Invited Session MFE: Energetic Particles, Current Drive, and Burning Plasmas

Presentations

• Alfvén eigenmodes suppress microturbulence in DIII-D plasmas

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 19, 2025, 9:30 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Xiaodi Du

    • General Atomics

  Authors

  • Xiaodi Du

    • General Atomics

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• The Role of Alpha Particles in Turbulence Suppression and Confinement Enhancement in SPARC and future reactors

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:00 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Alessandro Di Siena

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP Garching)

  Authors

  • Alessandro Di Siena

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP Garching)

  • Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez

    • MIT PSFC

  • Nathan T Howard

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT PSFC

  • marco muraca

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Alejandro B Navarro

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP Garching)
    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching

  • Tobias Görler

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • John C Wright

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Martin J Greenwald

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Frank Jenko

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP Garching)

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• Perturbative model for the saturation of energetic-particle-driven modes limited by self-generated zonal modes

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:30 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:00 AM

  Publication: Manuscript submitted to Nuclear Fusion and available on arXiv: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.19393

  Presenters

  • Tommaso Barberis

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • PPPL

  Authors

  • Tommaso Barberis

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • PPPL

  • Vinicius N Duarte

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Eamon Joseph Hartigan-O'Connor

    • Princeton University

  • Nikolai N Gorelenkov

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

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• Effect of energetic ions on edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:00 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:30 AM

  Publication: Part of the work was published in J. Dominguez-Palacios et al., Nat. Phys. 21, 43-51 (2025). I am planning to submit unpublished material to the special issue.

  Presenters

  • Jesus Jose Dominguez Palacios Duran

    • Fiat Lux LLC

  Authors

  • Jesus Jose Dominguez Palacios Duran

    • Fiat Lux LLC

  • Manuel Garcia-Munoz

    • Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
    • Universidad de Sevilla

  • Eleonora Viezzer

    • Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
    • Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Seville, Av. Reina Mercedes, Seville, 41012, Spain

  • Shimpei Futatani

    • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Manuel Tocano-Jimenez

    • Universidad de Sevilla

  • Joaquin Galdon-Quiroga

    • University of Seville

  • Anton Jansen van Vuuren

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

  • Pablo Oyola Dominguez

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • University de Sevilla

  • Jose Rueda Rueda

    • Universidad de Sevilla/University of California-Irvine
    • UC Irvine

  • Lucia Sanchis

    • Universidad de Sevilla

  • Yasuhiro Suzuki

    • Hiroshima Univ

  • Yasushi Todo

    • NIFS

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• First Experimental Observation of Helicon Current Drive in the DIII-D Tokamak

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:30 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 12:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Robert I Pinsker

    • General Atomics

  Authors

  • Robert I Pinsker

    • General Atomics

  • Jeff B Lestz

    • General Atomics

  • Bart v Van Compernolle

    • General Atomics

  • Shawn X Tang

    • General Atomics

  • Alexandre Dupuy

    • General Atomics

  • Miklos Porkolab

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Levi McAllister

    • General Atomics

  • Michael Ross

    • General Atomics

  • Charles Moeller

    • General Atomics

  • Craig C Petty

    • General Atomics

  • Andrea M. MV Garofalo

    • General Atomics

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• Observation of Burning Plasma Dynamics in DIII-D

  ORAL · Invited

  Nov. 19, 2025, 12:00 PM – Nov. 19, 2025, 12:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Gerald A Navratil

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Gerald A Navratil

    • Columbia University

  • Francesca Turco

    • Columbia University

  • Jeremy M Hanson

    • Columbia University

  • Charles Mark Greenfield

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • George Sips

    • General Atomics

  • A Stephane BIWOLE

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

  • Adam G McLean

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Tomas Odstrcil

    • General Atomics

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