Effect of the resonant magnetic perturbation on the plasma parameters in COMPASS tokamak’s divertor region

0489646 - ÚFP 2019 GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Dimitrova, Miglena - Cahyna, Pavel - Peterka, Matěj - Hasan, E. - Popov, Tsv.K. - Ivanova, P. - Vasileva, E. - Pánek, Radomír - Cavalier, Jordan - Seidl, Jakub - Markovič, Tomáš - Havlíček, Josef - Dejarnac, Renaud - Weinzettl, Vladimír - Háček, Pavel - Tomeš, Matěj
Effect of the resonant magnetic perturbation on the plasma parameters in COMPASS tokamak’s divertor region.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 982. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, Ltd., 2018, č. článku 012001. IOP Publishing. ISSN 1742-6596.
[International Workshop and Summer School on Plasma Physics, IWSSPP 2016/7./. Kiten (BG), 26.06.2016-02.07.2016]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2015045
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : Resonant magnetic perturbation * electron temperature * bi-Maxwellian EEDF * Divertor Langmuir probes * first-derivative probe technique
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/982/1/012001

The effect of RMP on the L-mode plasma parameters in the divertor region of the COMPASS tokamak was studied using the array of 39 Langmuir probes embedded into the divertor target. The current-voltage (IV) probe characteristics were processed by the first-derivative probe technique to obtain the plasma potential and the electron energy distribution function (EEDF) which was approximated by a bi-Maxwellian EEDF with a low-energy (4-6 eV) fraction and a high-energy (11-35 eV) one, the both factions having similar electron density. Clear splitting was observed during the RMP pulse in the low-field-side scrape-off-layer profiles of the floating potential Ufl and the ion saturation current density Jsat. The negative peaks of Ufl induced by RMP spatially overlaps with the local minima of Jsat (and ne) rather than with its local maxima which is partly caused by the spatial variation of the plasma potential and partly by the changed shape of the EEDF. The effective temperature of the whole EEDF is not correlated with the negative peaks of Ufl, and the profile of the parallel power flux density shows secondary maxima due to RMP which mimic those of Jsat.
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