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Kamiya, Junichiro; Kotoku, Hirofumi; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Takahashi, Hiroki; Yamamoto, Kazami; Kinsho, Michikazu; Wada, Kaoru*
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011023_1 - 011023_6, 2021/03
The vacuum system is the key for the stable high power beam operation in J-PARC 3 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS), because the gas molecules in the beam line make the beam loss due to the scattering. The more than 10 years operation of the RCS vacuum system showed that the ultra-high vacuum (UHV) has been stably maintained by the several developments. The challenges for lower beam line pressure will exist in a future operation with higher beam power. For such challenge, a TMP with a rotor of titanium alloy, which have much higher mechanical strength than aluminum allow for the normal rotter, has been developed. Overcoming the difficulties of the machining performance of the titanium alloy rotor was successfully manufactured. We will report the summary of the 10 years operation of the RCS vacuum system and the incoming developments towards the XHV.
Kamiya, Junichiro; Okabe, Kota; Kinsho, Michikazu; Moriya, Katsuhiro; Yamada, Ippei; Ogiwara, Norio*; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Wada, K.*
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 1350, p.012149_1 - 012149_6, 2019/12
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：82.33(Physics, Particles & Fields)To obtain a getter effect to titanium vacuum duct surface, the method to remove the oxide on the surface by sputtering with ionized molecules has been developed. In the method, a sheet-shaped gas distribution with a uniform and high density is generated through a narrow slit by a small amount of gas. In this report, the gas density distribution was calculated by the Monte Carlo simulation code. As a result, it was found that a gas injection from both directions was effective to generate uniform density distribution. Furthermore, the gas injection method was applied to a non-destructive beam profile monitor, that detects ions generated by the interaction between gas molecules and beam. In this monitor, dependence of the beam profile on the injected gas amount was measured. A small amount of injected gas was found to be ideal for the beam profile measurements in the unsaturated and a high S/N ratio region.
Kamiya, Junichiro; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Wada, Kaoru*
Proceedings of 16th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.1189 - 1192, 2019/07
Non-evaporable getter (NEG) coating, which was developed at CERN, is the breakthrough method, which makes a beam pump a vacuum pump by coating a getter material on the beam pipe surface. The usage of the NEG coating has widely spread in the accelerators in recent years. On the other hand, J-PARC uses titanium, which is a low activation material, as a material for the beam pipe. If the titanium oxide on the surface can be removed, the titanium beam pip plays the role of the vacuum pump because the pure titanium is a getter material. In this presentation, we report on the method of oxide film removal by the sputtering method and vacuum performances of the titanium vacuum chamber as the getter pump.
Yamada, Ippei; Ogiwara, Norio*; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu
Vacuum and Surface Science, 62(7), p.400 - 405, 2019/07
no abstracts in English
Yamada, Ippei; Ogiwara, Norio*; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu
Proceedings of 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '19) (Internet), p.2567 - 2570, 2019/06
no abstracts in English
Kamiya, Junichiro; Ogiwara, Norio*; Miura, Akihiko; Kinsho, Michikazu; Hikichi, Yusuke*
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 1067, p.072006_1 - 072006_6, 2018/09
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：68.25(Physics, Particles & Fields)A beam profile monitor using interaction between the beam and the gas molecules distributed in sheet shape has been developed. Ions or luminescence generated by passing the beam through the gas sheet has the information of cross-section shape of the beam. The gas sheet beam monitor will become a useful tool to measure the profile of high power beams because it has no breakable element such as wires. Furthermore, 2-D beam profile can be obtaine at a certain position of beam line. We applied the gas-sheet based beam profile monitor to J-PARC LINAC, where the negative hydrogen atoms are accelerated to the energy of 400 MeV. The vacuum system was carefully designed not to make an unacceptable pressure rise in nearby cavities when the gas was injected. The clear image of the beam profile was successfully obtained by detecting the ionized N
gas.
