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Characteristics of Four SPE Classes According to Onset Timing and Proton Acceleration Patterns

  • Kim, Roksoon;Cho, Kyungsuk;Lee, Jeongwoo;Bong, Suchan;Park, Youngdeuk
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제40권1호
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    • pp.63.3-64
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    • 2015
  • In our previous work (Kim et al., 2015), we suggested a new classification scheme, which categorizes the SPEs into four groups based on association with flare or CME inferred from onset timings as well as proton acceleration patterns using multienergy observations. In this study, we have tried to find whether there are any typical characteristics of associated events and acceleration sites in each group using 42 SPEs from 1997 to 2012. We find: (i) if the proton acceleration starts from a lower energy, a SPE has a higher chance to be a strong event (>5000pfu) even if the associated flare and CME are not so strong. The only difference between the SPEs associated with flare and CME is the location of the acceleration site. For the former, the sites are very low (~1Rs) and close to the western limb, while the latter has a relatively higher and wider acceleration sites. (ii) When the proton acceleration starts from the higher energy, a SPE tends to be a relatively weak event (<1000pfu), in spite of its associated CME is relatively stronger than previous group. (iii) The SPEs categorized by the simultaneous proton acceleration in whole energy range within 10 minutes, tend to show the weakest proton flux in spite of strong related eruptions. Their acceleration heights are very close to the locations of type II radio bursts. Based on those results, we suggest that the different characteristics of the four groups are mainly due to the different mechanisms governing the acceleration pattern and interval, and different condition such as the acceleration location.

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Proton Acceleration in Weak Quasi-parallel Intracluster Shocks: Injection and Early Acceleration

  • Kang, Hyesung;Ryu, Dongsu;Ha, Ji-Hoon
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제43권2호
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    • pp.42.1-42.1
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    • 2018
  • Collisionless shocks with low sonic Mach numbers, M<4, are expected to accelerate cosmic ray (CR) protons via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in the intracluster medium (ICM). However, observational evidence for CR protons in the ICM has yet to be established. Performing particle-in-cell simulations, we study the injection of protons into DSA and the early development of a nonthermal particle population in weak shocks in high ${\beta}$ plasmas. Reflection of incident protons, self-excitation of plasma waves via CR-driven instabilities, and multiple cycles of shock drift acceleration are essential to the early acceleration of CR protons in supercritical quasi-parallel shocks. We find that only in ICM shocks with $M{\geq}2.3$, a sufficient fraction of incoming protons are reflected by the overshoot in the shock electric potential and magnetic mirror at locally perpendicular magnetic fields, leading to efficient excitation of magnetic waves via CR streaming instabilities and the injection into the DSA process. Since a significant fraction of ICM shocks have M < 2.3 CR proton acceleration in the ICM might be less efficient than previously expected. This may explain why the diffuse gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters due to proton-proton collisions has not been detected so far.

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CME propagation and proton acceleration in solar corona

  • Kim, Roksoon;Kwon, Ryunyoung;Lee, Jaeok;Lario, David
    • 천문학회보
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    • 제43권1호
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    • pp.53.3-54
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    • 2018
  • Solar Proton Events (SPEs) are the energetic phenomena related particle acceleration occurred in solar corona. Conventionally, they have been classified into two groups as the impulsive and gradual cases caused by reconnection in the flaring site and by shock generated by CME, respectively. In the previous studies, we classified these into four groups by analyzing the proton acceleration patterns in multi-energy channel observation. This showed that acceleration due to the magnetic reconnection may occur in the corona region relatively higher than the flaring site. In this study, we analyzes 54 SPEs observed in the energy band over 25 MeV from 2009 to 2013, where STEREO observations as well as SOHO can be utilized. From the multi-positional observation, we determine the exact time at which the Sun-Earth magnetic field line meets the CME shock structure by considering 3-dimensional structure of CME. Also, we determine the path length by considering the solar wind velocity for each event, so that the SPE onset time near the sun is obtained more accurately. Based on this study, we can get a more understanding of the correlation between CME progression and proton acceleration in the solar coronal region.

