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First measurements with U-probe on the COMPASS tokamak
Kovařík, Karel ; Ďuran, Ivan ; Stöckel, Jan ; Seidl, Jakub ; Šesták, David ; Brotánková, J. ; Spolaore, M. ; Martines, E. ; Vianello, N.
A complex electrostatic-magnetic probe diagnostics, baptized as ‘U-probe’, has been installed on COMPASS tokamak recently. Probe composes of two identical towers. Each tower houses 3 radially spaced sets of 3D coils, triple probe and rake probe – array of six Langmuir probes. The U-probe measures electric and magnetic properties of the filamentary structures in the edge plasma, particularly the floating potential profile and local magnetic field within the plasma filaments. Contribution presents first tests and results obtained.
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U-probe for the COMPASS Tokamak
Kovařík, Karel ; Ďuran, Ivan ; Stöckel, Jan ; Seidl, Jakub ; Šesták, David ; Brotánková, J. ; Spolaore, M. ; Martines, E. ; Vianello, N. ; Hidalgo, C. ; Pedrosa, M. A.
A complex electrostatic-magnetic probe diagnostics, baptized as 'U-probe', is being prepared for measurement of properties of the filamentary structures in the edge plasmas of COMPASS tokamak. Probe will be composed of two identical towers. Each tower will house 3 sets of 3D coils, balanced triple probe and six single Langmuir probes each. The design of the probe is based on that of U-probe used on reversed field pinch RFX-mod and our combined electromagnetic probe at TJ-II stellarator. This new COMPASS diagnostic will measure vorticity and longitudial electric current of the plasma filaments. Analysis of the properties and, particularly, the correlation between filament vorticity and its current is expected to shed light into physics of filamentary structures in the tokamak plasma edge. The simulation of the probe surface temperature evolution as a function of expected incident heat loads within the COMPASS edge plasmas is presented.
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