Major results from the stellarator Wendelstein 7-AS

M Hirsch, J Baldzuhn, C Beidler, R Brakel… - Plasma Physics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Wendelstein 7-AS was the first modular stellarator device to test some basic elements of
stellarator optimization: a reduced Shafranov shift and improved stability properties resulted …

The reversed field pinch

L Marrelli, P Martin, ME Puiatti, JS Sarff… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews the research on the reversed field pinch (RFP) in the last three decades.
Substantial experimental and theoretical progress and transformational changes have been …

Benchmarking of the mono-energetic transport coefficients—results from the international collaboration on neoclassical transport in stellarators (ICNTS)

CD Beidler, K Allmaier, MY Isaev, SV Kasilov… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerical results for the three mono-energetic transport coefficients required for a complete
neoclassical description of stellarator plasmas have been benchmarked within an …

Neoclassical transport optimization of LHD

S Murakami, A Wakasa, H Maaßberg, CD Beidler… - Nuclear …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Neoclassical transport is studied for large helical device (LHD) configurations in which the
magnetic axis has been shifted radially by determining the mono-energetic transport …

Effects of global MHD instability on operational high beta-regime in LHD

KY Watanabe, S Sakakibara, Y Narushima… - Nuclear …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In the Large Helical Device (LHD), the highest operational averaged beta value has
been expanded from 3.2% to 4% in the last 2 years by increasing the heating capability and …

Physics and engineering design of the low aspect ratio quasi-axisymmetric stellarator CHS-qa

S Okamura, K Matsuoka, S Nishimura, M Isobe… - Nuclear …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
A low aspect ratio quasi-axisymmetric stellarator, CHS-qa, has been designed. An
optimization code has been used to design a magnetic field configuration with evaluations of …

MHD instabilities and their effects on plasma confinement in Large Helical Device plasmas

K Toi, S Ohdachi, S Yamamoto, N Nakajima… - Nuclear …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Characteristics of MHD instabilities and their impacts on plasma confinement are studied in
current free plasmas of the Large Helical Device. Spontaneous L–H transition is often …

A precise measurement of the partial decay width ratio

Delphi Collaboration, P Abreu - … Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields, 1999 - Springer
The partial decay width of the Z to \rmb̄b quark pairs has been measured by the DELPHI
detector at LEP using data taken in the years 1992 to 1995. Decays of b-hadrons were …

Tracer-encapsulated solid pellet (TESPEL) injection system for Wendelstein 7-X

R Bussiahn, N Tamura, KJ McCarthy… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Impurity confinement in fusion plasmas is mainly determined by transport mechanisms in the
core region. For the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, its island divertor is expected to screen …

Poloidal motion of trapped particle orbits in real-space coordinates

VV Nemov, SV Kasilov, W Kernbichler… - Physics of plasmas, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The bounce averaged poloidal drift velocity of trapped particles in stellarators is an important
quantity in the framework of optimization of stellarators because it allows us to analyze the …