Acceleration of Dust Particle in SOL/Divertor Plasma of HL-2A

Acceleration of a dust particle in the SOL (scrape-off layer)/divertor plasma of HL-2A with a single-null configuration is studied. A simplest model of the dust dynamics is applied, namely spherical shape of a dust, ion drag force due to Coulomb scattering as a dominant force, and spontaneous charging of a dust particle to the equilibrium charge. In the outer region near the plasma-facing wall the poloidal plasma flow pushes the dust particle to the divertor plates. It is clarified that the dust particle with a radius of 1 μm from the top of the SOL/divertor region is accelerated up to around 100 m/s at the divertor plates along the poloidal direction.