KEK, Ibaraki
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
During the early J-PARC Main Ring commissioning and the machine operation with the moderate beam power the 'fast extraction' bare working point has been chosen to provide the machine operation in the safe regime. We discuss main experimental results obtained so far and compare with the results of the computational model of the machine, including the first experimental approach to minimize the effect of the 'sum' linear coupling resonance. The strategy to increase the beam power without changing the operational working point is presented by keeping the moderate space-charge detuning. The advantage of the second harmonic MR RF cavity, including the estimation of the beam losses during the injection and acceleration processes, is discussed.
KEK, Ibaraki
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
University of Fukui, Faculty of Engineering, Fukui
Tokyo City University, Tokyo
Tsukuba University, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura
High power protons from the J-PARC main ring is slowly extracted using the third integer resonance and delivered to the experimental hall for various nuclear and particle physics experiments. The slow extraction device comprises two electro static septa (ESS),ten magnetic septa, four bump magnets, eight resonant sextupole magnets and their power supply. One of the critical issue of the slow extraction is radiation caused by the beam loss during the slow extraction. We have developed the electrostatic and magnetic septa with thin septum thickness. A unique scheme with large step size and small angular spread of the extracted beam enables hit rate on the ESS less than 1% level. In January 2009, first 30 GeV proton beam has been successfully delivered to the fixed target. Quadrupole magnets and a DSP feedback control system to obtain a uniform beam spill structure were implemented in 2009 summer shutdown period. We will report the extraction efficiency, extracted beam profiles and spill structure obtained by the beam commissioning so far. We will also mention a upgrade plan based on some new ideas to aim a higher performance.
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
The beam commissioning of J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) MR (Main Ring) was started from May 2008 and is in progress. As usual, injection tuning is in the first stage and strongly related to other tuning items. Starting with design schemes, making adjustment due to leakage field influence from injection septum, doing envelope matching considering dilution of beam profile in Main Ring are reported in this paper. The 'Without bump' scheme was got on June 15th 2008, while 'With bump' scheme on February 15th 2009. Beam orbit betatron oscillation to the MR close orbit which cause by injection error is less than 1 mm both in horizontal and vertical direction. Meanwhile, Beam Optics matching for 3 GeV beam from 350BT to MR has been well done too, which is also very important.
* T. Koseki, Challenges and Solutions for J-PARC Commissioning and Early Operation, in these proceedings
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
The beam commissioning of J-PARC/MR has been started from May 2008 and is in progress*. One key purpose of MR commissioning is the 30 GeV beam fast extraction to Neutrino beam line, which reflect the overall commissioning result. In the MR, the third straight section is assigned for the fast extraction. 5 kickers and 8 septa were installed there, which can give beam a bipolar kick to inside or outside of MR. Inside kick means beam to Neutrino Oscillation Experiment, while outside kick means beam dumped to abort line. However before commissioning, the measured magnetic field distribution of each septa shows non-linear profile along the horizontal direction. In order to find the influence, a simulation with these measured field has been performed. Depends on this study and some OPI (Operation Interface) made by code SAD for orbit modification online, fast extraction of 30 GeV beam to Neutrino line has been achieved on April 23rd 2009. Beam orbit have been tuned to less than 0.5 mm and 0.1 mrad in both horizontal and vertical at the beginning of Neutrino line, which is also the end of MR fast extraction. And so far, 100 kW continual operation to neutrino line have been achieved, too.
* T. Koseki, "Challenges and Solutions for J-PARC Commissioning and Early Operation", in these proceedings
KEK, Ibaraki
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
During the early J-PARC Main Ring commissioning the emittance growth at the injection energy, caused by the field leakage of the slow extraction septums, has been observed. By using the measured field data in the J-PARC Main Ring computational model we perform the analysis of the resonance excitation for the 'bare' working points around the 3rd order horizontal resonance, used for the slow extraction of the accelerated beam. The space charge effects of the low energy beam with the moderate beam power are taken into this analysis. Some possible ways to reduce the transverse emittance dilution and the particle losses during the machine operation for the 'hadron' experiments are discussed.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
NewSUBARU/SPring-8, Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology for Industry (LASTI), Hyogo
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako
Transverse beam instabilities were suppressed with chromaticity modulation (CM)* in the electron storage ring, New SUBARU. The horizontal and vertical betatron tune spread inside a bunch were introduced by CM with synchrotron oscillation frequency driven by an AC sextuple magnet**, to obtain Landau damping of the coherent bunch motion. The tune spread in a bunch is usually introduced by octupole field, however, its high nonlinearity reduces the dynamic aperture. And usual feedback against instabilities work only on m=0 mode and it is not easy to be applied to hadron synchrotrons because of their varying revolution period. The CM scheme has not such disadvantages. The damping time of coherent motion excited by external kick was measured and was found as less than 1ms, one order faster than that without CM. To observe the effect on instabilities, we intentionally tuned an HOM in a cavity to excite a horizontal multi-bunch instability. The instability peak in the spectrum of the beam motion was vanished with CM turned on and the instability was suppressed. We also observed the increase of the threshold current of the vertical single-bunch mode-coupling instability by factor 3 with CM.
* T. Nakamura, Proc. of PAC'95, p.3100 (1995).
** T. Nakamura, et al., Appl. Superconduct., IEEE Trans. Vol. 18, p.326 (2008).
