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Simulations and theory are presented of an ITER locked mode thermal quench (TQ). In present experiments, locked mode disruptions have a long precursor phase, followed by a rapid termination and thermal quench, which can be identified with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 H. Strauss

We present the first successful simulation of a induced disruption in ASDEX Upgrade from massive material injection (MMI) up to established runaway electron (RE) beam, thus covering pre-thermal quench, thermal quench and current quench (CQ)…

Runaways are suprathermal electrons having sufficiently high energy to be continuously accelerated up to tens of MeV by a driving electric field [1]. Highly energetic runaway electron (RE) beams capable of damaging the tokamak first wall…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Cristian Sommariva , Eric Nardon , Peter Beyer , Matthias Hoelzl , Guido Huijsman

First simulations of deuterium shattered pellet injection (SPI) into an ASDEX Upgrade H-Mode plasma with the JOREK MHD code are presented. Resistivity is increased by one order of magnitude in most simulations to reduce computational costs…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 M. Hoelzl , D. Hu , E. Nardon , G. T. A. Huijsmans

The transition of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility from its initial commissioning phase (Day-0, plasma current $I_{p}=2$ MA) to the full power scenario ($I_{p}=5.5$ MA) introduces a critical shift in the dynamics of runaway…

This paper investigates the effect of the ITER-like wall (ILW) on runaway electron (RE) generation through a comparative study of similar slow argon injection JET disruptions, performed with different wall materials. In the carbon wall…

One of the critical challenges in future high current tokamaks is the avoidance of runaway electrons during disruptions. Here, we investigate disruptions mitigated with combined deuterium and noble gas injection in SPARC. We use…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 I. Ekmark , M. Hoppe , R. A. Tinguely , R. Sweeney , T. Fülöp , I. Pusztai

This report is in partial fulfillment of deliverable D1.3 Code Validation (DIII-D). These simulations focus on thermal quench phase of the SPI mitigation and are not typically carried beyond it to the current spike and subsequent current…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Charlson. C. Kim , T. Bechtel , J. L. Herfindal , B. C. Lyons , Y. Q. Liu , P. B. Parks , L. Lao

In a shattered pellet injection (SPI) system the penetration and assimilation of the injected material depends on the speed and size distribution of the SPI fragments. ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) was recently equipped with a flexible SPI to study…

Shallow fuelling pellets are injected from the high field side into plasmas in which ELMs have been mitigated using external magnetic perturbation coils. The data are compared with ideal assumptions in the ITER fuelling model, namely that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 M Valovic , G Cunningham , L Garzotti , C Gurl , A Kirk , G Naylor , A Patel , R Scannell , A J Thornton

Future large tokamaks will operate at high plasma currents and high stored plasma energies. To ensure machine protection in case of a sudden loss of plasma confinement (major disruption), a large fraction of the magnetic and thermal energy…

Pellet injection is used for fuelling and controlling discharges in tokamaks, and it is foreseen in ITER. During pellet injection, a movement of the ablated material towards the low-field side (or outward major radius direction) occurs…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 O. Vallhagen , I. Pusztai , P. Helander , S. L. Newton , T. Fülöp

Results from the last FTU campaigns on the deuterium large (wrt FTU volume) pellet REs suppression capability, mainly due to the induced burst MHD activity expelling REs seed are presented for discharges with 0.5 MA and 5.3T. Clear…

We present a new formulation of jet quenching in perturbative QCD beyond the eikonal approximation. Multiple scattering in the medium is modelled through infra-red-continued (2 -> 2) scattering matrix elements in QCD and the parton shower…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 Korinna C. Zapp , Frank Krauss , Urs A. Wiedemann

We derive medium-induced splitting kernels for energetic partons that undergo interactions in dense QCD matter before a hard-scattering event at large momentum transfer $Q^2$. Working in the framework of the effective theory ${\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Grigory Ovanesyan , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev

The conventional approach for thermal quench mitigation in a tokamak disruption is through a high-Z impurity injection that radiates away the plasma's thermal energy before it reaches the wall. The downside is a robust Ohmic-to-runaway…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Jason Hamilton , Luis Chacon , Giannis Keramidas , Xianzhu Tang

Stand-off runaway electron termination by injected tungsten particulates offers a plausible option in the toolbox of disruption mitigation. Tungsten is an attractive material choice for this application due to large electron stopping power…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Michael A. Lively , Danny Perez , Blas P. Uberuaga , Yanzeng Zhang , Xian-Zhu Tang

To test a Partial Equilibration Scenario (PES) of Ritort and colleagues, we do Monte Carlo simulations of discretized-strain spin models, for four 3D martensitic structural transitions under quenches to a bath temperature $T <T_0$ below a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-06 N. Shankaraiah , K. P. N. Murthy , S. R. Shenoy

Single carbon pellet disruption mitigation simulations using M3D-C1 were conducted in an NSTX-U-like plasma to support the electromagnetic pellet injection concept (EPI). A carbon ablation model has been implemented in M3D-C1 and tested…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 C. F. Clauser , S. C. Jardin , R. Raman , B. C. Lyons , N. M. Ferraro

We study radial particle transport in stellarator plasmas using cryogenic pellet injection. By means of perturbative experiments, we estimate the experimental particle flux and compare it with neoclassical simulations. Experimental evidence…