Development of multimegawatt gyrotrons for fusion plasma heating and current drive

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Phase contrast imaging (PCI) is an established and powerful technique for measuring density fluctuations in plasmas and has been successfully applied to several fusion devices. Rooted in a concept first developed for microscopy, PCI belongs to the category ...

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Development of multimegawatt gyrotrons for fusion plasma heating and current drive

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Plasma state monitoring and disruption characterization using multimodal VAEs

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

Nonlinear simulation of plasma turbulence using a gyrokinetic moment-based approach

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Long plasma duration operation analyses with an international multi-machine (tokamaks and stellarators) database

Progress in the development of the ITER baseline scenario in TCV

Re-design of EU DEMO with a low aspect ratio

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

Divertor turbulence characterisation using Gas Puff Imaging in the TCV tokamak

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background

Tangentially viewing phase contrast imaging for turbulence measurements in toroidal fusion devices

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

Experimental study and interpretative modelling of the Power Exhaust in Configurations with Multiple X-Points in TCV

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

Comparison of detachment in Ohmic plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

Error field detection and correction studies towards ITER operation