Physics of runaway electrons in tokamaks

BN Breizman, P Aleynikov, EM Hollmann… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Of all electrons, runaway electrons have long been recognized in the fusion community as a
distinctive population. They now attract special attention as a part of ITER mission …

Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond

S Coda, M Agostini, R Albanese, S Alberti… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The research program of the TCV tokamak ranges from conventional to advanced-tokamak
scenarios and alternative divertor configurations, to exploratory plasmas driven by …

Kink instabilities of the post-disruption runaway electron beam at low safety factor

C Paz-Soldan, NW Eidietis, YQ Liu… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Realization of a high-current (approaching 1 MA) post-disruption runaway electron (RE)
beam in DIII-D yields controlled access to very low edge safety factor (qa) conditions. This …

First intrashot observation of runaway-electron-driven instabilities at the lower-hybrid frequency range under ITER-relevant plasma-wave dispersion conditions

W Bin, C Castaldo, F Napoli, P Buratti, A Cardinali… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Kinetic instabilities driven by runaway electrons (REs) have recently received attention in the
fusion community as a means to control and diagnose REs in a tokamak. Experiments …

SOFT: a synthetic synchrotron diagnostic for runaway electrons

M Hoppe, O Embréus, RA Tinguely, RS Granetz… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Improved understanding of the dynamics of runaway electrons can be obtained by
measurement and interpretation of their synchrotron radiation emission. Models for …

Evidence for high-velocity solid dust generation induced by runaway electron impact in FTU

M De Angeli, P Tolias, S Ratynskaia… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Post-mortem and in situ evidence is presented in favor of the generation of high-velocity
solid dust during the explosion-like interaction of runaway electrons with metallic plasma …

Overview of operation and experiments in the ADITYA-U tokamak

RL Tanna, H Raj, J Ghosh, R Kumar, S Aich… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The first Indian tokamak, ADITYA, operated for over two decades with a circular poloidal
limiter, has been upgraded to a tokamak named ADITYA Upgrade (ADITYA-U) to attain …

Runaway electron experiments at COMPASS in support of the EUROfusion ITER physics research

J Mlynar, O Ficker, E Macusova… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of the COMPASS tokamak in research of generation, confinement and losses of
runaway electron (RE) population is presented. Recently, two major groups of experiments …

Runaway electron mitigation by 3D fields in the ASDEX-Upgrade experiment

M Gobbin, L Li, YQ Liu, L Marrelli… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Disruption-generated runaway electron (RE) beams represent a severe threat for tokamak
plasma-facing components in high current devices like ITER, thus motivating the search of …

Cross-machine comparison of runaway electron generation during tokamak start-up for extrapolation to ITER

PC De Vries, Y Lee, Y Gribov, AB Mineev, YS Na… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A cross-machine comparison of global parameters that determine the runaway electron (RE)
generation and loss process during tokamak start-up was carried out with the aim to …