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2020
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(20)77
30th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT), Giardini Naxos, Messina, Sicily, 16-21 September 2018
A. Shepherd R. Akers A. Barth I.E. Day G. Fishpool R. McAdams R. Tivey R. Verhoeven
Neutral beam injection is one of the primary auxiliary heating systems for tokamak plasmas. Once the neutral beam leaves the neutraliser collisions with background neutral particles in the beamline and tokamak vessel re-ionises part of the neutral beam. These particles can be deflected by the tokamak magnetic field, potentially damaging unshielded …
Preprint Published2020
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(20)71
27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Ahmedabad, India, 22-27 October 2018
B. Geiger A. N. Karpushov S. Sharapov R. Akers A. Bock M. Dunne B. Duval M. Fontana L. Giannone J. Hobirk C. Hopf A.S. Jacobsen D. Keeling P. Lauber C. Marini P. ZS. Poloskei M. Salewski O. Sauter P. A. Schneider D. Testa A.J. Van Vuuren M. Willensdorfer the TCV ASDEX Upgrade EUROfusion MST15 Teams
The fast-ion transport has been investigated in low-collisionality discharges at ASDEX Upgrade and TCV using offaxis neutral beams. In both devices Alfv´en eigenmode activity was observed which does, however, not strongly affect the global fast-ion confinement. In contrast, charge exchange losses have been identified to have a strong effect. At TC…
Preprint2019
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(19)40
46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS), Milan, 8-12 July 2019
F. Militello R. Akers L. Appel B. Cannas S. Carcangiu B. Dudson A. Fanni T. Farley A. Kirk J.R. Harrison B. Lipshultz A. Montisci T. Nicholas J.T. Omotani F. Pisano F. Riva G. Sias N.R. Walkden A. Wynn the MAST JET5 teams
In magnetic confinement devices, boundary turbulence is responsible for transporting plasma and energy from the well-confined region towards the material surfaces where it can severely harm reactor relevant machines. It is therefore essential to develop a solid understanding of the mechanisms behind the transport in the edge of the plasma. Large fl…
Preprint Published2019
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(19)12
22nd Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (HTPD), San Diego, USA, 16-19 April 2018
J.F. Rivero-Rodriguez M. Garcia-Muñoz R. Martin J. Galdon-Quiroga J. Ayllon-Guerola R. J. Akers J. Buchanan D. Croft D. Garcia-Vallejo J. Gonzalez-Martin D. Harvey K.G. McClements M. Rodriguez-Ramos L. Sanchis-Sanchez the MAST Upgrade Team
The design and unique feature of the first MAST-U fast-ion loss detector (FILD) [M. Garcia-Muñoz, Rev. Sci. Instrum 80, 053503 (2009)] is presented here. The MAST-U FILD head is mounted on an axially and angularly actuated mechanism that makes…
Preprint Published2018
UKAEA-CCFE-CP(18)03
27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Ahmedabad, India, 22-27 October 2018