期刊
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION
卷 58, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/58/1/014020
关键词
cross-polarization scattering; diagnostics; Doppler backscattering; pedestal; turbulence
资金
- Euratom research and training programme [633053]
- RCUK Energy Programme [EP/I501045]
- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-99ER54527]
- EPSRC [EP/L000237/1]
- Culham Fusion Research Fellowship
- EFDA Fusion Research Fellowship programmes
- EUROFusion fusion researcher fellowship [WP14-FRF-CCFE]
- EPSRC [EP/I500987/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L000237/1, EP/I500987/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Measurements of local density and magnetic field fluctuations near the pedestal top, conditionally averaged over the edge localized mode (ELM) cycle, have been made in Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST). A Doppler backscattering (DBS) system installed at MAST was used to measure intermediate-k (k(perpendicular to)rho(i) approximate to 3 to 4) density fluctuations at the top of the pedestal. A novel diagnostic technique combining DBS with cross-polarization scattering (CP-DBS) enabled magnetic field fluctuations to also be locally measured at similar wave numbers. Polarization isolation and other effects for CP-DBS are discussed. Both measurements were used in a series of high-beta (beta(n) approximate to 4.0-4.5) MAST plasmas with large type-I ELMs with an similar to 8 to 9 ms period where microtearing modes (MTMs) had been predicted to be unstable in similar conditions (Dickinson 2012 Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 135002). The measured density fluctuation level increased by a factor of about 4 between 2 and 4 ms after the ELM, which was correlated with the recovery of the density profile while the temperature pedestal height continued to increase slowly. Magnetic field fluctuations showed different temporal behaviors, slowly increasing throughout the ELM cycle as the local beta increased. Linear GS2 calculations show both MTM and electron temperature gradient (ETG) modes unstable at similar wave numbers as the measurements (although with more overlap between ETG wave numbers and diagnostic spectral resolution) at the top of the pedestal, along with kinetic ballooning modes are unstable lower in the pedestal (at larger wavelengths). The inferred ratio of fluctuation levels from experiment was (delta B/B)/(delta n/n) approximate to 1/20. The comparable ratios from GS2 were (delta B/B)/(delta n/n) approximate to 0.4 for the MTM and (delta B/B)/(delta n/n) approximate to 0.02 for the ETG. Both the experimental wave number range and the fluctuation ratio are more similar to the linear characteristics of the ETG than the MTM. These results imply that intermediate-k fluctuations due to the ETG play a role in inter-ELM pedestal evolution.
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