Measuring the escaping beam ions from a tokamak plasma
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- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 58 (12) , 2264-2270
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1139333
Abstract
A new technique using a silicon surface barrier (SSB) diode has been developed for measuring the escaping fast ion flux from a tokamak plasma. Calibration of the detector with an ion beam showed that at a fixed energy the diode’s output current varied linearly with the incident deuteron flux. The diode was mounted inside the PDX vacuum vessel with collimating apertures designed to admit the spiraling orbits of 50-keV deuterons expelled from the plasma by MHD instabilities. Results from PDX indicated that relative measurements of the escaping fast ion flux due to several plasma instabilities could be made.Keywords
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