High intensity single bunch operation with heavy periodic transient beam loading in wide band RF cavities

Tamura, Fumihiko; Hotchi, Hideaki; Schnase, A.*; Yoshii, Masahito*; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Omori, Chihiro*; Nomura, Masahiro; Toda, Makoto*; Shimada, Taihei; Hasegawa, Katsushi*; et al.

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 18(9), p.091004_1 - 091004_8, 2015/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.091004

The RCS in the J-PARC was originally designed to accelerate two high intensity bunches, while some of neutron experiments in the MLF and a muon experiment using MR beams require a single bunch operation mode. The beam intensity in the single bunch operation has been limited by longitudinal beam losses due to the rf bucket distortions by the wake voltage of the odd harmonics in the wide band MA cavities. We installed an additional rf feedforward system to compensate the wake voltages of the odd harmonics (h=1,3,5). The longitudinal beam losses during the single bunch acceleration disappeared with feedforward for the odd harmonics. We also confirmed that the beam quality in the single bunch acceleration are similar to that of the normal operation with two bunches. Thus, high intensity single bunch acceleration at the intensity of 2.310 protons per bunch has been achieved in the J-PARC RCS.

Beam test of a new radio frequency quadrupole linac for the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex

Kondo, Yasuhiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Yamazaki, Saishun; Hori, Toshihiko; Sawabe, Yuki; Chishiro, Etsuji; Fukuda, Shimpei; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Hirano, Koichiro; Kikuzawa, Nobuhiro; et al.

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 17(12), p.120101_1 - 120101_8, 2014/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.120101

We performed a beam test of a new radio frequency quadrupole linac (RFQ III) for the beam current upgrade of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. First, the conditioning of RFQ III was conducted, and after 20 h of conditioning, RFQ III became very stable with a nominal peak power and duty factor of 400 kW and 1.5%, respectively. An off-line beam test was subsequently conducted before installation in the accelerator tunnel. The transmission, transverse emittance, and energy spread of the 50-mA negative hydrogen beam from RFQ III were measured and compared with simulation results. The experiment and simulation results showed good agreement; therefore, we conclude that the performance of RFQ III conforms to its design.

Optimization of electrode shape for stripline beam position monitors

Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Chin, Y. H.*

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 17(9), p.092801_1 - 092801_8, 2014/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.092801

Experimental investigation of an optimum configuration for a high-voltage photoemission gun for operation at 500 kV

Nishimori, Nobuyuki; Nagai, Ryoji; Matsuba, Shunya; Hajima, Ryoichi; Yamamoto, Masahiro*; Honda, Yosuke*; Miyajima, Tsukasa*; Iijima, Hokuto*; Kuriki, Masao*; Kuwahara, Makoto*

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 17(5), p.053401_1 - 053401_17, 2014/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.053401

Multiharmonic RF feedforward system for compensation of beam loading and periodic transient effects in magnetic-alloy cavities of a proton synchrotron

Tamura, Fumihiko; Omori, Chihiro*; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Yoshii, Masahito*; Schnase, A.*; Nomura, Masahiro; Toda, Makoto*; Shimada, Taihei; Hasegawa, Katsushi*; Hara, Keigo*

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 16(5), p.051002_1 - 051002_12, 2013/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.16.051002

Beam loading compensation is a key for acceleration of a high intensity proton beam in the MR of J-PARC. Magnetic alloy loaded rf cavities with a Q value of 22 are used to achieve high accelerating voltages. The cavity is driven by a single harmonic (h = 9) rf signal while the cavity frequency response also covers the neighbor harmonics (h = 8, 10). Therefore the wake voltage induced by the high intensity beam consists of the three harmonics, h = 8, 9, 10. We employ the rf feedforward method to compensate the beam loading ofthese three harmonics (h = 8, 9, 10). The full-digital multiharmonic feedforward system was developed for the MR. The commissioning of the feedforward system has been performed by using high intensity beams with 1.010 protons per pulse. The longitudinal oscillations due to the beam loading are reduced. By the beam loading compensation, stable high power beam operation is achieved.

Splash plasma channels produced by picosecond laser pulses in argon gas for laser wakefield acceleration

Mizuta, Yoshio*; Hosokai, Tomonao*; Masuda, Shinichi*; Zhidkov, A.*; Makito, Keigo*; Nakanii, Nobuhiko*; Kajino, Shohei*; Nishida, Akinori*; Kando, Masaki; Mori, Michiaki; et al.

