Demonstration of safe termination of megaampere relativistic electron beams in tokamaks

C Reux, C Paz-Soldan, P Aleynikov, V Bandaru… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
For the first time it is experimentally demonstrated on the JET tokamak that a combination of
a low impurity concentration bulk plasma and large magnetohydrodynamic instabilities is …

[HTML][HTML] Physics and applications of dusty plasmas: The Perspectives 2023

J Beckers, J Berndt, D Block, M Bonitz… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Dusty plasmas are electrically quasi-neutral media that, along with electrons, ions, neutral
gas, radiation, and electric and/or magnetic fields, also contain solid or liquid particles with …

Runaway electron deconfinement in SPARC and DIII-D by a passive 3D coil

VA Izzo, I Pusztai, K Särkimäki, A Sundström… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The operation of a 3D coil—passively driven by the current quench (CQ) loop voltage—for
the deconfinement of runaway electrons (REs) is modeled for disruption scenarios in the …

Kink instabilities of the post-disruption runaway electron beam at low safety factor

C Paz-Soldan, NW Eidietis, YQ Liu… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Realization of a high-current (approaching 1 MA) post-disruption runaway electron (RE)
beam in DIII-D yields controlled access to very low edge safety factor (qa) conditions. This …

Design of passive and structural conductors for tokamaks using thin-wall eddy current modeling

AF Battey, C Hansen, D Garnier, D Weisberg… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A new three-dimensional electromagnetic modeling tool (ThinCurr) has been developed
using the existing PSI-Tet finite-element code in support of conducting structure design work …

MARS-F modeling of post-disruption runaway beam loss by magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in DIII-D

YQ Liu, PB Parks, C Paz-Soldan, C Kim, LL Lao - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A drift orbit model for relativistic test electrons has been incorporated into the MARS-F code
(Liu et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681), in order to study the runaway electron (RE) behavior …

Runaway electron seed formation at reactor-relevant temperature

C Paz-Soldan, P Aleynikov, EM Hollmann… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Systematic variation of the pre-disruption core electron temperature (T e) from 1 to 12 keV
using an internal transport barrier scenario reveals a dramatic increase in the production …

Effects of magnetic perturbations and radiation on the runaway avalanche

P Svensson, O Embreus, SL Newton… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The electron runaway phenomenon in plasmas depends sensitively on the momentum-
space dynamics. However, efficient simulation of the global evolution of systems involving …

Runaway electron mitigation by 3D fields application in ASDEX Upgrade, COMPASS, and RFX-mod

M Gobbin, M Valisa, L Marrelli, G Papp… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Disruption-generated runaway electron (RE) beams represent a potentially severe threat for
tokamak plasma-facing components. Application of properly designed 3D fields can act as a …

Passive deconfinement of runaway electrons using an in-vessel helical coil

DB Weisberg, C Paz-Soldan, YQ Liu, A Welander… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A helical coil designed to passively generate non-axisymmetric fields during a plasma
disruption is shown (via electromagnetic analysis, linear MHD modeling, and relativistic drift …