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Collisional radiative model for the evaluation of the thermal helium beam diagnostic at ASDEX upgrade
- Source :
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The thermal helium beam diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade is used to infer the electron density n e and temperature T e in the scrape-off layer and the pedestal region from the emission of visible lines of the locally injected helium. The link between n e and T e and the emission is provided by a collisional radiative model, which delivers the evolution of the populations of the relevant excited states as the He atoms travel through the plasma. A computationally efficient method with just three effective states is shown to provide a good approximation of the population dynamics. It removes an artificial rise of T e at the plasma edge when using a simple static model. Furthermore, the re-absorption of the vacuum ultra-violet resonance lines has been introduced as an additional excitation mechanism being mainly important in the region close to the injection point. This extra excitation leads to a much better fit of the measured line ratios in this region for larger puff rates.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ee97d54ed2f6d67e5a14c935e2c1e5d