Investigation of impurity transport using laser blow-off technique in the HL-2A Ohmic and ECRH plasmas

Impurity transports in two neighboring discharges with and without electron cyclotron resonance heating(ECRH)are studied in the HL-2A tokamak by laser blow-off(LBO) technique.The progression of aluminium ions as the trace impurity is monitored by soft x-ray(SXR) and bolometer detector arrays with good temporal and spatial resolutions.Obvious difference in the time trace of the signal between the Ohmic and ECRH L-mode discharges is observed.Based on the numerical simulation with one-dimensional(1D) impurity transport code STRAHL,the radial profiles of impurity diffusion coefficient D and convective velocity V are obtained for each shot.The result shows that the diffusion coefficient D significantly increases throughout the plasma minor radius for the ECRH case with respect to the Ohmic case,and that the convection velocity V changes from negative(inward) for the Ohmic case to partially positive(outward) for the ECRH case.The result on HL-2A confirms the pump out effect of ECRH on impurity profile as reported on various other devices.     

HT-6M托卡马克装置杂质输运

利用多道可见光谱探测系统和近紫外转镜系统测量了HT-6M托卡马克等离子体中杂质的时空分布.建立完备的杂质输运程序，数值模拟碳、氧杂质在欧姆放电时的输运行为，得出了杂质的扩散和对流系数、不同电离态杂质离子密度、辐射功率密度和有效电荷数的空间分布. 分析低混杂波电流驱动（LHCD）期间杂质行为，结果表明等离子体粒子约束、杂质约束和能 量约束提高，辐射功率和有效电荷数减小. 关键词： 托卡马克 杂质输运 扩散系数 对流系数     

磁约束等离子体中杂质离子的输运方程

On the basis of the non-equilibrium statistical theory, the transport equations of various impurity ions, deuterium ions and electrons, namely the special multi-component plasma, were derived from Fokker-Planck kinetic equation. The transport dynamics of impurity ions with Zth-level charges forming in the various ionization levels and the contribution of explicit collisions between different particles were systematically analyzed. In addition, the obtained transport equations of various impurity ions are more compact and elegant.     

HL-lM装置杂质粒子输运与约束特性

在HL-lM装置上利用激光吹气技术,在等离子体边缘瞬态注入少量Al杂质粒子,通过对真空紫外光谱和软X射线区的杂质辐射测量,分别研究了欧姆等离子体和低杂波电流驱动等离子体两种情况下,Al杂质粒子输运与约束特性。结果表明：在欧姆等离子体和低杂波电流驱动等离子体两种情况下,等离子体中心区,在没有MHD锯齿震荡和有MHD锯齿震荡非锯齿破裂期间,杂质粒子输运基本上受新经典规律支配;在有MHD锯齿震荡锯齿破裂期间,杂质粒子输运受MHD不稳定性支配,但其时间很短(通常小于300μs),所以在这种情况下,杂质粒子输运的平均效应比新经典值稍大。而约束区杂质粒子输运则比新经典的值大很多,是反常的。在一定条件下低混杂波电流驱动可以改善等离子体粒子约束。     

HL-2A装置上边界间歇性事件与湍流粒子输运的统计学研究

通过对粒子概率分布函数的计算，发现在高等离子体密度下边界间歇性事件的爆发频率有所增加。通过条件平均的手段，正负间歇性事件得以区分，并发现了二者在空间上的不同特征。不同密度梯度下的湍流粒子输运计算表明，间歇性事件与湍流粒子输运之间存在密切联系，间歇性事件的存在能够大大增加湍流粒子输运的大小。在高等离子体密度时，间歇性事件的强度有所增加，而与之相应地，湍流粒子输运的大小也有所增强。     

A particle-in-cell simulation of dust charging and shielding in lowpressure glow discharges

The transport of particles (“dust”) in low pressure electrical glow discharges is being studied in regard to its role in contaminating silicon wafers during plasma etching and deposition. Particles (10 s nm-μm) negatively charge in glow discharges and, to first order, appear to be massively large negative ions around which sheaths develop. The forces on particles in plasmas include electrostatic (drift of charged particles in electric fields) and viscous ion drag. The latter force is momentum transfer from ions to particles by either collisions or orbital motion. This force critically depends on the charge on the particle and the shape of the sheath surrounding the particle. In this work, we report on a pseudoparticle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of the transport of electrons and ions in the vicinity of dust particles in low pressure glow discharges. The simulation produces the electrical charge on the dust particle, the sheath structure around the dust particle and the orbital dynamics of the ions. A companion molecular dynamics simulation uses these parameters to produce ion-dust and electron-dust particle cross sections for momentum transfer and collection. Results will be discussed for charge, sheath thickness, cross sections and viscous ion drag forces on dust particles as a function of radius and plasma parameters     

经典漂移对EAST钨杂质产生和输运特性影响的模拟研究

本文采用蒙特卡罗杂质输运程序DIVIMP,针对先进实验超导托卡马克(EAST)的上单零位形放电,模拟研究了不同漂移情况下(无漂移、离子BíB漂移向下/上)的钨杂质产生和输运特性。结果表明,经典漂移显著影响了钨杂质自偏滤器靶板的溅射通量及其在上游区域的含量。     

