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Based on distributions of local Green's functions we present a stochastic approach to disordered systems. specifically we address Anderson localisation and cluster effects in binary alloys. Taking Anderson localisation of Holstein polarons as an example we discuss how this stochastic approach can be used for the investigation of interacting disordered systems.
Diese Arbeit untersucht experimentell den Einfluss des metastabilen Zustandes Xe(1s3) und des Resonanzzustandes Xe(1s2) auf die VUV-Strahlungserzeugung in Helium-Xenon-Glimmentladungen (He:Xe = 98:2). Für die Bestimmung der Atomdichten wurde eine experimentelle Anordnung geschaffen, mit der, basierend auf der Methode der Laser-Atom-Absorptionsspektroskopie, orts- und zeitaufgelöste Messungen von optischen Dichten im Säulenplasma durchgeführt wurden. Als Hintergrundstrahlungsquelle kam ein durchstimmbarer Diodenlaser zum Einsatz. Die bereitgestellten Laserwellenlängen von 820 nm bzw. 826 nm entsprechen optischen Übergängen zwischen den Xenonzuständen 6s' 1/2[1/2]0 --> 6p' 1/2[3/2]1 (1s3 --> 2p4) und 6s' 1/2[1/2]1 --> 6p' 1/2[1/2]1 (1s2 --> 2p2).
Den Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchungen stellte die Messung der Absorptionslinienprofile beider Nahinfrarot-Übergänge dar. In Abhängigkeit von den Entladungsparametern Gasdruck, Entladungsstrom und Betriebsweise (Gleichstrom-, gepulste und Wechselstromentladung) wurden daraus die Dichten der angeregten Atome auf der Entladungsachse ermittelt. Durch die Analyse des Abklingens der Besetzungsdichten im Afterglow von gepulst betriebenen Entladungen mit Hilfe eines Systems von gekoppelten Ratengleichungen konnten die dominanten Stoßprozesse für die betrachteten Zustände identifiziert werden. Erstmalig ist in dieser Arbeit die radiale Verteilung der angeregten Spezies Xe(1s3) und Xe(1s2) in He-Xe-Glimmentladungen untersucht worden. Damit ist die VUV-Strahlungsleistung der 129 nm-Linie aus der Dichteverteilung der Resonanzatome ermittelbar.
The interaction of partially ionized plasmas with an electromagnetic field is investigated using quantum statistical methods. A general statistical expression for the current density of a plasma in an electromagnetic field is presented and considered in the high field regime. Expressions for the collisional absorption are derived and discussed. Further, partially ionized plasmas are considered. Plasma Bloch equations for the description of bound-free transitions are given and the absorption coefficient as well as rate coefficients for multiphoton ionization are derived and numerical results are presented.
A fluorescent lamp driven with an 'instant start electronic control gear' starts in a glow mode. In the glow mode, which lasts typically for tens of milliseconds, the cathode fall exceeds hundreds of volts. This causes high energy ion bombardment of the electrode which heats the electrode, and induces a transition from glow to arc mode. In the arc mode the electrode emits thermionically and the cathode fall drops to the 12 – 15 V range. Unfortunately, the high energy ion bombardment during the glow mode leads also to intense sputtering of electrode material, including tungsten as well as emitter. Thus, instant started fluorescent lamps often suffer from early failures due to coil fracture. Therefore, the investigation of tungsten erosion during instant start is necessary and was the main goal of this work.
The density of neutral atomic tungsten is determined by laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and optical emission spectroscopy measurements (OES). Investigations are performed on a low-pressure argon dc discharge and on commercial fluorescent lamps. To include the entire temperature profile along the electrode the diffuse and spot operation modes of the dc lamp are studied experimentally and theoretically. The measured dependencies of the cathode temperature along the coil on the discharge and heating parameters are compared with the calculated results. For the first time the tungsten erosion during instant start of commercial fluorescent lamps was experimentally investigated in this work. The erosion process could be related to sputtering. A reconstruction of the temporal evolution of the absolute tungsten population density of the ground state during the glow mode was presented. The sputtered tungsten density increases immediately with the ignition, reaches a maximum where the discharge contracts at the end of the glow mode, and decreases some milliseconds before the glow-to-arc transition takes place. The maximum tungsten density was observed within a region of a few hundred micrometers only located at the discharge attachment point. The main result achieved in this work is that during the whole glow mode tungsten is sputtered. Therefore, the lifetime of instant started fluorescent lamps can be enhanced by reducing the duration of the glow mode. Additionally, the need for the application of different types of diagnostics for the observation of lamp ignition was shown due to different results of LIF, AAS and OES: The observation of excited tungsten atoms by OES shows the maximum emission signal at the glow-to-arc transition whereas by LIF and AAS measurements of tungsten atoms in the ground state the maximum density is found during the whole glow mode. This can be explained by the fact that the intensity of the spontaneous emitted light is related not only to the density but also to the degree of excitation.
