Simulation of the Neutral Inventory in the Piot-PSI Beam

Abstract

The Eunomia code is used to study the neutral species in and near a hydrogen plasma beam. Eunomia is a non-linear Monte Carlo transport code that solves the neutral equilibrium, given a fixed background plasma. The code is developed to study the neutral inventory of Pilot-PSI and Magnum-PSI, linear devices developed to study plasma surface interactions in similar conditions as expected in the ITER divertor. Results show the influence of elastic collisions and the outer vessel wall on the neutral species. In the center of the 2 cm diameter Pilot-PSI beam the results show a strong coupling to the plasma. Only millimeters away from the center, the neutral flow, temperature and density are strongly influenced by recombination processes at the vessel wall. © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.