Preliminary analysis of impurity transport in HL-2A ohmic discharges

This paper describes the behaviour of impurity transport in HL-2A ohmic discharges. In 2005, small quantities of metallic impurities （A1, 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 30-60 ms. The transport coefficients of impurities （including diffusion coefficient and convection velocity） in radial different region have been derived by using a one-dimenslonal 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.[第一段]     

Ionization Potential Depression in Hot Dense Plasmas Through a Pure Classical Model

The ionization potential of an ion embedded in a plasma, lowered due to the whole of the charged particles (ions and electrons) interacting with this ion, is the so‐called plasma effect. A numerical plasma model based on classical molecular dynamics has been developed recently. It is capable to describe a neutral plasma at equilibrium involving ions of various charge states of the same atom together with electrons. This code is used here to investigate the ionization potential depression (IPD). The study of the IPD is illustrated and discussed for aluminum plasmas at mid and solid density and electron temperatures varying from 50eV to 190eV. The method relies on a sampling of the total potential energy of the electron located at an ion being ionized. The potential energy of such electron results from all of the interacting charged particles interacting with it. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

A Kinetic Code System to Study Impurity Deposition and Fuel Retention in Gaps Between Divertor Tiles

For the purpose of investigating impurity deposition and fuel retention in gaps between divertor tiles, we combine a three‐dimensional Monte Carlo impurity transport code ITCD with a Particle‐In‐Cell Monte Carlo collision code plus a plasma‐surface interaction (PSI) code. The simulation results show that a potential hill formed near the entrance of the gap can prevent the ionized eroded carbon species from entering the gap. It is found that carbon sources for the co‐deposition in gaps are mainly located at the plasma‐closest edges of the gap, and this finding indicates that special measures associated with the engineering issues should be taken to minimize fuel retention in gaps. The smaller scale of carbon sources inside the gap and the existence of the potential hill near the entrance of the gap are the reasons why the eroded carbon species spatial density is lower inside the gap than outside the gap. Through the study on several scenarios with different substrate and plasma temperatures, the simulation with the combined code can deepen the understanding of fuel retention in the codeposited layers in gaps (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Study of multiple impurity seeding effect using SONIC integrated divertor code for JT-60SA plasma prediction

In order to study the potential impurity seeding operation regime of the future fusion devices, the first application of the integrated divertor code SONIC to the Ar + Ne mixed-impurity seeding operation of JT-60SA steady-state high-β plasma has been carried out. In the case, Ne is added to Ar-only seeding, the separatrix electron density has fell into the desired low separatrix electron density of the scenario. This is mainly because the D⁺ flow velocity towards the inner divertor has been increased by the Ne seeding. The resultant friction force transports Ar impurities towards the inner divertor region, while impurities are stagnated in the top of scrape-off layer (SOL) in the Ar-only seeding case. The higher impurity radiation power in the divertor regions and lower one in the SOL region above the X point have been obtained in mixed-impurity seeding cases, which show similar tendency as the Ar + Ne mixed-impurity seeding experiment in JT-60 U. At the core edge, Z_eff has been slightly increased and the radiation power has been decreased as the Ne seeding rate increases. The core plasma/impurity transport has been also evaluated by the TOPICS code using the impurity density at the core edge computed by the SONIC as a boundary parameter. The results show lower Z_eff and radiation power, and higher electron temperature in the core in the mixed-impurity seeding cases. Above possible contributors to the better energy confinement indicate that the mixed-impurity seeding operation might be more effective than Ar-only seeding operation.     

Measurement of temperature of a dusty plasma from its configuration

A new concept called “configurational temperature” is introduced in the context of dusty plasma, where the temperature of the dust particles submerged in the plasma can be measured directly from the positional information of the individual dust particles and the interaction potential between the dust grains. This method does not require the velocity information of individual particles, which is a key parameter to measure the dust temperature in the conventional method. The technique is initially tested using two-dimensional (2D) OpenMP parallel molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation and then compared with the temperature evaluated from experimental data. The experiment have been carried out in the Dusty Plasma Experimental (DPEx) device, where a 2D stationary plasma crystal of melamine formaldehyde particles is formed in the cathode sheath of a DC glow discharge argon plasma. The kinetic temperature of the dust is calculated using the standard particle image velocimetry technique at different pressures. An extended simulation result for the three-dimensional case is also presented, which can be employed for the temperature measurement of a three-dimensional dust crystal in laboratory devices.     

Sizing of particles levitating in a glow discharge dusty plasma

The dust particle size distribution in a volume glow discharge dusty plasma is studied. Polydisperse quartz particles are used as a dust component. It is found that a dusty plasma forms in a glow discharge not only in a dust trap but also near the wall at the bottom of the discharge chamber. Dust objects in the latter region are large: they contain up to 30000 particles. The size of particles levitating in discharge striations is three times larger than that of particles levitating near the wall. The idea of using the glow discharge dusty plasma for particle-size fractionation of polydisperse powder is put forward.     

