Development of gamma ray spectrometer with high energy and time resolutions on EAST tokamak

• Published in: Review of scientific instruments Vol. 90; no. 12; p. 123510
• Main Authors: Zhou, R J, Zhong, G Q, Hu, L Q, Tardocchi, M, Rigamonti, D, Giacomelli, L, Nocente, M, Gorini, G, Fan, T S, Zhang, Y M, Hu, Z M, Xiao, M, Li, K, Zhang, Y K, Hong, B, Zhang, Y, Lin, S Y, Zhang, J Z
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2019
• ISSN: 1089-7623
• DOI: 10.1063/1.5120843

A new gamma ray spectrometer with high energy and time resolutions has been developed and installed on the EAST tokamak to study fast ion and runaway electron behaviors. The spectrometer is based on a LaBr (Ce) scintillator detector and a fully digital data acquisition system that is based on a digitizer with digital pulse processing algorithms. The energy resolution of the spectrometer is about 3.9% at 662 keV, and the spectrometer can operate stably at a counting rate as high as 1 MHz, monitored by using a light emitting diode monitoring system. The measured gamma ray spectrum is simulated based on Geant4 and unfolded with the high-resolution boosted Gold deconvolution algorithm, aiming at reconstructing the energy distribution functions of fast ions and runaway electrons.