Project of the JAERI superconducting AVF cyclotron for applications in biotechnology and materials science

Miyawaki, Nobumasa; Kurashima, Satoshi; Okumura, Susumu; Chiba, Atsuya; Agematsu, Takashi; Kamiya, Tomihiro; Kaneko, Hirohisa; Nara, Takayuki; Saito, Yuichi; Ishii, Yasuyuki; Sakai, Takuro; Mizuhashi, Kiyoshi; Fukuda, Mitsuhiro; Yokota, Wataru; Arakawa, Kazuo

A project to expand at TIARA (Takasaki Ion Accelerators for Advanced Radiation Application) facilities of JAERI has been proposed to broaden applications in biotechnology and materials science. Heavy ions with energy more than 100 MeV/n are required for remarkable progress in breeding of plant and development of new materials. The magnet of a superconducting AVF cyclotron with a K number of 900 has been designed to cope with acceleration of both 150 MeV/n heavy ions and 300 MeV protons. The lower limit of energies has been investigated to overlap the energy region covered by the JAERI AVF cyclotron, required to increase beam time for present users. We have designed a beam transport system to satisfy requirements of the applications.