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Diagnostic weight functions in constants-of-motion phase-space

  • M. Rud*
  • , D. Moseev
  • , F. Jaulmes
  • , K. Bogar
  • , J. Eriksson
  • , H. Järleblad
  • , M. Nocente
  • , G. Prechel
  • , B.C.G. Reman
  • , B.S. Schmidt
  • , A. Snicker
  • , L. Stagner
  • , A. Valentini
  • , M. Salewski
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Uppsala University
  • University of Milan - Bicocca
  • University of California at Irvine
  • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
  • General Atomics

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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 languageEnglish
Article number036007
JournalNuclear Fusion
Volume64
Issue number3
Number of pages23
ISSN0029-5515
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • Weight functions
  • Fast ions
  • Diagnostics
  • Constants-of-motion phase-space

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