COMPARISON OF EXPLICIT CALCULATIONS FOR N=3-8 DIELECTRONIC SATELLITES OF THE FEXXV K-ALPHA RESONANCE LINE WITH EXPERIMENTAL-DATA FROM THE TOKAMAK FUSION TEST REACTOR

Dielectronic satellite spectra of the Fe XXX K-alpha resonance line observed from tokamak fusion test reactor plasmas have been compared with recent explicit calculations for the n = 3-8 dielectronic satellites as well as the earlier theoretical predictions, which were based on the 1/n3 scaling law for n > 4 satellites. The analysis has been performed by least-squares fits of synthetic spectra to the experimental data. The synthetic spectra constructed from both theories are in good agreement with the observed data. However, the electron-temperature values obtained from the fit of the present explicit calculations are in better agreement with independent measurements.