We kindly invite all interested members of the scientific and engineering community to participate in the Fourth IFMIF-DONES Users Workshop.
The workshop will be held as an in-person event in Madrid, Spain on October 13-15, 2026 at the CIEMAT research center, organized jointly by esDONES and CIEMAT.
As the construction of the DONES facility progresses, the objective of this DONES User´s Workshop is to review the research areas of DONES, discuss and further detail the experimental programme and consolidate the users community. In particular, the leading motive of the Fourth Workshop will be to propose key-experiments that could profit from the already proposed extensions of DONES baseline associated with its experimental capabilities, in particular, the addition of the second accelerator, post irradiation examination facilities, TOF-DONES facility, collimated neutron beam facility.
One of the main roles for the DONES Users Community is to establish a stable link of communication between the DONES engineering activities and the future users. This is to ensure that requirements coming from the proposed experiments are properly evaluated in terms of technical feasibility, ease of implementation and available budget and factored in during the construction phase of the facility.
Proposed areas of scientific interest / sessions of the workshop:
- Qualification of materials for the fusion programme, DEMO and fusion power plant
- Tritium breeding technologies: validation at DONES
- Studies of functional materials and other fusion technologies
- Nuclear physics: TOF-DONES facility and other experiments
- Industrial neutron irradiations and societal applications
- Life sciences and medical applications
- Experiments for benchmarking of computational materials science
- Experiments during the commissioning phase of DONES
- Discussion of the DONES experimental programme proposal
- Next steps for the DONES users community and selection of the Users Committee members
The program of the sessions will be composed of a small number of introductory key-note talks and several presentations selected based on submitted abstracts. We kindly invite you to send abstracts and contribute to the workshop. Participation of young researchers is encouraged.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 June 2026.
The authors of talks selected for presentation will be notified by 30 June 2026. There will be a small registration fee - the exact amount to be announced later - to cover part of the cost of the organization.
Early registration and payment deadline is 31 August 2026.
Please register as a member of the DONES users community if you wish to receive updates on the DONES Users workshop.
We are looking forward to your contributions and participation.
