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20060123(000).jpg	I guess I just took this to prove that some work took place on the trip. You can see the snow outside. The many laptops connected through extension leads and adaptors turned the floor of the room into a kind of death trap or spider's web...
20060126(000).jpg	BEST PHOTO EVER
20060126(001).jpg	One morning I went for a walk around the laboratory grounds. Here you can see the nearby mountain above the buildings.
20060126(002).jpg	Another view of the lab from a different direction.
20060126(003).jpg	Looking behind me, I found that I was walking beside the electron linac.
20060126(004).jpg	Picnic area!
20060126(005).jpg	Start your day the cyrogenic way with a refreshing can of liquid nitrogen.
20060127(000).jpg	Inside the warehouse where the 150MeV FFAG accelerator was located. For more on this see the FFAG tour page...
20060127(015).jpg	It is quite common in Japan to have pools of water surrounding the buildings (offices in this case). The outside part had frozen.
FFAG Tour 20060127(001).jpg	Looking into the ring from the outside through a gap between the magnets.
FFAG Tour 20060127(002).jpg	In order to get inside the ring we have to cross this filmsy aluminium ladder. This is made more difficult by the fact the entire thing is now inside a concrete block structure for radiation shielding and the ceiling is not particularly high. The one taking the assault course here is Mike Zisman, leader of the scoping study accelerator working group.
FFAG Tour 20060127(003).jpg	View from on top of that ladder. The strip lights unfortunately dazzle my camera, but below you can see the cyclotron and injection line with four of the (ten?) magnets of the ring behind. I can't work out whether the slight blurring in this picture was due to my hand or the ladder shaking.
FFAG Tour 20060127(004).jpg	That injection line again, featuring a quadrupole triplet and what I presume to be a load of diagnostics.
FFAG Tour 20060127(005).jpg	Cyclotron on the right, water cooling splitter on the left.
FFAG Tour 20060127(006).jpg	Apparently one of the parts of the accelerator got warmer than expected and needed a bit of additional cooling. Air cooling, in this case, was added with a bunch of 12" fans.
FFAG Tour 20060127(007).jpg	The light-coloured pipes have water flowing in them, which goes out to cool various coils and returns to this splitter again.
FFAG Tour 20060127(008).jpg	Pipes. Pressure gauge. Valves.
FFAG Tour 20060127(009).jpg	So we went around the outside of the ring again and had to step over this wire trench. They seem to have enough wires.
FFAG Tour 20060127(010).jpg	Extracted beam line (also with a quadrupole triplet on it). The main ring bends away behind.
FFAG Tour 20060127(011).jpg	This is closer to the magnet where the extracted line branches out. I've forgotten exactly what that handle does. I think it seals off the vacuum of the main ring from the extraction line.
FFAG Tour 20060127(012).jpg	Beam dump. This is a research machine, they don't actually do anything with the extracted beam other than measure it and then dispose of it in this large (and now radioactive) block of iron.
FFAG Tour 20060127(013).jpg	I was a little concerned for my credit cards when I saw this sign but I assume it only applies when the machine is switched on, in which case people really shouldn't be going inside there anyway (let alone with scissors).
FFAG Tour 20060127(014).jpg	I knew it wasn't switched on because this handy "FFAG ON" sign wasn't lit.

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20060123(000).jpg

I guess I just took this to prove that some work took place on the trip. You can see the snow outside. The many laptops connected through extension leads and adaptors turned the floor of the room into a kind of death trap or spider's web...

20060126(000).jpg

BEST PHOTO EVER

20060126(001).jpg

One morning I went for a walk around the laboratory grounds. Here you can see the nearby mountain above the buildings.

20060126(002).jpg

Another view of the lab from a different direction.

20060126(003).jpg

Looking behind me, I found that I was walking beside the electron linac.

20060126(004).jpg

Picnic area!

20060126(005).jpg

Start your day the cyrogenic way with a refreshing can of liquid nitrogen.

20060127(000).jpg

Inside the warehouse where the 150MeV FFAG accelerator was located. For more on this see the FFAG tour page...

20060127(015).jpg

It is quite common in Japan to have pools of water surrounding the buildings (offices in this case). The outside part had frozen.

FFAG Tour

20060127(001).jpg

Looking into the ring from the outside through a gap between the magnets.

FFAG Tour

20060127(002).jpg

In order to get inside the ring we have to cross this filmsy aluminium ladder. This is made more difficult by the fact the entire thing is now inside a concrete block structure for radiation shielding and the ceiling is not particularly high. The one taking the assault course here is Mike Zisman, leader of the scoping study accelerator working group.

FFAG Tour

20060127(003).jpg

View from on top of that ladder. The strip lights unfortunately dazzle my camera, but below you can see the cyclotron and injection line with four of the (ten?) magnets of the ring behind. I can't work out whether the slight blurring in this picture was due to my hand or the ladder shaking.

FFAG Tour

20060127(004).jpg

That injection line again, featuring a quadrupole triplet and what I presume to be a load of diagnostics.

FFAG Tour

20060127(005).jpg

Cyclotron on the right, water cooling splitter on the left.

FFAG Tour

20060127(006).jpg

Apparently one of the parts of the accelerator got warmer than expected and needed a bit of additional cooling. Air cooling, in this case, was added with a bunch of 12" fans.

FFAG Tour

20060127(007).jpg

The light-coloured pipes have water flowing in them, which goes out to cool various coils and returns to this splitter again.

FFAG Tour

20060127(008).jpg

Pipes. Pressure gauge. Valves.

FFAG Tour

20060127(009).jpg

So we went around the outside of the ring again and had to step over this wire trench. They seem to have enough wires.

FFAG Tour

20060127(010).jpg

Extracted beam line (also with a quadrupole triplet on it). The main ring bends away behind.

FFAG Tour

20060127(011).jpg

This is closer to the magnet where the extracted line branches out. I've forgotten exactly what that handle does. I think it seals off the vacuum of the main ring from the extraction line.

FFAG Tour

20060127(012).jpg

Beam dump. This is a research machine, they don't actually do anything with the extracted beam other than measure it and then dispose of it in this large (and now radioactive) block of iron.

FFAG Tour

20060127(013).jpg

I was a little concerned for my credit cards when I saw this sign but I assume it only applies when the machine is switched on, in which case people really shouldn't be going inside there anyway (let alone with scissors).

FFAG Tour

20060127(014).jpg

I knew it wasn't switched on because this handy "FFAG ON" sign wasn't lit.