Highlights 2022
 

Cold, dense and strongly radiating plasma volumes play an important role for power exhaust and protection of the plasma facing components in fusion devices. [more]

Turbulence plays an ambiguous role in tokamaks. While low turbulence levels are necessary to achieve the high-confinement regime (H-mode), some degree of turbulence in the scrape-off layer can be beneficial for power exhaust through increasing radial transport and thereby spreading heat over a wider area. [more]

With a helium beam diagnostic, the local electron density and temperature at the plasma edge can be measured with high spatiotemporal resolution. For this purpose, helium is injected as a thermal beam, and the light emission resulting from the interaction with the plasma is evaluated using a collisional radiative model.
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A collaboration between IPP and MIT (USA) brought new insights into relaxation events at the edge of I-mode plasmas. [more]

This year two young scientists from E2M were successful in obtaining EUROfusion grants. [more]