Swiss Plasma Center

Plasma in the RAID device

Plasma in the RAID device

Our Mission

The Swiss Plasma Center is one of the world’s leading fusion research laboratories. Through a wide range of research programs, all connected to education and training at different levels, we work to advance our understanding of the physics of plasmas and develop fusion as an energy source.

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We provide education in Physics for students of all levels and various sections

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The latest news

Best Poster Award for P. Blanchard

Research

Dr. Patrick Blanchard received the Best Poster Prize at the Laser Aided Plasma Diagnostics Conference. He presented there the latest improvements in the system installed on the TCV tokamak for the electron temperature and density measurement via Thomson scattering. He also presented the first results obtained with this diagnostic.

Awards and honors for three PhD students

Research

Three PhD students from the SPC were honoured at the annual conference of the Plasma Division of the European Physical Society. M. Wensing received one of the best PhD student poster awards, A. Iantchenko was recommended for the Itoh Project Prize and H. De Oliveira scored highly in the rankings for the best images and videos.

A diaphragm is installed in TCV and delivers promising first results!

Research

A diaphragm made of carbon baffles was installed in the TCV tokamak. The diaphragm separates the hot plasma from the region where particles escaping from the plasma interact with the vessel wall, creating a sort of an exhaust chamber. Initial results show the advantages of the new structure.

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The last 5 papers of the Swiss Plasma Center

Truncated Levy motion through path integrals and applications to nondiffusive suprathermal ion transport

F. Manke; M. Baquero-Ruiz; I. Furno; O. Chellai; A. Fasoli et al. 

Physical Review E. 2019-11-18. Vol. 100, num. 5, p. 052122. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.052122.

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Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Coulomb Collision Operator

R. Jorge; B. J. Frei; P. Ricci 

Journal of Plasma Physics. 2019-11-08. Vol. 85, num. 6, p. 905850604. DOI : 10.1017/S0022377819000734.

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Ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios for DEMO

D. Van Eester; E. Lerche; R. Ragona; A. Messiaen; T. Wauters et al. 

Nuclear Fusion. 2019-10-01. Vol. 59, num. 10, p. 106051. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab318b.

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Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans

F. Eriksson; E. Fransson; M. Oberparleiter; H. Nordman; P. Strand et al. 

Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019-11-01. Vol. 61, num. 11, p. 115004. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab2f45.

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Recurrence Plots for Dynamic Analysis of Type-I ELMs at JET With a Carbon Wall

B. Cannas; A. Fanni; A. Murari; F. Pisano; S. Abduallev et al. 

Ieee Transactions On Plasma Science. 2019-04-01. Vol. 47, num. 4, p. 1871-1877. DOI : 10.1109/TPS.2019.2901313.

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