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Les accélération de faisceaux de forte puissance et le bombardement d'une cible de spallation permettent d'atteindre les flux requis pour application aux réacteurs sous-critiques pilotés par un accélérateur de particules (ADSR).Parmi les methodes d'acceleration, on trouve les accélérateurs circulaires, en particuler les FFAG et les cyclotrons. Le travail de cette these porte sur l'évaluation de ces methodes pour la production de faisceaux de protons de classe multi-mégawatts, y compris la participation à des collaborations d'études internationales de design. Une evaluation de la methode ADSR comme candidat potential pour resoudre le probleme des dechets nucleaires est finalement etablie. / High power proton accelerators allow providing, by spallation reaction, the neutron fluxes necessary in thesynthesis of fissile material, starting from Uranium 238 or Thorium 232. This is the basis of the concept ofsub-critical operation of a reactor, for energy production or nuclear waste transmutation, with the objective ofachieving cleaner, safer and more efficient process than today’s technologies allow.Designing, building and operating a proton accelerator in the 500-1000 MeV energy range, CW regime,MW power class still remains a challenge nowadays. There is a limited number of installations at presentachieving beam characteristics in that class, e.g., PSI in Villigen, 590 MeV CW beam from a cyclotron, SNS inOakland, 1 GeV pulsed beam from a linear accelerator, in addition to projects as the ESS in Europe, a 5 MWbeam from a linear accelerator.Furthermore, coupling an accelerator to a sub-critical nuclear reactor is a challenging proposition: some ofthe key issues/requirements are the design of a spallation target to withstand high power densities as well asensure the safety of the installation.These two domains are the grounds of the PhD work: the focus is on the high power ring methods inthe frame of the KURRI FFAG collaboration in Japan: upgrade of the installation towards high intensityis crucial to demonstrate the high beam power capability of FFAG. Thus, modeling of the beam dynamicsand benchmarking of different codes was undertaken to validate the simulation results. Experimental resultsrevealed some major losses that need to be understood and eventually overcome.By developing analytical models that account for the field defects, one identified major sources of imperfectionin the design of scaling FFAG that explain the important tune variations resulting in the crossing of severalbetatron resonances. A new formula is derived to compute the tunes and properties established that characterizethe effect of the field imperfections on the transverse beam dynamics. The results obtained allow to developa correction scheme to minimize the tune variations of the FFAG. This is the cornerstone of a new fixed tunenon-scaling FFAG that represents a potential candidate for high power applications.As part of the developments towards high power at the KURRI FFAG, beam dynamics studies have toaccount for space charge effects. In that framework, models have been installed in the tracking code ZGOUBIto account for the self-interaction of the particles in the accelerator. Application to the FFAG studies is shown.Finally, one focused on the ADSR concept as a candidate to solve the problem of nuclear waste. In orderto establish the accelerator requirements, one compared the performance of ADSR with other conventionalcritical reactors by means of the levelized cost of energy. A general comparison between the different acceleratortechnologies that can satisfy these requirements is finally presented.In summary, the main drawback of the ADSR technology is the high Levelized Cost Of Energy comparedto other advanced reactor concepts that do not employ an accelerator. Nowadays, this is a show-stopper forany industrial application aiming at producing energy (without dealing with the waste problem). Besides, thereactor is not intrinsically safer than critical reactor concepts, given the complexity of managing the targetinterface between the accelerator and the reactor core.

As aplicações envolvendo confinamento e aceleração de feixes de partículas carregadas em canais lineares são inúmeras em diversas áreas do conhecimento. A evolução da engenharia dos aceleradores lineares de partículas de próxima geração está fortemente condicionada ao melhor entendimento de fenômenos não-lineares como a formação de halo, inerentes aos atualmente cada vez mais perscrutados regimes de alta densidade de carga e energia. O presente trabalho visa investigar e caracterizar os aspectos dinâmicos e de equilíbrio envolvidos na transição de um feixe ultra-intenso de partículas com mesma carga de um estado inicial não-estacionário para um final estacionário. A alta densidade de partículas implica que as forças repulsivas naturais neste tipo de sistema sejam imprescindíveis para a sua correta descrição. O feixe em questão evolui em um canal linear encapsulado por um duto circular condutor e é focalizado por um campo magnético constante axial de origem solenoidal. Tal feixe inicialmente encontra-se perfeitamente alinhado com o eixo de simetria do sistema de confinamento magnético, sendo, portanto, as oscilações de sua centróide inexistentes. Por simplicidade, foi imposto também ao feixe o vínculo de simetria azimutal. Como condição inicial, considerou-se o estado não-estacionário do feixe descrito por uma densidade homogênea e outra não-homogênea. No primeiro caso, o descasamento e, no segundo, a magnitude da não-homogeneidade são os fatores precursores da instabilidade inicial que conduz o feixe ao estado de equilíbrio. Para ambos os casos, modelos foram desenvolvidos para determinar quantidades dinâmicas, relacionadas à escala de tempo característica da instabilidade inicial, e de equilíbrio, tais como a emitância e o envelope, grandezas estatísticas estas usualmente de interesse em Física de Feixes. Os resultados obtidos foram comparados com simulações numéricas autoconsistentes e o acordo foi satisfatório. Os modelos demonstraram-se eficientes não somente em prever tais quantidades de interesse como também em elucidar aspectos físicos fundamentais intrínsecos ao comportamento observado nas simulações numéricas autoconsistentes e experimentos. / Applications involving confinement and acceleration of charged particle beams in linear channels are innumerous in many fields of the knowledge. The engineering evolution of next-generation particle linear accelerators is strongly conditioned to the better understanding of nonlinear phenomena like halo formation, inherent to the more and more currently explored regimes of high charge density and energy. The present work aims at investigating and characterizing dynamical and equilibrium aspects involved in the transition of a high-intensity beam of charged particles from an initial non-stationary state to a final stationary state. High particle densities mean that the repulsive forces naturally present in these kinds of systems are essential to their adequate description. The beam under analysis evolves inside a linear channel encapsulated by a circular conductor pipe, and is focalized by a constant axial magnetic field generated by solenoids. Such beam is initially perfectly aligned to the symmetry axis of the magnetic confinement system, being in this way its centroid oscillations non-existent. For simplicity, it has been imposed to the beam the constraint of azimuthal symmetry. As initial condition, the beam non-stationary state has been described by a homogeneous and an inhomogeneous particle density. In the first case, the mismatch and, in the second one, the magnitude of inhomogeneity, are the factors forerunner of the initial instability, which leads the beam to evolve to the equilibrium state. For both cases, models have been developed to determine dynamical quantities, related to the characteristic time scale of the initial instability, and equilibrium quantities, such as the emittance and envelope, usually of interest in Beam Physics. The obtained results have been compared with full self-consistent N-particle beam numerical simulations and the agreement has been reasonable. The models have shown to be efficient not only to predict beam quantities of interest as well as to elucidate fundamental physical aspects intrinsic to the behavior observed in the self-consistent numerical simulations and experiments.