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Yamamoto, Kazami; Kinsho, Michikazu; Hayashi, Naoki; Saha, P. K.; Tamura, Fumihiko; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Tani, Norio; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Kamiya, Junichiro; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 59(9), p.1174 - 1205, 2022/09
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：84.97(Nuclear Science & Technology)In the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, the purpose of the 3 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) is to accelerate a 1 MW, high-intensity proton beam. To achieve beam operation at a repetition rate of 25 Hz at high intensities, the RCS was elaborately designed. After starting the RCS operation, we carefully verified the validity of its design and made certain improvements to establish a reliable operation at higher power as possible. Consequently, we demonstrated beam operation at a high power, namely, 1 MW. We then summarized the design, actual performance, and improvements of the RCS to achieve a 1 MW beam.
Xe ions on proton, deuteron, and carbon targetsSun, X. H.*; Wang, H.*; Otsu, Hideaki*; Sakurai, Hiroyoshi*; Ahn, D. S.*; Aikawa, Masayuki*; Fukuda, Naoki*; Isobe, Tadaaki*; Kawakami, Shunsuke*; Koyama, Shumpei*; et al.
Physical Review C, 101(6), p.064623_1 - 064623_12, 2020/06
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：52.72(Physics, Nuclear)The spallation and fragmentation reactions of Xe induced by proton, deuteron and carbon at 168 MeV/nucleon were studied at RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory via the inverse kinematics technique. The cross sections of the lighter products are larger in the carbon-induced reactions due to the higher total kinetic energy of carbon. The energy dependence was investigated by comparing the newly obtained data with previous results obtained at higher reaction energies. The experimental data were compared with the results of SPACS, EPAX, PHITS and DEURACS calculations. These data serve as benchmarks for the model calculations.
Wang, H.*; Otsu, Hideaki*; Chiga, Nobuyuki*; Kawase, Shoichiro*; Takeuchi, Satoshi*; Sumikama, Toshiyuki*; Koyama, Shumpei*; Sakurai, Hiroyoshi*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Nakayama, Shinsuke; et al.
Communications Physics (Internet), 2(1), p.78_1 - 78_6, 2019/07
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：56.2(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Searching for effective pathways for the production of proton- and neutron-rich isotopes through an optimal combination of reaction mechanism and energy is one of the main driving forces behind experimental and theoretical nuclear reaction studies as well as for practical applications in nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste. We report on a study on incomplete fusion induced by deuteron, which contains one proton and one neutron with a weak binding energy and is easily broken up. This reaction study was achieved by measuring directly the cross sections for both proton and deuteron for 
Pd at 50 MeV/u via inverse kinematics technique. The results provide direct experimental evidence for the onset of a cross-section enhancement at high energy, indicating the potential of incomplete fusion induced by loosely-bound nuclei for creating proton-rich isotopes and nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste.
Saha, P. K.; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Hotchi, Hideaki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Hayashi, Naoki; Kinsho, Michikazu; Tamura, Fumihiko; Tani, Norio; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Watanabe, Yasuhiro; et al.
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (Internet), 21(2), p.024203_1 - 024203_20, 2018/02
Times Cited Count：10 Percentile：65.56(Physics, Nuclear)Hotchi, Hideaki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Hayashi, Naoki; Kato, Shinichi; Kinsho, Michikazu; Okabe, Kota; Saha, P. K.; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Tamura, Fumihiko; Tani, Norio; et al.
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (Internet), 20(6), p.060402_1 - 060402_25, 2017/06
Times Cited Count：25 Percentile：88.02(Physics, Nuclear)The 3-GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) is the world's highest class of high-power pulsed proton driver, aiming for an output beam power of 1 MW. The most important issues in realizing such a high-power beam operation are to control and minimize beam loss for maintaining machine activations within permissible levels. In RCS, numerical simulation was successfully utilized along with experimental approaches to isolate the mechanism of beam loss and find its solution. By iteratively performing actual beam experiments and numerical simulations, and also by several hardware improvements, we have recently established a 1-MW beam operation with very low fractional beam loss of a couple of 10
. In this paper, our recent efforts toward realizing such a low-loss high-intensity beam acceleration are presented.
