Super-thermal particles in hot plasmas—Kinetic models, numerical solution strategies, and comparison to tokamak experiments

P Lauber - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

The upgraded JET toroidal Alfvén eigenmode diagnostic system

P Puglia, WP De Sa, P Blanchard, S Dorling… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The main characteristics of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) have been successfully
investigated in JET (Joint European Torus) using the scheme of sweeping-frequency …

A novel measurement of marginal Alfvén eigenmode stability during high power auxiliary heating in JET

RA Tinguely, N Fil, PG Puglia, S Dowson… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) and energetic particles is one of many important
factors determining the success of future tokamaks. In JET, eight in-vessel antennas were …

Experimental studies of plasma-antenna coupling with the JET Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic

RA Tinguely, PG Puglia, N Fil, S Dowson… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a dedicated study of plasma-antenna (PA) coupling with the Alfvén
Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in JET. Stable AEs and their resonant frequencies f …

Simultaneous measurements of unstable and stable Alfvén Eigenmodes in JET

RA Tinguely, J Gonzalez-Martin, PG Puglia, N Fil… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we report the novel experimental observation of both unstable and stable
toroidicity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) measured simultaneously in a JET tokamak …

Results from the Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic during the 2019-2020 JET deuterium campaign

RA Tinguely, PG Puglia, N Fil, S Dowson… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents results of extensive analysis of mode excitation observed during the
operation of the Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in the JET tokamak during the …

The dependence of the damping rate of medium-n toroidal Alfven eigenmodes on the edge plasma elongation in JET

D Testa, N Mellet, T Panis, P Blanchard… - Nuclear …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the first quantitative analysis of the measurements of the damping rate
(γ/ω) for stable Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) with toroidal mode number (n) in the range| n|= 3 …

The JET Alfvén Eigenmode Local Manager for the real-time detection and tracking of a frequency-degenerate spectrum of MHD instabilities

D Testa, H Carfantan, A Fasoli, A Goodyear… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present the real-time VME system used to detect and track MHD instabilities, and
particularly Alfvén Eigenmodes, on the JET tokamak [J. Wesson, Tokamaks, 3rd ed., Oxford …

The JET Alfvén Eigenmode Local Manager for the real-time detection and tracking of MHD instabilities

D Testa, H Carfantan, A Goodyear… - Europhysics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we report the successful application of an innovative method, based on the
Sparse Representation of signals, to perform a real-time, unsupervised detection of the …

Plasma isotopic effect on the damping rate of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes with intermediate toroidal mode numbers

D Testa, T Panis, P Blanchard, A Fasoli… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports on the results of recent experiments performed on the JET tokamak on
toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) with toroidal mode number (n) in the range up to| n|= 7 …