Publications de Alexandre Dominique Bovet

Non-diffusive transport of suprathermal ions by intermittent turbulent structures

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

We report on recent experimental, numerical and theoretical investigations of suprathermal ion transport and turbulent plasma dynamics in TORPEX. TORPEX is a toroidal device in which field-aligned blobs are intermittently generated and propagate across a c ...

2016

Superdiffusive transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

In the last few years it has been demonstrated, both by data analysis and by numerical simulations, that the transport of energetic particles in the presence of magnetic turbulence can be superdiffusive rather than normal diffusive (Gaussian). The term ‘su ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Nondiffusive transport regimes for suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

The understanding of the transport of suprathermal ions in the presence of turbulence is important for fusion plasmas in the burning regime that will characterize reactors, and for space plasmas to understand the physics of particle acceleration. Here, thr ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Benoît Labit, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Gennady Plyushchev, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kyle Gustafson, Fabio Avino

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research (CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal configurations, a paradigm for the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), as well as more complex ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Suprathermal ion transport in turbulent magnetized plasmas

Alexandre Dominique Bovet

Suprathermal ions, which have an energy greater than the quasi-Maxwellian background plasma temperature, are present in many laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. In fusion devices, they are generated by the fusion reactions and auxiliary heating. Controll ...

EPFL2015

Transport equation describing fractional Lévy motion of suprathermal ions in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Matteo Gamarino

Suprathermal ions, created by fusion reactions or by additional heating, will play an important role in burning plasmas such as the ones in ITER or DEMO. Basic plasma experiments, with easy access for diagnostics and well-controlled plasma scenarios, are p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Time-resolved measurements of suprathermal ion transport induced by intermittent plasma blob-filaments

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet

Suprathermal ion turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas is generally non-diffusive, ranging from subdiffusive to superdiffusive depending on the interplay of the turbulent structures and the suprathermal ion orbits. Here, we present time-resolved measur ...

American Physical Society2014

Nonclassical Transport and Particle-Field Coupling: from Laboratory Plasmas to the Solar Wind

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

Understanding transport of thermal and suprathermal particles is a fundamental issue in laboratory, solar-terrestrial, and astrophysical plasmas. For laboratory fusion experiments, confinement of particles and energy is essential for sustaining the plasma ...

Springer2013

Three-dimensional measurements of non-diffusive fast ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

In the basic plasma physics device TORPEX, progress in the fundamental understanding of supra-thermal ion transport is achieved by extensive sets of three-dimensional (3D) data, together with numerical simulations of supra-thermal ion tracers in fluid turb ...

2013

Basic investigations of electrostatic turbulence and its interaction with plasma and suprathermal ions in a simple magnetized toroidal plasma

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Sébastien Jolliet, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Riva, Kyle Gustafson, Fabio Avino, Nicola Vianello

Progress in basic understanding of turbulence and its influence on the transport both of the plasma bulk and of suprathermal components is achieved in the TORPEX simple magnetized torus. This configuration combines a microwave plasma production scheme with ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Measurements of interactions between waves and energetic ions in basic plasma experiments

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson, Yi Zhang

To measure the transport of fast ions by various types of waves, complementary experiments are conducted in linear and toroidal magnetic fields in the large plasma device and the toroidal plasma experiment. Lithium sources that are immersed in the plasma p ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Suprathermal ion transport in simple magnetized torus configurations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

Inspired by suprathermal ion experiments in the basic plasma experiment TORPEX, the transport of suprathermal ions in ideal interchange mode turbulence is theoretically examined in the simple magnetized torus configuration. We follow ion tracer trajectorie ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Investigation of fast ion transport in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Paolo Ricci, Kyle Gustafson

Basic aspects of fast ion transport in ideal interchange-mode unstable plasmas are investigated in the simple toroidal plasma device TORPEX. Fast ions are generated by a miniaturized lithium 6+ ion source with energies up to 1 keV, and are detected using a ...

Int Atomic Energy Agency2012