Processes in SOL plasma at the transition into improved confinement mode in FT-2 tokamak

Studies of processes in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of the tokamak show a direct influence of periphery effects on confinement parameters of the plasma core. This paper illustrates experimentally observed transport barrier formation initialized by the low hybrid (LH) heating of the hydrogen plasma. The experimental data near last close flax surface (LCFS) and in SOL were obtained by means of an enhanced movable multielectrode Langmuir probe and spatially resolved spectroscopic technique retooled with additional helium puffing. The edge diagnostics show a strong change of a radial electric field and plasma parameters near LCFS. The alteration at the plasma edge is generated by high LH ion heating. It was found that the L-H transition is accompanied by a noticeable reconstruction of the poloidal and radial plasma parameters profiles in the SOL and in the limiter shadow region.