Experimental Results with the New ITER-like 1 MV SINGAP Accelerator

A new 'ITER-like' accelerator, which is a scaled down version of the ITER SINGAP (SINgle GAP, SINGle APerture) accelerator, has been built and installed on the Cadarache 1 MV test bed. The objective is to demonstrate reliable D- beam acceleration as close as possible to 1 MeV with a current density j- ≅ 200 A/m2 with the beam optics required for ITER, i.e. a beamlet divergence of ≤7 mrad and beamlet steering within ±2 mrad of that specified. High voltage hold off tests have been performed and 940 kV has been held without breakdowns. The first beams up to 850 keV (D-, 15 A/m2) have been obtained after 4 weeks of experiments and the highest current density that has been obtained so far is 85 A/m2 (D-, 580 keV)