Yamada, Ippei; Ogiwara, Norio*; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu
Proceedings of 15th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.88 - 92, 2018/08
no abstracts in English
Ogiwara, Norio; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu; Yoshida, Hajime*; Arai, Kenta*
Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, 60(12), p.475 - 480, 2017/12
Ogiwara, Norio; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Kamiya, Junichiro; Yamamoto, Kazami; Kinsho, Michikazu
Proceedings of 14th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.563 - 567, 2017/12
Okabe, Kota; Yamamoto, Kazami; Kamiya, Junichiro; Takayanagi, Tomohiro; Yamamoto, Masanobu; Yoshimoto, Masahiro; Takeda, Osamu*; Horino, Koki*; Ueno, Tomoaki*; Yanagibashi, Toru*; et al.
Proceedings of 14th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.853 - 857, 2017/12
The most important issue is to reduce the uncontrolled beam loss in the high intensity hadron accelerator such as J-PARC proton accelerators. The J-PARC 3 GeV Synchrotron (RCS) has a collimator system which narrows a high intensity beam in the RCS. After startup of RCS in 2007, the collimator system of the RCS worked well. However, in April 2016, vacuum leakage at the collimator system occurred during the maintenance operation. To investigate a cause of the failure, we took apart iron shields of the collimator reducing exposed dose of operators. As a result of inspection, we succeeded to identify the cause of the vacuum leakage failure. In this presentation, we report the failure investigation of the beam collimator system in the RCS.
Kamiya, Junichiro; Hikichi, Yusuke*; Namekawa, Yuya*; Takeishi, Kenichi; Yanagibashi, Toru*; Kinsho, Michikazu; Yamamoto, Kazami
Proceedings of 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '17) (Internet), p.3408 - 3411, 2017/06
The RCS vacuum system has been upgraded since the completion of its construction towards the objectives of both better vacuum quality and higher reliability of the components. For the better vacuum quality, (1) pressure of the injection beam line was improved to prevent the H
beam from converting to H
; (2) leakage in the beam injection area due to the thermal expansion was eliminated by applying the adequate torque amount for the clamps; (3) new in-situ degassing method of the kicker magnet was developed. For the reliability increase of the components, (1) A considerable number of fluoroelastmer seal was exchanged to metal seal with the low spring constant bellows and the light clamps; (2) TMP controller for the long cable was developed to prevent the controller failure by the severe electrical noise; (3) A number of TMP were installed instead of ion pumps in the RF cavity section as an insurance for the case of pump trouble.
Ogiwara, Norio; Hikichi, Yusuke; Namekawa, Yuya; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu; Hatanaka, Kichiji*; Shima, Tatsushi*; Fukuda, Mitsuhiro*
Proceedings of 7th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '16) (Internet), p.2102 - 2104, 2016/06
Ogiwara, Norio; Hikichi, Yusuke; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu
Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, 59(4), p.79 - 82, 2016/04
Kamiya, Junichiro; Ogiwara, Norio; Hikichi, Yusuke; Kinsho, Michikazu; Miki, Nobuharu*; Yanagibashi, Toru*
Proceedings of 6th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '15) (Internet), p.2911 - 2913, 2015/06
New method of in-situ degassing of the kicker magnet in the beam line has been developed. The heater and heat shielding panels are installed in the vacuum chamber in this method. The heater was designed considering the maintainability. The graphite was selected as the heater and the high melting point metals were used as the reflectors just near the heater. The thermal analysis and the temperature measurement with the designed heater was performed. The ideal temperature distribution for the kicker degassing was obtained. The outgassing of the graphite during rising the temperature was measured. The result showed that the outgassing was extremely suppressed by the first heating. This means the outgassing of the graphite heater was negligible as long as it is used in the beam line without exposure to the air.
