Overview of the SPARC tokamak

AJ Creely, MJ Greenwald, SB Ballinger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The SPARC tokamak is a critical next step towards commercial fusion energy. SPARC is
designed as a high-field () relevant to fusion power plants. SPARC's place in the path to …

Overview of L-to H-mode transition experiments at ASDEX Upgrade

U Plank, RM McDermott, G Birkenmeier… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an overview of results from L–H transition experiments that were
performed at ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) with the aim of identifying the underlying mechanisms …

Recent progress in L–H transition studies at JET: tritium, helium, hydrogen and deuterium

ER Solano, E Delabie, G Birkenmeier, C Silva… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of results from a series of L–H transition experiments undertaken at
JET since the installation of the ITER-like-wall (JET-ILW), with beryllium wall tiles and a …

Overview of initial negative triangularity plasma studies on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

T Happel, T Pütterich, D Told, M Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of results of negative triangularity (NT) studies from the ASDEX Upgrade
tokamak (AUG) is given. Moderate values of the triangularity in the range of δ average≈ …

Plasma burn—mind the gap

H Meyer, STEP Plasma Team - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The programme to design plasma scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy
Production (STEP), a reactor concept aiming at net electricity production, seeks to exploit the …

Predictions of core plasma performance for the SPARC tokamak

P Rodriguez-Fernandez, NT Howard… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
SPARC is designed to be a high-field, medium-size tokamak aimed at achieving net energy
gain with ion cyclotron range-of-frequencies (ICRF) as its primary auxiliary heating …

Overview of GLOBUS-M2 spherical tokamak results at the enhanced values of magnetic field and plasma current

YV Petrov, VK Gusev, NV Sakharov, VB Minaev… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The paper provides an overview of the results obtained on the spherical tokamak Globus-M2
in 2019–2020. The experiments were performed with the toroidal magnetic field up to 0.8 T …

Energy confinement in the spherical tokamak Globus-M2 with a toroidal magnetic field reaching 0.8 T

GS Kurskiev, VK Gusev, NV Sakharov, YV Petrov… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The work presents the results of the energy confinement study carried out on the compact
spherical tokamak Globus-M2 with a toroidal magnetic field as high as 0.8 T. A reproducible …

[PDF][PDF] Connecting the global H-mode power threshold to the local radial electric field at ASDEX Upgrade

M Cavedon, G Birkenmeier, T Pütterich, F Ryter… - Nuclear Fusion, 2020 - hal.science
The relation between the macroscopic input power required at ASDEX Upgrade to access
the H-mode Pthr and the microscopic E× B shear has been investigated via fast charge …

Tenfold increase in the fusion triple product caused by doubling of toroidal magnetic field in the spherical tokamak Globus-M2

GS Kurskiev, VK Gusev, NV Sakharov… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The current work reports on the significant rise of the fusion triple product in experiments
carried out on the compact spherical tokamak (ST) Globus-M2 with a twofold increase in the …