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Chinese Physics, 2007, Vol. 16(11): 3451-3457    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/11/050
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Preliminary analysis of impurity transport in HL-2A ohmic discharges

Chen Wei(陈伟), Cui Zheng-Ying(崔正英), Sun Ping(孙平), Huang Yuan(黄渊), Zhang Peng(张鹏), Deng Wei(邓玮), Pan Yu-Dong(潘宇东), Shi Zhong-Bing(石中兵), Zhou Yan(周艳), Zheng Yong-Zhen(郑永真), and Yang Qing-Wei(杨青巍)
Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu 610041, China
Abstract  This paper describes the behaviour of impurity transport in HL-2A ohmic discharges. In 2005, small quantities of metallic impurities (Al, Ni and Ti) were successfully injected into HL-2A plasmas by laser blow-off technique, and their progression was followed by the soft x-ray cameras with good spatial and temporal resolutions. The impurity confinement time is estimated from the characteristic decay time of the soft x-ray signal of the injected impurities, and it is about 30–60ms. The transport coefficients of impurities (including diffusion coefficient and convection velocity) in radial different region have been derived by using a one-dimensional impurity transport code, the results present that diffusion coefficient is much smaller in the central region of plasmas than the outside of it, and it is much larger than that of neoclassical theory predictions; namely, it is anomalous.  
Keywords:  laser blow-off      impurity transport      soft x-ray emissivity      diffusion coefficient  
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PACS:  52.55.Fa (Tokamaks, spherical tokamaks)  
  52.25.Fi (Transport properties)  
  52.25.Vy (Impurities in plasmas)  

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Chen Wei(陈伟), Cui Zheng-Ying(崔正英), Sun Ping(孙平), Huang Yuan(黄渊), Zhang Peng(张鹏), Deng Wei(邓玮), Pan Yu-Dong(潘宇东), Shi Zhong-Bing(石中兵), Zhou Yan(周艳), Zheng Yong-Zhen(郑永真), and Yang Qing-Wei(杨青巍) Preliminary analysis of impurity transport in HL-2A ohmic discharges 2007 Chinese Physics 16 3451

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