Velocity-space tomography using prior information at MAST

作者：B. Madsen, M. Salewski, J. Huang, A. S. Jacobsen, O. Jones, K. G. McClements, MAST Team · 发表于：Review of Scientific Instruments · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.1063/1.5035498 · 被引用次数：37 · 研究领域：Magnetic confinement fusion research、Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research、Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Velocity-space tomography provides a way of diagnosing fast ions in a fusion plasma by combining measurements from multiple instruments. We use a toroidally viewing and a vertically viewing fast-ion D-alpha diagnostic installed on the mega-amp spherical tokamak (before the upgrade) to perform velocity-space tomography of the fast-ion distribution function. To make up for the scarce amount of data, prior information is included in the inversions. We impose a non-negativity constraint, suppress the distribution in the velocity-space region associated with null-measurements, and encode the belief that the distribution function does not extend to energies significantly higher than those expected neoclassically. This allows us to study the fast-ion velocity distributions and the derived fast-ion densities before and after a sawtooth crash.