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Cross-field plasma blob motion in an open magnetic field line configuration

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Nuclear fusion reactor plasmas will need to exhaust a significant proportion of energy flux through radiative processes, to enable acceptable divertor loads. This can be obtained by line radiation from impurities, injected from the plasma edge. There are h ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Equilibrium pressure limits in stellarators

Antoine Baillod

This thesis delves into the potential of magnetic fusion energy, and in particular focuses on the stellarator concept. Stellarators use external coils to produce 3-dimensional (3D) magnetic fields that confine a thermonuclear plasma in a topologically toro ...

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Status of SPIDER beam source after the first 3.5 years of operation

Michele Fadone

SPIDER is the negative ion source testbed for ITER neutral beam injector. It is currently the largest negative ion source ever built, equipped with a 100 keV accelerator, aiming at producing a negative ion beam with an extracted current density in hydrogen ...

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

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

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

A 1.5D fluid-Monte Carlo model of a hydrogen helicon plasma

Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

Helicon plasma sources operating with hydrogen or deuterium might be attractive for fusion applications due to their higher power efficiency compared to inductive radiofrequency plasma sources. In recent years, the resonant antenna ion device (RAID) has be ...

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

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

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

First operations with caesium of the negative ion source SPIDER

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The negative-ion based neutral beam injector for heating and current drive of the ITER plasma (ITER HNB) is under development, at present focusing on the optimization of the full-scale plasma source in the SPIDER test stand. The production of H- or D- ions ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Sheath collapse at critical shallow angle due to kinetic effects

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The Debye sheath is known to vanish completely in magnetised plasmas for a sufficiently small electron gyroradius and small angle between the magnetic field and the wall. This angle depends on the current onto the wall. When the Debye sheath vanishes, ther ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Simulating energetic particle losses in JET plasmas with a reverse integration biasing scheme

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An integrated energetic particle transport model has been constructed in JET plasmas constrained by experimental fast ion loss measurements. The model incorporates a synthetic fast ion loss detector identical to JET's thin-foil Faraday cup fast ion loss de ...

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Gentle nano-electrospray ion source for reliable and efficient generation of microsolvated ions

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We present herein the design of a nano-electrospray ion source capable of reliable generation of large quantities of microsolvated ions. The source is based on a triple molecular skimmer scheme and can be quickly tuned to generate bare ions or their ionic ...

AIP Publishing2022