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Papers

Ion and electron heating via magnetic reconnection during merging/compression plasma startup in ST40

H Tanabe et al, Nuclear Fusion. Available online (2026, accepted).


Overview of ST40 results and future: expanding the physics basis of high-field spherical tokamaks

O Asunta et al, Nuclear Fusion. Available online (2026).


Integrated modeling of ST40 hot ion plasmas using the TGLF transport model

M S Anastopoulos Tzanis et al, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. Available online (2025).


Overview of recent results from the ST40 compact high-field spherical tokamak

S A M McNamara et al, Nuclear Fusion. Available online (2024).


From minimum-viable-products to full models: a step-wise development of diagnostic forward models in support of design, analysis and modelling on the ST40 tokamak

M Sertoli et al, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. Available online (2024).


Achievement of ion temperatures in excess of 100 million degrees Kelvin in the compact high-field spherical tokamak ST40

S A M McNamara et al, Nuclear Fusion. Available online (2023).


Characterisation of ion temperature and toroidal rotation on the ST40 tokamak

J Wood, B Lomanowski, E Delabie, H V Willett, M Sertoli and J Varje, Journal of Instrumentation. Available online (2023).

 

TriWaSp: a multi-faceted visible spectroscopy diagnostic on the ST40 tokamak

H V Willett, D Osin, G Naylor, J Wood, B Lomanowski and M Sertoli, Journal of Instrumentation. Available online (2023).


High density negative hydrogen ion production in a high power pulsed helicon discharge

J Santoso, H V Willett and C S Corr, Plasma Sources Science and Technology. Available online (2018).

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A compact, smart Langmuir Probe control module for MAST-Upgrade

J Lovell, R Stephen, S Bray, G Naylor, S Elmore, H Willett, M Peterka, M Dimitrova, A Havranek, M Hron and R Sharples, Journal of Instrumentation. Available online (2018). .

 

Applications of linear plasma device studies to the improvement of power injection and handling in tokamaks

H.V. Willett, PhD thesis. Available online (2018).

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Simulation of the interaction between plasma turbulence and neutrals in linear devices

J Leddy, B Dudson and H Willett, Nuclear Materials and Energy. Available online (2017).
 

Negative ion studies on the RF plasma device MAGPIE

H V Willett, J Santoso, C S Corr and K J Gibson, Proceedings of the 44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics. Available online (2017).
 

The implementation of binding blocks in the classroom

A J Wright, H V Willett, S R Beanland, M Carson, R A Davies, G Duffett and A Pastore, Physics Education. Available online (2017).
 

Binding blocks: building the Universe one nucleus at a time

C Aa Diget, A Pastore, K Leech, T Haylett, S Lock, T Sanders, M Shelley, H V Willett, J Keegans and L Sinclair, Physics Education. Available online (2017).
 

The role of plasma instabilities in the onset of detachment in the York Linear Plasma Device

H V Willett, K J Gibson and P K Browning, Proceedings of the 43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics. Available online (2016).

Posters

July 2024: "Initial results from the upgraded Triple Wavelength Spectrometer on the ST40 tokamak"

Poster for the 50th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics.

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October 2022: "TriWaSp: a multi-faceted visible spectroscopy diagnostic on the ST40 tokamak"

Poster for the 6th International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies.

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July 2017: "Negative ion studies on the RF plasma device MAGPIE"

Poster for the 44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics. View

November 2016: "Negative ion studies on the RF plasma device MAGPIE"

Poster for the 58th APS Division of Plasma Physics meeting. View
 

July 2016: "The role of plasma instabilities in the onset of detachment in the York Linear Plasma Device"

Poster for the 43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics. Joint recipient of the PPCF/EPS/IUPAP poster prize. View
 

May 2016: "Detachment and instability studies on the York Linear Plasma Device"

Poster for the 43rd IOP Plasma Physics Group Spring Conference. Joint recipient of the EPL Presentation Award. View
 

November 2015: "Detachment and instability studies on the York Linear Plasma Device"

Poster for the FuseNet PhD event for European doctoral students. View
 

May 2014: "Basic plasma science experiments in support of divertor and scrape-off layer studies"

Initial PhD research summary poster, created for the Fusion CDT Frontiers of Fusion conference. View
 

August 2011: "Spectroscopic analysis of a plasma for an astrophysical jet experiment"

Summary of research carried out as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. View 

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