Progress in HXR diagnostics at GOLEM and COMPASS tokamaks

0558269 - ÚFP 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Čeřovský, Jaroslav - Ficker, Ondřej - Svoboda, V. - Tomešová, Eva - Mlynář, Jan - Čaloud, Jakub - Weinzettl, Vladimír - Hron, Martin
Progress in HXR diagnostics at GOLEM and COMPASS tokamaks.
Journal of Instrumentation. Roč. 17, č. 1 (2022), č. článku C01033. ISSN 1748-0221. E-ISSN 1748-0221
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2018117; GA MŠMT(CZ) 8D15001
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 633053 - EUROfusion
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPGe, HgI etc.) * Nuclear instruments and methods for hot plasma diagnostics
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impact factor: 1.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/C01033

Scintillation detectors are widely used for hard X-ray spectroscopy and allow us to investigate the dynamics of runaway electrons in tokamaks. This diagnostic tool proved to be able to provide information about the energy or the number of runaway electrons. Presently it has been used for runaway studies at the GOLEM and the COMPASS tokamaks. The set of scintillation detectors used at both tokamaks was significantly extended and improved. Besides NaI(Tl) (2 2 inch) scintillation detectors, YAP(Ce) and CeBr3 were employed. The data acquisition system was accordingly improved and the data from scintillation detectors is collected with appropriate sampling rate (≈300 MHz) and sufficient bandwidth (≈100 MHz) to allow a pulse analysis. Up to five detectors can currently simultaneously monitor hard X-ray radiation at the GOLEM. The same scintillation detectors were also installed during the runaway electron campaign at the COMPASS tokamak. The aim of this contribution is to report progress in diagnostics of HXR radiation induced by runaway electrons at the GOLEM and the COMPASS tokamaks. The data collected during the 12th runaway electron campaign (2020) at COMPASS shows that count rates during typical low-density runaway electron discharges are in a range of hundreds of kHz and detected photon energies go up to 10 MeV (measured outside the tokamak hall). Acquired data from experimental campaigns from both machines will be discussed.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0332001