Heat flux pattern in detached L-modes and ELM mitigated H-modes with rotating magnetic perturbations in ASDEX Upgrade

Abstract

For the first time divertor heat and particle fluxes in high-recycling and detached deuterium L- and H-mode plasmas with rotating magnetic perturbations (MPs) have been measured systematically in the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) tokamak. The capability to rotate the MP field in AUG enabled us to obtain full two-dimensional profiles of the fluxes from measurements with the divertor triple Langmuir probes. As the divertor detached it was found that the initially non-axisymmetric heat flux became increasingly axisymmetric. In particular no ‘burn-through’ of the lobes was observed in the detached divertor in H-mode. Furthermore, the measurements were compared with simulations of the transport code EMC3-EIRENE as well as a simplified model based on field line tracing.