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Sub-millisecond electron density profile measurement at the JET tokamak with the fast lithium beam emission spectroscopy system (vol 89, 043509, 2018)

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

Neutron spectroscopy measurements of 14 MeV neutrons at unprecedented energy resolution and implications for deuterium-tritium fusion plasma diagnostics

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Justin Robert Young, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alexis Gérald Page, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Bernard Schneider, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

14 MeV calibration of JET neutron detectors-phase 1: calibration and characterization of the neutron source

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Magalie Diane Bassan, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Petre Alexandru Arion, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Hugo Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Stéphanie Prior, Philippe Janson, Daniel Scott Alessi, Matthew Brown, Philippe Jean Buchs, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Mario Joe Lehmann, Pamela Solange Valdés Undurraga, Michael Oliver Reinke, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Wei Tang, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Lyne Moser, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Spectroscopic investigations of divertor detachment in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Claudio Marini, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio

The aim of this work is to provide an understanding of detachment at TCV with emphasis on analysis of the Balmer line emission. A new Divertor Spectroscopy System has been developed for this purpose. Further development of Balmer line analysis techniques h ...

Elsevier2017

Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Cristian Sommariva, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing physics issues for a future DEMO design. Since 2015, AUG is equipped with a new pair of ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Axisymmetric oscillations at L-H transitions in JET: M-mode

Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Bernhard Sieglin

L to H transition studies at JET have revealed an n = 0, m = 1 magnetic oscillation starting immediately at the L to H transition (called M-mode for brevity). While the magnetic oscillation is present a weak ELM-less H-mode regime is obtained, with a clear ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, , , , , , , , ,

Overview of the RFX-mod fusion science activity

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Elena Gaio, Leonardo Pigatto, Nicola Vianello, Yi Zhang, Matteo Vallar, Alberto Ferro

This paper reports the main recent results of the RFX-mod fusion science activity. The RFX-mod device is characterized by a unique flexibility in terms of accessible magnetic configurations. Axisymmetric and helically shaped reversed-field pinch equilibria ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio

Divertor detachment is explored on the TCV tokamak in alternative magnetic geometries. Starting from typical TCV single-null shapes, the poloidal flux expansion at the outer strikepoint is varied by a factor of 10 to investigate the X-divertor characterist ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of the JET results in support to ITER

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

The 2014-2016 JET results are reviewed in the light of their significance for optimising the ITER research plan for the active and non-active operation. More than 60 h of plasma operation with ITER first wall materials successfully took place since its ins ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

TCV divertor upgrade for alternative magnetic configurations

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Marco Wischmeier, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Davide Uglietti, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello

The Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) is planning a divertor upgrade for the TCV tokamak. The upgrade aims at extending the research of conventional and alternative divertor configurations to operational scenarios and divertor regimes of greater relevance for a fu ...

Elsevier2017

A study on the density shoulder formation in the SOL of H-mode plasmas

Nicola Vianello

The term "shoulder formation" refers to an increase of the density decay length in the scrape-off layer (SOL) observed in many tokamaks during L-mode operation when a density threshold is reached. Recent experiments in ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) and JET have show ...

Elsevier2017

Modification of SOL profiles and fluctuations with line-average density and divertor flux expansion in TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello

A set of Ohmic density ramp experiments addressing the role of parallel connection length in modifying scrape off layer (SOL) properties has been performed on the TCV tokamak. The parallel connection length has been modified by varying the poloidal flux ex ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

TCV experiments towards the development of a plasma exhaust solution

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

On the statistics and features of turbulent structures in RFX-mod

Nicola Vianello

An extensive statistical characterization of the electromagnetic turbulence in the edge region of RFX-mod, operated as a tokamak and as a Reversed Field Pinch, is presented. Striking similarity are observed on the intermittent character of the electrostati ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Recent ASDEX Upgrade research in support of ITER and DEMO

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Heinz Mueller, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Alessandro Pau, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Recent experiments on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak aim at improving the physics base for ITER and DEMO to aid the machine design and prepare efficient operation. Type I edge localized mode (ELM) mitigation using resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) has been ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Experimental Validation of a Filament Transport Model in Turbulent Magnetized Plasmas

Heinz Mueller, Nicola Vianello

In a wide variety of natural and laboratory magnetized plasmas, filaments appear as a result of interchange instability. These convective structures substantially enhance transport in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field. According to filament ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Overview of the RFX-mod contribution to the international Fusion Science Program

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Elena Gaio, Leonardo Pigatto, Nicola Vianello, Alberto Ferro

The RFX-mod device is operated both as a reversed field pinch (RFP), where advanced regimes featuring helical shape develop, and as a tokamak. Due to its flexibility, RFX-mod is contributing to the solution of key issues in the roadmap to ITER and DEMO, in ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

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Hamish William Patten

Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

Daniel Molina Romero

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Samuel Lanthaler

Liang Yao

Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa

Thomas Willem Jan de Geus

Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

Riccardo Vannucci

Candice Megan T Young

Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

An accurate calibration of the JET neutron diagnostics with a 14 MeV neutron generator was performed in the first half of 2017 in order to provide a reliable measurement of the fusion power during the next JET deuterium-tritium (DT) campaign. In order to m ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Matteo Fontana

Umar Sheikh

Cristian Galperti

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Fusion power may be seen as the energy of the future in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap and unlimited power source that would reduce the worldwide dependency on non-renewable energies. Nevertheless, while nowadays the fusion reaction ...

IEEE2018

Dalziel Joseph Wilson

Justin Robert Young

Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

Federico Nespoli

Alexis Gérald Page

João Saraiva Esteves Pacheco de Almeida

Stefano Mattei

Tao Xu

Luca Carraro

Hamish William Patten

Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

Daniel Molina Romero

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Samuel Lanthaler

Liang Yao

Andrea Salmi

Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Thomas Willem Jan de Geus

Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

Riccardo Vannucci

Semin Kwak

Candice Megan T Young

Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo

In view of the planned DT operations at JET, a calibration of the JET neutron monitors at 14 MeV neutron energy is needed using a 14 MeV neutron generator deployed inside the vacuum vessel by the JET remote handling system. The target accuracy of this cali ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European medium size tokamak task force (EU-MST) coordinates research on ASDEX Upgrade ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Umar Sheikh

Cristian Galperti

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

IOP Publishing Ltd2017