Kunieda, Satoshi; Iwamoto, Osamu; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Minato, Futoshi; Okamoto, Tsutomu; Sato, Tatsuhiko; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Iwamoto, Hiroki; Kitatani, Fumito; et al.
JAEA-Conf 2016-004, p.41 - 46, 2016/09
Neutron- and proton-induced cross-section data are required in a wide energy range beyond 20 MeV, for the design of accelerator applications. New evaluations are performed with recent knowledge in the optical and pre-equilibrium model calculations. We also evaluated cross-sections for p+
Li and p+
Be which have been highly requested from a medical field. The present high-energy nuclear data library, JENDL-4.0/HE, includes evaluated cross-sections for incident neutrons and protons up to 200 MeV (for about 130 nuclei). We overview substantial features of the library, i.e., (1) systematic evaluation with CCONE code, (2) challenges for evaluations of light nuclei and (3) inheritance of JENDL-4.0 and JENDL/HE-2007. In this talk, we also focus on the results of benchmark calculation for neutronics to show performance of the present library.
Saha, P. K.; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Hotchi, Hideaki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Hayashi, Naoki; Kinsho, Michikazu; Nomura, Masahiro; Tamura, Fumihiko; Tani, Norio; Watanabe, Yasuhiro; et al.
Proceedings of 7th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '16) (Internet), p.589 - 591, 2016/06
Hayashi, Naoki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Horino, Koki; Hotchi, Hideaki; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu; Saha, P. K.; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Tani, Norio; et al.
Proceedings of 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '13) (Internet), p.3833 - 3835, 2014/07
no abstracts in English
Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Hayashi, Naoki; Ueno, Tomoaki; Horino, Koki; Togashi, Tomohito; Kinsho, Michikazu; Watanabe, Yasuhiro; Irie, Yoshiro*
Proceedings of 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '13) (Internet), p.681 - 683, 2014/07
The power supply of the pulse steering magnet has been produced. The power supply has the equipment used to excite the pulse current and the direct-current (DC) to correspond to two modes that the painting injection for beam users and the central injection for beam commissioning. The pulse current has been performed with good accuracy whose deviation to a setting current becomes to be less than 0.2%. In case of the central injection, the power supply excites the current in DC mode, which has been realized the ripple current below 0.01%. This paper describes the design parameters and the experimental results of the power supply.
Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu; Hayashi, Naoki; Hotchi, Hideaki; Ogiwara, Norio; Tani, Norio; Watanabe, Yasuhiro
Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, 57(4), p.131 - 135, 2014/04
In J-PARC 3GeV synchrotron (RCS), new quadrupole magnets (quadrupole correctors) are planned to be installed in order to correct the edge focusing effect and tune. In this report, we describe a deliberation flow about the design of the beam ducts, which are installed in the quadrupole corrector. The effects of eddy current were examined in the case of the titanium duct. The calculated results showed that the temperature rise was too much (up to over 350
C) and the magnetic field in the beam duct is largely distorted. Therefore we decided to employ alumina ceramics beam ducts. The stress and displacement, which are caused by the atmospheric pressure, were estimated by simulating the realistic equipments in the beam line. It was found that there was no large stress and displacement by installing the alumina ceramics duct.
Hayashi, Naoki; Harada, Hiroyuki; Hotchi, Hideaki; Kamiya, Junichiro; Saha, P. K.; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Tani, Norio; Yamamoto, Kazami; Yamamoto, Masanobu; et al.
