(2019) Novel inferences of ionisation & recombination for particle/power balance during detached discharges using deuterium Balmer line spectroscopy. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. p. 125018. ISSN 1361-6587
Abstract
The process of divertor detachment, whereby particle fluxes to divertor surfaces are strongly reduced, is required to reduce heat loading and erosion in a magnetic fusion reactor. The magnitude and time dependence of ions reaching the target are determined by a complex set of constraints based on atomic physics (ionization and recombination), power and particle balance. This work is aimed at supplying more and better information to fully characterize and understand what controls the divertor target ion flux. Balmer series line ratios are utilized to quantitatively separate atomic deuterium excitation from recombination emission. This enabled the new capability to analyse each of those two components individually, providing ionisation/recombination source/sinks and hydrogenic power loss measurements during attached and detached conditions on the TCV tokamak. Probabilistic Monte Carlo techniques were employed to obtain full error propagation - eventually resulting in probability density functions for each output variable. Both local and overall particle and power balance in the divertor are then obtained. These techniques and their assumptions have been verified by comparing the analysed synthetic diagnostic ‘measurements’ obtained from SOLPS simulation results for the same discharge.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 University of York. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/N023846/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2019 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2024 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab4f1e |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1361-6587/ab4f1e |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154073 |