High-n Rydberg transition spectroscopy for heavy impurity transport studies in W7-X

Swee, Colin and Geiger, Benedikt and Ford, Oliver and O’Mullane, Martin and Poloskei, Peter and Reimold, Felix and Romba, Thilo and Wegner, Thomas (2024) High-n Rydberg transition spectroscopy for heavy impurity transport studies in W7-X. Review of Scientific Instruments, 95 (9). 093539. ISSN 0034-6748 (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0219589)

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Abstract

Here, we present a novel spectroscopy approach to investigate impurity transport by analyzing line-radiation following high-n Rydberg transitions. While high-n Rydberg states of impurity ions are unlikely to be populated via impact excitation, they can be accessed by charge exchange (CX) reactions along the neutral beams in high-temperature plasmas. Hence, localized radiation of highly ionized impurities, free of passive contributions, can be observed at multiple wavelengths in the visible range. For the analysis and modeling of the observed Rydberg transitions, a technique for calculating effective emission coefficients is presented that can well reproduce the energy dependence seen in datasets available on the OPEN-ADAS database. By using the rate coefficients and comparing modeling results with the new high-n Rydberg CX measurements, impurity transport coefficients are determined with well-documented 2σ confidence intervals for the first time. This demonstrates that high-n Rydberg spectroscopy provides important constraints on the determination of impurity transport coefficients. By additionally considering Bolometer measurements, which provide constraints on the overall impurity emissivity and, therefore, impurity densities, error bars can be reduced even further.

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Swee, Colin, Geiger, Benedikt, Ford, Oliver, O’Mullane, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2160-4546, Poloskei, Peter, Reimold, Felix, Romba, Thilo and Wegner, Thomas;
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