J. Hobirk C. D. Challis A. Kappatou E. Lerche D. Keeling D. King S. Aleiferis E. Alessi F. Auriemma M. Baruzzo E. Belonohy I. S. Carvalho P. Carvalho F. J. Casson A. Chomiczewska J. Citrin I. H. Coffey D. Douai E. Delabie B. Eriksson J. Eriksson O. Ficker A. R. Field M. Fontana L. Frassinetti D. Frigione D. Gallart J. Garcia M. Gelfusa L. Giacomelli E. Giovannozzi C. Giroud M. Goniche C. Ham N. Hawkes R. Henriques J. Hillesheim A. Ho I. Ivanova-Stanik P. Jacquet F. Jaulmes E. Joffrin H. T. Kim V. Kiptily K. Kirov D. Kos E. Kowalska-Strzeciwilk H. Kumpulainen K. Lawson M. Lennholm X. Litaudon P. Lomas E. de la Luna C. Maggi J. Mailloux M. Mantsinen M. Maslov G. Matthews S. Menmuir A. Milocco K. McClements I. G. Miron S. Nowak F. Orsitto L. Piron G. Pucella E. Peluso C. Perez von Thun E. Rachlew C. Reux F. Rimini A. Sahlberg S. Saarelma P. A. Schneider M. Sertoli S. Sharapov S. Silburn A. Sips P. Siren E. Solano Z. Stancar C. Stuart H. Sun D. Valcarcel M. Valisa G. Verdoolaege N. Wendler D. Weston M. Zerbini
The JET hybrid scenario has been developed from low plasma current carbon wall discharges to the record-breaking Deuterium-Tritium plasmas obtained in 2021 with the ITER-like Be/W wall. The development started in pure Deuterium with refinement of the plasma current, and toroidal magnetic field choices and succeeded in solving the heat load challeng…
PublishedX. Litaudon U. Fantz R. Villari V. Toigo M.- H. Aumeunier J.- L. Autran P. Batistoni E. Belonohy S. Bradnam M. Cecchetto A. Colangeli F. Dacquait M. Dentan M. De Pietri J. Eriksson M. Fabbri G. Falchetto L. Figini J. Figueiredo D. Flammini N. Fonnesu L. Frassinetti R. Garcia-Alia M. Garcia-Munoz Z. Ghani J. Gonzalez-Martin E. Grelier L. Di Grazia B. Grove C. L. Grove A. Gusarov A. Hjalmarsson O. Hyvärinen V. Ioannou-Sougleridis L. Jones H.- T. Kim M. Kłosowski M. Kocan B. Kos L. Kos D. Kotnik E. Laszynska D. Leichtle I. Lengar E. Leon A. J. Lopez-Revelles S. Loreti M. Loughlin K.G. Mcclements G. Mariano M. Mattei K. Mergia J. Mietelski R. Mitteau S. Moindjie D. Munteanu R. Naish C. Nobs L. W. Packer S. Pamela R. Pampin A. Pau A. Peacock E. Peluso Y. Peneliau J. Peric V. Radulović F. Rimini D. Ricci L. Sanchis Sanchez P. Sauvan M.I. Savva A. Snicker L. Snoj I. E. Stamatelatos Ž. Štancar N. Terranova T. Vasilopoulou R. Vila J. Waterhouse A. Žohar The Nbtf Team The Jet Contributors The Eurofusion Tokamak Exploitation Team
ITER is of key importance in the European fusion roadmap as it aims to prove the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion as a future energy source. The EUROfusion consortium of labs is contributing to the preparation of ITER scientific exploitation and operation and aspires to exploit ITER outcomes in view of DEMO. The paper provides …
PreprintE. Parr K. G. McClements W. W. Heidbrink C. Michael G. Prechel J. Rivero-Rodriguez
A method for determining the fast-ion population density in magnetically-confined plasmas as a function of radius-pitch values, (R, Lambda), using ssNPA-signal and NBI power-output data has been developed. Oscillations in the NBI power output are replicated only in the active part of the ssNPA signal, allowing this to be separated…
PreprintJ.F. Rivero-Rodriguez J. Galdon-Quiroga J. Dominguez-Palacios M. Garcia-Muñoz D. Garcia-Vallejo J. Gonzalez-Martin K. McClements L. Sanchis K. Sarkimaki A. Snicker Y. Todo L. Velarde E. Viezzer
Observations of enhanced fast-ion losses during edge localized modes (ELMs) have been reported in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, revealing losses above the injection energy. This suggests that fast ions can be accelerated and lost by the ELMs. Recent analysis delves into the analysis of the ELM-induced losses, suggesting that the fast ions are los…
Preprint PublishedGuoliang Xia Yueqiang Liu T.C. Hender K.G. McClements E. Trier E. Tholerus
In this work, the MARS-F/K codes (Liu Y Q et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681 & Liu Y Q et al 2008 Phys. Plasmas 15 112503) are utilized to model the passive and active control of the n=1 (n is the toroidal mode number) resistive wall mode (RWM) in a spherical tokamak (aspect rat…
Preprint PublishedP. Ollus S. Allan J.R. Harrison A. Jackson T. Kurki-Suonio K.G. McClements C.A. Michael D. Moulton B.S. Patel M. Robson A. Snicker J. Varje C. Vincent the MAST-U team the EUROfusion WPTE team
Predictions of the impact of charge-exchange (CX) reactions on beam ions in the MAST Upgrade spherical tokamak have been compared to measurements carried out with a fission chamber (neutron fluxes) and a Fast Ion Deuterium-Alpha (FIDA) diagnostic. A simple model was developed to reconstruct the outer-midplane neutral density based on Thomson sca…
PreprintJ.F. Rivero-Rodriguez S. Sharapov K. McClements M. Garcia-Muñoz N. Crocker M. Dreval D. Dunai N. Fil M. Fitzgerald J. Galdon-Quiroga C. Michael D. Ryan L. Velarde the MAST-U Team
Due to their relatively higher Vbeam/VAlvén ratio, spherical tokamaks are ideal to investigate high-frequency modes such as Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes (CAEs) and Global Alfvén Eigenmodes (GAEs), and so they have been previously studied in MAST [1, 2]. Besides, the recently installed scintillator-based Fast-Ion Loss …
PreprintK. G. McClements M. Fitzgerald H. J. C. Oliver A. P. Prokopyszyn
The UK has launched a programme to build a prototype fusion power plant, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), by 2040. It is intended that the STEP prototype will generate fusion power of the order of 1 GW and net electrical power of the order of 100 MW. Plasma scenarios that could be compatible with these design requirements and wit…
PreprintN. Fil S.E. Sharapov M. Fitzgerald G.J. Choi Z. Lin R.A. Tinguely H.J.C. Oliver K.G. McClements P.G. Puglia R.J. Dumont M. Porkolab JET Contributors
Recent JET Deuterium experiments with an advanced internal transport barrier (ITB) scenario have been performed to clearly observe destabilised toroidicity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) by fast ions; interestingly, these also exhibit unstable electromagnetic (EM) perturbations in the sub-TAE frequency range. We identify such EM perturbations to…
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