Proceedings of 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '12) (Internet), p.3921 - 3923, 2012/05
The injection energy upgrade from 181 to 400 MeV for J-PARC RCS is planned in 2013. One power supply was replaced and using for a normal operation. An IGBT chopper type power supply which has larger switching noise will be changed to a capacitor bank type. New injection system allows the center injection with 400 MeV and switching painting area. As further steps for the leakage field, it begins to diminish the effect from the beam transport line. A quadrupole corrector system is designed and fabricated to compensate the beta beat due to the injection bump as the first step. Two profile monitors will be modified to correct position systematic errors and third one is going to be installed at dispersion free section. It is important to minimize kicker impedance lower, which may cause the beam instability. A diode, which has high reverse breakdown voltage and works with lower forward voltage, has been developed. Using this new diode, an experiment shows the impedance becomes lower.
Watanabe, Masao; Hayashi, Naoki; Shobuda, Yoshihiro; Suganuma, Kazuaki; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Togashi, Tomohito; Toyama, Takeshi*
Proceedings of 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '12) (Internet), p.3629 - 3631, 2012/05
Stable operation is required for RCS at J-PARC. In the kicker system at extraction section of RCS, there had been many troubles for unstable operation of the thyratrons switches of the power supply just after 25 pps operation started in February 2009. However, the operation was improved by handling thyratrons in appropriate manner in October 2010. After the grate earthquake on 11 March 2011, injection and extraction magnets, power supplies, cables and bus-duct were checked. The results of the measurements and the checks were all not in the problem. We have to reach extraction beam power of 1 MW in RCS in the near future. Kicker impedance is most severe among other impedance sources. The matching resistor and newly developed diodes are connected at the power supply to reduce the impedance. We confirmed that reduced voltages and stable operation of accelerator.
Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Hayashi, Naoki; Togashi, Tomohito; Ueno, Tomoaki; Watanabe, Yasuhiro; Kinsho, Michikazu
Proceedings of 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2011) (Internet), p.3403 - 3405, 2011/09
In the bump system of the J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) 3-GeV RCS (Rapid Cycling Synchrotron), the performance improvement according to upgrade of the LINAC (Linear Accelerator) to 400 MeV beam is planned. Both the increase of the power supply capacity and the improvement of the setting accuracy of the output current are required. Moreover, the operating point that the vibration of the current ripple resonates with betatron tune was clarified. Therefore, the present level of the current ripple is necessary to decrease to half or less. The development of the pulse power supply system that solves the problems of the current ripple is required. The contents both the improvement plane of the bump system performance and the upgrade system of the power supply are explained.
Igashira, Masayuki*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Fukahori, Tokio; Okumura, Keisuke; Katakura, Junichi; Chiba, Satoshi; Shibata, Keiichi; Yamano, Naoki*; Nakagawa, Tsuneo; Odano, Naoteru*; et al.
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai Wabun Rombunshi, 6(1), p.85 - 96, 2007/03
This technical note summarizes research activities on nuclear data carried out by Japanese Nuclear Data Committee (JNDC) during the fiscal years of 2003 and 2004. During this period, the nuclear data files for special purposes (JENDL-HE-2004 and JENDL-PD-2004) were released. Other activities are described: analysis of post nuclear fuel irradiation experiments, nuclear chart and nuclear data evaluation for astrophysics.
Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Fukahori, Tokio; Kosako, Kazuaki*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Murata, Toru*; Yamano, Naoki*; Hino, Tetsushi*; Maki, Koichi*; Nakashima, Hiroshi; Odano, Naoteru*; et al.
AIP Conference Proceedings 769, p.326 - 331, 2005/05
An overview is presented of recent nuclear data evaluations performed for the JENDL high-energy (JENDL-HE) file, in which neutron and proton cross sections for energies up to 3 GeV are included for the whole 132 nuclides. The current version of the JENDL-HE file consists of neutron total cross sections, nucleon elastic scattering cross sections and angular distributions, nonelastic cross sections, production cross sections and double-differential cross sections of secondary light particles (
He, 
, and 
) and 
-rays, isotope production cross sections, and fission cross sections in the ENDF6 format. The present evaluations are performed on the basis of experimental data and theoretical model calculations. For the cross section calculations, we have constructed a hybrid calculation code system with some available nuclear model codes and systematics-based codes, such as ECIS96, OPTMAN, GNASH, JQMD, JAM, TOTELA, FISCAL, and so on. The evaluated cross sections are compared with available experimental data and the other evaluations. Future plans of our JENDL-HE project are discussed along with prospective needs of high-energy cross section data.
