Recent progress of SOL and divertor plasma studies in Tokamaks

Asakura, Nobuyuki

Understanding of the divertor and Scrape-off Layer (SOL) plasmas has been progressed during improvements of the compact- and closed-geometry tokamak divertors. Developments of new diagnostics viewing the SOL and upstream of the divertor target (with the finest spatial and/or time resolutions) have contributed to understand the physics mechanisms under large variations of the plasma along and perpendicular to the field lines. Four topics: (i) heat and particle transports upstream of the divertor plate, (ii) burst transport of heat and particles towards the divertor, (iii) SOL plasma flow, and (iv) plasma diffusion in SOL, were reviewed.