Publications by Severino Antonioni

Design and First Tests of the Trapped Electrons Experiment T-REX

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Severino Antonioni, Jérémy Genoud, Steve Couturier, Francesco Romano

Gyrotrons are essential for electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) in fusion reactors, making efficient operation crucial for advancing fusion energy. Past experiments revealed instability issues due to trapped electrons in the magnetron injection gun ...

AIP Publishing2024

New capabilities of the incoherent Thomson scattering diagnostics in the TCV tokamak: divertor and real-time measurements

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Pierre-François Isoz, Pierre Lavanchy, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Yanis Andrebe, Severino Antonioni, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Steve Couturier, Joan Decker, Cristian Galperti

This work reports developments of the incoherent TS diagnostic capabilities in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). Their goals are to (i) diagnose the TCV divertor region, and (ii) provide Te and ne profiles of the plasma bulk in real-time. These t ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

LTCC magnetic sensors at EPFL and TCV: Lessons learnt for ITER

Thomas Maeder, Pierre Lavanchy, Jonathan Bryan Lister, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Matthias Garcin, Ugo Siravo, Caroline Jacq, Christian Moura, Duccio Testa, Frédéric Dolizy, Severino Antonioni, Matthieu Toussaint, Steve Couturier, Adrien Aymeric Thibault Corne, Aylwin Iantchenko, Lorenzo Stipani

Innovative 3D high-frequency magnetic sensors have been designed and manufactured in-house for installation on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV), and are currently routinely operational. These sensors combine the Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic ( ...

2019

Thomson scattering measurements in the divertor region of the TCV Tokamak plasmas

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Pierre-François Isoz, Pierre Lavanchy, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Ivo Furno, Yanis Andrebe, Severino Antonioni, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Steve Couturier, Joan Decker, Riccardo Agnello

In order to better study conventional and alternative divertor configurations, the TCV Tokamak was recently upgraded. In-vessel graphite baffles were installed in the TCV chamber to delimit a separate divertor chamber from the core that required enhanced d ...

2019

A radio frequency/high voltage pulse generator for the operation of a planar multipole ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Philippe Marmillod, Severino Antonioni, Ulrich Lorenz

We present a radio frequency (RF)/high voltage pulse generator designed to provide suitable waveforms for the operation of a planar multipole ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Our generator supplies a RF signal to two pairs of trapping electrodes, ...

American Institute of Physics2013