Publications de Stefano Mattei

Analysis of deposited layers with deuterium and impurity elements on samples from the divertor of JET with ITER-like wall

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

Inconel-600 blocks and stainless steel covers for quartz microbalance crystals from remote corners in the JET-ILW divertor were studied with time-of-flight elastic recoil detection analysis and nuclear reaction analysis to obtain information about the area ...

2019

Tritium distributions on W-coated divertor tiles used in the third JET ITER-like wall campaign

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Patrick Blanchard

Tritium (T) distributions on tungsten (W)-coated plasma-facing tiles used in the third ITER-like wall campaign (2015-2016) of the Joint European Torus (JET) were examined by means of an imaging plate technique and beta-ray induced x-ray spectrometry, and t ...

Elsevier2019

Population modelling of the He II energy levels in tokamak plasmas: I. Collisional excitation model

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

Helium is widely used as a fuel or minority gas in laboratory fusion experiments, and will be present as ash in DT thermonuclear plasmas. It is therefore essential to have a good understanding of its atomic physics. To this end He II population modelling h ...

IOP Publishing2019

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Marchand, Holger Reimerdes

In this paper we validate the finite element code RAPLICASOL, which models radiofrequency wave propagation in edge plasmas near ICRF antennas, against calculations with the TOPICA code. We compare the output of both codes for the ASDEX Upgrade 2-strap ante ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Neutron spectroscopy measurements of 14 MeV neutrons at unprecedented energy resolution and implications for deuterium-tritium fusion plasma diagnostics

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Patrick Blanchard

An accurate calibration of the JET neutron diagnostics with a 14 MeV neutron generator was performed in the first half of 2017 in order to provide a reliable measurement of the fusion power during the next JET deuterium-tritium (DT) campaign. In order to m ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

14 MeV calibration of JET neutron detectors-phase 1: calibration and characterization of the neutron source

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Cristian Sommariva, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia

In view of the planned DT operations at JET, a calibration of the JET neutron monitors at 14 MeV neutron energy is needed using a 14 MeV neutron generator deployed inside the vacuum vessel by the JET remote handling system. The target accuracy of this cali ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Investigation of the RF efficiency of Inductively Coupled Hydrogen Plasmas at 1MHz

Minh Quang Tran, Stefano Mattei

The power requirements of RF heated sources for negative hydrogen ions in fusion are substantial, which poses strong demands on the generators and components of the RF circuit. Consequently, an increase of the RF coupling efficiency would be highly benefic ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Numerical Simulation of the RF Plasma Discharge in the Linac4 H- Ion Source

Minh Quang Tran, Stefano Mattei

This paper presents a Particle-In-Cell Monte Carlo Collision simulation of the Radio-Frequency (RF) plasma heating in the Linac4 H- ion source at CERN. The model self-consistently takes into account the electromagnetic field generated by the RF coil, the e ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

H- ion source for CERN's Linac4 accelerator : simulation, experimental validation and optimization of the hydrogen plasma

Stefano Mattei

Linac4 is the new negative hydrogen ion (H-) linear accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Its ion source operates on the principle of Radio-Frequency Inductively Coupled Plasma (RF-ICP) and it is required to provide 50 mA of ...

EPFL2017

A semi-continuous formulation for goal-oriented reduced-order models: 1D problems

Stefano Mattei

A semi-continuous formulation is introduced for finding bases that minimise the error in a specific output functional of a reduced-order model. The formulation is advantageous in that it can be used with arbitrary reference data and can be easily applied t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016