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Analysis of ELM stability with extended MHD models in JET, JT-60U and future JT-60SA tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill

The stability with respect to a peeling-ballooning mode (PBM) was investigated numerically with extended MHD simulation codes in JET, JT-60U and future JT-60SA plasmas. The MINERVA-DI code was used to analyze the linear stability, including the effects of ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Comparison of the structure of the plasma-facing surface and tritium accumulation in beryllium tiles from JET ILW campaigns 2011-2012 and 2013-2014

In this study, beryllium tiles from Joint European Torus (JET) vacuum vessel wall were analysed and compared regarding their position in the vacuum vessel and differences in the exploitation conditions during two campaigns of ITER-Like-Wall (ILW) in 2011-2 ...

Elsevier2019

Propagating transport-code input parameter uncertainties with deterministic sampling

A novel approach to uncertainty quantification in codes simulating fusion plasma, deterministic sampling (DS), is evaluated. This method uses a few carefully selected samples and can be used to propagate input parameter uncertainties through calculations w ...

2018

Modal Analysis Applied to the Stability Study of Hydroelectric Systems with Modular Structures

Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva

Power plants experience distinct dynamic behaviors according to the primary source of energy. Whereas thermal power plants have a slow dynamic, modern renewables such as wind and solar PV are subject to very fast variations, due to environmental factors. T ...

EPFL2015

Investigation into the formation of the scrape-off layer density shoulder in JET ITER-like wall L-mode and H-mode plasmas

The low temperature boundary layer plasma (scrape-off layer or SOL) between the hot core and the surrounding vessel determines the level of power loading, erosion and implantation of material surfaces, and thus the viability of tokamak-based fusion as an e ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Testing of tritium breeder blanket activation foil spectrometer during JET operations

Accurate measurement of the nuclear environment within a test tritium breeding-blanket module of a fusion reactor is crucial to determine tritium production rates which are relevant to self-sufficiency of tritium fuel supply, tritium accountancy and also t ...

2018

Light impurity transport in JET ILW L-mode plasmas

A series of experimental observations of light impurity profiles was carried out in JET (Joint European Torus) ITER-like wall (ILW) L-mode plasmas in order to investigate their transport mechanisms. These discharges feature the presence of He-3, Be, C, N, ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Observations and modelling of ion cyclotron emission observed in JET plasmas using a sub-harmonic arc detection system during ion cyclotron resonance heating

Measurements are reported of electromagnetic emission close to the cyclotron frequency of energetic ions in JET plasmas heated by waves in the ion cylotron range of frequencies (ICRF). Hydrogen was the majority ion species in all of these plasmas. The meas ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

On the Use of Transfer Entropy to Investigate the Time Horizon of Causal Influences between Signals

Understanding the details of the correlation between time series is an essential step on the route to assessing the causal relation between systems. Traditional statistical indicators, such as the Pearson correlation coefficient and the mutual information, ...

2018

Sub-millisecond electron density profile measurement at the JET tokamak with the fast lithium beam emission spectroscopy system

Diagnostic alkali atom (e.g., lithium) beams are routinely used to diagnose magnetically confined plasmas, namely, to measure the plasma electron density profile in the edge and the scrape off layer region. A light splitting optics system was installed int ...

2018

COREDIV numerical simulation of high neutron rate JET-ILW DD pulses in view of extension to JET-ILW DT experiments

Yiming Li, Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Nicola Vianello, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Francesca Maria Poli, Emiliano Fable, Daniele Brunetti, Anna Teplukhina, Haomin Sun, Soo-Jin Moon, Alberto Mariani, Michele Marin, Ricardo Lima

Two high performance JET-ILW pulses, pertaining to the 2016 experimental campaign, have been numerically simulated with the self-consistent code COREDIV with the aim of predicting the ELM-averaged power load to the target when extrapolated to DT plasmas. T ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Overview of the JET preparation for deuterium-tritium operation with the ITER like-wall

For the past several years, the JET scientific programme (Pamela et al 2007 Fusion Eng. Des. 82 590) has been engaged in a multi-campaign effort, including experiments in D, H and T, leading up to 2020 and the first experiments with 50%/50% D-T mixtures si ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Divertor currents optimization procedure for JET-ILW high flux expansion experiments

This paper deals with a divertor coil currents optimized procedure to design High Flux Expansion (HFE) configurations in the JET tokamak aimed to study the effects of flux expansion variation on the radiation fraction and radiated power re-distribution. A ...

