LINAC2014 - List of Authors (Bouly, F.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPP103	Fault Tolerance and Consequences in the MYRRHA Superconducting Linac	297
	F. Bouly LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France J.-L. Biarrotte IPN, Orsay, France D. Uriot CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
	Funding: This work is being supported by the European Atomic Energy Community’s EURATOM) Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n°269565(MAX project). The MYRRHA project aims at the construction of new irradiation complex in Mol (Belgium) to demonstrate the transmutation feasibility with an Accelerator Driven System (ADS). In its subcritical configuration, the MYRRHA facility requires a proton flux with a maximum power of 2.4 MW (600 MeV - 4 mA). Such a continuous wave beam will be delivered by a superconducting linac which must fulfil very stringent reliability requirements to ensure the safe ADS operation with a high level of availability. In this purpose, the accelerator design is based on a redundant and fault-tolerant scheme to enable rapid failures mitigations. Beam dynamics studies on the fault tolerance capability of the MYRRHA superconducting linac will be presented. The results will be mainly focused on RF failure compensation scenarios: when one or several superconducting cavities are lost in the linac. The impact on the R&D to enable fast retuning procedures in the linac will also be discussed.

MOPP137	Design Progress of the MYRRHA Low Energy Beam Line	381
	R. Salemme, L. Medeiros Romão, D. Vandeplassche Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire (SCK•CEN), Mol, Belgium M.A. Baylac, D. Bondoux, F. Bouly, J.-M. De Conto, E. Froidefond LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France J.-L. Biarrotte IPN, Orsay, France D. Uriot CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
	The MYRRHA project, a flexible spectrum neutron irradiation facility, is designed according to the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) reactor concept. The MYRRHA driver consists of a high power superconducting proton LINAC. A prototype of the front end injector is being built up into a test platform conceived to experimentally address its design issues. Currently, the ECR proton source has been industrially procured. LPSC Grenoble designed the subsequent Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) section. Right before the RFQ, a short section hosts an electrostatic beam chopper producing carefully controlled beam interruptions. In this paper the status of the LEBT design with the associated beam instrumentation is reviewed. Future experimental plans including LEBT beam characterization and optimization of the beam transmission are presented.

TUPP080	Commissioning of the MAX 700 MHz Test Stand	610
	J.-L. Biarrotte, F. Chatelet, M. El Yakoubi, N. Gandolfo, C. Joly, J. Lesrel, H. Saugnac IPN, Orsay, France A. Bosotti, R. Paparella, P. Pierini INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI), Italy F. Bouly LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France I. Martin-Hoyo ADEX, Madrid, Spain
	The MYRRHA project aims at the construction of an Accelerator Driven System demonstrator. The criticality will be sustained by an external spallation neutron flux produced thanks to a 600 MeV high intensity proton beam. This beam will be delivered by a superconducting linac which must fulfil very stringent reliability requirements. Under the MAX (MYRRHA Accelerator eXperiment) program, which aims at pursuing the R&D activities on the ADS-type accelerator, a 700 MHz Cryomodule was developed. The main goal of this test stand is to dispose of a facility to carry out “real scale” reliability oriented studies on a RF Superconducting cavity of the high-energy linac section. This module holds 5-cells elliptical cavity equipped with its blade cold tuning system and its coaxial power coupler. The experimental work undertaken at IPN Orsay, has allowed to fully qualify the module in machine configuration (high RF power, at 2K), including assessment of the tuning system and measurement of microphonics spectrums. During this study the dynamic behavior of the fast tuning system of the cavity was also measured. We review here the obtained results and lessons learnt by operating this module.

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Fault Tolerance and Consequences in the MYRRHA Superconducting Linac

297

F. Bouly
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
J.-L. Biarrotte
IPN, Orsay, France
D. Uriot
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France

Funding: This work is being supported by the European Atomic Energy Community’s EURATOM) Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n°269565(MAX project).
The MYRRHA project aims at the construction of new irradiation complex in Mol (Belgium) to demonstrate the transmutation feasibility with an Accelerator Driven System (ADS). In its subcritical configuration, the MYRRHA facility requires a proton flux with a maximum power of 2.4 MW (600 MeV - 4 mA). Such a continuous wave beam will be delivered by a superconducting linac which must fulfil very stringent reliability requirements to ensure the safe ADS operation with a high level of availability. In this purpose, the accelerator design is based on a redundant and fault-tolerant scheme to enable rapid failures mitigations. Beam dynamics studies on the fault tolerance capability of the MYRRHA superconducting linac will be presented. The results will be mainly focused on RF failure compensation scenarios: when one or several superconducting cavities are lost in the linac. The impact on the R&D to enable fast retuning procedures in the linac will also be discussed.

MOPP137

Design Progress of the MYRRHA Low Energy Beam Line

381

R. Salemme, L. Medeiros Romão, D. Vandeplassche
Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie - Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire (SCK•CEN), Mol, Belgium
M.A. Baylac, D. Bondoux, F. Bouly, J.-M. De Conto, E. Froidefond
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
J.-L. Biarrotte
IPN, Orsay, France
D. Uriot
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France

The MYRRHA project, a flexible spectrum neutron irradiation facility, is designed according to the Accelerator Driven System (ADS) reactor concept. The MYRRHA driver consists of a high power superconducting proton LINAC. A prototype of the front end injector is being built up into a test platform conceived to experimentally address its design issues. Currently, the ECR proton source has been industrially procured. LPSC Grenoble designed the subsequent Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) section. Right before the RFQ, a short section hosts an electrostatic beam chopper producing carefully controlled beam interruptions. In this paper the status of the LEBT design with the associated beam instrumentation is reviewed. Future experimental plans including LEBT beam characterization and optimization of the beam transmission are presented.

TUPP080

Commissioning of the MAX 700 MHz Test Stand

610

J.-L. Biarrotte, F. Chatelet, M. El Yakoubi, N. Gandolfo, C. Joly, J. Lesrel, H. Saugnac
IPN, Orsay, France
A. Bosotti, R. Paparella, P. Pierini
INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI), Italy
F. Bouly
LPSC, Grenoble Cedex, France
I. Martin-Hoyo
ADEX, Madrid, Spain

The MYRRHA project aims at the construction of an Accelerator Driven System demonstrator. The criticality will be sustained by an external spallation neutron flux produced thanks to a 600 MeV high intensity proton beam. This beam will be delivered by a superconducting linac which must fulfil very stringent reliability requirements. Under the MAX (MYRRHA Accelerator eXperiment) program, which aims at pursuing the R&D activities on the ADS-type accelerator, a 700 MHz Cryomodule was developed. The main goal of this test stand is to dispose of a facility to carry out “real scale” reliability oriented studies on a RF Superconducting cavity of the high-energy linac section. This module holds 5-cells elliptical cavity equipped with its blade cold tuning system and its coaxial power coupler. The experimental work undertaken at IPN Orsay, has allowed to fully qualify the module in machine configuration (high RF power, at 2K), including assessment of the tuning system and measurement of microphonics spectrums. During this study the dynamic behavior of the fast tuning system of the cavity was also measured. We review here the obtained results and lessons learnt by operating this module.