Institute of plasma physics › Structure of IPP › Fusion Plasma Division › COMPASS › Diagnostics › Probe diagnostics
Reciprocating probes
Measured quantities: | Measurement in the Scrape-off-layer region of
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Spatial resolution: | 2-4 mm |
Temporal resolution:: | 1 µs |
Responsible persons: | J. Horáček, J. Adámek |
Status: | Operational since summer 2010 |
Purpose: | Study the physics of plasma at contact with the vessel with general goal to
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Physics studied: | Turbulent processes causing anomalous plasma fluxes towards the wall and transporting impurities along the magnetic field lines. |
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Diagnostic description:
Since electrostatic probes are in direct contact with the hot plasma, they are mounted on a fast pneumatic manipulator reciprocating quickly (within 0.1 second) in and out to avoid overheating, which would cause the impurity release, and, consequenty, cooling the plasma or the probe head destruction.
At parking position the probe is behind gate valve. Therefore, either the probe head or the manipulator itself can be replaced without breaking the tokamak vacuum. Status of the head can also be checked visually through vacuum window after each discharge.
Planned Upgrades: We plan to increase speed of the manipulator and optimization of the probe heads to survive higher heat flux. If successful, we could put both probes at a single magnetic surface inside the pedestal transport barrier during the H-mode, yielding thus worldwide unique opportunity to study Long-range correlations – phenomena that might be responsible for the global plasma transition into the improved confinement H-mode.
Fig. 1: Geometry of the horizontal manipulator. The table (in blue) supports the manipulator. In park position the probe head is at position of the vacuum window (see Fig. 4), then penetrates leftward through the gate valve (green) into the tokamak vessel and reaches the plasma separatrix during fast movement.
Fig. 2: Geometry of the vertical manipulator. In park position, the head is at position of the vacuum window just above the gate valve. Then, it penetrates vertically inside the chamber to start a fast reciprocation up to the plasma separatrix.
Fig. 3: The vertical probe head.
Fig. 4: View at the horizontal probe head through the vacuum window.