SPC Publications

Data-driven modeling for plasma state tracking and analysis: methods and control room integration

Y. Poels; A. Pau; C. Venturini; O. Sauter; C. Donner et al. 

67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Long Beach, California, USA, 2025-11-17 – 2025-11-21.

Data-driven surrogate diagnostic for kinetic profile reconstruction on TCV

C. Venturini; Y. Poels; A. Pau; O. Sauter; B. Vincent 

67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Long Beach, California, USA, 2025-11-17 – 2025-11-21.

Assessment of Alternative Divertor Configurations in TCV via experiments and interpretative SOLPS-ITER modelling

M. Carpita; O. Février; H. Reimerdes; K. Lee; C. Theiler et al. 

67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Long Beach, California, USA, 2025-11-17 – 2025-11-21.

Implementation of a Tightly-Baffled, Long-Legged Divertor (TBLLD) in TCV

H. Reimerdes; O. Février; C. Theiler; H. Elaian; Y. Andrebe et al. 

30th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2025), Chengdu, 2025-10-13 – 2025-10-18.

3D modelling of the R&W TF coil design for EU-DEMO including the winding pack and frictional effects

R. Ortwein; X. Sarasola; F. Demattè 

Cryogenics. 2025. Vol. 151, p. 1 – 13. DOI : 10.1016/j.cryogenics.2025.104180.

Magnetic shear effects on ballooning turbulence in the boundary of fusion devices

Z. Tecchiolli; A. J. Caeiro Heitor Coelho; J. Loizu; B. J. S. P. De Lucca; P. Ricci 

Physics of Plasmas. 2025. Vol. 32, num. 10. DOI : 10.1063/5.0282485.

Advancing Fusion Research through AI and Machine Learning

A. Pau 

Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference 2025, FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland, 2025-06-16 – 2025-06-18.

Engineering Magnetotransport Through Hierarchical Symmetry in Weyl Semimetal Superlattices

N. Drucker; F. Balduini; J. Schadt; L. Rocchino; T. Paul et al. 

2025

Electron trapping in gyrotron electron guns: Validation of the FENNECS code with the T-REX experiment

P. P. L. Giroud-Garampon; F. Romano; G. Le Bars; J. Loizu; J-P. Hogge et al. 

Physics of Plasmas. 2025. Vol. 32, num. 5. DOI : 10.1063/5.0267466.

L-H power threshold for neutral beam heated plasmas with Deuterium, Hydrogen, Helium and mixed ion species in TCV

B. Labit; F. Bagnato; B. P. Duval; A. N. Karpushov; B. L. Linehan et al. 

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2025. Vol. in Press. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/adc8ce.

Nitronic 50 Steel as a Structural Material for EU-DEMO’s Toroidal Field Coils

J. Greenwood; X. Sarasola; K. Sedlák 

2025

Fundamentals on the mechanisms involved in plasma-activated water decontamination

R. Agus / I. Furno (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

Gyrokinetic investigation of plasma turbulence self-organization at low magnetic shear in tokamaks

A. Volčokas / S. Brunner; J. R. Ball (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

A control oriented strategy of disruption prediction to avoid the configuration collapse of tokamak reactors

A. Murari; R. Rossi; T. Craciunescu; J. Vega; J. Mailloux et al. 

Nature communications. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-46242-7.

Experimental characterization of the TCV dual-frequency gyrotron and validation of numerical codes including the effect of After Cavity Interaction

J. Genoud; S. Alberti; J-P. Hogge; K. Avramidis; A. Bruschi et al. 

2024. 22nd Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC22), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 2024-04-22 – 2024-04-26. p. 04008. DOI : 10.1051/epjconf/202431304008.

Access to an ELM-suppressed X-point radiator regime in TCV snowflake minus configurations

H. Reimerdes; C. G. Theiler; M. Bernert; B. Duval; O. Février et al. 

Nuclear Materials and Energy. 2024. Vol. 41, p. 101784. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2024.101784.

FENNECS: a novel particle-in-cell code for simulating the formation of magnetized non-neutral plasmas trapped by electrodes of complex geometries

G. Le Bars; J. Loizu; S. Guinchard; J-P. Hogge; A. Cerfon et al. 

Computer Physics Communications. 2024. Vol. 303, p. 109268. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109268.

Design and First Tests of the Trapped Electrons Experiment T-REX

F. Romano; G. Le Bars; J. Loizu; M. Noël; J-Hogge et al. 

Review of Scientific Instruments. 2024. Vol. 95, num. 10. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0212127.

Bending Tolerance of React&Wind Nb3Sn Conductors for Fusion Magnets

P. Bruzzone; H. Bajas; C. Frittitta; F. Dematte; K. Sedlak et al. 

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 2024. Vol. 34, num. 5, p. 6000904. DOI : 10.1109/TASC.2024.3362763.

Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

H. Bajas; D. Uglietti; C. Muller; K. Sedlak 

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 2024. Vol. 34, num. 5, p. 9001005. DOI : 10.1109/TASC.2023.3346855.