Open AccessUSXR Based MHD, Transport, Equilibria and Current Profile Diagnostics for NSTX. Final Report
Author(s) -
M. Finkenthal
Publication year - 2009
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1051300
Subject(s) - tokamak , magnetohydrodynamics , extreme ultraviolet , nuclear engineering , physics , plasma , graduate students , nuclear physics , optics , medical education , engineering , medicine , laser
The present report resumes the research activities of the Plasma Spectroscopy/Diagnostics Group at Johns Hopkins University performed on the NSTX tokamak at PPPL during the period 1999-2009. During this period we have designed and implemented XUV based diagnostics for a large number of tasks: study of impurity content and particle transport, MHD activity, time-resolved electron temperature measeurements, ELM research, etc. Both line emission and continuum were used in the XUV range. New technics and novel methods have been devised within the framework of the present research. Graduate and post-graduate students have been involved at all times in addition to the senior research personnel. Several tens of papers have been published and lectures have been given based on the obtained results at conferences and various research institutions (lists of these activities were attached both in each proposal and in the annual reports submitted to our supervisors at OFES)