Dynamics of shear Alfvén waves and energetic particles are crucial to the performance of
burning fusion plasmas. This article reviews linear as well as nonlinear physics of shear …

A new scintillator-based fast ion loss detector has been installed on DIII-D with the time
response (> 100 kHz) needed to study energetic ion losses induced by Alfvén eigenmodes …

This paper discusses the behaviour and consequences of the expected populations of
energetic ions in ITER plasmas. It begins with a careful analytic and numerical consideration …

Super-thermal ions and electrons occur in both space and fusion plasmas. Because these
energetic particles (EP) have large velocities, EP orbits necessarily deviate substantially …

A scintillator based detector for fast-ion losses has been designed and installed on the
ASDEX upgrade (AUG) tokamak [A. Herrmann and O. Gruber, Fusion Sci. Technol. 44, 569 …

This paper reviews the research on the reversed field pinch (RFP) in the last three decades.
Substantial experimental and theoretical progress and transformational changes have been …

On the road to a fusion reactor, a thorough control of the fast-ion distribution plays a crucial
role. Fusion-born α α-particles are, indeed, a necessary ingredient of self-sustained burning …

The suppression and excitation of Alfvén eigenmodes have been experimentally obtained,
for the first time, by means of externally applied 3D perturbative fields with different spatial …

The excitation of collective instabilities by super-thermal particles in hot plasmas and the
related transport processes attract increasing interest due to their fundamental challenges …

Abstract The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical
elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing …