Organisation

International and European Cooperations

The ASDEX Upgrade team is working closely with many international and European partners and institutions.

ITER and JET cooperation
- ITER (Multi International)
  - Contributions to ICRH on ITER
  - Contributions to development of various diagnostics for ITER: divertor thermography system, bolometer foils
  - Design work on a remote steering launcher for ECRH
  - Diagnostic Design for ITER Bolometry/Pressure
  - Erosion and redeposition studies
  - R&D of an RF plasma source for ITER NBI
  - Support of Diagnostic Design for ITER: In-vessel Diagnostic and Services
- JET (Culham, United Kingdom)
  - Contributions to JET-EP & JET-EP2 Enhancements
  - Joint Experiments of AUG and JET in the Frame of ITPA
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
  - Participation in JET campaigns
Cooperations with EURATOM Associations
- Belgian (Ecole Royale Militaire (ERM/KMS), Belgium)
  - ICRF plasma production for wall conditioning
  - Wall Conditioning with ICRF
- CEA (France)
  - Beta dependence of transport in AUG and TS - Scaling laws of confinement with data
  - Development of an RF plasma source for negative ions
  - Gas Balance in AUG
  - ICRF plasma production for wall conditioning
  - ICRH rotation physics
  - Interaction ICRF-edge probes, edge frequencies
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
  - Plasma rotation in ICRF heated discharges
  - SOLPS development and application
- CIEMAT (Spain)
  - ASDEX Upgrade vacuum system data collection
  - AUG ECHR Technology
  - Carbon film redeposition by N2 injection
  - Diagnostic Design for ITER Bolometry/Pressure
  - ELM studies
  - Improvement of CXRS density diagnostic for elements with Z > 10
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
  - Scientific exploitation of an ACORD 24 analyzer in the TJ-II stellarator
- CRPP (Switzerland)
  - Electron transport: TCV-AUG comparison
  - MHD experimental studies
  - Micro-instabilities
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
  - Particle transport and density profile behaviour
  - SOLPS development and application
  - Support of Diagnostic Design for ITER: In-vessel Diagnostic and Services
  - Triggering of ELMs
- DCU (University College Cork, Ireland)
  - MHD equilibria reconstruction and MHD modes
  - MHD mode analysis and influences on equilibria reconstructions
  - MHD physics involving fast particles
- ENEA (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy)
  - Real-time identification of NTMs
  - Toroidal momentum transport and stability of ITG models.
- ENEA (Consorzio RFX, Italy)
  - Active control of MHD instabilities
  - Eigenfunctions of Alfven Eigenmodes
  - Fast particle transport in the presence of magnetic islands
  - Impurity transport in TEM and ITG dominated steady state H-modes
  - Management of the MHD Task Force
- FOM (Netherlands)
  - (3/2) NTM avoidance by early application of ECCD
- FZJ (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
  - Divertor Physics
  - Drift wave studies
  - EIRENE development
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
  - SOLPS development and application
  - Wall Conditioning with ICRF
- FZK (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany)
  - Development and set-up of a hydrogen diagnostic injector for W7-X
  - Diagnostic Design for ITER Bolometry/Pressure
  - Frequency-tuneable gyrotrons for ASDEX Upgrade
- HAS (KFKI, Hungary)
  - Diagnostic Design for ITER Bolometry/Pressure
  - Diagnostic neutral beam development
  - ELM triggering with LBO
  - ELM triggering with small, high frequent pellets
  - Upgrading of AUG pellet diagnostics
- Hellas (National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos", Greece)
  - Analysis of ASDEX Upgrade edge and divertor plasmas
- Hellas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
  - (3/2) NTM avoidance by early application of ECCD
- Hellas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
  - Magneto Hydro Dynamic Modes in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
- IPP (IPP, CR, Czech Republic)
  - ELM pacing
  - Katsumata type probe for midplane manipulator
  - Modelling of ICRF Impurity Production Mechanisms
- IST (Portugal)
  - Reflectometry on ASDEX Upgrade
  - Studies on transport and MHD activity
- MEC (Institute for Atomic Physics, Romania)
  - Interpretation and control of helical perturbations in tokamaks
- OeAW (Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria)
  - Collaboration in neutral beam spectroscopy and diagnostics
  - Na beam experiments for ne diagnostics
- OeAW (Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria)
  - Probe measurements in the SOL of ASDEX Upgrade
  - SOLPS development and application
- RISO (Denmark)
  - Fast ion diagnostics by Collective thomson scattering at AUG
  - Fast ion dynamics during sawtooth crash
  - Probe measurements in the SOL of ASDEX Upgrade
  - Turbulence simulation
- TEKES (Helsinki University of Technology (HUT/TKK), Finland)
  - Ion transport in fusion experiments and CX diagnostic
  - Stochastization of magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection
- UKAEA (United Kingdom)
  - Current drive studies in AUG and JET
  - Design of an alternative residual ion dump for the ITER NBI system
  - ELM extension in the SOL
  - MAST comparison: H-mode confinement
  - MHD experimental studies
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
  - Pedestal identity experiments on AUG, JET, Alcator C-mod and DIII-D
  - Spectroscopy of edge plasmas
- UL (University of Latvia, Latvia)
  - Laser ablation impurity spectroscopy
