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Taiichi Shikama

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Plasma-Parameter Dependence of Ro-Vibrational Temperatures for $\mathrm{H}_2$ in LHD Divertor

We analyzed a thousand visible spectra of Fulcher-$α$ band measured for divertor plasmas in Large Helical Device. With a coronal model and Baysian inference, the population distribution of hydrogen molecule in the electronical ground state were estimated. The non-thermal population distribution was recovered with a two-temperature model, which has two sets of rotational and vibrational temperatures, as well as their mixture coefficient. The lower rotational temperature significantly changes according to the plasma parameters. Its nearly linear dependence on the electron density was found, which is consistent with previous works. The lower vibrational temperature also shows a small density dependence, as reported by a previous work. On the other hand, the higher rotational and vibrational temperatures as well as the mixture coefficient only show slight changes over the broad range of plasma parameters. These population parameters show a significant correlation; with higher electron density, all the temperatures and the fraction of the higher-temperature component increase simultaneously. This suggests that the electron-impact plays an important role to determine the population distribution.

physics.plasm-ph

Stable Energy Distribution of Weakly Dissipative Gasses under Collisional Energy Cascades

Collisional thermalization of a particle ensemble under the energy dissipation can be seen in variety of systems, such as heated granular gasses and particles in plasmas. Despite its universal existence, analytical descriptions of the steady-state distribution have been missing. Here, we show that the steady-state energy distribution of the wide class of collisional energy cascades can be well approximated by the generalized Mittag-Leffler distribution, which is one of stable distributions. This distribution has a power-law tail, as similar to Levy's stable distribution, the index of which is related to the energy dissipation rate. We demonstrate its universality by comparing Mont-Carlo simulations of dissipative gasses as well as the spectroscopic observation of the atom velocity distribution in a low-temperature plasma.

physics.plasm-ph

Measurement of electron sheath thickness and collection region of electric probe using laser photodetachment signals

A new type of laser photodetachment (LPD) technique has been developed for the measurement of electron sheath thickness around an electrostatic probe and for the measurement of the length of collection region of photodetached electrons (PDE). When a thickness of the sheath formed around an electrostatic probe is thicker than about 0.1 mm, modification of the temporal evolution of the LPD signal is observed. By making use of the modification, we evaluated sheath thickness around a cylindrical probe in the existence of the magnetic field of 15 mT. It was found that the thickness of electron sheath along the magnetic field was comparable to the calculated plane-parallel Child-Langmuir sheath thickness when the probe-bias voltage was high. Furthermore, by inserting a small screening object in the laser beam channel, we can measure the sheath thickness from the modification of LPD signal. From the variation of the signal intensity as scanning the screening object perpendicular to the laser beam channel, we can observe the collection region of photodetached electrons, because this procedure changes the relative displacement between shadow and the probe electrode.

physics.plasm-ph