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TOFu : A fully digital data acquisition system upgrade for the neutron time-of-flight spectrometer TOFOR

Authors :
Eriksson, Benjamin
Conroy, Sean
Ericsson, Göran
Eriksson, Jacob
Hjalmarsson, Anders
Weiszflog, Matthias
Ghani, Z.
Maslov, M.
Eriksson, Benjamin
Conroy, Sean
Ericsson, Göran
Eriksson, Jacob
Hjalmarsson, Anders
Weiszflog, Matthias
Ghani, Z.
Maslov, M.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

TOFOR is a time-of-flight (TOF) neutron spectrometer located at the Joint European Torus (JET) with a vertical sightline of the JET plasma. It consists of 5 start (denoted S1) and 32 stop (denoted S2) plastic scintillation detectors which can be used in coincidence to generate a TOF spectrum. Spectroscopic analysis of the neutron TOF spectra produced by the JET plasma is regularly performed to determine, e.g., the fuel ion ratio and the presence of fast ion species in the fusion plasma. TOFOR has been upgraded with a new digital data acquisition (DAQ) system, denoted TOFu, which consists of 10 waveform digitizers with a total of 40 channels, 37 of which are connected to the photomultiplier output of the different S1 and S2 detectors. This paper presents a technical overview of the TOFu system and describes the offline analysis capabilities of TOFu which were not available with the previous DAQ system. Two experimental JET discharges are studied and used to show that the signal-to-background ratio is improved by almost 200% for the 2.5 MeV neutron signal and almost 400% for the 14 MeV neutron signal using the new offline analysis capabilities.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Notes :
application/pdf, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1387019529
Document Type :
Electronic Resource
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016.j.nima.2023.168126