EAST辐射偏滤器运行模式下等离子体杂质浓度评估方法

通过在偏滤器区域充入适量氖气（Ne）或氩气（Ar）,东方超环（Experimental Advanced Super-conducting Tokamak,EAST）托卡马克装置实现了辐射偏滤器运行模式。在辐射偏滤器运行模式下,靶板热负荷显著降低,有效缓解了高能粒子流对偏滤器靶板的损伤。但是在偏滤器区域充入过量杂质气体时,杂质粒子会沿着磁力线进入主等离子体,影响主等离子体的约束性能,甚至导致等离子体破裂。因此,有必要研究偏滤器区域等离子体杂质浓度的估算方法,分析充入杂质气体时该区域杂质的定量变化,以此来评估充入的杂质气体对芯部等离子体约束性能的影响。本文针对不同的杂质种类,建立了不同的杂质浓度估算方法。对于钨杂质,通过极紫外光谱（Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy,EUV）诊断系统测量偏滤器区域钨杂质的辐射强度,再根据碰撞-辐射模型对该区域的钨杂质浓度进行了估算。对于Ne杂质,则通过等离子体有效电荷数(Z_eff)的变化进行了Ne杂质浓度估算。基于估算结果,对辐射偏滤器条件下的芯部杂质行为进行了讨论。上述杂质浓度评估方法对开展辐射偏滤器...     

Influence of impurity seeding on the plasma radiation in the EAST tokamak

Plasma radiation characteristics in EAST argon(Ar) gas and neon(Ne) gas seeding experiments are studied.The radiation profiles reconstructed from the fast bolometer measurement data by tomography method are compared with the ones got from the simulation program based on corona model.And the simulation results coincide roughly with the experimental data.For Ar seeding discharges,the substantial enhanced radiations can be generally observed in the edge areas at normalized radius ρ_(pol)~0.7–0.9,while the enhanced regions are more outer for Ne seeding discharges.The influence of seeded Ar gas on the core radiation is related to the injected position.In discharges with LSN divertor configuration,the Ar ions can permeate into the core region more easily when being injected from the opposite upper divertor ports.In USN divertor configuration,the W impurity sputtered from the upper divertor target plates are observed to be an important contributor to the increase of the core radiation no matter impurity seeding from any ports.The maximum radiated power fractions f_(rad)(P_(rad)/P_(heat)) about 60%–70% have been achieved in the recent EAST experimental campaign in 2015–2016.