7–11 Sept 2025
Teaching Hub 502
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Beam diagnostics for IFMIF-DONES: addressing the challenges of high-power irradiation facilities

MOCC02
8 Sept 2025, 13:50
20m
Teaching Hub 502

Teaching Hub 502

The University of Liverpool 160 Mount Pleasant L3 5TR Liverpool
Contributed Oral Presentation MC09: Overview and Commissioning Overview and Commissioning

Speaker

Aurora Ortega Moral (IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium)

Description

The IFMIF-DONES facility, currently under construction in Granada (Spain), is dedicated to testing materials under neutron irradiation, as part of advanced materials research for next-generation fusion reactors. The superconducting linear accelerator of the facility is intended to deliver a continuous-wave deuteron beam with an energy of 40 MeV and an unprecedented current of 125 mA. The production of neutrons is then achieved by driving the 5 MW beam into a liquid lithium target. Beam diagnostics play a critical role in the IFMIF-DONES accelerator due to several unique challenges. These include the extremely high beam power, the harsh environment due to neutron and gamma radiation and the required operational availability of the accelerator. Moreover, the accelerator may operate in pulsed and continuous wave for commissioning and standard operation, respectively. This work presents an overview of the main beam diagnostics techniques and strategies needed to address these challenges, as well as the construction plan and the prototyping works.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium.

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Author

Aurora Ortega Moral (IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium)

Co-authors

Jorge Herranz (IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium) Ángel Ibarra (IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium) Ivan Podadera (IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium) Philippe Cara (Fusion for Energy) David Jiménez-Rey (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Concepcion Oliver (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) David Regidor (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Ángel Rodríguez Páramo (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Victor Villamayor (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) Florian Benedetti (Université Paris-Saclay) Jaques Marroncle (Université Paris-Saclay) Donny Cosic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) Tonci Tadic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) Kristina Tomic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute) Llorenc Macia (Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya) Juan Francisco Valenzuela Valdés (Universidad de Granada) Claudio Torregrosa-Martin (IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium) Cristina de la Morena (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)

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