Masahiro Okamura

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Masahiro Okamura

Specially Appointed Professor

Accelerator Physics(Ion sources and linear accelerators)

Research Projects

  • Development of Siberian Snake magnets for polarized proton beam acceleration.

  • Invention of direct plasma injection scheme.

  • World record of the most intense heavy ion beam through RFQ linac.

  • Development of laser ion source for multiple species.

Topics

  • Snake-spin (RIKEN)

  • New Laser Ion Source for Brookhaven Accelerators Exceeds Expectations (BNL)

1995 - 2006

Postdoc & Researcher, RIKEN
Visiting Scientist, BNL

2006 -

Physicist, BNL

2018 -

Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2011

Brightness award; Gold (ICIS) (2011)

2016

Science & Technology Award (BNL) (2016)

2007

Overcoming Depolarizing Resonances with Dual Helical Partial Siberian Snakes, H. Huang, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, K. Brown, E.D. Courant, C. Gardner, J.W. Glenn, F. Lin, A.U. Luccio, W.W. MacKay, M. Okamura, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, J. Takano, S. Tepikian, N. Tsoupas, A. Zelenski and K. Zeno, Physical Review Letters 99, 154801 (2007).

2014

Laser ion source with solenoid field, T. Kanesue, Y. Fuwa, K. Kondo, M. Okamura, Applied Physics Letters 105, 193506 (2014).

2016

Laser ion source for high brightness heavy ion beam, M. Okamura, Journal of Instrumentation 11 C09004 (2016)

2017

Measurement of magnetic field fluctuations and diamagnetic currents within a laser ablation plasma interacting with an axial magnetic field, S. Ikeda, K. Horioka, M. Okamura, Journal of Applied Physics 122, 143303 (2017)

2018

Laser ion source for heavy ion inertial fusion, M. Okamura, Material and Radiation at Extremes 3, 61-66 (2018)

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