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Effects of LHRF on toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Application of lower hybrid range of frequencies (LHRF) waves can induce both co- and counter-current directed changes in toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas, depending on the target plasma current, electron density, confinement regime and magnetic ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

𝑋-Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Massimo Carpita, Yuxuan Wang, Martim Zurita, Francesco Pastore, Richard Alexander David Ducker, Daniele Hamm, Ming Yin Kenneth Lee, Marta Mariarmanda Pedrini

Fusion plasma regimes with a strongly radiating magnetic 𝑋 point are promising candidates to tackle the outstanding power exhaust challenge in reactor-scale devices. In this Letter, we report on a new type of 𝑋-point radiator, the XPTR (𝑋-point target radi ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Effect of energetic ions on edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas

Matthew Paul Goodman, Zhuosheng Huang, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, 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, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Cristian Sommariva, Anna Teplukhina, Filippo Bagnato, Roberto Maurizio, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Francesco Carpanese, Claudio Marini, Aylwin Iantchenko, Dahye Choi, Federico Pesamosca, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Hugo De Oliveira, Lorenzo Stipani, Joshua Nathaniel Hawke, Nam Axel David Vu

The most efficient and promising operational regime for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor tokamak is the high-confinement mode. In this regime, however, periodic relaxations of the plasma edge can occur. These edge-localized modes pose a ...

2025

Interpretation of divertor ion temperature measurements from an attached towards a detached regime

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons, Lorenzo Martinelli, Christine Stollberg, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Massimo Carpita

We present simultaneous profiles of the poloidal distribution of electron temperature and density (Te, ne), the poloidal emissivity distributions of a range of spectral lines together with the corresponding ion temperatures, Ti, in the TCV divertor plasma. ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

X-point and divertor filament dynamics from gas puff imaging on TCV

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Nicola Offeddu, Diego Sales de Oliveira

A new gas puff imaging diagnostic has been installed on the TCV tokamak, providing two-dimensional insights into scrape-off-layer (SOL) turbulence dynamics above, at and below the magnetic X-point. A detailed study in L-mode, attached, lower single-null di ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Parallel flows as a key component to interpret Super-X divertor experiments

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons, Lorenzo Martinelli, Massimo Carpita, Emanuel Paul Huett, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud

The Super-X Divertor (SXD) is an alternative divertor configuration leveraging total flux expansion at the Outer Strike Point (OSP). While the extended 2-Point Model (2PM) predicts facilitated detachment access and control in the SXD configuration, these a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Understanding and suppressing the near Scrape-Oﬀ Layer heat flux feature in inboard-limited plasmas in TCV

Jan Horacek, Holger Reimerdes, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Roberto Maurizio

In inboard-limited plasmas, the Scrape-Oﬀ Layer (SOL) shows two regions: the near SOL, extending a few mm from the Last Closed Flux Surface (LCFS), characterized by a steep gradient of the parallel heat ﬂux radial proﬁle, and a far SOL, typically some cm w ...

International Atomic Energy Agency2017

Direct two-dimensional measurements of the eld-aligned current associated with plasma blobs

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Nicola Vianello, Christian Gabriel Theiler

In simple magnetized toroidal plasmas, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward under the effect of

\grad B

and curvature induced

E \times B

drifts. We report on the first experimental two-dimensional me ...

2011

Quantitative comparison of electron temperature fluctuations to nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations in C-Mod Ohmic L-mode discharges

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Long wavelength turbulent electron temperature fluctuations (k(y)rho(s)< 0.3) are measured in the outer core region (r/a> 0.8) of Ohmic L-mode plasmas at Alcator C-Mod [E. S. Marmar et al., Nucl. Fusion 49, 104014 (2009)] with a correlation electron cyclot ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Gas puff imaging on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Robert Bertizzolo, Jean-Daniel Landis, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Nicola Offeddu, Arnaud Clément, Hammam Elaian

We present the design and operation of a suite of Gas Puff Imaging (GPI) diagnostic systems installed on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) for the study of turbulence in the plasma edge and Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL). These systems provide the unique ...

AIP Publishing2022

Basic Investigation of Turbulent Structures and Blobs of Relevance for Magnetic Fusion Plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Similarly to neutral fluids, plasmas often exhibit turbulent behavior. Turbulence in plasmas is usually more complex than in neutral fluids due to long range interactions via electric and magnetic fields, and kinetic effects. It gives rise to many interest ...

EPFL2011

ADX: a high field, high power density, advanced divertor and RF tokamak

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Francesca Maria Poli, Yu Lin

The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and collaborators are proposing a high-performance Advanced Divertor and RF tokamak eXperiment (ADX)-a tokamak specifically designed to address critical gaps in the world fusion research programme on the pathway to ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Detachment in conventional and advanced double-null plasmas in TCV

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

A study of the influence of plasma-molecule interactions on particle balance during detachment

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing

In this work we provide experimental insights into the impact of plasma-molecule interactions on the target ion flux decrease during divertor detachment achieved through a core density ramp in the TCV tokamak. Our improved analysis of the hydrogen Balmer s ...

Elsevier2021

The X-Point radiating regime at ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Marco Wischmeier, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek

Future fusion reactors require a safe, steady-state divertor operation. With deep divertor detachment, which is typically induced by impurity seeding, the radiation concentrates in a small region at the X-point or on closed flux surfaces above the X-point. ...

Elsevier2023

Role of radiation re-absorption in the thermal helium beam diagnostic

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Yanis Andrebe, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Yuxuan Wang

The Thermal Helium Beam (THB) is a diagnostic for simultaneously measuring the electron temperature and density profiles of the plasma edge and scrape off layer (SOL). It exploits the line ratio technique of selected He line intensities, emitted by He gas ...

2024

Blob current structures in TORPEX plasmas: experimental measurements and numerical simulations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Vianello, Davoud Iraji, Diane Virginie Marie Lançon

In the simple magnetized torus TORPEX, field-aligned blobs originate from ideal interchange waves and propagate radially outward due to del B and curvature induced drifts. Time-resolved two-dimensional measurements of the field-aligned current density J(pa ...

2011

X-point radiation: From discovery to potential application in a future reactor

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Olivier Claude Martin Février

Power exhaust is a crucial issue for future fusion reactors. Divertor detachment and the required power dissipation fractions of about 95% are foreseen to be achieved by impurity seeding. In a tokamak, at high seeding levels the radiation often concentrate ...

Elsevier2025

Conduction-based model of the Scrape-Off Layer power sharing between inner and outer divertor in diverted low-density tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Nicola Vianello, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio, Hugo De Oliveira, Mirko Wensing

A simple analytic model for the repartition of the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) exhaust power between the inner and outer divertors in a diverted low-density tokamak plasma is introduced. Electron heat conduction is assumed to dominate the heat transport, from t ...

Elsevier2019

Validation of SOLPS-ITER simulations against the TCV-X21 reference case

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Davide Galassi, Claudia Colandrea, Lorenzo Martinelli, Diego Sales de Oliveira, Ming Yin Kenneth Lee

This paper presents a quantitative validation of Scrape-Off Layer Plasma Simulation-ITER (SOLPS-ITER) simulations against the TCV-X21 reference case and provides insights into the neutral dynamics and ionization source distribution in this scenario. TCV-X2 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024