Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
Students and postgraduates of the Institute of Physics and Mechanics of SPbPU took part in the international conference on plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion in Zvenigorod. The organizers were the state corporation Rosatom, the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute and the Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 200 specialists discussed current issues related to plasma physics, plasma technologies and thermonuclear energy.
This year the conference was dedicated to the memory of Academician Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov, an outstanding scientist and organizer who made an invaluable contribution to research in the field of plasma physics and controlled fusion in our country.
Participants discussed magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasma, inertial thermonuclear fusion, physical processes in low-temperature plasma, physical foundations of plasma and beam technologies, and much more. A separate section presented the results of work within the framework of ITER, the largest international project in the field of thermonuclear fusion.
At the plenary session, experts discussed the historical aspects of plasma physics and controlled fusion in our country, as well as current progress in the most important areas of plasma physics and thermonuclear energy. The teams of the Russian T-15MD and Globus-M2 installations, representatives of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center, the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other major Russian research institutes, enterprises, and universities shared their work results. Students of the PhysMech Institute of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University were among the co-authors of a review report dedicated to the results of research on the Globus-M2 spherical tokamak operating at the Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Colleagues from the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) spoke about the current progress at the operating EAST tokamak and the new generation BEST and CFEDR installations being created. The report was given by the president of LiWFusion L. E. Zakharov.
Students and postgraduates of the Higher School of Fundamental Physics Research of the PhysMech Institute took part in the work of the section “Magnetic Confinement of High-Temperature Plasma”. Arseny Tokarev presented a study of the radial electric field during peripheral localized modes at the Globus-M2 tokamak, carried out with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation.
Alexey Krivosheev and Yulia Lashkina analyzed the phenomenon of non-local heat transfer (NLT), which is observed in high-temperature plasma magnetic confinement installations during injection of macroparticles into the plasma, in particular, in the Japanese LHD heliotron. The work was supported by the Rosatom State Corporation and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
Mikhail Buts gave two reports. He spoke about the results of modeling the spectra of braking and recombination soft X-ray radiation of plasma in comparison with measurements obtained on a new X-ray spectrometer, created with his participation at the FT-2 tokamak. Mikhail also presented a method for processing diagnostic data using high-speed video filming.
Kirill Kukushkin demonstrated the results of modeling the Globus-M2 tokamak using the SOLPS-ITER code with an improved model for describing neutral particles. The work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Dmitry Korobko spoke about the studies of the peripheral plasma of the Globus-M2 tokamak using the helium spectroscopy method with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science. Margarita Deryabina presented a report on the features of the influence of electromagnetic waves in the frequency range of the lower hybrid resonance on the plasma of the FT-2 tokamak. The reports of the Polytechnic University representatives aroused keen interest among the conference participants.
At the invitation of colleagues from Moscow, students and postgraduates of the PhysMech Institute visited the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center, where they observed an experiment on the T-15MD tokamak, as well as the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, where they got acquainted with the university tokamak MIFI-0 and the laboratories of the plasma physics department.
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