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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 41: Poster: Electron scattering and recombination
A 41.3: Poster
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 16:00–18:30, Empore Lichthof
Absolute Recombination Rate Coefficients Of Highly Charged Tungsten Ions — •Kaija Spruck1, Arno Becker2, Dietrich Bernhardt1, Manfred Grieser2, Michael Hahn3, Claude Krantz2, Michael Lestinsky4, Alfred Müller1, Oldřich Novotný3, Roland Repnow2, Daniel Wolf Savin3, Andreas Wolf2, and Stefan Schippers1 — 1Institut für Atom- und Molekülphysik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany — 3Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA — 4GSI Helmholtzzentrum, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
Tungsten is commonly used as a material for plasma facing walls in nuclear fusion reactors as it can resist the typical high-temperatures and high neutron irradiation levels. As a result, impurities of highly charged tungsten ions in the plasma are inevitable. Radiation from these excited tungsten ions leads to plasma cooling. Modeling this cooling requires reliable ionization and recombination cross sections for tungsten ions. To date, most of the needed atomic data come from theory. Previously large discrepancies were found between experimental and theoretical values.
Here, we report electron-ion recombination experiments for highly charged tungsten ions, performed at the TSR storage ring in Heidelberg, Germany. Absolute experimental rate coefficients of Wq+ ions with 18 ≤ q ≤ 21 will be presented.