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UC20-F
By
H. Hsuan et al.
FEBRUARY 1987
PLASMA
PHYSICS
LABORATORY
PPPL2408
SATELLITE SPECTRA OF HELIUMLIKE NICKEL
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ABSTRACT
Spectra of heliumlike nickel, NiXXVII, have been observed from Tokamak
Fusion
Test
spectrometer.
Reactor
(TFTR)
plasmas
with
high
resolution
crystal
mm
KSTBIBl'TION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS UNLIMITED
I.
INTRODUCTION
diagnostics
of
tokamak
plasmas
and
solar
flares, and
they
are
also
important for the testing of atomic theories which must include relativistic
and quantum electrodynamical effects.
hydrogenlike
studied
in detail
from
tokamak plasmas.
With
(TFTR),
14
which
are
designed
to maintain plasmas
of
large
>
keV
in
conditions,
steady-state
elements
with
to
volumes
m
fusion
breakeven,
J
(V > 40 m )
it
is
with electron
conditions
for
several
Z > 26
be
observed
can
new generation of
obtain
to 10
the
F , have been
seconds.
in
the
Under
heliumlike
these
and
as a detailed
comparison
of
-1
10
results from
Sec. IV.
II. EXPERIMENT
The
measurements
have
been
performed
on
TFTR
with
new
crystal
spectra from three approximately vertical chords of the plasma minor section
in order to measure radial profiles of the ion temperature and plasma rotation
velocity from the Doppler broadening and Dqppler shift of X-ray lines from
metal impurity ions of Ti, Cr, Fe, and Ni.
are present in TFTR plasmas from the Inconel (~ 70% Ni, ~ 15% Cr, - 7% Fe,
" 2.5% Ti) bellow protective plates and the stainless steel vacuum vessel.
The resolution of the spectrometer is >/A* > 10,000.
setting covers the entire spectral range of the dielectronic satellite lines
of heliumlike
ions.
It is
thus
possible
to determine
the satellite
to
for
measureraents
of
the
electron
temperature,
the
ionization
91 2
equilibrium, and ion transport.
from a. central vertical chord
(at a
major radius R = 249 cm? with a 2233 quartz crystal (2d = 2.028 A) of the size
of 1.5 in. x 6 in. x 0.030 in.
from
the
steady-state
phase of a TFTR
discharge with a central electron temperature of 4 keV and a very low central
electron density, n ( 0 ) = 8 x 10
cm" .
are weakly coupled, such that the ion temperature is well below the electron
temperature.
obscured
by
The spectral
Doppler
broadening.
Moreover,
the
collisionally
excited
as
the resonance
line,
forbidden
line
of heliumlike
nickel, NixxVII,
lithiumlike
and
berylliumlike
the intercombination
satellites
of
lines,
resonance
to Gabriel's
theoretical
wavelengths
notation.
and
Also
line
and the
listed
strengths,
in
The
for
the
line.
Table
F (sf),
strong
r 1 8
are the
strong
and from
than used
for determination
of the experimental
x = 2d sin (a + ael
v
spectrometer
is
is
o)
'
the
x 10" (N - N ) corresponds
to the d i s p e r s i o n of
center
not a b s o l u t e l y
channel
calibrated,
number
the
of
peak
1.
experimental
Since
the
wavelengths
are
from
Table
x
1
b e o r
'
= 2d s i r
that
both
sets
to the c e n t e r channel N
of
theoretical
the
of peak 1.
wavelengths
are
in
line
We
good
agreement with
between
the experimental
values.
comparison
from the
To facilitate
a direct
comparison
with
the experimental
data,
channel numbers were .converted into wavelengths by using Eq. (1), and Voigt
functions
were
then calculated
from
the theoretical
transitions
for this
wavelength array. The synthetic spectra are shown in Figs. 3 and 4 together
with the experimental data. The calculated contributions from the different
spectral components, i. e., the heliumlike lines, the dielectronic lithiumlike
satellites,
and
the collisionally
excited
lithiumlike
and
berylliumlike
satellites, to the total synthetic spectrum are shown separately by the shaded
areas in subftgures (b), (c), and (d). The line intensities of the synthetic
spectrum
were
intensities
normalized
of
the heliumlike
lines
line w.
The
from the
following expression:
I
c
(T 1
x,y,z _ x,y,zl e>
~
c (T )
w
w
e
l
Values
the
for
the e x c i t a t i o n r a t e c o e f f i c i e n t s ,
methods
described
contributions
collisional
the
,,
( 2 }
from
in
Refs. 7
direct
and
excitation,
inner-shell
ionization.
9.
Here,
radiative
~r~
w
The r e l a t i v e
2
(2Ti ft ) i3/2 , . .
ic^i fens1 V
w
were c a l c u l a t e d
we
a f ) exp
included
cascade
the c o n t r i b u t i o n
intensities
_ ,
using
only
the
transitions,
and
to the l i n e z from
for
the
dielectronic
expression:
-E
s -.
kr-J
e
,,.
