Abstract
Real-time measurement of plasma composition and energy is an important diagnostic in fusion experiments. The Thomson parabola spectrograph described here utilizes an electric field parallel to a magnetic field (E∥B) and a two-dimensional imaging detector to uniquely identify the energy-per-charge and mass-per-charge distributions of plasma ions. An ultrathin foil can be inserted in front of the E∥B filter to convert neutral atoms to ions, which are subsequently analyzed using the E∥B filter. Since helium exiting an ultrathin foil does not form a negative ion and hydrogen isotopes do, this spectrograph allows unique identification of tritium ions and neutrals even in the presence of a large background of 3He.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 292-295 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Review of Scientific Instruments |
Volume | 68 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1997 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Instrumentation