Kamiya, Junichiro; Hikichi, Yusuke; Kinsho, Michikazu; Ogiwara, Norio; Fukuda, Mitsuhiro*; Hamatani, Noriaki*; Hatanaka, Kichiji*; Kamakura, Keita*; Takahisa, Keiji*
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, 33(3), p.031605_1 - 031605_8, 2015/05
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：22.94(Materials Science, Coatings & Films)For the vacuum systems of high-intensity beam accelerators, low radioactivation materials with good vacuum characteristics and high mechanical strength are required. The titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V was investigated as a potential low activation vacuum material with high mechanical strength for the fabrication of vacuum components, particularly the flanges of beam pipes, in the J-PARC 3 GeV synchrotron. The dose rate of Ti-6Al-4V when irradiated by a 400 MeV proton was observed to decrease more rapidly than that of stainless steel. Furthermore, the generated radioactive isotopes were nuclides with relatively short half-lives. The outgassing rate of Ti-6Al-4V was the same as the typical value for stainless steel. Additionally, the hydrogen concentration in bulk Ti-6Al-4V was reduced to approximately 1 ppm by vacuum firing. These results indicate that Ti-6Al-4V is a good candidate for use as a low activation vacuum material with high mechanical strength.
Kamiya, Junichiro; Ogiwara, Norio; Hikichi, Yusuke; Yanagibashi, Toru; Kinsho, Michikazu
Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, 58(4), p.134 - 139, 2015/04
This report aims to propose a new in situ degassing method by which only the kicker magnets were baked out without raising the temperature of the vacuum chamber by installing heat source and heat shield between the kicker magnet and the chamber wall. The target temperature of the ferrites in the kicker magnet is above 100
C, while keeping the temperature rise of the vacuum chamber less than 30C in order to prevent the heat expansion of the vacuum chamber. After checking the operability of this method by thermal analysis with simple model, the experimental measurement was performed by using a RCS kicker magnet. The results showed that the target temperature was able to be achieved by this degassing method.
Ogiwara, Norio; Yanagibashi, Toru; Hikichi, Yusuke; Nishikawa, Masaaki; Kamiya, Junichiro; Wada, Kaoru*
Vacuum, 98, p.18 - 21, 2013/12
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：30.71(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Kamiya, Junichiro; Ogiwara, Norio; Nishikawa, Masaaki; Hikichi, Yusuke; Yanagibashi, Toru; Kinsho, Michikazu
Vacuum, 98, p.12 - 17, 2013/12
Times Cited Count：9 Percentile：37.98(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)One of the reasons of a beam loss in a high power accelerator is leakage magnetic field from a magnet at a close beam line, which distorts the beam orbit and makes the beam hit the wall of the beam pipe. The most effective way to shield such leakage field is to cover the beam by the magnetic materials at the nearest space. This means that vacuum chambers should be made of the magnetic materials. We selected the permalloy, which has very high magnetic permeability for such a magnetic material. However, there is not proven evidence of the vacuum chambers, which are made of magnetic materials. We have developed a vacuum chamber of such new material with the object of vacuum and magnetic characteristics.
Ogiwara, Norio; Suganuma, Kazuaki; Hikichi, Yusuke; Nishikawa, Masaaki; Yanagibashi, Toru; Kamiya, Junichiro; Kinsho, Michikazu
Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, 56(5), p.159 - 162, 2013/05
Kamiya, Junichiro; Ogiwara, Norio; Nishikawa, Masaaki; Hikichi, Yusuke; Yanagibashi, Toru; Kinsho, Michikazu
Proceedings of 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '12) (Internet), p.2522 - 2524, 2012/05
In the vacuum system of J-PARC Rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS), we use beam pipes and bellows whose materials are vacuum fired at 700
850 C in order to eliminate atoms in their bulk who are origin of outgassing. Until now, beam power has been increased up to 300 kW. Pressure in synchrotron beam line increased when the high power beam was accelerated. However, increment of pressure has reduced during the continuous beam operation. It is because the molecules, which adsorb on surface of the wall of the vacuum chambers, desorb by an ion bombardment and a heat generation due to an eddy current. Because the atoms in the bulk is eliminated, desorption of the molecules, which adsorb on the surface, means the reduction of the outgassing from the wall. In this presentation, we will report the past situation of the vacuum system during the beam operation. In addition, we also show the status after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
