Diagnostics

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Diagnostics are the eyes and ears of fusion reactors. They return vital parameters such as the temperature, the density, the impurity content, the magnetic field et cetera. Below you find a list of different diagnostics, together with their main measurement parameters.

Name	Abbreviation	Measurement parameters
Thomson Scattering	TS	Electron temperature Te, electron density ne
Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy	CXRS, CXS, CHERS, CER	Ion temperature Ti, toroidal and poloidal plasma rotation velocity vtor, vpol, impurity density nZ

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