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Linear scattering theory of short-pulse reflectometry

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Oleg Krutkin

The linear scattering theory of short pulse reflectometry is presented. An expression for the scattering signal is obtained by applying the perturbation theory approach for solving the Helmholtz equation. Based on these analytical results, a method for mea ...

2023

Publisher's Note: "Vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on the tokamak à configuration variable" [Rev. Sci. Instrum. vol 94, 103504, 2023]

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte

2023

A method for density fluctuation measurements using pulse reflectometry

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Oleg Krutkin

An analytical 1D model based on the WKB approximation is used to study the properties of a short pulse reflectometry diagnostic in a magnetic fusion device. Expressions linking the pulse delay with the parameters of the turbulence near the cut-off layer ar ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

A synthetic phase-contrast imaging diagnostic with spatial filtering for gyrokinetic simulations

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Gabriele Merlo, Aylwin Iantchenko, Justin Richard Ball

A Phase-contrast imaging (PCI) diagnostic provides measurements of line-integrated electron density fluctuations. Localisation along the laser beam path can be achieved with a spatial filter that selects the wave-vector directions of the fluctuations contr ...

2023

Study of fast-ion-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes impacting on the global confinement in TCV L-mode plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda, Javier García Hernández, Aylwin Iantchenko, Justin Richard Ball, Matteo Vallar, Umesh Kumar, Oleg Krutkin, Luke Simons, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Samuele Mazzi, Baruch Rofman

Following recent observations of unstable Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAEs) in a counter-current Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) scenario developed in TCV, an in-depth analysis of the impact of such modes on the global confinement and performance is carried o ...

2023

Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning

Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Jonas Buchli, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Francesco Carpanese, Federico Pesamosca, Cristian Sommariva, Jonas Degrave, Brendan Tracey

Nuclear fusion using magnetic confinement, in particular in the tokamak configuration, is a promising path towards sustainable energy. A core challenge is to shape and maintain a high-temperature plasma within the tokamak vessel. This requires high-dimensi ...

2022

Full conversion from ohmic to runaway electron driven current via massive gas injection in the TCV tokamak

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Gergely Papp

Full conversion from ohmic to runaway electron (RE) driven current was observed in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) following massive injection of neon through a disruption mitigation valve into a low-density limited circular plasma. Following a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Marinoni, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Leonardo Pigatto, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar

The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two following decades, through investigations of predominantly electron-heated plas ...

2022

Electron-cyclotron resonance heating and current drive source for flux-driven gyrokinetic simulations of tokamaks

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda, Joan Decker, Jean Arthur Cazabonne

Electromagnetic waves that resonate with the cyclotron motion of electrons in a magnetized plasma can efficiently transfer their momentum and energy to the plasma. This is routinely used to heat or drive current in tokamak plasmas. The impact of this local ...

2022

DIII-D research advancing the physics basis for optimizing the tokamak approach to fusion energy

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda

DIII-D physics research addresses critical challenges for the operation of ITER and the next generation of fusion energy devices. This is done through a focus on innovations to provide solutions for high performance long pulse operation, coupled with funda ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Upgrade of the neutral beam heating system on the TCV tokamak - second high energy neutral beam

Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Blaise Marlétaz, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Jérémie Dubray, Frédéric Dolizy, Rémy Jacquier, Matthieu Toussaint, Umar Sheikh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Matteo Vallar, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

The TCV tokamak continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to provide a stepladder approach for extrapolations of experimental results from different ma-chines to ITER and DEMO. TCV's configura ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Improved Plasma Vertical Position Control on TCV Using Model-Based Optimized Controller Synthesis

Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti, Federico Pesamosca

Elongated plasmas lead to improved performance in tokamaks but make the plasma prone to vertical instability, which requires active feedback control, a critical issue for future fusion reactors. Vertical control was optimized for the TCV tokamak by applyin ...

2022

Plasma physics and control studies planned in JT-60SA for ITER and DEMO operations and risk mitigation

Stefano Coda, Aylwin Iantchenko, Matteo Vallar

A large superconducting machine, JT-60SA has been constructed to provide major contributions to the ITER program and DEMO design. For the success of the ITER project and fusion reactor, understanding and development of plasma controllability in ITER and DE ...

2022

Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

An overview of recent results obtained at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is given. A work flow for predictive profile modelling of AUG discharges was established which is able to reproduce experimental H-mode plasma profiles based on engineering parameter ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Quasilinear treatment of wave-particle interactions in the electron cyclotron range and its implementation in a gyrokinetic code

Stephan Brunner, Laurent Villard, Stefano Coda

A quasilinear operator for wave-particle interactions in the electron cyclotron range is derived using the cold plasma dispersion relation. The finite width of the beam implies a broadening of the resonance layer in the velocity space which allows the use ...

2021

A phase-contrast-imaging core fluctuation diagnostic and first-principles turbulence modeling for JT-60SA

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Matthieu Toussaint, Aylwin Iantchenko, Kenji Tanaka

A core fluctuation diagnostic based on the phase-contrast imaging (PCI) technique has been designed for the JT-60SA tokamak, with the assistance of a synthetic diagnostic coupled to a gyrokinetic code. Using a tangentially viewing geometry, this system wou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Non-evaporable getter pump operations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Frédéric Dolizy, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz

A non-evaporable getter pump using the ZAO alloy was installed on TCV and operated during the 2019 experimental campaign. The pump performance, determined from in-situ pumping speed measurements, indicates that current getter pump technologies are well sui ...

2021

Results on quiescent and post-disruption runaway electrons studies at Frascati Tokamak Upgrade: RE mitigation via solid deuterium pellets and anomalous Doppler instability

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda

Results from the last FTU campaigns on RE mitigation strategies for quiescent and post-disruption RE beams are presented. We provide experimental evidence that for some RE quiescent scenarios D-2 solid pellets achieve complete RE suppression capability, ma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Detachment in conventional and advanced double-null plasmas in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Divertor detachment is investigated on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) for conventional and alternative double-null (DN) magnetic geometries in L-mode, Ohmic density ramps and then compared to precisely matched single-null (SN) geometries. The p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

High resolution density pedestal measurements during edge localized modes by short-pulse reflectometry in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This publication presents high spatio-temporal resolution (mm/μs) density profile measurements of the pedestal top during type I, III, and small edge localized mode (ELM) H- mode plasmas in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). These measurements wer ...

2021

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