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First measurements of energetic protons in Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U). (2024)
Journal Article
Aboutaleb, A., Allan, S. Y., Boeglin, W. U., Cecconello, M., Jackson, A., McClements, K. G., & Parr, E. (2024). First measurements of energetic protons in Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U). Review of Scientific Instruments, 95(8), Article 083522. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0218380

First proton production rates from the d(d,p)t reaction in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U) are measured. The data were taken during the MAST-U experimental campaign with an upgraded version of the proton detector (PD) previously used... Read More about First measurements of energetic protons in Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U)..

Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns (2024)
Journal Article
Rivero-Rodríguez, J. F., McClements, K. G., Fitzgerald, M., Sharapov, S. E., Cecconello, M., Crocker, N. A., Dolby, I., Dreval, M., Fil, N., Galdón-Quiroga, J., García-Muñoz, M., Blackmore, S., Heidbrink, W., Henderson, S., Jackson, A., Kappatou, A., Keeling, D., Liu, D., Liu, Y. Q., Michael, C., …the MAST-U Team. (2024). Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns. Nuclear Fusion, 64(8), Article 086025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad56a2

MAST-U is equipped with on-axis and off-axis neutral beam injectors (NBI), and these external sources of super-Alfvénic deuterium fast-ions provide opportunities for studying a wide range of phenomena relevant to the physics of alpha-particles in bur... Read More about Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns.

First observations of confined fast ions in MAST Upgrade with an upgraded neutron camera (2023)
Journal Article
Cecconello, M., Dolby, I., Sperduti, A., Rivero-Rodriguez, J., Ericsson, G., Fitzgerald, I., …Elmore, S. (2023). First observations of confined fast ions in MAST Upgrade with an upgraded neutron camera. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 65(3), Article 035013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/acb50c

Spherical tokamaks are key to the successful design of operating scenarios of future fusion reactors in the areas of divertor physics, neutral beam current drive and fast ion physics. MAST Upgrade, which has successfully concluded its first experimen... Read More about First observations of confined fast ions in MAST Upgrade with an upgraded neutron camera.