Contemporary instrumentation and application of charge exchange neutral particle diagnostics in magnetic fusion energy experiments

S S Medley; A J H Donné; R Kaita; A I Kislyakov; M P Petrov; A L Roquemore

doi:10.1063/1.2823259

Contemporary instrumentation and application of charge exchange neutral particle diagnostics in magnetic fusion energy experiments

Rev Sci Instrum. 2008 Jan;79(1):011101. doi: 10.1063/1.2823259.

Authors

S S Medley¹, A J H Donné, R Kaita, A I Kislyakov, M P Petrov, A L Roquemore

Affiliation

¹ Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA. medley@pppl.gov

PMID: 18248015
DOI: 10.1063/1.2823259

Abstract

An overview of the developments postcirca 1980s in the instrumentation and application of charge exchange neutral particle diagnostics on magnetic fusion energy experiments is presented. First, spectrometers that employ only electric fields and hence provide ion energy resolution but not mass resolution are discussed. Next, spectrometers that use various geometrical combinations of both electric and magnetic fields to provide both energy and mass resolutions are reviewed. Finally, neutral particle diagnostics based on utilization of time-of-flight techniques are presented.