[HTML][HTML] Overview of the TCV digital real-time plasma control system and its applications

C Galperti, F Felici, T Vu, O Sauter, F Carpanese… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Real-time plasma control systems are at the heart of operation of modern tokamaks. The
control system of the TCV tokamak has recently seen a major upgrade in terms of its …

Spectroscopic investigations of detachment on the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor

K Verhaegh, B Lipschultz, JR Harrison… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first analysis of the atomic and molecular processes at play during
detachment in the MAST-U Super-X divertor using divertor spectroscopy data. Our analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a concept and basis for the DEMO diagnostic and control system

W Biel, M Ariola, I Bolshakova, KJ Brunner… - Fusion engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
An initial concept for the plasma diagnostic and control (D&C) system has been developed
as part of European studies towards the development of a demonstration tokamak fusion …

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

O Février, C Theiler, JR Harrison, CK Tsui… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak à configuration variable
(TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated …

Characterisation of detachment in the MAST-U Super-X divertor using multi-wavelength imaging of 2D atomic and molecular emission processes

TA Wijkamp, JS Allcock, X Feng, B Kool… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we provide the first 2D spatially resolved description of radiative detachment in
MAST-U Super-X L-mode divertor plasmas. The Super-X magnetic configuration was …

Controlling a new plasma regime

M Lennholm, S Aleiferis, S Bakes… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Success of the UK's Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme requires
a robust plasma control system. This system has to guide the plasma from initiation to the …

The role of plasma–atom and molecule interactions on power & particle balance during detachment on the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor

K Verhaegh, B Lipschultz, JR Harrison… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper shows first quantitative analysis of the detachment processes in the MAST
Upgrade Super-X divertor (SXD). We identify an unprecedented impact of plasma-molecular …

Validation of 2D and measurements made with Helium imaging spectroscopy in the volume of the TCV divertor

BL Linehan, A Perek, BP Duval, F Bagnato… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Validation of 2D and measurements made with Helium imaging spectroscopy in the volume of
the TCV divertor - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree …

X-point and divertor filament dynamics from gas puff imaging on TCV

C Wüthrich, C Theiler, N Offeddu, D Galassi… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A new gas puff imaging diagnostic has been installed on the TCV tokamak, providing two-
dimensional insights into scrape-off-layer (SOL) turbulence dynamics above, at and below …

Real-time feedback control of the impurity emission front in tokamak divertor plasmas

T Ravensbergen, M van Berkel, A Perek… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion the exhaust of heat and particles from the
core remains a major challenge. Heat and particles leaving the core are transported via …