Development of alumina ceramics vacuum duct for the 3GeV-RCS of the J-PARC project

Kinsho, Michikazu  ; Saito, Yoshio*; Kabeya, Zenzaburo*; Tajiri, Keisuke*; Nakamura, Tomaru*; Abe, Kazuhiko*; Nagayama, Taketoshi*; Nishizawa, Daiji*; Ogiwara, Norio

Alimina ceramics vacuum duct has been developing at JAERI for the 3GeV-RCS of the J-PARC project. There are two type of the alumina ceramics vacuum ducts, one is a 1.5m-long duct with a circular cross section for use in the quadrupole magnet, the other is a 3.5m-long being bending 15 degree with an elliptical cross section for use in the dipole magnet.These ducts could be manufactured by brazed jointing several duct segments of 0.5-0.8 m long. Since some electrically conductive boundary is necessary to form on the ceramics duct in order to reduce the duct impedance, the alumina ceramics ducts have copper stripes on the outside surface of the ducts. This is called for rf shielding system. The copper stripes as rf shielding is produced by an electroforming method. In order to reduce emitting secondary electrons when primary protons or electrons impinge onto the surface, TiN film is coated inside surface of the alumina ceramics duct.