STATUS OF THE J-PARC MA LOADED RF SYSTEMS

Japan proton accelerator research complex operates two cascaded synchrotrons, 3GeV RCS, and 50GeV MR. The high electric field gradient magnetic alloy (MA) loaded cavities are used in both synchrotrons. These RF systems have no tuning control loop and the direct digital synthesis based fully digital low level RF guarantees the stable and reproducible proton acceleration. The feedforward systems using the circulating beam current signals work efficiently to compensate the heavy beam induced voltage. In the RCS, 11 RF systems are operating in a dual harmonic mode since December 2008. The longitudinal RF control based on the particle tracking performed effectively and the equivalent beam power of 530 kW was successfully demonstrated. The 260 kW operation for the neutron users started in October 2012. In the MR, the 9th RF system was newly installed and became available as a 2nd harmonic RF system in November 2012. A 30 GeV proton of 200 kW beam power has been delivered to the T2K neutrino beam experiment with 2.48 sec repetition cycle. This paper summarizes the operation details and the status and features of the J-PARC RF systems.

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