Study of L-I-H transition with a new dual gas puff imaging system in EAST superconducting tokamak
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The intermediate oscillatory phase during the L-H transition, termed I-phase, has been studied in the EAST superconducting tokamak by employing a newly developed dual gas puff imaging (GPI) system near the L-H transition power threshold. The experimental observations suggest that the oscillatory behavior appearing at the L-H transition could be induced by the synergistic effect of the two components of the sheared m,n=0 E ́B flow, i.e., the turbulence-driven zonal flow (ZF) and the equilibrium flow (EF). The latter arises from the neoclassical equilibrium, and is, to leading order, balanced by the ion diamagnetic term in the radial force balance equation. A slow increase in the poloidal flow and its shear at the plasma edge are observed tens of milliseconds prior to the I-phase. During the I-phase, the turbulence level decays and recovers periodically. The turbulence recovery appears to originate from the vicinity of the separatrix with clear wave fronts propagating both outward into the far scrape-off layer and inward into the core plasma. The Reynolds work done by the turbulence on the ZFs has been directly measured using the GPI system in the experiments, providing a direct evidence of kinetic energy transfer from turbulence to ZFs, thus driving the ZFs at the plasma edge. The ZFs are damped shortly after turbulence suppression, due to the
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