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Projection-angle effects when "observing" a turbulent magnetized collapsing molecular cloud: II. Magnetic field

Context. Interstellar magnetic fields are thought to play a fundamental role in the evolution of star-forming regions. Polarized thermal dust emission serves as a key probe for understanding the structure of the plane-of-the-sky component of the magnetic f ...

2025

Operation Above the Greenwald Density Limit in High Performance DIII-d Negative Triangularity Discharges

Olivier Sauter

The density limit in strongly-shaped negative triangularity (NT) discharges is studied experimentally in the DIII-D tokamak. Record-high Greenwald fractions fG are obtained, using gas puff injection only, with values up to near 2, where fG is defined as th ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Impurity-seeded detachment in conventional and optimized TCV divertor geometry

Guang-Yu Sun

Nuclear fusion provides a potentially unlimited and clean energy source which motivates the development of fusion power plants. The tokamak is one of the most promising concepts for a future reactor, confining the fusion plasmas in a torus using strong mag ...

EPFL2025

Plasma state monitoring and disruption characterization using multimodal VAEs

Giulio Romanelli, Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Yoeri Renier Johannes Poels, Cristina Venturini

When a plasma disrupts in a tokamak, significant heat and electromagnetic loads are deposited onto the surrounding device components. These forces scale with plasma current and magnetic field strength, making disruptions one of the key challenges for futur ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Ion temperature gradient mode mitigation by energetic particles, mediated by forced-driven zonal flows

Laurent Villard, Giovanni Di Giannatale, Baruch Rofman

In this work, we use the global electromagnetic and electrostatic gyro kinetic approaches to investigate the effects of zonal flows forced-driven by Alfvén modes due to their excitation by energetic particles on the dynamics of ITG (ion temperature gradien ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2024

Optimizing the ITER NBI ion source by dedicated RF driver test stand

Riccardo Agnello

The experimental fusion reactor ITER will feature two (or three) heating neutral beam injectors (NBI) capable of delivering 33(or 50) MW of power into the plasma. A NBI consists of a plasma source for production of negative ions (extracted negative ion cur ...

Institute of Physics2024

Global gyrokinetic study of density gradient driven instability in tokamaks: the ubiquitous mode

Laurent Villard

The ubiquitous mode is investigated in the linear regime for the first time using a global gyrokinetic model. These modes are driven by the density gradient in trapped electron population but with mode frequency in the ion diamagnetic drift direction, in c ...

2024

Characterization of plasmas in negative ion sources using a Cs-H Collisional Radiative model

Basile Marie Jacques Pouradier Duteil

SPIDER, hosted at the Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) in Padova, Italy, is the full scale prototype for the ITER Heating Neutral Beam (HNB) source. Another smaller compact RF ion source, NIO1, hosted by Consorzio RFX, was built to study the production an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Investigation of scrape-off layer and divertor transport using infrared thermography and SOLPS-ITER simulations

Claudia Colandrea

Nuclear fusion, with its potential to provide a nearly unlimited energy source, has inspired scientists to work on the development of fusion power plants. Among the various devices designed to harness nuclear fusion, the tokamak confines the fusion fuel, w ...

EPFL2024

Exploration of the parameter space for the excitation and saturation of Edge Harmonic Oscillations

Guillermo Bustos Ramirez

This thesis presents advancements in the understanding of the plasma conditions leading to the excitation and saturation of the Edge Harmonic Oscillations (EHOs) observed during QH-mode operation in tokamak plasmas. Such operations represent a safer altern ...

EPFL2023

On the relationship between the multi-region relaxed variational principle and resistive inner-layer theory

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

We show that the variational energy principle of the multi-region relaxed magnetohydrodynamic (MRxMHD) model can be used to predict finite-pressure linear tearing instabilities. In this model, the plasma volume is sliced into sub-volumes separated by 'idea ...

2023

Development of the self-modulation instability of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Sun Hee Kim, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Samuel Rey-Mermet, Christine Stollberg, Alban Sublet

Self-modulation is a beam-plasma instability that is useful to drive large-amplitude wakefields with bunches much longer than the plasma skin depth. We present experimental results showing that, when increasing the ratio between the initial transverse size ...

2023

CO enhancement by magnetohydrodynamic waves Striations in the Polaris Flare

Aris Evangelos Tritsis

Context. The formation of molecular gas in interstellar clouds is a slow process, but can be enhanced by gas compression. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves can create compressed quasi-periodic linear structures, referred to as striations. Striations are obse ...

2023

Gyrokinetic simulation of low-n Alfvenic modes in tokamak HL-2A plasmas

Javier García Hernández, Samuele Mazzi

The turbulence characteristics of plasmas with internal transport barriers in the HL-2A tokamak are analyzed by means of linear gyrokinetic simulations. It is found that turbulence is dominated by the ion temperature gradient (ITG) mode together with large ...

2023

Three-dimensional inhomogeneity of electron-temperature-gradient turbulence in the edge of tokamak plasmas

Justin Richard Ball

Nonlinear multiscale gyrokinetic simulations of a Joint European Torus edge pedestal are used to show that electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) turbulence has a rich three-dimensional structure, varying strongly according to the local magnetic-field configu ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Jan Horacek, Paolo Ricci, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jonathan Graves, Stephan Brunner, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Xavier Llobet, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Filippo Bagnato, Roberto Maurizio, Oulfa Chellaï, Mirko Wensing, Claudia Colandrea, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Carpanese, Nicola Offeddu, Aylwin Iantchenko, Maurizio Giacomin, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dahye Choi, Federico Pesamosca, Hugo Antoine Georges Arnichand, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Stipani, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Stefano Marchioni, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Renat Karimov, Ajay Chandrarajan Jayalekshmi

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

A Temperature Programmed Desorption Diagnostic for SPIDER Cs Operations

Basile Marie Jacques Pouradier Duteil

Cesium evaporation, aimed at enhancing the production of negative ions, has recently started during the last experimental campaigns in Source for the Production of Ions of Deuterium Extracted from a Radio frequency plasma (SPIDER). In view of the full-scal ...

2022

A novel path to runaway electron mitigation via deuterium injection and current-driven MHD instability

Cristian Sommariva

Relativistic electron (RE) beams at high current density (low safety factor, q ( a )) yet very low free-electron density accessed with D-2 secondary injection in the DIII-D and JET tokamak are found to exhibit large-scale MHD instabilities that benignly te ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Controlling the rotation of drift tearing modes by biased electrode in ADITYA-U tokamak

Harshita Raj

The influence of background plasma poloidal rotation on the rotation frequency of the m/n = 2/1 drift tearing mode (DTM) has been studied in ADITYA-U tokamak. The poloidal rotation velocity of the background plasma in the ion diamagnetic direction is incre ...

2021

L-H transition threshold studies in helium plasmas at JET

Henri Weisen

We present a study of the power threshold for L-H transitions (P-LH) in almost pure helium plasmas, obtained in recent experiments at JET with an ITER-like wall (Be wall and W divertor). The most notable new result is that the density at which P-LH is mini ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021