Published October 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Charge exchange neutral particle measurements with natural diamond detector under the deuterium-deuterium neutron field on JT-60U tokamak

  • 1. Troitsk Institute of Innovating and Fusion Research (TRINITI) Troitsk, Moscow Region 142092 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gihu 509-5292 (Japan)
  • 3. Tohoku University, Sendai-shi, Miyagi 980-8578 (Japan)
  • 4. Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-0193 (Japan)

Description

A natural diamond detector (NDD) has been installed on the JT-60U tokamak to measure the flux and the energy distribution of charge exchange (CX) fast neutral particles. A NDD has many important advantages to be used as a CX neutral particle analyzer, for example very compact size, high energy resolution, and high radiation hardness etc., while the neutrons and γ rays are a large noise source in the deuterium plasma. The shield was set up around the NDD to reduce those noises. Time-resolved energy distribution of CX neutral particles corresponding to injected beam energy have been successfully obtained under high intensity neutron yield Yn>1015 n/s. Further enhanced neutral particle fluxes during sawtooth oscillation and Alfven eigenmodes were observed with the NDD. The performance of the NDD as CX neutral particle spectrometer under high intensity neutron yield was demonstrated for the first time on JT-60U in this work

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Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 3643-3645
ISSN
0034-6748
CODEN
RSINAK

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics