IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ, Measurement of Beam Input Conditions and Preparation to Beam Commissioning

The commissioning phase of the IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ requires a complete beam characterization with simulations and measurements of the beam input from the IFMIF-EVEDA ion source and LEBT, in order to reach the RFQ input beam parameters. In this article, the simulations of source LEBT RFQ will be reported with the corresponding set of measurements done on the Ion source and LEBT. THE IFMIF-EVEDA PROJECT The Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc) is an high intensity deuteron linear accelerator [1]; it is the demonstrator of the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) machine within the Engineering Validation Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) scope. It is presently in an advanced installation phase at Rokkasho under the Fusion Energy Research and Development Directorate National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), in the prefecture of Aomori, Japan. LIPAc has been designed and constructed mainly in European labs with participation of JAEA in the RFQ couplers. It is composed of an injector delivered by CEA-Saclay [2], a RFQ [3] designed made and delivered by INFN on April 2016, a superconducting Linac designed by CEA-Saclay [4], RF power, Medium and High Energy Beam Transfer lines and a beam dump designed by CIEMAT [5].