The physics of divertor detachment is determined by divertor power, particle
and momentum balance. This work provides a novel analysis technique of the
Balmer line series to obtain a full particle/power balance measurement of the
divertor. This supplies new information to understand what controls the
divertor target ion flux during detachment.
Atomic deuterium excitation emission is separated from recombination
quantitatively using Balmer series line ratios. This enables analysing those
two components individually, providing ionisation/recombination source/sinks
and hydrogenic power loss measurements. Probabilistic Monte Carlo techniques
were employed to obtain full error propagation - eventually resulting in
probability density functions for each output variable. Both local and overall
particle and power balance in the divertor are then obtained. These techniques
and their assumptions have been verified by comparing the analysed synthetic
diagnostic 'measurements' obtained from SOLPS simulation results for the same
discharge. Power/particle balance measurements have been obtained during
attached and detached conditions on the TCV tokamak.Comment: The analysis results of this paper were formerly in arXiv:1810.0496
