D. Post et al., AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF ATOMIC PROCESSES FOR DISPERSING THE POWER IN A DIVERTOR, Contributions to Plasma Physics, 34(2-3), 1994, pp. 300-305
The present concepts for power and particle control in the next genera
tion of tokamak experiments rely upon atomic processes to transfer the
power and momentum from the divertor plasma to the divertor chamber w
alls. These concepts are being evaluated with sophisticated one- and t
wo-dimensional divertor models. We present a survey of some of the can
didate atomic processes of impurity radiation, hydrogen radiation and
atomic physics and molecular effects to aid the development of the mod
els.