Addressing the impact of Lyman opacity in inference of divertor plasma conditions with 2D spectroscopic camera analysis of Balmer emission during detachment in JET L-mode plasmas
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2025-03
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Nuclear Materials and Energy, Volume 42, pp. 1-7
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The impact of re-absorption of the deuterium Lyman series emission was addressed in inferring divertor plasma conditions from Balmer series emission with 2D spectroscopic camera analysis during detachment in JET L-mode plasmas. The previously presented methodology was amended by modifying the standard photon emission coefficients and ionization and recombination rate coefficients of the ADAS database to consider the re-population of excited states due to Lyman opacity. This resulted in the estimate for the atomic density near the outer strike point to decrease by up to 75% at the onset of detachment at strike point temperatures of Te,osp≈ 1.0–3.0 eV with respect to the strongly overestimated previously obtained values, whereas the estimated electron temperature and density were unaffected by the opacity correction within the scatter of the data and only a moderate reduction by up to 20% was observed in the estimate for the molecularly induced fraction of the Balmer emission. No noticeable change was seen in the ionization rate, calculated from the estimated outer strike point conditions, due to the decrease in the atomic density estimate compensating for the increased values of the opacity-corrected ADAS rate coefficients for ionization. In detached conditions at Te,osp≈ 0.5–1.0 eV, 25%–35% lower recombination rates were provided by the opacity-corrected model. The observed effects on the experimental analysis were supported by a corresponding synthetic analysis based on EDGE2D-EIRENE simulations.Description
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Balmer emission, Divertor detachment, Fusion, Lyman opacity
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Karhunen, J, Lomanowski, B, Aleiferis, S, Carvalho, P, Groth, M, Holm, A, Lawson, K D, Meigs, A G, Shaw, A, Solokha, V, JET Contributors & EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Team 2025, ' Addressing the impact of Lyman opacity in inference of divertor plasma conditions with 2D spectroscopic camera analysis of Balmer emission during detachment in JET L-mode plasmas ', Nuclear Materials and Energy, vol. 42, 101880, pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2025.101880