Ponente
Descripción
The IFMIF-DONEA facility in Granada is ESFRI single-site facility. For access to research infrastructures, ain in particular ESFRI facilities, the administration for requesting and granting time should be users’ friendly and kept to a minimum, in accordance with the principles stated in the European Commissions' document „European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures“[1]. There are numerable research facilities that have calls for proposals for access to infrastructures; e. g. the leading European state-of-the-art electron microscopy research infrastructures through ESTEEM3 project [2], the high brilliance 3rd Generation Synchrotron Radiation Source at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) PETRA III DESY [3], European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) Grenoble [4], Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste [5], Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC) [6], etc. Most of them have on-line forms with appropriate paragraphs (with limited number of characters) that users have to fill in to request access to the infrastructure. Therefore, we would like to propose a similar form for users that will be utilised for submission of proposals for Transnational access on International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility-DEMO Oriented NEutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) in Granada.
The proposed initial form(s) are based on the Report on User Access Strategy for DONES [7] prepared in DONES PreP project, in which presently planned scientific exploitation fields are divided in three separate experimental programmes (EP), i.e.:
- EP.1 High-priority fusion-related experiments;
- EP.2 Experimental program focused on other type of fusion-related experiments; and
- EP.3 Complementary Research experiments related to research fields out of fusion listed in [8].
Different application forms are proposed depending on experimental program. The form(s) will be prepared for easy upgrade in the future when other experimental ideas will be developed. The high-priority fusion-related experiments (EP.1) at the IFMIF-DONES Granada Facility will be focused on experiments to irradiate the structural materials intended for use in future fusion reactors such as DEMO (Demonstration Fusion Power Plant). Therefore, an experimental program focused on other type of fusion-related experiments (EP.2) will be mainly developed in secondary positions with lower neutron fluxes but also inside the Test Cell of the DONES Facility for fusion-related applications or in dedicated room behind the Test Cell in case of (EP.3) Complementary Research experiments.
For this reason, the desired position of the sample should first be selected in the on-line proposal (as the first question in the form) and further explained in the proposal.
Other paragraphs in in-line form: (1) Title, (2) List of collaborators, (3) Scientific background and own previous work, (4) Samples preparation and preliminary characterization, (5) Explanation why samples should be situated in central (or requested) confinement (7) Expected results, and (8) References.
Form for the neutron applications in (EP.3) Complementary Research experiments will start with the question “Which technique(s) do you plan to use?” with a list of available experimental techniques that users plan to use to perform the desired experiment(s). The present list in the proposed form will be based on the experiments mentioned by Hirtz et. al. [8] and Ibara et. al. [9], but will be extended already after the end of this workshop. Further, the on-line form will continue with main paragraphs: (1) Title, (2) List of collaborators, (3) Scientific background and own previous work, (4) Motivation for the present proposal and the scientific objectives of your project, (4) Explanation why this work requires access to a specific complementary experiment, (5) Experimental plan including a brief description of the samples and safety-related issues as well as a justification for the requested number of shifts, (6) Expected results and their impact (academic or industrial innovation), and (7) References.
References:
[1] European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European charter of access for research infrastructure: principles and guidelines for access and related services, Publications Office, 2016, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/524573
[2] https://www.esteem3.eu/index.php?index=7
[3] https://photon-science.desy.de/users_area/calls__deadlines/index_eng.html
[4] https://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/UserGuide/Applying
[5] https://www.elettra.eu/userarea/apbt.html
[6] https://www.ceric-eric.eu/users/call-for-proposals/
[7] T. Tadić, DONES-PREP Deliverable 3.4-1 Report on User Access Strategy for DONES,
[8] J. Hirtz, A. Letourneau, L. Thulliez, A. Ibarra, W. Krolas, A. Maj, Neutron availability in the Complementary Experiments Hall of the IFMIF-DONES facility, Fusion Engineering and Design 179 (2022) 113133.
[9] A. Ibarra, F. Arbeiter, D. Bernardi, W. Krolas, M. Cappelli, U. Fischer, R. Heidinger, F. Martin-Fuertes, G. Micciché, A. Muñoz, F.S. Nitti, T. Pinna, A. Aiello, N. Bazin, N. Chauvin, S. Chel, G. Devanz, S. Gordeev, D. Regidor, F. Schwab and the full IFMIF-DONES team, The European approach to the fusion-like neutron source: the IFMIF-DONES project, Nucl. Fusion 59 (2019) 065002.
