Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Papers
(The median citation count of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Magnetohydrodynamics simulation of magnetic flux rope formation in a quadrupolar magnetic field configuration52
Structure of the electron temperature profile around the separatrix52
Quasioptical modeling of the electron cyclotron emission diagnostic45
Simulation of shell pellet injection strategies for ITER-scale tokamaks44
Two types of helical-core equilibrium states in tokamak plasmas43
Drift instabilities driven by slab ion temperature gradient in suprathermal plasmas38
Flow-shear destabilization of multiscale electron turbulence37
Impact of the turbulence wavenumber spectrum and probing beam geometry on Doppler reflectometry perpendicular velocity measurements32
Numerical investigation of neoclassical tearing mode in toroidal plasma29
Modeling of high-field-side high-density regime in the Globus-M2 tokamak29
Machine learning aided line intensity ratio method for helium–hydrogen mixed recombining plasmas28
Incorporating large larmor radius effects in the full wave code TORIC24
Metal evaporation dynamics in electron cyclotron resonance ion sources: plasma role in the atom diffusion, ionisation, and transport24
Impurity analysis of JET DiMPle pulses23
Fast physics-based launcher optimization for electron cyclotron current drive22
Fast dynamics of radiofrequency emission in FTU plasmas with runaway electrons21
Enhancement of K-shell spectroscopy for temperature measuring of isochorically heated matter in the sub-keV range21
Normalizing flows for likelihood-free inference with fusion simulations20
Phases and phase-transitions in quasisymmetric configuration space20
Neural-network-based longitudinal electric field prediction in nonlinear plasma wakefield accelerators20
EUROfusion-theory and advanced simulation coordination (E-TASC): programme and the role of high performance computing20
Hot electron and x-ray generation by sub-ns kJ-class laser-produced tantalum plasma20
Radially inward particle transport driven by low-frequency instability in cylindrical magnetized plasma19
Near real-time streaming analysis of big fusion data19
Study on the effect of sidebands of KSTAR-like traveling wave antenna power spectrum on helicon wave current drive in EXL-50U spherical torus plasma19
Effect of Alfvén wave dispersion on localization and current sheet formation in solar wind near reconnection region19
Particle-in-cell methods in edge plasma physics: the PICLS code19
Intrinsic rotation modulation by diffusive neutral particles in tokamaks19
TorbeamNN: machine learning-based steering of ECH mirrors on KSTAR18
Measurement of the fast ion distribution using active NPA diagnostics at the Globus-M2 spherical tokamak18
A novel plasma source concept for negative ion generation in neutral beam injectors for fusion applications18
Nonlinear microtearing modes in MAST and their stochastic layer formation18
Physics of runaway electrons with shattered pellet injection at JET18
Ion dynamics driven by a strongly nonlinear plasma wake17
Propagation of dipole structure in an inhomogeneous-density plasma using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation17
Experiments during AC current transition in ISTTOK and the hypothesis of ballistic runaway electrons16
Physics-based control of neoclassical tearing modes on TCV16
Linear and nonlinear excitation of TAE modes by external electromagnetic perturbations using ORB516
Time-helicity de-resonation (T-H) diagram for energy-selective mixing of charged particles during sawtooth crashes in tokamaks16
Investigation of the ejected mass during high-intensity laser solid interaction for improved plasma mirror generation16
QScatter: numerical framework for fast prediction of particle distributions in electron-laser scattering16
Corrigendum: Impact of Cotton–Mouton effect on Faraday polarimetry measurements using circular polarization (2018 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 60 085001)16
Generation of tunable relativistic bichromatic counterrotating circularly-polarized laser pulses15
A 1.5D fluid—Monte Carlo model of a hydrogen helicon plasma15
Decomposition of abrupt transport phenomena in Kelvin–Helmholtz turbulence by using multi-field singular value decomposition15
Intense laser-generated ion beams propagating in plasmas15
Linearised Fokker–Planck collision model for gyrokinetic simulations15
Closure theory for high-collisionality multi-ion plasmas15
Verification and validation of electrostatic turbulence simulation for numerical Lie transform code15
Fast ion confinement in the presence of core magnetic islands in Wendelstein 7-X15
Elements of H-mode pedestal structure15
Finite-temperature Thomas–Fermi–Dirac-Weizsäcker model in the warm dense matter regime15
Simulating the impact of charge exchange on beam ions in MAST-U14
Parametric decays into trapped microwaves in low-temperature laboratory plasmas14
Understanding JET-C quiescent phases with edge harmonic magnetohydrodynamic activity and comparison with behaviour under ITER-like wall conditioning14
Effects of plasma boundary shape on the βN threshold in the suppression of tearing mode in toroidal tokamak plasmas with reversed magnetic shear14
Plasma shapes optimized for functional output and quantified by entropy: a review14
Measuring stopping power in warm dense matter plasmas at OMEGA14
Experimental study of the characteristics of energetic electrons outside LCFS in EXL-50 spherical torus14
Ultrabright attosecond gamma ray from irradiating solid foil with tailored vortex laser pulse14
Strongly intermittent far scrape-off layer fluctuations in Alcator C-Mod plasmas close to the empirical discharge density limit14
Non-linear interaction of laser light with vacuum: contributions to the energy density and pressure in the presence of an intense magnetic field14
Radial coordinate maps, radial vectors, and binormal vectors for 5/6, 5/5 and 5/4 edge island domains in W7-X14
Performance of the improved tritium decanting facility in support of JET tritium operations13
Experimental study of the effect of geodesic curvature on turbulent transport in magnetically confined plasma13
Coherence of turbulent structures with varying drive in stellarator edge plasmas13
Investigation of electromagnetic fluctuations in a magnetically screened high beta plasma13
Stability analysis of WEST L-mode discharges with improved confinement from boron powder injection13
Contrasting effect of high-Z coating on proton acceleration from thin transparent low-Z foil target13
Spatiotemporal analysis of the runaway distribution function based on green function and regularization method13
Optical effects in unmagnetized cold plasmas by a chiral axion factor13
The influence of continuum lowering on the equilibrium composition of plasma: case study of laser-induced plasma on a WC–Cu target13
Response of the poloidal rotation to resonant magnetic perturbations in the EAST tokamak13
The influence of plasma evolution on a kinetic scenario of collisional relaxation of a magnetized plasma13
Dispersion relation and instability for an anisotropic nonuniform flowing plasma12
Isotope dependence of transport in ST40 hot ion mode plasmas12
On the role of density fluctuations in the core turbulent transport of Wendelstein 7-X12
Survey of the edge radial electric field in L-mode TCV plasmas using Doppler backscattering12
Progress on the electro-thermo-mechanical instability and its role as seed on plasma instabilities12
Enhancing disruption prediction through Bayesian neural network in KSTAR12
Transport characteristic evaluation of runaway electrons in an ITER disruption simulation12
On scalable liquid-metal MHD solvers for fusion breeder blanket multiphysics applications12
Overview of L- to H-mode transition experiments at ASDEX Upgrade12
Self-similar expansion of a plasmoid supplied by pellet ablation12
Modeling the effects of wall particle recycling on divertor detachment and upstream SOL density flattening in HL-2A by SOLPS-ITER12
Risk analysis of wall forces in high-current RFP plasma operations12
Advances in Magnum-PSI probe diagnosis in support of plasma–surface interaction studies12
Examining transport and integrated modeling predictive capabilities for negative-triangularity scenarios12
Overview of plasma operation and control studies in the first plasma campaign of JT-60SA12
Electron density profile and associated fluctuation measurements using a microwave reflectometry diagnostic on Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX)12
Numerical study of m = 2/n = 1 neoclassical tearing mode stabilized by the Ohkawa-mechanism-dominated current drive of electron cyclotron waves12
Collisional-radiative non-equilibrium impurity treatment for JOREK simulations11
Chandrasekhar–Kendall–Woltjer–Taylor state in a resistive plasma11
Computation of generalised magnetic coordinates asymptotically close to the separatrix11
Impact of increasing plasma-wall gap on plasma response to RMP fields in ITER11
Fusion component failure rate database, status and evolution11
Interplay of plasma resistivity and rotation on β limits in free boundary diverted tokamaks11
Nonlinear functional relation covering near- and far-marginal stability in ion temperature gradient driven turbulence11
Experimental power balance study on turbulent heat transport at Wendelstein 7-X11
Ion heat and parallel momentum transport by stochastic magnetic fields and turbulence11
First Thomson scattering results from AWAKE’s helicon plasma source11
Analysis of the neutral fluxes in the divertor region of Wendelstein 7-X under attached and detached conditions using EMC3-EIRENE11
Assessing global beryllium erosion via tomographic reconstruction of 3D beryllium emission profiles in ITER11
Power handling in a highly-radiative negative triangularity pilot plant11
Magnetically insulated baffled probe (MIBP) for low-temperature and fusion-boundary plasma studies11
Simulations of lithium impurity transport with a liquid lithium divertor using EMC3-EIRENE and ITCD11
Wire, hybrid, and laser-cut X-pinches as Talbot–Lau backlighters for electron density diagnostics11
Demonstration of TNSA proton radiography on the National Ignition Facility Advanced Radiographic Capability (NIF-ARC) laser11
Investigation of diffusion-driven plasma mixing in the context of indirect drive inertial confinement fusion11
Betatron radiation emitted during the direct laser acceleration of electrons in underdense plasmas11
Modeling and simulations of ultra-intense laser-driven bremsstrahlung with double-layer targets11
Scissor-cross ionization injection in laser wakefield accelerators10
Isotope effect on zonal flow and its configuration dependence in low-density electron-cyclotron-resonance heated plasmas in Heliotron J10
Fast calculation of the tokamak vertical instability10
Scaling of the emission of low frequency radiation by transient surface currents in laser–solid interactions10
Moment tracking and their coordinate transformations for macroparticles with an application to plasmas around black holes10
Transition from divertor to limiter configuration and associated transient plasma oscillation in Heliotron J10
Computing MHD equilibria of stellarators with a flexible coordinate frame10
Geometry effects on energy selective focusing of laser-driven protons with open and closed hemisphere-cone targets10
Anisotropic diffusion as a proxy model for the estimation of heat-loads on plasma-facing components10
Experimental study of non-inductive current start-up using electron cyclotron wave on EXL-50 spherical torus10
Conceptual design of visible spectroscopy diagnostics for DTT10
Low-n stability and plasma response to RMP in various STEP scenarios10
Collisional and transport parameters of Cu in the warm dense matter regime calculated using the average atom model10
Non-uniformity of fluctuation characteristics inside an edge magnetic island in Heliotron J10
Dynamics of ultrafast heated radiative plasmas driven by petawatt laser light10
Improving a high-power laser-based relativistic electron source: the role of laser pulse contrast and gas jet density profile10
In-situ observations of the three-dimensional energy cascade rate and Yaglom flux in the Earth’s magnetosheath10
Drastic effects of N2 addition in the chemical composition of C2H2/Ar glow discharges10
Development of real-time density profile inversion with deep neural network model for multi-bands X-mode polarization reflectometer on EAST10
In-out charge exchange measurements and 3D modelling of diagnostic thermal neutrals to study edge poloidal impurity asymmetries9
Study of particle acceleration by Laguerre–Gaussian ultra intense laser plasma interactions9
Reaching extreme laser intensities using multi-petawatt lasers interacting with micro-cones9
Prediction of temperature profiles in helical plasmas by integrated code coupled with gyrokinetic transport models9
Effect of discreteness and misalignment on magnetic field and charged particle confinement in CFQS quasi-axisymmetric stellarator9
Maxwellian and non-Maxwellian rate coefficients of the tungsten ions: W46+–W55+9
Core transport barriers induced by fast ions in global gyrokinetic GENE simulations9
A particle-based field ionization algorithm in quasi–static PIC codes9
Radial drift of plasma blobs in a toroidal magnetic field with fully kinetic and reduced fluid models9
Dependence of ion wake characteristics on experimental conditions9
Healing of the edge magnetic island in the island divertor configuration on J-TEXT9
Schemes for generating deeply trapped fast ions via ion-cyclotron-resonance heating in Wendelstein 7-X9
Overview of the third JET deuterium-tritium campaign9
Integrated modeling of ST40 hot ion plasmas using the TGLF transport model9
Benefits of the Super-X divertor configuration for scenario integration on MAST Upgrade9
Two-dimensional MHD equilibria of diamagnetic bubble in gas-dynamic trap9
Latest progress on the reduced-order particle-in-cell scheme: II. Quasi-3D implementation and verification9
Coupled KIPP-EDGE2D modelling of parallel transport in the SOL and divertor of inter-ELM JET high radiative H-mode plasma9
An assessment of full-wave effects on Maxwellian lower-hybrid wave damping9
Theoretical studies of low-frequency Alfvén modes in tokamak plasmas8
Push and pull magnetic reconnection driven by intense laser interaction with double-coil capacitor target8
Heating characteristic of electron Bernstein wave using high-field side X-mode injection in QUEST8
Erratum: Structure of pressure-gradient-driven current singularity in ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium (2023 Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 65 034008)8
Relationships between arc plasma jet properties and plasma/liquid interaction mechanisms for the deposition of nanostructured ceramic coatings8
APPEL device experimental studies on spiral antenna for efficient pre-ionization in SST-1 tokamak8
PROTO-SPHERA: a magnetic confinement experiment which emulates the jet + torus astrophysical plasmas8
First observation and interpretation of spontaneous collective radiation from fusion-born ions in a stellarator plasma8
Hybrid optimization of laser-driven fusion targets and laser profiles8
Nonlinear harmonics coupled by parallel wave propagations in a time-dependent plasma flow8
Study of turbulence in the high β P discharge using only RF heating on EAST8
Numerical eigenanalysis of continuum geodesic acoustic mode by ideal magnetohydrodynamic model8
A tungsten-wall sputtering model for the plasma start-up simulation in tokamaks8
Full treatment of the proton radiography technique for laser-driven capacitor-coil targets8
The first observation of GAM induced by negative biasing in J-TEXT tokamak8
Integrated modelling of tokamak plasmas: progress and challenges towards ITER operation and reactor design8
Fascinating physics at the edge of magnetic fusion devices8
Characterization of the ELM-free negative triangularity edge on DIII-D8
Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV8
Control of radiation-driven tearing mode by externally driven current in tokamaks8
Electron acceleration in the electron dissipation region of asymmetrical magnetic reconnection driven by ultra-intensity lasers8
Optimizing control for strike point sweeping using lower divertor coil in EAST8
Laser polarization control of ionization-injected electron beams and x-ray radiation in laser wakefield accelerators8
Relevance of E × B drifts for particle and heat transport in divertors8
A robust plasma-based laser amplifier via stimulated Brillouin scattering8
Experimental study of core MHD events in EAST advanced scenarios by microwave reflectometry8
Assessment of the runaway electron load distribution in ITER during 3D MHD induced beam termination8
Regions without flux surfaces of given class for magnetic fields in toroidal geometry8
Direct Optimization of Fast-Ion Confinement in Stellarators8
Convolutional hybrid-PIC modeling of non-neutral plasmas7
MHD simulations of small ELMs at low triangularity in ASDEX Upgrade7
Semi-Analytical model of Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating antenna-plasma coupling and wave propagation in hot magnetized plasma7
ECEI characterization of pedestal fluctuations in quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D7
Numerical simulations on loss of ICRF-heated NBI ions in EAST7
Optimization of design point for a fusion energy systems integration test facility FAST7
The global energy balance of the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak determined with the revised cooling water calorimetry7
Understanding the electromagnetic topology during the ohmic breakdown in tokamaks considering self-generated electric fields7
Currents in reconnection plasma jets: comparative study of laboratory experiments and spacecraft observations7
Special Issue on the 26th Workshop on MHD Stability Control7
Self-consistent full MHD coupling of JOREK and STARWALL for advanced plasma free boundary simulation7
Plasma perpendicular velocity and 7
B2.5-Eunomia simulations of Magnum-PSI detachment experiments: II. Collisional processes and their relevance7
Analytical model for the combined effects of rotation and collisionality on neoclassical impurity transport7
A 3D helical filament surrogate model for 3D tokamak equilibria7
Variety of coil sets for the compact stellarator-tokamak hybrid7
Neural-network based electron density profile inversion for interferometer on EAST tokamak7
Progress of a gas-electron-multiplier based camera (GEM) in investigating EAST macroscopic instabilities7
Plasma opacity induced by laser-driven movement of background ions7
New evidence about the nature of plasma filaments in plasma accelerators of type plasma-focus7
Machine learning and Bayesian inference in nuclear fusion research: an overview7
An exact turbulence law for the fluid description of fusion edge plasmas7
Tomographic reconstructions of the fast-ion phase space using imaging neutral particle analyser measurements7
Wave propagation in rotating magnetised plasmas7
Vertical control of DIII-D discharges with strong negative triangularity7
Commissioning results from the high-repetition rate nanosecond-kilojoule laser beamline at the extreme light infrastructure7
Connecting recent JET isotope L–H transition studies to H-mode access in new ITER scenarios7
Review of magnetic islands from the divertor perspective and a simplified heat transport model for the island divertor7
Supervised learning approaches to modeling pedestal density7
Breakdown prediction of ion source at EAST-NBI using neural network7
Suppression of equilibrium magnetic islands by density profile effect in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator plasmas7
Strongly magnetized plasma produced by interaction of nanosecond kJ-class laser with snail targets7
Statistical analysis of magnetic divertor configuration influence on H-mode transitions7
Analytical model for collisional impurity transport in tokamaks at arbitrary collisionality6
Modeling laser-wakefield accelerators using the time-averaged ponderomotive approximation in a Lorentz boosted frame6
Benign termination of runaway electron beams on ASDEX Upgrade and TCV6
Assessment of relevant pinch magnitudes of plasma focus devices based on non-uniform internal distributions of density and temperature6
SRS-SBS competition and nonlinear laser energy absorption in a high temperature plasma6
Prevention of mode coupling by external applied resonant magnetic perturbation on the J-TEXT tokamak6
Numerical simulation of YSO jet collimated by toroidal magnetic fields and radiative cooling effect6
Effect of nonlinearity, magnetic islands on turbulence and observation of electron energization, temperature anisotropy at Earth’s magnetopause (magnetosphere)6
Enhancement of nuclear reactions via the kinetic Weibel instability in plasmas6
3D simulations of inertial confinement fusion implosions part 1: inline modeling of polarized cross beam energy transfer and subsequent drive anomalies on OMEGA and NIF6
A 3D finite element model simulating tearing modes and their measurements in ASDEX Upgrade6
Validating and speeding up x-ray tomographic inversions in tokamak plasmas6
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons in a magnetically controlled plasma6
Plasma physics and control studies planned in JT-60SA for ITER and DEMO operations and risk mitigation6
Effect of tailored density profiles on the stability of imploding Z-pinches at microsecond rise time megaampere currents6
Effect of hyper-resistivity on ballooning modes with resonant magnetic perturbations6
Up and down shift effect in multidimensional implementation of FEM in full wave codes for ICRH6
The effectiveness of D2 pellet injection in reducing intra-ELM and inter-ELM tungsten divertor erosion rates in DIII-D during the Metal Rings Campaign6
Single Gaussian process method for arbitrary tokamak regimes with a statistical analysis6
Influence of electron cyclotron current drive on the transition between normal sawteeth and the stationary state6
Energetic passing particle-driven instabilities and their impact on discharge evolution in KSTAR6
Cold ion effects in density-asymmetric collisionless magnetic reconnection6
Chasing the multi-modal plasma response in MAST-U6
Decoupled magnetic control of spherical tokamak divertors via vacuum harmonic constraints6
Machine learning methods for locked-mode predictions in MAST-U plasmas6
Role of perturbed parallel magnetic field effects in predicting turbulent transport in NSTX6
Nonlinear second order electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory for a tokamak plasma6
ELM-free H-mode phase and decoupling of peeling–ballooning stability boundary in the MAST Upgrade tokamak6
Effects of prepulse on hot electron emission from mesoscopic particles6
Accuracy of kinetic equilibrium reconstruction of NSTX and NSTX-U plasmas and its impact on the transport and stability analysis6
Laser-induced quenching diagnostics of hydrogen atoms in fusion plasma6
Neural network based fast prediction of β N limits in HL-2M6
Sheath collapse at critical shallow angle due to kinetic effects6
Self-driven ion deflectometry measurements using MeV fusion-driven protons and accelerated deuterons in the deuterated hybrid x-pinch on the MAIZE LTD generator6
From minimum-viable-products to full models: a step-wise development of diagnostic forward models in support of design, analysis and modelling on the ST40 tokamak6
Exploring extreme magnetization phenomena in directly driven imploding cylindrical targets6
Stress-driven surface swell and exfoliation of copper as the plasma-facing materials in NBI ICP source5
MST resistive wall tearing mode simulations5
Investigation of γ-photon sources using near-critical density targets towards the optimization of the linear Breit–Wheeler process5
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