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Spectroscopy of Dense Plasmas
H.-K. Chung Atomic and Molecular Data Unit Nuclear Data Section
Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced School on Modern Methods in Plasma Spectroscopy
Trieste, Italy 19 March 2015
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Plasmas occur over a vast range of conditions
Temperature
10-6K – 100 keV (109K)
Density
105 – 1024 cm-3
Astrophysical observations CHANDRA/XMM
Plasma processing Fusion research
ICF (Inertial confinement fusion) Laser-produced plasma Beam-produced plasma Z-pinch plasmas
MCF (Magnetic confinement fusion) Tokamak plasma
Ultracold plasmas
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Advances in plasma generation access new regimes of matter
USP: Ultra short pulse laser (RAL, LULI, Titan, Texas)
XFEL: X-ray free electron lasers (SLAC, European XFEL, SACLA)
Pulse Power: X-Pinches, Z-Pinches... (Sandia, Cornell, UNR)
NIF (National Ignition Facility)
Hotter and denser matter Transient states of matter
Warm dense matter Astronomical X-ray applications IAEA
A new state of matter achieved experimentally requires new theories and modeling capabilities
• the strong coupling parameter is ratio of the interaction energy to the kinetic energy
• μ is the degeneracy parameter
HDM occurs in: • Supernova, stellar interiors,
accretion disks
• Plasma devices : laser, ion beam and Z-pinches
• Directly driven inertial fusion plasmas
WDM occurs in: • Cores of large planet
• Systems that start solid and end as a plasma
• X-ray driven implosion
Hydrogen phase diagram
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DENSITY EFFECTS ON POPULATION KINETICS
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Population Kinetics Models
Coronal plasmas (low Ne) Rate formalism Charage state distributions are determined by rates of collisional ionization and excitation-autoionization (EA) & radiative recombination and dielectronic recombination (DR) originating from the ground states
LTE plasmas (high Ne) Statistical distributions Collisional processes are dominant and the population distribution is governed by Boltzmann relations and Saha equation. Collisional-radiative plasmas (intermediate Ne) Rate equation model A population distribution is determined by rate equations considering collisional and radiative processes at a given temperature and density. The results should converge to coronal or the LTE limit at low and high Ne limits, respectively.
Mean ionization states, Charge state distributions, Spectral intensity, Emissivity, Opacity, Equation of state, Electrical conductivity require population distributions of ions in the plasma.
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Non-LTE plasmas have well documented problems for experiment and theory
Au M-shell emission Glenzer et al. PRL (2001)
1st Non-LTE workshop (1996) documented large differences between codes for Au
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DR and EA treatments are the main sources of discrepancy Mean ion charges for Ar case, ne = 1012 cm-3 agree very well among different codes if Dielectronic Recombination (DR) and Excitation Autoionization (EA) processes are turned off.
NLTE Workshops, HEDP 9, 645 (2013)
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DR and EA treatments are the main sources of discrepancy Mean ion charges for Gold case, ne = 1021 cm-3 agree very well if Dielectronic Recombination (DR) and Excitation Autoionization (EA) processes are turned off
Without DR
With DR
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Processes of dielectronic recombination (DR) and excitation autoionization (EA)
• DR is a two-step process: An electron is captured leaving the recombined ion at autoionizing (Ai) states. Subsequently, the states stabilize either to the bound states completing recombination process or back to the ion by Auger process
• Electron capture (EC) can enhance resonant collisional excitation (CE) when the state autoionizes to the excited state of the recombining ion
• EA process is a reverse process to DR and an electron is excited to Ai states which subsequently ionize by Auger processes
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Stepwise Ionization: Excited states contribute to ionization and recombination processes
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Ne-like Kr
He-like Kr Continuum
Ground state of ion Z
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Highly excited states are in Saha equilibrium with the continuum at high densities
• At Equilibrium, the collisional recombination rate coefficient is given by the detailed balance with collisional ionization rate coefficient
• Recombination rates to high lying hydrogenic levels are proportional to n4 and inversely proportional to T2.