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Effects of the Micro-hole Target Structures on the Laser-driven Energetic Proton Generation

  • Pae, Ki-Hong;Choi, Il-Woo;Hahn, Sang-June;Lee, Jong-Min
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.48-52
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    • 2009
  • Micro-hole targets are studied to generate energetic protons from laser-thin foil targets by using 2-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. By using a small hole, the maximum energy of the accelerated proton is increased to 4 times higher than that from a simple planar target. The main proton acceleration mechanism of the hole-targets is the electrostatic field created between the fast electrons accelerated by the laser pulse ponderomotive force combined with the vacuum heating and the target rear surface. But in this case, the proton angular distribution shows double-peak shape, which means poor collimation and low current density. By using a small cone-shaped hole, the maximum proton energy is increased 3 times higher than that from a simple planar target. Furthermore, the angular distribution of the accelerated protons shows good collimation.

A Study on the VME-Based Application for Integrated Control of PEFP Linac Machine Components

  • Song, Young-Gi;An, Eun-Mi;Kwon, Hyeok-Jung;Cho, Yong-Sub
    • 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보처리학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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    • pp.141-142
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    • 2009
  • The PEFP (Proton Engineering Frontier Project) is constructing a 100MeV proton Linac (Linear Accelerator). The 20 MeV 20 mA proton beam has been serviced for an application in the fields of material, biological, information technology and medical sciences. For a stable and efficient acceleration of a proton beam, the control requirements must be optimized by studying various control methods. We propose that the integrated control system for the Linac machine components must be based on a distribution control method to improve a centralized control system. Based on EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) real-time software, the VME (Versa Module European package format) IOC (Input Output Controller) was developed under cross development environment with a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) PowerPC system. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of distributed control system using the VME-based EPICS middleware for various components of the large proton accelerator.

Conceptual Design of the Superconducting Linac for KOMAC

  • Kim, Sang-Ho;Kim, Young-Hwan;Kim, Han-Sung;Lee, Kang ok;Chung, Kie-Hyung
    • 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국원자력학회 1998년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(2)
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    • pp.967-971
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    • 1998
  • KOMAC (KOrea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex) is the 1 Gev, 20 ㎃ proton linac. The superconducting linac for the high energy part acceleration from 100 MeV to 1 GeV is selected as a main candidate. As is well known, the superconducting linac has advantages for high current, high energy acceleration such as a large bore size, short accelerator length, and the RF efficiency. In this energy, the velocity of proton increases from $\beta$=0.87. For the design and fabrication simplicity, the cavity $\beta$ stages are divided into 3 parts. The maximum electric field in the cavity is designed below 20 ㎹/m. In this paper the design concepts and guides for this superconducting linac are introduced.

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100 MeV 양성자가속기를 이용한 27Al(p,3p+n)24Na 핵반응에 대한 감마선 스펙트럼 측정 (Measurement of Gamma ray Spectrum for the 27Al(p,3p+n)24Na Nuclear Reaction by using 100 MeV Proton Acceleration System)

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    • 한국방사선학회논문지
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.55-59
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    • 2015
  • 양성자핵반응에 대한 연구는 현재 핵융합로의 재료 개발을 비롯하여 양성자치료 분야 등을 중심으로 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구는 100 MeV 양성자 빔을 이용한 $^{27}Al(p,3p+n)^{24}Na$ 반응을 통하여 발생되는 지발 감마선(2754, 1386 keV) 스펙트럼을 고순도 HPGe 검출기를 이용하여 측정하였다. 실험에 사용되어진 양성자 빔은 양성자가속기연구센터(KOMAC)에 설치되어 있는 100 MeV 양성자선형가속기를 사용하였다. 측정된 감마선은 기존에 알려진 결과들과 비교분석하였다. 측정된 감마선의 강도는 고에너지 감마선 검출효율을 결정하는데 매우 중요한 정도를 제공 할 것으로 생각되어 진다.

Dynamic Transient Phenomena of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell

  • Lee, Ying;Choi, Yong-Sung;Zhang, You-Sai;Lee, Kyung-Sup
    • 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국전기전자재료학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.9-9
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    • 2010
  • The proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) holds great promise of clean power. However, in practical applications which use the PEMFC as the power source, the output voltage from the fuel cell undergoes transient response especially during acceleration and deceleration. This paper presents the relationships between the internal voltage drop, voltage of time constant, time constant of FC1 and FC2 (in series and in parallel) charge curves and discharge curves respectively.

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