Modelling and Evaluation of Spectra in Beam Aided Spectroscopy

The evaluation of active beam induced spectra requires advanced modelling of both active and passive features. Three types of line shapes are addressed in this paper: Thermal spectra representing Maxwellian distribution functions described by Gaussian-like line shapes, secondly broad-band fast ion spectra with energies well above local ion temperatures, and, finally, the narrow lines shapes of the equi-spaced Motion Stark multiplet (MSE) of excited neutral beam particles travelling through the magnetic field confining the plasma. In each case additional line shape broadening caused by Gaussian-like instrument functions is taken into account. Further broadening effects are induced by collision velocity dependent effective atomic rates where the observed spectral shape is the result of a convolution of emission rate function and velocity distribution function projected into the direction of observation. In the case of Beam Emission Spectroscopy which encompasses the Motional Stark features, line broadening is also caused by the finite angular spread of injected neutrals and secondly by a ripple in the acceleration voltage associated with high energy neutral beams.