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Applying X-ray Imaging Crystal Spectroscopy for Use as a High Temperature Plasma Diagnostic
Published on: August 25, 2016
Performance predictions of the SPARC x-ray crystal spectrometers for ion temperature and toroidal rotation
C Perks1, D Vezinet2, J E Rice1
1Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Abstract:
SPARC will be outfitted with three systems of x-ray crystal spectrometer arrays. Two of these are designed using cylindrically bent crystals to achieve high spectral-resolution for ion temperature and toroidal velocity measurements via imaging He-like Kr and Ne-like Xe. The last acts as a spectral survey system to monitor Ne-like W and nearby H- and He-like emission from Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu. Line radiation intensities are calculated using the Flexible Atomic Code for atomic data and ColRadPy for collisional-radiative modeling, then convoluted with a Voigt line shape. Free-free, free-bound, and two-photon continuum radiation is also included. The ToFu code is used to perform volume-of-sight integration to produce synthetic detector images. In addition, presented is cross-validation performed using the XICSRT Monte Carlo ray-tracing code. Ion temperature and toroidal velocity profiles are reconstructed using ToFu via tomographic inversion.
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