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Nonlinear excitation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic mode by resonance overlap with Alfvén instability in ASDEX Upgrade

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

The Alfvén instability nonlinearly excited the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode on the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak, as demonstrated experimentally. The mechanism of the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode excitation and the mode nonl ...

Nature Research2025

Spectroscopic investigations of divertor detachment in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Nicola Vianello, Federico Nespoli, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio, Claudio Marini

The aim of this work is to provide an understanding of detachment at TCV with emphasis on analysis of the Balmer line emission. A new Divertor Spectroscopy System has been developed for this purpose. Further development of Balmer line analysis techniques h ...

Elsevier2017

Blob properties in full-turbulence simulations of the TCV scrape-off layer

Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Fabio Avino, Federico Nespoli, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva

To investigate blob properties in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical nonlinear simulations of plasma turbulence in the SOL of a TCV discharge using the Global Braginskii Solver code. A blob detection technique is used for th ...

2017

Electrostatic turbulence and transport in a simple magnetized plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

Gradient driven electrostatic instabilities are investigated in TORPEX [A. Fasoli, B. Labit, M. McGrath, S. H. Muller, M. Podesta, and F. M. Poli, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 48, 119 (2003)], a toroidal device (R=1 m, a=0.2 m) in which plasmas are produced by mic ...

2006

Experimental implementation of a real-time power flux estimator for the ITER first wall on the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Richard Pitts, Federico Nespoli, Benoît Labit, Cristian Galperti, Himank Anand

A control-oriented approach to the monitoring of wall power flux densities on ITER has been successfully developed. It is based on real-time equilibrium reconstruction in 2-D which is then used to describe the deposited heat flux as a poloidal flux functio ...

2019

Electrostatic instabilities, turbulence and fast ion interactions in the TORPEX device

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Gennady Plyushchev, Kyle Gustafson, Stefan Müller, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Davoud Iraji, Alice Burckel

Electrostatic turbulence, related structures and their effect on particle, heat and toroidal momentum transport are investigated in TORPEX simple magnetized plasmas using high-resolution diagnostics, control parameters, linear fluid models and nonlinear nu ...

Institute of Physics2010

Universal statistical properties of drift-interchange turbulence in TORPEX plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

A unique parabolic relation is observed to link skewness and kurtosis of around ten thousand density fluctuation signals, measured over the whole cross section of a toroidal magnetized plasma for a broad range of experimental conditions. All the probabilit ...

2007

Threshold power for the transition into H-mode for H, D, and He plasmas in TCV

Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Roland Behn

The threshold power for the transition into H-mode with hydrogen (H), deuterium (D), and helium (He) as majority ion species has been evaluated from a series of dedicated experiments on the tokamak TCV. Identical plasma configurations with a single-null X- ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Divertor power load studies for attached L-mode single-null plasmas in TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio

This paper investigates the power loads at the inner and outer divertor targets of attached, Ohmic L-mode, deuterium plasmas in the TCV tokamak, in various experimental situations using an Infrared thermography system. The study comprises variations of the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Exploring drift effects in TCV single-null plasmas with the UEDGE code

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Roberto Maurizio

This paper explores the effects of particle drifts across the magnetic field in TCV single-null plasmas using the two-dimensional edge plasma transport code UEDGE. In particular, it aims to reproduce a double-peaked density target profile, a feature which ...

Institute of Physics2017

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Marc Gruber, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Yanis Andrebe, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Roland Behn, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Anna Teplukhina, Zhouji Huang, Dávid Wágner, Claudio Marini, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Hoang Bao Le, Himank Anand, Attila Bencze

Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European medium size tokamak task force (EU-MST) coordinates research on ASDEX Upgrade ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in ASDEX Upgrade and JET

Olivier Sauter, Benoît Labit

The quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime is a type-I ELM-free high confinement regime obtained at high plasma shaping and high separatrix density. A comparison with various ELM-free regimes in the literature is presented together with potential physics mo ...

Elsevier2025

Fast ion source and detector for investigating the interaction of turbulence with suprathermal ions in a low temperature toroidal plasma - art. no. 10F503

Yi Zhang, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev

A specific experimental apparatus consisting of an ion source and a detector for the investigation of the interaction between suprathermal ions and drift-wave turbulence is developed on the toroidal plasma experiment. Due to the low plasma temperature (sim ...

2006

PLASMA SHAPE AND FUELING DEPENDENCE ON THE SMALL ELMS REGIME IN TCV AND AUG

Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Roberto Maurizio

A series of experiments has been conducted at AUG and TCV to disentangle the role of fueling, plasma triangularity and closeness to a double null (DN) configuration for the onset of the small ELM regime. At AUG, the role of the SOL density has been revisit ...

2018

Plasma blobs in a basic toroidal experiment: Origin, dynamics, and induced transport

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Mario Ludovico Podesta

Detaching plasma blobs with very similar properties to tokamaks are observed in the basic toroidal plasma experiment TORPEX [ A. Fasoli et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 055902 (2006) ]. The blobs originate from the breaking of wave crests of a drift-interchange w ...

American Institute of Physics2007

Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yann Camenen, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Sommariva, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Alberto Bottino, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Emiliano Fable, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Andrea Scarabosio, Alessandro Bortolon, Haomin Sun, Dávid Wágner, Fang Liu, Thomas Binderup Jensen

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Numerical investigation of optimal divertor gas baffle closure on TCV

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi

A first set of divertor gas baffles has recently been installed in the TCV tokamak. In order to explore the physics determining the benefits and limitations of divertor baffling and to guide the design of a possible second generation of baffles, the effect ...

2020

Power exhaust in the snowflake divertor for L- and H-mode TCV tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Wouter Vijvers

The snowflake (SF) divertor is a plasma configuration that may enable tokamak operation at high performance and lower peak heat loads on the plasma-facing components than a standard single-null divertor. This paper reports on the results of experiments per ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO

Pacôme Henryk Cécil Devleeshouver, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Filippo Bagnato, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Nicola Offeddu, Luke Simons, Aylwin Iantchenko, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Carl Mathias Paul Hoppe, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Massimo Carpita, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Davide Mancini, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Stefano Marchioni, Samuele Mazzi, Gino Marceca, Renat Karimov, Elena Tonello, Yoeri Renier Johannes Poels, Michele Marin, Martim Zurita, Alessandro Balestri, Anton Jansen Van Vuuren, Francesco Pastore, Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem, Emanuel Paul Huett, Nam Axel David Vu, Hari Raj, Antonia Frank, Aleksandr Listopad

Within the 9th European Framework programme, since 2021 EUROfusion is operating five tokamaks under the auspices of a single Task Force called ‘Tokamak Exploitation’. The goal is to benefit from the complementary capabilities of each machine in a coordinat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio

Divertor detachment is explored on the TCV tokamak in alternative magnetic geometries. Starting from typical TCV single-null shapes, the poloidal flux expansion at the outer strikepoint is varied by a factor of 10 to investigate the X-divertor characterist ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017