Preliminary design of the HEBT of IFMIF DONES

IFMIF-DONES (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility–DEMO Oriented Neutron Source) is currentlybeing developed in the frame of the EUROfusion Early Neutron Source work package (WPENS) and will be aninstallation for fusion material testing, that will generate aflux of neutrons of 1018m−2s−1with a broad peak at14 MeV by Li(d,xn) nuclear reactions thanks to a 40 MeV deuteron beam colliding on a liquid Liflow.The accelerator system is in charge of providing such high energy deuterons in order to produce the expectedneutronflux. The High Energy Beam Transport line (HEBT) is the last subsystem of the accelerator and its mainfunctions are to guide the deuteron beam towards the Lithium target and to shape it by the use of magneticelements to the reference beam footprint at the Lithium Target.The present work summarizes the current status of the HEBT design, including beam dynamics, vacuum,radioprotection, diagnostics and remote handling studies performed, along with the layout and integration of theline.This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 and 2019–2020 under grant agreement No 633053. The work done by IREC has been supported by the CERCA Programme from Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia).Peer reviewe

Measurements of noninterceptive fluorescence profile monitor prototypes using 9 MeV deuterons

Two types of noninterceptive optical monitors, based on gas fluorescence, have been designed for use on the Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) that is currently under development (a 125 mA, 9 MeV, 175 MHz continuous wave deuteron beam). These diagnostics offer a technique to characterize the transverse beam profile for medium to high current hadron beams, without intercepting the beam core. This paper reports on beam tests using the prototype monitors developed for LIPAc. Tests were carried out at an experimental line of the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores cyclotron, using 9 MeV deuterons with beam currents from 0.4 to 40μA. In addition, transverse beam profile measurements were performed under high background radiation (e.g. gamma dose rate up to 83mSv/h). Preliminary cross-checks with different profilers, as well as a systematic scan of beam current and vacuum pressures and tests with different injected gases (nitrogen and xenon) have been performed. In this work, we present a brief description of the experimental setup and the first measurements obtained with these prototype profilers plus a discussion of the first analysis of the background signal in a detector as a function of radiation background.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación ENE2009-11230/FTN, FPA2009-08848Diagnostics and Techniques for future particles Accelerators PITN-GA-2008-215080Junta de Andalucía P07-FQM-0289

IFMIF/EVEDA RFQ beam commissioning at nominal 125 mA deuteron beam in pulsed mode

International audienceIn summer 2019 the IFMIF/EVEDA Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) accelerated its nominal 125 mA deuteron beam current up to 5 MeV, with 90% transmission for pulses of 1 ms at 1Hz. The Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) is a high intensity deuteron linear accelerator; it is the demonstrator of the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF). In particular the RFQ is the longest and most powerful ever operated. An intense campaign of measurements have been performed in Rokkasho to characterize several performances of this complex machine: transmission, emittances, energy spectrum and beam loading. The history and the results of the commissioning until this important project milestone are here described. An overview of the activities planned to reach CW operation is also presented