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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(19)44
G. J. McArdle L. Pangione M. Kochan
MAST has undergone a substantial upgrade [1], featuring among other things several new poloidal field coils mostly distributed around the new closed-throat divertor structure and an enlarged centre column. The considerable changes have required the plasma control software to be substantially re-written. The MAST digital plasma control system […
Preprint Published2013
L. Pangione G. Mcardle J. Storrs
The MAST (Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak) real time plasma position controller is based on an optical linear camera placed on the mid plane of the vessel. This solution has the advantage of being a direct observation of the D emissions coming from the interaction between the boundary of the plasma and neutral gas, but, on the other hand, it restrict…
Published