18th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems

Mar 17, 2025, 8:00 AM → Mar 21, 2025, 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

The 18th Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems aims to provide a forum to discuss the status of experimental and theoretical work on suprathermal electrons and ions in a wide variety of magnetic confinement geometries, and to discuss theoretical and computational physics issues relevant to burning plasmas.

The event will focus on the formation and transportation of energetic particles, including their confinement properties. It will provide a detailed account of the location of lost energetic particle incidence on first wall components, the collective instabilities driven by energetic particles and their impact on plasma properties in different operational scenarios, and energetic particle diagnostics. It will aim, in particular, at identifying current physics issues and gaps associated with energetic particles in ITER and future fusion power plants.

Previous Meetings

The last Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles and Theory of Plasma Instabilities in Magnetic Confinement Fusion was a virtual event held on-line in 2021.

Previous Technical Meetings on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems were held in Kiev, Ukraine (1989), Aspenas, Sweden (1991), Trieste, Italy (1993), Princeton, United States of America (1995), Abingdon, United Kingdom (1997), Naka, Japan (1999), Gothenburg, Sweden (2001), San Diego, United States of America (2003), Takayama, Japan (2005), Seeon-Seebruck, Germany (2007), Kiev, Ukraine (2009), Austin, United States of America (2011), Beijing, China (2013),Vienna, Austria (2015), Princeton, United States of America (2017) and Shizuoka, Japan (2019).