1. Initial results of tests of depth markers as a surface diagnostic for fusion devices
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D.G. Whyte, Brandon Sorbom, Z.S. Hartwig, G.M. Wright, Harold Barnard, L.A. Kesler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Kesler, Leigh Ann, Sorbom, Brandon Nils, Barnard, Harold Salvadore, and Whyte, Dennis G
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Surface (mathematics) ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Fusion ,Materials science ,Ion beam analysis ,Materials Science (miscellaneous) ,Nuclear engineering ,Analytical chemistry ,lcsh:TK9001-9401 ,01 natural sciences ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Nuclear Energy and Engineering ,0103 physical sciences ,lcsh:Nuclear engineering. Atomic power ,010306 general physics ,Energy (signal processing) - Abstract
The Accelerator-Based In Situ Materials Surveillance (AIMS) diagnostic was developed to perform in situ ion beam analysis (IBA) on Alcator C-Mod in August 2012 to study divertor surfaces between shots. These results were limited to studying low-Z surface properties, because the Coulomb barrier precludes nuclear reactions between high-Z elements and the ∼1 MeV AIMS deuteron beam. In order to measure the high-Z erosion, a technique using deuteron-induced gamma emission and a low-Z depth marker is being developed. To determine the depth of the marker while eliminating some uncertainty due to beam and detector parameters, the energy dependence of the ratio of two gamma yields produced from the same depth marker will be used to determine the ion beam energy loss in the surface, and thus the thickness of the high-Z surface. This paper presents the results of initial trials of using an implanted depth marker layer with a deuteron beam and the method of ratios. First tests of a lithium depth marker proved unsuccessful due to the production of conflicting gamma peaks, among other issues. However, successful trials with a boron depth marker show that it is possible to measure the depth of the marker layer with the method of gamma yield ratios., United States. Department of Energy. (grant number DE-FG02-94ER54235, cooperative agreement number DEFC02-99ER54512)
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- 2017