2018

Assessment of Power Swings in Hydropower Plants through High-Order Modelling and Eigenanalysis

Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Basile Kawkabani

Power plants are subject to introduce disturbances in the power grid, resulting from interactions with the dynamical behavior of the energy source subsystem. In the case of hydropower plants when used to compensate for variations of power generation and co ...

IEEE2016

Instrumentation for the upgrade to the JET core charge-exchange spectrometers

Charge-exchange spectroscopy on JET has become particularly challenging with the introduction of the ITER-like wall. The line intensities are weaker and contaminated by many nuisance lines. We have therefore upgraded the instrumentation to improve throughp ...

2018

High Z neoclassical transport: Application and limitation of analytical formulae for modelling JET experimental parameters

Heavy impurities, such as tungsten (W), can exhibit strongly poloidally asymmetric density profiles in rotating or radio frequency heated plasmas. In the metallic environment of JET, the poloidal asymmetry of tungsten enhances its neoclassical transport up ...

2018

Search for high-mass exclusive diphoton production with tagged protons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Emilio Perez, Thomas L. Sterling, Jiahui Fan, Mateusz Adam Dabrowski, Ian Smith, Matthias Finger, Jian Zhao, Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Michele De Palma, Anna Mascellani, Yi Zhang, Jian Wang, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rakesh Chawla, Myun Sik Kim, Thomas Mountford, Varun Sharma, Mirko Kovac, Shivom Sharma, Chang-Hyun Park, Jae-Woo Choi, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Hua Zhang, Mike Seidel, Joo Yeon Kim, Matteo Galli, Matthias Wolf, James Gonzalo King, Shubhajit Das, Xiaoqiang Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Xin Chen, Gabriele Grosso, Rishi Sharma, Chia-Chun Chen, Jia Liu, Jung Eung Park, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Siyuan Wang, Mithlesh Kumar, Chenyang Wang, Xiaoxin Gao, Aman Sharma, Junyin Zhang, Subham Choudhury, Seonwoo Lee, Mingyang Liu, Davide Di Croce, Patrick Berger, Jordy Daniel Müller, Marie Jane Francine Jones, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Wanyun Xie, Hyungjun Lee, Vu Trung Tin Nguyen, Junfeng Xiao, Wanting Jin, Zeming Chen, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Young Min Kim, Ling Zhou, Weilin Li, Haoze He, Andrea Santoro, Thomas Ka Chung Lam, Özdemir Can Kara, Bokyoung Kim, Notash Shafiei, Shaohui Yang, Haiyuan Wang, Youngro Lee, Dong Hyun Kim, Florian Hartmann, Muhammad Awais Naeem, Lu Wang, Shailesh Mishra, Tianqi Liu, Zhuan Shi, Leyu Zhang, Yihong Chen, Changliang Li, Sudipto Sarkar, Fang Wang, Yikai Yang, Boya Wang, Guoyuan Liu, Venu Gopal Agarwal, Zihan Wu, Hong-Bin Yang, Yunzhen Yao, Chenxu Liu, Xiaowu Sun, Zihan Hu

A search is presented for high-mass exclusive diphoton production via photon-photon fusion in proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV in events where both protons survive the interaction. The analysis utilizes data corresponding to an integrated lumino ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2024

The upgraded JET gamma-ray cameras based on high resolution/high count rate compact spectrometers

The JET gamma-ray cameras have been recently upgraded within the gamma-ray camera upgrade project in support of development of JET high performance deuterium plasma scenarios and in preparation of deuterium-tritium experiments. New, dedicated detectors bas ...

2018

Molecular ND Band Spectroscopy in the Divertor Region of Nitrogen Seeded JET Discharges

In this contribution we present OES measurements in the JET tokamak of the deuterated NH (ND) radical and the correlation between results of those experiments and measurement of ammonia production. The observation region covers most of the divertor and its ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Neutron emission spectroscopy of D plasmas at JET with a compact liquid scintillating neutron spectrometer

Neutron emission spectroscopy is a diagnostic technique that allows for energy measurements of neutrons born in nuclear reactions. The JET tokamak fusion experiment (Culham, UK) has a special role in this respect as advanced spectrometers for 2.5 MeV and 1 ...

2018