Simulated plasma facing component measurements for an in situ surface diagnostic on Alcator C-Mod.

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  • Z S Hartwig
  • D G Whyte
چکیده

The ideal in situ plasma facing component (PFC) diagnostic for magnetic fusion devices would perform surface element and isotope composition measurements on a shot-to-shot (∼10 min) time scale with ∼1 μm depth and ∼1 cm spatial resolution over large areas of PFCs. To this end, the experimental adaptation of the customary laboratory surface diagnostic--nuclear scattering of MeV ions--to the Alcator C-Mod tokamak is being guided by ACRONYM, a Geant4 synthetic diagnostic. The diagnostic technique and ACRONYM are described, and synthetic measurements of film thickness for boron-coated PFCs are presented.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Review of scientific instruments

دوره 81 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010