Author: Casal, N.
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THPS059 Thermo-mechanical Design of Particle-stopping Devices at the High Energy Beamline Sections of the IFMIF/EVEDA Accelerator 3562
 
  • D. Iglesias, F. Arranz, B. Brañas, J.M. Carmona, N. Casal, A. Ibarra, C. Oliver, M. Parro, I. Podadera, D. Rapisarda
    CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
 
  Funding: Work partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under project AIC10-A-000441 and ENE2009-11230.
The IFMIF/EVEDA linear accelerator is a 9 MeV, D+ prototype for the validation of the 40 MeV final IFMIF design. The high intensity, 125 mA CW, high power beam (1.125 MW) produces an extremely high thermal load in all the elements intercepting the ions. Independently of the final purpose of each device, if its working conditions imply stopping a non-negligible amount of particles, the associated thermal solicitation greatly determines the design constraints. The present work will summarize a thermo-mechanical design workflow that can be applied to any beam facing element of high current accelerators and its application in beam dump, scrappers and slits design. This approach is based on analysis experiences at the IFMIF/EVEDA project and, while taking into account the particularities of each device, uses the same tools and parameter evaluation criteria for all of them. It has been applied successfully to recent designs, effectively reducing the number of iterations before achieving a valid thermo-mechanical behavior. Results of each design and the concrete advantages of this approach will be detailed.