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Turbulence at the boundary of toroidal plasmas with open and closed magnetic flux surfaces

The control and confinement of fusion plasmas are currently limited by a lack of understanding of the physical mechanisms behind the evolution of the turbulent transport experienced by particles and energy. In-situ investigations of plasma turbulence in fu ...

EPFL2015

Slip Ring Test Assembly With Increased Breakdown Voltage Limit for High-Voltage Bus Satellites

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Fabio Avino

In this article, a setup including a passive gas breakdown mitigation technique for satellite slip ring assemblies (SRAs) is introduced and tested. The setup features a central conducting ring, separated from two external conducting limiting discs (LDs) by ...

2020

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Jie Gao, Caroline Antonioli Pletscher, Emilie Jocelyne Marc Solange Collot, Mathias Béguin, Beat Mueller, Abdel Perez Hernandez, Dora Patricia Valente Salgueiro, Michael Andrew Theodore Fowler, Tobias Hurth, Yi Zhang, Jan Steggemann, Hua Zhang, Elena Graverini, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Jean-Michel Sallese, Mingkui Wang, Luca Rossi, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Thomas Rizzo, Rui Ning Wang, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Doohyun Kim, Yu Bai, Simon Van Mulders, Tatiana Pieloni, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Philippe Schwaller, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Andrea Wulzer, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Xavier Buffat, Michele Cascella, Fabio Avino, Andrey Denisov, Nicolas Andreini, Michael Schenk, Benedikt Moser, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler, Alexej Grudiev, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Francesco Cerutti, Sondre Vik Furuseth, Roberto Franceschini, Marco Drewes, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Giovanni Migliorati, Vincenzo D'Auria, Ting-Yu Lee, Leonid Kahle, Luca Vecchi, Javier Barranco Garcia, Shang-Jung Wu, Guang Li, Alban Sublet, Darius Constantin Merk, Roberto Contino, Claudia Tambasco, Delio Aleardo Vicini, Xingyu Wu, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia, Jairo Camilo Quijano Perez, Andrea Thamm, Georgi Gorine, Jun Gu, Candice Megan T Young, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva, Bernhard Auchmann, Léon Van Riesen-Haupt, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Leonid Rivkin, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Soumya Banerjee, Agnieszka Chmielinska, Kim-Manuel Klein, Amirhossein Saba Shirvan, Craig Nowell, Peter Michael Vogel, Eva Maria Rodriguez Franco, José Luis Rivera Gutiérrez, Florent Philippe Maurice Duval, Lotta Maria Mether, Özdemir Can Kara, Franco Moretti, Charlotte Lorin, Sandra Aumon, Karin Irmgard Löw, Lucia Jimenez Rojo, Arturo Rivetti, Maria Rosaria Antonelli, Maximilian Nikolaus Bauer

We review the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider, covering its e(+)e(-), pp, ep and heavy ion programmes. We describe the measurement capabilities of each FCC component, addressing the study of electroweak, Higgs and strong interactions, ...

2019

Surface DBD degradation in humid air, and a hybrid surface-volume DBD for robust plasma operation at high humidity

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Fabio Avino, Alexandra Waskow, Lorenzo Ibba, Jia Han

Surface dielectric barrier discharge performance deteriorates in humid air, with permanent and/or reversible degradation of its components. Plasma operation in a humid environment is unavoidable when humid air or water-containing materials are treated. Exp ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Plasma-activated water retains antimicrobial properties against Escherichia coli after 72 h of storage

Laurens Joachim Balthazar Pipoz, Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers, Aleksandra Lavrikova

Plasma-activated water (PAW) is increasingly recognized for its bactericidal properties. To advance this technology toward practical applications and deepen the understanding of its mechanisms, it is crucial to study the storage stability of PAW, focusing ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Basic investigations of electrostatic turbulence and its interaction with plasma and suprathermal ions in a simple magnetized toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Fabio Avino, Nicola Vianello, Sébastien Jolliet, Fabio Riva, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

Progress in basic understanding of turbulence and its influence on the transport both of the plasma bulk and of suprathermal components is achieved in the TORPEX simple magnetized torus. This configuration combines a microwave plasma production scheme with ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

X-Point Effect on Plasma Blob Dynamics

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Avino

Plasma blob dynamics on the high-field side in the proximity of a magnetic field null (X point) is investigated in TORPEX. A significant acceleration of the blobs towards the X point is observed. Close to the X point the blobs break apart. The E x B drifts ...

