Nuclear Fusion (Jan 2024)

Emission of high rovibrational hydrogen molecules under detached plasma conditions by recycling on the tungsten wall

  • Seiki Saito,
  • Hiroaki Nakamura,
  • Keiji Sawada,
  • Kazuo Hoshino,
  • Yuki Kojima,
  • Takeshi Doi,
  • Masahiro Kobayashi,
  • Masahiro Hasuo,
  • Yuki Homma,
  • Shohei Yamoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad82f8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 64, no. 12
p. 126067

Abstract

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It is well known that the rate coefficient of molecular-assisted recombination (MAR) varies by several orders of magnitude depending on the rovibrational states of the hydrogen molecules. A molecular dynamics simulation is performed to estimate the rovibrational states of recycled hydrogen molecules at the divertor in the JA-DEMO reactor under detached plasma conditions. The simulation results reveal that molecules in high rovibrational states are released even with low incident energy, which will be the dominant condition under detached plasma conditions. Molecules generated in this way can strongly affect the formation of the detached plasma via a molecular assisted-process such as MAR.

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