Status of J-PARC Transmutation Experimental Facility Program, 4; Low-power beam extraction by laser

Takei, Hayanori   ; Hirano, Koichiro  ; Tsutsumi, Kazuyoshi; Meigo, Shinichiro   

The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) has a plan to build the Transmutation Physics Experimental Facility (TEF-P), in which a 400-MeV negative proton (H) beam will be delivered from the J-PARC linac. Since the TEF-P requires a stable proton beam with a power of less than 10W, a stable and meticulous beam extraction method is required to extract a small amount of the proton beam from the high power beam using 250kW. To fulfil this requirement, the Laser Charge Exchange (LCE) method has been developed. To demonstrate the charge exchange of the H, a preliminary LCE experiment was conducted using a linac with energy of 3MeV in J-PARC. As a result of the experiment, a charge-exchanged H beam with a power of about 8W equivalent was obtained under the J-PARC linac beam condition.