American Physical Society2016

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

New diagnostics for density measurement on Frascati Tokamak upgrade

Fabio Avino

In FTU, density profile is measured with two new diagnostics: a CO2/CO scanning interferometer and a time-of-flight radar (denominated refractometer). The first, using two scanning beams, can provide a plasma density profile every 62.5 mu s. Two lasers (CO ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Implementing water recirculation in a novel portable plasma-activated water reactor enhances antimicrobial effect against Escherichia coli

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers, Lorenzo Ibba

The need for sustainable and reliable decontamination methods is driven by concerns regarding antibiotic resistance, as well as environmental and cost -efficiency challenges associated with traditional methods. Plasmaactivated water (PAW) holds significant ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

The new TORPEX in-vessel toroidal conductor for the generation of a poloidal magnetic field

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino

TORoidal Plasma EXperiment (TORPEX) is a Simple Magnetized Torus featuring open helical magnetic field lines obtained from the superposition of a small vertical component on the main toroidal field. This work introduces the experimental setup developed to ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Fabio Avino, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Davoud Iraji

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research (CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal configurations, a paradigm for the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), as well as more complex ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Basic characterization of TORPEX electrostatic modes in closed field line configurations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Avino, Sébastien Jolliet

Electrostatic coherent modes are studied in the TORPEX device [Fasoli et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 52, 124020 (2010)], in closed flux surfaces. The accessibility to this magnetic geometry is provided by a current-carrying in-vessel toroidal condu ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Entering the plasma agriculture field: An attempt to standardize protocols for plasma treatment of seeds

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Fabio Avino, Alexandra Waskow

Plasma treatments are currently being assessed as a seed processing technology for agricultural purposes. There is sufficient information as a proof-of-concept, but a lack of standardization in the methodology prevents a convincing evaluation of plasma tre ...

2022

Electromagnetic turbulent structures: A ubiquitous feature of the edge region of toroidal plasma configurations

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

Electromagnetic features of turbulent filaments, emerging from a turbulent plasma background, have been studied in four different magnetic configurations: the stellarator TJ-II, the Reversed Field Pinch RFX-mod, a device that can be operated also as a ohmi ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Overview of the RFX-mod fusion science programme

Ambrogio Fasoli, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Avino, Nicola Vianello

This paper reports the highlights of the RFX-mod fusion science programme since the last 2010 IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. The RFX-mod fusion science programme focused on two main goals: exploring the fusion potential of the reversed field pinch (RFP) ma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Investigating the effects of plasma-activated water on E. coli with the novel application of single-cell impedance flow cytometry

Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers

Single-cell impedance flow cytometry (IFC) is a rapid, label-free diagnostic capable of resolving the dielectric properties of individual cells. Here, single-cell IFC is employed to investigate the effects of plasma-activated water (PAW) on E. coli. This d ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Enhanced radio-frequency performance of niobium films on copper substrates deposited by high power impulse magnetron sputtering

Fabio Avino

We present a study of radio frequency properties of niobium films deposited on copper by two different approaches based on High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering, namely with a DC voltage biased substrate and with bipolar target voltage. Such approaches e ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4

Yi Zhang, Jan Steggemann, Hua Zhang, Elena Graverini, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Jean-Michel Sallese, Mingkui Wang, Luca Rossi, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Thomas Rizzo, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Doohyun Kim, Yu Bai, Fabio Avino, Xavier Buffat, Andrea Wulzer, Tatiana Pieloni, Michael Schenk, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Marco Drewes, Mithlesh Kumar, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Alban Sublet, Lorena Gonçalves de Alcântara e Freitas Krikler, Alexej Grudiev, Roberto Contino, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Francesco Cerutti, Sondre Vik Furuseth, Giovanni Migliorati, Vincenzo D'Auria, Luca Vecchi, Javier Barranco Garcia, Claudia Tambasco, Sandra Aumon, Georgi Gorine, Bernhard Auchmann, Lotta Maria Mether, Léon Van Riesen-Haupt, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Leonid Rivkin, Agnieszka Chmielinska, Eva Maria Rodriguez Franco

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider ...

2019

FCC-hh: The Hadron Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 3

Yi Zhang, Jan Steggemann, Hua Zhang, Elena Graverini, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Jean-Michel Sallese, Luca Rossi, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Doohyun Kim, Yu Bai, Fabio Avino, Xavier Buffat, Tatiana Pieloni, Andrea Wulzer, Michael Schenk, Marco Drewes, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Mithlesh Kumar, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Leonid Rivkin, Vincenzo D'Auria, Alban Sublet, Alexej Grudiev, Roberto Contino, Francesco Cerutti, Sondre Vik Furuseth, Javier Barranco Garcia, Claudia Tambasco, Sandra Aumon, Agnieszka Chmielinska, Bernhard Auchmann, Lotta Maria Mether, Léon Van Riesen-Haupt

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider ...

2019