Continuum
Ground state of ion Z
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For Saha Equilibrium R=(ni/ni+1)Non-LTE/(ni/ni+1)Saha ~ 1
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Average charge states are sensitive to the treatment of high-lying states at High Ne Due to the 3-body recombination processes, the average charge state decreases after reaching the maximum value as Ne increases, then increases again due to the ionization potential depression.
10 eV
100 eV
1 keV
475 eV
10 keV
4 keV Krypton
FLYCHK
Te=0.5 eV-100 keV
Ne=1012-1024 cm-3
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Plasma effects: Ionization potential depression & Rate changes
• Ionization potentials are a function of plasma conditions • High-lying states are no longer bound due to interactions with
neighbouring atoms and ions. (pressure ionization)
Isolated atom continuum
Embedded atom continuum
Ionization potential depression (IPD)
• For a given ne,Te, the IPD , is calculated
using a Stewart-Pyatt type model Where ri and rd are the ion sphere and Debye radii
= 2.16x10-7 zri
1rdri
3 2/ 3
rdri
2
(eV )
Ip
Ipp
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Average charge states are sensitive to the treatment of high-lying states at High Ne Due to the 3-body recombination processes, the average charge state decreases after reaching the maximum value as Ne increases, then increases again due to the ionization potential depression.
10 eV
100 eV
1 keV
475 eV
10 keV
4 keV Krypton
FLYCHK
Te=0.5 eV-100 keV
Ne=1012-1024 cm-3
Pressure Ionization Continuum Lowering Ionization Potential Depression
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max
Z=0 Zmax
=0
Planar geometry
Radiative rates should be modified by self-absorption at high density
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η: Emissivity χ: Opacity τ: Optical Depth
I( )
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Aij BjiJij AijBijJij
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Escape probability reduces the total A rate
Frequency-averaged escape probabilities ( ) : line profile
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Escape probability: Modified radiative rates due to optical depth effects
Aij BjiJij AijAJij A BijJij Aij
Λ( ) : Escape Probability
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DENSITY EFFECTS ON PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY
Continuum Lowering, Opacity effects and Opacity broadening
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Line shape and intensity changes with opacity effects for dense plasmas
Opacity broadening due to line-core absorption τ0 = line-center optical depth
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Line Width Analysis of argon plasma influenced by opacity effects • ne diagnostics are derived from Stark broadened line widths • Population kinetics needed for correct optical depths Statistical Fitting Analysis of Opacity- and Stark-Broadened Ar+2 Line Profiles Measured in Ion Beam Transport Experiments H.K. Chung et al, JQSRT, vol. 65, p. 135 (2000)
data
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Without Opacity With Opacity
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Boltzmann plot analysis should include opacity effects for correct Te analysis
With Opacity Without Opacity
Pi is the line escape probability
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Line intensity and width analysis should include opacity effects
mean charge state
Without opacity effect
With opacity effect
• Analysis of measured spectra from the initial phase of the ion-beam plasma formation using NLTE populations reveals that IPROP (a PIC/Fluid hybrid code) using simple population model overestimates Te
• Note that IPROP uses a simple breakdown ionization model
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Line intensity analysis with opacity effects and plasma space gradients
Measured ratios between Ly- and He- lines are only possible for very high temperatures, Te > 1 keV for optically thin case.
He-
Ly-
RAL experiments: Strong axial and transverse Te gradients in 0.5 ps 300J irradiation of 0.5 μm Al + 5μm Cu target (2005)
Cu K shell spectrum has 3:1
front :back intensity ratio in He-
Is the rear side hotter?
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Measured ratios between Ly-α and He-α lines increase with opacity effects
Cu Solid, Te=2 keV, Nhot=2% 200keV Spectral intensities are senstive to opacity effects
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He
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Hot Plasma Lyα emission
Cold Plasma Heα emission
Line emission from two different (front & back) regions can’t be used for single Te determination
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Disappearance of Line radiation
Hoarty, PRL 110, 265003 (2013) Short-pulse laser heating and compression by laser driven shocks 1-10 g/cc Al dot (100 μm x 0.15μm) buried in plastic foils or diamond sheet
9 g/cc
5.5 g/cc
1.2 g/cc
2.5 g/cc
4 g/cc
FLYCHK
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XFEL irradiated solid Al experiments: Observed K-edges and IPD models
• Kα line intensities are observed as a function of XFEL photon energy • Observed K-edge shifts from the atomic edge for non-equilibrium solid
density plasmas as a function of temperature and density
Nature 482, 59 (20120 PRL 109, 065002 (2012)
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PRL 109, 065002 (2012) SP model challenged after more than 40 years of extensive uses in astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science and inertial confinement fusion research.
Understanding of IPD is critical to explain spectral features
1805 eV
1780 eV
1750 eV
1720 eV
1720 eV
1650 eV
1600 eV
1580 eV
1630 eV
1830 eV
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Model completeness of dense matter with high energy particles (K spectra)
• Generally CR codes use the minimum set of configurations for NLTE plasmas • This may lead to inaccurate K emissivities for dense matter (Te ≥ 100eV)
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z/cm
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Energy
Model Completeness: the set of configurations should be expanded
FLYCHK <Z> is good; but, emissivities may not be good enough for warm dense matter Analysis with limited configuration sets can give higher Te in K diagnostics
Silver : <Z> and total K emissivities Solid density and Ne= 1024 cm-3 Hot e- of 1020 cm-3 at 1 MeV
FLYCHK (K1L6)M1 (K1L6)
Copper : K spectra
SCFLY (K1L6)M1 (K1L6) + (K1L6)M3
(K1L6)M2N1 (K1L6)M1N2 (K1L6)M2 (K1L6)M1N1
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GENERALIZED POPULATION KINETICS MODEL
FLYCHK
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Need for Generalized CR models
• If PLTE condition exists • If the plasma state is coronal, CR or LTE • If a line is optically thick • If strongly transient plasmas upward or downward • If excitation flow results in different distribution of population
densities • If excitation temperature Texc differs from Te • Survey spectra low spectral resolution • Total line intensities medium spectral resolution • Line profiles high spectral resolution
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Screened Hydrogenic Model
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FLYCHK Model : simple, but complete
• Screened hydrogenic energy levels with relativistic corrections • Dirac Hartree-Slater (DHS) oscillator strengths and photoionization
cross-sections • Fitted collisional cross-section to PWB approximation • Semi-empirical cross-sections for collisional ionization • Detailed counting of autoionization and electron capture processes • Continuum lowering (Stewart-Pyatt)
(n) (nl) (nlj) (detailed-term) FLYCHK HULLAC / FAC / MCDF
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Application to a wide range of Z and experiments: Excitation autoionization (EA) /Dielectronic recombinationa (DR) processes are modeled with doubly-excited and inner-shell (IS) excited states
Promotion of IS electrons can lead to states near the continuum limit and EA/DR process of IS is critical
N-shell Ion 3l18 4lz+1
N-shell Ion 3l184lz
3l174lznl
3l164lz+1nln’l’
3l174lz+1nl
High Z atom
L-shell Ion 1s22lZ+1
L-shell Ion 1s22lZ
1s12lZ+1nl”
Doubly- excited
Inner- Shell
1s22lZ-13l’nl”
Bound
Low Z atom
Promotion of IS electrons leads to states far from continuum limit and rarely matters in CSD
Bound
Doubly- excited
Inner- Shell 3l184lZ-15l’nl”
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Total line emissivity and energy-dependent spectral intensity in the STA formalism
EAB
gi exp( Ei / kTe )AijEiji A: j B
gi exp( Ei / kTe )Aiji A: j B
AAB
gi exp( Ei / kTe )Aiji A: j B
gi exp( Ei / kTe )i A: j B
( ) nAAABEAB ( )nA gi exp( Ei /kTe )AijEij ( )
i A: j B
gi exp( Ei /kTe )i A: j B
Total line emissivity: plots show approximate line emission spectra and provides information on energy range of dominant emission
S nuAulEul /Ne [eVcm3/s/atom]
Spectral emissivity is computed in the STA formalism using configuration-average atomic data generated by the DHS(Dirac-Hartree-Slater) code (M.Chen)
AB2
gi exp( Ei / kTe )AijEij2
i A: j B
gi exp( Ei / kTe )Aiji A: j B
2
EAB2
STA width
[ergs/s/Hz/cm3/ster]
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Screened Hydrogenic Model
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Applications to Plasma Research
• Short-pulse laser-produced plasmas • Arbitrary electron energy distribution function • Time-dependent ionization processes • K- shifts and broadening: diagnostics
• Long-pulse laser-produced plasmas • Average charge states • Spectra from a uniform plasma • Gas bag, Hohlraum (H0), Underdense foam
• Z-pinch plasmas: photoionizing plasmas • Proton-heated plasmas: warm dense matter • EBIT: electron beam-produced plasmas • EUVL: Sn plasma ionization distributions • TOKAMAK: High-Z impurities
