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(EXP4/02) Flux Dependence and Isotope Effect of the Chemical Erosion of Carbon under Tokamak Conditions

   
A. Kallenbach , A. Bard , K. Krieger , J. Roth , U. Wenzel  and the ASDEX Upgrade Team 
 
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association, D-85748 Garching and Berlin

Abstract
Chemical erosion of carbon is investigated in the outer Divertor II of the ASDEX Upgrade  tokamak for ion flux densities up to $\rm 10^{23} m^{-2}
s^{-1}$ and up to reactor-relevant values of the power per major plasma radius, $\rm P/R \leq 12 MW/m$. Surface temperatures are relatively low and do not exceed 100 $\rm ^oC$ at the position of the measurements. The erosion yields calculated from CH molecular line emission exhibit a pronounced hydrogen flux dependence  and an isotope effect , resulting in lower yields for higher fluxes and a factor of 2 higher yields for deuterium in comparison to hydrogen. Corresponding yields derived from carbon ion lines corroborate these results. The observed parameter dependences of the chemical erosion  yields can be described with the analytical model of Roth and Garcia-Rosales, Nucl. Fusion 36 (1996), if an additional, empirical time constant for the hydrogenation  process is introduced.

 

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