News & events
MAST Update - Winter 2010/11 | 15/02/2011
The engineering break to install new MAST diagnostics was completed and signed off at the end of November 2010. Commissioning began on 19 January and high power experiments are expected to restart in early May 2011.
Diagnostic status
Major diagnostic developments for the 2011 campaign include:
- Collimated neutron detector with scanning capability (with Uppsala University);
- Fast ion D-alpha (FIDA) system;
- Electron Bernstein Wave (EBW) Imaging System (with University of York);
- 2D Beam Emission Spectroscopy (BES) system (with RMKI Hungary);
- Edge Doppler spectroscopy upgrade to enable high frequency measurements;
- Retarding Field Energy Analyzers (with Liverpool University).
Most of these new systems will be available for the start of high power experiments.
Priorities for the forthcoming experimental campaign were established in the 2010 MAST Research Forum in December, which involved 100 scientists including collaborators from universities and other institutes.
