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Tamura, Jun; Kondo, Yasuhiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Ao, Hiroyuki*; Naito, Fujio*; Otani, Masashi*; Nemoto, Yasuo*
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 1067(5), p.052009_1 - 052009_6, 2018/09
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.11(Physics, Particles & Fields)In the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) linac, the Annular-ring Coupled Structure (ACS) cavities have been stably operating. To maintain this operation availability, we manufactured three pillbox-type RF windows for the ACS cavities in fiscal year 2015 and 2017. It is desirable to minimize the RF reflection of the RF window to prevent standing waves from exciting between the cavity and the RF window, and not to significantly change the optimized coupling factor between the cavity and the waveguide. To realize the minimization, the relative permittivities of the ceramic disks of the RF windows were evaluated by measuring the resonant frequencies of the pillbox cavity containing the ceramic disk. On the basis of the evaluated relative permittivities, the pillbox-part lengths of the RF windows were determined. The measured Voltage Standing Wave Ratios (VSWRs) of the manufactured RF windows are just about 1.08 and these are applicable for the practical use.
particles in MEBT2 chicane of J-PARC linacTamura, Jun; Miura, Akihiko; Morishita, Takatoshi; Okabe, Kota; Yoshimoto, Masahiro; Ao, Hiroyuki*; Futatsukawa, Kenta*; Maruta, Tomofumi*; Miyao, Tomoaki*; Nemoto, Yasuo*
Proceedings of 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '17) (Internet), p.2308 - 2310, 2017/05
In the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), H particles generated by collisions of accelerated H
beams with residual gases are considered as one of the key factors of the residual radiation in the high energy accelerating section of the linac. To diagnose the H particles, the new analysis line for the H particles was installed in the matching section from the separated-type drift tube linac (SDTL) to the annular-ring coupled structure linac (ACS). In the analysis line, the accelerated H ions travel in chicane orbit by the four dipole magnets. In the beam commissioning, we directly detected the H particles by using a carbon plated installed to a wire scanner monitor and indirectly detected the H particles by using a scintillation detector. We also confirmed that the signals change with vacuum condition in the SDTL section.
Miyao, Tomoaki*; Miura, Akihiko; Kawane, Yusuke; Tamura, Jun; Nemoto, Yasuo; Ao, Hiroyuki*; Hayashi, Naoki; Oguri, Hidetomo; Ouchi, Nobuo; Mayama, Minoru*; et al.
Proceedings of 12th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.1338 - 1341, 2015/09
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Nemoto, Yasuo; Tamura, Jun; Ito, Takashi; Morishita, Takatoshi; Hirano, Koichiro; Kondo, Yasuhiro; Oguri, Hidetomo; Sugimura, Takashi*; Nammo, Kesao*; Ao, Hiroyuki*
Proceedings of 12th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.1101 - 1104, 2015/09
In J-PARC linac, ACS (Annular-ring Coupled Structure) has been operating for one and a half years. Through the long term operation, the ACS cavities have been well conditioned. Therefore, the vacuum pressure of the ACS was reduced to 1
10
Pa, which is much lower than the required value, and RF trip rate was steadily decreased. At present, the ACS continues to be stably operating without sacrificing the operating time of the J-PARC accelerator complex. The vacuum leaks caused by the generated crack in the aluminum chain clamps in the ACS beam line have happened five times in the past. To prevent the same situation from occurring, we replaced all the aluminum clamps to the stainless steel clamps. The residual radiation between each ACS cavity is considerably high. It is considered that the CT monitors, which have smaller aperture than that of other instruments in the beam line, contributes to the residual radiation. We are trying to reduce the residual radiation by enlarging the monitor's aperture and by replacing the unused monitors to the titanium ducts in this summer shutdown period.
Tamura, Jun; Ao, Hiroyuki; Nemoto, Yasuo; Asano, Hiroyuki*; Suzuki, Takahiro*
Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 66(3), p.399 - 404, 2015/02
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0(Physics, Multidisciplinary)ACSs are going to increase the beam energy of the J-PARC linac from 181 to 400 MeV. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake damaged the J-PARC facilities and the cavity conditioning was interrupted for two years. After the restoration of the facility, the two ACS cavities (M01 and M11) were conditioned. They achieved to 15-20% above the designed accelerating field of 4.2 MV/m. Since M01 was conditioned six years ago, the conditioning time required for M01 was drastically reduced from that for the first time. During the high-power operation for M11, which is an unique cavity equipped with a capacitive iris in a waveguide, no significant increase of the temperature and the discharge rate around the capacitive iris was observed. The vacuum pressure was sufficiently low (410
Pa) even from the view point of beam loss due to residual gas scattering. The more stable operation can be expected through one-month conditioning before beam commissioning.
