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First Microsecond Velocity-space Resolved Simultaneous Measurements of Co- and Counter-current Fast-ion Losses in Forward and Reverse Magnetic Field in a Tokamak

Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Matthieu Toussaint, Matteo Vallar, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

A novel Fast Ion Loss Detector was designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned at the Tokamak & aacute; Configuration Variable. This is the first Fast Ion Loss Detector to feature four collimators that enable simultaneous detection of co- and counte ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Transport and confinement physics Chapter 2 of the special issue: on the path to tokamak burning plasma operation

Basil Duval, Yann Camenen, Mikhail Maslov

Progress in physics understanding and theoretical model development of plasma transport and confinement (TC) in the ITPA TC Topical Group since the publication of the ITER Physics Basis (IPB) document (Doyle et al 2007 Nucl. Fusion 47 S18) was summarized f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

On the basis of several recent breakthroughs in fusion research, many activities have been launched around the world to develop fusion power plants on the fastest possible time scale. In this context, high-fidelity simulations of the plasma behavior on lar ...

2025

An upper pressure limit for low-Z benign termination of runaway electron beams in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Claudia Colandrea, Luke Simons

We present a model for the particle balance in the post-disruption runaway electron plateau phase of a tokamak discharge. The model is constructed with the help of, and applied to, experimental data from TCV discharges investigating the so-called 'low-Z be ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Investigating the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in TCV with SOLPS-ITER simulations and TCV experiments

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons

Plasma edge simulations with the SOLPS-ITER code are performed to study the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in Tokamak & agrave; Configuration Variable (TCV) single-null, L-mode discharges. Scans of nitrogen seeding rate are con ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

First measurements of velocity-space resolved intra-ELM fast-ion losses on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Alexander Karpushov, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Benoît Labit, Umesh Kumar, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) induced fast-ion losses have been characterised in the energy, E, and pitch, λ = v ∥ / v , space using a unique Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) on the tokamak à configuration variable. The FILD is equipped with a 128 Avalanche Pho ...

2025

Machine learning enhanced tomographic reconstruction for multispectral imaging on TCV

Basil Duval, Artur Perek

A multispectral camera setup is used to infer a 2D map of plasma parameters in a tokamak from spectral emissions. However, the light measured by these cameras is line integrated in the toroidal direction, whereas emissivities on the poloidal plane are nece ...

2025

Nonlinear excitation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic mode by resonance overlap with Alfvén instability in ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau

The Alfvén instability nonlinearly excited the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode on the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak, as demonstrated experimentally. The mechanism of the energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic mode excitation and the mode nonl ...

Nature Research2025

Dependence of divertor turbulence on plasma density and current in TCV

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Nicola Offeddu, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Davide Galassi

To reliably predict the distribution of heat and particle fluxes at the target plates of tokamaks, a comprehensive understanding of turbulence throughout the entire Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL) is imperative. This study examines divertor turbulence systematicall ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Design and upgrades of the TCV fast ion loss detector

Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Augustin Charles Roger Philippe Clément, Matteo Vallar, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

The Tokamak à Configuration Variable has a unique Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) that allows the simultaneous measurement of co- and counter-current fast-ion losses in forward or reverse magnetic field. Recently, multiple novel upgrades have been implemente ...

AIP Publishing2025

Isotope effects in linear and saturated ohmic confinement of TCV tokamak and gyrokinetic validation

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Benoît Labit, Lorenzo Martinelli, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Oleg Krutkin, Artur Perek

We investigated isotope effects during the tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) ohmic discharge of a diverted positive triangular shape configuration of deuterium (D) and hydrogen (H) plasmas. The transition from the linear ohmic confinement (LOC) regime ...

2025

𝑋-Point Target Radiator Regime in Tokamak Divertor Plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Daniele Hamm, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Francesco Pastore, Luke Simons, Artur Perek

Fusion plasma regimes with a strongly radiating magnetic 𝑋 point are promising candidates to tackle the outstanding power exhaust challenge in reactor-scale devices. In this Letter, we report on a new type of 𝑋-point radiator, the XPTR (𝑋-point target radi ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

L-H power threshold for neutral beam heated plasmas with Deuterium, Hydrogen, Helium and mixed ion species in TCV

Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Benoît Labit, Alessandro Pau, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Artur Perek

A systematic study of the power threshold for L-H transition has been conducted in TCV. Only results from NB heated plasmas are reported. The dependencies of PLH on plasma current, plasma density and main ion species have been investigated. For Deuterium&# ...

IOP Publishing2025

Interpretation of divertor ion temperature measurements from an attached towards a detached regime

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Christine Stollberg, Luke Simons, Artur Perek

We present simultaneous profiles of the poloidal distribution of electron temperature and density (Te, ne), the poloidal emissivity distributions of a range of spectral lines together with the corresponding ion temperatures, Ti, in the TCV divertor plasma. ...

2025

Present status of heating neutral beam injection system at TCV

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Jérémie Dubray, Frédéric Dolizy, Rémy Jacquier, Matthieu Toussaint, Dmytry Mykytchuk

The paper describes the operation and upgrade of the Heating Neutral Beam Injection (HNBI) system as well as the related infrastructure at the Tokamak Configuration Variable (TCV) during the last years. In 2023, the installation of new TCV neutron shieldin ...

2025

Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Benoît Labit, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Justin Richard Ball, Filippo Bagnato, Alessandro Pau, Dmytry Mykytchuk

Carbon impurity transport is studied in the TCV tokamak using a charge exchange recombination diagnostic. TCVs flexible shaping capabilities were exploited to extend previous impurity transport studies to negative triangularity (delta < 0). A practical way ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Access to an ELM-suppressed X-point radiator regime in TCV snowflake minus configurations

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Daniele Hamm, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Artur Perek

TCV’s operating regime with an X-point radiator (XPR) has been broadened by changing the magnetic geometry. XPRs have properties that could make them an attractive power exhaust solution for fusion reactors. These include the conversion of a high fraction ...

Elsevier2024

Experimental validation of momentum transport theory in the core of H-mode plasmas in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

Basil Duval

This study employs the established momentum transport analysis at ASDEX Upgrade [Zimmermann et al., Nucl. Fusion 63, 124003 (2023)] to investigate the parametric variations of the momentum transport coefficients in the core of H-mode plasmas. These experim ...

Aip Publishing2024

Comparison of detachment in Ohmic plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Artur Perek

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 in lower single null Ohmic L-mode plasmas across a wide range of upper, lowe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Automated shot-to-shot optimization of the plasma start-up scenario in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek

Plasma start-up is typically achieved manipulating poloidal magnetic fields, gas injection and possibly auxiliary heating. Model-based design techniques have been gaining increasing attention in view of future large tokamaks which have more stringent const ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024