Preliminary Assessment of Radiolysis for the Cooling Water System in the Rotating Target of {SORGENTINA}-{RF}

The SORGENTINA-RF project aims at developing a 14 MeV fusion neutron source featuring an emission rate in the order of 5-7 x 10(13) s(-1). The plant relies on a metallic water-cooled rotating target and a deuterium (50%) and tritium (50%) ion beam. Beyond the main focus of medical radioisotope production, the source may represent a multi-purpose neutron facility by implementing a series of neutron-based techniques. Among the different engineering and technological issues to be addressed, the production of incondensable gases and corrosion product into the rotating target deserves a dedicated investigation. In this study, a preliminary analysis is carried out, considering the general layout of the target and the present choice of the target material

Gyrotrons as High-Frequency Drivers for Undulators and High-Gradient Accelerators

Gyrotrons are used as high-power sources of coherent radiation operating in pulsed and CW regimes in many scientific and technological fields. In this paper, we discuss two of their numerous applications. The first one is in gyrotron-powered electromagnetic wigglers and undulators. The second one is for driving high-gradient accelerating structures in compact particle accelerators. The comparison, between the requirements imposed by these two concepts on the radiation sources on one hand and the output parameters of the currently available high-performance gyrotrons on the other hand, show that they match each other to a high degree. We consider this as a manifestation of the feasibility and potential of these concepts. It is believed that after the first successful proof-of-principle experiments they will find more wide usage in the advanced FEL and particle accelerators

Gyrotrons as High-Frequency Drivers for Undulators and High-Gradient Accelerators

Gyrotrons are used as high-power sources of coherent radiation operating in pulsed and CW regimes in many scientific and technological fields. In this paper, we discuss two of their numerous applications. The first one is in gyrotron-powered electromagnetic wigglers and undulators. The second one is for driving high-gradient accelerating structures in compact particle accelerators. The comparison, between the requirements imposed by these two concepts on the radiation sources on one hand and the output parameters of the currently available high-performance gyrotrons on the other hand, show that they match each other to a high degree. We consider this as a manifestation of the feasibility and potential of these concepts. It is believed that after the first successful proof-of-principle experiments they will find more wide usage in the advanced FEL and particle accelerators

Study of the Coupling of Terahertz Radiation to HeterostructureTransistors with a Free Electron Laser Source

High electron mobility transistors can work as room-temperature directdetectors of radiation at frequency much higher than their cutofffrequency. Here, we present a tool based on a Free Electron Lasersource to study the detection mechanism and the coupling of the highfrequency signal into the transistor channel. We performed a mappingover a wide area of the coupling of 0.15 THz radiation to an AlGaN/GaNtransistors with cut-off frequency of 30 GHz. Local,polarization-dependent irradiation allowed us to selectively couple thesignal to the channel either directly or through individual transistorbias lines, in order to study the nonlinear properties of thetransistor channel. Our results indicate that HEMT technology can beused to design a millimeter-wave focal plane array with integratedplanar antennas and readout electronics