Electromagnetic and fast ions effects as a key mechanism for turbulent transport suppression at JET

J Garcia, JET Contributors - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
JET has provided a test bed over the last ten years for detailed studies of the influence of
electromagnetic (EM) and fast ion effects on transport, turbulence and energy confinement …

The JET hybrid scenario in deuterium, tritium and deuterium-tritium

J Hobirk, CD Challis, A Kappatou, E Lerche… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Overview of tokamak turbulence stabilization by fast ions

J Citrin, P Mantica - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years tokamak experiments and modelling have increasingly indicated that the
interaction between suprathermal (fast) ions and thermal plasma can lead to a reduction of …

Tractable flux-driven temperature, density, and rotation profile evolution with the quasilinear gyrokinetic transport model QuaLiKiz

J Citrin, C Bourdelle, FJ Casson… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasilinear turbulent transport models are a successful tool for prediction of core tokamak
plasma profiles in many regimes. Their success hinges on the reproduction of local …

Enhanced performance in fusion plasmas through turbulence suppression by megaelectronvolt ions

S Mazzi, J Garcia, D Zarzoso, YO Kazakov, J Ongena… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Alpha particles with energies on the order of megaelectronvolts will be the main source of
plasma heating in future magnetic confinement fusion reactors. Instead of heating fuel ions …

Electromagnetic turbulence suppression by energetic particle driven modes

A Di Siena, T Görler, E Poli, AB Navarro… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, a strong reduction of plasma turbulence in the presence of energetic
particles has been reported in a number of magnetic confinement experiments and …

Stability optimization of energetic particle driven modes in nuclear fusion devices: the FAR3d gyro-fluid code

J Varela, D Spong, L Garcia, Y Ghai, J Ortiz… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The development of reduced models provide efficient methods that can be used to perform
short term experimental data analysis or narrow down the parametric range of more …

Key impact of finite-beta and fast ions in core and edge tokamak regions for the transition to advanced scenarios

J Garcia, C Challis, J Citrin, H Doerk, G Giruzzi… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Extensive linear and non-linear gyrokinetic simulations and linear magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD) analyses performed for JET hybrid discharges with improved confinement have …

Fast-ion stabilization of tokamak plasma turbulence

A Di Siena, T Görler, H Doerk, E Poli, R Bilato - Nuclear Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A significant reduction of the turbulence-induced anomalous heat transport has been
observed in recent studies of magnetically confined plasmas in the presence of a significant …

Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization of plasma microturbulence

GG Whelan, MJ Pueschel, PW Terry - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
The physical causes for the strong stabilizing effect of finite plasma β on ion-temperature-
gradient-driven turbulence, which far exceeds quasilinear estimates, are identified from …