EFDA-JET-CP(11)04/27

Developments of Time-of-Flight and Proton Recoil Neutron Spectrometry Techniques in View of a Possible JET DT Campaign and for ITER

Neutron emission spectrometry is a versatile tool for diagnosing the fuel ions of fusion plasmas. Information on parameters such as ion temperature, plasma rotation, nT/nD ratio as well as the properties of high-energy ions (originating from external or internal heating) can be provided. Neutron spectrometry can be performed with several techniques, each offering different capabilities, advantages and disadvantages. Broadly speaking, there are two types of instruments; compact spectrometers and designed spectrometric systems. The detectors in the former category can be used as stand-alone spectrometers, but in fusion have their most important application in neutron cameras. Here we report on developments of two techniques belonging to the latter category, namely, the Time-of-Flight (TOF) and the Thin-foil Proton Recoil (TPR) techniques, and their performance in a Deuterium-Tritium (DT) campaign.
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