MFE: Energetic Particles and Impurities

Presentations

• Overview of coupled plasma-neutronics integrated modelling for D-T, D, and He plasmas in JET and ITER

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:12 PM

  Publication: - "Experimental observation and integrated modelling of proton-beryllium fusion in He and D plasmas at JET" to be submitted to Nuclear Fusion
  - "Integrated modelling of the neutron source in ITER's baseline D-T scenario" to be submitted to Nuclear Fusion

  Presenters

  • Žiga Štancar

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UKAEA

  Authors

  • Žiga Štancar

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UKAEA

  • Jacob Eriksson

    • Uppsala University

  • James Oliver

    • UKAEA

  • Zamir Ghani

    • UKAEA

  • Marina Gorelenkova

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Anders Hjalmarsson

    • Uppsala University

  • Sean Conroy

    • Uppsala University

  • Andrej Žohar

    • Jožef Stefan Institute

  • Yevgen Kazakov

    • Laboratory for Plasma Physics, LPP-ERM/KMS, TEC Partner, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

  • Vasili Kiptily

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UKAEA

  • Krassimir Kirov

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

  • Ernesto Lerche

    • Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

  • Xavier LITAUDON

    • CEA

  • Evie Litherland-Smith

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Mikhail Maslov

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB, UK

  • Sheena Menmuir

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Hongjuan Sun

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Gabor Szepesi

    • UKAEA Culham Campus

  • Rosaria Villari

    • ENEA

  • Vito Konrad Zotta

    • Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• The impact of Tungsten radiation and MHD instabilities on steady-state reactor plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Francesca Turco

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Francesca Turco

    • Columbia University

  • SangKyeun Kim

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Thomas H Osborne

    • General Atomics

  • Tomas Odstrcil

    • General Atomics

  • Adam G McLean

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • A Stephane BIWOLE

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Molybdenum density profiles in Alcator C-Mod plasmas with implications for tungsten X-ray spectroscopy on SPARC

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:36 PM

  Publication: C. Perks et al., Submitted to Nucl. Fusion (2025)

  Presenters

  • Conor J Perks

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Conor J Perks

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • John Edward Rice

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Norman M. Cao

    • Insititute for Fusion Studies

  • Didier Vezinet

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems
    • CFS

  • Jerry W Hughes

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nathan T Howard

    • MIT PSFC
    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

  • Earl S Marmar

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez

    • MIT PSFC

  • Francesco Sciortino

    • Proxima Fusion

  • Daniel Fajardo

    • Max–Planck–Institut fuer Plasmaphysik

  • Clemente Angioni

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

  • Alberto Loarte

    • ITER Organization

  • Mattew L Reinke

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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• Tungsten pump-out by n=1 MHD mode in a DIII-D/WEST similarity experiment

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • A Stephane BIWOLE

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States of America

  Authors

  • A Stephane BIWOLE

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States of America

  • Tomas Odstrcil

    • General Atomics

  • Xavier LITAUDON

    • CEA

  • Brian S Victor

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Francesca Turco

    • Columbia University

  • Thomas H Osborne

    • General Atomics

  • William Boyes

    • Columbia University

  • SangKyeun Kim

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Nathan T Howard

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT PSFC

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• A predictive formula for the H-Mode separatrix density: Bridging regression and physics-based models across C-Mod, AUG and JET tokamaks

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Davide Silvagni

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik

  Authors

  • Davide Silvagni

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik

  • Ondrej Grover

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics

  • Adriano Stagni

    • Consorzio RFX, Corso Stati Uniti 4, Padova, Italy
    • Consorzio RFX

  • Jerry W Hughes

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Marco Andrés Miller

    • MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Bartosz Lomanowski

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Guido Ciraolo

    • CEA, IRFM
    • CEA IRFM

  • Wouter Dekeyser

    • KU Leuven

  • Michael G Dunne

    • Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik
    • Max–Planck–Institut fuer Plasmaphysik

  • Thomas H Eich

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Lorenzo Frassinetti

    • Fusion Plasma Physics, EECS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden

  • Carine Giroud

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Tim Happel

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

  • Ionut Jepu

    • UKAEA

  • Arne Kallenbach

    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

  • Anu Kirjasuo

    • VTT

  • Adam Q Kuang

    • Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  • Francesco Latini

    • Tuscia University

  • Teobaldo Luda di Cortemiglia

    • Max-Planck Inst

  • David Moulton

    • UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

  • Ou Pan

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany

  • Christian Perez von Thun

    • Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM)

  • Thomas Puetterich

    • Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik Division Plasma Dynamics
    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Scott Silburn

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
    • UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

  • Hongjuan Sun

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Hartmut Zohm

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

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• Comprehensive analysis of beam-driven ion cyclotron range instabilities in mixed species DIII-D plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:12 PM

  Publication: [1] W.W. Heidbrink, et al. Three manuscripts submitted to Nuclear Fusion.

