Long pulse H ion beam acceleration in MeV accelerator

Taniguchi, Masaki; Mizuno, Takatoshi; Umeda, Naotaka; Kashiwagi, Mieko; Watanabe, Kazuhiro; Tobari, Hiroyuki; Kojima, Atsushi; Tanaka, Yutaka; Dairaku, Masayuki; Hanada, Masaya; Sakamoto, Keishi; Inoue, Takashi

A Multi-Aperture Multi-Grid (MAMuG) accelerator called "MeV accelerator" has been developed for neutral beam injection (NBI) system of ITER. The MeV accelerator succeeded in accelerating 796 keV, 320 mA H ion beam until 2007. However, pulse length was limited to 0.2 s due to un-cooled grids. In the present work, long pulse H ion beam acceleration was performed by the MeV accelerator equipped with water-cooled new grids. The H ion current was increased step by step at certain energy with seeding Cs up to the optimum perveance. At present, pulse length was extended to 5 s for 750 keV, 221 mA (perveance match) and maximum power of 1.01 MJ was achieved (650 keV, 163 mA, 10s). At higher energy and current, pulse length was limited by breakdowns between the grids. This was due to high heat load on A3G and GRG grid by deflection of H ion beam.