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Max Planck’s ELISE reaches record values for ITER plasma heating
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) announced that it recently has achieved a new record for ion current density for neutral particle heating at its ELISE (Extraction from a Large Ion Source Experiment) experimental testing facility in Garching, Germany. ELISE is being used to test neutral beam injection (NBI) systems that will be used to heat the plasma of the ITER fusion experiment in France.
Brian C. Franke, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 140 | Number 1 | January 2002 | Pages 1-22
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE02-A2242
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We consider the steady-state transport of normally incident pencil beams of radiation in slabs of material. A method has been developed for determining the exact radial moments of three-dimensional (3-D) beams of radiation as a function of depth into the slab, by solving systems of one-dimensional (1-D) transport equations. We implement these radial-moment equations in the ONEBFP discrete ordinates code and simulate energy-dependent, coupled electron-photon beams using CEPXS-generated cross sections. Modified PN synthetic acceleration is employed to speed up the iterative convergence of the 1-D charged-particle calculations. For high-energy photon beams, a hybrid Monte Carlo/discrete ordinates method is examined. We demonstrate the efficiency of the calculations and make comparisons with 3-D Monte Carlo calculations. Thus, by solving 1-D transport equations, we obtain realistic multidimensional information concerning the broadening of electron-photon beams. This information is relevant to fields such as industrial radiography, medical imaging, radiation oncology, particle accelerators, and lasers.