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An injector of fast deuterium atoms for plasma heating was designed and installed at the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). The neutral beam can deliver 1 MW power to the plasma in 2 s pulses. An ion beam of the injector is formed by a triode multislit ion-optical system with spherical electrodes which provide ballistic focusing. Tests at TCV revealed that the total angular divergence of the neutral beam across the slits exceeded the expected value more than twice. It was finally established that this increase in divergence was caused by the asymmetry of the chamfers at the slit edges of the plasma electrode. The redesigned shape of the slits of the plasma grid together with precise machining significantly improved the beam quality. Experimental testing proved that the neutral beam profile in the direction across the grid slits became very close to the expected value.
Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mike Machielsen
Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Umar Sheikh, Matthieu Toussaint, Pierre Lavanchy, Ugo Siravo, Rémy Jacquier, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Frédéric Dolizy, Jérémie Dubray, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Blaise Marlétaz, Matteo Vallar, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli