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Miniproposal:267
Date Filed: 4/4/2000
Title:Dependence of SOL Fluctuations and Particle Transport on Collisionality
First Author:Brian Labombard
Session Leader:Brian Labombard (shots 1-23)

Operators
Session leader(s):Brian Labombard
Physics operator(s):Dmitri Mossessian
Engineering operator(s):Bill Parkin,Bill Byford

Engineering Operator Run Comment
SL:Labombard,PO:Mossessian,EO:Byford,Parkin MP 267 Dependence of SOL Flu

Session Leader Plans

Physics Operators Plans

Session Leader Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 03:49:25:163PM
Author: To Be Determined
MP#267 - reversed field

"Dependence of SOL Fluctuations and Particle Transport on Collisionality"
- reversed field, Day 1

Session Leader - B. LaBombard
Phys Op - D. Mossessian

Overall objectives of MP#267:

"The purpose of these experiments is to explore the dependence of
SOL fluctuation characteristics and attendant cross-field particle
transport on the collisionality of the SOL."

Reason for today's run:

Note: Runs 1001101 and 1001102 were also aimed at completing Day 1 of this MP,
but were mostly unsuccessful. So we attempted to do Day 1 of this MP again today.

Reversed field/current allows some important measurements
to be made on particle transport in the SOL and the associated
levels of plasma turbulence. From a series of shots over ~2
run days we hope to do the following:

(1) get data on SOL particle transport (using Ly-alpha diag.) in
reversed field. Does the field direction affect the 'scaling' of
Deff with collisionality?

(2) get data on in-out asymmetries. The outer divertor conditions should
change in reversed B. This may impact (1) through changes in the
sheath conditions at the divertor plate (e.g., affecting the propagation
velocity of the 'blobs' if they somehow involve the 'sheath impedance'
via a theory such as that outlined recently by S. Krasheninnikov)

(3) get data on field-reversed C2D4 plumes. ExB should now carry the
plume away from the probe shaft, resulting in plumes that may
be easier to interpret. The 'reversed flows' associated with
low collisionality near the separatrix should now become 'normal
flows' with reversed B. This should be interesting for the plumes.
The magnitude of Er in reversed B is of interest also.

(4) get fluctuation data from scanning probe and fast diodes systems.
Is the SOL plasma fluctuation character the same in reversed B?


Today's run was to cover the Day 1 plan outlined in MP#267:

Day 1 (today):
Fine density scan at fixed plasma current (0.8 MA) and
toroidal field (5.3 tesla).

Results:
This day was only slightly better than 1001102.
We got only 10 usable plasmas, but because we had the targeting
already set up from yesterday's run, we were able to make
good use of 8-1/2 of these. We managed to get another rough
density scan: NL04 ~0.5, ~0.7, ~1.0, ~1.2. It is time
to declare that Day 1 for the reversed MP267 is complete.
We should have enough data to see if fluctuations,
particle transport and its scaling with collisionality cares
about B field direction.

The divertor probes operated much better today
indicating that perhaps they were contaminated from the
recent 'up-to-air' and needed to be conditioned with
plasma. Still, there are some problems with the interpreting
the I-V characteristics on the outer divertor when the
temperature there gets low there (shots with NL04 > ~ 1.0).
These 'artifacts' are not seen in normal field direction
plasmas so the field direction must somehow enter
into the explanation.

There are also some interesting cases when
the electron temperatures reported by the East and West probes
were different on the ASP, favoring higher Te on the West probe.
These need to be look at carefully. The bias voltage
range on the East and West probes were different and it
is important to sort out if an 'artifact' is introduced
by this somehow.

In-out divertor asymmetries appeared again today,
favoring somewhat hotter Te on the inner divertor, but not
always.

The East probe (or its coaxial cable) on the ASP
continues to give us trouble. The probe again exhibited
intermittent short-circuit behavior.

