Publications by Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Design of a correlation reflectometer radiometer diagnostic and measurements of the electron density-temperature cross-phase angle in the H-mode pedestal with small edge localized modes at ASDEX Upgrade

This work presents the hardware design and first results from a newly commissioned correlation reflectometer radiometer diagnostic that measures the cross-phase angle between electron density and temperature fluctuations in ASDEX Upgrade plasmas. This diag ...

AIP Publishing2025

Automated shot-to-shot optimization of the plasma start-up scenario in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich

Plasma start-up is typically achieved manipulating poloidal magnetic fields, gas injection and possibly auxiliary heating. Model-based design techniques have been gaining increasing attention in view of future large tokamaks which have more stringent const ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes

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

Plasma profile reconstruction supported by kinetic modeling

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Combining the analysis of multiple diagnostics and well-chosen prior information in the framework of Bayesian probability theory, the Integrated Data Analysis code (IDA Fischer et al 2010 Fusion Sci. Technol. 58 675-84) can provide density and temperature ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Isotope effects on energy transport in the core of ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak plasmas: Turbulence measurements and model validation

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Design and operation of future tokamak fusion reactors using a deuterium-tritium 50:50 mix requires a solid understanding of how energy confinement properties change with ion mass. This study looks at how turbulence and energy transport change in L-mode pl ...

2023

Electron temperature fluctuation measurements with Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission in L-mode and I-mode plasmas at ASDEX Upgrade

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

The Correlation Electron Cyclotron Emission (CECE) diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is used to investigate the features of outer core and pedestal (rho(pol) = 0.85-1.0) turbulence across confinement regime transitions. The I-mode confinement regime is a p ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

W-band tunable, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak

Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This article presents the design, implementation, and first data of a uniquely flexible, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic recently made operational in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak [A. Gruber and O. Gruber, Fusion Sci. Technol. 4 ...

2023

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

High resolution density pedestal measurements during edge localized modes by short-pulse reflectometry in the TCV tokamak

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

This publication presents high spatio-temporal resolution (mm/μs) density profile measurements of the pedestal top during type I, III, and small edge localized mode (ELM) H- mode plasmas in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV). These measurements wer ...

2021

V-band nanosecond-scale pulse reflectometer diagnostic in the TCV tokamak [Correction] (vol 90, 123501, 2019)

Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

AMER INST PHYSICS2020