Analytical and MonteCarlo approaches to infer the total gamma ray emission from the JET tokamak

G. Marcer, A. Zohar, A. Dal Molin, D. Rigamonti, M. Rebai, M. Nocente, E. Panontin, G. Croci, G. Gorini, G. Grosso, A. Muraro, E. Perelli Cippo, O. Putignano, E. de la Luna, Z. Ghani, S. Conroy, J. Garcia, Y. Kazakov, V. Kiptily, M. MaslovM. Nave, J. Ongena, M. Tardocchi

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Abstract

A single gamma-ray spectrometer installed at the end of a collimator can be used to infer the total emission from a tokamak plasma if the transport of gamma-rays from the plasma to the detector is known. In such analysis, the plasma emission profile plays a fundamental role, since it impacts the fraction of plasma volume intercepted by the detector line of sight. In this work, the DT 17 MeV fusion gamma-rays emission profile of the JET discharge #99608 from second 46 to 48 has been estimated both with the TRANSP code and reconstructed through tomographic inversion based on the neutron camera data, assuming that fusion gamma-rays have the same profile as the 14 MeV fusion neutrons. The gamma-ray transport has been evaluated both by MonteCarlo simulations and analytical calculations. By combining MonteCarlo and analytical evaluations of the gamma-ray transport in different ways with the estimated radiation emission profile, we provide four different routes to determine the total gamma-ray yield from measurements whose results agree within better than 10%.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberC05020
JournalJournal of Instrumentation
Volume18
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2023

Keywords

  • Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc)
  • Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPGe, HgI etc)
  • Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)

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