Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fischer, S.
• Sturm, M.
• Schlösser, M.
• Bornschein, B.
• Drexlin, G.
• Priester, F.
• Lewis, R. J.
• Telle, H. H.

Titel

Monitoring of Tritium Purity During Long-Term Circulation in the KATRIN Test Experiment LOOPINO Using Laser Raman Spectroscopy

Ist Teil von

• Fusion science and technology, 2011-10, Vol.60 (3), p.925-930

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The gas circulation loop LOOPINO has been set up and commissioned at Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe (TLK) to perform Raman measurements of circulating tritium mixtures under conditions similar to the inner loop system of the neutrino-mass experiment KATRIN, which is currently under construction. A custom-made interface is used to connect the tritium containing measurement cell, located inside a glove box, with the Raman setup standing on the outside. A tritium sample (purity > 95 %, 20 kPa total pressure) was circulated in LOOPINO for more than three weeks with a total throughput of 770 g of tritium. Compositional changes in the sample and the formation of tritiated and deuterated methanes CT 4-n X n (X=H,D; n=0,1) were observed. Both effects are caused by hydrogen isotope exchange reactions and gas-wall interactions, due to tritium β decay. A precision of 0.1 % was achieved for the monitoring of the T 2 Q 1 -branch, which fulfils the requirements for the KATRIN experiment and demonstrates the feasibility of high-precision Raman measurements with tritium inside a glove box.