Shot notes:
FSP setup: N, S in Vf mode, E-W in double probe sweep mode
ASP setup: N, S in Vf mode, E,W in single probe sweep mode
ASP East probe was operated with reduced bias (except for shot#22)
to try to work-around an intermittent short circuit problem.
FSP and ASP always scanning at .7, .95 and 1.2 sec

Shot 2 - NL04 ~ 0.5
ASP in single scan dwell/fluctuation mode - this was not successful,
the East and West probes were swept by mistake (change in power
supply arrangement).
Divetor probes in fluctuation mode

Shot 10 - NL04 ~ 0.5
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermittent short
FSP in far SOL with plumes

Shot 11 - NL04 ~ 0.7 ramping to > 0.8
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermittent short
FSP in far SOL with plumes

Shot 12 - NL04 ~ 0.75 ramping to ~ 0.9
FSP scanning to LCFS with plumes

Shot 13 - NL04 ~1.0
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermittent short, operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning to LCFS with plumes

Shot 14 - NL04 ~1.0
ASP to separatrix.
FSP scanning outside LCFS with plumes

Shot 15 - NL04 ramping 1.0 to 1.2
ASP not quite to separatrix?
FSP scanning outside LCFS with plumes

Shot 16 - NL04 ramping 1.15 to 1.3
ASP to separatrix.
FSP scanning to LCFS with plumes

Shot 21 - NL04 ramping 0.95 to 1.05
ASP to separatrix.
FSP scanning to far SOL with plumes

Shot 22 - NL04 ramping 0.75 then an injection increases the density to 1.3
ASP beyond separatrix (may cause injection).
East probe operating with FULL bias.
FSP scanning far SOL with plumes

Physics Operator Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 04:37:12:600PM
Author: To Be Determined
Run summary for November 3, 2000

SL LaBombard
PO Mossessian
Run in support of MP 267 - Dependence of SOL Fluctuations and Particle Transport on Collisionality
now with reversed (positive) toroidal field and plasma current

_________________________________________________
Run plan:

overnight discharge cleaning in D_2, stopping 2 hours before the run.

Run begins at 9:00 and ends at 17:00.
Cell will close at 7:30AM

Power system setup as on 1001012017

Gas setup - fill B-top with 6 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
fill B-side lower with 1 psi of Ar Hybrid enabled
fill B-side upper with 35 psi of D2 Hybrid DISABLED (for ECDC)
fill C-side with 30 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
leave J-bottom as is Hybrid DISABLED

The following gate valves should be enabled, assuming no vacuum problems:
ECE, VUV, NPA (aka Beast)

This will be an ohmic run; RF is not required though it may do coupling studies.
The purpose of these experiments is to explore the dependence of SOL
fluctuation characteristics and attendent cross-field particle transport on the
collisionality of the SOL.
________________________________________________

Summary:

There was a lot of problems with startup - fields changing, plasma hitting outer wall, having vertical problems and so on
(see details below). But there were good shots too. Basically, when Br, Bz and prefill were set correctly, plasma run well and
the required density scan was accomplished.

Scorecard:

9 plasmas
13 fizzles
1 dud

23 shots


_______________________________________________

Details:

1001103001 Fizzle. Br and Bz too high.

For next shot: Drop Br offset by 1 mT, Bz 1325 -> 1315

1001103002 Plasma. Br may be a little too low now, there is some vertical
motion after breakdown.

For next shot: no changes

1001103003 Fizzle. It seems the plasma moves up too much.
Also the gas is a little higher than on shot 2

For next shot: Lower Br a little, lower gas 21 -> 19 msec

1001103004 Fizzle. Bz too negative ?

For next shot: get Bz back to initial setting

1001103005 Fizzle.

For next shot: Load shot 2, lower gas to 20 msec, add .5mT Br offset

1001103006 Fizzle. Fields look fine. Current rises slow.

For next shot: Lower gas to 19 msec

1001103007 Fizzle. Lost some magnetics data (Magnetics TRAQ_1 data corrupted), so we don't
know how it moves, but it looks like it hit something (too much CII).

For next shot: Following Steve Wolfe's suggestion, drop EF1 both lower and upper
by 100A to make it more vertically stable. No other changes.

