Abstract
The fast-ion phase-space distribution function in axisymmetric tokamak plasmas is completely described by the three constants of motion: energy, magnetic moment and toroidal canonical angular momentum. In this work, the observable regions of constants-of-motion phase-space, given a diagnostic setup, are identified and explained using projected velocities of the fast ions along the diagnostic lines-of-sight as a proxy for several fast-ion diagnostics, such as fast-ion Dα spectroscopy, collective Thomson scattering, neutron emission spectroscopy and gamma-ray spectroscopy. The observable region in constants-of-motion space is given by a position condition and a velocity condition, and the diagnostic sensitivity is given by a gyro-orbit and a drift-orbit weighting. As a practical example, 3D orbit weight functions quantifying the diagnostic sensitivity to each point in phase-space are computed and investigated for the future COMPASS-Upgrade and MAST-Upgrade tokamaks.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 036007 |
| Journal | Nuclear Fusion |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISSN | 0029-5515 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Weight functions
- Fast ions
- Diagnostics
- Constants-of-motion phase-space
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