RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Beam Dynamics and Diagnostics Team
Team Leader: Nobuhisa Fukunishi (D.Sc.)
Research Summary

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