  - Stochastization of magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection
- VR (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
  - Molecular Plasma Spectroscopy
Cooperations with Universities
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
  - Non-gaussian beams for electron-cyclotron heating
- Columbia University (USA)
  - Resistive wall modes
- Emory University Atlanta (USA)
  - B2 code development
- Helsinki University of Technology (HUT/TKK) (EURATOM - TEKES) (Finland)
  - Ion transport in fusion experiments and CX diagnostic
  - Stochastization of magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection
- J. Hopkins University (USA)
  - Spectral line identification for astrophysical plasmas
  - Spectral line identifiction for astrophysical plasmas
- KEIO University Yokohama (Japan)
  - B2-EIRENE modelling
- Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
  - Development of Langmuir probe diagnostics for magnetized plasma sources
- National Technical University of Athens (EURATOM - Hellas) (Greece)
  - (3/2) NTM avoidance by early application of ECCD
- Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
  - Investigations on Mechanisms and Diagnostics of Negative Ion Beam Sources
- Technische Universitaet Wien (EURATOM - OeAW) (Austria)
  - Collaboration in neutral beam spectroscopy and diagnostics
  - Na beam experiments for ne diagnostics
- Universitaet Augsburg (Germany)
  - Fusionsorientierte Plasmaphysik
- Universitaet Bayreuth (Germany)
  - Plasmaphysik
- Universitaet Duesseldorf (Germany)
  - EIRENE development
- Universitaet Innsbruck (EURATOM - OeAW) (Austria)
  - Probe measurements in the SOL of ASDEX Upgrade
  - SOLPS development and application
- University College Cork (EURATOM - DCU) (Ireland)
  - MHD equilibria reconstruction and MHD modes
  - MHD mode analysis and influences on equilibria reconstructions
  - MHD physics involving fast particles
- University Lublin (Poland)
  - Design of an alternative residual ion dump for the ITER NBI system
  - Study of negative ion beam formation on an RF source by computer modeling
- University of California (San Diego) (UCSD) (USA)
  - Installation of a fast imaging camera on ASDEX Upgrade
- University of Ioannina (EURATOM - Hellas) (Greece)
  - Magneto Hydro Dynamic Modes in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
- University of Latvia (EURATOM - UL) (Latvia)
  - Laser ablation impurity spectroscopy
  - Stochastization of magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection
- University of Maryland (USA)
  - Pinch effect and particle transport
- University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)
  - ADAS Maintenance Agreement
  - Advanced CXRS Spectra Fitting
  - Improvement of CXRS density diagnostic for elements with Z > 10
Other international cooperations
- Academia Sinica Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) (China)
  - B2-Eirene Modelling
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
  - Development and set-up of a hydrogen diagnostic injector for W7-X
- Chinese Academy of Science (China)
  - Training of physicists and engineers
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) (France)
  - Diagnostic Design for ITER Bolometry/Pressure
- General Atomics (GA) (USA)
  - Development of Hybrid and Advanced Tokamak scenarios at AUG and DIII-D
  - Joint experiments of AUG and DIII-D in the frame of ITPA
  - MHD experimental studies
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
- IOFFE (Russia)
  - Neutral Particles Analysis
  - Study of L-to-H threshold at low density
- Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) (India)
  - Diagnostics and modelling of RF plasma sources for negative ions
  - Training of physicists and engineers
- Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) (Russia)
  - Multifrequency Gyrotron
  - Operation of frequency tuneable gyrotrons
  - Thomson Streuung mit Mikrowellen hoher Leistung (WTZ RUS 05/005)
- JAEA (formerly: JAERI) (Japan)
  - B2-EIRENE modelling
  - Joint experiments of AUG and JT-60U in the frame of ITPA
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
- KBSI (Korea)
  - Tokamak design and operation
- Korean Atomic Energy Research Institut (KAERI) - Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory (Korea)
  - Experiments on plasma production and built up
  - Test of ICRF components
- Kurchatov Institute (Russia)
  - Development and test of an ITER-relevant X-ray crystal spectrometer
  - High resolution supercompact X-ray spectrometer
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA)
  - Comparison of first principles edge turbulence computations and experimental imaging results in Alcator C-mod and NSTX
  - Joint experiments of AUG and ALCATOR C-Mod in the frame of ITPA
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
- National Institute for Fusion Studies (Japan)
  - Zonal flow interaction with turbulence
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) (USA)
  - Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating: antenna design and test
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) (USA)
  - Comparison of first principles edge turbulence computations and experimental imaging results in Alcator C-mod and NSTX
  - MHD, Schnelle Teilchen
- Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (SINS) (Poland)
  - Construction of components for W7X-NBI
- Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP) (China)
  - Participation in ITPA Topical Groups
- TEKES (Finland)
  - Particle Simulation with the ASCOT Code

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