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Analysis and experimental demonstration of effectiveness of TOF coincidence technique in neutral particle analysis on JET

Abstract

This paper presents a NPA (Neutral Particle Analysers) with noise rejection capability, based on the TOF coincidence technique, that has been designed, built, tested and fully calibrated in the Frascati ENEA (Italian Commission for New Technologies, Energy and Environment) laboratories and has been installed on JET mid 1990. The effectiveness of the time of flight (TOF) approach to noise rejection is discussed analytically and experimental evidence from the JET TOF NPA is shown. The advantage in the signal to noise ratio given by the TOF technique relative to other noise suppression methods is analysed, and the absence of significant systematic errors is stressed. The intrinsic flexibility of an instrument based on TOF mass analysis, and the possibility of performing cross tests both during calibration and operation on the tokamak are also discussed. The analyser has already shown, in the first experimental period on JET, its strong random noise rejection capability, with rejection factors in excellent agreement with basic probability theory estimates.
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1991
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
ETDE-IT-92-48; CONF-910857-10
Reference Number:
SCA: 700320; 700410; PA: ITA-92:001248; SN: 92000756629
Resource Relation:
Conference: International School of Plasma Physics Piero Caldirola` diagnostics for contemporary fusion experiments,Varenna (Italy),27 Aug - 6 Sep 1991; Other Information: PBD: 1991
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; JET TOKAMAK; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETERS; COINCIDENCE METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD; MEASURING METHODS; BACKGROUND NOISE; 700320; 700410; PLASMA DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION; SPECIFIC FUSION DEVICES AND EXPERIMENTS
OSTI ID:
10150504
Research Organizations:
ENEA, Frascati (Italy)
Country of Origin:
Italy
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92526481; TRN: 92:001248
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only)
Submitting Site:
ITA
Size:
8 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 05, 2005

Citation Formats

Bracco, G, Corti, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, and Zanza, V. Analysis and experimental demonstration of effectiveness of TOF coincidence technique in neutral particle analysis on JET. Italy: N. p., 1991. Web.
Bracco, G, Corti, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, & Zanza, V. Analysis and experimental demonstration of effectiveness of TOF coincidence technique in neutral particle analysis on JET. Italy.
Bracco, G, Corti, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, and Zanza, V. 1991. "Analysis and experimental demonstration of effectiveness of TOF coincidence technique in neutral particle analysis on JET." Italy.
@misc{etde_10150504,
title = {Analysis and experimental demonstration of effectiveness of TOF coincidence technique in neutral particle analysis on JET}
author = {Bracco, G, Corti, S, Moleti, A, Tilia, B, and Zanza, V}
abstractNote = {This paper presents a NPA (Neutral Particle Analysers) with noise rejection capability, based on the TOF coincidence technique, that has been designed, built, tested and fully calibrated in the Frascati ENEA (Italian Commission for New Technologies, Energy and Environment) laboratories and has been installed on JET mid 1990. The effectiveness of the time of flight (TOF) approach to noise rejection is discussed analytically and experimental evidence from the JET TOF NPA is shown. The advantage in the signal to noise ratio given by the TOF technique relative to other noise suppression methods is analysed, and the absence of significant systematic errors is stressed. The intrinsic flexibility of an instrument based on TOF mass analysis, and the possibility of performing cross tests both during calibration and operation on the tokamak are also discussed. The analyser has already shown, in the first experimental period on JET, its strong random noise rejection capability, with rejection factors in excellent agreement with basic probability theory estimates.}
place = {Italy}
year = {1991}
month = {Dec}
}