Operation of the TFTR pellet charge exchange diagnostic in the pulse counting mode during H+ radio frequency minority heating
S. Medley, M. Petrov, A. Roquemore
1999
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Review of Scientific Instruments
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: The upgraded TFTR pellet charge exchange diagnostic now allows for faster pulse counting rates, enabling more accurate measurements of hydrogen minority ions during radio frequency minority heating.
Abstract
The pellet charge exchange technique on TFTR has been used primarily to obtain active charge exchange measurements using a high-energy (0.5–4.0 MeV) neutral particle analyzer (NPA) in conjunction with impurity pellet injection (Li and B) with the scintillator-photomultiplier detector system operated in the current mode. While passive measurements using pulse counting were also obtained using this instrumentation, operation in this mode was very restrictive with pulse counting rates limited to less than ∼10 kHz in the absence of any significant neutron and gamma induced background signal. An upgrade to a specialized pulse counting capability which was developed by the Ioffe Institute was implemented which consisted of CsI(Tl) scintillators having features designed to minimize signals induced by background neutron and gamma rays and 16-channel pulse height analysis electronics on each of the eight NPA energy channels. Passive measurements of rf-driven energetic hydrogen minority ions which served to verify ...