RESEARCH UNIT: ISTP-Milano
WP LEADER: GIORGIO DILECCE
Creation of 2 facilities (experimental and numerical) based on the expertise of the Bari group in the diagnostics and modelling of non-equilibrium plasmas.
Experimental activities
We shall set up a laboratory facility where optical diagnostics can be tested, improved, adapted to the final user’s demands, on dedicated lab-scale test plasmas that can run continuously the experiment. Three independent stations will be implemented:
Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) with focus on the measurement of collisional rate constants for electron impact quenching of electronically excited stated in support of CR models and on support to LIBS technique.
Numerical activities
The Computational activities (link to HPC laboratory) will pursue three objectives:
This modelling facility will project its work beyond the present project, in close connection with the experimental activity in the infrastructure, along four topical areas: i) calculation of state selective cross section for elementary processes in bulk and surface; ii) plasma-gas coupling and plasma-wall interaction; iii) control of plasma-external power coupling, iv) coherent structures in magnetized plasma.
This WP concerns the creation of a new laboratory at ISTP-Bari devoted to the development, test and calibration of optical, emission and laser-aided diagnostics, together with a computational laboratory. In particular, the experimental test facilities will be related to plasma exposed material measurements and optical edge diagnostics. A specific laboratory will boost the development of diagnostic techniques, with dedicated lasers, detectors and and small lab-scale testing facilities. The availability of sophisticated instrumentations will strongly improve the quality of the measurements in RFX-mod2 and in BiGyM, and could also be useful to other RI, including DTT, and virtually all plasma devices, with the possibility of attracting research investments well beyond the duration of the project.