In the last three years, magnetic reconnection research in the MAST spherical tokamak
achieved major progress by the use of new 32 chord ion Doppler tomography and 130 …

Electron and ion heating characteristics during merging reconnection start-up on the MAST
spherical tokamak have been revealed in detail using a 130 channel yttrium aluminum …

We present results of recent studies of merging/reconnection heating during central solenoid
(CS)-free plasma startup in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST). During this process …

Ion heating/transport and its fine structure formation process through magnetic reconnection
have been investigated by high guide field tokamak merging experiments in TS-3 and TS …

Here we report global ion heating/transport characteristics of magnetic reconnection during
merging spherical tokamak formation experiment on TS-6 (TS-3U). Using the 96CH/320CH …

Here we report the ion heating/transport characteristics of the merging startup scenario in
the TS-6 spherical tokamak. In addition to the previously investigated impulsive heating …

A matrix inversion technique is derived to calculate local ion temperature from line-
integrated measurements of an extended emission source in an axisymmetric plasma which …

This paper introduces an innovative method for reconstructing 2D magnetic flux contours
and plasma parameters of dynamically moving tokamak plasmas. While conventional …

We present 2D global MHD simulation results of the optimized start-up scenarios for the
spherical tokamak to maximize the ion heating energy determined by the value of the …

This paper describes recent advances in merging/reconnection experiments in MAST,
namely tomographic ion Doppler spectroscopy capability from 2013 which solves the …