Present status of the RCNP cyclotron facility

The Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) cyclotron cascade system has been operated to provide high quality beams for various experiments in nuclear and fundamental physics and applications. In order to increase the research opportunities, the Azimuthally Varying Field (AVF) cyclotron facility was upgraded recently. Developments on the flat-topping system and the 18-GHz superconducting Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion source have been continued to improve the beam's quality and intensity. A muon capture beam line (MUSIC) was constructed in this spring. Developments have been going on to increase secondary beams like white neutrons, ultra cold neutrons, muons and unstable nuclei. A separator is equipped to provide RI beams produced by fusion reactions at low energy and by projectile fragmentations at intermediate energy. Developments of magnets using high temperature superconducting (HTS) wires have been performed for future applications to accelerators. (author)