Progress of the accelerator in Broader Approach IFMIF/EVEDA project

Shinto, Katsuhiro   ; Vermare, C.*; Harami, Taikan*; Sugimoto, Masayoshi; Garin, P.*; Maebara, Sunao; Sakaki, Hironao; Ohira, Shigeru; Okumura, Yoshikazu; Mosnier, A.*; Ibarra, A.*; Facco, A.*

During 6 years of IFMIF/EVEDA project since July 2007, design, construction, operation and maintenance of a prototype accelerator as an engineering validation activity and an accelerator engineering design activity for IFMIF including the interfaces with the Li loop target system and the material irradiation test facilities will be performed. The prototype accelerator consists of a 100 keV injector equipped with an ECR ion source, a radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) linac accelerating the beam up to 5 MeV, the first section of the superconducting drift tube linac (SC-DTL) accelerating the beam up to 9 MeV and subsystems. Most of the accelerator components are provided by European institutions (CEA/Saclay, CIEMAT, INFN/LNL etc.), while the RF couplers for the RFQ linac, the supervision of the accelerator control system and the accelerator prototype building constructed at Rokkasho BA site for the accelerator test and beam diagnosis are provided by JAEA. The R&D activities and the future schedule of the prototype accelerator of the IFMIF/EVEDA project will be presented.