Colorado School of Mines Fusion Gamma Ray Project
This report summarizes the activities and accomplishments of the CSM Fusion Gamma Ray Project for the calendar year 1989. As reported in last year's Technical Progress Report, the initial objective of the project was the design and bench testing of an eight channel, very high count rate gamma ray spectrometer. The next objective of the project was the installation and field testing of a comparable fifteen channel spectrometer on TFTR. This objective has been accomplished over the past year and the system has been operated successfully at count rates approaching 10 MHz during neutral beam injected (NBI) deuterium plasmas with injected beam powers in excess of 20 MW. The MFE computer network link between CSM and TFTR has been most valuable in the accomplishment of the year's objectives and should serve as a model for future collaborations of outside researchers with experiments on TFTR and CIT. The coming year's work includes the spectrometry of high energy fusion gamma rays during {sup 3}He minority ICRH heating of deuterium plasmas and hydrogen minority ICRH heating during Lithium pellet injection as diagnostics of energetic alpha particle production. We include in this report selected results from our parallel grant from the DOE Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics as they pertain to the present APP grant. These results include experimentally derived thermonuclear reactivities of various light ion fusion plasmas for temperatures up to 40 keV. We would emphasize that our APP project is highly collaborative in nature and that Sid Medley and other members of the TFTR staff deserve much of the credit and bore much of the cost for many of the important accomplishments summarized in this report.
- Research Organization:
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/ER
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-88ER53276
- OSTI ID:
- 7252606
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/53276-T1; ON: DE90007551; TRN: 90-007259
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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GAMMA SPECTROMETERS
DESIGN
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GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY
ICR HEATING
NEUTRAL ATOM BEAM INJECTION
NEUTRON EMISSION
PELLET INJECTION
PROGRESS REPORT
BEAM INJECTION
DOCUMENT TYPES
EMISSION
HEATING
HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PLASMA HEATING
SPECTROMETERS
SPECTROSCOPY
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
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