https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05904-7
Regular Article
Operational issues related to the proton beam interactions in the SORGENTINA-RF’s fusion ion source
1
Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, Italy
2
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Frascati, Italy
3
ASL Roma 6, Albano Laziale, Italy
4
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Rome, Italy
Received:
8
February
2024
Accepted:
4
December
2024
Published online:
8
January
2025
The SORGENTINA-RF project aims at developing a 14 MeV fusion neutron source that relies on a deuterium/tritium ion accelerator to produce 99Mo for medical applications. The ion accelerator is tested initially in hydrogen using a dumping system in order to assess its performance. The 300 keV–830 mA proton beam interacts both with the residual gas in the drift tube of the accelerator and with the beam dump, resulting in a series of radiative processes. In principle, these phenomena could rise organizational challenges related to the safety of operators and technical issues such as overheating of the drift tube. Analytical and numerical methods are used to estimate the magnitude of the impact of the unwanted radiation and to adopt appropriate and adequate operating measures.
Copyright comment Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024
Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
