Design and simulation of an imaging neutral particle analyzer for the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

J. Rueda-Rueda, M. García-Muñoz, E. Viezzer, P. A. Schneider, J. García-Domínguez, J. Ayllon-Guerola, J. Galdón-Quiroga, A. Herrmann, X. D. Du, M. A. Van Zeeland, P. Oyola, M. Rodriguez-Ramos

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Abstract

An Imaging Neutral Particle Analyzer (INPA) diagnostic has been designed for the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) tokamak. The AUG INPA diagnostic will measure fast neutrals escaping the plasma after charge exchange reactions. The neutrals will be ionized by a 20 nm carbon foil and deflected toward a scintillator by the local magnetic field. The use of a neutral beam injector (NBI) as an active source of neutrals will provide radially resolved measurements, while the use of a scintillator as an active component will allow us to cover the whole plasma along the NBI line with unprecedented phase-space resolution (<12 keV and 8 cm) and a fast temporal response (up to 1 kHz with the high resolution acquisition system and above 100 kHz with the low resolution one), making it suitable to study localized fast-ion redistributions in phase space.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number043554
JournalReview of Scientific Instruments
Volume92
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2021
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Instrumentation

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