Alpha particle diagnostics using impurity pellet injection (invited)
Alpha particle diagnostics using impurity pellet injection (invited)
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使用杂质颗粒注射进行α粒子诊断(邀请)
DOI:
10.1063/1.1143705
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
S. Medley
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作者:
R. Fisher;J. McChesney;A. Howald;P. Parks;J. Snipes;J. Terry;E. Marmar;S. Zweben;S. Medley
We have proposed using impurity pellet injection to measure the energy distribution of the fast confined alpha particles in a reacting plasma [R. K. Fisher et al., Fusion Technol. 13, 536 (1988)]. The ablation cloud surrounding the injected pellet is thick enough that an equilibrium fraction F∞0(E) of the incident alphas should be neutralized as they pass through the cloud. By observing neutrals created in the large spatial region of the cloud which is expected to be dominated by the heliumlike ionization state, e.g., Li+ ions, we can determine the incident alpha distribution dnHe2+/dE from the measured energy distribution of neutral helium atoms dnHe0/dE using dnHe0/dE = dnHe2+/dE⋅F∞0 (E,Li+). Initial experiments were performed on the Texas Experimental Tokamak (TEXT) in which we compared pellet penetration with our impurity pellet ablation model [P. B. Parks et al., Nucl. Fusion 28, 477 (1988)], and measured the spatial distribution of various ionization states in carbon pellet clouds [R. K. Fisher et a...