Publications by Jesús Poley Sanjuán

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

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

Experimental investigation of the radial structure of energetic particle driven GAM in TCV

Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Umar Sheikh, Luke Simons, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

High amplitude energetic particle geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) oscillations driven by Neutral Beam (NBI) injected in the direction counter to the toroidal plasma current are observed in the TCV tokamak. The modes appear at frequencies close to the geodesi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

A new FILDSIM model for improved velocity-space sensitivity modelling and reconstructions

Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

We present a new version of the FILDSIM code (Galdon-Quiroga et al 2018 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 60 105005), which significantly refines the modelling of the fast-ion loss detector (FILD) signal. We demonstrate that the FILD weight functions computed u ...

2024

Iterative reconstruction methods and the resolution principle for fast-ion loss detector measurements

Jesús Poley Sanjuán

Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the IAEA. All rights reserved.Fast-ion loss detectors (FILDs) are crucial for analyzing fast-ion dynamics in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. A core challenge is to derive an accurate ion velocity distribut ...

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

Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Within the 9th European Framework programme, since 2021 EUROfusion is operating five tokamaks under the auspices of a single Task Force called ‘Tokamak Exploitation’. The goal is to benefit from the complementary capabilities of each machine in a coordinat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Study of fast-ion-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes impacting on the global confinement in TCV L-mode plasmas

Stefano Coda, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Justin Richard Ball, Oleg Krutkin, Luke Simons, Umesh Kumar, Baruch Rofman, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Javier García Hernández

Following recent observations of unstable Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAEs) in a counter-current Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) scenario developed in TCV, an in-depth analysis of the impact of such modes on the global confinement and performance is carried o ...

2023

Conceptual study for velocity space resolved thermal ion loss detection in tokamaks

Jesús Poley Sanjuán

A new concept for velocity space thermal ion loss detection is presented. This diagnostic provides pitch angle resolved measurements that are unfeasible with current diagnostics. It uses the same detection principle as the Fast-Ion Loss Detector with a sci ...

2022