Status quo of the injector for the IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator

Shinto, Katsuhiro; Ichikawa, Masahiro; Takahashi, Yasuyuki*; Kubo, Takashi*; Tsutsumi, Kazuyoshi; Kikuchi, Takayuki; Kasugai, Atsushi; Sugimoto, Masayoshi; Gobin, R.*; Girardot, P.*; et al.

Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.1009 - 1012, 2014/10

http://www.pasj.jp/web_publish/pasj2014/proceedings/PDF/SUP0/SUP025.pdf

The prototype accelerator is being developed as an engineering validation for the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) equipped with an accelerator-driven-type neutron source for developing fusion reactor materials. This prototype accelerator is a deuteron linear accelerator consisting of an injector, an RFQ, a superconducting linac and their auxiliaries. It aims to produce a CW D beam with the energy and current of 9 MeV/125 mA. The injector test was completed at CEA/Saclay in 2012 for producing a CW H beam and a CW D beam with the energy and current of 100 keV/140 mA. After the beam test at CEA/Saclay, the injector was transported to the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC) located in Rokkasho, Aomori, Japan. In the end of 2013, installation of the injector was started at IFERC for the injector beam test beginning from summer 2014 in order to obtain better beam qualities to be satisfied with the injection and acceleration of the following accelerators. In this paper, some results of the injector beam test performed at CEA/Saclay and the status quo of the installation of the injector at IFERC are presented.

Developments of in-situ SEOP polarized He neutron spin filter in Japan

Kira, Hiroshi; Sakaguchi, Yoshifumi; Oku, Takayuki; Suzuki, Junichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Arai, Masatoshi; Endo, Yasuo; Chang, L.-J.; Kakurai, Kazuhisa; Arimoto, Yasushi*; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 294, p.012014_1 - 012014_5, 2011/06

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/294/1/012014

Structure of glasses for He neutron spin filter cells

Sakaguchi, Yoshifumi; Kira, Hiroshi; Oku, Takayuki; Shinohara, Takenao; Suzuki, Junichi; Sakai, Kenji; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 294(1), p.012004_1 - 012004_7, 2011/06

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/294/1/012004

Research on glass cells for He neutron spin filters

Sakaguchi, Yoshifumi; Kira, Hiroshi; Oku, Takayuki; Shinohara, Takenao; Suzuki, Junichi; Sakai, Kenji; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Suzuya, Kentaro; Aizawa, Kazuya; Arai, Masatoshi; et al.

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 406(12), p.2443 - 2447, 2011/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2010.12.020

Characterization of glasses for He neutron spin filter cells

Sakaguchi, Yoshifumi; Kira, Hiroshi; Oku, Takayuki; Shinohara, Takenao; Suzuki, Junichi; Sakai, Kenji; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Suzuya, Kentaro; Arai, Masatoshi; Takeda, Masayasu; et al.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 634(1, Suppl.), p.S122 - S125, 2011/04

Characterization of preformed plasmas using a hydrodynamic simulation code in the study of high-intensity laser-plasma interactions

Sagisaka, Akito; Utsumi, Takayuki*; Daido, Hiroyuki; Ogura, Koichi; Orimo, Satoshi; Hayashi, Yukio; Takai, Mamiko; Mori, Michiaki; Yogo, Akifumi; Kado, Masataka; et al.

Reza Enerugigaku Kenkyu Senta Heisei-17-Nendo Kyodo Kenkyu Seika Hokokusho (Heisei-17-Nen 4-Gatsu Heisei-18-Nen 3-Gatsu), p.61 - 62, 2006/07

no abstracts in English

Solutions of partial differential equations with the CIP-BS method

Utsumi, Takayuki*; Kimura, Hideo

JSME International Journal, Series B, 47(4), p.761 - 767, 2004/11

In this paper, we show that a new numerical method, the Constrained Interpolation Profile - Basis Set (CIP-BS) method, can solve partial differential equations (PDEs) with high accuracy and can be a universal solver by presenting examples for the solutions of typical parabolic, hyperbolic, and elliptic equations. Here, we present the numerical errors caused by this method, and illustrate that the solutions by the CIP-BS method, in which fifth order polynomials are used to constrain the values and first and second order spatial derivatives, are highly refined compared to those by the CIP-BS method, in which third order polynomials are used to constrain the values and first order spatial derivatives. The fact that this method can unambiguously solve PDEs with an one-to-one correspondence to analytical requirements is also shown for PDEs including singular functions like the Dirac delta function with Dirichet or Neumann boundary conditions. This method is straightforwardly applicable to PDEs describing complex physical and engineering problems.

Numerical simulation of melting and evaporation of a cold foil target irradiated by a pre-pulse

Utsumi, Takayuki*; Matsukado, Koji*; Daido, Hiroyuki; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Bulanov, S. V.*

Applied Physics A, 79(4-6), p.1185 - 1187, 2004/09

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-004-2700-4

no abstracts in English

High-precision measurement of the wavelength of a nickel-like silver X-ray laser

Hasegawa, Noboru; Kawachi, Tetsuya; Utsumi, Takayuki*; Sasaki, Akira; Tanaka, Momoko; Kado, Masataka; Sukegawa, Kota*; Lu, P.; Kishimoto, Maki; Tai, R.; et al.

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1, 43(5A), p.2519 - 2522, 2004/05

https://doi.org/10.1143/JJAP.43.2519

We conducted high-precision measurements of the wavelength of the nickel-like silver X-ray laser in order to compare it with a theoretical wavelength. The reasons for using this laser are as follows: First, this laser line is in the wavelength region of Mo/Si multi-layer mirrors; therefore, this laser line is important for applications. Second, the strongamplification of this laser line has been obtained in our previous work, and the higher order line in the spectra obtained by our spectrometer can be used. Third, since silver is arelatively low-z material (z = 47), this wavelength is a ideal benchmark of atomic structural codes such as the Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock (MCDF) code. The wavelength of the nickel-like silver X-ray laser was determined to be 13.887 nm. The comparison with MCDF codes shows that the present experimental result can work as a good benchmark of the accuracy of the codes.

Many-electron dynamics of a Xe atom in strong and superstrong laser fields

Yamakawa, Koichi; Akahane, Yutaka; Fukuda, Yuji; Aoyama, Makoto; Inoue, Norihiro*; Ueda, Hideki; Utsumi, Takayuki*

Physical Review Letters, 92(12), p.123001_1 - 123001_4, 2004/03

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.123001

We report on detailed investigations of ionization dynamics of a Xe atom exposed to intense 800-nm pulses of 20-fs duration in the extensive intensity range from 10 to 10 W/cm. Ion yields of Xe to Xe were observed as a function of laser intensity and compared with the results from a single active electron based Ammosov-Delone-Krainov model. Unexpected ionization probabilities for lower charge states and also no interplay between the inner- and outer-shells by screening are inferred. Suppression of nonsequential ionization towards higher intensity and few optical cycle regimes is also proved.