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 15(12), p.121301_1 - 121301_10, 2012/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.121301

Beam loss reduction by injection painting in the 3-GeV rapid cycling synchrotron of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex

Hotchi, Hideaki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Hayashi, Naoki; Kinsho, Michikazu; Saha, P. K.; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Tamura, Fumihiko; Yamamoto, Kazami; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Yoshimoto, Masahiro; et al.

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 15(4), p.040402_1 - 040402_15, 2012/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.040402

The J-PARC 3-GeV RCS was commissioned in October 2007. Via the initial beam tuning and a series of underlying beam studies with low-intensity beams, since December 2009, we have intermittently been performing beam tuning experiments with higher-intensity beams including the injection painting technique. By optimizing the injection painting parameters, we have successfully achieved a 420 kW-equivalent output intensity at a low-level intensity loss of less than 1%. In this paper, we present the experimental results obtained in the course of the RCS beam power ramp-up, especially on the beam loss reduction achieved by employing the injection painting.

First high-power model of the annular-ring coupled structure for use in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex linac

Ao, Hiroyuki; Yamazaki, Yoshishige

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 15(1), p.011001_1 - 011001_13, 2012/01

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.011001

A prototype cavity for the annular-ring coupled structure (ACS) for use in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) linac has been developed to confirm the feasibility of achieving the required performance. This prototype cavity is a buncher module, which includes ten accelerating cells in total. The ACS cavity is formed by the silver brazing of ACS half-cell pieces stacked in a vacuum furnace. The accelerating cell of the ACS is surrounded by a coupling cell. We, therefore, tuned the frequencies of the accelerating and coupling cells by an ultraprecision lathe before brazing, taking into account the frequency shift due to brazing. The prototype buncher module was successfully conditioned up to 600 kW, which corresponds to an accelerating field that is higher than the designed field of 4.1 MV/m by 30%. We describe the frequency-tuning results for the prototype buncher module and its high-power conditioning.

Multiharmonic RF feedforward system for beam loading compensation in wide-band cavities of a rapid cycling synchrotron

Tamura, Fumihiko; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Omori, Chihiro*; Schnase, A.; Yoshii, Masahito*; Nomura, Masahiro; Toda, Makoto*; Shimada, Taihei; Hara, Keigo*; Hasegawa, Katsushi*

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 14(5), p.051004_1 - 051004_15, 2011/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.14.051004

For the acceleration of very high intensity protons in the 3 GeV RCS of the J-PARC, the beam loading compensation in the rf accelerating cavities is implemented. The wake voltage in the wide-band MA cavity consists of not only a component of the fundamental accelerating rf, but also the higher harmonics. We developed a multi-harmonic feedforward compensation system, which handles the most important three harmonics ( = 2, 4, 6). The function of the multi-harmonic feedforward is described. Adjustments of the amplitude and phase patterns for the cancellation of the wake voltage during the acceleration period are not trivial. We developed the commissioning methodology of the feedforward. We describe the methodology in the cases without and with driving the accelerating rf. We describe the commissioning results and the beneficial effects of the feedforward compensation in the beam operation.

Measured and simulated transport of 1.9 MeV laser-accelerated proton bunches through an integrated test beam line at 1 Hz

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Hori, Toshihiko; Bolton, P.; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Yogo, Akifumi; Mori, Michiaki; Orimo, Satoshi; Pirozhkov, A. S.; et al.

Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 13(7), p.071304_1 - 071304_7, 2010/07

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.13.071304

A laser-driven repetition-rated 1.9 MeV proton beam line composed of permanent quadrupole magnets (PMQs), a radio frequency (rf) phase rotation cavity, and a tunable monochromator is developed to evaluate and to test the simulation of laser-accelerated proton beam transport through an integrated system for the first time. In addition, the proton spectral modulation and focusing behavior of the rf phase rotationcavity device is monitored with input from a PMQ triplet. In the 1.9 MeV region we observe very weakproton defocusing by the phase rotation cavity. The final transmitted bunch duration and transverse profile are well predicted by the PARMILA particle transport code. The transmitted proton beam duration of 6 ns corresponds to an energy spread near 5% for which the transport efficiency is simulated to be 10%. The predictive capability of PARMILA suggests that it can be useful in the design of future higher energy transport beam lines as part of an integrated laser-driven ion accelerator system.