Affiliation:
1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1 , Hefei 23001, China
2. University of Science and Technology of China 2 , Hefei 230026, China
Abstract
The high-Z impurity accumulation in the plasma core could degrade the plasma performance and may affect sawtooth crash and trigger tearing modes (TMs) in experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST). Triggering of m/n = 3/2 TM (m and n are the poloidal and toroidal mode numbers, respectively) and m/n = 2/1 TM by a large sawtooth crash is observed and studied under the condition of high-Z impurity accumulation in core plasma in EAST tokamak. This work mainly focuses on the relationship among impurity, sawtooth crashes, and TMs. When there is a certain amount of impurity in the plasma core, sawtooth crash leads to impurity transport, resulting the changes in impurity concentration, and by inducing the density perturbation near the rational surface, TMs become destabilized. The experimental analyses indicate that the outward impurity transport after a sawtooth crash plays an important role in the destabilization of TMs.
Funder
National MCF Energy R&D Program, China
National Nature Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy