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RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Beam Dynamics and Diagnostics Team

Team Leader: Nobuhisa Fukunishi (D.Sc.)

Research Summary

Nobuhisa  Fukunishi(D.Sc.)

The cascaded cyclotron system adopted in RIKEN RI Beam Factory (RIBF) has established stable deliveries of the world’s most intense heavy-ion beams. Beam Dynamics and Diagnostics Team is responsible for magnets, power supplies, beam instrumentation, computer control system and beam dynamic of the RIBF accelerator complex. We pursue further performance upgrades of the RIBF accelerator complex.

Main Research Fields

  • Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering

Related Research Fields

  • Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Keywords

  • Cyclotron
  • Beam dynamics
  • Beam diagnostics
  • Accelerator control
  • Industrial application of heavy-ion beams

Selected Publications

  • 1. Nishi T., Itahashi K., Ahn D.S., Berg George P.A., Dozono M., Etoh D., Fujioka H., Fukuda N., Fukunishi N., Geissel H., Haettner E., Hashimoto T., Hayano R.S., Hirenzaki S., Horii H., Ikeno N., Inabe N., Iwasaki M., Kameda D., Kisamori K., Kiyokawa Y., Kubo T., Kusaka K., Matsushita M., Michimasa S., Mishima G., Miya H., Murai D., Nagahiro H., Niikura M., Nose-Togawa N., Ota S., Sakamoto N., Sekiguchi K., Shiokawa Y., Suzuki H., Suzuki K., Takaki M., Takeda H., Tanaka Y.K., Uesaka T., Wada Y., Watanabe A., Watanabe Y.N., Weick H., Yamakami H., Yanagisawa Y.,  Yoshida K. and piAF Collaboration:
    "Chiral symmetry restoration at high matter density observed in pionic atoms"
    Nat. Phys. (2023).
    doi: 10.1038/s41567-023-02001-x
  • 2. Maeyama T., Mochizuki A., Yoshida K., Fukunishi N., Ishikawa K.L, Fukuda S.:
    "Radio-fluorogenic nanoclay gel dosimeters with reduced linear energy transfer dependence for carbon-ion beam radiotherapy"
    Medical Physics, Vol. 50, Issue 2, pp.1073 – 1085, (2023).
    doi: 10.1002/mp.16092
  • 3. Mizukami S., Watanabe Y., Mizoguchi T., Gomi T., Hara H., Takei H., Fukunishi N., Ishikawa K.L., Fukuda S. and Maeyama T.:
    "Whole Three-dimensional Dosimetry of Carbon Ion Beams with an MRI-based Nanocomposite Fricke Gel Dosimeter using Rapid T1 Mapping Method"
    Gels 2021, 7(4), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7040233 (2021).
  • 4. Yamada K., Ozeki K., Suda K.:
    "Helium cryogenic system for the RIKEN superconducting heavy-ion linear accelerator - System overview and operation -,"
    TEION KOGAKU (J. Cryo. Super. Soc. Jpn.) 56, pp. 201-208 (2021).
  • 5. Uchiyama A., Fujimaki M., Fukunishi N., Higurashi Y., Ikezawa E., Imao H., Kamigaito O., Kidera M., Komiyama M., Kumagai K., Nagatomo T., Nakagawa T., Nishi T., Ohnishi J., Ozeki K., Sakamoto N., Suda K., Watanabe T., Watanabe Y., Yamada K., Kamoshida A., Kaneko K., Koyama R., Ohki T., Oyamada K., Tamura M., Yamauchi H., Yusa A.:
    "Control System of the SRILAC Project at RIBF"
    18th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS2021), Shanghai, China, October 14-22, 2021, MOPV015, (2021).
  • 6. Yamada K.:
    "Upgrade of the rf System for RIKEN Ring Cyclotron, RRC"
    J. Particle Accelerator Society of Japan, Vol. 17, No.3, pp. 159-168 (2020).
  • 7.Watanabe T., Fukunishi N., Imao H., Kamigaito O., Nishi T., Ozeki K., Sakamoto N., Uchiyama A., Watanabe Y., Yamada K., Toyama T., Kamoshida A., Hanamura K., Koyama R.:
    "Commissioning of the Beam Energy Position Monitoring System for the Superconducting RIKEN Heavy-Ion LINAC"
    FRAO04, doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2020-FRAO04, IBIC 2020 (9th International Beam Instrumentation Conference), Santos, Brazil (ONLINE), September, 2020.
  • 8. Watanabe T., Fukunishi N., Kase M., Inamori S., Kon S.:
    "HTC-Squid Beam Current Monitor at the RIBF"
    International Beam Instrumentation Conference 2015 (IBIC 2015), Melbourne, Australia, pp.590-594 (2015).
  • 9. Fukunishi N.:
    "Review of Heavy-ion Cyclotrons"
    13th International Conference on Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology, Yokohama, Japan, pp.11-16 (2015).
  • 10. Fukunishi N.:
    "Heavy-ion Cyclotron Gymnastics and Associated Beam Dynamics Issues"
    54th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams, East-Lansing, MI, USA pp.18-23 (2014).

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Lab Members

Principal investigator

Nobuhisa Fukunishi
Team Leader

Core members

Kazunari Yamada
Senior Technical Scientist
Taihei Adachi
Senior Technical Scientist
Akito Uchiyama
Senior Technical Scientist
Misaki Komiyama
Expert Technician
Koichi Yoshida
Special Temporary Research Scientist
Masaki Fujimaki
Special Temporary Technical Scientist
Keiko Kumagai
Special Temporary Technical Scientist
Tamaki Watanabe
Special Temporary Technical Scientist

Contact Information

2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Email: fukunisi@ribf.riken.jp

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