Heat loading of MeV accelerator grids during long pulse beam operation

Umeda, Naotaka; Mizuno, Takatoshi; Taniguchi, Masaki; Kashiwagi, Mieko; Ezato, Koichiro; Tobari, Hiroyuki; Dairaku, Masayuki; Watanabe, Kazuhiro; Sakamoto, Keishi; Inoue, Takashi

Long pulse acceleration of ITER class H ion beam has carried out at MeV accelerator. Melts of the acceleration grids were found around grid apertures. To accelerate higher power beam, compensation of the beam deflection and design of a new grid which has high cooling performance is required. In this study, 3D thermal transport analysis was carried out and a new acceleration grid was designed. From the analysis, it was found that the grid temperature exceeded the melting point in a few seconds. To overcome this problem, a new acceleration grid was designed whose cooling channel was drilled near upper surface. This countermeasure is effective not only to reduce the temperature rise but to enlarge the aperture size from 14 mm to 16 mm. From the result of heat analysis, temperature rise of the new grid is greatly reduced than that of the previous grid. It is expected that higher power and longer pulse beam would be accelerated at next test campaign.