Present Status of Accelerators in Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center

Abstract

Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center is the newest synchrotron radiation facility in Japan. The construction was started in 2010 and the facility was opened for public use on March 26, 2013. The circumference of the storage ring is 72 m with the electron energy of 1.2 GeV, the beam current of 300 mA and the natural emittance of about 53 nmrad. The beam is injected from a booster synchrotron with the energy of 1.2 GeV as full energy injection and the top-up operation has been carried out routinely with stored current of 300 mA since opened for public use. We have tested a pulsed multi-pole magnet for improving the deviation of the orbit of stored beam during the top-up beam injection. The storage ring consists of four triple bend cells. Eight of the twelve bending magnets are normal conducting ones. Four of them are 5 T superconducting magnets(superbend) of which bending angle is 12 degrees. The superbends are running without any trouble with refrigerator maintenance once per year. The accelerators have been operated about 1400 hours stable in a year. Eight of the synchrotron radiation beamlines have been operational for public use and other two beamlines are under construction.