Behavior of Sputtered Tungsten in the Divertor Plasma Simulator NAGDIS-II

The core-degradation effect due to tungsten (W) - a proposed plasma-facing material for the operation of future nuclear fusion reactors such as ITER and DEMO - calls for the study of sputtered W. In this study, sputtered W from a point source in the linear divertor plasma simulator, NAGDIS-II, was investigated. A hyperspectral imaging (HSI) camera was used to image the spatial profile of the sputtered W in helium and argon mixture plasma with different incident ion energies. By applying the Abel transform and fittings with several functions and comparing with the theoretical value, it is found that the ionization effect is not obvious but the geometrical spreading effect is dominant for the axial decay of the local W emission profile.