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Lithium beam diagnostic system on the COMPASS tokamak

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2016

Abstract

An improved lithium beam based beam emission spectroscopy system - installed on COMPASS tokamak - is described. The beam energy enhanced up to 120 keV for Atomic Beam Probe measurement.

The size of the ion source is doubled, using a newly developed thermionic heater instead of the conventionally used heating (tungsten or molybdenum) filament. The neutralizer is also improved.

It produces the same sodium vapor in a cell but minimize the loss condensing the vapor on a cold surface which is led back (in fluid state) into the sodium oven. This way we call it recirculating neutralizer.

The observation system consists of a CCD camera and an avalanche photodiode array.