Abstract
Recent upgrades to the FIDA (fast-ion D-alpha) diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade are discussed. The diagnostic has been extended from three to five line of sight arrays with different angles to the magnetic field, and a spectrometer redesign allows the simultaneous measurement of red- and blue-shifted parts of the Doppler spectrum. These improvements make it possible to reconstruct the 2D fast-ion velocity distribution from the FIDA measurements by tomographic inversion under a wide range of plasma parameters. Two applications of the tomography are presented: a comparison between the distributions resulting from 60 keV and 93 keV neutral beam injection and a velocity-space resolved study of fast-ion redistribution induced by a sawtooth crash inside and outside the sawtooth inversion radius.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 025012 |
Journal | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 2 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISSN | 0741-3335 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Tomography
- Sawtooth
- Crash
- Transport
- Doppler
- Spectroscopy