test stand. We didn't observe the impedance reduction related to the corrosion on the MA core cut surfaces at the test stand. The only difference between the test stand and MR is the quality of cooling water. The MR cooling water contains copper ions for example from copper hollow conductors of the main magnets. We report the influence of the copper ions to the corrosion on the MA core cut surface. We also show plans how to solve the issue of MA core cut surface corrosion.

MOPS008

Simulation of Longitudinal Emittance Control in J-PARC RCS for 400 MeV Injection

607

M. Yamamoto, M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
E. Ezura, K. Hara, K. Hasegawa, C. Ohmori, A. Takagi, K. Takata, M. Toda, M. Yoshii
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan

The injection energy upgrade of the J-PARC RCS from 181 MeV to 400 MeV is scheduled, this is necessary to achieve the design beam intensity. The high intensity beam is delivered to the MR, and the space charge effect at the MR injection should be alleviated by optimizing the longitudinal beam emittance at RCS extraction. This is realized by matching the shape of the beam emittance between the RCS and the MR. We describe the results of particle tracking simulation with the longitudinal emittance control during the whole acceleration period of the RCS.

WEPS010

Acceleration of High Intensity Proton Beams in the J-PARC Synchrotrons

2502

M. Yoshii
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
E. Ezura, K. Hara, K. Hasegawa, C. Ohmori, K. Takata, M. Toda
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Minamikawa
University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura, M. Yamamoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan

The J-PARC accelerator complex consists of the linac, the 3GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) and the 50GeV main synchrotron (MR). These synchrotrons are the first MW-class proton accelerators which employ the high electric field gradient magnetic alloy (MA) loaded RF cavities. The beam commissioning was started in October 2007 for RCS and in May 2008 for MR. High intensity beam operation studies and user runs have been performed, while carefully controlling and minimizing the beam loss. The cycle to cycle beam operation is reproducible and quite stable, because of the stable linac beam energy and the reproducible bending field in both synchrotrons. The MA loaded RF systems and the full digital LLRF also guarantee the stable longitudinal particle motion and precise beam transfer synchronization from RCS to the MLF user facility as well as to the MR. A high intensity proton beam of 2.5·10¹³ ppp is accelerated in RCS. And in MR, a beam intensity up to ~100 Tera ppp was obtained.　We summarize the RF systems and the longitudinal parameters in both rings.

WEPS097

Performance of Multi-harmonic RF Feedforward System for Beam Loading Compensation in the J-PARC RCS

2733

F. Tamura, M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, M. Yamamoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
K. Hara, C. Ohmori, M. Toda, M. Yoshii
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
K. Hasegawa
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan

The beam loading compensation is a key part for acceleration of high intensity proton beams in the J-PARC RCS. In the wide-band MA-loaded RF cavity, the wake voltage consists of not only the accelerating harmonic component but also the higher harmonics. The higher harmonic components cause the RF bucket distortion. We employ the RF feedforward method to compensate the multi-harmonic beam loading. The full-digital feedforward system is developed, which compensates the first three harmonic components of the beam loading. We present the results of the beam test with a high intensity proton beam (2.5·10¹³ ppp). The impedance seen by the beam is greatly reduced, the impedance of the fundamental accelerating harmonic is reduced to less than 25 ohms in a full accelerating cycle, while the shunt resistance of the cavity is in the order of 800 ohms. The performance of the feedforward system is promising for achievement of the design beam power, 1 MW, in the future.

THOBB02

High Gradient Magnetic Alloy Cavities for J-PARC Upgrade

2885

C. Ohmori, O. Araoka, E. Ezura, K. Hara, K. Hasegawa, A. Koda, Y. Makida, Y. Miyake, R. Muto, K. Nishiyama, T. Ogitsu, H. Ohhata, K. Shimomura, A. Takagi, K. Takata, K.H. Tanaka, M. Toda, M. Yoshii
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Minamikawa
University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura, M. Yamamoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan

Magnetic alloy cavities are used for both MR and RCS synchrotrons. Both cavity systems operate successfully and they generate a higher voltage than could be achieved by an ordinary ferrite cavity system. For the future upgrade of J-PARC, a higher RF voltage is needed. A new RF cavity system using the material, FT3L, is designed to achieve this higher field gradient. A large production system using an old cyclotron magnet was constructed to anneal 85-cm size FT3L cores in the J-PARC Hadron Experiment Hall. The muSR (Muon Spin Rotation/Relaxation/Resonance) Experiments were also carried out to study the magnetic alloy. The status of development on the J-PARC site and a new RF system design will be reported.

