Application of Collisional-Radiative Modeling to Plasma Spectroscopy and DiagnosticsONLINE ONLY

Light emission from plasmas carries invaluable information on plasma properties such as, e.g., particle densities and temperatures, field distributions, particle energy distribution functions etc. The collisional-radiative (CR) modeling of plasmas proposed in the early 1960s has steadily become the primary tool for spectra analyses and spectroscopic diagnostics of diverse plasmas. I will present a down-to-earth introduction to collisional-radiative modeling with examples from recent research at NIST. In particular, the online tools (e.g., code FLYCHK) for easy and fast CR modeling will be described in detail.