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Zeff Measurement in Ohmic, L- and H-Mode Plasmas on HL-2A Tokamak
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on. 48(8):2790-2798 Aug, 2020
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Bremsstrahlung
Impurities
Tokamak devices
Brightness
Heating systems
Plasma measurements
Impurity influx
neoclassical theory
particle confinement
Zeff profile
Language
ISSN
0093-3813
1939-9375
Abstract
$Z_{\mathrm {eff}}$ is measured by two visible bremsstrahlung diagnostics on HL-2A tokamak, one of which uses a high spectral resolution spectrometer coupled with an electron multiplied CCD (temporal resolution of 100 Hz), and the other uses a filterscope system (temporal resolution of 1 MHz). The bremsstrahlung brightness measured by them coincides with each other very well. $\bar {Z}_{\mathbf {eff}}$ is systematically measured under different discharge conditions, such as divertor and limiter configurations, ohmic and auxiliary heating phases, before and after siliconization, and $L$ – $H$ transition. Under ohmic phase, $\bar {Z}_{\mathbf {eff}}$ is higher in the limiter configuration than that in the divertor configuration by a factor of ~1.5 under high-density regime. $\bar {Z}_{\mathbf {eff}}$ increases in all cases of auxiliary heating scenarios due to enhanced plasma–wall interaction, accompanied by influx increases of low ionization states of impurities such as C 2+ and Fe 1+ in plasma edge. Siliconization for wall conditioning is prominently effective in lowering the main impurity influxes in plasma edge and thus the impurity level, and a concentration of ~4% for carbon and ~0.2% for iron is roughly evaluated for a typical nonsiliconized plasma. A simple relationship that $Z_{\mathrm {eff}}$ is positively correlated with $\Phi _{\mathrm {in}}$ and $\tau _{\mathrm {p}}$ is verified from the L - and $H$ -mode features, where $\Phi _{\mathrm {in}}$ is the impurity influx and $\tau _{\mathrm {p}}$ the particle confinement time. A nearly constant $\bar {Z}_{\mathbf {eff}}$ evolution is observed during $L$ – $H$ and $H$ – $L$ transition and it seems that $\bar {Z}_{\mathbf {eff}}$ is insensitive to $L$ – $H$ and $H$ – $L$ transition under some $Z_{\mathrm {eff}}$ (0) threshold. The $Z_{\mathrm {eff}}$ profiles are flat/weakly hollow in plasma core region (rho < 0.7) in case of low $Z_{\mathrm {eff}}$ (0) and tend to be peaked when $Z_{\mathrm {eff}}$ (0) is larger than 3, which agrees with the neoclassical theory prediction.