A paper from Dirk Van Eester, Ernesto Lerch and co-authors has been recently accepted for publication in the journal “Plasmas Physics and Controlled Fusion“. This paper is entitled “Maximising D−T fusion power by optimising the plasma composition and beam choice in JET” and focuses on the heating aspects and was intended to give a qualitative […]
Read MoreExtremely high plasma temperatures are required to allow energy production in a fusion reactor. The Laboratory for Plasma Physics of the Royal Military Academy (LPP-ERM/KMS), led by director Prof. Michael Van Schoor, is famous for its expertise in heating fusion devices with ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH). One of the recent achievements in this field […]
Read More“The upgraded TOMAS device: a toroidal plasma facility for wall conditioning, plasma production and plasma – surface interaction studies,” by Andrei Goriaev, Tom Wauters and co-authors, was published online on 02-16-2021, in Review of Scientific Instruments (Vol.92, Issue 2). It may be accessed via the link below: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0033229 Here is the abstract of this article: […]
Read MoreDirk Van Eester and Ernesto Lerche have published a new article in the January 2021 issue of Nuclear Fusion (Volume 61, Number 1). The paper is entitled “Solving the all-FLR ICRH integro-differential wave equation as a high-order differential equation for studying combined ICRH-NBI heating” and the abstract can be read here.
Read MoreTwo articles authored or co-authored by members of the LPP have been published in the December 2020 issue of Nuclear Fusion: Sawtooth control with modulated ICRH in JET-ILW H-mode plasmas, E. Lerche et al 2020 Nucl. Fusion 60 126037, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/abb424 Generation and observation of fast deuterium ions and fusion-born alpha particles in JET D-3He plasmas with the 3-ion radio-frequency heating scenario, […]
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