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Collective Thomson scattering diagnostic for the GDT experiment

Plasma Physics 2020-11-23 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a collective Thomson scattering diagnostic for fast ion measurements for the gas-dynamic trap (GDT) facility at the Budker Institute. The diagnostic utilizes 54.5 GHz gyrotron usually used for electron cyclotron resonance heating as a source of probe radiation and is aimed at reconstruction of distributions over transverse and longitudinal velocities of NBI-driven ions in the plasma core. Here we present a feasibility study of this concept.

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@article{arxiv.1912.03521,
  title  = {Collective Thomson scattering diagnostic for the GDT experiment},
  author = {A. G. Shalashov and E. D. Gospodchikov and T. A. Khusainov and L. V. Lubyako and O. B. Smolyakova and A. L. Solomakhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.03521},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 10 figures, the paper is submitted to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion