Preliminary experimental results of tungsten wire calorimeter for CRAFT NNBI

Abstract

The comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology(CRAFT) has been carried out since 2019 in China and as an important component of CRAFT, a negative ion-based neutral beam injection sysgem(NNBI) (200–400 keV, 2 MW) is under construction. In order to realize online diagnosis of beam uniformity, a tungsten wire calorimeter is developed. The tungsten wire calorimeter is characterized by double-layer tungsten wire mesh structure. During beam bombardment, the tungsten wire mesh is heated and emits light, a visible light camera is used to photograph the tungsten wire calorimeter. The beam profile is obtained by digitizing the light intensity distribution map. In this paper, through the thermal simulation anslysis of tungsten wire, the installation position of tungsten wire calorimeter are determined and the spatial resolution under different beam divergence are also analyzed.The tungsten wire calorimeter was tested on the beam source test platform, the light intensity distribution maps of the tungsten wire calorimeter under 15 keV–40 keV beam energy were obtained. The work above will accumulate experience for the operation of tungsten wire calorimeter for full scale beam source in the next stage, and provide technical means for the conditioning of negative beam sources.