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Heat and particle exhaust in double-null configuration in WEST: Experimental study and modeling with SOLEDGE-EIRENE

The WEST tokamak allows for high power steady-state plasma discharges in Lower Single-Null (LSN), Double-Null (DN) and Upper Single-Null (USN) configurations. In this contribution, first results from experimental L-mode DN discharges with 3.1 MW of additio ...

Elsevier2025

Impact of impurity seeding on shattered pellet injection mitigations on the Joint European Torus

Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong

Plasma disruptions present a significant challenge to the viability of fusion energy production in tokamak reactors. Among disruption mitigation techniques, shattered pellet injection (SPI) has emerged as a promising approach. The results presented in this ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Schemes for Generating Deeply Trapped Fast Ions Via Ion-cyclotron-resonance Heating in Wendelstein 7-x

Jonathan Graves

Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is a large, superconducting, optimized stellarator being operated in Greifswald, Germany. One of the original optimization criteria (Grieger et al 1992 Phys. Fluids B: Plasma Physics 4 2081) is good fast-ion confinement, mainly at in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Flavio Mauricio Martins E Silva, Vincent Masson, Abhilash Mathews, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Duccio Testa, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Jérémy Genoud, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Filippo Bagnato, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Carpanese, Nicola Offeddu, Luke Simons, Aylwin Iantchenko, Maurizio Giacomin, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Antoine Baillod, Federico Pesamosca, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Carl Mathias Paul Hoppe, Hugo De Oliveira, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Massimo Carpita, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Yuxuan Wang, Davide Mancini, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Stefano Marchioni, Samuele Mazzi, Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans, Gino Marceca, Renat Karimov, Elena Tonello, Michele Marin, Martim Zurita, Alessandro Balestri, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz, Francesco Pastore, Daniele Hamm, Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem, Emanuel Paul Huett, Nam Axel David Vu, Marta Mariarmanda Pedrini, Cristina Venturini, Hari Raj, Antonia Frank, Silvia Masillo

Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV), recently celebrating 30 years of near-continual operation, continues in its missions to advance outstanding key physics and operational scenario issues for ITER and the design of future power plants such as DEMO. The ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

3D radiated power analysis of JET SPI discharges using the Emis3D forward modeling tool

Umar Sheikh

Precise values for radiated energy in tokamak disruption experiments are needed to validate disruption mitigation techniques for burning plasma tokamaks like ITER and SPARC. Control room analysis of radiated power (P rad) on JET assumes axisymmetry, since ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Non-linear magnetic buoyancy instability and turbulent dynamo

Abhijit Bhausaheb Bendre

Stratified discs with strong horizontal magnetic fields, are susceptible to magnetic buoyancy instability (MBI). Modifying the magnetic field and gas distributions, this can play an important role in galactic evolution. The MBI and the Parker instability, ...

Oxford Univ Press2024

Pre-conceptual design of the fixed mirrors for the DEMO Electron Cyclotron Heating antenna

Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, René Chavan, Avelino Mas Sanchez, Anastasia Xydou, Cinta Lucia Marraco Borderas, Daniel Birlan, Humberto Torreblanca Quiroz, Marc Noël, Arnaud Clément

The M1 mirrors are part of the in -vessel quasi -optical Electron Cyclotron beam propagation system of the DEMO nuclear fusion reactor. These four mirrors are all non -movable and with a plane reflecting surface. Based on their functionality they are divid ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Locked mode detection during error field identification studies

Olivier Sauter

At the beginning of a machine operation, an assessment of the intrinsic error fields, spurious magnetic field perturbations which can affect plasma dynamics, is often carried out by executing the compass scan method [Scoville J.T. et al. Nucl. Fusion 43 25 ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Progress in the design and manufacturing of the EDIPO 2 cryostat

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

A major upgrade of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which will allow the testing of superconducting samples both for fusion and for high-energy physics applications, is taking place at the Swiss Plasma Center. With a target background field of 15 ...

2023

First-Principles Density Limit Scaling in Tokamaks Based on Edge Turbulent Transport and Implications for ITER

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Paolo Ricci, Maurizio Giacomin

A first-principles scaling law, based on turbulent transport considerations, and a multimachine database of density limit discharges from the ASDEX Upgrade, JET, and TCV tokamaks, show that the increase of the boundary turbulent transport with the plasma c ...

2022

Tracking blobs in the turbulent edge plasma of a tokamak fusion device

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Nicola Offeddu

The analysis of turbulence in plasmas is fundamental in fusion research. Despite extensive progress in theoretical modeling in the past 15 years, we still lack a complete and consistent understanding of turbulence in magnetic confinement devices, such as t ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Progress on the Design of the 15 T Magnet of the EDIPO Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

EDIPO 2 (the upgraded EDIPO test facility) will provide a unique testbed for superconducting cables for fusion magnets,accelerators, and other applications. Compared to the previous magnet assembly, the magnetic field is enhanced from 12.35 T to 15 T, the ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Relation between Inner Structural Dynamics and Ion Dynamics of Laser-Heated Nanoparticles

Christoph Bostedt

When a nanoparticle is irradiated by an intense laser pulse, it turns into a nanoplasma, a transition that is accompanied by many interesting nonequilibrium dynamics. So far, most experiments on nanoplasmas use ion measurements, reflecting the outside dyna ...

American Physical Society2021

Linear collisionless dynamics of the GAM with kinetic electrons: Comparison simulations/theory

Alberto Bottino, Peter François Tony Donnel

Barely trapped and passing electrons have been recently predicted to strongly enhance the damping rate of Geodesic Acoustic Modes (GAMs) in tokamak plasmas, while keeping their real frequency almost unchanged as compared to the case with adiabatic electron ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Modelling of JET DT experiments in ILW configurations

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill

Numerical scan at constant shows that core and scrape-off layer (SOL) radiations do not depend on the plasma current (I-p). Whereas the SOL radiation increases with seeding, the core radiation, however, does not continue to increase with seeding but rolls ...

2018

Magnetic spin-orbit interaction of light steers Bloch surface waves

Hans Peter Herzig, Myun Sik Kim, Hongying Zhang

We show the directional excitation of Bloch surface waves controlled by the magnetic field of light. The phenomenon in play is the first magnetic spin-orbit interaction of light. It opens new degrees of freedom in the manipulation of light and offers appea ...

IEEE2018

Statistics of Test Results for the ITER Nb3Sn and NbTi Conductors in the SULTAN Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Rainer Wesche, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

The series production of Nb3Sn and NbTi cable-inconduit conductors (CICC) for the winding of various coils in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) magnet system is being completed in 2015. The tests of the ITER conductor samples are ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016