High resolution measurements of neutral density and ionization rate in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72, 961 (2001); 10.1063/1.1319362 Spectroscopic study of ionizing and recombining plasma in a stationary plasma source Abstract.In high density and low temperature peripheral plasmas of JT-60U, i.e. detached divertor plasmas, C III and C IV lines were observed by a visible and VUV spectrometers in order to investigate dominant radiators, radiation power and particle balance between the radiators. An emission peak was found between the inner strike and the X-point. With increasing electron density, the emission peak moved to the X-point with a constant electron temperature of ∼ 7 eV. In the case the emission peak was located on the X-point, the dominant radiators in the emission peak were C 2+ and C 3+ , which contributed 30% and 60% to the total radiative power. It was found that C 3+ was produced by the ionization of C 2+ and the volume recombination of C 4+ at a similar rates. However, the loss flux of C 3+ was lower by two orders of magnitude than the C 3+ production flux, indicating that another loss mechanism such as transport loss around the X-point was significant.