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The purpose of this study was to develop a tool to overlay a 3D chart on a real measurement field by using ARToolKit library and AR SDK. The tool was also designed to receive measurement data from any device as TCP/IP packets sent through a LAN. The tool is capable of drawing five types of charts; bar, bubble, red-line, spectrum-line and 3D-area. The tool requires a conventional PC, a USB camera, and an AR tag printed on a paper. The AR tag is laid on the measurement area and is recognized as the base level from where to draw the chart. 3D CG objects of the charts are overlaid on the images captured by the USB camera through recognition of the AR tag. A sample code was also prepared to manage DAQ data. The sample code for Windows OS can send the data as CSV text data via TCP/IP to the AR chart tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the 2.5-GeV ring of the Photon Factory, a large reconstruction of the lattice around the straight sections has been accomplished in 2005. Thus reconstruction is the main part of the straight-sections upgrade project to rebuild existing undulators and to increase the number of undulator beamlines. As a result of the reconstruction, four short straight sections have been newly created and the lengths of the existing straight sections have been much extended. To exploit the new straight sections, short-period narrow-gap undulators which have a sufficiently high brilliance in hard x-ray range have been developed. The reconstruction work of the ring was completed in a seven-month shutdown from March to September, 2005. In the area over two thirds of the storage ring, all the quadrupole magnets and all the beam ducts have been renewed and rearranged to construct the new lattice. Recommissioning of the storage ring was finished at the end of October, 2005. Though we made no in-situ baking for the beam ducts, recovery of the beam lifetime has favorably progressed due to the vacuum scrubbing by the synchrotron radiation. © 2007 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Photon Factory Advanced Ring (PF-AR) is a 6.5-GeV synchrotron light source at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). It can provide high-flux hard X-rays for such research as the materials science, structural biology and medical applications. The PF-AR has five insertion devices including four in-vacuum undulators. It is operated with a single bunch which fits for time-resolved experiments. A special 5-GeV operation is partly provided for a clinical application. An initial beam current and a beam lifetime are 60 mA and approximately 14 hours, respectively. Recent developments include an installation of a new in-vacuum undulator (U[sharp/mesh/hash_synonym]NW14-36) to the west rf section, which was accompanied by transferring two rf cavities to other section. The undulator has been successfully operated at a minimum magnetic gap of 10 mm. We also carried out such accelerator studies as a successful test of beam injection using a pulsed quadrupole magnet, a study of low emittance optics, an establishment of two-bunch operation for the clinical application, a successful operation of a multi-bunch feedback system, and an installation of a test undulator which enables us to control polarization using a new arrangement of magnets. © 2007 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The PF-AR is a full-time single-bunch light source for SR experiments in the X-ray region. Electrons are injected at 3.0 GeV and ramped up to the final energy of 6.5 GeV for normal user operation or 5.0 GeV for medical application. The typical initial beam current is 55 mA at 6.5 GeV and the beam lifetime is 15 h at 50 mA. The initial single-bunch impurity better than 10-8 was achieved, however, degradation of the impurity during the users’ run has to be solved. Since the present emittance of 290nm·rad is not satisfactory, we are making an effort to realize the minimum attainable emittance of 160nm·rad. The high quality of pulse X-ray has brought us abundant occasions to do time-domain and/or time-resolved measurements. © 2004 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new project for upgrading the 2.5-GeV Photon Factory (PF) storage ring is now being undertaken to create six new short-straight sections and to lengthen the existing eight straight sections. The short-straight sections will provide an opportunity to install short-period narrow-gap undulators, while the extensions of existing straight sections will be taken advantage of updating current insertion devices to the latest models in future. To this end, the lattice configuration around the straight sections is modified by replacing old quadrupole magnets with new shorter ones and placing them closer to the near-by bending magnets. Necessary replacement of the vacuum ducts and the beamline front ends will be carried out together. This project will be completed by the end of September, 2005, after six months of shutdown. © 2004 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]