In magnetisierten Plasmen kommt dem Verständnis von magnetischen Fluktuationen eine tragende Rolle hinsichtlich der Plasmadynamik zu. Diese Fluktuationen treten in Form linearer und nichtlinearer Wellenphänomene oder auch als Änderung der magnetischen Topologie auf. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Dissertation wurde der Einfluß von niederfrequenten elektromagnetischen Wellen und der von topologischen Magnetfeldänderungen durch magnetische Rekonnektion auf die Dynamik der Ionen experimentell untersucht. In dem linearen magnetisierten Laborexperiment VINETA wurden kinetische Alfvénwellen angeregt und durch detaillierte Messung der Dispersion mittels magnetischer Fluktuationsdiagnostiken eindeutig identifiziert. Für das Verständnis des Dispersionsverhaltens müssen die Berandung der Wellen und der Einfluß von Stößen einbezogen werden. Mittels laserinduzierter Fluoreszenz (LIF) wurde die Ionenenergieverteilungsfunktion (IEVF) gemessen. Dabei wurde das Schema dahingehend erweitert, daß bei periodischen Störungen des Plasmas phasenaufgelöste Messungen der IEVF durchgeführt werden können. Die elektrischen Felder der durch vergleichsweise kleine magnetische Störungen angeregten linearen Alfvénwellen sind jedoch in der Regel zu klein, um einen signifikanten Einfluß auf die Ionendynamik zu nehmen. Anders verhält es sich jedoch bei einem stark nicht-linearem Anregungssschema: Die Welle-Teilchen Wechselwirkung konnte für nichtlineare Anregung Alfvénischer Wellen durch amplitudenmodulierte Helikoneigenmoden mittels LIF nachgewiesen werden. In dem toroidalen Experiment VTF kann magnetische Rekonnektion periodisch und unter reproduzierbaren Bedingungen angetrieben werden. Diese Voraussetzungen ermöglichen systematische Untersuchungen der Rückwirkung magnetischer Rekonnektion auf die Ionendynamik mittels LIF. Dabei ist es zum ersten Mal gelungen, eine Ionenheizung als Folge von Rekonnektion direkt nachzuweisen. Ferner konnte gezeigt werden, daß diese Heizung stark lokalisiert ist und nur am magnetischen X-Punkt, dem Ort der Rekonnektion, auftritt. Mittels zeitaufgelöster Messungen konnte ein kausaler Zusammenhang zwischen der Rekonnektionsrate und der Ionenheizung gezeigt werden. Desweiteren wurden starke nicht-thermische Komponenten der IEVF diagnostiziert, die mit der beobachteten Ionenheizung korrelieren. Numerische Simulationen, basierend auf einem kinetischen Einteilchenbild, zeigen einen Transfer von magnetischer Energie zu kinetischer Energie der Ionen, der konsistent mit dem experimentell beobachteten Anstieg der Ionentemperatur ist.
In the present thesis, a systematic study of beam driven Alfvén eigenmodes in high-density and low-temperature plasmas of the W7-AS stellarator is performed. The device went out of operation in 2002 and the study is based on stored experimental data. Alfvén instabilities can roughly be divided into ideal MHD Alfvén eigenmodes and those existing due to kinetic effects. The spectrum of ideal MHD Alfvén waves in toroidal fusion devices consists of a continuum of stable waves that are strongly localized. Weakly damped, discrete eigenmodes can exist in gaps of the continuous spectrum which are formed by plasma inhomogeneities and the coupling of Alfvén continua. This allows an identification of ideal MHD Alfvén eigenmodes in terms of their frequency and mode numbers. Kinetic effects can modify this spectrum and cause additional types of eigenmodes, the kinetic Alfvén eigenmodes (KAE) and energetic particle modes (EPM). The goal of this thesis is twofold: (I) identification and description of fast particle driven Alfvén instabilities in W7-AS, and (II) study of energetic particle losses induced by Alfvén instabilities. The reconstruction of the ideal MHD plasma equilibrium for each discharge with sufficient accuracy is the very foundation of all subsequent steps. This is achieved, based on measured plasma parameter profiles that are further refined by validating them to the measurements of other, independent plasma diagnostics. The applied scheme is inspired by an approach of Integrated Data Analysis (IDA) to combine different diagnostic data and provide combined uncertainties. After mode number analysis and eigenmode identification, the theoretically expected, linear growth rate of the instability is calculated where possible, and the various contributions of the fast particle drive to the instability of the mode are identified. Alfvénic activity recorded by the Mirnov diagnostic is analyzed, which consists of a set of spatially distributed coils that measure magnetic fluctuations. On W7-AS, the probes are arranged in three poloidal arrays at different toroidal positions. The spacing between the probes is non-equidistant. In addition, the signals of one probe array are digitized with a different sample rate. These characteristics prohibit the straight-forward use of standard tools available for harmonic analysis. Instead, a new tool has been developed and thoroughly tested. It is a multi-dimensional extension of the Lomb periodogram, able to provide reliable time-resolved frequency and mode number spectra in the case of uneven datapoint spacing. Numerical studies of this periodogram show a good performance with respect to mode number resolution given the low number of available probes, and robustness against perturbations of the signal. Only two of the probe arrays can be used for the analysis of eigenmodes with frequencies >70 kHz, such that for high-frequency phenomena insufficient information about the mode numbers is available. A total of 133 different Alfvén eigenmodes is studied in discharges from different experimental campaigns. A restriction to discharges from various high-beta campaigns with neutral beam heating is required to allow for a realistic reconstruction of plasma equilibrium and velocity distribution functions of energetic particles. The discharges are characterized by high density, ne = 5 x 1019 m-3 to 2.5 x 1020 m-3 at relatively low temperatures of Te = Ti = 150 ... 