  Presenters

  • Jeff B Lestz

    • General Atomics

  Authors

  • Jeff B Lestz

    • General Atomics

  • William Walter Heidbrink

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Neal A Crocker

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Genevieve H DeGrandchamp

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Kathreen E Thome

    • General Atomics

  • Shelley Tong

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Stephen T Vincena

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Kshitish Barada

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Xiaodi Du

    • General Atomics

  • William A Peebles

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Robert I Pinsker

    • General Atomics

  • Terry L Rhodes

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Gregory Allen Riggs

    • West Virginia University

  • Shawn X Tang

    • General Atomics

  • Michael A Van Zeeland

    • General Atomics

  • Lei Zeng

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • University of California Los Angeles

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• Internal-transport-barrier correlating sub-ion cyclotron frequency fluctuations in DIII-D high-β_p plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jie Chen

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Jie Chen

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • David L Brower

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Huiqian Wang

    • General Atomics

  • Gaurav Prabhudesai

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Shengyu shi

    • Oak Ridge Associated Universities

  • S. Ding

    • General Atomics
    • General Atomics, San Diego, CA, United States of America

  • Andrea M. MV Garofalo

    • General Atomics

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• Modeling Energetic Particle Instabilities in Integrated reactor design workflows

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Yashika Ghai

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Yashika Ghai

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • J.M. Park

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Eric M. Bass

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Cami S Collins

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Extending the theory of near-marginal wave-particle instabilities for a time-dependent turbulent effective scattering

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Eamon Joseph Hartigan-O'Connor

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Eamon Joseph Hartigan-O'Connor

    • Princeton University

  • Tommaso Barberis

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • PPPL

  • Vinicius N Duarte

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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• The critical role of helium ash on proton-boron 11 reactor breakeven

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM

  Publication: [1] I. E. Ochs, E. J. Kolmes, A. S. Glasser, and N. J. Fisch, Requirements for breakeven in proton-boron inertial fusion, In Preparation.
  [2] I. E. Ochs, E. J. Kolmes, and N. J. Fisch, Preventing ash from poisoning proton–boron 11 fusion plasmas, Physics of Plasmas 32, 052506 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Ian E Ochs

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Ian E Ochs

    • Princeton University

  • Elijah J Kolmes

    • Princeton University

  • Alexander S Glasser

    • Princeton University

  • Nathaniel J Fisch

    • Princeton University

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• Comprehensive Simulations of Bursting and Non-Bursting Alfvén Waves in ICRF Heated Tokamak Plasmas and Implications for Their Control via Phase Space Engineering

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Jialei Wang

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  Authors

  • Jialei Wang

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Yasushi Todo

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Ryohsuke Seki

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Andreas Bierwage

    • National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)

  • Naoto Tsujii

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Kunihiro Ogawa

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Hao Wang

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Masahiko Sato

    • National Institute for Fusion Science

  • Zhengxiong Wang

    • Dalian University of Technology

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• Development of the Gyrokinetic-MHD Hybrid Code cuGMEC and Its Nonlinear Simulations of Alpha Particle-driven Alfven Eigenmodes in ITER

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Guo-yong Fu

    • Zhejiang University

  Authors

  • Guo-yong Fu

    • Zhejiang University

  • Shiyang Liu

    • Zhejiang University

  • Peiyou Jiang

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Pengfei Liu

    • Institute of Physics, Beijing

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• Impact of wall conditions on impurity sourcing and core pollution during high fluence experiment and standard ohmic pulses in WEST

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:36 PM

  Publication: [1] J. Bucalossi et al., Nucl. Fusion 2024 - 10.1088/1741-4326/ad64e5
  [2] A. Grosjean et al., PFMC conference, under revision (NME)

  Presenters

  • Alex GROSJEAN

    • University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK)

  Authors

  • Alex GROSJEAN

    • University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK)

  • David C Donovan

    • University of Tennessee

  • Pascal Devynck

    • CEA, Institute for Research on Fusion by Magnetic confinement, 13108 St-Paul-Lez-Durance, France

  • Nicolas Fedorczak

    • CEA, IRFM

  • Alberto Gallo

    • CEA Cadarache

  • Jonathan Gaspar

    • AMU CNRS IUSTI

  • J Gerardin

    • CEA, Institute for Research on Fusion by Magnetic confinement, 13108 St-Paul-Lez-Durance, France

