15-19 April 2018
Paradise Point Resort & Spa
America/Los_Angeles timezone

6.8 Polycapillary optics for Soft X-Ray transmission in ITER

17 Apr 2018, 10:30
2h 1m
Paradise Point Resort & Spa

Paradise Point Resort & Spa

1404 Vacation Rd, San Diego, CA 92109

Speakers

Didier MAZON (CEA) Sabastien TOURENQ (IMT Atlantique) Damien COLETTE (CEA) Robin BARNSLEY (ITER) Martin O'MULLANE (University of Strathclyde) Antoine SIRINELLI (ITER) Michael WALSH (ITER) Axel JARDIN (CEA)

Description

Tokamak plasmas emit as a volumetric Soft X-Ray (SXR) source and the emitted radiation contains very useful information about plasma stability, shape and impurity content. In the deuterium-tritium phase of ITER, the high neutron fluxes, gamma and hard X-ray emission will constitute too harsh an environment to permit the use of classical semiconductor detectors in a close vicinity of the machine. The first issue is thus to consider new SXR detector technologies more robust to such environments. The GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) and LVIC (Low Voltage Ionization Chamber) are foreseen as the two most promising solutions so far. The second issue is then to investigate the possibility of moving these detectors at a sufficient distance from the plasma to protect them from heat fluxes and radiation. We have thus investigated the possibility of using polycapillary lenses in ITER, to transport the SXR information several meters away from the plasma in the complex port-plug geometry. Different polycapillary lenses configurations have been tested thanks to a polycapillary transmission model and synthetic diagnostics (mimicking GEM and LVIC response) which have been recently developed. Results confirm the great potential of polycapillary lenses for SXR transmission in tokamak plasmas.

Primary author

Didier MAZON (CEA)

Co-authors

Sabastien TOURENQ (IMT Atlantique) Damien COLETTE (CEA) Robin BARNSLEY (ITER) Martin O'MULLANE (University of Strathclyde) Antoine SIRINELLI (ITER) Michael WALSH (ITER) Axel JARDIN (CEA)

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