600 eV. Alfvén eigenmodes often appear transiently in the startup phase of these discharges, where density and heating power are being ramped up. Occasionally, Alfvén eigenmodes are seen in the stationary, high-beta phase in the presence of considerable neutral beam heating. Most of the Alfvén eigenmodes are successfully classified as ideal MHD eigenmodes. 19 global, 47 toroidicity-induced and 8 ellipticity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (GAEs, TAEs, and EAEs, respectively) are unambiguously identified by their mode numbers and frequencies. Excellent agreement between experimentally observed mode number spectra and theoretically calculated eigenmode structure is shown for a TAE example. Additional 13 events are found to have frequencies inside the EAE gap and could possibly be EAEs. Evidence for high-frequency Alfvén eigenmodes (mirror- and helicity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes) is seen, but can not be proven rigorously due to uncertain mode numbers and the complexity of the Alfvén continuum. The remaining 41 Alfvén eigenmodes can not be classified to be one of the above cases. Reasons are either high frequencies, mode numbers obscured by far-field effects, or mode numbers that could not be related to ideal MHD Alfvén eigenmodes. A selection of these shows indications of strong non-linear wave-particle interactions and are assumed to be EPMs. Kinetic Alfvén eigenmodes are not expected to exist in the experimental conditions that were studied. The radially resolved velocity distribution function is used to describe the parameter regimes in which the modes are observed in terms of the dimensionless parameters vb/vA (beam velocity normalized to the Alfvén velocity) and ßfast/ßth, where beta is the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure. The first parameter describes through which of the possible resonance velocities particles can interact with the eigenmode. A peculiarity of the fast particle dynamics in fusion devices is that they can resonantly interact with Alfvén eigenmodes through sideband resonances even if v < vA. The second parameter describes the energy content of the destabilizing fast particle population compared to the potentially stabilizing thermal plasma component. These parameters contain relevant information about the instability of an eigenmode and such diagrams are given for all observed modes. In addition to that, the expected linear growth rate of gap modes is calculated based on a theoretical model that extends the ideal MHD by a perturbative, drift-kinetic description of the energy exchange between waves and circulating particles, neglecting the effects of trapped particles. For the discharges under consideration the thermal electron speed is comparable to vA and the electrons provide a significant Landau damping contribution. Due to strong density gradients near the plasma boundary in most of the discharges, the thermal ions can provide a small drive via the spatial inhomogeneity which does not overcome the electron damping, however. The drive by spatial inhomogeneity of thermal ions requires a certain propagation direction of the mode and is equally stabilizing for opposite mode numbers. The fast particles also contribute to the growth rate via spatial inhomogeneity, velocity gradients and velocity anisotropy terms are negligible in W7-AS. Most of the observed GAE or EAE modes have negative mode numbers, which correspond to a propagation direction for which the spatial inhomogeneity of thermal and beam ions is predicted to be stabilizing. A fast particle drive of these modes is not confirmed, whereas the TAEs are found to be strongly destabilized by neutral beam injection. The distribution of plasma parameters for discharges showing TAEs in terms of the dimensionless stability parameters suggests an instability threshold that is qualitatively confirmed by an exploration of the parameter space with the theoretical model. Wave-induced, resonant losses of energetic ions scale linearly with the wave amplitude. To identify them, correlations between ion loss probe signals and wave amplitudes are searched, where correlation times in the order of the slowing-down time of energetic particles are expected. Significant correlations can be established only exceptionally for 3 of the identified ideal MHD Alfvén eigenmodes. Those Alfvén eigenmodes, however, which are assumed to be EPMs frequently show severe losses of energetic ions that are visible in the time traces of the plasma energy as well.