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First Microsecond Velocity-space Resolved Simultaneous Measurements of Co- and Counter-current Fast-ion Losses in Forward and Reverse Magnetic Field in a Tokamak

Adrien Rayane Clement, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Pierre Lavanchy, Matteo Vallar, Matthieu Toussaint, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Anton Jansen Van Vuuren

A novel Fast Ion Loss Detector was designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned at the Tokamak & aacute; Configuration Variable. This is the first Fast Ion Loss Detector to feature four collimators that enable simultaneous detection of co- and counte ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Experimental demonstration of an up-down asymmetry effect on intrinsic rotation in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Yann Camenen, Alexander Karpushov, Alessandro Bortolon, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Francesco Piras

A new mechanism has recently been proposed that generates a radial flux of parallel momentum in toroidal plasmas. Namely, by considering up-down asymmetric flux surfaces, the symmetry following the magnetic field can be broken and an additional contributio ...

Institute of Physics2010

Beam duct for the 1 MW neutral beam injector on TCV

Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Alexander Karpushov, Frédéric Dolizy, Roberto Maurizio, Matthieu Toussaint

The 1MW power of the neutral beam injector (NBI) enters the plasma of the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) through a duct. The original beam propagation model predicted a maximal heat flux on the internal faces of the duct below 350 kW/m(2), leading ...

2020

High density experiments in TCV ohmically heated and L-mode plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pochelon, Roland Behn

Recent experiments have been performed on the Tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) to investigate the confinement properties of high density plasmas and the mechanism behind the density limit. In a limiter configuration with plasma elongation kappa = 1.3 ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Ion Temperature Fluctuations in ELMy H-mode of the X3 EC-heated Plasmas on TCV

Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

This paper focuses on interpreting variations in the NPA measured energy distribution of neutral fluxes from the TCV high density H-mode plasma discharges with strong third harmonic electron cyclotron heating (P_{X3}>P_{\Omega}). Two quasi-stationary regim ...

2007

Effects of central electron cyclotron power on plasma rotation and on triggerless onset of NTMs in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Doohyun Kim, Dávid Wágner, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Jonathan Rossel

Experiments on the TCV tokamak show that high power central electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (ECCD) produce significant direct modification of the plasma rotation profile, as well as the effect on the equilibrium current density. These ef ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Multi-slit triode ion optical system with ballistic beam focusing

Alexander Karpushov, Anton Smirnov

Multi-slit triode ion-optical systems with spherical electrodes are of interest for formation of intense focused neutral beams for plasma heating. At present, two versions of focusing multi-slit triode ion optical system are developed. The first ion optica ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Progress toward divertor detachment on TCV within H-mode operating parameters

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Roberto Maurizio, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich

Recent experiments on Tokamak à Configuration Variable have made significant progress toward partial detachment of the outer divertor in neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas in conventional and alternative divertor configurations. The heating power required ...

2019

Experimental Evidence of Momentum Transport Induced by an Up-Down Asymmetric Magnetic Equilibrium in Toroidal Plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Yann Camenen, Alexander Karpushov, Alessandro Bortolon, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Francesco Piras

The first experimental evidence of parallel momentum transport generated by the up-down asymmetry of a toroidal plasma is reported. The experiments, conducted in the Tokamak a` Configuration Variable, were motivated by the recent theoretical discovery of i ...

2010

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

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa, Minh Quang Tran, Paolo Ricci, Patrick Blanchard, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Nicola Vianello, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Xavier Llobet, Fabio Riva, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Christian Schlatter, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Anna Teplukhina, Yanis Andrebe, Roberto Maurizio, Zhouji Huang, Rémy Jacquier, Claudio Marini, Mengdi Kong, Hoang Bao Le, Oulfa Chellaï, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Francesco Carpanese, Josef Kamleitner, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Joyeeta Sinha

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Present status of heating neutral beam injection system at TCV

David Velasco De La Fuente, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Patrick Blanchard, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Yanis Andrebe, Frédéric Dolizy, Ugo Siravo, Rémy Jacquier, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Marc Noël, Aleksandr Listopad

The paper describes the operation and upgrade of the Heating Neutral Beam Injection (HNBI) system as well as the related infrastructure at the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) during the last years. In 2023, the installation of new TCV neutron shieldin ...

2025

Upgrade of the neutral beam heating system on the TCV tokamak - second high energy neutral beam

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Umar Sheikh, Blaise Marlétaz, Frédéric Dolizy, Ugo Siravo, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Pierre Lavanchy, Matteo Vallar, Rémy Jacquier, Filippo Bagnato, Jérémie Dubray, Claudia Colandrea, Matthieu Toussaint, Lorenzo Martinelli, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

The TCV tokamak continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to provide a stepladder approach for extrapolations of experimental results from different ma-chines to ITER and DEMO. TCV's configura ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

The diagnostic neutral beam injector with arc-discharge plasma source on the TCV Tokamak

Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Alessandro Bortolon, Yanis Andrebe

The diagnostic neutral beam injector (DNBI) together with a charge exchange recombination spectroscopy (CXRS) system has been used on the TCV Tokamak as a diagnostic tool for local measurements of plasma ion temperature, velocity and carbon impurity densit ...

Elsevier B.V.2009

A scoping study of the application of neutral beam heating on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, René Chavan, Alexander Karpushov, Emiliano Fable

The TCV tokamak contributes to the physics understanding of fusion plasmas, broadening the parameter range of reactor relevant regimes, by investigations based on an extensive use of the existing main experimental tools: flexible shaping and high power rea ...

Elsevier2011

Conditions for anomalous energy and momentum transfer from electrons to ions in ECCD discharges on TCV

Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Schlatter

2006

Extension of the operating space of high-beta(N) fully non-inductive scenarios on TCV using neutral beam injection

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Matteo Vallar, Mengdi Kong

The fully non-inductive sustainment of high normalized beta plasmas (beta(N)) is a crucial challenge for the steady-state operation of a tokamak reactor. In order to assess the difficulties facing such scenarios, steady-state regimes have been explored on ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Update of ion-optical system of neutral beam of Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Alexander Karpushov

An injector of fast deuterium atoms for plasma heating was designed and installed at the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). The neutral beam can deliver 1 MW power to the plasma in 2 s pulses. An ion beam of the injector is formed by a triode multisli ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Modelling of sawtooth-induced fast ion transport in positive and negative triangularity in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Matteo Vallar, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Lorenzo Stipani

Internal kinks are a common magneto hydro-dynamic (MHD) instability observed in tokamak operation when the q profile in the plasma core is close to unity. This MHD instability impacts both the transport of the bulk plasma (current, particle and energy tran ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Impact of Plasma Shaping on Electron Heat Transport in TCV L-mode Plasmas at Various Collisionalities

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Antoine Pochelon, Roland Behn, Yann Camenen, Alexander Karpushov, Alberto Bottino, Alessandro Bortolon

2006