SPC – Swiss Plasma Center

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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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Rogério Jorge gets the Physics Doctoral Thesis Award

18.12.19EPFL

Rogério Jorge got the award for his thesis entitled ‘A moment-based model for plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality’ supervised by Prof. Paolo Ricci at the Swiss Plasma Center and Prof. Nuno Loureiro at the MIT and at the University of Lisbon.

Best Poster Award for P. Blanchard

19.11.19Research

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

10.10.19Research

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.

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The last 5 papers of the Swiss Plasma Center

Turbulent transport in TCV plasmas with positive and negative triangularity

G. Merlo; M. Fontana; S. Coda; D. Hatch; S. Janhunen et al.

Physics Of Plasmas. 2019-10-01. Vol. 26, num. 10, p. 102302. DOI : 10.1063/1.5115390.

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Turbulence and flows in the plasma boundary of snowflake magnetic configurations

M. Giacomin; L. Stenger; P. Ricci

Nuclear Fusion. 2020-01-16. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab6435.

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Linear collisionless dynamics of the GAM with kinetic electrons: Comparison simulations/theory

V. Grandgirard; X. Garbet; C. Ehrlacher; A. Biancalani; A. Bottino et al.

Physics Of Plasmas. 2019-12-01. Vol. 26, num. 12, p. 122304. DOI : 10.1063/1.5113679.

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Gyrokinetic full-f particle-in-cell simulations on open field lines with PICLS

M. Boesl; A. Bergmann; A. Bottino; D. Coster; E. Lanti et al.

Physics Of Plasmas. 2019-12-01. Vol. 26, num. 12, p. 122302. DOI : 10.1063/1.5121262.

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Modeling of parasitic oscillations in smooth-wall circular symmetric dielectric-loaded gyrotron beam ducts

J. Genoud; S. Alberti; -P. Hogge; I. G. Tigelis; G. P. Latsas et al.

Physics Of Plasmas. 2019-12-01. Vol. 26, num. 12, p. 123108. DOI : 10.1063/1.5130637.

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