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Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 041001 (2009) [9 pages]

Longitudinal painting with large amplitude second harmonic rf voltages in the rapid cycling synchrotron of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex

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Fumihiko Tamura*, Masanobu Yamamoto, Masahito Yoshii, Chihiro Ohmori, Masahiro Nomura, Alexander Schnase, Makoto Toda, Hiromitsu Suzuki, Taihei Shimada, Keigo Hara, and Katsushi Hasegawa
J-PARC Center, KEK & JAEA, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki, Japan 319-1195

Received 20 November 2008; published 14 April 2009

In the rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), the longitudinal painting is important to alleviate the space-charge effects. It is known that the momentum offset injection and applying the second harmonic rf voltage improves the bunching factor, which is defined as the ratio of average and peak current. Our simulation studies show that the large-amplitude second harmonic, 80% to the fundamental, is optimum, and the second harmonic phase sweep improves the bunching factor at the beginning of the injection period. We performed the beam tests of longitudinal painting in the J-PARC RCS. We proved that the longitudinal painting with the 80% second harmonic, the momentum offset of -0.2%, and the second harmonic phase sweep improved bunching factors significantly.

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© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.041001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.041001
PACS:
29.20.−c, 29.27.−a

*fumihiko.tamura@j-parc.jp