Two-dimensional structure of volume recombination in JT-60U detached divertor plasmas

Fujimoto, Kayoko; Nakano, Tomohide; Kubo, Hirotaka; Sawada, Keiji*; Takizuka, Tomonori; Kawashima, Hisato; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Asakura, Nobuyuki

The volume recombination in detached divertor plasmas is a key process to reduce the ion flux to the divertor plates. The deuterium Balmer-series lines (D, D, ..., D) from a detached divertor plasma were observed two-dimensionally with a spatial resolution of about 1 cm and were reconstructed with a tomography technique. The ratio of the D to the D emissivity was compared to that calculated by the collisional-radiative model. This ratio could not be explained only by the excitation of D by electron impact, indicating that the volume recombination contributed to the D emission. This is the case for the region above the inner strike point with about 8 cm and 4 cm, respectively, in the r- and the z-direction on the poloidal cross-section. In this region, from the ratios of the D, D, ..., D emissivities, the electron density and temperature were evaluated to be about 110 m and less than 0.3 eV, respectively.