RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based ScienceAccelerator Group
Director: Osamu Kamigaito (D.Sc.)
Research Summary

The accelerator group is pursuing various upgrade programs of the world-leading heavy-ion accelerator facility, RI-Beam Factory (RIBF), to enhance the accelerator performance and operation efficiency. We are also promoting developments of the RIBF for applications to a variety of research fields.
Main Research Fields
- Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Keywords
- Heavy ion beam
- Radio-frequency linear accelerator
- Radio-frequency systems
- Superconducting rf cavities
- Radioisotope
Selected Publications
- 1.
O. Kamigaito, T. Dantsuka, M. Fujimaki, N. Fukunishi, H. Hasebe, Y. Higurashi, E. Ikezawa, H. Imao, M. Kidera, M. Komiyama, K. Kumagai, T. Maie, Y. Miyake, T. Nagatomo, T. Nakagawa, M. Nakamura, T. Nishi, J. Ohnishi, H. Okuno, K. Ozeki, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, A. Uchiyama, T. Watanabe, Y. Watanabe, K. Yamada.:
"Recent progress in RIKEN RI Beam Factory"
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications (CYC2019), Cape Town, South Africa, MOB01 (2019). - 2.
O. Kamigaito, K. Ozeki, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda, K. Yamada.:
"Measurement of Mechanical Vibration of SRILAC Cavities"
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on RF Superconductivity (SRF2019), Dresden, Germany, TUP042, pp. 515 (2019). - 3.
T. Karino.:
"Evaluation method of beam instability in laser ion source using solenoid"
Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 033316 (2020). - 4.
K. Nakamura, N. Nishiura, M. Okamura, T. Kanesue, S. Ikeda, A. Cannavo.:
"Feasibility study of a compact heavy ion source for investigation of laboratory magnetospheric plasma"
Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 033503 (2020). - 5.
H. Okuno, N. Fukunishi, O. Kamigaito.:
"Progress of RIBF Accelerators"
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 03C002. (2012). - 6.
M. Kase, M. Fujimaki, Y. Higurashi, E. Ikezawa, O. Kamigaito, M. Komiyama, T. Nakagawa, K. Ozeki, N. Sakamoto, K. Suda.:
"Heavy-Ion Beam Acceleration at RIKEN for the Super-Heavy Element Search"
Proceedings of the 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC2012), New Orleans, USA, THPPP040, pp. 3823 (2012). - 7.
A. Goto.:
"Review of High Power Cyclotrons for Heavy Ion Beams"
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications (CYC2010), Lanzhou, China, MOM2CIO01, pp. 9 (2010). - 8.
Y. Yano.:
"The RIKEN RI Beam Factory Project: A status report"
Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 261, 1009 (2007). - 9.
O. Kamigaito.:
"Circuit-model representation of external-Q calculation"
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 062003 (2006).
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Osamu Kamigaito
- Director
Core members
- Nobuhisa Fukunishi
- Deputy Group Director
- Hiroki Okuno
- Deputy Group Director
Contact Information
204 Nishina LINAC Laboratory,
2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Email: kamigait [at] riken.jp
Organization
- Accelerator R&D Team
- Hiroki Okuno (D.Sc.)
- Ion Source Team
- Takahide Nakagawa (D.Sc.)
- RILAC Team
- Yoshihide Higurashi (D.Sc.)
- Cyclotron Team
- Naruhiko Sakamoto (D.Sc.)
- Beam Dynamics and Diagnostics Team
- Nobuhisa Fukunishi (D.Sc.)
- Cryogenic Technology Team
- Hiroki Okuno (D.Sc.)
- Infrastructure Management Team
- Masanori Kidera (D.Sc.)