Monitoring of tritium purity during long-term circulation in the KATRIN test experiment LOOPINO using laser Raman spectroscopy

Fischer, S., Sturm, M., Schloesser, M., Bornschein, B., Drexlin, G., Priester, F., Lewis, Richard J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1859-0021 and Telle, H. H. 2011. Monitoring of tritium purity during long-term circulation in the KATRIN test experiment LOOPINO using laser Raman spectroscopy. Fusion Science and Technology 60 (3) , pp. 925-930.

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Abstract

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 CT4-nXn (X=H,D; n=0,1) were observed. Both effects are caused by hydrogen isotope exchange reactions and gas-wall interactions, due to tritium decay. A precision of 0.1 % was achieved for the monitoring of the T2 Q1-branch, which fulfils the requirements for the KATRIN experiment and demonstrates the feasibility of high-precision Raman measurements with tritium inside a glove box.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Additional Information:	Measurement, Monitoring, and Accountancy / Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology
Publisher:	American Nuclear Society
ISSN:	1536-1055
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Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 09:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/58989

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