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Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jérémy Genoud, Hugo De Oliveira, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Antoine Baillod, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Federico Pesamosca, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Simon Van Mulders, Nicola Offeddu, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Maurizio Giacomin, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

JET machine operations in T&D-T

Benoît Labit

JET, the world's largest operating tokamak with unique Be/W wall and tritium handling capability, completed a Deuterium-Tritium (D-T) campaign in 2021 (Maggi et al 29th Fusion Energy Conf.) following a decade of preparatory experiments, dedicated enhanceme ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

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

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Simon Van Mulders, Nicola Offeddu, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Lorenzo Martinelli, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Gino Marceca, Davide Mancini, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Guang-Yu Sun, , , , , , , , , ,

Overview of T and D-T results in JET with ITER-like wall

Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Umar Sheikh, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Eduardo José Lascas Neto, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar, Gino Marceca, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem, Samuele Mazzi

In 2021 JET exploited its unique capabilities to operate with T and D-T fuel with an ITER-like Be/W wall (JET-ILW). This second major JET D-T campaign (DTE2), after DTE1 in 1997, represented the culmination of a series of JET enhancements-new fusion diagno ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Overview of ASDEX upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO

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

Experiments on ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) in 2021 and 2022 have addressed a number of critical issues for ITER and EU DEMO. A major objective of the AUG programme is to shed light on the underlying physics of confinement, stability, and plasma exhaust in order to ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

The effect of plasma shaping on high density H-mode SOL profiles and fluctuations in TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Adriano Stagni, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Yi Wang

The impact of plasma shaping on the properties of high density H-mode scrape-off layer (SOL) profiles and transport at the outer midplane has been investigated on Tokamaka configuration variable. The experimental dataset has been acquired by evolving the u ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Analysis and expansion of the quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime in ASDEX Upgrade

Benoît Labit

The quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime, formerly known as either type-II ELM or small ELM regime is studied in ASDEX Upgrade. The regime is a natural type-I ELM-free H-mode. The operational space of QCE discharges in ASDEX Upgrade with respect to their ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

ICRH assisted breakdown study on JET

Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Haomin Sun

Ion cyclotron (IC) wave assisted breakdown has the potential to increase the robustness of plasma initiation during the ITER pre-fusion operation phase. Studies were performed at JET at ITER relevant loop electric field, E-loop ? 0.33 Vm(-1), and a range o ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

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

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Patrick Blanchard, Stephan Brunner, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Oulfa Chellaï, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Matteo Fontana, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dahye Choi, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Roberto Maurizio, Francesco Carpanese, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Umar Sheikh, Filippo Bagnato, Matteo Vallar, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Harshita Raj, Artur Perek

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) in alternative divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with and without baffles in H-mode plasmas with high core confinement. Both ADCs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

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

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

Impact of the new TCV baffled divertor upgrade on pedestal structure and performance

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Davide Galassi

A new set of carbon tiles, neutral beam heating optics and gas baffles were installed on TCV during thebaffled divertor upgrade in early 2019. The installation of the baffles allows a deconvolution of the roles ofmain chamber and divertor neutral pressure ...

Elsevier2021

Divertor closure effects on the TCV boundary plasma

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Sri Harsha Kasi Raj, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Lorenzo Martinelli, Claudia Colandrea

The Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) has recently been equipped with gas baffles to increase its divertor closure for a broad range of divertor magnetic geometries. First experimental results reported in Reimerdes et al. (2021) demonstrated compatibi ...

Elsevier2021

H-mode scrape-off layer power width in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Roberto Maurizio

Obtaining acceptable conditions at the divertor targets of a next-step fusion experiment based on the tokamak concept is expected to be particularly challenging because of the small predicted value of the plasma power exhaust channel width. An increased co ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Numerical investigation of optimal divertor gas baffle closure on TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, 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

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Roberto Maurizio

Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated core density ramps. In view of extending these studies to high-power, high-con ...

2020

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Jean Arthur Cazabonne

Alessandro Pau

Matteo Vallar

Daniele Hamm

Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

Claudia Colandrea

Dmytry Mykytchuk

Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz

Gino Marceca

Davide Mancini

Cassandre Ekta Contré

Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem

Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans

Silvia Masillo

Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV), recently celebrating 30 years of near-continual operation, continues in its missions to advance outstanding key physics and operational scenario issues for ITER and the design of future power plants such as DEMO. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem

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

Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

Mirko Wensing

Lorenzo Stipani

Federico Pesamosca

Olivier Claude Martin Février

Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu

Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole

Lorenzo Martinelli

Jean Arthur Cazabonne

Alessandro Pau

Matteo Vallar

Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022