  • Eleonore Geulin

    • CEA Cadarache

  • James P Gunn

    • CEA-IRFM
    • CEA IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance

  • Christophe Guillemaut

    • CEA, IRFM

  • Benoit Guillermin

    • CEA-IRFM

  • Curtis A Johnson

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

  • Sean Robert Kosslow

    • University of Tennessee Knoxville
    • University of Tennessee

  • Pierre Manas

    • CEA, IRFM

  • Samuele Mazzi

    • CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France
    • Aix-Marseille University

  • Philippe Moreau

    • CEA, IRFM

  • Brian Putra

    • University of Tennessee

  • Nicolas Rivals

    • CEA, IRFM

  • E.A. A Unterberg

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Boron injection rate as actuator for wall conditioning and enhancement of core performance in WEST

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:48 PM

  Publication: [1] A. Nagy et al. "A multi-species powder dropper for magnetic fusion applications". In: Review of Scientific
  Instruments 89.10 (Oct. 2018), 10K121. issn: 0034-6748. doi: 10.1063/1.5039345. url: https://doi.
  org/10.1063/1.5039345.
  [2] K. Afonin et al. "Boron powder injection experiments in WEST with a fully actively cooled, ITER grade,
  tungsten divertor". In: Nuclear Materials and Energy 40 (2024), p. 101724. issn: 2352-1791. doi: https:
  //doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2024.101724. url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/
  pii/S2352179124001479.
  [3] R. Lunsford et al. "Utilization of boron particulate wall conditioning in the full tungsten environment of
  WEST". In: Nuclear Materials and Energy 40 (2024), p. 101726. issn: 2352-1791. doi: https : / / doi .
  org/10.1016/j.nme.2024.101726. url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
  S2352179124001492.
  [4] G. Bodner et al. "Initial results from boron powder injection experiments in WEST lower single null L-
  mode plasmas". In: Nuclear Fusion 62.8 (June 2022), p. 086020. doi: 10.1088/1741-4326/ac70ea. url:
  https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac70ea.
  [5] R. Lunsford et al. "Plasma Modification through Boron Particulate Injection in the full Tungsten Environ-
  ment of WEST". In: Nuclear Fusion (2025 - Submitted).

  Presenters

  • Diana Sgrelli

    • CEA, IRFM, F-13108 St-Paul-Lez-Durance, France

  Authors

  • Diana Sgrelli

    • CEA, IRFM, F-13108 St-Paul-Lez-Durance, France

  • Alberto Gallo

    • CEA Cadarache

  • Robert A. Lunsford

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Alexandre Fil

    • CEA/IRFM

  • Jonathan Gaspar

    • AMU CNRS IUSTI

  • Alex GROSJEAN

    • University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK)

  • Xavier LITAUDON

    • CEA

  • Pierre Manas

    • CEA, IRFM

  • Yannick Marandet

    • Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, PIIM, Marseille

  • Samuele Mazzi

    • CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France
    • Aix-Marseille University

  • Jorge Morales

    • Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique

  • Philippe Moreau

    • CEA, IRFM

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• Fast Ion Interactions with RF Waves in IC Range of Frequencies in JET D-T Experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 5:00 PM

  Publication: 1. C.F. Maggi et al 2024 Nucl. Fusion 64 112012
  2. K.K. Kirov et al 2024 Nucl. Fusion 64 016026
  3. K.K. Kirov et al 2024 Nucl. Fusion 64 086011
  4. A.Y. Pankin et al 2025 Comp Phys Coom 312 109611; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109611
  5. M. Romanelli et al 2014 Plasma Fusion Res. 9 3403023

  Presenters

  • Krassimir Kirov

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

  Authors

  • Krassimir Kirov

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

  • Phillip J Bonofiglo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Clive D Challis

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Jacob Eriksson

    • Uppsala University

  • Marina Gorelenkova

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Joerg Hobirk

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany

  • Philippe Jacquet

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Athina Kappatou

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Yevgen Kazakov

    • Laboratory for Plasma Physics, LPP-ERM/KMS, TEC Partner, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

  • David Keeling

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

  • Damian Bryan King

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Vasili Kiptily

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UKAEA

  • Ernesto Lerche

    • Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

  • Costanza F Maggi

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Joelle Mailloux

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Paola Mantica

    • Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, CNR, Milano

  • Mervi Mantsinen

    • Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

  • Mikhail Maslov

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB, UK

  • Sheena Menmuir

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Paula Siren

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK

  • Žiga Štancar

    • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Campus, Abingdon, UK
    • UKAEA

  • Dirk Van Eester

    • Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS

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