1001103008 Dud. Bz is too negative (as it should be because of EF1 change)

For next shot: EF4 1315 -> 1335

1001103009 Fizzle. Bz still looks too low.

For next shot: EF4 1335 -> 1350

1001103010 Plasma. Nice breakdown but hesitation after 0.01.

For next shot: Drop EF4 1350 ->1345 to get slightly more negative Bz.
target nl -> 7e19, right gap to 1.5 cm (was about 1 cm) -
RCUR down by 0.25 cm

1001103011 Plasma. Bad hesitation.

For next shot: Increase gas a little trying to slow current rise.
Also tweak RCUR a little around .7 sec to make right gap
more steady

1001103012 Plasma. Same as shot 11.

For next shot: Lower Bz EF4 1345 -> 1340
Target nl to 1e20

1001103013 Plasma.

For next shot: no changes

1001103014 Plasma.

For next shot: target to 1.2e20

1001103015 Plasma.

For next shot: no changes

1001103016 Plasma. Killed by a vertical instability that
develops after 1 sec

For next shot: Set EFC limit to 900 V (was 800) to help stabilize things.
target back to 1.oe20

1001103017 Fizzle. Bz seems to be a little low

For next shot: Bz up, EF4 1340 -> 1345

1001103018 Fizzle. Bz still too low - plasma's on the wall

For next shot: EF4 1345 -> 1360 (Bz up)

1001103019 Fizzle. Plasma starts up real nice, and then something hits it at 0.015 sec.


For next shot: Add 1 mT to Br offset to push plasma down

1001103020 Fizzle. May be it's too far out.

For next shot: Drop EF4 1360 -> 1350, and return Br back to level of shot 19

1001103021 Plasma. Early breakdown, but then it hits outer wall again.

For next shot: Drop Bz EF4 1350 -> 1345, gas to 21 msec, target nl to 7e19

1001103022 Plasma. Massive injection at .95 sec and disruption at 1.25

For next shot: Set target nl to 5e19

1001103023 Fizzle.

Session Leader Comments
Nov 3 2000 08:45:15:297AMBrian LabombardMP#267 - reversed field

"Dependence of SOL Fluctuations and Particle Transport on Collisionality" - reversed field, Day 1

Note: Runs 1001101 and 1001102 were also aimed at completing Day 1 of this MP,
but were unsuccessful. So we are attempting to do Day 1 of this MP again today.

Session Leader - B. LaBombard
Phys Op - D. Mossessian

==============================================================================
Overall objectives of MP#267:

"The purpose of these experiments is to explore the dependence of
SOL fluctuation characteristics and attendant cross-field particle
transport on the collisionality of the SOL."

Reason for today's run:

Reversed field/current allows some important measurements
to be made on particle transport in the SOL and the associated
levels of plasma turbulence. From a series of shots over ~2
run days we hope to do the following:

(1) get data on SOL particle transport (using Ly-alpha diag.) in
reversed field. Does the field direction affect the 'scaling' of
Deff with collisionality?

(2) get data on in-out asymmetries. The outer divertor conditions should
change in reversed B. This may impact (1) through changes in the
sheath conditions at the divertor plate (e.g., affecting the propagation
velocity of the 'blobs' if they somehow involve the 'sheath impedance'
via a theory such as that outlined recently by S. Krasheninnikov)

(3) get data on field-reversed C2D4 plumes. ExB should now carry the
plume away from the probe shaft, resulting in plumes that may
be easier to interpret. The 'reversed flows' associated with
low collisionality near the separatrix should now become 'normal
flows' with reversed B. This should be interesting for the plumes.
The magnitude of Er in reversed B is of interest also.

(4) get fluctuation data from scanning probe and fast diodes systems.
Is the SOL plasma fluctuation character the same in reversed B?


Today's run was to cover the Day 1 plan outlined in MP#267:

Day 1 (today):
Fine density scan at fixed plasma current (0.8 MA) and
toroidal field (5.3 tesla).
Nov 3 2000 09:40:57:467AM1001103002Brian LabombardShot 2 - NL04 ~ 0.5
ASP in single scan dwell/fluctuation mode
Divetor probes in fluctuation mode
FSP scanning at 0.7, 0.95, and 1.2 sec

Next shot - repeat with ASP scanning to LCFS and FSP in far SOL


Nov 3 2000 09:57:05:857AM1001103003Brian LabombardShot 3 - Fiz

Next shot - try again, with FSP scaning in far SOL and ASP/DIV in single scan fluctuation mode


Nov 3 2000 10:22:45:000AM1001103005Brian LabombardShot 4,5 - Fiz

Next shot - try again, with FSP scaning in far SOL and ASP scanning to sep.


