Abstract
Erosion of molybdenum was measured on a set of 21 tiles after a run campaign of 1090 shots in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. The net erosion of molybdenum was determined from changes in the depth of a thin chromium marker layer measured by Rutherford backscattering. Net Mo erosion was found to be approximately 150 nm near the outer divertor strikepoint and much less everywhere else. Gross erosion rates by sputtering were estimated using ion energies and fluxes obtained from Langmuir probe measurements of edge-plasma conditions. Predicted net erosion using calculated gross erosion with prompt redeposition agrees with measured net erosion within a factor of three. Sputtering by impurities, mainly boron, dominates erosion.
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