Runaway electron populations seeded from the hot tail generated by the rapid cooling in plasma-terminating disruptions are a serious concern for next-step tokamak devices such as …
A Shevelev, E Khilkevitch, M Iliasova, M Nocente… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
To study the runaway electron (RE) dynamics during plasma discharge and develop scenarios for disruption mitigation, a hard x-ray (HXR) spectrometric system has been …
TA Wijkamp, M Hoppe, J Decker, BP Duval… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This work explains the anomalously high runaway electron (RE) pitch angles inferred in the flat-top of dedicated Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) experiments. Kinetic …
I Pusztai, M Hoppe, O Vallhagen - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The safe operation of tokamak reactors requires a reliable modelling capability of disruptions, and in particular the spatio-temporal dynamics of associated runaway electron …
C Sommariva, A Pau, S Silburn, C Reux… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The publication provide further insights into the dynamics of JET runaway electron (RE) beams mitigated by D2-rich shattered pellet injection (SPI)(Reux et al 2022 Plasma Phys …
Abstract Thailand Tokamak-1 (TT-1) successfully achieved its first plasma operation in early 2023. Understanding the behavior of high-energy runaway electrons (RE) during plasma …
The formation of a substantial postdisruption runaway electron current in ASDEX Upgrade material injection experiments is determined by avalanche multiplication of a small seed …
Massive material injection has been proposed as a way to mitigate the formation of a beam of relativistic runaway electrons that may result from a disruption in tokamak plasmas. In this …
Plasma-terminating disruptions in future fusion reactors may result in conversion of the initial current to a relativistic runaway electron beam. Validated predictive tools are required to …