Acceleration of MeV-class energy, high-current-density H-ion beams for ITER neutral beam system

ITER用MeV級加速器による大電流密度負イオン加速試験

谷口 正樹; 井上 多加志; 柏木 美恵子; 渡邊 和弘; 花田 磨砂也; 関 孝義*; 大楽 正幸; 坂本 慶司

Taniguchi, Masaki; Inoue, Takashi; Kashiwagi, Mieko; Watanabe, Kazuhiro; Hanada, Masaya; Seki, Takayoshi*; Dairaku, Masayuki; Sakamoto, Keishi

ITER用中性粒子入射装置では、放射線誘起伝導のため高電圧の絶縁にSF6等の絶縁ガスが使用できない。このため、原研では加速器全体を真空中に置く真空絶縁型加速器(VIBS)の開発を行っている。大型電界緩和リングの装着等の耐圧改善を行った結果、加速可能な負イオン電流密度は大きく増大し、900keVにおいて0.1Aレベルのビームを運転期間中175ショット安定に加速することに成功した。また、ITERで要求されるイオン源運転ガス圧条件(0.3Pa)を満たす領域で、電流密度146A/m(エネルギー836keV)の負イオンビーム加速に成功し、ITER NBIに向けて着実に性能が向上していることを示した。

In the ITER NB systems, conventional gas insulation technology cannot be utilized because of the conductivity of the insulation gas caused by the radiation from the tokamak plasma. To overcome this problem, a vacuum insulated beam source (VIBS), where the whole beam source is immersed in vacuum, has been developed in JAERI. Recently, voltage holding capability of the VIBS was drastically improved by installing the large stress ring and these progress enables us to perform the high power operation of the VIBS accelerator. For high current density H- beam acceleration, modifications were made on KAMABOKO source. At present, H- beam current density is 146 A/m at 836 keV (input arc power; 40 kW, operation pressure; 0.3 Pa).The acceleration of 900 keV, 0.1 A level beam was accomplished for 175 shots during the test campaign. The beam acceleration was quite stable and the degradation of the voltage holding due to the beam acceleration and/or Cs seeding was not observed.