Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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272597 | Fusion Engineering and Design | 2010 | 11 Pages |
The negative ion accelerators that produce the high-energy particle beams for the neutral injection systems for the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) also produce unwanted particles such as electrons. These electrons are emitted in a wide angular spectrum that allows some of them to directly intercept sensitive beamline components such as the cryogenic pumps. As the electrons are also subject to backscattering, indirect interception always occurs. In this article the electron spectra produced by the Heating Neutral Beam (HNB) and Diagnostic Neutral Beam (DNB) accelerators are calculated. It is shown that these are very different. It is proposed to install electron dumps in the beamlines to intercept electron power directed towards inconvenient places in the HNB and DNB beamlines.