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Impurity-seeded detachment in conventional and optimized TCV divertor geometry

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

X-point radiation: From discovery to potential application in a future reactor

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Olivier Claude Martin Février

Power exhaust is a crucial issue for future fusion reactors. Divertor detachment and the required power dissipation fractions of about 95% are foreseen to be achieved by impurity seeding. In a tokamak, at high seeding levels the radiation often concentrate ...

Elsevier2025

Neutral pressure measurement in TCV tokamak using ASDEX-type pressure gauges

Holger Reimerdes, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Guang-Yu Sun, Elena Tonello, Marc Noël, Mateusz Gospodarczyk, Hammam Elaian

Probing the neutral gas distribution at the edge of magnetic confinement fusion devices is critical for plasma exhaust studies. In the TCV tokamak, a set of ASDEX-type hot ionization pressure gauges (APGs) has been installed for fast, in situ measurements ...

2025

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

Conceptual design of inductive magnetic sensors using photolithography processes

Duccio Testa

Inductive magnetic sensors are needed for the operation of fusion devices to monitor high frequency (HF) fluctuations and as a back-up to the low-frequency (LF, still inductive) magnetic sensors used for the measurements leading to the reconstruction of th ...

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

Implementation of an Iter-relevant Qp-based Current Limit Avoidance Algorithm in the Tcv Tokamak

Stefano Coda, Cristian Galperti, Adriano Mele

The problem of avoiding saturation of the coil currents is critical in large tokamaks with superconducting coils like ITER. Indeed, if the current limits are reached, a loss of control of the plasma may lead to a major disruption. Therefore, a current limi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Conceptual design proposal for the EU-DEMO electron cyclotron ex-vessel waveguide system with enhanced remote maintainability

Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Daniel Birlan, Fabien Pierre Crisinel

The EUropean DEMOnstration power plant (EU-DEMO) project, a EUROfusion initiative, seeks to advance fusion power technology by developing a reliable Electron Cyclotron (EC) heating and current drive system capable of delivering up to 130 MW of auxiliary he ...

2025

Optimizing photon capture: advancements in amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates

Edoardo Charbon, Christophe Ballif, Claudio Bruschini, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Jad Benserhir, Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates are electron multipliers widely used in applications such as particle detection, imaging, or mass spectrometry and are often paired with a photocathode to enable photon detection. Conventional microchannel plates, made of glass fibers, ...

2025

Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with large ionization energy loss in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV

Jan Steggemann, Konstantin Androsov, Anna Mascellani, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Paul Théodore Gabriel Pablo De Bryas Dexmiers d'Archiac

A search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionization energy loss within the silicon tracker of the CMS experiment is presented. A data set of proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy at s = 13 TeV, collected in 2017 and 2018 a ...

Springer2025

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

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

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Alessandro Pau, Justin Richard Ball, Filippo Bagnato, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Carbon impurity transport is studied in the TCV tokamak using a charge exchange recombination diagnostic. TCVs flexible shaping capabilities were exploited to extend previous impurity transport studies to negative triangularity (delta < 0). A practical way ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

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

Validating reduced models for detachment onset and reattachment times on MAST-U

Holger Reimerdes

Two reduced models for predicting detachment onset and divertor reattachment times are validated on MAST Upgrade (MAST-U). These models are essential for future tokamak reactor design, providing rapid calculations based primarily on engineering parameters. ...

Elsevier2024

Isotope effects and Alfvén eigenmode stability in JET H, D, T, DT, and He plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli

While much about Alfvén eigenmode (AE) stability has been explored in previous and current tokamaks, open questions remain for future burning plasma experiments, especially regarding exact stability threshold conditions and related isotope effects; the lat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

Davide Uglietti, Kamil Sedlák

For the EU DEMO conductor testing, a temperature sensor based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fiber is studied at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center. The SULTAN test facility has been upgraded to use fiber optic sensor for temperature monitoring and quench ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration

Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Matteo Vallar, Samuele Mazzi

Recent results from MAST Upgrade are presented, emphasising understanding the capabilities of this new device and deepening understanding of key physics issues for the operation of ITER and the design of future fusion power plants. The impact of MHD instab ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Study of Ionized Particles in a Gyrotron Using a Full Gyrotron Simulation Model

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

The ionization of the residual gas in gyrotrons causes the generation of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. Using the electron optics code Ariadne, it was possible to simulate the behavior of these electrons in the overall gyrotron g ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024