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Publications (8)

physics.plasm-ph2024

Comparison of detachment in Ohmic plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

O. Février, C. K. Tsui, G. Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud +18

In recent years, negative triangularity (NT) has emerged as a potential high-confinement L-mode reactor solution. In this work, detachment is investigated using core density ramps…

physics.plasm-ph2025

A novel understanding of the role of plasma-molecular kinetics on divertor power exhaust

N. Osborne, K. Verhaegh, D. Moulton +12

During detachment, a buffer of neutral atoms and molecules builds up between the target and the ionising plasma. Collisions between the plasma and the molecules play an important r…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Parallel flows as a key component to interpret Super-X divertor experiments

M. Carpita, O. Février, H. Reimerdes +15

The Super-X Divertor (SXD) is an alternative divertor configuration leveraging total flux expansion at the Outer Strike Point (OSP). While the extended 2-Point Model (2PM) predicts…

physics.plasm-ph2022

New insights on divertor parallel flows, ExB drifts, and fluctuations from in situ, two-dimensional probe measurement in the Tokamak à Configuration Variable

H. De Oliveira, C. Theiler, O. Février +6

In-situ, two-dimensional (2D) Langmuir probe measurements across a large part of the TCV divertor are reported in L-mode discharges with and without divertor baffles. This provides…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Detachment dynamics and disturbance rejection in the TCV X-Point Target divertor

M. Winkel, K. Verhaegh, B. Kool +11

The X-Point Target divertor is an alternative divertor configuration with a secondary X-point in its divertor volume. In this work, we investigate the dynamic response and disturba…

physics.plasm-ph2022

Improved Heat and Particle Flux Mitigation in High Core Confinement, Baffled, Alternate Divertor Configurations in the TCV tokamak

Harshita Raj, C. Theiler, A. Thornton +13

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) in advanced divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with an…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Tomographic reconstruction of the runaway distribution function in TCV using multispectral synchrotron images

T. A. Wijkamp, A. Perek, J. Decker +8

Synchrotron radiation observed in a quiescent TCV runaway discharge is studied using filtered camera images targeting three distinct wavelength intervals. Through the tomographic S…

physics.plasm-ph2020

Runaway electron synchrotron radiation in a vertically translated plasma

M. Hoppe, G. Papp, T. Wikjamp +6

Synchrotron radiation observed from runaway electrons (REs) in tokamaks depends upon the position and size of the RE beam, the RE energy and pitch distributions, as well as the loc…