Nov 3 2000 12:12:02:047PM1001103010Brian LabombardShot 10 - NL04 ~ 0.5
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short
FSP in far SOL with plumes

Next shot - go to NL04 ~ 0.7


Nov 3 2000 12:38:31:123PM1001103011Brian LabombardShot 11 - NL04 ~ 0.7 ramping to > 0.8
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short
FSP in far SOL with plumes

Next shot - repeat with FSP at separatrix


Nov 3 2000 12:57:47:983PM1001103012Brian LabombardShot 12 - NL04 ~ 0.75 ramping to ~ 0.9
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short, operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning to LCFS with plumes

Next shot - go to NL04 ~ 1.0


Nov 3 2000 01:29:48:403PM1001103013Brian LabombardShot 13 - NL04 ~1.0
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short, operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning to LCFS with plumes

Next shot - repeat with ASP further in and FSP pulled out


Nov 3 2000 01:48:25:327PM1001103014Brian LabombardShot 14 - NL04 ~1.0
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short, operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning outside LCFS with plumes

Next shot - go to NL04 ~ 1.2


Nov 3 2000 02:08:21:153PM1001103015Brian LabombardShot 15 - NL04 ramping 1.0 to 1.2
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short, operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning outside LCFS with plumes

Next shot - repeat with ASP and FSP inserted deeper.


Nov 3 2000 02:33:37:950PM1001103016Brian LabombardShot 16 - NL04 ramping 1.15 to 1.3
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe has intermitent short, operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning to LCFS with plumes

Next shot - got back to NL04 ~ 1.0 with FSP targeted 7 mm out.


Nov 3 2000 04:25:10:623PM1001103021Brian LabombardShot 21 - NL04 ramping 0.95 to 1.05
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe operating with reduced bias.
FSP scanning to far SOL with plumes

Next shot - go to NL04 ~ 0.7, again with FSP targeted 7 mm out.


Nov 3 2000 04:53:24:827PM1001103022Brian LabombardShot 22 - NL04 ramping 0.75 then an injection increases the density to 1.3
Setup: ASP N,S in Vf mode, E,W in single probes sweep mode
ASP & FSP scanning at .7, .95, and 1.2 sec
ASP to separatrix. East probe operating with FULL bias.
FSP scanning to far SOL with plumes

Next shot - got to NL04 ~ 0.5, again with FSP targeted 7 mm out.


Physics Operator Comments
Nov 3 2000 08:45:27:310AMDmitri MossessianRun plan:

SL LaBombard
PO Mossessian
MP 267 Dependence of SOL Fluctuations and Particle Transport on Collisionality
now with reversed (positive) toroidal field and plasma current

overnight discharge cleaning in D_2, stopping 2 hours before the run.

Run begins at 9:00 and ends at 17:00.
Cell will close at 7:30AM

Power system setup as on 1001012017

Gas setup - fill B-top with 6 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
fill B-side lower with 1 psi of Ar Hybrid enabled
fill B-side upper with 35 psi of D2 Hybrid DISABLED (for ECDC)
fill C-side with 30 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
leave J-bottom as is Hybrid DISABLED

The following gate valves should be enabled, assuming no vacuum problems:
ECE, VUV, NPA (aka Beast)

This will be an ohmic run; RF is not required though it may do coupling studies.
The purpose of these experiments is to explore the dependence of SOL
fluctuation characteristics and attendent cross-field particle transport on the
collisionality of the SOL.

________________________________________________

8:40 AM. Start PCS

Load shot 1001102020

Coldstart OK
Nov 3 2000 09:19:44:547AM1001103001Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Br and Bz too high.

For next shot: Drop Br offset by 1 mT, Bz 1325 -> 1315
Nov 3 2000 09:36:46:437AM1001103002Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Br may be a little too low now, there is some vertical
motion after breakdown.

For next shot: no changes
Nov 3 2000 09:57:58:577AM1001103003Dmitri MossessianFizzle. It seems the plasma moves up too much.
Also the gas is a little higher than on shot 2

For next shot: Lower Br a little, lower gas 21 -> 19 msec
Nov 3 2000 10:10:35:343AM1001103004Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Bz too negative ?

For next shot: get Bz back to initial setting
Nov 3 2000 10:29:04:513AM1001103005Dmitri MossessianFizzle.

For next shot: Load shot 2, lower gas to 20 msec, add .5mT Br offset
Nov 3 2000 10:50:15:230AM1001103006Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Fields look fine. Current rises slow.