Slides THOBB02 [2.729 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
TUPC104	Beam Loss Detected by Scintillation Monitor	1257
	A. Miura, K. Hasegawa, T. Maruta, N. Ouchi, H. Sako JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan Z. Igarashi, M. Ikegami, T. Miyao KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
	Ar gas proportional BLMs have measured the beam loss through operations, but they are also sensitive to background noise of X-ray emitted from RF cavities. We have tried to measure the beam loss using scintillation monitors which would bring more accurate beam loss measurements with suppression of X-ray noise. We measured beam loss using scintillation beam loss monitors. Because this scintillation BLM is sensitive for low energy gamma-rays and fast neutrons, small signals from X-rays would be also detected. As the measurement results, a good signal to noise ratio is observed for the scintillation monitor with quite low sensitivity to the background X-ray. And many single events are observed in the intermediate pulse bunch with about 600 ns as pulse width. In addition, because we fabricated the filter and integrated circuit, total amount of X-ray noise can become smaller. We obtained the good performances of scintillation BLM with small effect of X-ray noise. This monitor can be used for beam loss measurement and a knob for tuning. Furthermore, because the detail structure can be detected, this monitor could be employed for another diagnostic device.

WEPC144	Beam Monitor Deformation by Tohoku Earthquake and its Recovery Project	2328
	A. Miura, K. Hasegawa, H. Oguri, N. Ouchi JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan Z. Igarashi, M. Ikegami, T. Miyao KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
	On March 11, 2011, the biggest earthquake occurred at Tohoku and North Kanto area in Japan. This earthquake and related ones have attacked J-PARC accelerators and caused the big damage. As for the linac beam monitors, some commissioning tools which were installed in the linac had damage and the air leakage was observed. In the first step of the recovery work, we checked the damage and put the emergency treatment for vacuum of the cavities. All beam monitors were observed, the leak from the vacuum devices was tested and the conduction of the signal cables was measured to compare the previous performance. In the next step, we started to order the new devices which should be replaced and to obtain the calibration data. We found the leakage from the phase monitors. The earthquake caused the crack and deformation at the welded points between the metallic parts and ceramic parts. And a wire of the profile monitor was broken while the beam position monitors have no damage. We are continuing this recovery work ongoingly.

WEPS095	Status of J-PARC Accelerator Facilities after the Great East Japan Earthquake	2727
	K. Hasegawa, M. Kinsho, H. Oguri JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan T. Koseki KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
	J-PARC was heavily affected by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake. When the earthquake struck, we had a beam study operation of the linac and the machine immediately stopped. Fortunately, we had no effects of tsunami that happened nearby and no one was injured. We can see subsidence at many places; about 1.5m over the wide area at the entrance of the linac building, about 50cm over the area of 1m x 10m at the main ring building, etc. Underground water is coming into the linac and the main ring tunnels. The water level at the linac reached a depth of 10 cm, but pumping with a diesel generator successfully saved from further flooding. At the RCS, the circulating road went wavy and the yard area for electricity and water devices was heavily distorted. Therefore, a high voltage power is not available on the date of abstract submission. We are investigating damages of each facility and also we are trying to estimate the beam restoration. The current status of the J-PARC accelerator facilities after the earthquake will be presented.

MOPC019	Condition of MA Cut Cores in the RF Cavities of J-PARC Main Ring after Several Years of Operation	107
	M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura, M. Yamamoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan E. Ezura, K. Hasegawa, K. Takata KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan K. Hara, C. Ohmori, M. Toda, M. Yoshii KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan T. Sato, M. Yamamoto JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
	J-PARC 3 GeV RCS and 50 GeV Synchrotron (MR) employ RF cavities loaded with Magnetic Alloy (MA) cores to generate a high field gradient. The RF cavities in RCS use MA un-cut cores. On the other hand, the RF cavities in MR employ MA cut cores to increase the Q-value from 0.6 to 26. We observed the impedance reductions of all MR RF cavities during several years operation. Opening the RF cavities, we found that the impedance reductions were resulting from corrosion on the cut and polished surfaces of MA cores. Before installation of the RF cavities, we had 1000 and 2000 hours long tests at a test stand. We didn't observe the impedance reduction related to the corrosion on the MA core cut surfaces at the test stand. The only difference between the test stand and MR is the quality of cooling water. The MR cooling water contains copper ions for example from copper hollow conductors of the main magnets. We report the influence of the copper ions to the corrosion on the MA core cut surface. We also show plans how to solve the issue of MA core cut surface corrosion.

