Publications by Christian Schlatter

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Turbulent ion heating in TCV tokamak plasmas

The Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) features the highest electron cyclotron wave power density available to resonantly heat (ECRH) the electrons and to drive noninductive currents in a fusion grade plasma (ECCD). In more than 15 years of exploitatio ...

EPFL2009

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Nicola Vianello, Minh Quang Tran, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Zhouji Huang, Fabio Riva, Mengdi Kong, Rémy Jacquier, Anna Teplukhina, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Francesco Carpanese, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Josef Kamleitner, Joyeeta Sinha, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Joshua Nathaniel Hawke

Fusion power is the most significant prospects in the long-term future of energy in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap, and unlimited power source that would substitute the widespread traditional nonrenewable energies, reducing the geogr ...

2019

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Minh Quang Tran, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Bernard Schneider, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Fabio Riva, Mengdi Kong, Nicola Vianello, Rémy Jacquier, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Zhouji Huang, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Francesco Carpanese, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Josef Kamleitner, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Joyeeta Sinha, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Joshua Nathaniel Hawke

Fusion power may be seen as the energy of the future in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap and unlimited power source that would reduce the worldwide dependency on non-renewable energies. Nevertheless, while nowadays the fusion reaction ...

IEEE2018

The dependence of the proton-triton thermo-nuclear fusion reaction rate on the temperature and total energy content of the high-energy proton distribution function

Duccio Testa, Christian Schlatter

The endothermic nuclear reaction between thermal tritons and high-energy protons can represent an important contribution to the total neutron yield in tokamak plasmas heated by radio-frequency waves, as the first JET experiments have demonstrated (see Mant ...

IOP2009

Safety factor profile requirements for electron ITB formation in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Yann Camenen, Antoine Pochelon, Jean-Marc Moret, Sun Hee Kim, Minh Quang Tran, Kurt Appert, Roland Behn, Jan Horacek, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Laurie Porte, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Markus Siegrist, Alexander Karpushov, Alberto Bottino, Damien Fasel, Emiliano Fable, Petri Nikkola, Philippe Marmillod, Costanza Zucca, Gilbert Tonetti, Andrei Martynov, Andrea Scarabosio, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Alessandro Bortolon, Albert Perez, Gilles Arnoux, Yanis Andrebe, Blaise Marlétaz, Alessandro Marinoni, Ugo Siravo, Pierre Lavanchy, Igor Klimanov, Barbora Bruant Gulejová, Pierre-François Isoz, Alexey Zabolotskiy, Jonathan Rossel, Emmanuel Droz, Jean-Claude Magnin, Ilya Pavlov, Karin Schombourg, Pierre Etienne

On the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV), electron internal transport barriers (eITBs) can be formed during a gradual evolution from a centrally peaked to a hollow current profile while all external actuators are held constant. The formation occurs ra ...

2005

Recent electron cyclotron emission results on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Patrick Blanchard, Laurie Porte, Emiliano Fable, Philippe Marmillod, Xavier Llobet, Christian Schlatter, Igor Klimanov, Pierre-François Isoz

Electron cyclotron emission (ECE) diagnostics on Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) allow study of the electron temperature evolution in time with good spatial and temporal resolution at the high field side and low field side at various lines of sight. ...

2007

First measurements of oblique ECE with a real-time moveable line-of-sight on TCV

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Christian Schlatter, Igor Klimanov

Electron cyclotron (EC) emission (ECE) radiometers viewing perpendicular to the magnetic field are common on nearly all tokamaks for measuring the electron temperature with good spatio-temporal resolution. Two such radiometers are installed on TCV, one loo ...

American Nuclear Society2008

Reconstruction of ion temperature profiles from single chord NPA measurements on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

The flux of charge exchange ( CX) neutrals measured by neutral particle analysers ( NPAs) is the line integral along the viewline of the NPA and contains information about the ion energy distribution of the observed plasma. On the Tokamaka a Configuration ...

2006

Neutral particle analyzer diagnostics on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

Experimental apparatus and data analysis techniques used in neutral particle analyzer (NPA) diagnostics on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) are described. Two NPAs are used on TCV to measure the energy spectrum of neutral particle fluxes from the ...

2006

Development of the ITER Continuous External Rogowski: From conceptual design to final design

Duccio Testa, Christian Schlatter, Matthieu Toussaint, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Philippe Marmillod

In ITER, an accurate measurement of plasma current, with high reliability, is mandatory as this parameter is used to demonstrate licensing compliance with regulatory limits. For that purpose, several independent measurements based on magnetic diagnostics h ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Status of the development of the EU 170 GHz/1 MW/CW gyrotron

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Schlatter, Trach-Minh Tran, Ioannis Pagonakis

The progress in the development of the European 170 GHz, 1 MW/CW gyrotron for electron cyclotron heating & current drive (ECH&CD) on ITER is reported. A continuous wave (CW) prototype is being manufactured by Thales Electron Devices (TED), France, while a ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Report of recent experiments with the European 1 MW, 170 GHz CW and SP prototype gyrotrons for ITER

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis, Christian Schlatter

The European 1 MW, 170 GHz industrial CW prototype gyrotron has been designed within EGYC (European GYrotron Consortium) in collaboration with the industrial partner Thales Electron Devices (TED) and under the coordination of Fusion for Energy (F4E). This ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

Ion Temperature Fluctuations in ELMy H-mode of the X3 EC-heated Plasmas on TCV

Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

This paper focuses on interpreting variations in the NPA measured energy distribution of neutral fluxes from the TCV high density H-mode plasma discharges with strong third harmonic electron cyclotron heating (P_{X3}>P_{\Omega}). Two quasi-stationary regim ...

2007

Proton-triton nuclear reaction in ICRF heated plasmas in JET

Duccio Testa, Christian Schlatter

Fast protons can react with tritons in an endothermic nuclear reaction which can act as a source of neutrons in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. We have performed an experiment to systematically study this reaction in low tritium concentration (approx ...

2006

Recent experiments with the European 1MW, 170GHz industrial CW and short-pulse gyrotrons for ITER

Minh Quang Tran, Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francisco Sanchez, Christian Schlatter, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jérémy Genoud

The European Gyrotron Consortium (EGYC) is developing the European 1 MW, 170 GHz Continuous Wave (CW) industrial prototype gyrotron for ITER in cooperation with Thales Electron Devices (TED) and Fusion for Energy (F4E). This conventional, hollow-cavity gyr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa, Minh Quang Tran, Paolo Ricci, Patrick Blanchard, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Nicola Vianello, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Xavier Llobet, Fabio Riva, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Christian Schlatter, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Anna Teplukhina, Yanis Andrebe, Roberto Maurizio, Zhouji Huang, Rémy Jacquier, Claudio Marini, Mengdi Kong, Hoang Bao Le, Oulfa Chellaï, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Francesco Carpanese, Josef Kamleitner, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Joyeeta Sinha

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Conditions for anomalous energy and momentum transfer from electrons to ions in ECCD discharges on TCV

Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

2006

Status and Experimental Results of the European 1 MW, 170 GHz Industrial CW Prototype Gyrotron for ITER

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Schlatter, Ioannis Pagonakis

In the frame of a collaborative effort between the European GYrotron Consortium (EGYC), the European domestic agency Fusion for Energy (F4E) and the Industrial partner Thales Electron Devices (TED), the first continuous wave (CW) prototype of the EU gyrotr ...

Ieee2016

Determination of the Radial Profile of Hydrogen Isotope Composition in TCV plasmas

Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

2005

Non-Maxwellian Ion Energy Distribution in ECH-heated plasmas on TCV

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

2006