Effect of proton beam profile on stress in JSNS target vessel

JSNSターゲット容器における発生応力への陽子ビームプロファイルの影響

粉川 広行  ; 石倉 修一*; 佐藤 博; 原田 正英   ; 高玉 俊一*; 二川 正敏  ; 羽賀 勝洋  ; 日野 竜太郎; 明午 伸一郎   ; 前川 藤夫  ; 池田 裕二郎

Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Ishikura, Shuichi*; Sato, Hiroshi; Harada, Masahide; Takatama, Shunichi*; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Haga, Katsuhiro; Hino, Ryutaro; Meigo, Shinichiro; Maekawa, Fujio; Ikeda, Yujiro

JSNSのために開発を進めているクロスフロー型(CFT)水銀ターゲットでは、ビーム窓近傍での水銀の停滞領域発生を抑制するために、水銀を陽子ビームに直交するようにフローガイドブレードに沿って流す。これまで、水銀のモデルに弾性モデルを用いて動的応力解析を行ってきた。しかしながら、実際に陽子ビームを用いた最近の実験結果から、水銀のモデルにカットオフ圧力モデルを用いた方が実験結果に近い動的応力が得られることが示された。そこで、カットオフ圧力モデルを用いて動的応力解析を行った結果、半円筒型ビーム窓に発生する動的応力が、平板型ビーム窓に発生する応力よりも低くなることを明らかにした。また、陽子ビームを広げてピーク発熱密度を218W/ccまで低減して、ビーム窓の発生応力を許容応力以下にした。一方、陽子ビーム窓を広げたため、フローガイドブレード先端の発熱密度が高くなり、許容応力を超える熱応力が発生したが、ブレードの先端の形状を、水銀の流動分布に影響を及ぼさない範囲で薄くすることによって、発生する熱応力を許容応力以下にした。

A cross-flow type (CFT) mercury target with flow guide blades, which has been developed for JSNS, can suppress the generation of stagnant flow region especially near the beam window where the peak heat density is generated due to spallation reaction. Then, a flat type beam window has been applied to the CFT target from the viewpoint of suppressing dynamic stress caused by a pressure wave, which has been estimated with a mercury model of the linear equation of state. The recent experimental results obtained by using a proton beam incidents to mercury led that a cutoff pressure model in the equation of state of mercury caused a suitable dynamic stress with experimental results. Dynamic stress analyses were carried out with the cutoff pressure model, in which the negative pressure less than 0.15 MPa was not generated. The generated dynamic stress in the flat beam window became much larger than that in a semi-cylindrical type window. However, the generated stress in the semi-cylindrical type beam window was over the allowable stress of SS316L under the peak heat density of 668 W/cc. In order to decrease the dynamic stress in the semi-cylindrical beam window, the incident proton beam was defocused to decrease the peak heat density down to 218 W/cm. As a result, the dynamic stress could be suppressed less than the allowable stress. On the other hand, due to defocus of the proton beam, high heat density was generated on the end of the flow guide blades, which caused high thermal stress exceeding the allowable stress. To decrease the thermal stress, several shapes of the blade ends were studied analytically, which were selected so as not to affect the mercury flow distribution. A simple thin-end blade showed low thermal stress below the allowable stress.