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Tungsten and High-Z Impurity Transport Analysis using X-ray Spectroscopy at Wendelstein 7-X in Turbulence-Reduced Scenarios

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Abstract

W and high-Z impurity transport times have been observed to be an order of magnitude higher in ``turbulence-reduced" scenarios, compared to typical plasmas in the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator where turbulent transport dominates. Comparisons of transport times and inferences of the radial profiles of high-Z impurity diffusion coefficients in both scenarios will be presented. Observations of high-Z impurities during the OP2.2 and OP2.3 experimental campaigns in W7-X plasmas were made using the High-Resolution X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (HR-XIS). The HR-XIS is one of three X-ray Imaging Crystal Spectrometer (XICS) systems installed on W7-X that exploit the Bragg diffraction of crystals and is specifically designed for investigating impurity transport. The HR-XIS can make non-perturbative measurements of a selection of impurities such as Al, Ti, Fe, and W existing in charge states from Z of 12 - 49 between 1 - 7 Å by utilizing 8 separate crystals installed on a 3-axis translation and rotation stage. HR-XIS was recently upgraded with a new InSb crystal to view the very bright W46+ 5.6893 Å line. Impurities were injected into W7-X by the Laser Blow-Off system in typical and so-called ``turbulence-reduced" plasma programs, where neoclassical transport is expected to be more influential, to investigate the characteristics of impurity emission lines. The impurity transport diffusion coefficient profiles are inferred through an optimization loop using experimental data and the 1.5D AURORA transport code.

Presenters

  • T. G Gonda

    Auburn University

Authors

  • T. G Gonda

    Auburn University

  • Novimir A Pablant

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • David Alan Maurer

    Auburn University

  • D. A. A Ennis

    Auburn University

  • Andreas Langenberg

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany

  • Felix Reimold

    Max Planck institute of plasma physics, Greifswald

  • Thomas Puetterich

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik Division Plasma Dynamics

  • Thomas Wegner

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Thilo Romba

    Max Planck Insitute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Birger Buttenschön

    Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Naoki Tamura

    Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Daniel Medina Roque

    CIEMAT

  • Håkan M Smith

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Francesco Sciortino

    Proxima Fusion

  • Emmanouil Maragkoudakis

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Jens Knauer

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany

  • Golo Fuchert

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany

  • Sergey Bozhenkov

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany

  • Kai Jakob Brunner

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany

  • Ekkehard Pasch

    Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald

  • Jannik Wagner

    Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik