@inproceedings{8cc6a835a74d4fb1b1de94aa738cee55,
title = "Characterizations and first plasma operation of the WEST load-resilient actively cooled ICRF launchers",
abstract = "The paper discusses the characterization of the three high power steady-state and load-resilient ICRF launchers of WEST before their installation in the tokamak. These launchers have been characterized and validated in low-power experiments (milliwatt range) as well as in experiments at the nominal RF voltages and currents in the TITAN vacuum chamber (~30 kV and 915 A peak). The successful commissioning of two of the launchers during the WEST C3 campaign at ~1 MW power level is illustrated. Manual and real-time controlled impedance-matching of the launchers are discussed, as well as the validation of their load-resilience. Furthermore, several redundant and complementary protection systems have been validated and are reviewed in the paper.",
author = "{WEST team} and W. Helou and F. Durodi{\'e} and J. Hillairet and E. Lerche and G. Lombard and D. Milanesio and P. Mollard and Bernard, {J. M.} and N. Charabot and F. Clairet and L. Colas and Y. Moudden and B. Santraine and Song, {Y. T.} and G. Urbanczyk and R. Volpe and Wang, {Y. S.} and Yang, {Q. X.} and V. Bobkov",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.; 23rd Topical Conference on Radiofrequency Power in Plasmas ; Conference date: 14-05-2019 Through 17-05-2019",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1063/5.0013992",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Bonoli, {Paul T.} and Pinsker, {Robert I.} and Xiaojie Wang",
booktitle = "23rd Topical Conference on Radiofrequency Power in Plasmas",
}