Design of a new scintillator-based fast ion loss detector on the HL-2A tokamak

Abstract A new scintillator-based fast ion loss detector (FILD) has been devised for the HL-2A tokamak, with the objective of discerning the temporal evolution of energy and pitch angle among lost fast ions. A code named FILD Simulation (FSC) has been developed to assist in the design of the detector head and the interpretation of experimental data. By optimising the geometric design, the resolutions of energy and pitch angle are optimised to 5 keV and 3°, respectively. A branched imaging fiber bundle is used to relay the fluorescence image on the scintillator to two distinct instruments. One of these is a high-speed camera, while the other is a silicon photomultiplier tube (SiPM) array with a sampling rate of up to 1 MSamples/s. This configuration enables the attainment of superior temporal and spatial resolution, as well as high photon sensitivity.