HIMAC Facility
- The HIMAC (Heavy Ion Medial Accelerator in Chiba) is an accelerator for medical treatment of cancer therapy in NIRS.
- The HIMAC can accelerate various ions (H, He, C, O, Ne, Ar, Fe, Kr and Xe) to high energies (100 MeV/u to 800 MeV/u depending on the ions).
- Exposures will be made during nighttime and on weekends. The HIMAC facility has been constructed for cancer therapy with heavy ions and during daytime, the beam from the HIMAC is used for the treatment for patients.
- The HIMAC facility has several exposure rooms. In one room, a direct beam for physics experiments is available and, in the second room, a secondary beam for physics experiments is available. In another room, biological experiments and several physics experiment that require wide and uniform beam profile can be done.
- In the physics room, there are two beam courses and they have similar condition for exposures excluding the distance from the beam extraction to the beam dump. The beam is tuned the profile and the location by several magnets.
- In the exposure room, the electric power and clean grand lines are available. The electric power is 100 V and 50 Hz.
- Several cables are wired between the physics exposure room and the measurement room. 60 BNC cables, 10 SHV cables, several multi-wire cables, several light fiber cables and so on are available.
- A variety of NIM and CAMAC modules, NIM bins and CAMAC crates, 19 inch racks, and high voltage supplies are available.
