- Development of new plasma shapes: doublets, snowflakes, neg. triangularity
- Plasma heating with ECRH: EBW, O2, X2/X3, generation and transport of suprathermal electrons
- Tranport and rotation: momentum/particle transport as a function of plasma shaping, impurity transport
- H-mode: QH-mode, ELM control, LH threshold, influence of shaping
- Advanced tokamak scenarios (ECCD): development of fully non-inductive CD scenarios, eITBs, high fraction bootstrap discharges
- SOL and PWI: IR measurements (Marki), turbulance in SOL (Horacek), carbon papers Pitts?, mention current SF work (link)
Reviews and basic papers
- S.Coda for the TCV team; Progress and scientific results in the TCV tokamak; Nuclear Fusion 51 094017 (2011); DOI:10.1088/0029-5515/51/9/094017
- A.Fasoli for the TCV team; Overview of physics research on the TCV tokamak; Nuclear Fusion 49 104005 (2009), DOI:10.1088/0029-5515/49/10/104005
- A. Fasoli and the TCV Team; Overview of TCV results; Nucl. Fusion 48 034001 (2008) DOI:10.1088/0029-5515/48/3/034001
- M.A.Henderson et al; Recent results from the electron cyclotron heated plasmas in Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV); Phys. Plasmas 10, 1796 (2003); DOI:10.1063/1.1562167
- H.Weisen et al; Overview of TCV results; Nucl. Fusion 41 1459 (2001) DOI:10.1088/0029-5515/41/10/313
- F.Hofmann, et al; Creation and control of variably shaped plasmas in TCV; Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 36 B277 (1994) DOI:10.1088/0741-3335/36/12B/023
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