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Energetic ion losses 'channeling' mechanism and strategy for mitigation

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Patrick Blanchard, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Alberto Hernando de Castro

Results from two different sets of JET experiments are presented. In experiments in which toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) localized at different radial locations had the same frequencies and toroidal mode numbers, the occurrence of enhanced lo ...

2019

Characterisation of neutron generators and monitoring detectors for the in-vessel calibration of JET

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

A calibration of the JET neutron detectors was carried out prior to the upcoming deuterium-tritium experimental campaign. Two Compact DT neutron generators (NGs) were purchased for this purpose from VNIIA, Russia. These generators are capable of producing ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2018

Overview Of Neutron Measurements In Jet Fusion Device

The design and operation of ITER experimental fusion reactor requires the development of neutron measurement techniques and numerical tools to derive the fusion power and the radiation field in the device and in the surrounding areas. Nuclear analyses prov ...

2018

Maximum likelihood bolometric tomography for the determination of the uncertainties in the radiation emission on JET TOKAMAK

The total emission of radiation is a crucial quantity to calculate the power balances and to understand the physics of any Tokamak. Bolometric systems are the main tool to measure this important physical quantity through quite sophisticated tomographic inv ...

2018

Evidence of Be-9 + p nuclear reactions during 2 omega(CH) and hydrogen minority ICRH in JET-ILW hydrogen and deuterium plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, 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, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, 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 intensity of Be-9 + p nuclear fusion reactions was experimentally studied during second harmonic (2 omega CH) ion-cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) and further analyzed during fundamental hydrogen minority ICRH of JET-ILW hydrogen and deuterium plasma ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Modelling of the neutron production in a mixed beam DT neutron generator

Compact DT neutron generators based on accelerators are often built on the principle of a mixed beam operation, meaning that deuterium (D) and tritium (T) are both present in the ion beam and in the target. Moreover, the beam consists of a mixture of ions ...

2018

On a fusion born triton effect in JET deuterium discharges with H-minority ion cyclotron range of frequencies heating

An effect due to fusion born triton production has been observed in JET high-performance deuterium plasma discharges with neutral beam injection (NBI) and H-minority ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) heating, using DD and deuterium tritium (DT) neu ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Geodesic acoustic mode evolution in L-mode approaching the L-H transition on JET

Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) may generate strong oscillations in the radial electric field and therefore are considered as a possible trigger mechanism for the L-H transition. This contribution focuses on the characterization of GAMs in JET plasmas when ...

2019

Development of a new compact gamma-ray spectrometer optimised for runaway electron measurements

A new compact gamma-ray spectrometer was developed in order to optimise the measurement of bremsstrahlung radiation emitted from runaway electrons in the MeV range. The detector is based on a cerium doped lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO:Ce) scintil ...

2018

MHD spectroscopy of JET plasmas with pellets via Alfven eigenmodes

Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) are routinely seen in present-day tokamaks and stellarators with energetic particles and they represent an attractive form of MHD spectroscopy that provides valuable information on background plasma and on the energetic particles. P ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Assessment of the strength of kinetic effects of parallel electron transport in the SOL and divertor of JET high radiative H-mode plasmas using EDGE2D-EIRENE and KIPP codes

The kinetic code for plasma periphery (KIPP) was used to assess the importance of the kinetic effects of parallel electron transport in the scrape-off layer (SOL) and divertor of JET high radiative H-mode inter-ELM plasma conditions with the ITER-like wall ...

2018

Non-Maxwellian fast particle effects in gyrokinetic GENE simulations

Fast ions have recently been found to significantly impact and partially suppress plasma turbulence both in experimental and numerical studies in a number of scenarios. Understanding the underlying physics and identifying the range of their beneficial effe ...

2018

ICRH antenna &ITS&IT-matrix measurements and plasma coupling characterisation at JET

The paper is dedicated to the characterisation of multi-strap ICRH antenna coupling to plasma. Relevance of traditional concept of coupling resistance to antennas with mutually coupled straps is revised and the importance of antenna port excitation consist ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Equilibrium reconstruction at JET using Stokes model for polarimetry

This paper presents the first application to real JET data of the new equilibrium code NICE which enables the consistent resolution of the inverse equilibrium reconstruction problem in the framework of non-linear free-boundary equilibrium coupled to the St ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Translational dynamics of photoexcited atoms in 4He nanodroplets: the case of silver

Alberto Hernando de Castro, Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

The dynamics following the photoexcitation of Ag atoms in 4He nanodroplets via the 5p 2P1=2 ← 5s2S1=2 and 5p 2P3=2 ← 5s2S1=2 transitions has been investigated in a joint experimental and theoretical effort. It has been experimentally found that upon excita ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

A First Analysis of JET Plasma Profile-Based Indicators for Disruption Prediction and Avoidance

Reliable algorithms for disruption avoidance and prediction are foreseen to play a fundamental role in the JET control system for the successful operation of the machine in the upcoming deuterium-tritium campaigns. The integration of such algorithms is exp ...

2018

Measurement of the inclusive and differential t(t)over-bar gamma cross sections in the dilepton channel and effective field theory interpretation in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

Olivier Martin, Ian Smith, Matthias Finger, Richard Pitts, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Jean-François Carlin, Jian Zhao, Arvind Shah, Chao Wang, Melody Swartz, Yi Zhang, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hoài-Minh Nguyên, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Rakesh Chawla, Myun Sik Kim, Tian Cheng, Thomas Mountford, Yixing Chen, Ananda Sankar Roy, Varun Sharma, Bertrand François, Josef Andreas Schuler, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Jae-Woo Choi, Jin Won Seo, Joo Yeon Kim, Wei Sun, Xiaoqiang Wang, Kyumin Lee, Muhammad Aiman Bin Rahmanudin Hamdan, Chia-Chun Chen, Randoald Müller, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Jung Eung Park, Ana Margarida Da Costa Ricardo, Sebastian James Davis, Melissa Catherine Olson, Christoph Ernst René Schäfer, Adam Wade Marcus, Johannes Steen, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet, Hoang-Trang Lam, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Carlos Andres Peña Reyes, Justin Terence Notz Pekkanen, Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

The production cross section of a top quark pair in association with a photon is measured in proton-proton collisions in the decay channel with two oppositely charged leptons (e(+/-)mu(-/+), e(+)e(-), or mu(+)mu(-)). The measurement is performed using 138 ...

Springer Nature2022

Effect of the relative shift between the electron density and temperature pedestal position on the pedestal stability in JET-ILW and comparison with JET-C

The electron temperature and density pedestals tend to vary in their relative radial positions, as observed in DIII-D (Beurskens et al 2011 Phys. Plasmas 18 056120) and ASDEX Upgrade (Dunne et al 2017 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59 14017). This so-called ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

On the role of finite grid extent in SOLPS-ITER edge plasma simulations for JET H-mode discharges with metallic wall

The impact of the finite grid size in SOLPS-ITER edge plasma simulations is assessed for JET H-mode discharges with a metal wall. For a semi-horizontal divertor configuration it is shown that the separatrix density is at least 30% higher when a narrow scra ...

Elsevier2018

Inter-ELM evolution of the edge current density in JET-ILW type I ELMy H-mode plasmas

Recent studies (Maggi et al 2015 Nucl. Fusion 55 113031; Maggi et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 116012) have shown that on JET with the Be/W ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) in high beta discharges with high D-2 gas rates, the inter-ELM temperature pedestal growth is sa ...

2018