Publications by Ambrogio Fasoli

First Microsecond Velocity-space Resolved Simultaneous Measurements of Co- and Counter-current Fast-ion Losses in Forward and Reverse Magnetic Field in a Tokamak

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Matthieu Toussaint, Pierre Lavanchy, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Matteo Vallar

A novel Fast Ion Loss Detector was designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned at the Tokamak & aacute; Configuration Variable. This is the first Fast Ion Loss Detector to feature four collimators that enable simultaneous detection of co- and counte ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Introduction and Overview: Chapter 1 of the Special Issue: on the Path to Tokamak Burning Plasma Operation

Ambrogio Fasoli

The International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) has developed a comprehensive overview of the results of its coordinated R&D activities in fusion physics and diagnostics implemented during the past two decades with the aim of developing an improved physi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Experimental Observation of the Motion of Ions in a Resonantly Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

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

We show experimentally that an effect of motion of ions, observed in a plasma-based accelerator, depends inversely on the plasma ion mass. The effect appears within a single wakefield event and manifests itself as a bunch tail, occurring only when sufficie ...

2025

First measurements of velocity-space resolved intra-ELM fast-ion losses on the TCV tokamak

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Umesh Kumar, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) induced fast-ion losses have been characterised in the energy, E, and pitch, λ = v ∥ / v , space using a unique Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) on the tokamak à configuration variable. The FILD is equipped with a 128 Avalanche Pho ...

2025

Design and upgrades of the TCV fast ion loss detector

Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Pierre Lavanchy, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Matteo Vallar, Augustin Charles Roger Philippe Clément

The Tokamak à Configuration Variable has a unique Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) that allows the simultaneous measurement of co- and counter-current fast-ion losses in forward or reverse magnetic field. Recently, multiple novel upgrades have been implemente ...

AIP Publishing2025

Challenges in Fusion, from R&D to Education, and Collaboration between Academia and Industry

Ambrogio Fasoli, Minh Quang Tran

This article offers a view of the prospects of nuclear fusion as a sustainable energy source, with a focus on magnetic confinement fusion and tokamaks. It highlights the key theme of integration and presents the EUROfusion programme as a model for coordina ...

Cambridge University Press (CUP)2025

Visions for Fusion

Ambrogio Fasoli

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Present status of heating neutral beam injection system at TCV

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Patrick Blanchard, Alexander Karpushov, Damien Fasel, Yanis Andrebe, Matthieu Toussaint

The paper describes the operation and upgrade of the Heating Neutral Beam Injection (HNBI) system as well as the related infrastructure at the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) during the last years. In 2023, the installation of new TCV neutron shieldin ...

2025

Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Patrick Blanchard, Yanis Andrebe, Riccardo Agnello, Christine Stollberg, Sun Hee Kim, Alban Sublet, Shuai Liu

Experimental results show that hosing of a long particle bunch in plasma can be induced by wakefields driven by a short, misaligned preceding bunch. Hosing develops in the plane of misalignment, selfmodulation in the perpendicular plane, at frequencies clo ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Isotope effects and Alfvén eigenmode stability in JET H, D, T, DT, and He plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli

While much about Alfvén eigenmode (AE) stability has been explored in previous and current tokamaks, open questions remain for future burning plasma experiments, especially regarding exact stability threshold conditions and related isotope effects; the lat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024