Validation of the synthetic model for the imaging heavy ion beam probe at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak (invited)

P Oyola; G Birkenmeier; H Lindl; J Galdon-Quiroga; J Rueda-Rueda; E Viezzer; A Rodriguez-Gonzalez; J Hidalgo-Salaverri; M Garcia-Munoz; B Tal; G Anda; J Kalis; T Lunt; D Refy; M Videla-Trevin; ASDEX Upgrade team

doi:10.1063/5.0219449

Validation of the synthetic model for the imaging heavy ion beam probe at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak (invited)

Rev Sci Instrum. 2024 Aug 1;95(8):083518. doi: 10.1063/5.0219449.

Authors

P Oyola¹, G Birkenmeier^{2

3}, H Lindl^{2

3}, J Galdon-Quiroga¹, J Rueda-Rueda¹, E Viezzer¹, A Rodriguez-Gonzalez¹, J Hidalgo-Salaverri⁴, M Garcia-Munoz¹, B Tal³, G Anda⁵, J Kalis³, T Lunt³, D Refy⁵, M Videla-Trevin¹; ASDEX Upgrade team

Affiliations

¹ Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012, Seville, Spain.
² TUM School of Natural Sciences, Physics Department, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany.
³ Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, 85748 Garching, Germany.
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092, Seville, Spain.
⁵ Centre of Energy Research, Budapest, Hungary.

PMID: 39105600
DOI: 10.1063/5.0219449

Abstract

Recent experiments at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak have provided the first ever measurements from the imaging heavy-ion beam probe. In this work, we show that the developed simulation framework can reproduce qualitatively the measurement's observed shape and position. Quantitatively, we demonstrate that the model reproduces, within the experimental uncertainties, the observed signal levels. A detailed explanation of the synthetic model is presented, along with the calibration of the optical setup that reproduces the measurements.