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The HOMER imaging diagnostic on MAST-U: plasma boundary tracking and neutral density inference from visible emission

Edward Dewit, Charles Vincent, Steven Thomas, Michael Robson, Dan Cruse, Balamurugan Kandan, the MAST-U team2026年6月Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIF 2.2出版社

The High Resolution Optical Measurement of Edge Radius (HOMER) diagnostic on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U) has been upgraded with a modern line-scan camera and data acquisition system, enabling high spatial and temporal resolution measurements of visible emission from the plasma edge. The diagnostic is designed to detect the plasma boundary for real-time control and to study edge-localized modes (ELMs), the pedestal region, and neutral density profiles. An absolute radiometric calibration was performed to express measurements in units of radiance, and a spatial calibration was carried out to map pixels to radial coordinates within the vacuum vessel. Initial experimental results from an ELMy H-mode discharge demonstrate that HOMER resolves the separatrix position, tracks the emissivity during ELMs, and enables inference of neutral density profiles consistent with independent neutral pressure measurements and other studies. These results establish HOMER as a high-speed diagnostic for spatially resolved visible edge emission, enabling plasma boundary detection and edge transport studies on MAST-U.

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MAST-UにおけるHOMERイメージング診断:可視光放射からのプラズマ境界追跡と中性粒子密度推定
JA核融合プラズマの境界計測やELM研究に興味がある研究者や学生#核融合 #プラズマ診断 #MAST-U #ELM #可視光計測
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MAST-Uに設置されたHOMER診断は、ラインスキャンカメラを用いてプラズマ端からの可視光を高空間・時間分解能で計測します。絶対放射輝度校正と空間校正を実施し、プラズマ境界のリアルタイム検出、ELM(周辺局在モード)やペデスタル領域の研究、中性粒子密度分布の推定を可能にしました。ELMy Hモード放電での初期実験では、セパラトリックス位置を追跡し、ELM中の放射率変化を捉え、独立した中性粒子圧力測定と一致する密度分布を得ました。これにより、HOMERは高速可視エッジ放射診断として確立され、MAST-Uにおけるプラズマ境界検出とエッジ輸送研究に貢献します。

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