2.5 MeV electron irradiation effect of alumina ceramics

アルミナセラミックスの2.5MeV電子線照射効果

金正 倫計  ; 齊藤 芳男*; 西澤 代治*; 道園 真一郎*

Kinsho, Michikazu; Saito, Yoshio*; Nishizawa, Daiji*; Michizono, Shinichiro*

大強度陽子加速器施設の3GeVシンクロトロンでは、渦電流の影響を抑制するために、真空ダクト材料として、アルミナセラミックスの使用を検討している。アルミナセラミックスの放射線照射効果を検討するために、原研高崎研2号加速器を利用して2.5MeVの電子線照射を行っている。これまで1000MGyまで照射したサンプルの抗折強度試験及びアルミナセラミックスとチタンの接合強度試験を行ったので現状を報告する。

In order to choose an alumina ceramic material for use as a vacuum beam duct in a rapid cycling synchrotron, several kinds of alumina ceramics, having different microstructures, were examined under radiation fields of 2.5 MeV electrons. Since a long ceramic duct can only be manufactured by glazing duct segments, the mechanical strength and deterioration not only a ceramics but also in the glazing joint were measured after irradiation. These ceramic have a sufficiently high flexural strength which is more than 300 MPa before electron beam irradiation, and we could get the experimental results that there was no deterioration on the flexural strength of the ceramic after 1000 MGy electron beam irradiation. No noticeable changes could be seen in the measured tensile strength of Ti-ceramic brazed samples after 1000 MGy electron beam irradiation.