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Numerical optimization of ramp-down phases for TCV and AUG plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Doohyun Kim, Anna Teplukhina

Optimization of the plasma discharge can be defined as determination of an optimal time evolution of the plasma parameters to lead a plasma to a desired state keeping it within the specific limits: physical ones (like the Greenwald density limit, low norma ...

2016

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

Contribution of next-to-leading order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to thermal dilepton emission in heavy-ion collisions

Yannis Burnier, Chiara Gastaldi

Recently lots of effort has been made to obtain the next-to-leading-order and Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal corrections to the thermal dilepton emission rate in perturbative QCD. Here we apply these results to the plasma created in heavy-ion collisions and see ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Neoclassical toroidal torque generation by auxiliary heating in non-axisymmetric tori

Olivier Sauter

In conditions of ideal axisymmetry, for a magnetized plasma in a generic bounded domain, necessarily toroidal, the uniform absorption of external energy (e.g. rf or isotropic alpha heating) clearly cannot give rise to net forces or torques. A rather common ...

IOP2016

Effects of plasma shaping on MHD and electron heat conductivity; impact on alpha electron heating

Olivier Sauter

Survey of effects of plasma shape on MHD and transport as observed on TCV and reported by CRPP-EPFL ...

2015

The interaction between neutral particles and turbulent plasma in the tokamak SOL

Paolo Ricci, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Christoph Wersal

The first-principle understanding of the processes in the Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL) of a tokamak is crucial for the development of a thermonuclear reactor. Since the plasma temperature in the SOL is rather low, the plasma is typically not fully ionized, and t ...

2015

Progress in the ITER electron cyclotron heating and current drive system design

Timothy Goodman

An electron cyclotron system is one of the four auxiliary plasma heating systems to be installed on the ITER tokamak. The ITER EC system consists of 24 gyrotrons with associated 12 high voltage power supplies, a set of evacuated transmission lines and two ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Selected highlights of ECH/ECCD physics studies in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Joan Decker, Doohyun Kim, Donghyun Kim

The Tokamak a Configuration Variable, TCV, has used Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive as its only auxiliary heating system for nearly two decades. In addition to basic plasma heating and current profiling, ECH and ECCD under either feedforward o ...

EDP Sciences2015

Demonstration of sawtooth period control with EC waves in KSTAR

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, Doohyun Kim

The sawtooth period control in tokamak is important issue in recent years because the sawtooth crash can trigger TM/NTM instabilities and drive plasmas unstable. The control of sawtooth period by the modification of local current profile near the q=1 surfa ...

EDP Sciences2015

R&D around a photoneutralizer-based NBI system (Siphore) in view of a DEMO Tokamak steady state fusion reactor

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

Since the signature of the ITER treaty in 2006, a new research programme targeting the emergence of a new generation of neutral beam (NB) system for the future fusion reactor (DEMO Tokamak) has been underway between several laboratories in Europe. The spec ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

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