Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 13, 3402058 (2018)

Regular Articles

Measurements of the Impurity Flow Velocity and Temperature in Deuterium and Hydrogen Plasmas in the Divertor Legs of the Stochastic Layer in LHD

Arseniy KUZMIN, Masahiro KOBAYASHI, Tomohide NAKANO¹⁾, Masahiro HASUO²⁾, Keisuke FUJII²⁾, Motoshi GOTO, Taiichi SHIKAMA²⁾, Tomohiro MORISAKI and the LHD Experiment Group

: National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki 509-5293, Japan
1): National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Naka Fusion Institute, 801-1 Mukoyama, Naka-shi, Ibaraki 311-0193, Japan
2): Kyoto University, Kyotodaigaku-katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 614-8540, Japan

(Received 26 December 2017 / Accepted 17 April 2018 / Published 12 June 2018)

Abstract

This paper presents carbon impurity flow velocity and temperature measurements in the divertor region for a wide density range n_e = (1 - 14) × 10¹⁹ m⁻³, central electron temperature T_e = 1.5 - 3.5 keV, and with total neutral beam injection power of 9 - 12 MW. The isotope effect on the transport is studied in hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) discharges. Flow velocities for D plasma are systematically slower, by the factor of 1.4 - 2, compared to H plasma. For all selected discharges, the carbon ions flow toward the divertor in both H and D plasmas. Different velocities are obtained depending on the charge states. For C⁺ and C²⁺ they are in the range of 10 - 30 km/s, and 5 - 20 km/s for C³⁺ ions. It is also found that there is no change of flow direction even in the lowest density, where the impurity transport model predicts flow toward upstream in the thermal force dominant regime. In H discharges velocities increase proportionally to the plasma density, while in D discharges this dependency is weaker. Possible mechanism to interpret these observations is discussed based on the parallel momentum balance of impurity transport.

Keywords

impurity, transport, isotope effect, carbon, deuterium, hydrogen, Echelle spectroscopy

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.13.3402058

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