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Design and calibration of time of flight neutral particle analyser with noise rejection capability

Abstract

This paper describes the design and the calibration of a time of flight (TOF) neutral particle analyser (NPA) used - in the diagnostics of plasma close to thermonuclear fusion conditions. The analyser can select energy and mass of charge exchange neutrals in the energy range from 0.5 to 250 keV and it is calibrated for hydrogen, deuterium and helium atoms. The utilization of the coincidence technique in the measurement of the time of flight of the detected neutrals also permits discrimination of the particle signal from a random background. In this way, the NPA can operate successfully also in the large neutrons and gammas fluxes characteristic of the high performance fusion plasmas produced in large tokamaks.
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
ENEA-RT-NUCL-91-31; RT/NUCL-91-31
Reference Number:
SCA: 700320; 440103; PA: ITAN-93:000175; SN: 93000947399
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1992
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; DETECTION; MISSING-MASS SPECTROMETERS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS; TOKAMAK DEVICES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; COINCIDENCE METHODS; CALIBRATION; SPECIFICATIONS; 700320; 440103; PLASMA DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTATION
OSTI ID:
10128894
Research Organizations:
ENEA, Frascati (Italy). Area Nucleare
Country of Origin:
Italy
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 1120-5598; Other: ON: DE93769413; TRN: 93:000175
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
ITAN
Size:
52 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 04, 2005

Citation Formats

Bracco, G, Mantovani, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, Zanza, V, and Betello, G. Design and calibration of time of flight neutral particle analyser with noise rejection capability. Italy: N. p., 1992. Web.
Bracco, G, Mantovani, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, Zanza, V, & Betello, G. Design and calibration of time of flight neutral particle analyser with noise rejection capability. Italy.
Bracco, G, Mantovani, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, Zanza, V, and Betello, G. 1992. "Design and calibration of time of flight neutral particle analyser with noise rejection capability." Italy.
@misc{etde_10128894,
title = {Design and calibration of time of flight neutral particle analyser with noise rejection capability}
author = {Bracco, G, Mantovani, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, Zanza, V, and Betello, G}
abstractNote = {This paper describes the design and the calibration of a time of flight (TOF) neutral particle analyser (NPA) used - in the diagnostics of plasma close to thermonuclear fusion conditions. The analyser can select energy and mass of charge exchange neutrals in the energy range from 0.5 to 250 keV and it is calibrated for hydrogen, deuterium and helium atoms. The utilization of the coincidence technique in the measurement of the time of flight of the detected neutrals also permits discrimination of the particle signal from a random background. In this way, the NPA can operate successfully also in the large neutrons and gammas fluxes characteristic of the high performance fusion plasmas produced in large tokamaks.}
place = {Italy}
year = {1992}
month = {Dec}
}