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Fast-ion phase-space tomography with wave-particle interactions in the ion cyclotron frequency range as prior

  • M. Rud*
  • , L. G. Eriksson
  • , J. Eriksson
  • , P. C. Hansen
  • , O. Hyvärinen
  • , H. Järleblad
  • , Ye O. Kazakov
  • , S. B. Korsholm
  • , M. Nocente
  • , J. Rasmussen
  • , B. C.G. Reman
  • , A. Snicker
  • , A. Valentini
  • , Y. Dong
  • , D. Moseev
  • , M. Salewski
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
  • Chalmers University of Technology
  • Uppsala University
  • University of Helsinki
  • École Royale Militaire
  • University of Milan
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)

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Abstract

The fast-ion distribution function in fusion plasmas can be inferred by inverting Doppler-shifted measurements from fast-ion diagnostics. The full fast-ion distribution function can be parametrised by three constants of motion with the addition of a binary index. However, with a limited number of measurements, cogent prior information must be added to regularise the inverse problem, enabling the reconstruction of the distribution function. In this paper, we demonstrate how to incorporate wave-particle interactions in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRFs) as prior information with the future ITER tokamak as a test case. We find that the addition of ICRF physics as prior information improves the reconstruction of a test ICRF-heated fast-ion distribution function in ITER using synthetic data based on the planned collective Thomson scattering sightlines and the planned gamma-ray spectroscopy sightlines. The addition of such prior information is beneficial in the case of a limited phase-space coverage of fast-ion diagnostics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number056008
JournalNuclear Fusion
Volume65
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Apr 2025
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work was supported by the Villum Synergy Grant No. VIL50096 from the Villum Foundation. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101052200 — EUROfusion).

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    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

  • fast ions
  • prior information
  • tomography
  • wave-particle interactions

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