28eV 36eV 32eV
SiO2-Ti foam exp
Time-dependent Ti K emissivities
Tin charge state distributions
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Available to the community at password-protected NIST website: http://nlte.nist.gov/FLY
Advantages: simplicity and versatility applicability • <Z> for fixed any densities: electron, ion or mass • Mixture-supplied electrons (eg: Argon-doped hydrogen plasmas) • External ionizing sources : a radiation field or an electron beam. • Multiple electron temperatures or arbitrary electron energy distributions • Optical depth effects
Outputs: population kinetics code and spectral synthesis • <Z> and charge state distribution • Radiative Power Loss rates under optically thin assumption • Energy-dependent spectral intensity of uniform plasma with a size
Caveats: simple atomic structures and uniform plasma approximation • Less accurate spectral intensities for non-K-shell lines • Less accurate for low electron densities and for LTE plasmas • When spatial gradients and the radiation transport affect population significantly
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Spectroscopic diagnostics of plasmas: Theoretical plasma spectroscopy
The microscopic response of the atom carried by photons provides information on the macroscopic environment
• Te and ne • Electromagnetic fields • Plasma wave modes
Atoms respond to perturbations of the ensemble of surrounding particles and/or external fields
– Electronic transitions – Photon-atom interactions – Atomic level shifts and broadens
time
energy
Observed photons
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<Z> spread at low Ne decreases at higher Ne due to the reduced DR/EA
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High-n states
Coronal Limits (low densities)
Coronal Model
Continuum
Ground state of ion Z
Ground state
of ion Z+1
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• At low densities, 99% of population lies in the ground states. Excited state population densities are so low that they are assumed to be populated from the ground state by collisional excitation CE and depopulated by spontaneous emission AE. Hence the excited population density is proportional to Ne.
• Charge state distributions are determined by rates of collisional ionization (CI) and excitation-autoionization (EA) & radiative recombination (RR) and dielectronic recombination (DR) originating from the ground states. Charge state distribution is independent of Ne
RR
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LTE Limits (high densities) • Collisions dominate population/depopulation and
rates should be in detailed balance.
• 3-body recombination rates are proportional to Ne
2 and n4 of recombined state. Hence high-lying states are important for charge state balance.
• A population distribution is an explicit function of “local” plasma conditions, governed by Boltzmann statistics and Saha equations.
• Ionization potential depression (IPD) important
LTE Model
Continuum
Ground state of ion Z
ion Z+1
Grou of ion Z
Ej gj 2n2
Ip~n-2
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Collisional-Radiative Regime
• Population distribution is obtained by rate equations considering collisional and radiative processes, along with plasma effects
• Excited states are substantially populated and increase the total ionization by step-wise ionization processes while 3-body recombination to these states is proportional to n3 and they significantly enhance the total recombination.
• Plasma effects such as non-local radiation transport, fast particle collisions and density effects should be included in the model.
• For optically thick lines, the self-absorption should be included to reduce the radiative processes.
Collisional-Radiative Model
Continuum
Ground state of ion Z
ion Z+1
Con
Grou staund s
nti
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Grouun of ion Zoff iion Z
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Born approximation for collisional excitation
• Born approximation using DHS wave functions and YK Kim’s threshold scaling (JJATOM) gives reasonable cross-sections
Comparison of FAC, HULLAC & JJATOM Comparison of Fit & JJATOM
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