1. Fast-ion velocity-space tomography using slowing-down regularization in EAST plasmas with co- and counter-current neutral beam injection.
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Madsen, B, Huang, J, Salewski, M, Järleblad, H, Hansen, P C, Stagner, L, Su, J, Chang, J F, Fu, J, Wang, J F, Liang, L Z, Zhong, G Q, Li, Y Y, Lyu, B, Liu, H Q, Zang, Q, Luo, Z P, Nocente, M, Moseev, D, and Fan, T S
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NEUTRAL beams ,PLASMA beam injection heating ,NEUTRON spectroscopy ,NEUTRON emission ,EMISSION spectroscopy ,TOMOGRAPHY - Abstract
We demonstrate 2D reconstructions of the fast-ion velocity distribution from two-view fast-ion D-alpha (FIDA) measurements at the EAST tokamak. By expressing the distribution in a basis relying on the fast-ion slowing-down process in fusion plasmas, the smoothness and velocity-space resolution of reconstructions are improved. We reconstruct distributions of fast ions born from simultaneous co- and counter-current neutral beam injection and detect the expected distinct change in fast-ion birth pitch when comparing discharges utilizing different neutral beam injectors. For purely co-current injection, we find a good agreement between TRANSP-predicted and reconstructed fast-ion densities, pressures and current densities for energies above 20 keV. We furthermore illustrate the improvement of the reconstructed high-energy range (> 40 keV) of the distribution by combining FIDA with neutron emission spectroscopy measurements with the compact single-plate EJ301 scintillator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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