First results from testing of the full ITER hard x-ray monitor prototype on the ADITYA Upgrade tokamak
P. Nowak vel Nowakowski·Aditya-U Team·Santosh P. Pandya·Shishir Purohit·Suman Aich·R. Tieulent·H. Raj·K. Singh·R. Kumar·Y. Liu·M. K. Gupta·U. K. Baruah·A. K. Chakraborty·J. Ghosh·Suman Dolui·R. L. Tanna·Dariusz Makowski
For the first time, the full prototype of the ITER Hard X-Ray (HXR) monitor (HXRM) system has been successfully tested in a tokamak environment during the experimental campaign in the ADITYA Upgrade tokamak located at the Institute for Plasma Research. Unlike conventional HXR diagnostic systems operating in the existing tokamaks, the ITER HXRM is uniquely designed for robustness. In the HXRM system, the UV (Ultraviolet) photons from the scintillator are guided by the optical components to the PM