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Chin. Phys. B, 2022, Vol. 31(6): 065204    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac4a65
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Study on divertor plasma behavior through sweeping strike point in new lower divertor on EAST

Yu-Qiang Tao(陶余强)1,2, Guo-Sheng Xu(徐国盛)1,†, Ling-Yi Meng(孟令义)1,2, Rui-Rong Liang(梁瑞荣)1,2, Lin Yu(余林)1,2, Xiang Liu(刘祥)1, Ning Yan(颜宁)1, Qing-Quan Yang(杨清泉)1, Xin Lin(林新)1, and Liang Wang(王亮)1,3,‡
1 Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China;
2 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
3 Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230031, China
Abstract  A series of L-mode discharges have been conducted in the new ‘corner slot’ divertor on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) to study the divertor plasma behavior through sweeping strike point. The plasma control system controls the strike point sweeping from the horizontal target to the vertical target through poloidal field coils, with keeping the main plasma stability. The surface temperature of the divertor target cools down as the strike point moves away, indicating that sweeping strike point mitigates the heat load. To avoid the negative effect of probe tip damage, a method based on sweeping strike point is used to get the normalized profile and study the decay length of particle and heat flux on the divertor target λjs, λq. In the discharges with high radio-frequency (RF) heating power, electron temperature Te is lower and λjs is larger when the strike point locates on the horizontal target compared to the vertical target, probably due to the corner effect. In the Ohmic discharges, λjs, λq are much larger compared to the discharges with high RF heating power, which may be attributed to lower edge Te.
Keywords:  EAST tokamak      divertor plasma      sweeping strike point      decay length  
Received:  28 October 2021      Revised:  07 January 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  12 January 2022
PACS:  52.55.Ez (Theta pinch)  
  52.55.Rk (Power exhaust; divertors)  
  52.40.-w (Plasma interactions (nonlaser))  
Fund: The authors would like to acknowledge collaboration of the EAST team. Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFE0301300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12005257, 12005004, 11905143, and 11922513), the Fund from the Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (Grant No. GXXT-2020-004), the CASHIPS Director's Fund (Grant Nos. BJPY2019A01 and YZJJ2020QN13), the Special Research Assistant Funding of CAS and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2020M671913), and Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 2008085QA38).
Corresponding Authors:  Guo-Sheng Xu, Liang Wang     E-mail:  gsxu@ipp.ac.cn;lwang@ipp.ac.cn

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Yu-Qiang Tao(陶余强), Guo-Sheng Xu(徐国盛), Ling-Yi Meng(孟令义), Rui-Rong Liang(梁瑞荣), Lin Yu(余林), Xiang Liu(刘祥), Ning Yan(颜宁), Qing-Quan Yang(杨清泉), Xin Lin(林新), and Liang Wang(王亮) Study on divertor plasma behavior through sweeping strike point in new lower divertor on EAST 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 065204

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