Observations of xenon spectra on the EAST x-ray crystal spectrometer for high-temperature plasma diagnostics

Abstract

The Xe ^44+ 2.7203 Å line, which has been proposed as one of the diagnostic lines for the x-ray imaging crystal spectrometer on ITER, is observed on the EAST tokamak together with its several satellite lines. The observations are made under high electron temperature ( T _e ) conditions (core T _e > 5 keV). Most of the observed xenon lines are identified by comparing the experiment results with the atomic simulation results. The first ion temperature measurements made by the xenon spectra on EAST are also reported in this article. These xenon spectra observations contribute to the justification for using xenon as the diagnostic impurity in x-ray crystal spectrometers in future reactor-scale high-temperature plasmas.

Keywords

• x-ray crystal spectroscopy
• ion temperature
• xenon atomic spectra
• high-temperature plasma diagnostics