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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1322023
First quantitative analysis of the detachment processes in the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor show an unprecedented impact of plasma-molecular interactions involving molecular ions (likely $D_2^+$), resulting in strong ion sinks, leading to a reduction of ion target flux. This starts to occur as the ionisation source detaches from the target, lea…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)942022
Divertor detachment requires plasma-neutral interactions which dissipate momentum, power and particles simultaneously. Plasma-molecular interactions can result in molecular ions which react with the plasma. This can contribute to detachment through molecular activated recombination (MAR) and molecular activated dissociation (MAD), both of which cre…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(22)482022
The evolution of SOL density profiles and fluctuations have been studied at different recycling levels in 3 different tokamaks, ASDEXUpgrade, TCV and JET, all operated in HMode. In all devices we clearly observe an increase of far SOL efolding length at high …
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(21)102021
This paper shows experimental results from the TCV tokamak that indicate plasma-molecule interactions involving D+2 and possibly D− play an important role as sinks of energy (through hydrogenic radiation as well as dissociation) and particles during divertor detachment if low target temperatures (< 3 eV) are achieved. Bot…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(21)062021
In this work we provide experimental insights into the impact of plasma-molecule interactions on divertor detachment by applying new spectroscopic analysis techniques to the hydrogen Balmer line series to investigate how both atom and plasma-molecule interactions impact particle balance. Our analysis on a representative L-mode TCV density ramp dis…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)452021
Transport processes around the magnetic X-point of tokamaks, such as turbulence and mean-field drifts, are scarcely understood and difficult to investigate in experiments. In this paper, we explore the dynamics in a newly developed X-point scenario on the basic toroidal plasma device TORPEX and use it to validate plasma edge turbulence codes. In-si…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(19)282019
A detailed cross-device investigation on the role of filamentary dynamics in high density regimes has been performed within the EUROfusion framework comparing ASDEX-Upgrade (AUG) and TCV tokamaks. Both devices have run density ramp experiments at different levels of plasma current, keeping toroidal field or q95 constant in order to disentangle the …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)552019
In ITER and DEMO, achieving detachment at lower densities would allow to reduce the amount of impurity seeded and to improve confinement by running at lower separatrix densities. Analytic models predict that a increase of total flux expansion would allow such a reduction in upstream density at detachment. However, both experiments and modelling …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(18)822018
Recent experiments on TCV have made significant progress toward partial detachment of the outer divertor in neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas. The heating power required to enter H-mode was measured in a range of divertor configurations, finding that, in the vicinity of the PL-H/ne curve, the threshold power is largely independent of the poloidal …
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CCFE-PR(16)162016
Divertor detachment in the TCV tokamak has been investigated through experiments and modelling. Density ramp experiments were carried out in ohmic heated L-mode pulses with the ion B drift directed away from the primary X-point, similar to previous studies [pitts2001]. Before the roll-over in the ion current to the outer strike point, C III and D? …
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