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Raymond K. Fisher, J. Stephen Leffler, Arthur M. Howald, Paul B. Parks
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 4 | May 1988 | Pages 536-542
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25133
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Alpha particles will interact with the ablation cloud surrounding an injected pellet via charge-exchange (CX) and nuclear reactions. The use of these interactions to diagnose fast confined alphas in a fusion plasma is discussed. Measurement of helium neutrals from multiple CX interactions should allow determination of the incident alpha-energy distribution.