Hulk:A Generalized Kinetics Model using HULLAC Atomic Data

Abstract

Summary form only given. The prediction of the emission radiated from high-Z ions in a plasma, i.e., the radiative yield, is important in understanding the distribution of energy as well as the spectral characteristics in plasmas with high-Z ions. Since these plasmas occur over a wide range of plasma conditions, they require a general non-LTE population kinetics description. A kinetics model is constructed using the atomic data generation capability of HULLAC to provide charge state distributions, level population distributions and radiative properties of laboratory plasmas. The constructed model explicitly treats the doubly-excited states and dielectronic recombination channels critical to charge state distributions. The use of the full non-LTE kinetics model permit us to investigate the higher electron density regimes, well beyond the coronal limit, found commonly in laboratory plasmas. Hence, with this construct we can use a single kinetics model to provide radiative yields from the coronal to the highest density regimes found in laboratories. To illustrate the capabilities of this approach we present the detailed calculations of total radiative cooling coefficients and the X-ray radiative cooling coefficients as a function of electron density from and well beyond the coronal limit.