A global fitting code for multichordal neutral beam spectroscopic data

Knowledge of the heat deposition profile is crucial to all transport analysis of beam heated discharges. The heat deposition profile can be inferred from the fast ion birth profile which, in turn, is directly related to the loss of neutral atoms from the beam. This loss can be measured spectroscopically be the decrease in amplitude of spectral emissions from the beam as it penetrates the plasma. The spectra are complicated by the motional Stark effect which produces a manifold of nine bright peaks for each of the three beam energy components. A code has been written to analyze this kind of data. In the first phase of this work, spectra from tokamak shots are fit with a Stark splitting and Doppler shift model that ties together the geometry of several spatial positions when they are fit simultaneously. In the second phase, a relative position-to-position intensity calibration will be applied to these results to obtain the spectral amplitudes from which beam atom loss can be estimated. This paper reports on the computer code for the first phase. Sample fits to real tokamak spectral data are shown

Spectroscopic study of edge poloidal rotation and radial electric fields in the DIII-D tokamak

Doppler-shift spectroscopy has shown that finite values of poloidal rotation velocity {upsilon}{sub {theta}} and of radial electric field E{sub r} exist at the edge of a tokamak plasma and that dramatic increases occur in these parameters at an L-H transition. E{sub r} is negative in the L-mode and becomes more negative in the H-mode; {upsilon}{sub {theta}} increases in magnitude at the transition. In addition, the radial gradients (shear) of {upsilon}{sub {theta}} and E{sub r} are large and these gradients also increase at the L-H transition. These results are based on measurements of Doppler shifts of light emitted by He II ions, located in a region about 1--3 cm inside the separatrix. These observations have been made with horizontally-viewing and vertically-viewing spectrometer systems on the DIII-D tokamak. The nearly orthogonal views of these systems are used to determine the plasma's flow velocity in terms of the orthogonal sets {upsilon}{sub {theta}} and {upsilon}{sub {phi}} or of {upsilon}{sub {perpendicular}} and {upsilon}{sub {parallel}}. Knowledge of {upsilon}{sub {perpendicular}} is used to calculate E{sub r} from the force balance equation for a single ion species. The existing results impose constraints on theories of the L-H transition. More detailed studies of the spatial profiles and temporal evolution of {upsilon}{sub {theta}} and E{sub r} will be made with upgraded instrumentation, which is now coming on-line. 28 refs

High spatial and temporal resolution visible spectroscopy of the plasma edge in DIII-D

In DIII-D, visible spectroscopic measurements of the He II 468.6 nm and C VI 529.2 nm Doppler broadened spectral lines, resulting from charge exchange recombination interactions between beam neutral atoms and plasma ions, are performed to determine ion temperatures, and toroidal and poloidal rotation velocities. The diagnostics system comprises 32 viewing chords spanning a typical minor radius of 63 cm across the midplane, of which 16 spatial chords span 11 cm of the plasma edge just within the separatrix. A temporal resolution of 260 {mu}s per time slice can be obtained as a result of using MCP phosphors with short decay times and fast camera readout electronics. Results from this system will be used in radial electric field comparisons with theory at the L-H transition and ion transport analysis. 6 refs., 3 figs