The movement of spectral emission fronts can be used to diagnose the transition into detachment.Measurements of the 2D spectral emission distribution are available in tokamaks via tomographic inversions, but this is more challenging in stellarators due to the lack of toroidal symmetry.
The effect of Zeeman splitting can be exploited on W7-X to est…
Local values of the electron density and temperature in the edge of a fusion plasma can be derived with high space and time resolution by the use of line radiation of atomic helium beams. The accuracy of this method is mainly limited by the uncertainties in the coUisional-radiative model which is needed in order to obtain both plasma parameters fro…