Publications de Matthieu Toussaint

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

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

Experimental characterization of the TCV dual-frequency gyrotron and validation of numerical codes including the effect of After Cavity Interaction

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Jérémy Genoud, Falk Hans Braunmüller

A dual-frequency gyrotron has been developed within the context of the recent Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) upgrade. The gyrotron is designed to generate a 1 MW, 2 seconds RF wave at 84 or 126 GHz. Before integrating the gyrotrons in the TCV tokam ...

2024

Upgrade of the neutral beam heating system on the TCV tokamak - second high energy neutral beam

Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Blaise Marlétaz, Yves Martin, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Jérémie Dubray, Frédéric Dolizy, Rémy Jacquier, Matthieu Toussaint, Umar Sheikh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Matteo Vallar, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán

The TCV tokamak continues to leverage its unique shaping capabilities, flexible heating systems and modern control system to provide a stepladder approach for extrapolations of experimental results from different ma-chines to ITER and DEMO. TCV's configura ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Initial TCV operation with a baffled divertor

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Duccio Testa, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Harshita Raj, Artur Perek

The Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak is in the midst of an upgrade to further its capability to investigate conventional and alternative divertor configurations. To that end, modular and removable gas baffles have been installed to decrease t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

A phase-contrast-imaging core fluctuation diagnostic and first-principles turbulence modeling for JT-60SA

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Matthieu Toussaint, Aylwin Iantchenko, Kenji Tanaka

A core fluctuation diagnostic based on the phase-contrast imaging (PCI) technique has been designed for the JT-60SA tokamak, with the assistance of a synthetic diagnostic coupled to a gyrokinetic code. Using a tangentially viewing geometry, this system wou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

TCV heating and divertor upgrades

Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dario Vaccaro

The operational range and the reactor relevance of the TCV experiments are being enhanced by two sets of major upgrades. The first includes the installation of neutral beam injection (NBI) and new electron cyclotron (EC) auxiliary heating sources, to reach ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Beam duct for the 1 MW neutral beam injector on TCV

Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Frédéric Dolizy, Matthieu Toussaint, Roberto Maurizio

The 1MW power of the neutral beam injector (NBI) enters the plasma of the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) through a duct. The original beam propagation model predicted a maximal heat flux on the internal faces of the duct below 350 kW/m(2), leading ...

2020

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Blaise Marlétaz, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Christian Moura, Jérémie Dubray, Ioannis Pagonakis, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Matthieu Toussaint, Jérémy Genoud, Konstantinos Avramidis

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

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

Design and implementation of quasi-optical components for the upgrade of the TCV EC-system

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Laurie Porte, Matthieu Toussaint, Florian Ramseyer

The EC-system of the TCV tokamak is progressively being upgraded with the addition of two MW-class dual-frequency gyrotrons (84 and 126 GHz/2s/1MW). In order to connect the two gyrotrons to the existing low field side and top launchers, new waveguide routi ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Thermal, electromagnetic and structural analysis of gas baffles for the TCV divertor upgrade

Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Dario Vaccaro

As part of an ongoing divertor upgrade of the TCV tokamak it is planned to add gas baffles to form a divertor chamber of variable closure. The baffles promise to increase the compression of neutral particles in the divertor and, thereby, extend the researc ...

2019

High-efficiency, long-pulse operation of MW-level dual-frequency gyrotron, 84/126GHz, for the TCV Tokamak

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Pierre-François Isoz, Pierre Lavanchy, Blaise Marlétaz, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Matthieu Toussaint, Jérémy Genoud

The first unit of the dual-frequency gyrotron, 84-126GHz/lMW/2s, for the upgrade of the TCV ECH system has been delivered and is presently being commissioned. During a first phase, long-pulse operation (TRF>0.5s) has been achieved and powers in excess of 0 ...

IEEE2019

V-band Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the TCV tokamak

Pierre Lavanchy, Stefano Coda, Laurie Porte, Matthieu Toussaint, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Nicola Offeddu

A variable configuration V-band heterodyne Doppler back-scattering diagnostic has been recently made operational in the tokamak a configuration variable. This article describes the hardware setup options, flexible quasi-optical launcher antenna, data-analy ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Improving spatial and spectral resolution of TCV Thomson scattering

Patrick Blanchard, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Pierre Lavanchy, Xavier Llobet, Philippe Marmillod, Yanis Andrebe, Robert Bertizzolo, Matthieu Toussaint, Joan Decker

The recently completed MST2 upgrade to the Thomson scattering (TS) system on TCV (Tokamak a Configuration Variable) at the Swiss Plasma Center aims to provide an enhanced spatial and spectral resolution while maintaining the high level of diagnostic flexib ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

TCV divertor upgrade for alternative magnetic configurations

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Marco Wischmeier, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Davide Uglietti, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello

The Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) is planning a divertor upgrade for the TCV tokamak. The upgrade aims at extending the research of conventional and alternative divertor configurations to operational scenarios and divertor regimes of greater relevance for a fu ...

Elsevier2017

Neutral beam heating on the TCV tokamak

René Chavan, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Pierre Lavanchy, Xavier Llobet, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Yves Martin, Albert Perez, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Frédéric Dolizy, Matthieu Toussaint, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

2017

Beam duct for the 1 MW neutral beam heating injector on TCV

Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Ugo Siravo, Alexander Karpushov, Jérémie Dubray, Frédéric Dolizy, Matthieu Toussaint

2017

3D, LTCC-type, high-frequency magnetic sensors for the TCV Tokamak

Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq, Gaël André Léon Farine, Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint, Adrien Aymeric Thibault Corne

High-frequency, 3D magnetic sensors have been designed and manufactured in-house for installation on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). To optimize the in-vessel volume occupation, the sensors are based on combining the Low Temperature Co-fired Ce ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015

Upgrade of the TCV tokamak, first phase: Neutral beam heating system

Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Damien Fasel, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Alexander Karpushov, Matthieu Toussaint

Experiments on TCV are designed to complement the work at large integrated tokamak facilities (such as JET) to provide a stepwise approach to extrapolation to ITER and DEMO in areas where medium-size tokamaks can often exploit their experimental capabiliti ...

Elsevier Science Sa2015