Published October 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Bragg x-ray survey spectrometer for ITER

  • 1. ITER-India, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382428 (India)
  • 2. ITER Organization, Route de Vinon sur Verdon, 13115 Saint Paul Lez Durance (France)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG (United Kingdom)

Description

Several potential impurity ions in the ITER plasmas will lead to loss of confined energy through line and continuum emission. For real time monitoring of impurities, a seven channel Bragg x-ray spectrometer (XRCS survey) is considered. This paper presents design and analysis of the spectrometer, including x-ray tracing by the Shadow-XOP code, sensitivity calculations for reference H-mode plasma and neutronics assessment. The XRCS survey performance analysis shows that the ITER measurement requirements of impurity monitoring in 10 ms integration time at the minimum levels for low-Z to high-Z impurity ions can largely be met.

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Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 10E126-10E126.3
ISSN
0034-6748
CODEN
RSINAK

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(c) 2012 American Institute of Physics