The measurement performance of the baseline system design for the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic has been analyzed using an algorithm based on the sparse representation of signals. This algorithm, derived from the SparSpec code [S.Bourguignon et a ...
The measurement performance of the baseline system design for the ITER high-frequency magnetic diagnostic system and attempts at its optimization have been performed using an innovative method based on the sparse representation of signals and the minimizat ...
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 ...
This chapter reviews the progress accomplished since the redaction of the first ITER Physics Basis (1999 Nucl. Fusion 39 2137-664) in the field of energetic ion physics and its possible impact on burning plasma regimes. New schemes to create energetic ions ...
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 ...
The X-mode radial correlation reflectometry diagnostic on JET has long suffered from strong signal attenuation in the original transmission lines. To reach higher performances, new low-attenuation corrugated circular waveguides and a new cluster of six ant ...
In this paper we have investigated the effect of reversing the direction of the magnetic field and plasma current, hence the ion del B-drift direction, on the instability threshold of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes with toroidal mode number (n) in the range ve ...
Experiments have been performed on the JET tokamak with 2nd harmonic ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) of hydrogen in deuterium plasmas to assess the role of finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects on the resonant ion distribution function. More specifical ...
The radial electric field E-r(x, t), and particularly its gradient, has been invoked by various theories and empirical models as a crucial parameter 'per se' for determining the transition to high confinement regimes, such as the onset of an internal trans ...
The dependence of the measured damping rate (gamma/omega) on the value of the safety factor on axis (q(0)) and of the toroidal rotation shear has been experimentally determined for n = 1 toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) in JET limiter plasmas with a monot ...
In preparation for next step burning plasma devices such as ITER, experimental studies of instabilities and confinement of energetic ions were performed on Joint European Torus (JET) and on Mega-Amper Spherical Tokamak (MAST) with innovative diagnostic tec ...
If an ELM is a peeling of flux surfaces from the plasma, due to a broken separatrix, current density is lost as well as particles and energy. The fast loss of a current-carrying plasma layer modifies the plasma equilibrium, leading to sudden shifts in the ...
