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9 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Mechanism Behind the Recombination Requirement for Benign Termination of Relativistic Electron Beams

George Su, Carl Friedrich Benedikt Zimmermann, Carlos Paz-Soldan +2

We present a first-principles explanation of the recombination requirement for benign termination of relativistic electron (RE) beams in tokamaks. Kinetic modeling including neutra…

physics.plasm-ph2026

The Negative Triangularity Tokamak Path for Fusion Pilot Plants: Experimental Progress and Future Prospects

K. E. Thome, M. E. Austin, S. Coda +8

This paper reviews the experimental progress of negative triangularity (NT), a tokamak configuration where the poloidal cross-section is a reversed-D shape compared to the conventi…

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Feasibility of a Flexible, Hybrid Tokamak-Stellarator Experiment using an Axisymmetric Dipole Coil Array

Jacob Halpern, Mohammed Haque, Elizabeth Paul +5

We demonstrate the design of a flexible, university-scale hybrid tokamak-stellarator experiment based on an axisymmetric array of planar HTS dipole coils. Because the coil array ha…

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Coordinate-invariant flux-surface Fourier analysis in tokamaks

Matthew Pharr, Evan Bursch, Nikolas Logan +3

The Fourier spectra of resonant quantities in tokamaks depend on the choice of magnetic coordinates, and an area weighting of the Fourier integrand preserves the resonant coefficie…

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Compact Experimental Negative TriAngUlarity Reactor (CENTAUR): A design study for a compact, affordable breakeven tokamak

The CENTAUR Collaboration, Samuel W. Freiberger, Evan Bursch +33

This work presents the compact experimental negative triangularity reactor (CENTAUR), a low overnight cost, high-field tokamak, breakeven reactor design, achieving a predicted tota…

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SPARC Tokamak Error Field Expectations and Physics-Based Correction Coil Design

N. C. Logan, C. E. Myers, R. Sweeney +6

Non-axisymmetric magnetic field coils have been designed to provide efficient error field correction and suppress edge localized modes in SPARC - a compact high-field tokamak that…