Exploring a small sawtooth regime in Joint European Torus plasmas with counterinjected neutral beams

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Exploring a small sawtooth regime in Joint European Torus plasmas with counterinjected neutral beams

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DC and quench performance assessment from the EUROfusion HTS Quench Experiment campaign and projection to magnet operation

Re-design of EU DEMO with a low aspect ratio

Global fluid simulations of plasma turbulence in stellarators

Benign termination of runaway electron beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV

Progress in the development of the ITER baseline scenario in TCV

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

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

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

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

Inter-discharge optimization for fast, reliable access to ASDEX Upgrade advanced tokamak scenario

NBI optimization on SMART and implications for scenario development

Interpretative 3D MHD modelling of deuterium SPI into a JET H-mode plasma

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

Towards practical reinforcement learning for tokamak magnetic control

Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR: A. Analysis and model validation on ASDEX Upgrade

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR. Part B: safe termination of DEMO plasmas

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