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Gyrokinetic simulations conducted by Mazzi et al. reveal the suppression of turbulence in fusion plasmas through the destabilization of Toroidal Alfv\'en Eigenmodes (TAEs) by megaelectronvolt ions. Our analysis demonstrates that the…

Wave-particle interaction in toroidal plasmas is an essential transport mechanism in drift wave instability-driven microturbulence. In tokamkas, different wave-particle resonance conditions have been found important for the energy and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Ge Dong , Zhihong Lin

The linear dynamics of Alfven modes in tokamaks is investigated here by means of the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code NEMORB. The model equations are shown and the local shear Alfven wave dispersion relation is derived, recovering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 A. Biancalani , A. Bottino , S. Briguglio , A. Koenies , Ph. Lauber , A. Mishchenko , E. Poli , B. D. Scott , F. Zonca

Gyrokinetic theory of nonlinear mode coupling as a mechanism for toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) saturation in the fusion plasma related parameter regime is presented, including 1) para- metric decay of TAE into lower kinetic TAE (LKTAE)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Zhiyong Qiu , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca , Wei Chen

The shear Alfv\'en continuum spectrum is studied for a tokamak with a single island chain using the ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) theory. We have taken into account the toroidal geometry and toroidal mode coupling with the island…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Zhisong Qu , Matthew Hole

Electromagnetic (EM) instabilities and turbulence driven by the electron-temperature gradient are considered in a local slab model of a tokamak-like plasma. The model describes perturbations at scales both larger and smaller than the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 T. Adkins , A. A. Schekochihin , P. G. Ivanov , C. M. Roach

In this study, global nonlinear electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations are conducted to investigate turbulence in the Internal transport barrier (ITB) region of the EAST tokamak discharge with weakly reversed magnetic shear. Linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yuehao Ma , Pengfei Liu , Jian Bao , Zhihong Lin , Huishan Cai

In the field of fundamental plasma waves, direct observation of electron-acoustic wave (EAW) propagation in laboratory plasmas remains a challenging problem, mainly because of heavy damping. In the MaPLE device, the wave is observed and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Satyajit Chowdhury , Subir Biswas , Nikhil Chakrabarti , Rabindranath Pal

Rare Alfv\'enic wave transitions between fixed-frequency and chirping phases are identified in NSTX, where Alfv\'enic waves are normally observed to exhibit either chirping or avalanching responses. For those transitions, we apply a…

Introducing up-down asymmetry into the tokamak magnetic equilibria appears to be a feasible method to drive fast intrinsic toroidal rotation in future large devices. In this paper we investigate how the intrinsic momentum transport…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Justin Ball , Felix I. Parra

For a two week period during the Joint European Torus (JET) 2012 experimental campaign, the same high confinement plasma was repeated 151 times. The dataset was analysed to produce a probability density function (pdf) for the waiting times…

We investigate the quantum dynamics of fermionic particles interacting with a laser field in a gaseous medium, in the regime of inelastic diffraction scattering on the phase lattice of a slowed travelling wave, below the critical field of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 H. K. Avetissian , G. F. Mkrtchian

We present experimental observations suggesting that the non-diffusive avalanche-like events are a prevalent and universal process of the electron turbulent heat transport in tokamak core plasmas. They are observed in the low confinement…

The kinetic effects of electrons are important to long wavelength magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)instabilities and short wavelength drift-Alfvenic instabilities responsible for turbulence transport in magnetized plasmas, since the non-adiabatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 J. Bao , D. Liu , Z. Lin

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs) are nonlinear plasma modes characterized by electron trapping, which suppresses the usual Landau damping. Despite being predicted in the 1990s, their excitation and decay mechanisms remain a subject of active…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 F. Valentini , T. M. O'Neil , D. H. Dubin

Linear simulations of toriodal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) on EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) are performed using the hybrid-kinetic MHD (HK-MHD) model implemented in NIMROD code. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Yawei Hou , Charlson C. Kim , Ping Zhu , Zhihui Zou , Youjun Hu , Xingting Yan , the NIMROD Team

Nonlinear simulations of Alfv\'en modes (AM) driven by energetic particles (EP) in the presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The AMs carry a heat flux, and consequently they nonlinearly modify…

Strong electrostatic turbulence in magnetically confined plasmas is characterized by trapping or eddying of particle trajectories produced by the $E\times B$ stochastic drift. Trapping is shown to produce strong effects on test particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Madalina Vlad , Florin Spineanu

In this study, the first observation of high-frequency instabilities driven by runaway electrons has been reported in the EXL-50 spherical torus using a high-frequency magnetic pickup coil. The central frequency of these instabilities is…

We report the first experimental detection of a zero-frequency fluctuation that is pumped by an Alfv\`en mode in a magnetically confined plasma. Core-localized bidirectional Alfv\`en modes of frequency inside the toroidicity-induced gap…