3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
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…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Integrating Novel Stellarator Single-Stage Optimization Algorithms to Design the Columbia Stellarator Experiment
A. Baillod, E. J. Paul, G. Rawlinson +3
The Columbia Stellarator eXperiment (CSX), currently being designed at Columbia University, aims to test theoretical predictions related to QA plasma behavior, and to pioneer the c…
physics.plasm-ph2024
First Access to ELM-free Negative Triangularity at Low Aspect Ratio
A. O. Nelson, C. Vincent, H. Anand +12
A plasma scenario with negative triangularity (NT) shaping is achieved on MAST-U for the first time. While edge localized modes (ELMs) are eventually suppressed as the triangularit…