Gamma-ray and neutron area monitoring system of linear IFMIF prototype accelerator building

Abstract

The linear IFMIF prototype accelerator (LIPAc) produces deuteron beam with 1MW power. Since huge number of neutrons occur from such a high power beam, therefore, it is important for the radiation management to design a high reliability area monitoring system for gamma-rays and neutrons. To obtain the valuable operation data of the high-power deuteron beam at LIPAc, it is important to link and record the beam operation data and the area monitoring data. We realize the reliable data transfer to provide the area monitoring data to the accelerator control system which needs a high reliability using the shared-memory data link method.This paper describes the area monitoring system in the LIPAc building and the data-link between this system and the LIPAc control system.