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Reconstruction of the electron distribution function during ECRH/ECCD and magnetic reconnection events in a tokamak plasma

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Fast-ion transport in low density L-mode plasmas at TCV using FIDA spectroscopy and the TRANSP code

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Duccio Testa, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Claudio Marini

Experiments with the new neutral beam injection source of TCV have been performed with high fast-ion fractions (>20%) that exhibit a clear reduction of the loop voltage and a clear increase of the plasma pressure in on- and off-axis heating configurations. ...

2017

Development and application of Eulerian and Particle-in-Cell gyrokinetic codes for studying the effect of non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics on microturbulence

Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski

In tokamak fusion plasmas, micro-turbulence transport is known to be the cause of large losses of heat and particles. The present work deals with the study of electrostatic micro-turbulence transport driven by instabilities of essentially two types: the io ...

EPFL2016

Advances in the FTU collective Thomson scattering system

Cristian Galperti, Gabriele Grosso

The new collective Thomson scattering diagnostic installed on the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade device started its first operations in 2014. The ongoing experiments investigate the presence of signals synchronous with rotating tearing mode islands, possibly due ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

On the non-stiffness of edge transport in L-mode tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Stephan Brunner, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Yann Camenen, Roland Behn, Doohyun Kim, Gabriele Merlo, Lucia Isabel Federspiel, Donghyun Kim

Transport analyses using first-principle turbulence codes and 11/2-D transport codes usually study radial transport properties between the tokamak plasma magnetic axis and a normalized minor radius around 0.8. In this region, heat transport shows significa ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Edge Localized Mode Control in TCV

Jonathan Rossel

The Tokamak concept, based on magnetic confinement of a hydrogen plasma, is one of today's most promising paths to energy production by nuclear fusion. The experimental scenarios leading to the largest fusion rate are based on a high confinement plasma reg ...

EPFL2012

Investigation of suprathermal ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

In burning plasmas, fast ions may be generated by ion cyclotron resonance heating, neutral beam injection and fusion reactions. Fast ions will be responsible for a significant fraction of plasma heating and, in some scenarios, non-inductive current drive. ...

2012

Understanding the core density profile in TCV H-mode plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Emiliano Fable, Dávid Wágner, Andreas Pitzschke

Results from a database analysis of H-mode electron density profiles on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) under stationary conditions show that the logarithmic electron density gradient increases with collisionality. By contrast, usual observation ...

IOP2012

Pedestal Characteristics and MHD Stability of H-Mode Plasmas in TCV

Andreas Pitzschke

The tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) is unique in its ability to create a variety of plasma shapes and to heat the electron population in high density regimes using microwave power at the third harmonic of the electron cyclotron frequency. In the fra ...

EPFL2011

Local and Global Eulerian Gyrokinetic Simulations of Microturbulence in Realistic Geometry with Applications to the TCV Tokamak

Xavier Lapillonne

In magnetically confined fusion devices, the energy and particle transport is significantly larger than expected from purely collisional processes. This degraded confinement mostly results from small-scale turbulence and prevents from reaching self-sustain ...

EPFL2010

Magnetic Reconnection Triggering Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities during a Sawtooth Crash in a Tokamak Plasma

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper

Thomson scattering measurements with subcentimeter spatial resolution have been made during a sawtooth crash in a Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak fusion plasma. The unparalleled resolution of the temperature profile has shed new light on the mechanisms that ...

APS2010

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