• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.56 no.11
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• pp.4620-4627
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• 2024

We introduce a novel fast-reciprocating probe head installed on the EAST (Experiment Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) containing 12 graphite tips. This allows us to measure a variety of plasma parameters such as the plasma density, temperature, and space potential in the scrape-off layer (SOL). We will also acquire the data at high frequency thus measuring the ion saturation current, I_sat, and the floating potential, V_f, average and fluctuating values. Moreover, with poloidally separated tips, we measure the poloidal electric field, E_θ, at two toroidal locations, assuming a plasma flow dominated by the E×B drift this leads to the determination of the radial velocity. As a consequence, the turbulent radial flux will thus be determined. In the parallel direction, we have four tips that are aligned parallel with the magnetic field lines, thus making an angle of 4°24' to the horizontal direction. This unique design should allow the measurement of the toroidal wavenumber, k_φ, a quantity rarely obtained in tokamaks. This new probe, with 7 tips for measuring the ion saturation current and 4 tips to measure the floating potentials, was used on the EAST during the 2023 summer campaign. We present the first experimental results obtained during an L-mode plasma.