It is with great sadness that we deplore the passing of the lab’s lead mechanical technician, Michel Berte. Michel joined the lab during the early days of the installation and operation of the ICRH system on TEXTOR in the early 1980s. Michel’s technical knowledge and eagerness to learn, his natural energy to work and to […]
Read MoreThe Carolus Magnus Summer School will take place from 20/09/2021 to 01/10/2021. The Summer School will be organised as a virtual event. Registrations are now open. Please got to http://www.carolusmagnus.net/registration/registration.html for the detailed procedure and the registration form. Please note that the deadline for registration is 30 June 2021.
Read MoreThe next 14th CMSS will take place as a virtual event via Zoom videoconference system from 20th September to 1st October 2021. See http://www.carolusmagnus.net/index.html for more infos.
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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