| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and Experimental Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Master Academic Studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Physics and Diagnostics of Fusion Plasma | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Jagoš Purić, Ivan Dojčinović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 10 | Status (required/elective) | Optional | |||||||
| Access requirements | Physics of Ionized Gases or Theoretical Physics of Plasma | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | To familiarize students with the basics of diagnostic methods used in the study of plasma, especially of high-temperature plasma. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | The adoption of the basic concepts related to spectroscopy, interferometry and other diagnostic methods for determining the composition of the plasma, electron concentration and plasma temperature. Training students to process spectra and other characteristic signals. Understanding the properties of high-temperature plasmas and introduction to current research in this area. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | The characteristics of the plasma; The equilibrium and nonequilibrium plasma; Diagnostics of optical radiation from plasma; Spectral Devices (monochromator with prisms, monochromator with linear grating, monochromator with a concave grating); Radiation detectors and their characteristics (photomultipliers, CCD, ICCD); Calibration of spectral devices; Types of spectra (continuous, in-line, tape); Continuous radiation (bremsstrahlung, recombination); The intensity of spectral lines; Expansion and shift of spectral lines; Self-absorption; Doppler broadening and shift of spectral lines; Stark broadening and shift of spectral lines; Spectroscopic methods for determining the temperature of the electron; Spectroscopic methods for determining the temperature of the gas; Spectroscopic methods for measuring the electron concentration; Refractive and interferometry methods; Determination of the concentration of electrons; Laser spectroscopy; Absorption, LIF, optogalvanic spectroscopy; Thompson's and Rayleigh scattering; Basic fusion reactions; Plasma formation and insertion into fusion machines; Plasma accelerators; Heating of the plasma; Instability in fusion plasmas; Fundamentals of gravitational confinement of plasma; Fundamentals of inertial confinement of plasma; Fundamentals of magnetic plasma confinement; Tokamak; ITER; Problems of the first wall and divertor; The interaction of the plasma with a solid surface; Diagnostic methods of high-temperature plasma. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Introduction to spectral devices and plasma sources... Experimental exercises: 1. Calibration of spectral devices; 2. Determination of the plasma composition; 3.Determination of plasma temperature using the Boltzmann slope; 4. Determination of plasma temperature using Saha equation; 5. Determination of the electron concentration in the plasma by Stark line widths; 6. The interferometric measurement of the electrons concentration in the plasma; 7. Determination of plasma temperature using the Doppler width of spectral line; 8. Determination of plasma velocities using the Doppler shift of spectral lines; 9. Treatment of surface with plasma flow. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Hutchinson I.H., Principles of Plasma Diagnostics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. | |||||||||
| 2 | Thorne A.P., Spectrophysics, Chapman and Hall, London, 1974. | |||||||||
| 3 | Јанев Р., Контролисана термонуклеарна фузија, СФИН, год. II, №1, Београд, 1989. | |||||||||
| 4 | Miyamoto K., Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Taylor & Francis, New York, 2007. | |||||||||
| 5 | Joachain C.J and Post D.E., Atomic and Molecular Physics of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, Plenum Press, New York, 19 | |||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 6 | 4 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures (theoretical elaboration of thematic units, practical examples, demonstration experiments), essay, experimental exercises. | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | 10 | oral examination | 50 | |||||||
| papers | 10 | |||||||||
| presentations | 20 | |||||||||