NEUTRON AND HARD X-RAY MEASUREMENTS DURING PELLET DEPOSITION IN TFTR

被引:14
作者
HEIDBRINK, WW
MILORA, SL
SCHMIDT, GL
SCHNEIDER, W
RAMSEY, A
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, USA, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, USA
关键词
PLASMAS - SCINTILLATION COUNTERS - TOKAMAK DEVICES - X-RAYS - Measurements;
D O I
10.1088/0029-5515/27/1/001
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Measurements of neutrons and hard X-rays are made with a pair of plastic scintillators during injection of deuterium pellets into deuterium TFTR plasmas. Three cases are investigated. During Ohmic heating in plasmas with few runaway electrons, the neutron emission does not increase when a pellet is injected, indicating that strong acceleration of the pellet ions does not occur. In Ohmic plasmas with low but detectable levels of runaway electrons, an X-ray burst is observed on a detector near the pellet injector as the pellet ablates, while a detector displaced 126 degree toroidally from the injector does not measure a synchronous burst. Reduced pellet penetration correlates with the presence of X-ray emission, suggesting that the origin of the burst is bremsstrahlung from runaway electrons that strike the solid pellet.
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