Shibata, Keiichi; Kawano, Toshihiko*; Nakagawa, Tsuneo; Iwamoto, Osamu; Katakura, Junichi; Fukahori, Tokio; Chiba, Satoshi; Hasegawa, Akira; Murata, Toru*; Matsunobu, Hiroyuki*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 39(11), p.1125 - 1136, 2002/11
Times Cited Count：669 Percentile：96.97(Nuclear Science & Technology)Evaluation for JENDL-3.3 has been performed by considering the accumulated feedback information and various benchmark tests of the previous library JENDL-3.2. The major problems of the JENDL-3.2 data were solved by the new library: overestimation of criticality values for thermal fission reactors was improved by the modifications of fission cross sections and fission neutron spectra for 
U; incorrect energy distributions of secondary neutrons from important heavy nuclides were replaced with statistical model calculations; the inconsistency between elemental and isotopic evaluations was removed for medium-heavy nuclides. Moreover, covariance data were provided for 20 nuclides. The reliability of JENDL-3.3 was investigated by the benchmark analyses on reactor and shielding performances. The results of the analyses indicate that JENDL-3.3 predicts various reactor and shielding characteristics better than JENDL-3.2.
Matsui, Yoshinori; Ide, Hiroshi; Itabashi, Yukio; Kikuchi, Taiji; Ishikawa, Kazuyoshi; Abe, Shinichi; Inoue, Shuichi; Shimizu, Michio; Iwamatsu, Shigemi; Watanabe, Naoki*; et al.
UTNL-R-0416, p.5_1 - 5_10, 2002/03
no abstracts in English
Matsui, Yoshinori; Ide, Hiroshi; Itabashi, Yukio; Kikuchi, Taiji; Ishikawa, Kazuyoshi; Abe, Shinichi; Inoue, Shuichi; Shimizu, Michio; Iwamatsu, Shigemi; Watanabe, Naoki*; et al.
KAERI/GP-195/2002, p.33 - 40, 2002/00
Studies on the irradiation damage of the material of the RPV are inevitable for the LWR. Recently, the researches of annealing effect on the irradiation damage of RPV material were extensively carried out using specimens irradiated in the JMTR of the JAERI. As the next step, an annealing test of irradiated specimens and re-irradiation of annealed specimens were planned. The aim of the test is to evaluate the effect of annealing by comparing the damage of irradiated specimen, its recovery by annealing and the damage after re-irradiation. For the re-irradiation test of this study, JAERI developed a new capsule in which the specimens can be exchanged before and after annealing, and, re-irradiated afterward. The development of the capsule consisted of the design and fabrication of airtight connector for thermocouples and mechanical seal device which was fit to remote handling. Remote operation procedures for handling the radioactive capsule and for exchanging specimens were carefully performed. The results of the re-irradiation proved that the development was technically successful.
Fukahori, Tokio; Chiba, Satoshi; Shibata, Keiichi; Ikeda, Yujiro; Aruga, Takeo; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Murata, Toru*; Yamano, Naoki*; Kawai, Masayoshi*
Reactor Dosimetry: Radiation Metrology and Assessment (ASTM STP 1398), p.591 - 598, 2001/00
no abstracts in English
Tanaka, Susumu; Fukuda, Mitsuhiro; Nishimura, Koichi; Hosono, Masakazu; Watanabe, Hiromasa; Yamano, Naoki*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 37(Suppl.1), p.840 - 844, 2000/03
no abstracts in English
