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Rev Sci Instrum. 2012 Oct;83(10):10D306. doi: 10.1063/1.4733572.

Investigating the performance of an ion luminescence probe as a multichannel fast-ion energy spectrometer using pulse height analysis.

The Review of scientific instruments

B Zurro, A Baciero, D Jiménez-Rey, L Rodríguez-Barquero, M T Crespo

Affiliations

  1. Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Asociación Euratom-CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain. [email protected]

PMID: 23126833 DOI: 10.1063/1.4733572

Abstract

We investigate the capability of a fast-ion luminescent probe to operate as a pulse height ion energy analyzer. An existing high sensitivity system has been reconfigured as a single channel ion detector with an amplifier to give a bandwidth comparable to the phosphor response time. A digital pulse processing method has been developed to determine pulse heights from the detector signal so as to obtain time-resolved information on the ion energy distribution of the plasma ions lost to the wall of the TJ-II stellarator. Finally, the potential of this approach for magnetic confined fusion plasmas is evaluated by studying representative TJ-II discharges.

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