Author: Ogitsu, T.
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MOPZ001 MuSIC, the World's Highest Intensity DC Muon Beam using a Pion Capture System 820
 
  • A. Sato, Y. Kuno, H. Sakamoto
    Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
  • S. Cook, R.T.P. D'Arcy
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • M. Fukuda, K. Hatanaka
    RCNP, Osaka, Japan
  • Y. Hino, N.H. Tran, N.M. Truong
    Osaka University, Graduate School of Science, Osaka, Japan
  • Y. Mori
    KURRI, Osaka, Japan
  • T. Ogitsu, A. Yamamoto, M.Y. Yoshida
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  MuSIC is a project to provide the world's highest-intensity muon beam with continuous time structure at Research Center of Nuclear Physics (RCNP) of Osaka University, Japan. A pion capture system using a superconducting solenoid magnet and a part of superconducting muon transport solenoid channel have been build in 2010. The highest muon production efficiency was demonstrated by the beam test carried out in February 2011. The result concludes that the MuSIC can provide more than 109 muons/sec using a 400 W proton beam. The pion capture system is one of very important technologies for future muon programs such as muon to electron conversion searches, neutrino factories, and a muon collider. The MuSIC built the first pion capture system and demonstrate its potential to provide an intense muon beam. The construction on the entire beam channel of the MuSIC will be finished in five years. We plan to carry out not only an experiment to search the lepton flavor violating process but also other experiments for muon science and their applications using the intense muon beam at RCNP.  
 
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.  
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THPS074 Design of Superconducting Rotating-gantry for Heavy-ion Therapy 3601
 
  • Y. Iwata, T. Furukawa, A. I. Itano, K. Mizushima, K. Noda, T. Shirai
    NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan
  • N. Amemiya
    KUEE, Kyoto, Japan
  • T. Obana
    NIFS, Gifu, Japan
  • T. Ogitsu
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T. Tosaka, I. Watanabe
    Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan
  • M. Yoshimoto
    JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
 
  Tumor therapy using energetic carbon ions, as provided by the HIMAC, has been performed since June 1994, and more than 5000 patients were treated until now. With the successful clinical results, we constructed a new treatment facility. The new facility has three treatment rooms; two of them have both horizontal and vertical fixed-irradiation-ports, and the other has a rotating-gantry-port. For all the ports, a scanning-irradiation method is applied. The fixed-irradiation-ports were constructed and commissioned, and we are now designing the rotating gantry. This isocentric rotating-gantry can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter with irradiation angles of 0-360 degrees. For the magnets, combined-function superconducting-magnets will be employed. The use of the superconducting magnets allowed us to design the compact gantry; the length and radius of the gantry would be approximately 12m and 5m, which are comparable to those of the existing proton gantries. A part of the superconducting magnets will be constructed within this fiscal year. The design of the rotating gantry, including the beam optics as well as details of the superconducting magnets, will be presented.