Control and calculation of the titanium sublimation pumping speed and   re-ionisation in the MAST Neutral Beam Injectors
  A high pumping speed is required in neutral beam injectors to minimise re-ionisation of the neutral beams. The neutral beam injectors on MAST use titanium sublimation pumps. These pumps do not have a constant pumping speed; their pumping speed depends on the gettering surface history and on both the integrated and applied gas load. In this paper we report a method of maintaining a constant pumping speed,through different evaporation schemes, suitable for operations of the MAST beamline for both short and relatively long beam pulses by measurement of the pressure in the beamline. In addition the MCNP code is then used to calculate the gas profile in the beamline by adjusting the input pumping speed to match the measured pressure. This allows the resulting gas profile to be used for calculation of the re-ionisation levels and an example is given. 
R McAdams
physics.acc-ph physics.ins-det