Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy in Plasmas

This joint IAEA-ICTP Workshop, which was held 6 – 10 May 2019, was a 5-day series of lectures and computing practical exercises to help early-career plasma physicists develop an understanding of the techniques used to model and simulate radiative processes in plasmas. The focus is on plasmas of relevance to fusion, astrophysics and other high-energy environments, and the aim is to facilitate knowledge-transfer between researchers from developed and developing countries.

Further details about this event are available on the ICTP website.

Directors

• Hyun-Kyung Chung (National Fusion Research Institute, South Korea)
• Kalle Heinola (IAEA)
• Christian Hill (IAEA)
• Yuri Ralchenko (NIST, USA)

Local Organizer

• George Thompson (ICTP)

Confirmed Lecturers

• Sebastiján Brezinsek (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
• Hyun-Kyung Chung (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
• Eugene Churazov (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)
• Sandrine Ferri (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
• Chris Fontes (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
• Kalle Heinola (IAEA)
• Christian Hill (IAEA)
• Yuri Ralchenko (NIST, USA)
• Sam Vinko (University of Oxford, UK)

Topics

• Experimental plasma spectroscopy
• Atomic structure and radiation
• Collisional physics in plasmas
• Spectral line broadening
• Line intensities and collisional-radiative modelling
• Astrophysical spectroscopy
• Plasma opacity
• Radiative transfer in plasmas
• Spectroscopy of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) plasmas
• Molecular structure and spectroscopy
• Experimental plasma spectroscopy

Bibliography

Atomic Structure

1. R. D. Cowan The Theory of Atomic Structure and Spectra (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences), University of California Press (1981)

Molecular Spectroscopy

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Line Broadening

1. H. R. Griem, Plasma Spectroscopy, McGraw-Hill, New York (1964)
2. H. R. Griem, Spectral Line Broadening by Plasmas, Academic, New York, (1974).
3. H. R. Griem, Principles of Plasma Spectroscopy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1997).
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Opacity and Radiative Transfer in Plasmas

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9. R. D. Cowan, The Theory of Atomic Structure and Spectra, University of California (1981).
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