Exploiting Zeeman effect symmetries to measure particle velocities in magnetized plasmas
Exploiting Zeeman effect symmetries to measure particle velocities in magnetized plasmas
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利用塞曼效应对称性测量磁化等离子体中的粒子速度
DOI:
10.1088/1361-6501/ab0e90
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Winters, V
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作者:
Green, J;Schmitz, O;Severn, G;Winters, V
The task of obtaining flow velocities in a magnetized plasma using laser induced fluorescence (LIF) is often complicated by the need to deconvolve the velocity distribution function (VDF) from effects due to magnetic fields, for example, the Zeeman effect. Hence, precise knowledge of the local magnetic field strength and the resulting line structure is often required. This work demonstrates that in fact the Zeeman effect has no impact on the first moment of the VDF, so long as the integration covers all and components. In this way, can be obtained directly by calculating the first moment of the LIF signal, without deconvolution nor independent knowledge of the magnetic field strength. This is shown to be equivalent to finding the midpoint between the and groups of the LIF signal in the case of symmetric velocity distribution functions, such as a Maxwellian distribution. This fact was experimentally verified by employing LIF to pump the transition in singly ionized argon in a linear helicon plasma. By polarizing the incident laser light to excite the and transitions independently and measuring the fluorescence response, the Doppler shift is measured by taking the midpoint between the and groupings. Ion velocities measured using this new method are compared with those obtained by fitting a convolved profile to the LIF response and agreement between both methods is within 10%, but with the new method having an uncertainty that is a factor of two less and requiring less computation. This comparison also demonstrates that the Zeeman splitting of the degenerate energy states broadens the LIF response and can yield an overestimate of the ion temperature, T i, if the LIF signal is fit with a pure Gaussian curve. We show the overestimate is on the order of 10%.
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