Study on divertor particle and heat fluxes from electric probe measurements during ELMy H-modes in KSTAR

Highlights: • The characteristics of the particle and heat fluxes were investigated during ELMs in H-modes under the LSN configuration in the KSTAR tokamak.. • There was relation between the ELM amplitude and the ELM frequency as ΔW_ELM/W_TOT ∝ 1/f_ELM in the range of f_ELM ≤ 200 Hz. • The trends of the peak amplitude of the divertor flux near the OSP during ELMs due to the ELM mitigation and the plasma shaping were investigated. • The ELMs were mitigated by MP field, SMBI and ECH. The ELM mitigations due to the MP field and the SMBI were stronger than one due to the ECH. • Finally, the particle flux, evaluated at the far scrape-off layer (SOL) region, was estimated to less than 1% of the divertor particle flux. - Abstract: The characteristics of the divertor particle and heat fluxes are investigated during ELM bursts in ELMy H-mode plasmas with the lower single null (LSN) configuration in Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR). The particle and heat fluxes are evaluated from the electric probe measurements at the divertor region. It is found that the peak amplitude of the divertor flux during an ELM burst obtained near the outer strike point (OSP) decreases up to about 20% as the ELM frequency increases by a factor of ∼6.5 due to the ELM mitigation and the plasma shaping, which is similar to the trend of the amplitude versus the frequency of the ELM observed in other tokamaks. The ELMs are mitigated by using several methods as magnetic perturbation (MP) field, supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI) and electron cyclotron heating (ECH) at the edge region. In addition, the particle flux, evaluated at the far scrape-off layer (SOL) region, is less than 1% of the divertor particle flux. In this work, results from the experimental investigations of particle and heat fluxes during ELM bursts from the electric probe measurements at the divertor and far SOL regions are presented.