Status report on the JAERI AVF cyclotron system

Nakamura, Yoshiteru; Nara, Takayuki; Agematsu, Takashi; Ishibori, Ikuo; Tamura, Hiroyuki; Kurashima, Satoshi; Yokota, Wataru; Okumura, Susumu; Fukuda, Mitsuhiro; Arakawa, Kazuo

AIP Conference Proceedings 600, p.129 - 132, 2001/00

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1435216

The AVF cyclotron system at JAERI Takasaki has been smoothly operated without serious troubles since the first beam extraction of 50 MeV 4He2+ in March 1991. A yearly operation time is about 3200 hours on an average for past several years. In last three years, we performed some improvements and developments as followings: stabilization of the cyclotron beam, renewal of the control computers and basic programs, installation of a new ECR ion source and reconstruction of the rotary shutter. Furthermore, cocktail beams of series M/Q=4 and M/Q=2 have been developed continuously. Now we are modifying the RF cavity for the flat-top acceleration by the addition of 5th harmonic frequency.