For next shot: Lower gas to 19 msec
Nov 3 2000 11:21:11:980AM1001103007Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Lost some magnetics data (Magnetics TRAQ_1 data corrupted), so we don't
know how it moves, but it looks like it hit something (too much CII).

For next shot: Following Steve Wolfe's suggestion, drop EF1 both lower and upper
by 100A to make it more vertically stable. No other changes.
Nov 3 2000 11:58:19:763AM1001103008Dmitri MossessianDud. Bz is too negative (as it should be because of EF1 change)

For next shot: EF4 1315 -> 1335
Nov 3 2000 11:53:30:327AM1001103009Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Bz still looks too low.

For next shot: EF4 1335 -> 1350
Nov 3 2000 12:16:13:683PM1001103010Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Nice breakdown but hesitation after 0.01.

For next shot: Drop EF4 1350 ->1345 to get slightly more negative Bz.
target nl -> 7e19, right gap to 1.5 cm (was about 1 cm) -
RCUR down by 0.25 cm
Nov 3 2000 12:36:24:903PM1001103011Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Bad hesitation.

For next shot: Increase gas a little trying to slow current rise.
Also tweak RCUR a little around .7 sec to make right gap
more steady
Nov 3 2000 12:54:50:793PM1001103012Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Same as shot 11.

For next shot: Lower Bz EF4 1345 -> 1340
Target nl to 1e20
Nov 3 2000 01:22:43:687PM1001103013Dmitri MossessianPlasma.

For next shot: no changes
Nov 3 2000 01:44:17:153PM1001103014Dmitri MossessianPlasma.

For next shot: target to 1.2e20
Nov 3 2000 02:10:35:763PM1001103015Dmitri MossessianPlasma.

For next shot: no changes
Nov 3 2000 02:35:15:967PM1001103016Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Plasma is being killed by a vertical instability that
develops after 1 sec

For next shot: Set EFC limit to 900 V (was 800) to help stabilize things.
target back to 1.oe20
Nov 3 2000 03:01:38:483PM1001103017Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Bz seems to be a little low

For next shot: Bz up, EF4 1340 -> 1345
Nov 3 2000 03:18:42:780PM1001103018Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Bz still too low - plasma's on the wall

For next shot: EF4 1345 -> 1360 (Bz up)
Nov 3 2000 03:45:57:297PM1001103019Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Plasma starts up real nice, and then something hits it at 0.015 sec.


For next shot: Add 1 mT to Br offset to push plasma down
Nov 3 2000 03:56:34:403PM1001103020Dmitri MossessianFizzle. May be it's too far out.

For next shot: Drop EF4 1360 -> 1350, and return Br back to level of shot 19
Nov 3 2000 04:19:24:967PM1001103021Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Early breakdown, but then it hits outer wall again.

For next shot: Drop Bz EF4 1350 -> 1345, gas to 21 msec, target nl to 7e19
Nov 3 2000 04:45:59:327PM1001103022Dmitri MossessianPlasma. Massive injection at .95 sec and disruption at 1.25

For next shot: Set target nl to 5e19
Nov 3 2000 05:07:46:577PM1001103023Dmitri MossessianFizzle. Br too low ?

Engineering Operator Comments
ShotTimeTypeStatusComment
109:06:59:530AMPlasmaOk
209:26:58:890AMPlasmaOk
309:43:00:327AMPlasmaOk
410:01:54:327AMPlasmaOk
510:18:58:670AMPlasmaOk
610:38:32:077AMPlasmaOk
711:03:02:123AMPlasmaOk
811:23:05:640AMPlasmaOk
911:40:13:123AMPlasmaOk
1011:58:33:107AMPlasmaOk
1112:24:24:780PMPlasmaOk
1212:45:54:810PMPlasmaOk
1301:14:57:590PMPlasmaOk
1401:36:12:780PMPlasmaOk
1501:58:04:293PMPlasmaOk
1602:23:16:857PMPlasmaOk
1702:48:31:903PMPlasmaOk
1803:08:16:827PMPlasmaOk
1903:30:43:047PMPlasmaOk
2003:51:27:593PMPlasmaOk
2104:12:39:733PMPlasmaOk
2204:37:26:030PMPlasmaOk
2305:04:01:153PMPlasmaOk