Heavy ion beam probing—diagnostics to study potential and turbulence in toroidal plasmas

AV Melnikov, LI Krupnik, LG Eliseev, JM Barcala… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Heavy ion beam probing (HIBP) is a unique diagnostics to study the core plasma potential
and turbulence. Advanced HIBPs operate in the T-10 tokamak and TJ-II flexible heliac with …

H-mode transition in the TJ-II stellarator plasmas

T Estrada, C Hidalgo - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the first H-mode transitions were observed in TJ-II plasmas in 2008, an extensive
experimental effort has been done aiming at better physics understanding of confinement …

Enhanced confinement induced by pellet injection in the stellarator TJ-II

I García-Cortés, KJ McCarthy, T Estrada… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Enhanced confinement is observed in neutral beam injector (NBI)-heated hydrogen
discharges made in the stellarator TJ-II after the injection of a single cryogenic fuel pellet into …

Physical program and diagnostics of the T-15 upgrade tokamak (brief overview)

AV Melnikov, AV Sushkov, AM Belov… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Kurchatov Institute is upgrading now the T-15 tokamak to the machine with D-shaped
plasma and copper magnetic system, capable for realizing lower and upper single-null and …

ECRH effect on the electric potential and turbulence in the TJ-II stellarator and T-10 tokamak plasmas

AV Melnikov, LI Krupnik, E Ascasibar… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Electric field Ε or electric potential φ plays a key role in the transport and turbulence of
toroidal plasmas. It is believed that mean radial E r suppresses the turbulence eddies via E× …

2D distributions of potential and density mean-values and oscillations in the ECRH and NBI plasmas at the TJ-II stellarator

AV Melnikov, LG Eliseev, JM Barcala… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract 2D plasma potential ϕ distribution was measured in the electron cyclotron
resonance heating (ECRH) and neutral beam injection (NBI) plasmas of the TJ-II stellarator …

Study of Geodesic Acoustic and Alfvén Modes in Toroidal Fusion Devices (Brief Review)

AV Melnikov, VA Vershkov, SA Grashin, MA Drabinskiy… - JETP Letters, 2022 - Springer
Geodesic acoustic modes, Alfvén eigenmodes, stationary and oscillating components of the
electric field, and their relations to plasma confinement have been studied. Theoretical …

Density profile reconstruction using HIBP in ECRH plasmas in the TJ-II stellarator

PO Khabanov, LG Eliseev, AV Melnikov… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Heavy Ion Beam Probing (HIBP) is a unique tool for plasma potential
measurements. In the TJ-II stellarator (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain) HIBP is capable to move the …

Study of Alfvén eigenmodes with heavy ion beam probing in the TJ-II stellarator

LG Eliseev, AV Melnikov, SE Lysenko - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2022 - Springer
The study of Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) driven by fast particles in toroidal plasmas is of a
great importance for future fusion reactor with plasma, dominating by fusion alphas. The …

Measurements of 2D poloidal plasma profiles and fluctuations in ECRH plasmas using the heavy ion beam probe system in the TJ-II stellarator

R Sharma, PO Khabanov, AV Melnikov, C Hidalgo… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
2D poloidal contour plots of plasma potential, plasma density, and their fluctuations have
been measured in low density plasmas sustained by Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating …