Status and Update of the RaDIATE Collaboration R&D Program
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
The Radiation Damage In Accelerator Target Environments (RaDIATE) collaboration was founded in 2012 and currently consists of over 50 participants and 11 institutions globally. Due to the increasing power of future proton accelerator sources on target facilities, there is a critical need to further the understanding of the physical and thermo-mechanical radiation response of target facility materials. Thus, the primary objective of the RaDIATE collaboration is to draw on existing expertise in the nuclear materials and accelerator targets fields to generate new and useful materials data for application within the accelerator and fission/fusion communities. Current research activities of the collaboration include post irradiation examination (PIE) of decommissioned components from existing beamlines such as the NuMI beryllium beam window and graphite NT-02 target material. PIE of these components includes advanced microstructural analyses (SEM/TEM, EBSD, EDS) and micro-mechanic s technique such as nano-indentation, to help characterize any microstructural radiation damage incurred during operation. New irradiation campaigns of various candidate materials at both low and high energy beam facilities are also being pursued. Beryllium helium implantation studies at the University of Surrey as well as high energy proton irradiation of various materials at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s BLIP facility have been initiated. The program also extends to beam-induced thermal shock experiments using high intensity beam pulses at CERN’s HiRadMat facility, followed by advanced PIE activities to evaluate thermal shock resistance of the materials. The continuing research activities with preliminary results, as well as the future plans of the RaDIATE Collaboration R&D program will be discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- RaDIATE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1460396
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-SLIDES-17-010-AD; oai:inspirehep.net:1681726
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators, Quebec City, QC (Canada), 31 July-04 Aug 2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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