As for past meetings, the Program will be coordinated by the ITPEA-EP Chair, Deputy Chair and ITER representative: M. VanZeeland (USA), A. Bierwage (JP) and S. Pinches (ITER Organization).
The LOC will provide support for logistics, such as meeting venue and information on accommodation, travel, local transportation.
Please indicate your plans to attend the meeting through the Registration Form, in which you can specify whether you plan to attend the 19th EP-TM meeting, the 36th ITPEA-EP meeting, or both.
Scope of the meeting (from the ITER ITPEA-EP website)
The scope of the ITPEA Energetic Particle Physics Topical Group Meeting is to discuss and coordinate activities tackling physics element of ITER in the area of energetic particles. The group shall provide the experimental basis and the theoretical knowledge to give recommendation for both the conventional and advanced scenarios in ITER in the areas of:
- Energetic particle driven instabilities (Alfvén waves and other energetic particle modes), their impact on fast ion confinement, and the consequences for plasma performance and the first wall material.
- Effects of non-axisymmetric magnetic fields such as field ripple, error/perturbation fields.
- Interaction of fast ions with background magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) behaviour.
- Neutral beam injection heating and current drive.
- Runaway electrons.
Those activities will be coordinated with other Topical Groups where interests overlap.
ITER itself will not mark the last stage in the development of fusion heating, and a comprehensive ab initio understanding of fast particle effects on this device will be a necessary prerequisite for bridging the gap to DEMO. The group shall therefore coordinate collaborative research activities in existing experimental devices, but in particular also encourage a close collaboration between theory and experiment.
In addition, the group shall identify the diagnostic requirements for ITER, needed to extrapolate towards reactor-relevant conditions (Q > 50).
Publications and presentations on the activities of the group to fusion journals and international conferences will be promoted.
Venue
The ITPEA-EP meeting will be hosted by the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), meeting room PPB-019 in the main SPC building.
Please refer to the Venue webpage for up-to-date information on how to get there. A detailed map will be posted before the meeting, based on the status of (ongoing) construction works on the EPFL Campus.