MOPS008	Simulation of Longitudinal Emittance Control in J-PARC RCS for 400 MeV Injection	607
	M. Yamamoto, M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan E. Ezura, K. Hara, K. Hasegawa, C. Ohmori, A. Takagi, K. Takata, M. Toda, M. Yoshii KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
	The injection energy upgrade of the J-PARC RCS from 181 MeV to 400 MeV is scheduled, this is necessary to achieve the design beam intensity. The high intensity beam is delivered to the MR, and the space charge effect at the MR injection should be alleviated by optimizing the longitudinal beam emittance at RCS extraction. This is realized by matching the shape of the beam emittance between the RCS and the MR. We describe the results of particle tracking simulation with the longitudinal emittance control during the whole acceleration period of the RCS.

WEPS010	Acceleration of High Intensity Proton Beams in the J-PARC Synchrotrons	2502
	M. Yoshii KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan E. Ezura, K. Hara, K. Hasegawa, C. Ohmori, K. Takata, M. Toda KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan T. Minamikawa University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura, M. Yamamoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
	The J-PARC accelerator complex consists of the linac, the 3GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) and the 50GeV main synchrotron (MR). These synchrotrons are the first MW-class proton accelerators which employ the high electric field gradient magnetic alloy (MA) loaded RF cavities. The beam commissioning was started in October 2007 for RCS and in May 2008 for MR. High intensity beam operation studies and user runs have been performed, while carefully controlling and minimizing the beam loss. The cycle to cycle beam operation is reproducible and quite stable, because of the stable linac beam energy and the reproducible bending field in both synchrotrons. The MA loaded RF systems and the full digital LLRF also guarantee the stable longitudinal particle motion and precise beam transfer synchronization from RCS to the MLF user facility as well as to the MR. A high intensity proton beam of 2.5·10¹³ ppp is accelerated in RCS. And in MR, a beam intensity up to ~100 Tera ppp was obtained.　We summarize the RF systems and the longitudinal parameters in both rings.

WEPS097	Performance of Multi-harmonic RF Feedforward System for Beam Loading Compensation in the J-PARC RCS	2733
	F. Tamura, M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, M. Yamamoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan K. Hara, C. Ohmori, M. Toda, M. Yoshii KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan K. Hasegawa KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
	The beam loading compensation is a key part for acceleration of high intensity proton beams in the J-PARC RCS. In the wide-band MA-loaded RF cavity, the wake voltage consists of not only the accelerating harmonic component but also the higher harmonics. The higher harmonic components cause the RF bucket distortion. We employ the RF feedforward method to compensate the multi-harmonic beam loading. The full-digital feedforward system is developed, which compensates the first three harmonic components of the beam loading. We present the results of the beam test with a high intensity proton beam (2.5·10¹³ ppp). The impedance seen by the beam is greatly reduced, the impedance of the fundamental accelerating harmonic is reduced to less than 25 ohms in a full accelerating cycle, while the shunt resistance of the cavity is in the order of 800 ohms. The performance of the feedforward system is promising for achievement of the design beam power, 1 MW, in the future.

THOBB02	High Gradient Magnetic Alloy Cavities for J-PARC Upgrade	2885
	C. Ohmori, O. Araoka, E. Ezura, K. Hara, K. Hasegawa, A. Koda, Y. Makida, Y. Miyake, R. Muto, K. Nishiyama, T. Ogitsu, H. Ohhata, K. Shimomura, A. Takagi, K. Takata, K.H. Tanaka, M. Toda, M. Yoshii KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan T. Minamikawa University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan M. Nomura, A. Schnase, T. Shimada, F. Tamura, M. Yamamoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
	Magnetic alloy cavities are used for both MR and RCS synchrotrons. Both cavity systems operate successfully and they generate a higher voltage than could be achieved by an ordinary ferrite cavity system. For the future upgrade of J-PARC, a higher RF voltage is needed. A new RF cavity system using the material, FT3L, is designed to achieve this higher field gradient. A large production system using an old cyclotron magnet was constructed to anneal 85-cm size FT3L cores in the J-PARC Hadron Experiment Hall. The muSR (Muon Spin Rotation/Relaxation/Resonance) Experiments were also carried out to study the magnetic alloy. The status of development on the J-PARC site and a new RF system design will be reported.
	Slides THOBB02 [2.729 MB]