EFFECT OF DEUTERIUM PLASMAS ON CARBON IMPURITY TRANSPORT IN THE EDGE STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELD LAYER OF LARGE HELICAL DEVICE
EFFECT OF DEUTERIUM PLASMAS ON CARBON IMPURITY TRANSPORT IN THE EDGE STOCHASTIC MAGNETIC FIELD LAYER OF LARGE HELICAL DEVICE
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2018
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T. Oishi;S. Morita;M. Kobayashi;G. Kawamura;Y. Liu;M. Goto
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T. Oishi;S. Morita;M. Kobayashi;G. Kawamura;Y. Liu;M. Goto
The ergodic layer of Large Helical Device (LHD) consists of stochastic magnetic fields with three-dimensional structure intrinsically formed by helical coils. Reduction of the parallel impurity transport in the ergodic layer, so called “impurity screening”, has been studied in LHD. In the paper, the space-resolved vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy for carbon impurities is applied to deuterium (D) plasmas to clarify the effect of the bulk ion mass on the impurity transport in the ergodic layer. Doppler profile measurement at the second order of CIV line emission (2 × 1548.20 Å) is attempted using a 3 m normal incidence VUV spectrometer in the edge plasma at a horizontally-elongated plasma position. The flow velocity becomes the maximum value at the position close to the outermost region of the ergodic layer. The direction of the observed flow is same as the friction force in the parallel momentum balance calculated with a three-dimensional simulation code, EMC3-EIRENE. The flow velocity increases with the electron density in the hydrogen (H) plasmas. The result supports a prediction from the simulation that the friction force becomes more dominant in the force balance in higher density regime. It leads to the increase in the impurity flow which can develop the impurity screening. On the other hand, the flow velocity in the D plasma is smaller than that in the H plasma. The mass dependence of the thermal velocity of the bulk ions could be one of the reasons for the difference of the flow values between D and H plasmas when the friction force term is dominant in the momentum balance.