Diagnostics

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A prominence on the sun, an arc of plasma rising into the corona. Image credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory (April, 2010)

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.

| class="wikitable" align="center" border="1" !Conference !!Publication |- |Thomson Scattering || TS || Electron temperature T_e, electron density n_e |- |Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy || CXRS, CXS, CHERS, CER || Ion temperature T_i, toroidal and poloidal plasma rotation velocity v_tor, v_pol, impurity density n_Z |}

A special bi-annual conference on fusion diagnostics is held in the U.S.:

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