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P. Zanca
Researcher at European Atomic Energy Community
Publications - 39
Citations - 1246
P. Zanca is an academic researcher from European Atomic Energy Community. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reversed field pinch & Magnetic confinement fusion. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 39 publications receiving 1181 citations.
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Self-organized helical equilibria as a new paradigm for ohmically heated fusion plasmas
Rita Lorenzini,Emilio Martines,P. Piovesan,David Terranova,P. Zanca,Matteo Zuin,Alberto Alfier,D. Bonfiglio,Federica Bonomo,Alessandra Canton,Susanna Cappello,L. Carraro,R. Cavazzana,Dominique Escande,Alessandro Fassina,Alessandro Fassina,Paolo Franz,M. Gobbin,P. Innocente,Lionello Marrelli,Roberto Pasqualotto,Maria Ester Puiatti,M. Spolaore,M. Valisa,N. Vianello,Piero Martin,Piero Martin,L. Apolloni,J. Adamek,Matteo Agostini,S.V. Annibaldi,V. Antoni,Fulvio Auriemma,Oliviero Barana,M. Baruzzo,Paolo Bettini,T. Bolzonella,M. Brombin,J. Brotankova,A. Buffa,P. Buratti,Mario Cavinato,B. E. Chapman,Giuseppe Chitarin,S. Dal Bello,A. De Lorenzi,G. De Masi,Alberto Ferro,Elena Gaio,E. Gazza,Leonardo Giudicotti,Francesco Gnesotto,Luca Grando,L. Guazzotto,S. C. Guo,V. Igochine,Yueqiang Liu,Adriano Luchetta,Gabriele Manduchi,Giuseppe Marchiori,Diego Marcuzzi,S. Martini,Karsten McCollam,F. Milani,M. Moresco,L. Novello,S. Ortolani,R. Paccagnella,Simone Peruzzo,R. Piovan,L. Piron,A. Pizzimenti,N. Pomaro,Italo Predebon,J.A. Reusch,G. Rostagni,Guglielmo Rubinacci,J. S. Sarff,F. Sattin,Paolo Scarin,G. Serianni,Piergiorgio Sonato,E. Spada,Anton Soppelsa,Silvia Spagnolo,Gianluca Spizzo,C. Taliercio,Vanni Toigo,Fabio Villone,Roscoe White,D. Yadikin,P. Zaccaria,A. Zamengo,Barbara Zaniol,L. Zanotto,Enrico Zilli,H. Zohm +96 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of a reversed-field-pinch plasma towards a self-organized single-helicity state suggests that instability problems, which have previously hindered the development of these devices, could now be overcome.
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Beyond the intelligent shell concept: the clean-mode-control
TL;DR: In this paper, a clean-mode-control (CMC) control scheme was proposed to control the nonlinear tearing modes (TMs) involved in the dynamo process of reversed field pinch machines.
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Reconstruction of the magnetic perturbation in a toroidal reversed field pinch
P. Zanca,David Terranova +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new method to obtain the radial profile of the magnetic perturbation in a toroidal force-free plasma having a circular cross section is developed, which produces poloidal harmonics in the equilibrium quantities (at the leading order m = ±1, n=0), which act as mediators between perturbations with the same toroidal number and different poloidal numbers.
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Single-Helical-Axis States in Reversed-Field-Pinch Plasmas
Rita Lorenzini,David Terranova,Alberto Alfier,Paolo Innocente,Emilio Martines,Roberto Pasqualotto,P. Zanca +6 more
TL;DR: The transition to a new magnetic topology, characterized by a quasi-single-helicity state with a single helical magnetic axis, has been experimentally observed for the first time in a reversed-field-pinch plasma to provide magnetic chaos healing and enhanced thermal content of the plasma.
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Magnetic order and confinement improvement in high-current regimes of RFX-mod with MHD feedback control
P. Piovesan,Matteo Zuin,Alberto Alfier,D. Bonfiglio,Federica Bonomo,Alessandra Canton,Susanna Cappello,L. Carraro,Roberto Cavazzana,D. F. Escande,Alessandro Fassina,M. Gobbin,Rita Lorenzini,Lionello Marrelli,Piero Martin,Emilio Martines,Roberto Pasqualotto,Maria Ester Puiatti,M. Spolaore,M. Valisa,N. Vianello,P. Zanca +21 more
TL;DR: The RFX-mod machine (Sonato et al 2003 Fusion Eng. Des. 66 161) recently achieved, for the first time in a reversed-field pinch, high plasma current up to 1.6 MA with good confinement.