Absolute concentrations of light impurity ions in tokamak discharges measured with lithium-beam-activated charge-exchange spectroscopy

We demonstrate the application of Li-CXS (fast lithium-beam-activated charge exchange spectroscopy) for measuring spatially and temporally resolved impurity ion concentrations in the TEXTOR tokamak edge plasma. After briefly describing the method of Li-CXS and its capabilities, we present a model for attenuation and atomic state population of an injected Li beam due to collisional interactions with the background plasma particles, taking into account up to eight excited LiI states for considering stepwise excitation-ionization processes.Measured impurity radiation characteristics resulting from Li-activated CX of C ^q+ (q=5, 6) in ohmically heated TEXTOR plasmas are evaluated with the above model and lead to the corresponding impurity ion concentrations within the TEXTOR edge region.     

Classical impurity ion confinement in a toroidal magnetized fusion plasma

High-resolution measurements of impurity ion dynamics provide first-time evidence of classical ion confinement in a toroidal, magnetically confined plasma. The density profile evolution of fully stripped carbon is measured in MST reversed-field pinch plasmas with reduced magnetic turbulence to assess Coulomb-collisional transport without the neoclassical enhancement from particle drift effects. The impurity density profile evolves to a hollow shape, consistent with the temperature screening mechanism of classical transport. Corroborating methane pellet injection experiments expose the sensitivity of the impurity particle confinement time to the residual magnetic fluctuation amplitude.     

Stable dust structures in non-self-sustained gas discharge under atmospheric pressure

The formation of stable dust structures in electron-beam-controlled non-self-sustained discharge plasma was predicted and experimentally observed. To determine the conditions for dust-particle levitation, the self-consisted one-dimensional simulation of a non-self-sustained gas discharge was carried out using a nonlocal model of charged plasma-particle transport with allowance for electron diffusion. It is shown that, in the cathode layer of a non-self-sustained gas discharge, a strong electric field arises in the Thomson regime, which, in conjunction with the gravity force, forms a potential well where the dust particles undergo levitation.     

硅纳米结构晶体管中与杂质量子点相关的量子输运

在小于10 nm的沟道空间中,杂质数目和杂质波动范围变得十分有限,这对器件性能有很大的影响.局域纳米空间中的电离杂质还能够展现出量子点特性,为电荷输运提供两个分立的杂质能级.利用杂质原子作为量子输运构件的硅纳米结构晶体管有望成为未来量子计算电路的基本组成器件.本文结合安德森定域化理论和Hubbard带模型对单个、分立和耦合杂质原子系统中的量子输运特性进行了综述,系统介绍了提升杂质原子晶体管工作温度的方法.     

Hybrid Two-Dimensional Electron Transport in Self-Consistent Electromagnetic Fields

The paper outlines features of the implicit hybrid simulation code ANTHEM, which uniquely provides histories for the transport and deposition of suprathermal and thermal electrons in laserproduced plasmas. The code models two-dimensional electron transport through steep density gradients and across contiguous collisional and collisionless target regions with the plasma dynamics dominated by self-consistent E and B fields. ANTHEM employs separate Eulerian fluid ion and thermal electron treatments and models suprathermal electrons as either a third fluid or as a set of collisional particle-in-cell (PIC) particles. We outline new techniques required to obtain implicit electromagnetic fields in two spatial dimensions permitting time steps well in excess of the local plasma period. A new implicit scattering model is discussed. The utility of our approach is demonstrated with sample applications to collisional surface transport on foil targets.     

Formation of plasma dust structures at atmospheric pressure

The formation of strongly coupled stable dust structures in the plasma produced by an electron beam at atmospheric pressure was detected experimentally. Analytical expressions were derived for the ionization rate of a gas by an electron beam in an axially symmetric geometry by comparing experimental data with Monte Carlo calculations. Self-consistent one-dimensional simulations of the beam plasma were performed in the diffusion drift approximation of charged plasma particle transport with electron diffusion to determine the dust particle levitation conditions. Since almost all of the applied voltage drops on the cathode layer in the Thomson glow regime of a non-self-sustained gas discharge, a distribution of the electric field that grows toward the cathode is produced in it; this field together with the gravity produces a potential well in which the dust particles levitate to form a stable disk-shaped structure. The nonideality parameters of the dust component in the formation region of a highly ordered quasi-crystalline structure calculated using computational data for the dust particle charging problem were found to be higher than the critical value after exceeding which an ensemble of particles with a Yukawa interaction should pass to the crystalline state.     

The effect of B2O3 impurity in the original B powder on the phase formation of MgB2 during the sintering process

Combined with the thermal analysis and phase identification, the influence of the B₂O₃ impurity in the original B powder on the phase formation of MgB₂ during the sintering process was investigated. It is found that how the B₂O₃ impurity in the original B powder affects the sintering process of MgB₂ depends on the reactivity of Mg particles in the original powder. If the Mg particles in the original powder are small and reactive enough, the B₂O₃ impurity could react with them before Mg melting during the sintering process and accelerate the solid–solid reaction between Mg and B. Otherwise, the B₂O₃ impurity could not react with Mg particles before Mg melting and depress the solid–solid reaction between Mg and B.