Oguri, Hidetomo; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Ito, Takashi; Chishiro, Etsuji; Hirano, Koichiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Shinozaki, Shinichi; Ao, Hiroyuki; Okoshi, Kiyonori; Kondo, Yasuhiro; et al.
Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.389 - 393, 2014/10
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Tamura, Jun; Ao, Hiroyuki; Nemoto, Yasuo; Asano, Hiroyuki*; Suzuki, Takahiro*
Proceedings of 10th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.437 - 439, 2014/06
no abstracts in English
Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Tamura, Jun; Ouchi, Nobuo; Takata, Koji*; Naito, Fujio*
Proceedings of 9th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.1124 - 1126, 2013/08
In the case of the RF window operated with the standing-wave cavity coupled to waveguides using coupling apertures, the reflection of the RF window affects the total coupling factor (voltage standing wave ratio, VSWR) consisted of the RF window and the cavity. Hence, the reflection (VSWR) of the RF window should be minimized not to change the cavity VSWR optimized separately, and to prevent standing waves between the RF window and the cavity. For minimizing the VSWR of the pillbox-type RF window, this report proposes that the dielectric constant of the ceramic is measured directly using the resonant frequency in the fabrication process of the RF window. In this work, three RF windows are fabricated additionally using the same type ceramic (NTK HA95), the small VSWR 
could be achieved using this procedure. This result also shows that the dielectric constant increases linearly with increasing the density.
Tamura, Jun; Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Ikegami, Masanori*; Maruta, Tomofumi; Miura, Akihiko; Morishita, Takatoshi; Oguri, Hidetomo; Ouchi, Nobuo; Sawabe, Yuki*; et al.
Proceedings of 9th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.377 - 380, 2013/08
In the J-PARC linac, almost all the cavities and magnets have been precisely aligned because the accelerator tunnel has been deformed by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. In the beam transport line called MEBT2 and A0BT at the downstream of the drift tube linac, the beam duct has been roughly aligned after the precise alignment of the quadruple doublets. During the first beam operation after the earthquake, remarkable beam loss and residual radiation have been recognized at the MEBT2 and A0BT. As the result of the duct position measurement, the misalignement including over 10 mm shift from the beam axis was found. By conducting the beam duct realignment, the beam loss and the residual radiation were successfully decreased. In this paper, the procedure of the beam duct alignment and the beam loss due to the misalignment are described.
Ao, Hiroyuki; Yamazaki, Yoshishige
Physical Review Special Topics; Accelerators and Beams, 15(1), p.011001_1 - 011001_13, 2012/01
Times Cited Count：10 Percentile：50.86(Physics, Nuclear)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.
Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Tamura, Jun; Ouchi, Nobuo; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Morishita, Takatoshi; Takata, Koji*; Naito, Fujio*; Yamazaki, Yoshishige
Proceedings of 8th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), 3 Pages, 2011/08
An annular-ring coupled structure (ACS) for J-PARC linac has been in mass-production since March 2009. It was planned to fabricate 18 ACS accelerating modules and two debuncher modules for the three years. At present, they are progressing on schedule. The past achievements include: ten accelerating modules were completed on schedule; the frequency tuning of the most accelerating modules was finished except two debencher modules; and 14 accelerating modules have been brazed. One of the mass-produced modules was conditioned up to 1.6 MW, which corresponds to the accelerating field by 15% higher than the designed value of 4.2 MV/m.
Ao, Hiroyuki
Proceedings of 25th International Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC 2010) (CD-ROM), p.357 - 361, 2010/09
The budget of the J-PARC linac energy upgrade up to 400 MeV was started from March 2009. The current output energy of the linac was decreased at 181 MeV in the first stage, so that the output power of the 3-GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) is expected as 600 kW at maximum because of the beam-loss limitation due to a space-charge effect. The 400-MeV injection is therefore essential for the 1-MW operation of the RCS. This energy upgrade requires total 25 Annular-ring Coupled Structure (ACS) modules, 25 high-power RF sources, low-level RF systems and additional beam monitors. In this paper, we summarize the developments and fabrication status of these accelerator components with briefly reviewing their results.
Wei, G.; Ikegami, Masanori*; Sako, Hiroyuki; Miura, Akihiko; Ao, Hiroyuki; Ito, Takashi; Asano, Hiroyuki
Proceedings of 7th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (DVD-ROM), p.453 - 455, 2010/08
Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Ouchi, Nobuo; Tsubota, Naoaki; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Hirano, Koichiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Takata, Koji*; Naito, Fujio*; Yamazaki, Yoshishige
Proceedings of 7th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (DVD-ROM), p.552 - 554, 2010/08
The energy upgrade of the J-PARC linac was started from March 2009. In this project 20 Annular Coupled Structure (ACS) modules will be fabricated. The resonant frequency of the ACS module has to be tuned with mechanical machining before the final brazing. Therefore the test cells were fabricated to accumulate frequency tuning parameters. We fixed the final dimensions and the machining amount of the frequency tuning using these results. So far, the cell parts for the five ACS modules were tuned within 71.93 
