I recently participated in the European Physical Society’s 43rd Conference on Plasma Physics where I gave an oral presentation concerning ion cyclotron emission in tokamaks. Besides having the cool abbreviation of ICE, ion cyclotron emission is interesting because it might be something that can be measured in ITER to provide an indication of the confinement of energetic ions. […]
Research
Consideration of neutral beam prompt loss in the design of a tokamak helicon antenna
This is an engineering paper concerning the design of an antenna that was installed in the DIII-D tokamak. There are particle beams on DIII-D that provide up to 20 MW of heating power for the plasma. In this paper, we simulated a few scenarios in which an appreciable fraction of this beam power hits the […]
Curriculum Vitae
David C. PaceDeputy Director DIII-D National Fusion Facility General AtomicsSan Diego, California, USA Education Honors and Awards Professional Activities Research ExperienceTeaching Experience Publications and Presentations Co-author Publications Education University of California, Los Angeles, USAPh.D., Physics, 2009M.Sc., Physics 2003Committee Co-chairs: G.J. Morales and T.A. Carter San Diego State University, San Diego, California, […]
Mapping and Uncertainty Analysis of Energy and Pitch Angle Phase Space in the DIII-D Fast Ion Loss Detector
The following work is a technical diagnostic paper concerning a method for calculating the uncertainty in a probe that measures energetic ion losses in the DIII-D tokamak. The fast ion loss detector (FILD) measures the pitch angle and the energy of these ions that hit it at the outer wall. That measurement is incredibly valuable […]
Gamma Ray Imager on the DIII-D Tokamak
This is a technical paper concerning the design and commissioning of a gamma ray camera on the DIII-D tokamak. The diagnostic, the Gamma Ray Imager (GRI), is a pinhole camera constructed of lead. This diagnostic is being used to study the behavior of relativistic electron beams in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Gamma rays can be […]
Exponential Frequency Spectrum and Lorentzian Pulses in Magnetized Plasmas
Sections Details and Download Previous Work Modeling Lorentzian Pulses What is the Relevance? This is a review of a paper recently published by my group. Here, the paper is paraphrased to reach a wider audience. The plasma physics community can read the original publication, so my goal is to provide an example of current plasma […]