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Title: Neutron emission profiles and energy spectra measurements at JET

Abstract

The Joint European Toras (JET, Culham, UK) is the largest tokamak in the world. It is devoted to nuclear fusion experiments of magnetic confined Deuterium (D) or Deuterium-Tritium (DT) plasmas. JET has been upgraded over the years and recently it has also become a test facility of the components designed for ITER, the next step fusion machine under construction in Cadarache (France). JET makes use of many different diagnostics to measure the physical quantities of interest in plasma experiments. Concerning D or DT plasmas neutron production, various types of detectors are implemented to provide information upon the neutron total yield, emission profile and energy spectrum. The neutron emission profile emitted from the JET plasma poloidal section is reconstructed using the neutron camera (KN3). In 2010 KN3 was equipped with a new digital data acquisition system capable of high rate neutron measurements (<0.5 MCps). A similar instrument will be implemented on ITER and it is currently in its design phase. Various types of neutron spectrometers with different view lines are also operational on JET. One of them is a new compact spectrometer (KM12) based on organic liquid scintillating material which was installed in 2010 and implements a similar digital data acquisitionmore » system as for KN3. This article illustrates the measurement results of KN3 neutron emission profiles and KM 12 neutron energy spectra from the latest JET D experimental campaign C31.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ;  [3];  [4]; ; ; ; ; ;  [5]
  1. JET-EFDA, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, 0X14 3DB, United Kingdom and Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy)
  2. JET-EFDA, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, 0X14 3DB, United Kingdom and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Sweden)
  3. Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione, Roma (Italy)
  4. Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy and Istituto di Física del Plasma Piero Caldirola, Milan (Italy)
  5. JET-EFDA, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, 0X14 3DB (United Kingdom)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22308274
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
AIP Conference Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1612; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: International conference on fusion reactor diagnostics, Varenna (Italy), 9-13 Sep 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; ENERGY SPECTRA; ITER TOKAMAK; NEUTRON CAMERAS; NEUTRON EMISSION; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS; PLASMA JETS

Citation Formats

Giacomelli, L., Conroy, S., Belli, F., Riva, M., Gorini, G., Horton, L., Joffrin, E., Lerche, E., Murari, A., Popovichev, S., Syme, B., and Collaboration: JET EFDA Contributors. Neutron emission profiles and energy spectra measurements at JET. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4894035.
Giacomelli, L., Conroy, S., Belli, F., Riva, M., Gorini, G., Horton, L., Joffrin, E., Lerche, E., Murari, A., Popovichev, S., Syme, B., & Collaboration: JET EFDA Contributors. Neutron emission profiles and energy spectra measurements at JET. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4894035
Giacomelli, L., Conroy, S., Belli, F., Riva, M., Gorini, G., Horton, L., Joffrin, E., Lerche, E., Murari, A., Popovichev, S., Syme, B., and Collaboration: JET EFDA Contributors. 2014. "Neutron emission profiles and energy spectra measurements at JET". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4894035.
@article{osti_22308274,
title = {Neutron emission profiles and energy spectra measurements at JET},
author = {Giacomelli, L. and Conroy, S. and Belli, F. and Riva, M. and Gorini, G. and Horton, L. and Joffrin, E. and Lerche, E. and Murari, A. and Popovichev, S. and Syme, B. and Collaboration: JET EFDA Contributors},
abstractNote = {The Joint European Toras (JET, Culham, UK) is the largest tokamak in the world. It is devoted to nuclear fusion experiments of magnetic confined Deuterium (D) or Deuterium-Tritium (DT) plasmas. JET has been upgraded over the years and recently it has also become a test facility of the components designed for ITER, the next step fusion machine under construction in Cadarache (France). JET makes use of many different diagnostics to measure the physical quantities of interest in plasma experiments. Concerning D or DT plasmas neutron production, various types of detectors are implemented to provide information upon the neutron total yield, emission profile and energy spectrum. The neutron emission profile emitted from the JET plasma poloidal section is reconstructed using the neutron camera (KN3). In 2010 KN3 was equipped with a new digital data acquisition system capable of high rate neutron measurements (<0.5 MCps). A similar instrument will be implemented on ITER and it is currently in its design phase. Various types of neutron spectrometers with different view lines are also operational on JET. One of them is a new compact spectrometer (KM12) based on organic liquid scintillating material which was installed in 2010 and implements a similar digital data acquisition system as for KN3. This article illustrates the measurement results of KN3 neutron emission profiles and KM 12 neutron energy spectra from the latest JET D experimental campaign C31.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4894035},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22308274}, journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
issn = {0094-243X},
number = 1,
volume = 1612,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}