Magnetic Reconnection Triggering Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities during a Sawtooth Crash in a Tokamak Plasma

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Magnetic Reconnection Triggering Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities during a Sawtooth Crash in a Tokamak Plasma

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

Modelling of energetic particle drive and damping effects on TAEs in AUG experiment with ECCD

Experiments and gyrokinetic simulations of TCV plasmas with negative triangularity in view of DTT operations

Physical insights from the aspect ratio dependence of turbulence in negative triangularity plasmas

Benign termination of runaway electron beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Global fluid simulation of plasma turbulence in stellarators with the GBS code

First Thomson scattering results from AWAKE’s helicon plasma source

Impact of microwave beam scattering by density fluctuations on the electron-cyclotron power deposition profile in tokamaks

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

Occam's razor on the mechanism of resistive-wall-mode-induced beta limits in diverted tokamaks

Full-discharge simulation and optimization with the RAPTOR code, from present tokamaks to ITER and DEMO