(3)
with
A <s)A
sf) =
<sf)
L( )
F ( s f ) i s the s a t e l l i t e l i n e s t r e n g t h ; E
2
are,
respectively,
the Auger
transition
r a d i a t i v e r a t e of \s> to the f i n a l s t a t e
In the p r e s e n t c a l c u l a t i o n s ,
was employed
functions
to
obtain
the
rate
to the ground s t a t e
and
the
|f>.
single-particle
wave f u n c t i o n s .
These
wave
dipole
matrix elements.
were
mix.
allowed
to
The diagonal
corrected for r e l a t i v i s t i c e f f e c t s .
were included.
elements
of
the
energy
matrix
The e f f e c t s due t o s p i n - o r b i t
interaction
to o b t a i n
correlated
transition
rates.
were
For the w, x, y, j . q,
to
the wavelengths
of
all
other dielectronic
satellite
This was
lines.
The
In
of
the c o l l i s i o n a l l y excited
Lithiumlike
(berylliumlike)
,COll.
/ , !
C
_ s
J
where i\,t*
"Hi*
w ^ e J ViXXVII
(= "HixyvT
or ( b e r y l l i u m l i k e )
a n <
"ilixxv'
^ "NiXXVtl
c
and heliumlike n i c k e l .
e l e c t r o n impact e x c i t a t i o n of the l i t h i u m l i k e
'
<
^
t
e n s
t :
e s
i 'r
l i t h i u r a l i k e
coefficient
(or b e r y l l i u m l i k e )
ion from
for
the
ground s t a t e .
The s y n t h e t i c
electron
Values of
and ion
spectra
were
temperatures
"uixxvi/'HUXXVII
abundance of h e l i u m l i k e ,
calculated
of
75
T
a
'
for
the
experimentally
observed
respectively.
the
l i t h i u m l i k e , and b e r y l i i u m l i k e
relative
n i c k e l were chosen to
IV. DISCUSSION
The
detailed
predictions
experiment.
from
comparisons
both
shown
theories
The predictions
are
differ
in
only
very
good
slightly
agreement
with
that the
with
respect
the
to the
wavelength for the satellite r (feature 6 ) , where the value of Vainshtein and
Safronova is in somewhat better agreement with the experiment than the value
obtained from the present calculations.
3 is very
These charge-dependent
The values far the abundance of NiXXV and NiXXVI relative to that of
NiXXVII, which were obtained from the analysis in Sec. Ill, are substantially
larger than the predictions
(see Fig. 5 ) .
those described in P.ef. 9, make it possible to deduce values for the radial
ion transport coefficients
from
these observed
deviations.
The resonance
lines w of NiXXVII as well as FeXXV have been successfully used for Doppler
measurements.
measured
Doppler
ion
temperatures
TJ > 20
keV
have
recently
been
2 6 27
impurity lines. '
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The technical assistance of J. Gorman, J. Lehner, P. Howard, and the TFTR
operating crew is highly appreciated.
continuing
support
of
Dr.
K.M.
Young,
work
was
supported
DE-AC02-76-CH0-3073.
by
Two of us
H.P.
Furth,
the
Dr. R. Goldston,
Rutherford.
U.S. Department
of
Energy
contract
No.
Research,
and
the
U.S.
Department
of
Energy.
Computations
of
excitation rate coefficients were carried out on the NAS 980 - CIKCE computer
in Orsay, France,
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11
12
TABLE CAPTIONS
Table
1 . Experimental
wavelengths
resonance, intercombination,
associated
satellite
Wavelengths
are
u n i t s of 1 0
Table 2 .
1 3
in
_ 1
lines
A and
transitions:
1 3
10" s" .
1s n
are
theoretical
and f o r b i d d e n
due
to
predictions
l i n e s of NiXXVII, and
transitions
satellite
line
Cor
1s 21 -
strengths
the
the/
\s2t'2j."
F_(sf)
are
*
in
Atomic d a t a c a l c u l a t e d w i t h
wavelengths
and
in
A.
t h e HFS a t o m i c model f o r s a t e l l i t e
1s2l'n"
The l i n e
with
n =
strengths
Lines with F, - v a l u e s l e s s
3,
of
F (sf)
2
than l O ^ s
- 1
NiXXVI.
are
in
are not
units
line
The
of
listed^
Peak
key
Transit ton
l a ' s - la 2p 'p,
i s ' S - 1a2p P
1 / 2
J / 2
- ls2p S ,
1 / 2
1a 2p P
1.5931
ls 2a S ,
13 2p P /
la 2p P ,
2 1
13 ' S
la 2a
- ia2p 0
- la2p P ,
3 / 2
- I32a2p P ,
/ 2
2 2
" la2p D
5 / 2
1.5932
6.00
1.5931
12.fl
1.5965
1.5969
0.172
1.5973
17.5
1.5910
1.98
1.5910
11.12
1.5972
1.5981
11.10
39.32
283.50
1.5991
1.5992
6.93
1.5998
1.600?
