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Evaluation of neutron dose rates at the TCV tokamak facility

Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Matteo Vallar

A detailed MCNP neutronics model of the building housing the TCV tokamak has been developed. Predicted dose rates have been compared to neutron dose measurements at 12 locations in the building obtained during neutral beam injection into TCV plasmas. This ...

2023

TCV Tokamak Neutron Shielding Upgrade for Dual NBI Operation

Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Jérémie Dubray, Henri Weisen, Matteo Vallar

The Tokamak a Configuration variable (TCV) is equipped with two neutral beam injection (NBI) systems delivering up to 1.2 MW each for pulse durations of up to 2 s. The first system (NBI1), designed for an injection energy in the range of 25 to 30 keV has b ...

2023

Validation of 2D T e and n e measurements made with Helium imaging spectroscopy in the volume of the TCV divertor

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli

Multi-spectral imaging of helium atomic emission (HeMSI) has been used to create 2D poloidal maps of T-e and ne in TCV's divertor. To achieve these measurements, TCV's MANTIS multispectral cameras (Perek et al 2019 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90 123514) simultaneou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Full conversion from ohmic to runaway electron driven current via massive gas injection in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Gergely Papp

Full conversion from ohmic to runaway electron (RE) driven current was observed in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) following massive injection of neon through a disruption mitigation valve into a low-density limited circular plasma. Following a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa

The tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to address critical issues in preparation for ITER and a fusion power plant. For the 2019-20 campaign its c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Matteo Vallar, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) in alternative divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with and without baffles in H-mode plasmas with high core confinement. Both ADCs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Umar Sheikh, Henri Weisen

The JET 2019-2020 scientific and technological programme exploited the results of years of concerted scientific and engineering work, including the ITER-like wall (ILW: Be wall and W divertor) installed in 2010, improved diagnostic capabilities now fully a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

The AWAKE Run 2 Programme and Beyond

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Christine Stollberg

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to reduce the size of particle accelerators. The use of high energy protons to drive wakefields in plasma has been demonstrated during Run 1 of the AWAKE programme at CERN. Protons of energy 400 GeV d ...

2022

Controlled Growth of the Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Christine Stollberg

A long, narrow, relativistic charged particle bunch propagating in plasma is subject to the self -modulation (SM) instability. We show that SM of a proton bunch can be seeded by the wakefields driven by a preceding electron bunch. SM timing reproducibility ...

2022

Initial TCV operation with a baffled divertor

Ambrogio Fasoli, Holger Reimerdes, Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Matthieu Toussaint, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz

The Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak is in the midst of an upgrade to further its capability to investigate conventional and alternative divertor configurations. To that end, modular and removable gas baffles have been installed to decrease t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

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Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Matteo Vallar, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato

IOP Publishing Ltd2022