Optimization of TESPEL CXRS diagnostic for the impurity transport study on LHD in the visible spectral range
D.Kalinina 1), N.Tamura 2), S.Sudo 2), V.Sergeev 3), and LHD Experimental Group 2)
1) Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0193, Japan
Impurity behavior is one of key issues for fusion devices. Many experiments on impurity transport have been performed in tokamaks and stellarators. Impurity injection (laser blow-off, impurity pellet injection and so on) is one of the typical transient transport study techniques. These conventional methods, however, have several disadvantages, such as a broad source profile of the injected impurities and difficulty in estimating of the total impurity amount injected. The properties of local impurity transport with a fairly high-accuracy could be obtained by means of the tracer-encapsulated pellet (TESPEL) injection, which has been utilized previously on the CHS and now on the Large Helical Device (LHD). TESPEL consists of polystyrene (-CH (C6H5) CH2-) as outer shell and tracer particles as an inner core. The essential point of the diagnostics is based on a tracer particle source, which is poloidally and toroidally localized within a limited small volume of the plasma on the order of 1cm3. The behavior of impurity tracer ions deposited locally in the core plasma by means of TESPEL injection can be measured by the observation of the line emission due to charge exchange reaction of injected impurity nuclei, I (nuclear charge Z) with the hydrogen atoms, H (assumed to be in their ground state) introduced by the neutral beam injection (NBI):
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