Development of new synchronized data system for J-PARC RCS

Takahashi, Hiroki; Saha, P. K.; Yoshimoto, Masahiro; Sawabe, Yuki*

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2687(7), p.072019_1 - 072019_5, 2024/01

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2687/7/072019

In J-PARC 3 GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron, the synchronized data system using reflective memory has been constructed. In order to support the requirement of using larger size data in high intensity beam operation in the future, a new synchronized data generation method has been proposed. The new method implements in the measurement system the functions performed by the high-level computer in the current system, thereby realizing synchronized data generation using data transfer via LAN. In this study, we have constructed a test bench for the new synchronized data system that implements the proposed method and verified its performance. This result leads to the development of the new synchronized data system based on data transfer via LAN. In this paper, we describe the outline of the new synchronized data generation method and the results of performance tests.

High intensity beam operation of J-PARC RCS with minimum beam loss

Saha, P. K.; Harada, Hiroyuki; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Tamura, Fumihiko; Okita, Hidefumi; Okabe, Kota; Nakanoya, Takamitsu; Hatakeyama, Shuichiro; Moriya, Katsuhiro; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2687(5), p.052020_1 - 052020_7, 2024/01

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2687/5/052020

Improvement of the longitudinal phase space tomography at the J-PARC synchrotrons

Okita, Hidefumi; Tamura, Fumihiko; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Nomura, Masahiro; Shimada, Taihei; Saha, P. K.; Yoshii, Masahito*; Omori, Chihiro*; Sugiyama, Yasuyuki*; Hasegawa, Katsushi*; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2687(7), p.072005_1 - 072005_7, 2024/01

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2687/7/072005

Longitudinal phase space tomography is an effective measurement tool for acquiring the longitudinal phase space distribution. For the J-PARC synchrotrons, tomography, which can take into account the beam dynamics such as longitudinal space charge effect and nonlinearity, is desired, as the beam power increases. In this study, for the J-PARC synchrotron, the CERN's tomography, which employs the hybrid algorithm that can consider the beam dynamics for reconstruction, is introduced and benchmarked. The benchmark results show that the CERN's tomography has the ability to measure the longitudinal phase space distribution accurately, in the high-power beam operation at the J-PARC synchrotrons.

Beam profile measurement using the highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite

Kitamura, Ryo; Hayashi, Naoki; Hirano, Koichiro; Kosaka, Satoshi*; Miyao, Tomoaki*; Morishita, Takatoshi; Nemoto, Yasuo*

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2687(7), p.072006_1 - 072006_6, 2024/01

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2687/7/072006

The mitigation of heat loading is one of the important issues for beam instrumentation to measure the high-power proton beam. Recently, the highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) material was used for the target probe of the bunch-shape monitor at the front-end in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Since the thermal conductivity of the HOPG is high, it is suitable to measure the beam profile under the condition of high heat loading. As an application of the HOPG, for example, the thin HOPG may be used as a substitutive material of the target wire for the transverse profile monitor such as the wire scanner monitor. The possibility of the HOPG target for the beam profile monitor is discussed from some results of the test experiment using the 3-MeV negative hydrogen ion beam at the test stand.

Development of a tool for cavity failure compensation in superconducting linacs; Progress and comparative study

Plaais, A.*; Bouly, F.*; Yee-Rendon, B.

Proceedings of 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 23) (Internet), p.4097 - 4100, 2023/09

https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-THPA060

Reliability in high power hadron accelerators is a major issue, particularly for Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS). For example, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) ADS maximum frequency of beam trips longer than 5 min was set to 42 per year. A significant number of breakdowns are caused by the failure of accelerating cavities or by their associated systems. Hence, we studied how these can be effectively reduced. To this end, we developed the numerical tool LightWin that aims to determine the compensation settings for any superconducting (SC) linac automatically and systematically. This tool has been successfully used for the MYRRHA SC linac. In this work, we applied LightWin to compensate for several failure scenarios involving the last section of the JAEA ADS linac and compared the associated retuned settings and beam performance to those found in a previous study with TraceWin.

Design and optimization of a proton source extraction system for the JAEA-ADS linac

Yee-Rendon, B.; Kondo, Yasuhiro; Tamura, Jun; Maekawa, Fujio; Meigo, Shinichiro

Proceedings of 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 23) (Internet), p.1591 - 1593, 2023/05

https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-TUPA121

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is designing a 30 MW continuous wave (cw) superconducting proton linear accelerator (linac) for the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) proposal. The JAEA-ADS linacs ion source must provide a proton beam over 20 mA with an energy of 35 keV and a normalized rms emittance of less than 0.1 mm mrad. As the extraction system determines the beam properties and quality, systematic optimizations on the geometry and input values of the extraction system design were conducted using the AXCEL-INP 2-D simulation program to satisfy the goal requirements. This work describes the extraction system design and reports the beam dynamics results of the first study for the proton source of the JAEA-ADS linac.

Gamma ray induced positron annihilation spectroscopy at UVSOR-III BL1U

Taira, Yoshitaka*; Okano, Yasuaki*; Hirade, Tetsuya

no journal, , 

We are developing gamma-ray-induced positron annihilation spectroscopy (GiPAS) using ultra-short pulsed gamma rays at the UVSOR synchrotron facility in Japan. The gamma rays with the pulse width of picosecond range are generated by 90-degree inverse Compton scattering between a 750 MeV electron beam and an 800 nm laser. As the energy of the gamma rays is 6.6 MeV, gamma-ray irradiation produces positrons by pair production inside the material. Generated positrons localize on atomic-scale defects in solid crystals, such as vacancies, dislocations, and vacancy clusters. Positronium, the bound state of an electron-positron pair, localizes in vacant space caused by the free volume in polymers. Therefore, positrons are excellent probes of the nanostructure of these materials. Furthermore, the circularly polarized gamma rays generated by a circularly polarized laser can produce spin polarized positrons. The spin polarized positrons provide additional information about the electron spins around defects. GiPAS is currently available for users in UVSOR-III.