Observation of enhanced pedestal turbulence during ELM mitigation with resonant magnetic perturbation on EAST

Edge localized mode (ELM) mitigation accompanied by density pump-out has been achieved during the application of resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) with a toroidal mode number of n = 4 on EAST recently. The mean ELM frequency increases by a factor of 2.7 from 86 to 235 Hz with a decreased reduction in ELM loss. The evolution of pedestal electron density measured by a profile reflectometer before and after turning on the RMP current is presented. Both the pedestal density and density gradient show a decrease with application of RMP. The density fluctuation in the pedestal region has been measured by an O-mode fluctuation reflectometer. The broadband density fluctuation with a frequency range of 20–115 kHz is enhanced at the later period of the inter-ELM phase during ELM mitigation. This phenomenon is also observed for magnetic fluctuation measured by magnetic probes mounted in the vacuum vessel. A further study shows that the enhanced broadband fluctuations lead to a decrease in the growth rate of the pedestal density and an increase in divert or particle flux. This result implies that these enhanced broadband fluctuations could lead to an enhancement of outward particle transport. The possible roles of the enhanced fluctuations observed in ELM mitigation are also discussed.

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