7.19
298.31
1.6003
1.6005
58.0
1.6010
1,6011
53.19
1.6021
5.73
1.6033
1.81
I.COIl)
1.6036
310.32
1.6035
1.6037
1.6011
llcferenoe 17, 18
2.110
1.5968
1.5938
1.6031
- | 2a 2p ' P ,
3
1.5935
0.157
1.5987
330.17
0.0106
1.5925
1.5985
1.5921
38.1
0.166
1.5886
b )
Present HKS C a l u l a t l o n a
Table 1
i J
1.6017
- l32p ' p , t r a n s i t i o n .
3 f
2 < >
1.5980
1.5980
- |s2p D ,
7
- 1s2a S
1.5886"
i.5978
2 2
/ 2
4h'or-
267.17
/ 2
/ 2
3 / 2
2 2
/ 2
1.5962
3 / 2
2 2
) / 2
- Ia2p P
'expt.
1.5959
218.01
2 2
3 / 2
.la 2p P
1a 2p P ,
210;21
) / 2
1 / 2
1.5926
/ 2
4^^^
1.5918
1.5929
1.5917
- )32a2p P
1.5879
3 / 2
l a ' s - 1s2p P
S
' o
13^23 S
- Ia2s2p P
2
1.5879"
2 2
k
d
- Is2a2p P /
- ls2p P
la 2a S
'uieor.
2 2
1s 2p P
193.18
*expt
) / 2
U 2p P
116.11
1a 2a S
14
Final State
Autoionizing State
F (sf)
|s>
(A)
(x10 s )
If>
Is
12
Is
Is
1s
is
1s
1S
is
1s
Is
3p ^ ^3/2
<Jp P.3/2
2
4p P 1/2
4p P 3/2
1s
1s
Is.
Ms
is
Is
Is
Is 2p( P)3p
3d D,
3/2
6.24
PP
12.82
3/2
1 .5912
15.94
5/2
is 2p( P)4d
5/2
1 ,5919
1 .97
5/2
3.94
1 .5903
3/2
3d D
1 .5899
1.26
Is 2p( P)3s
3/2
3/2
3d D 5/2
5/2
'3s
Is 2p( P)4d
1.5920
1 .07
PF
2D
Is 2p( P)4d
7/2
1s 2p(- P)3p D5/2
1s 2p( P)3d u5/2
1s 2p< P)3d P5/2
1 .5922
5.05
1.5936
1 .86
1.5951
3.36
1 .5956
3.09
1s 2p( P)3d
Pi
1 .5963
9.98
is 2p( P)3s
PP
1.5966
5.09
7/2
4p ^p1 / 2
4p P. 3/2
2
1/2
is Zpl P)4p n3 / 2
1s 2p 4p ^ D
D
5 / 2
1s
1s
1s
1.93
4.82
5/2
2 D
2p
1,5897
1.5898
1.5904
4d D
2.66
1.5906
1/2
4d D
_1
2
?
n3/2
1 .5892
13
1/2
Is 2p( 'p)3p 3/2
Is 2p( P)3p 5/2
3p
Is 2p< P>4p
1s 2p( P)4p
3p P
3p
3p P 3/2
3s S 1/2
1s ,4d
3p P 3/2
4s S 3/2
1 .5975
1 .03
1.5980
1 .67
3p
?
V?
3/2
1s 2p 3p
T>
1.5997
2.33
P 1/2
1 .6032
1 .01
S 1/2
1 .6050
1 .41
5/2
1s 2 p ( P ) 4 s
1s 3 s ( S ) 2 s
Table 2
15
FIGURE CAPTIONS
FIG. 1 .
Satellite spectrum
fron an
FIG.
Radial
profiles
of
the electron
temperature
and
the
electron
FIG.
3.
Comparison
of
the observed
NiXXVII
spectrum
with
synthetic
(a).
from
The
contributions
the
heliumlike
lines,
the
beryllium-like
are shown by
satellites
to
the
synthetic
respectively. The envelope shown in (b), (c), and (d) is the total
synthetic spectrum,, i.e., the sum of the various components.
FIG.
4.
Comparison
spectrum
Safronova.
of
the observed
calculated
1
contributions
'
The
from
from
NiXXVII
the
experimental
the
spectrum
theory
data
helium-like
with
of
are shown in
lines,
synthetic
Vainshtein
the
and
(a). The
dielectronic
FIG.
5.
Fractional
abundance
of
the
ionization
states
of
nickel
for
nc.
coronal equilibrium.
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