The Study of Heat Pulse Propagation on HT-7 Tokamak

The propagation of heat pulses originating from sawtooth activity has been studied on the HT-7 tokamak. Two theoretical models are used for determining electron heat diffusivity from the experimental data measured by a diagnostic system of soft x-ray diode-array. The results the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of the original signals, over a few tens of sawteeth are averaged to generate nice waveforms. The space-time evolution is found to be diffusive in character, which is consistent with the theoretical model. The electron heat diffusivity determined from heat pulse propagation is larger than that determined from background plasma power balance. The variation of Xe in different discharge phases has been also discussed.