Measurement of local ion diffusion coefficients in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

The perturbations in ion temperature, density and parallel velocity resulting from sawtooth disruptions in TFTR are measured with a novel diagnostic. The local ion thermal diffusivity, particle diffusivity and parallel momentum diffusivity are determined in a high power discharge at r/a = 0.64 by fitting the observed pulses to a simple model of the radial diffusive propagation of heat, particles and momentum caused by the crash. The incremental ion thermal diffusivity, χ i inc , is found to be similar in amplitude to the ion and electron thermal diffusivities obtained from a steady state 1-D power balance analysis, and the particle and parallel momentum diffusivities are found to be an order of magnitude smaller than χ i inc .