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Full toroidal imaging of non-axisymmetric plasma material interaction in the National Spherical Torus Experiment
Filippo Scotti1, A L Roquemore, V A Soukhanovskii
1Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA. fscotti@pppl.gov
Abstract:
A pair of two dimensional fast cameras with a wide angle view (allowing a full radial and toroidal coverage of the lower divertor) was installed in the National Spherical Torus Experiment in order to monitor non-axisymmetric effects. A custom polar remapping procedure and an absolute photometric calibration enabled the easier visualization and quantitative analysis of non-axisymmetric plasma material interaction (e.g., strike point splitting due to application of 3D fields and effects of toroidally asymmetric plasma facing components).
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