The neutral particle analyzer(NPA)is one of the crucial diagnostic devices in a Tokamak facility.The stripping unit is one of the main parts of the NPA.A windowless gas-stripping room with two differential pipes has b...The neutral particle analyzer(NPA)is one of the crucial diagnostic devices in a Tokamak facility.The stripping unit is one of the main parts of the NPA.A windowless gas-stripping room with two differential pipes has been constructed in a parallel electric and magnetic fields(E//B)NPA.The pressure distributions in the stripping chamber are simulated by ANSYS Fluent together with MolFlow+.Based on the pressure distributions obtained from the simulation,the stripping efficiency of the E//B NPA is studied using GEANT4.Hadron reaction physics is modified to track the charge state of each particle in a cross-section-based method in GEANT4.The transmission rates(R)and stripping efficiencies f_(+1)are examined for particle energies ranging from 20 to 200 keV with the input pressure(P_(0)),ranging from 20 to 400 Pa.According to the combined global efficiency,R×f_(+1),P_(0)=240 Pa is obtained as the optimum pressure for the maximum global efficiency in the incident energy range investigated.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National MCF Energy R&D Program of China(No.MOST 2018YFE0310200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11805138 and 11705242)the Fundamental Research Funds For the Central Universities(Nos.YJ201820 and YJ201954)。
文摘The neutral particle analyzer(NPA)is one of the crucial diagnostic devices in a Tokamak facility.The stripping unit is one of the main parts of the NPA.A windowless gas-stripping room with two differential pipes has been constructed in a parallel electric and magnetic fields(E//B)NPA.The pressure distributions in the stripping chamber are simulated by ANSYS Fluent together with MolFlow+.Based on the pressure distributions obtained from the simulation,the stripping efficiency of the E//B NPA is studied using GEANT4.Hadron reaction physics is modified to track the charge state of each particle in a cross-section-based method in GEANT4.The transmission rates(R)and stripping efficiencies f_(+1)are examined for particle energies ranging from 20 to 200 keV with the input pressure(P_(0)),ranging from 20 to 400 Pa.According to the combined global efficiency,R×f_(+1),P_(0)=240 Pa is obtained as the optimum pressure for the maximum global efficiency in the incident energy range investigated.
