Feasilibity study of the K900 superconducting AVF cyclotron for materials science and biotechnology

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

A superconducting AVF cyclotron with a bending limit of 900 MeV and a focusing limit of 300 MeV is being designed to meet the requirements for the research in materials science and biotechnology at TIARA facility of JAERI. The spiral-sector shape of the cyclotron magnet has been optimized for acceleration of a 300 MeV proton to produce sufficient focusing forces in an extraction region. An energy range of the superconducting AVF cyclotron overlaps with that of the present K110 JAERI AVF cyclotron. Characteristics of a resonator for the superconducting AVF cyclotron have been investigated using the MAFIA code. An acceleration voltage in a frequency range of 24 to 64 MHz can be produced by the resonator with a /2 excitation mode.