Transport equation describing fractional Lévy motion of suprathermal ions in TORPEX

A Bovet, M Gamarino, I Furno, P Ricci, A Fasoli… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Suprathermal ions, created by fusion reactions or by additional heating, will play an
important role in burning plasmas such as the ones in ITER or DEMO. Basic plasma …

Superdiffusive transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

G Zimbardo, E Amato, A Bovet, F Effenberger… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
In the last few years it has been demonstrated, both by data analysis and by numerical
simulations, that the transport of energetic particles in the presence of magnetic turbulence …

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

I Furno, F Avino, A Bovet, A Diallo, A Fasoli… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research
(CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal …

Nondiffusive transport regimes for suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas

A Bovet, A Fasoli, P Ricci, I Furno, K Gustafson - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
The understanding of the transport of suprathermal ions in the presence of turbulence is
important for fusion plasmas in the burning regime that will characterize reactors, and for …

Keeping fusion plasmas hot

DC Pace, WW Heidbrink, MA Van Zeeland - Physics Today, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Igniting and sustaining the fusion of light nuclei requires an astonishingly high temperature,
on the scale of 100 million kelvin. No material can tolerate such an environment, and for …

Time-resolved measurements of suprathermal ion transport induced by intermittent plasma blob filaments

A Bovet, A Fasoli, I Furno - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Suprathermal ion turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas is generally nondiffusive,
ranging from subdiffusive to superdiffusive depending on the interplay of the turbulent …

Comparison of probe and narrow-band imaging measurements in a magnetized cylindrical plasma

AD Light, S Chakraborty Thakur, GR Tynan - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We analyze similarities and differences between electrostatic probe measurements and high-
speed visible light imaging measurements in a low-temperature argon helicon plasma …

The new TORPEX in-vessel toroidal conductor for the generation of a poloidal magnetic field

F Avino, A Fasoli, I Furno - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
TORoidal Plasma EXperiment (TORPEX) is a Simple Magnetized Torus featuring open
helical magnetic field lines obtained from the superposition of a small vertical component on …

Three-dimensional measurements of non-diffusive fast ion transport in TORPEX

A Bovet, I Furno, A Fasoli, K Gustafson… - Plasma Physics and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In the basic plasma physics device TORPEX, progress in the fundamental understanding of
supra-thermal ion transport is achieved by extensive sets of three-dimensional (3D) data …

Unveiling plasma energization and energy transport in the Earth Magnetospheric System: the need for future coordinated multiscale observations

A Retino, L Kepko, H Kucharek, MF Marcucci… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Energetic plasma is everywhere in the Universe. The terrestrial Magnetospheric System is a
key case where direct measures of plasma energization and energy transport can be made …