0.05 MHz. At the moment the first ACS module is being assembled and it will be completed in autumn 2010.
Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Ouchi, Nobuo; Tsubota, Naoaki; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Hirano, Koichiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Takata, Koji*; Naito, Fujio*; Yamazaki, Yoshishige
Proceedings of 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '10) (Internet), p.618 - 620, 2010/05
The mass production of the ACS (Annular-ring Coupled Structure) cavity started from March 2009 for the J-PARC linac energy upgrade from 181 MeV to 400 MeV. This upgrade project requires 18 ACS accelerating modules and two debunchers additionally within three years. The schedule is so tight that we have to optimize the fabrication process. Thus the test cells were fabricated for the all geometrical beta before the mass production to confirm the initial design and the frequency tuning procedure. This paper describes our approach for the mass production and the current status.
Ao, Hiroyuki; Yoshida, Mitsuhiro*
Kasokuki, 5(4), p.342 - 344, 2009/01
The LINAC08 (24th Linear Accelerator Conference) was held in Victoria from September 28th to October 3rd, 2008. About 350 participants gathered for this conference that featured 50 invited talks and 350 poster presentations by the organizing committee. This report reviews the conference including recent trends and topics. The sessions of this conference were consists of the proton linac, the electron linac, the ion source, the RF components and so on, which were elements of the linear accelerator. Each facility introduced the current status and the future plan: the status of J-PARC, SNS, and CERN for the proton accelerator, and the development related to ILC, FEL, and ERL for the electron accelerator.
Morishita, Takatoshi; Ao, Hiroyuki; Asano, Hiroyuki; Ito, Takashi; Ueno, Akira; Okawa, Tomohiro; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Ikegami, Masanori*; Naito, Fujio*; Tanaka, Hirokazu*; et al.
Proceedings of 10th International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (IWAA 2008) (Internet), 6 Pages, 2008/02
It has been widely accepted that an accurate alignment is essential to achieve high beam quality and highly stable operation increasingly demanded in recent particle accelerators. The J-PARC linac components are finely aligned based on the precise survey network, where we have emphasized on attaining the smoothness between adjacent elements. A floor elevation of the accelerator tunnel has been periodically measured since the completion of the linac building to correct the error by the settlement. The alignment of the linac components have been finished at Sep. 2006 and the beam commissioning has been started at Nov. 2006. After a coarse adjustment of the RF phase and amplitude, nearly complete beam transmission was easily established without using steering magnet. This successful beam transport proves the validity of the alignment strategy and the accurateness of the alignment procedure.
Ao, Hiroyuki; Hirano, Koichiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Asano, Hiroyuki; Naito, Fujio*; Ueno, Akira; Ikegami, Masanori*; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Yamazaki, Yoshishige; Paramonov, V.*
Proceedings of 5th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan and 33rd Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan (CD-ROM), p.494 - 496, 2008/00
The J-PARC ACS cavity consists of many cell parts. For the mass production, the ACS requires about 1300 cell parts, so that it is important to reduce the machining time. In the previous ACS model, it took about three hours per one coupling slot. We, therefore, optimized the slot design, the tolerance, and the machining process. As a result, the machining time reduced to forty-five minutes per one slot. The four test cells were fabricated to measure the frequencies and Q-values, and these results were compared with the electromagnetic analysis with the Microwave Studio. Between the analysis and the measurement, the differences are 1
1.5 MHz and 45 MHz, respectively, for the accelerating mode, and for the coupling mode.
Hirano, Koichiro; Ao, Hiroyuki; Morishita, Takatoshi; Asano, Hiroyuki; Hori, Toshihiko; Yamazaki, Masayoshi; Kobayashi, Tetsuya; Kubota, Chikashi*; Yamazaki, Yoshishige
Proceedings of 5th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan and 33rd Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan (CD-ROM), p.497 - 499, 2008/00
An ACS (Annular Coupled Structure) module has been developing for the 190-MeV to 400-MeV part of the J-PARC Linac. We have conducted the high power test of the first ACS module which consists of two accelerating tanks with 17 cells and a bridge tank with 9 cells. This paper describes results of the high power RF tests. The module achieved an average axial accelerating gradient of E0 = 4.5 MV/m at 1.8 MW RF input power, 0.6 ms pulse width, and 50 Hz repetition rate.
Hori, Toshihiko; Yamazaki, Masayoshi; Chishiro, Etsuji; Suzuki, Hiroyuki; Ao, Hiroyuki; Hirano, Koichiro; Hasegawa, Kazuo; Yamaguchi, Seiya*
Proceedings of 5th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan and 33rd Linear Accelerator Meeting in Japan (CD-ROM), p.482 - 484, 2008/00
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