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Design and implementation of a model-based hierarchical architecture for plasma shape control in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Alessandro Tenaglia, Adriano Mele

Plasma shape control is a fundamental tool for effective tokamak operation, allowing improved plasma performance and the pursuit of challenging scientific objectives. In this framework, the Tokamak á Configuration Variable (TCV) of the École Polytechnique ...

IOP Publishing2025

Investigating the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in TCV with SOLPS-ITER simulations and TCV experiments

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Richard Alexander David Ducker, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Elena Tonello, Massimo Carpita

Plasma edge simulations with the SOLPS-ITER code are performed to study the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in Tokamak & agrave; Configuration Variable (TCV) single-null, L-mode discharges. Scans of nitrogen seeding rate are con ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Machine learning methods for locked-mode predictions in MAST-U plasmas

Alessandro Pau

In tokamaks, rotating magneto-hydro-dynamic modes frequently decelerate as their amplitude increases. Once a critical threshold in amplitude is reached, these modes stop rotating into a specific toroidal and poloidal position and are commonly named Locked ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Access to an ELM-suppressed X-point radiator regime in TCV snowflake minus configurations

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Daniele Hamm, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Yinghan Wang, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Ming Yin Kenneth Lee, Artur Perek, Martim Zurita

TCV’s operating regime with an X-point radiator (XPR) has been broadened by changing the magnetic geometry. XPRs have properties that could make them an attractive power exhaust solution for fusion reactors. These include the conversion of a high fraction ...

Elsevier2024

Models implemented in the methodological approach to design the initial STEP first wall contour

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Dario Vaccaro, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi

The official Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production mission aims to demonstrate the ability to generate net electricity from fusion with the STEP Prototype Power plant. One of the key technological and engineering challenges in fusion power plants is mana ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Optical emission spectroscopy and microwave reflectometry for magnetised plasmas: Applications to ion sources and fusion machines

Riccardo Agnello

. - Investigation of magnetised plasmas by advanced diagnostics is a relevant topic in the frame of ion sources for high-performance particle accelerators and in thermonuclear fusion research for energetic purposes. In this paper, we propose two different ...

SOC ITALIANA FISICA2024

Demonstration of a sparse sensor placement technique to the limited diagnostic set in a fusion power plant

Lorenzo Martinelli, Artur Perek

DEMO will have a limited diagnostic set for optimization of reactor performance, and limited diagnostic coverage due to challenging reactor conditions. This poses challenges for control, especially for detachment control which is planned to be performed wi ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

EUROfusion contributions to ITER nuclear operation

Alessandro Pau

ITER is of key importance in the European fusion roadmap as it aims to prove the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion as a future energy source. The EUROfusion consortium of labs within Europe is contributing to the preparation of ITER scient ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

A Front-End Circuit in 28 nm CMOS for Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Detectors in Clinical Dosimetry

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Luca Massimiliano Antognini

This paper presents the design and the characterization of a front-end circuit, designed in 28 nm CMOS, for real-time dosimetry in radiation diagnostics and radiation therapy. The front-end circuit is optimized for sensors made of hydrogenated amorphous si ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Bending Tolerance of React&Wind Nb3Sn Conductors for Fusion Magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Chiara Frittitta, Federica Demattè, Hugues Marie Alain Bajas

The react-and-wind technique for manufacturing of large Nb3Sn fusion magnets (RW) is very attractive because of the superior performance of the Nb3Sn with lower thermal strain compared to the wind-and-react technique. The procedure for magnet winding is al ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Progress in the development of the ITER baseline scenario in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yann Camenen, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Simon Van Mulders, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Stefano Marchioni, Oleg Krutkin, Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans

Under the auspices of EUROfusion, the ITER baseline (IBL) scenario has been jointly investigated on AUG and TCV in the past years and this paper reports on the developments on TCV. It is found that the performance of TCV IBL is mainly limited by (neoclassi ...

2024

Resonant interaction between runaway electrons and the toroidal magnetic field ripple in TCV

Umar Sheikh, Carl Mathias Paul Hoppe, Artur Perek

This work explains the anomalously high runaway electron (RE) pitch angles inferred in the flat-top of dedicated Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) experiments. Kinetic modelling shows that the resonant interaction between the gyromotion of the electro ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

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

Simon Van Mulders

Tokamak devices aim to magnetically confine a hydrogen plasma at sufficiently high pressure to achieve net energy production from nuclear fusion of light isotopes. Predictive modeling and optimization is crucial for reliable operation of tokamak reactors, ...

EPFL2023

Toroidal Alfven eigenmodes observed in low power JET deuterium-tritium plasmas

Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

The Joint European Torus recently carried out an experimental campaign using a plasma consisting of both deuterium (D) and tritium (T). We observed a high-frequency mode using a reflectometer and an interferometer in a D-T plasma heated with low power neut ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Vertical electron cyclotron emission diagnostic on the tokamak à configuration variable

Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte

In this paper, a diagnostic for the measurement of the electron cyclotron emission (ECE) from non-thermal electrons in magnetically confined fusion plasmas is presented. The diagnostic employs a vertical viewing line of sight that allows us to directly inf ...

2023

Modulation of the nanoscale motion rate of Candida albicans by X-rays

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

IntroductionPatients undergoing cancer treatment by radiation therapy commonly develop Candida albicans infections (candidiasis). Such infections are generally treated by antifungals that unfortunately also induce numerous secondary effects in the patient. ...

Frontiers Media SA2023

Design and Development of a Diagnostic System for a Non-Intercepting Direct Measure of the SPIDER Ion Source Beamlet Current

Basile Marie Jacques Pouradier Duteil

Stable and uniform beams with low divergence are required in particle accelerators; therefore, beyond the accelerated current, measuring the beam current spatial uniformity and stability over time is necessary to assess the beam performance, since these pa ...

MDPI2023

The power threshold of H-mode access in mixed hydrogen-tritium and pure tritium plasmas at JET with ITER-like wall

Henri Weisen

The heating power to access the high confinement mode (H-mode), P (LH), scales approximately inversely with the isotope mass of the main ion plasma species as found in (protonic) hydrogen, deuterium and tritium plasmas in many fusion facilities over the la ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Marinoni, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Matteo Vallar

The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two following decades, through investigations of predominantly electron-heated plas ...

2022

Tests and Qualification of the European 1 MW, 170 GHz CW Gyrotron in an ITER relevant configuration at SPC

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Francisco Sanchez, Jérémy Genoud

After an initial testing period at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the upgraded EU 1 MW, 170 GHz continuous wave (CW) industrial prototype gyrotron (TH1509U) for Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating and Current Drive (ECRH&CD) in ITER has been trans ...

IEEE2022