Abstract
Ablation of a solid hydrogen pellet in hot plasmas of Large Helical Device (LHD) has been studied. A position sensitive detector (PSD) diagnostics has been newly installed to measure the trajectory of ablating pellets. 2-D diagnostics enables the measurement with high time (1 MHz) and spatial resolutions (80 μm). A 3-D pellet trajectory can be described by a combination of 2-D images and information of initial pellet direction and velocity. A deflection of the pellet trajectory in the neutral beam injection (NBI) heated plasmas of LHD has been observed. Means of improving the measurement accuracy of this system are also discussed.
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