Absolute Impurity Concentrations During Attached and Detached Divertor Conditions in DIII-D

ORAL

Abstract

The inter-ELM intrinsic carbon impurity fraction in DIII-D is measured to be 4.5$+$/-1.0{\%} in attached H-mode conditions, falling to 0.4$+$/-0.1{\%} in detached conditions, a 10X drop and a significant departure from a fixed fraction assumption. Intensity calibrated, vertically-viewing EUV/VUV spectroscopy provides line data for dominant radiation emissions in the divertor. Spectroscopic data is interpreted using Divertor Thomson scattering (DTS) for direct measurement of electron temperature and density and ADAS for simulation of emission intensities. The EUV/VUV spectrum suggests that \textasciitilde 20{\%} of the measured spectrum is unaccounted-for by line emissions alone, suggesting that molecular emissions (D$_{\mathrm{2}}$ Lyman-Werner bands) may be present. These results provide critical benchmarks for code validation and detachment scalings, insight into divertor/scrape-off-layer (SOL) impurity transport, and reveal how efficiently the intrinsic impurity can be complemented with extrinsic sources.

Authors

  • Adam McLean

    LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • S.L. Allen

    Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • Jose Boedo

    UCSD, Univ of California - San Diego

  • Max Fenstermacher

    LLNL

  • Mathias Groth

    Aalto University

  • H.Y. Guo

    GA, General Atomics

  • E. Hollmann

    UCSD

  • Aaro Jarvinen

    LLNL

  • C Johnson

    Auburn University, Auburn Univ

  • C.J. Lasnier

    LLNL

  • Anthony Leonard

    GA, General Atomics, DIII-D National Fusion Facility, General Atomics, PO Box 85608, San Diego,CA 92186, USA, General Atomics - San Diego

  • Michael Makowski

    LLNL

  • William Meyer

    LLNL

  • Auna Moser

    General Atomics

  • C.M. Samuell

    LLNL

  • Filippo Scotti

    LLNL

  • Vsevolod Soukhanovskii

    LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Dan Thomas

    GA, General Atomics

  • H. Wang

    General Atomics - San Diego, GA, General Atomics, (GA)

  • Jon Watkins

    SNL, Sandia National Lab