Alcator C-Mod

Research Highlights

Some recent short releases describing our research achievements in non-technical language.

• Lower Hybrid Current Drive at High Density in the Multi-Pass Regime (APS 2011)
• Improved Energy Confinement Regime Expanded to High Power on the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak (APS (2011)
• An Unexpected Connection: Rotation Reversal and Energy Confinement Saturation in Alcator C-Mod (APS 2011)
• Getting a Fusion Plasma to Take Out the Trash (APS 2011)
• Hot and Dense Plasmas with Low Power Loads on Reactor Walls: A Hurdle to Fusion Energy Overcome in Alcator C-Mod (APS 2010)
• How Big is the 'Footprint' of a Fusion Plasma? (APS 2010)
• Turbulent Transport of Heat and Particles Decoupled in a New Operating Regime Observed on the Alcator- C Tokamak (APS 2010)
• A New Paradigm for Plasma Wave Simulations: Integration from Antenna to Core Plasma (APS 2009)
• Ways to Reduce Your Tokamak Heating Bill: Gaining Control of Edge Transport Barriers on Alcator C-Mod (APS 2009)
• Mixing-up Magnetic Fields May Solve a Runaway Problem for Fusion Walls (APS 2008)
• Observations of Toroidal Rotation Profiles Show Active Transport of Momentum (APS 2008)
• New Measurements Shed Light on Improved Confinement Regime (APS 2008)
• Fusion 'Fuel Economy' Studied under Reactor-Like Conditions (APS 2008)
• New Method for Driving Current Flows in Plasmas Demonstrated (APS 2008)
• Alfvén Waves Provide Insights into the Longstanding Problem of the Sawtooth Crash (APS 2008)
• Heating Laboratory Plasma to 100 Million Degrees (APS 2007)
• Simulating a "Soft Landing" for an Unstable Fusion Plasma (APS 2007)
• New Insight on How Fusion Plasmas Escape from Their Magnetic Bottle (APS 2007)
• A New Imaging X-Ray Crystal Spectrometer Advances State-of-the-Art for Measurements of Ion Temperature and Plasma Rotation Velocity Profiles in Tokamaks (APS 2007)
• Producing Continuous Electrical Currents in a Fusion Device Using High Power Radio Waves (APS 2007)